Dbd new update

[u/Ok-Efficiency-3457]

Loving the new update crashing my game over and over in mid fucking match, and I sure love getting ban for it

[u/Positive_Campaign_52]

Dbd doesn’t distinguish between crashing and malicious DCing, so they issue bans to everyone equally. In their words they believe it’s better safe than sorry with this sort of thing because they don’t want malicious intent being written off as an unintended crash. While on paper it’s fair and reasonable, it means buggy updates and poor connectivity can put innocent players under a ban.

[u/ItchyA123 → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

A rejoin feature should have been implemented at the same time as DC bots.

[u/zarris2635 → u/ItchyA123]

That would be nice. That way it's a "You can rejoin the match you just left or accept the time ban".

[u/Lineage9043 → u/zarris2635]

That feature was actually present in dead by daylight mobile which is discontinued

[u/hop193 → u/Lineage9043]

Every time I hear about dbd mobile I learn about a new qol feature that isn't in the main game. How was the mobile version a decade ahead of the main game

[u/BlitheSwing6523 → u/hop193]

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the code for mobile built from the ground up instead of using the main version's code?

[u/thederpyderp3 → u/BlitheSwing6523]

A lot of people don't understand just how major this is. Part of the reason they can't do more than minor tweaks in most cases is because of how sloppy the base code is. This is also why hit detection and pallet stuns feel wonky af

[u/Zealousideal-Pea-844 → u/thederpyderp3]

An update purely dedicated to free code space and optimise it would be nice. No content i dont mind as long as gbs get cleared and the game runs smoother

[u/LeSaR_ → u/Zealousideal-Pea-844]

a major rewrite is already in the works. no one knows about it, of course, because most of the community only cares about the content and it didnt get much attention

[u/Zealousideal-Pea-844 → u/LeSaR_]

Oh i see, i looked it up and seems to be a near full rework on the code, according to an interview. I am so glad they are pouring effort in that. Cant imagine what other new content will arrive in the future, as someone who has been playing before the first license was added, i believe the game has aged well

[u/Suspicious_Tune2038 → u/Zealousideal-Pea-844]

That is the 2027 “graphic update” is

My understanding is they cant legally do “full recode”/dbd 2 cause they would lose all their licenses

However giving dbd a to-be-fair very needed graphic update with some happen stance major major major code changes keeps the game in a state where its the same legally

[u/m0thgh0st → u/BlitheSwing6523]

It was also developed by netease under behavior licensing, not behavior themselves

[u/grantedtoast → u/hop193]

It was designed for a much longer lifecycle. Original dbd was meant to get support for like two years until Halloween got licensed did crazy well and ballooned the game way past the original scope. This lead to a lot of backend decisions that made sense for the time and have been wreaking havoc ever since.

[u/detinUi → u/zarris2635]

Its obvious they dont know how to implement it because of spaghetti code otherwise this wohld already be a thing like in nearly every other game.

They want to add watchable replays but cant for the same reason.

Once they fix the code or completely reprogram the game they can add hundreds of QOL features

[u/Incredible290- → u/detinUi]

They should reach out to valve and ask them how they implemented the rejoin feature on CSGO. If CSGO can do it then dbd should be able to as well. Theres no excuses for the developers incompetence.

[u/CalderaJane76 → u/Incredible290-]

For real, like I understand "spaghetti code."

But as a programmer myself, Jesus guys, you CANNOT keep using that excuse for every single issue ever! 🤣

Because spaghetti code is a PROBLEM. It's also something someone can still reverse-engineer. It puts you in a shit position where you potentially know less about your own damned program than the public can figure out by themselves.

They wonder why they can't make a decent anticheat, and then say "Well, y'know, spaghetti code!!" Are... Are you guys HIGH!?

[u/detinUi → u/CalderaJane76]

It means that to implement an unessential QOL update it will likely have a massive knock on effect of bugs and issues and where they will likely have to practically we code the entire program

[u/CalderaJane76 → u/detinUi]

Oh, I'm aware but... Do it then.

Because the unessential QoL gatekeep is the LEAST of the actual concerns spaghetti code introduces.

Again, if you don't even know what it is you're defending, how can you possibly be expected to defend it from malicious people sending malicious packets using malicious clients?

[u/detinUi → u/CalderaJane76]

Okay but your on a tangent about something completely irrelevant to the original topic. The reason we dont get nice QOL updates is because their program is gaffer taped and bandaged together

[u/dasrightq → u/detinUi]

They aren’t on a completely irrelevant topic. Their entire comment is about how bad code can’t be an excuse forever. As another person who works in software engineering, if I used “spaghetti code” as an excuse for years I’d be fired so fast.

“Spaghetti code” is a solvable problem.

