Suggestions to Improve Leaver Penalty

Well, I may have broken the record of holding a banner 🙂.

We landed in The Tree, and started looting and exploring the area. As there were no enemies nearby, i took the time to play with Crypto's drone a little. We only realized  that the next ring is pretty far, around Epicenter - Refinery areas, but the big surprise came when the ring actually started closing like 50m ahead of us, catching us all outside all of a sudden. My teammates had very few syringes and soon Lifeline dropped behind me, while Pathfinder dropped a few hundred meters in front of me. Luckily, I had a bit more meds, I reached Pathfinder to revive him then used the drone to get Lifeline's banner laying on her deathbox 210 m behind. When Pathfinder, I realized there's no chance for any of us to make it if I share my remaining meds with Path, so I had to let him die and kept running and opening crates along the way in hope to find more health. Somehow, I made it to Capitol City with 15 health left anda bout 20 seconds left of round 2, only to discover there were enemies left and the right, which, of course, started shooting at me. Ran like a chicken and escaped literally one shot away from death, then had to sneak past some crazy battles all the way to refinery, where I eventually found more syringes to my health back and an unscratched blue armor, then went for the last available beacon to finally respawn that poor and patient Lifeline. Needless to say that she got fried right before grabbing any armor or weapon, sending her player right back to the spectator seat to watch a few more painful minutes of me trying to scratch a full squad armed and armored to the teeth.

It was a pretty fun challenge to do all that running simulator to save the teammates and the match, but I'm sure Lifeline's player stayed mostly because of fearing the leaver penalty. He would've certainly left way sooner if given the opportunity. Thing is, we weren't that far from winning the game, which could've made a significant difference if this would've been a high rank match. I think the best solution for situations like this one would be for me to have the possibility to free that teammate from the burden of a penalty, allowing him to leave when he can't be brought back safely or letting him take the penalty if he doesn't care about ruining your game. The players still in the fight are more able to * the situation and take the appropriate actions than the game itself, that's why it's not OK how player penalty gets applied now.