Destiny 2 Still Needs to Get Serious About Punishing Rage Quitters

Future 2 lately had an replace that carried out quitter safety for Trials matches that begin with lacking gamers. Whereas we are going to cowl that extra in a bit, Bungie nonetheless wants to deal with its PvP quitter concern.

So, within the recreation’s latest 7.2.5.3 replace, quitter safety was carried out for Trials at first of the match. What this implies precisely is that in case you have a lacking member or two at first of the match, you’ll be allowed to give up and matchmake once more with out incurring the traditional penalty for quitting a Trials match. That is improbable information for all these gamers who suffered and nonetheless do endure from a connection error named after a selected animal.

Nonetheless, this replace is just for Trials of Osiris and doesn’t cease quitters from leaving matches early. Simply in my expertise alone with a lot of Management and Aggressive playtime, that is nonetheless a rampant concern. One that may be mounted, if gamers had been correctly incentivized to remain within the match till the tip or punished extra severely for leaving a match early.

Nothing is extra demoralizing to be PvP-ing in the Crucible and are successful, till about midway by. When out of the blue, you or your group begins doing poorly, shedding some one-on-one engagements and slowly watching the enemy group’s rating draw back from ours. So, in fact, your teammates begin to depart, and now you’re shedding virtually each gunfight. The act of leaving a match earlier than it’s over ruins it for everybody else. So, let’s repair that and present Bungie some issues they may attempt to accomplish that.

Now, it’s essential that Bungie do their best to attempt to differentiate harmless connection loss and rage quitting. I’m not totally positive how they might go upon doing that, however it could definitely assist if Bungie had been to implement harsher penalties for quitting matches early. I used to play lots of League of Legends, and I discovered their leaver penalties fairly efficient.

So with that in thoughts, harsher penalties like shortly escalating tiers of punishment. For instance, first offense can be a single five-minute Crucible queue delay. The subsequent offense in the identical 24 hours could possibly be a 10-minute queue delay for the subsequent 5 Crucible queues. Because the participant continues to rage give up, the longer the queue delay, the extra matches it lasts for, and the longer the efficient window for gaining such punishments would final.

Whereas growing the punishments for making unsportsmanlike decisions within the Crucible is sound, it could possibly be as equally efficient to additionally implement a system that rewards gamers primarily based on X variety of video games they end in a row. With the precise incentives, this might assist put and preserve Future 2’s PvP playerbase in the precise frame of mind whereas enjoying. You catch extra flies with honey in spite of everything.

Top-of-the-line methods to just do that may be to ensure stated incentives are above all worthwhile to a majority of gamers. As a Crucible participant myself, I hardly ever rage give up exterior of probably the most brutal stomps after most of my time has give up. Nonetheless, I would definitely be persuaded to remain if say after enjoying 5 matches in a row, there was a uncommon however slowly escalating likelihood to earn Adept Legendary weapons or Artifice Legendary Armor. Actually, I can’t consider anybody who would flip down such rewards simply to rage give up from a tricky match and really feel their actions justified for that one second.

Visible cosmetics like uncommon shaders or fascinating ornaments which have interesting colours or different visible traits would be the strategy to go as effectively. Though, I don’t consider these rewards can be as inciting sufficient to maintain folks from turning into upset and selecting the straightforward means out. Both means, with the precise rewards for staying and enjoying and the suitable punishments, it’s tougher to think about folks ever leaving mid match once more.

In regards to the writer

Ali Taha

Whether or not its new releases, or a brand new Future 2 season, Ali will flex his gaming and freelancer abilities to cowl them extensively. He began off writing options for Recreation Rant however discovered a greater house right here on Twinfinite. Whereas Ali waits for the subsequent Monster Hunter title, he enjoys publishing his development fantasy novels as an indie writer.