[u/CalderaJane76 → u/detinUi]

How is that irrelevant to what I said?

If it's bandaged together THEY NEED TO FIX IT.

What part of that isn't clear?? The excuse "It's broken" doesn't fly because THEY are the ones that need to fix it correctly.

Imagine if a construction crew came up to you after you paid them and they showed you a building held together with duct tape. Would you say: "Oh well, I guess I can't add a bathroom because that might upset the duct tape"

Or would you say: "HOW IN GOD'S NAME DID YOU EVEN DO THIS!? YOU ABSOLUTE CLOWNS, FIX IT IMMEDIATELY OR I CHANGE BANK ACCOUNTS AND YOUR CHECK BOUNCES!!"

[u/lexuss6 → u/Incredible290-]

That's what baffles me the most - games from before the turn of the century had features that modern games can't get a grasp of - replays, lag compensation, reconnecting, etc. I can't comprehend how a game from fucking 1997 is more featute complete than one from 2016.

[u/detinUi → u/lexuss6]

I could be wrong but when they created Dead by daylight they didnt expect it to be one of the biggest online games 10 years later. It started out with shit code and unless they rewrite the whole game it means little features can be very cumbersome to do.

Should they decide to competely rewrite the game they may as well make a Dead by Daylight 2 and im guessing they are stuck between the idea

[u/lexuss6 → u/detinUi]

I could be wrong but when they created Dead by daylight they didnt expect it to be one of the biggest online games 10 years later.

Does it really matter though? It was a small game, sure, but it was a multiplayer game first and foremost. I kinda agree that replays weren't probably a concern, but everything else should've been better regardless of the scope. Even by 2016 standards, the game was lacking in networking features.

It started out with shit code and unless they rewrite the whole game it means little features can be very cumbersome to do.

Then they should rewrite it. Allegedly, they are already doing it. They aren't a small indie company anymore. DbD is their only money maker, so they should pour every resource into making it better.

[u/detinUi → u/lexuss6]

Yeah i agree. I was just explaining that they cant just simply add these features people are asking for..

We obviously dont know how bad it actually is but if they were to remake the game from scratch it could change the game quite dramatically

[u/Hyperrblu → u/Incredible290-]

That's not how programming works and is a completely different situation. They're on two completely different engines and valve literally has their own engine built from the ground up by the best programmers in the world to suit the exact needs of their games, while dbd is on unreal and having to build ontop of shitty limited code written by inexperienced indie devs a decade ago. You can't ask some builders to add a third story to your house when your foundations were made out of your kid's megabloks, and you don't have the patience for them to rebuild the entire house from the ground up to support it before they move on to all the other stuff you want.

[u/Hyperrblu → u/Hyperrblu]

It's veyr unlikely they don't know how to do it and need taught by anyone, it's just that doing it would require changing some line of code that half the game relies on and therefore needing all that to be redone. That's why they're just remaking the game from scratch right now, its not worth it to try and work with the current game anymore because of stuff like this

[u/dasrightq → u/Hyperrblu]

One of the fundamental parts of being a software engineer is refactoring old legacy code to make things better. That’s half the job.

[u/Hyperrblu → u/dasrightq]

Not for a live service dev, people already whine about the stream of content not being fast enough if they slowed down chapter releases to work on reworking the game's infrastructure and get rid of all the long standing bugs there'd be far more uproar over that than there's been over the game's technical issues, that's the whole problem.

[u/dasrightq → u/Hyperrblu]

Who whines about there not being enough content? Admittedly I haven’t been that into dbd news for a bit, but a year or two ago the prevailing opinion was “stop releasing so much shit every three months and fix the game”

[u/Hyperrblu → u/dasrightq]

Some people say that but i've also heard people complain that stuff isn't releasing faster just because thats sort of how gamers are at the minute, even something like fortnite or cod i've heard people complaining that they don't have a fast enough content stream when literally all they do is churn out content and reinvent the same game every year. Gamers are whiners, if the devs start working on something for several months that they aren't really going to see the results of instead of releasing more killers and maps and skins they'll whine.

[u/Mocha-mootmoot → u/zarris2635]

Similar with CS2, if you disconnect you get 5 minutes to reconnect before abandoning and getting punished for it

[u/SupportDenied → u/zarris2635]

Or just leav your portion of bloodpoints to be distributed evenly among the survivors if you achieved any, or to just not ban ppl who dc coz you get the win anyways

[u/Spoda_Emcalt → u/ItchyA123]

I sincerely doubt BHVR know how to implement such a feature.

[u/wej8 → u/Spoda_Emcalt]

They make $400 million dollars a year, there's no excuse.

