Why do I lose a pip if the game crashes?

[Krypton]

It's not a DC, I have no control over it and I shouldn't be penalized for it. It happens quite often.

[Necoo]

The reason for this is that intentionally DC was something that was being abused to a rather signifigent degree at one point. To fix that they put in a punishment to try and curb it. However there is no actually way for the game to tell the differnce between a crash and a DC since intentionally DC is done by forcing the game to crash.... basically its the same thing as far as the game can tell.

[Krypton]

Originally posted by Necoo:

The reason for this is that intentionally DC was something that was being abused to a rather signifigent degree at one point. To fix that they put in a punishment to try and curb it. However there is no actually way for the game to tell the differnce between a crash and a DC since intentionally DC is done by forcing the game to crash.... basically its the same thing as far as the game can tell.

that's not entirely true since when the game crash you get a window asking you to report it, so the game can figure out the difference

[Murf]

Because it is being used to exploit the game, DC is loss of three pips. Unfortunately, that means you lose pips when you crash as well.

[Krypton]

Originally posted by Murf:

Because it is being used to exploit the game, DC is loss of three pips. Unfortunately, that means you lose pips when you crash as well.

so bust your ass trying to rank a survivor only to get those pips taken because the game is broken

[Krypton]

Since posting this thread and losing 3 pips, I played again, won 3 matches, only to get another crash on the 4th one and losing 3 pips again...

https://postimg.org/image/sekykfyzl/

So yea....gg

[Thiil]

Originally posted by Krypton:

It's not a DC, I have no control over it and I shouldn't be penalized for it. It happens quite often.

Because as with everything else in society, the many gets collectively punished for the abuse by the few, who can't play nice.

[Sofia]

Originally posted by Murf:

Because it is being used to exploit the game, DC is loss of three pips. Unfortunately, that means you lose pips when you crash as well.

That's the thing. That's false.

DCs were being abused, not crashes.

The game can CLEARLY figure out when it crashed because you get an error report window popping up, so there's no reason it can't also tell your save file it was a crash and NOT punish you. Crashing isn't DCing, it can't be faked. And if it could be they would fix it, because simulating a crash implies you can reproduce crashing conditions and thus fix it.