is there a way to deal with players for trolling or griefing on l4d2?

[Jim]

i have been playing l4d2 more actively over the past few months, and i continue to encounter trolls who intentionally ruin expert campaign matches. i don't see this level of trolling in matches like normal, and advanced difficulty. the player(s) briefly join the game, and start friendly firing the whole team. some leave immediately after, and others would initiate restart campaign votes to prevent the team from booting the player out, and try to get enough votes to restart the game from the very beginning.

depending on how vocal the team's response is to the friendly fire, the troll would proceed to spam profanity, then leave. when this happens, it's a pretty easy to report, and block the user via through steam profile. however, steam unfortunately does not dish out bans for this kind of behavior.

how should one go about dealing with players like this? there are so many of them. i have blocked a few dozen players by now.

[Raterix]

When you block a player you cannot connect to their server.

[supersand]

they are trolls looking for entertainment so the best thing to do is not engage with them and just block them.

[**DeiRowtag]

Make your own server and ban them all

[Tio Taveira]

Download the following mods from the workshop

Admin System
Admin Menu
Friendly Fire Reflector

Run a local server.
Have fun!

[Bathtub Shitter]

Originally posted by Heretic:

Originally posted by **DeiRowtag:

Make your own server and ban them all

At this rate he may as well play with bots. Anyway, the trolling is part of the game. The suspense of not knowing makes each round unique.

I mean that just sounds like justification to be a troll if imma be honest. They're just attention seeking chuds.

[**DeiRowtag]

Originally posted by Heretic:

Originally posted by **DeiRowtag:

Make your own server and ban them all

At this rate he may as well play with bots. Anyway, the trolling is part of the game. The suspense of not knowing makes each round unique.

I think not I clean every troll trash and now my games are amazing majority of people who remain are good and cool players.

[Tacticowl]

The simple answer for this would be to implement an auto-kick for repeated teamkilling, like counter strike has.
You know, for how big TLS was advertised, I was really hoping they'd implement some much needed quality of life changes, like search function for the addons menu, and a kick for repeatededly downing other players during the same map in a public lobby.

Would've been nice.

[tomás]

1) Download admin system.
2) Create a local host game.
3) If a troll join, ban him.
4) Block Him from Steam.

Done.

[Witch]

Originally posted by Matame:

The simple answer for this would be to implement an auto-kick for repeated teamkilling, like counter strike has.
You know, for how big TLS was advertised, I was really hoping they'd implement some much needed quality of life changes, like search function for the addons menu, and a kick for repeatededly downing other players during the same map in a public lobby.

Would've been nice.

The issue with this is that people might accidentally friendly fire each other and still get kicked

[England is not a real country]

Originally posted by Matame:

The simple answer for this would be to implement an auto-kick for repeated teamkilling, like counter strike has.
You know, for how big TLS was advertised, I was really hoping they'd implement some much needed quality of life changes, like search function for the addons menu, and a kick for repeatededly downing other players during the same map in a public lobby.

Would've been nice.

Ok how about accidental friendly fire?
Newer players are notorious for accidental friendly fire and i think a function like that
would´ve unfairly punish them,
I can count at the top of my head , many times where a new player would´ve:

-Accidently trown a molotov bewteen everybody feets as a tank approaches
-Block line of sight and get insta-downed with 1 bullet
(Some of them would even retilate out of anger)
-Trown a bile bomb near a injured team mate ( Pipe bomb too )
-Explode the gas station in No mercy 3 chapter,killing every one who are trying to look for supplies (Probably trying to kill a hunter or smoker nearby)
-Accidently shoot a alarm car
-Accidently shoot a boomer near team mates

Should we really punish these new players for "team killing"?

[King Of Lolis]

join in the fun or cope

[girlboss maxxing :3]

"Ok how about accidental friendly fire?
Newer players are notorious for accidental friendly fire and i think a function like that
would´ve unfairly punish them,
I can count at the top of my head , many times where a new player would´ve:

-Accidently trown a molotov bewteen everybody feets as a tank approaches
-Block line of sight and get insta-downed with 1 bullet
(Some of them would even retilate out of anger)
-Trown a bile bomb near a injured team mate ( Pipe bomb too )
-Explode the gas station in No mercy 3 chapter,killing every one who are trying to look for supplies (Probably trying to kill a hunter or smoker nearby)
-Accidently shoot a alarm car
-Accidently shoot a boomer near team mates

Should we really punish these new players for "team killing"?"

quotes arent working for somereason, but you can just not shoot your gun if you think you might hit a teammate. trying to save someone from potentially taking a hit or 2 from commons is not a good idea, because of the possiblity that you might hit them and if it does it will probably end up doing more damage and EVEN incapping them

[Straw Man]

Welcome to blocking someone every 2 or 3 games.

I like to leave feedback on the few blockworthy profiles that aren't private:

☐ Real Bro
☐ Sabotage/Griefing
☐ Exploits
☐ Rushing
☐ Bad Rushing
☐ Medkit Stealing
☐ Extreme Throwable Spam
☐ Low Effort Vocalizer Spam
☐ High Effort Vocalizer Spam
☐ Difficulty Vote Fishing
☐ Microphone Spam
☐ Degenerate Profile

☐ Friended
☑ Blocked

[Sasha Pines (no brain)]

it is what it is there are no way around it tho

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by Xx_GlaceonSmasher69_xX:

quotes arent working for somereason, but you can just not shoot your gun if you think you might hit a teammate. trying to save someone from potentially taking a hit or 2 from commons is not a good idea, because of the possiblity that you might hit them and if it does it will probably end up doing more damage and EVEN incapping them

How about Specials since there's times you can end up friendly firing when trying to help deal with the special infected? Also if they have a horde on them and they're struggling you understand your teammate's going to be more angry about the fact that you DIDN'T even bother trying to help them out, there's a difference between losing one or two points of health because of friendly fire to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 10 or 20 points of health from Expert Commons!