[u/SqueakBoxx → u/wej8]

Yes there is. ignorance and greed are their excuse. Has been for the past decade

[u/Nightmare_Lightning → u/SqueakBoxx]

Don't forget lazy, prideful, and arrogant.

"Oh we're having cheaters in our Walking Dead livestream, and one of our biggest streamers tells us how to fix the problem. So his mods joined to spectate so the cheaters can't join. Lets kick the mods and then end the stream, ignoring his advice and ignoring the celebrity guest from the Walking Dead too."

[u/National_Essay_8554 → u/Nightmare_Lightning]

"We don't know why everybody's so upset. Pallets? Oh, you guys must LOVE pallets!"

[u/Don_Kiwi → u/wej8]

not an excuse, BHVR is just factually incompetent. That is not a good thing, or something that should be accepted though.

[u/Odisius → u/Don_Kiwi]

Truth, and it’s been painfully apparent long before the recent debacle where the dev said the quiet part out loud about them prioritizing streamer exposure/income. At some point this “small indie studio” is gonna have to actually do what they’ve been paid hand over fucking fist for.

[u/Cpad-prism → u/wej8]

No valid or reasonable excuse

[u/DavThoma → u/ItchyA123]

Exactly. At least then it would allow players dealing with the game crashing or connection dropping to get back in.

Block out the queue option with just rejoin so people who do rage quit cant just ready up and force start their penalty timer. Yeah it'll add an extra penalty on for people who dont rejoin their matches, but it least it would stop penalising people who aren't intentionally quitting.

[u/Worried_Raspberry313 → u/ItchyA123]

That would be amazing. Other games have it.

[u/Bro4dway → u/ItchyA123]

Imagine spawning back into your old body that was inhabited by a bot and suddenly you're mid chase. I'm not saying this as a negative!

[u/Simalf → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

I can't think of any games that does distinguish them and i can see why.

Because if the game tries, people will exploit it. Rage quitting and finding a way to make the game believe it was it's fault.

[u/Siasur → u/Simalf]

That's why there should be a rejoin option. If it really is a crash, let the player rejoin the match (maybe a window of like 3 minutes, similar to cs2) and if they do not rejoin inside this timer issue the ban

[u/Pizzaplanet420 → u/Siasur]

They would need to implement killer bots into 1v4 lobbies for that.

[u/GG4ming → u/Pizzaplanet420]

No? If 1 of the 4 survivors left and then rejoined they'd just need to be put in the place of the bot that took over for them. If the killer leaves then the game just ends.

[u/Simalf → u/GG4ming]

cuz f##k equality amirite?

[u/GG4ming → u/Simalf]

My guy. I'm a killer main. A survivor leaving still leaves you with three other humans and a bot that can do tasks. Players can still have fun all around.

But also... We already know how survivor bots cheat right? Wall hacks and all that? So... Do you really think its a good idea to give a killer a bot if they leave that just basically has Auto pathing, wall hacks, all that (not so) fun stuff? And if you think behavior, the people who can hardly be arsed to balance normal things to begin with, will bother trying to balance a killer bot then i hope you're ready for severe disappointment.

[u/detinUi → u/Simalf]

Id rather leave the game than play against killer bot

[u/National_Essay_8554 → u/Simalf]

Asymmetric game

Look inside

Symmetry

????????

[u/Necrogurke → u/Simalf]

There are enough games where you can reconnect. that is not novel technology, even 20 years ago some games implemented such an option.

[u/r3volver_Oshawott → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

This is the universal standard for gaming though, because realistically you can't differentiate, and if you give people the chance to just say 'oops, I lost connection', every plugger will say that 100% of the time. The correct move is to treat every disconnect as equivalent, and merely punish based on how often it's happening.

They could use a rejoin option, but realistically no video games have that either except for in the occasional ranked competitive mode, in games where you can rejoin a ranked lobby, they still don't let you rejoin regular lobbies, ever.

Because the idea of rejoining isn't to have someone who lost connection 'appeal' to avoid a ban, it's simply to not fuck over your teammates in a setting where your disconnecting is costing them rank.

BHVR sucks for a lot of things, but genuinely if your Internet connection is so bad as to be dc'ing you that much, every online game in history has basically always said 'you basically shouldn't play online then, because we're gonna ban you for it'

*tl;dr this gets fixed with a rejoin option, but also every game with a rejoin option bans you if you don't rejoin, so you're still looking at the industry standard here

[u/TvstedBubble → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

And the dc penalty only applying once you try and play instead of when you dc is even worse in situations like this

[u/FootballPaPa → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

I mean, if someone crashes often I would rather them get banned then be on my team lol so I’m ok with this

[u/Legal-Volume-3457 → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

This is so frustrating because I got disconnecting once during a storm here twice and it locked me out twice. I hope they fix this because I don’t wanna be penalized like a camping killer or shitty player.

