dont go afk as soon as the game starts pls

[Nod 4 Bloodpoints]

had a myers match. pulled a few people off gens (scratched mirror). for context, im pretty much just training with scratched mirror. i usually think its fun, but theres been a lot of people going AFK for little to no reason.

this game, i thought game was going pretty well. no gens had been done, so pressure was pretty high.

i wasnt tunelling, slugging, camping, etc. some hook trades happened because one of the survivors wanted to farm for a bit for her challenge (the one with sabotaging hooks near killer terror radius) - which is fine, i also had my own challenges to do too so its not gonna hurt me. always let them go for a bit after, so its not like they were gonna be camped or whatever. pretty chill on my end basically. they werent rushing on gens, so my initial goal was to get them all on death hook and then see if i could jumpscare them/kill them when we were closer to one gen (or endgame).

i hit the meg, she runs away, i let her do some gen... she stops looking around, i yoink her once, she stops struggling and proceeds to die on second hook. doesnt bother wiggling or struggle phase. i am notably very confused because meg had been trying and then suddenly decided she didnt want to any more. immediately before id seen her on that gen, id hit a jake and he'd run off. i figured he'd go heal, but i couldnt see him so i gathered distortion or smth.

as meg dies on hook, i then begin to see the AFK crow notification. jake has three crows in a locker. he is not moving, even when i let him struggle free. i leave him alone for a bit, because maybe its IRL stuff.

we're still at five gens btw, the meg (before she died) and claudette have been rotating trying different gens until the meg gave up, so most of my pressure has been on these two as i patrol gens, not seeing anyone else. at this point, i easily yank meg off a gen where i'm sure she's seen me. i am guessing the meg gave up after seeing zarina and jake go AFK, so i cant put as much blame on her since she dies just before i see the AFK crow spam begin. a 2v1 when there's still five gens left is rough. (albeit i thought the other two were still healing or doing gens somewhere, which is what bamboozles me!)

which leaves the zarina as the other set of crows, as id seen claudette running around. bear in mind zarina was the survivor i'd just let do hooks repeatedly in my face + heal people. she has decided to go afk under the pipe and is shaking her head nonstop, letting the crows come to her. refusing to do anything else.

why? nobody was being slugged, tunneled or camped. i was more than happy to farm with her (and technically had been!). did she just get what she wanted and instantly wanted to ruin the rest of the game for the claudette? was she and the jake both doing it?

the poor claudette, very obviously new to the game (also the first person id yoinked off gen) is left as the only survivor actually trying to play at this point. i cant bring myself to finish the 4k. i stare at the zarina still shaking her head. confused, i put her down on the hook. she dies.

the jake is still afk on the other side of the map. i can still see this with stalking. zarina also has 3 crows. what is going on!?

after that, i yoinked the still afk jake (its been like 5 minutes), and have started carrying him around the map to break doors, then dumped him in the meat locker. i let claudette farm heals on him and let her basically choose his fate at that point. she'd been doing this whole game on her own, including 4 gens, and i didnt want to give a free game to the two afk.

why? look, i know it means extra time in the match, but claudette was /new/ and the rest of her surviving team had decided to afk on her. thats not right or fair on her. i let her do as much gens/healing/whatever as she wanted, killed zarina and jake, and then let claudette get the hatch once she was ready. i really don't mind waiting in cases like that, because claudette was still trying even after seeing two afk teammates.

but blergh. this was immediately followed by a game i played a bit rougher and everyone died at five gens. (sorry rebecca and meg of that game, i did a lot of jump scares.)

there are five generators left to finish. i did briefly slug the rebecca (dw, she was healed), but it was to give her more of a chance because she was already on death hook without any gen being done. i do eventually death hook her, since id already deathhooked someone else. figured maybe i drew it out too much last game and maybe thats why zarina and jake AFK'd? but i was still super puzzled.

anyway, we're down to a meg and a felix. meg's pretty good at avoiding me this game (different meg from last game), but i get some lucky jumpscares in and she falls.

... and as she falls over, yet again, i do a cautionary stalk to see if i can see felix. a felix that i thought was on gens has decided to go AFK in the bathroom. staring at the stall wall. doesnt even try to run when i NORMALLY walk over to hit him. (no stalk on, no undetectable, and he was full health). ive seen him running previous, so he hadnt been AFK at the start of the game, but he has decided to give up.

just, idk, i don't get it. i wish id let that meg live too. afking just ruins it for all.

i /do/ wish AFK mode would just replace the player with a bot. maybe people could toggle it in the game without dcing, and could take back over once they were back, if people are going to AFK this hard for irl reasons. (and, yknow, IRL comes first, i get that - bots wouldnt get points, that said.) - and in terms of people who AFK just to let their teammates down, pls dont do that! its annoying and i will just waste your time so you cant do it to another group.

[IIpocTo urpok]

TLDR
AFK mode would be a good feature tho i can see some people abusing it like low skill players to make themselves better in chase or lazy people to not do gens. This is something Evolve had. Bots would take control of players characters on toggle or if afk the thing is trapper (his role is to find monster) could just toggle bot and it would find monster faster than human.

IMO if you're afk you should be just kicked out of game and be replaced by bot just like if you dc'ed.

[Rizzo]

AFKing from the start of the match like you described is something reportable, as it's refusing to participate to the normal gameplay.
If you do encounter it again, please be sure to record your match, report in game and open a ticket here: https://support.deadbydaylight.com/hc/en-us/categories/6713776396180-Dead-by-Daylight