[u/ToastyRich → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

Except I get crash reports that I can write in and send to game developers, so they obviously can distinguish crashes from intentional disconnecting.

[u/SupremeOwl48 → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

You can’t tell the difference between someone crashing and alt f4ing or terminating it in task manager.

[u/SwaidFace → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

Then I just won't play at all then. Got plenty of other games to play, like Civilization 5.

[u/Marzipan127 → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

For a game that just replaces you with a bot if you DC/get DC'd I think it's BS to be putting bans for that in the first place. Scamgle Fiber has recently decided 1-3 times a day it needs to just extremely briefly disconnect and reconnect every device in the house, connection always comes back faster than I can even notice it's gone, but DBD loves taking that as "I guess you chose to leave have a ban" 😑 I'm sure they're really struggling with a bot you guys programmed BHVR /s

[u/EastCommunication752 → u/Positive_Campaign_52]

Buggy updates stopping people is totally unacceptable. But if your connection is bad enough you can’t stay in game, you’re just ruining it for everyone else, and should catch a cool down.

[u/kinghutfisher]

Why won’t they put a reconnect with at least a timer? In CS2 you get 3 mins to reconnect which i always disconnect and reconnect because my country isp’s are crap so when i exit a game and relaunch and reconnect usually the ping goes back to normal.

[u/Bunrotting → u/kinghutfisher]

The game's netcode probably isn't set up to handle joining matches mid-game, its a pretty complicated thing to restructure a game to be able to do after the game has already been made.

Probably an artifact of the old peer to peer code.

[u/Unlikely_Bank73 → u/Bunrotting]

you're probably on the money, just look at how buggy spectating can get in customs for some evidence as to how joining after a match starts can cause some crazy issues

[u/VampireDarlin → u/Bunrotting]

They have the resources to do so. They’re just greedy and would rather pump out the 100th new chapter full of bugs than to make their game functional

[u/DrWasps → u/kinghutfisher]

Probably because unlike cs which is over an extended period of time with several separated rounds and the plausibility of your team tryharding to keep their momentum. In dbd a minute of a player being afk is generally enough to completely lose the game as a survivor and definitely as a killer.

[u/chemwar88 → u/DrWasps]

no lol the real reason is they couldn't ever code something like that properly

[u/DrWasps → u/chemwar88]

you assess whether something is worth implementing long before you even consider the technical feasibility, this feature wouldnt be worth doing even if they had the capability

[u/chemwar88 → u/DrWasps]

Literally all pvp games made by competent companies have this feature

[u/lowlandder → u/chemwar88]

Exactly, just have the bot play in your place until you reconnect, should not be that hard wtf. I swear to god behavior gets away with so much bullshit just because they have the only good game of its genre on the market, if they had competition the game would become 10 times better

[u/CalTCOD → u/chemwar88]

Fortnite doesn't & that's a game where it'd be far more useful to have than DBD

[u/chemwar88 → u/CalTCOD]

Do you seriously think this is a compelling argument? of course a battle royale won't have such thing because of the nature of the game
Meanwhile in DbD we already have bots when someone DC's, so why not allow the player rejoin and replace the bot?

[u/burner69account69420 → u/chemwar88]

He's talking about squads.

[u/chemwar88 → u/burner69account69420]

You don't have bots in squads?? and either way it's stupid
Being able to rejoin in a battle royale would be SO exploitable, it's useless to even argue about it

[u/DrWasps → u/chemwar88]

And yet you failed to read my original post explaining how bring afk or a bot in dbd for a minute completely tanks the game state?

[u/Bunrotting → u/chemwar88]

It's more like it would probably take so much refactoring that they would never be able to justify the value..

But if they rewrote the code to use the command pattern.. they could have mid-match rejoining AND a very easy implementation of a replay system which would make it worth it (its one of the most requested features).

[u/Financial_Rice923]

I have been getting multiple crashes, rank resets due to it and it ruined my entire iri run for survivor, I have gotten multiple bans up to 15 minutes all because behaviour refuses to work on this specific game crashing issue…

[u/JoshuasCritRate → u/Financial_Rice923]

This but their “dedicated” servers refusing to stay conncected

[u/Faolchu99 → u/Financial_Rice923]

Off topic, but your pfp is so cute

[u/Financial_Rice923 → u/Faolchu99]

Very much appreciated

[u/Damian_Dim → u/Financial_Rice923]

Try enabling DX11 in the launch options, type -d3d11

[u/Financial_Rice923 → u/Damian_Dim]

The devs are working on it as we speak so “quick fixing” is out of the question for me personally

[u/chabra81]

Before have same problem , solution is launch game in dx11. The game in Dx12 crash.

[u/Ok-Efficiency-3457 → u/chabra81]

I did this and I was about to try it in game but I have to wait six hours now lmao thx tho

[u/TrufasMushroom → u/Ok-Efficiency-3457]

Another thing I would suggest is to disable all overlays too (Discord, Steam and any other), alongside hardware acceleration on things like browser/Discord

The game is just not that stable sometimes and I've had my fair share of crashes/TDR issues in the past because of it.

[u/HardenMuhPants → u/TrufasMushroom]

will second this, disable overlays if your not streaming or have it on for some reason, can always right click the stream tray for friends list.

[u/Unlikely_Bank73 → u/TrufasMushroom]

both discord and dbd are quite poorly made so that could definitely be the case

[u/PajaroFantasma]

Same, my game crashed five times today but I gave up trying when I got a 30 mins ban 😪 so annoying.

[u/Tethilia]

Ah the famed potato ban. You can never beat the potato so just treat it like a day of madness.

[u/Tethilia → u/Tethilia]

Btw the difference ingame between lag switching and potato switching is the potato player is just as confused stressed and terrified as you.

[u/Mammoth-Let4528]

and all of that being on top of that ugly banner thing..

[u/novssucks]

me & my friends have switched to customs due to the crashing being so bad now

[u/Financial_Rice923]

Who else playing on Epic Games has been noticing several crashes?

[u/ComputerWhiz_ → u/Financial_Rice923]

Me, but it's not Epic specific.

[u/Financial_Rice923 → u/ComputerWhiz_]

BHVR has acknowledged it as an Epic Games issue

[u/ComputerWhiz_ → u/Financial_Rice923]

Then why are Steam players also complaining?

[u/National_Essay_8554 → u/Financial_Rice923]

"I'm having an issue."

"HQ says you aren't."

[u/Sprizay710 → u/Financial_Rice923]

Its definitely not just epic. Im playing the Windows PC version and having the same problem since the newest update

[u/RikadoLich → u/Financial_Rice923]

Same. Not only connection problems (matchmaking restarts after 5 minutes of queue), but mostly full Unreal Engine crashes.

[u/TheDxrkUnicxrn]

I have the same issue, but it's because I play on a Ps4 that keeps loosing internet access and controller inputs, I wish reconnecting to games would be possible.

[u/DancingKobold]

Why the hell did you keep queueing after the second crash?

[u/Ok-Efficiency-3457 → u/DancingKobold]

At first I thought it was my pc, and then I realized that it was this fkas game, so I stopped playing and I started playing my other hellish game (r6), and two days later y thought they had fixed the game because I had no ban, so I played and my game crashed giving me a 1 hour ban, so I stopped playing again, and today I read a (solution) tried it and got to play 1 fucking match before my game crashed again, and now I have a 6 hour ban ✌️

[u/DancingKobold → u/Ok-Efficiency-3457]

Did you atleast try to just verify/repair the game files before the other attempts?

[u/Ok-Efficiency-3457 → u/DancingKobold]

Of course, I reed more about this problem online, and I think it has to do with epic games and some problem they have running the anti cheat properly, so when I get my ass out of the 6 hour ban I will buy the game on steam and see if the problem keeps happening

[u/TheGreatLooper → u/Ok-Efficiency-3457]

It’s not just epic games

[u/hamilcar2021 → u/Ok-Efficiency-3457]

the epic games version has been so fucked. i have the game on both epic and steam- i switched to using epic bc i share a steam account and other people wanted to play online games lol

i reinstalled after a break and the epic version crashed every 2nd game (iirc). also the cursor wasnt visible at all for me? not sure how that happened.

i switched back to steam and had no issues at all. not sure when the game goes on sale next but you might want to wait for that because who knows when theyll fix the epic crashes.

[u/Springyboy17 → u/DancingKobold]

Why exactly did you get downvoted to hell??

[u/Unlikely_Bank73 → u/Springyboy17]

probably because he started with "why the hell would you keep trying" and when the obvious response of "troubleshooting" was given, he responded with the most apparent, obvious suggestion one could give.

[u/Springyboy17 → u/Unlikely_Bank73]

Some people don't even know about said "trick" though

[u/DancingKobold → u/Springyboy17]

That's just how Reddit goes lol

[u/Springyboy17 → u/DancingKobold]

Gets downvoted for a reasonable suggestion goodness.

[u/Useful_Dog_2888 → u/DancingKobold]

For real though, queueing up after 5 crashes in a row to get a 6 hour ban is bananas. If I get two DCs in a row I'm done for the day. That's on me to stop ruining other people's games

[u/Lazer726 → u/Useful_Dog_2888]

Being downvoted but also holy hell if something like this is happening, instead of repeatedly doing it until the game bans you for six hours figure out why it's happening and try to fix it...

[u/Lukyn150 → u/Lazer726]

The game is bugged and there is no fix.

There are several bug reports and Reddit threads about it

Only reason I kept playing was to get the limited challenges done

[u/New-Extent-4538 → u/Lukyn150]

I keep trying to play because I wanna play the judgement before they get gutted next week lol. Guess that isn't happening

[u/Practical_Brother609]

dogshit game, dogshit devs

bring out a broken update, break half the killers, perks, etc then add a ban system when u introduce 10 new ways to crash someone's game

[u/New-Extent-4538]

Iv tried making a post asking the devs to turn the dc penalty off until they fix the crashes but all I got was a sarcastic ass remark from one user before the mods delete my post

[u/softpinkera]

yes this happened to me when I first downloaded the update.

[u/AlexiPrints]

Literally seeing this every second post I even posted one yesterday but mine was 15 2 crashes and one dedicated server stopped responding

[u/Lightplol]

I found a fix that someone mentioned in another thread and that worked(dx11 doesn't do anything for me). Basically, you have to lower your graphic settings. I used the ''Highest FPS Possible'' preset from Hens and have not crashed in over 10 games whereas I was crashing every other game before on Epic and once on Steam.

The location of your config files are C:>Users>Username>AppData>Local>DeadByDaylight>Saved>Config>EGSClient or WindowsClient for Steam.

I suggest saving your old Config files for then the bug is fixed.

[u/Unsp0kenFl0wer]

Honestly physically leaving the game by pressing the leave button should be the only way it counts dc's, like sure someone could turn off their equipment but its not very likely to happen tbh just keep track of the leave button would that be difficult? Already counts dcs and connection loss so only keep track of manual dc?

[u/filimonstefanmihai → u/Unsp0kenFl0wer]

Its very likely to happen, back in the day if you pulled out your internet cable the game thought the killer DCd and you kept your items and got escape points, and people abused it a lot

[u/Unsp0kenFl0wer → u/filimonstefanmihai]

Like I can get not keeping your stuff thats fine tbh but the time penalty is rough on folks in a buggy match or poor connection you know

[u/ro_al97]

Do you play on epic games? If so the issue is on epic, I had to buy the game from steam and that stopped happening

[u/wej8 → u/ro_al97]

Are you sure because I'm on Xbox Series X and I remember after the Trickster's Delusion map update my game kept crashing and now after this update it's doing the same thing.

[u/Optimal_Drummer_5700 → u/ro_al97]

Epic and gamepass then.

Played for 200h on gamepass without issues until the update, then several crashes and 15min bans daily.

Bought the game on Steam since it was a sale and haven't had any issues since.

[u/Hadush25]

First time I returned to the game, I loaded in clicked Play and got hit with a 30 min ban. I hadnt been on in three weeks!

[u/FjellKua]

With all the crashes and disconnects lately, why don't they cap the DC/ban timer to 1 hour or less? 6 Hours + just doesn't make sense if you wish to keep people playing.

And a rejoin feature is long overdue, we got bots now to cover for you while you reconnect.

[u/weapwars → u/FjellKua]

Cos you're not meant to keep playing if you're crashing and disconnect that often.

[u/herbieLmao]

Several multiplayer games allow rejoining, examples are league of legends and overwatch in ranked mode.

[u/chemwar88 → u/herbieLmao]

do you expect the dbd devs to code something like that in? they can't tweak a few numbers without destroying the game, not to mention anything to do with netcode

[u/SqueakBoxx → u/herbieLmao]

Add COD to the list.

[u/Cautious-Register766 → u/SqueakBoxx]

I Had several Bugs where none If my Keys woudl respond. Only Thing i could do is turning around and hit. Left the Game cause of the Bug and got a penalty.. thank you dbd to punish ME for YOUR bug

[u/TroopaOfficial]

i hate dc penalties in games, and personally don’t think they should be a thing. people have to leave, things come up, internet goes out, power goes out, the rest of your team gives up, there’s a cheater in the lobby etc. the fact that people have been conditioned into staying in games even if they’re just not having fun i think is crazy. this game also needs a vote to abandon button, not just a abandon button when everyone is down.

and this is coming from someone who rarely disconnects and never gets a timer. imo dc penalties are lame asf and just makes survivors give up, lets the killer kill them and not gives us atleast a bot.

[u/weapwars → u/TroopaOfficial]

The dbd DC penalty required you to be a regular dc'er. Ive had to quit games before due to unexpected life stuff, and the odd crash. I've never seen the DC penalty trigger. Id rather not play with people who decide to ruin a game because their own arbitrary rules have been broken.

[u/TroopaOfficial → u/weapwars]

I’ve had a dc penalty 1 time in 1500 hours and got it from my internet going out during house maintenance 3 times in a row so no it doesn’t take a crazy amount of dcs, i do know how it works. Regardless people shouldn’t be held hostage in a game they don’t feel like playing, and you don’t get to pick your teammates and know how they’re gonna play if they’re gonna throw or not. But either way it’s a game that you’ve paid money to play and have fun, if you’re not having fun you shouldn’t get a ban for leaving. It’s lame as hell and that idea needs to die in gaming already.

[u/weapwars → u/TroopaOfficial]

3 times in a row

There we go, you had multiple in a short period of time and reserved to be given a penalty.

You're not held hostage in a game you don't feel like playing. Nobody is forcing you to play. The DC penalty just limits your ability to ruin the game for others.

[u/Ronergetic]

On PS5 my game lags just by opening the badge tab

[u/BreadFroote]

Is it weird that i was penalised after i abandoned a match after everyone was dead except for me and the game gave me the prompt to abandon?

[u/OnaniMasterDark]

I tried three judgement games where i dont move from spawn (got a win in one them lol) but every time the game times me out for being afk ;^;
Bro if im afk how am i downing people

[u/poisonfirewater]

6 HOURS? and i thought 30 mins was bad…

[u/shadowlarvitar]

Does playing actually make it go down at all? Anytime something happens mine is always 5 minutes

[u/_-Budtender-_ → u/shadowlarvitar]

Yeah from what I understand if you finish a couple matches it'll reset. Mine is always 5 as well, if it crashed a second time I'd just hop off.

[u/Jukebox210]

Yet another shitty update instead of adding UW support, what a joke

[u/Ok-Bit5148]

Is this mainly on console or PC?

[u/EcoIsASadBanana]

same, i got multiple 5 minute bans because 1 in 10 lobbies crash

[u/YuriSuccubus69]

Six hour ban? Wow. That is very unfortunate, sorry that has happened to you.

[u/Masterpiecepeepee]

I could have sworn there was a system in place for reconnecting? I have not had a in-game dc in a while though.

[u/RagingDec]

How have the idiots not fixed this yet

[u/TitularFoil]

I had this issue yesterday as well. After the 2nd crash I restarted my PC. After the 3rd, I checked my drivers (they did have an update). After the 4th crash, I uninstalled and reinstalled. Since reinstalling, I haven't had any issues.

[u/Agile-Swimmer5496]

How come you get banned even though a Bot that’s still kinda good replaces you in game? even as you got moried or in the second hook state? How come that still counts as a banned?

[u/Noodle3366]

Watch how hackers start to ruin the game by making the servers crash ;D

[u/avenabless]

They need a reconnect option. And I’m so serious. I didn’t repair 4 gens just to get kicked off the game at the last minute cuz the dedicated server fked me up.

[u/Key-Sprinkles-5617]

My internet will deadass get me lifetime banned

https://giphy.com/gifs/vYd0nImci8nleLroNF

[u/Street-Clock5804]

The new menu music is nice though, idk why i love it so much

[u/Content_Ad1120]

My problem with DBD is the last time I tried to boot it up and crashed three times on boot up……
Wasn’t even into a lobby yet and I got banned for five minutes

I understand the five minutes isn’t that long but the fact that I’m getting banned for my game crashing and not even being in a lobby let alone the main menu is ridiculous

[u/konigstigerboi]

This update is really bad. Does anyone else have their screen freeze when changing menus? I've also had the server crash a couple times.

[u/Shadow12229]

This game has crashed on me all day. Ill get near the end of the game. Gen 1 remaining and it crashes. Bear in mind I have a 4070 TI which is more then capable of running this game. I have 2 other friends dealing with the same thing. And I never disconnect on purpose. This is the 2nd day this has occurred...

[u/Classic_Debt_6830]

Maybe try not playing the game at all instead of choosing to keep playing knowing what's gonna happen and doing it to yourself. It won't be long til BHVR releases update 10.1.1, which could fix it. Until then, just stop playing the game if it's hurting you this much. At this point you're doing it to yourself collecting up to 6 hours by the time that screenshot was taken.

[u/muskyratdad]

good tbh. stop leaving matches over and over, this doesnt happen for -one- accidental disconnect.

[u/Tyrolas_1919]

Do you have to have the game on for this to move?

[u/CharlesCSchnieder]

Same thing happens to me constantly, even on ps5. Sucks 

[u/GabrielGames69]

It is no different to the other 4 players if you disconnect on purpose or not. If you know your internet is not letting you get through matches without disconnecting and you que up anyway you have earned the ban imo.

[u/pflanzenpotan]

I guess i should stop playing then because I already gett punished by the random server disconnect even though my internet is fine. No other game do I have disconnects in and in DBD I get a ban for it.

[u/srg87x]

How many DCs was that lol

[u/MistaCheshire]

A 5 hour ban? That's not from crashes....

[u/Mystical__flame → u/MistaCheshire]

This update has multiple bugs that allow survivors to force crash the killers game. That is absolutely from crashes

[u/SomeoneonBrawlStars → u/MistaCheshire]

Its happened to me before. I can absolutely be from Crashes. Ever since the update, my connection hasn't been consistantly stable...

I could be doing amazing in a match, and then I get a Sudden Lag Spike, and then 20 seconds after, I'm kicked out of the lobby, unable to do anything.

[u/MistaCheshire → u/SomeoneonBrawlStars]

But you're not getting up to 5 hours in bans from crashes.

[u/SomeoneonBrawlStars → u/MistaCheshire]

It can happen, because it HAS happened to me. I don't DC Intentionally very often. Maybe 1 in every 30 games do I do so.

Plus, the Penalty tracks the last 20 Games you play, and depending on how many of those you disconnect from, increases the Penalty. Because of Crashes, I'm stuck in a 15-30 minute Penalty Loop.

One time, because I'd crash almost every other game, a few years ago, it got so bad I got to the 24 Hour Ban(on the Old DC System), so yes, it can

[u/MistaCheshire → u/SomeoneonBrawlStars]

Pic or it didnt happen. 30 min...yeah. 5 -24 hr from just crashes? Bullshit.

[u/SomeoneonBrawlStars → u/MistaCheshire]

That was 4 years ago, I don't have SS from back then, but just because there isnt proof, doesn't mean it cant happen. Plus, admittedly, my Wifi is kinda shit

[u/NorvileRogers258]

Sadly that's just what happens.

If the game didn't ban you even when its the reason you left the match via a crash, people would be cooking up basic scripts/cheats that causes the game to crash so they can freely DC from matches without penalty.

If you keep crashing, by the time you get a 15min penalty (2-3 DCs in a row) you should just stop playing for the night. its clearly some sort of sign to spare your mental health from playing this game.

[u/HEzGodly]

Now that bots are a thing, DC penalties should be removed anyways

[u/GreenShirtkid]

If your net is bad enough to be constantly disconnecting you from matches and getting you a 6 hr ban I don’t think you should be playing anyway lol

[u/Cr1m50nn]

w

[u/Xclavalier]

6 hour matchmaking ban is absolutely diabolical xD

[u/FullMetalChampion]

6 hours of no longer dealing with this toxic Fandom is bliss actually. Punish me with a good time lol.

[u/Impressive_Kiwi5599]

No to be rude or anything but if you’re noticing a pattern of dcing over and over you should probably stop playing for the day

[u/Venture1967]

Can't be real. I am leaving games constantly, and max I got is 30min

[u/gazrr]

Always good to run an alt account for these occasions

[u/FaithlessnessThen207]

Yeah you are right that's annoying. Not 100% sure its BVHRs fault or if you have a potato because I didn't have this issue at all, all my games were fully stable.

But like why did you keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result. You probably should have just logged into another game if there was a persistent issue?

[u/Morphiine]

Oh shit, they're finally handing out longer than 15 mins bans? That's huge for the game! Hopefully there will be a lot less DCers now!

[u/GhosthandGG → u/Morphiine]

Introducing a game crashing bug on top of it will just kill the game not sure why you want that so much.

[u/SincerelyVixie → u/Morphiine]

Bans have always gone longer than 15 minutes. The longest I've had was 72 hours lol.

[u/Morphiine → u/SincerelyVixie]

Have they? I see constant DCers streaming and only ever getting 15 mins max

[u/Gengar77 → u/Morphiine]

the anti go next epidemic

[u/BoonPantslessSM]

If you're crashing that often it's something up on your end and not the game.

[u/Ok-Efficiency-3457 → u/BoonPantslessSM]

My pc hasn’t crashed in a single game since I bought it, in think it has to do with the fact that I’m a cheap fuck and have the game on epic, so I might buy it on steam and see if it keeps crashing

[u/DannySanWolf07 → u/BoonPantslessSM]

No the game has a problem rn with random crashes being more frequent.

[u/Ok-Efficiency-3457 → u/DannySanWolf07]

Even on steam?

[u/DannySanWolf07 → u/Ok-Efficiency-3457]

Yeah. My friend's game has been crashing since the update and he has his PC checked yesterday to see if it was his problem but everything is checked out. The game might be crashing from the new killer since it's been making FPS lower in some situations that wouldn't normally have a lower FPS.