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Will you get a leaver penalty after failing advanced optionals?

e30erneste30ernest Member Posts: 1,794 Arc User
Title says it all. Will you incur a leaver penalty if you leave after a failed objective in an advanced STF?

Can we leave after the mission timer has been running after x minutes? I can see some advanced STFs running for way too long with no way out now that insta-fails have been removed.

Thanks!

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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    You want to bail as soon as the optional fails? That is what it sounds like you're saying.

    Honestly though, regardless of that little nitpick, leaver penalties are an extremely flawed system open to exploitation by the scum of any community, the trolls.

    Someone goes ahead of the team, triggers a lockout, then dances and taunts the rest of the team who cannot leave without being penalized.

    Even cooldowns on an STF should only trigger on successful completion of the main objectives.

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  • e30erneste30ernest Member Posts: 1,794 Arc User
    Yes if needed, because of the reasons you stated or you simply could be left with an instance that is near impossible to complete. The exit used to be the fail-optional. Is there a safe out now?
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  • kyrrokkyrrok Member Posts: 1,352 Arc User
    I was wondering if there was still a leaver penalty. On too many pve's, There's more and more that someone who leaves the scene before the game even gets started, Leaving 4, or even 3 at times struggling to do everything that there is to do.
  • e30erneste30ernest Member Posts: 1,794 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Forget PuGs - they don't work anymore. If the optional fails, chances are you are in an instance that is going to either last hours or prompt you to swallow leaver penalty out of despair caused by the overwhelming fail.

    So I guess there is still a leaver penalty afterall. Thank you. I really think Cryptic should consider removing the penalty when the optional fails just to prevent people from being stuck in a map for much more time than they should be.
    kyrrok wrote: »
    I was wondering if there was still a leaver penalty. On too many pve's, There's more and more that someone who leaves the scene before the game even gets started, Leaving 4, or even 3 at times struggling to do everything that there is to do.

    I think that is more of a case of people getting disconnected or crashing while the map loads rather than them doing it deliberately. In the past, you could re-log and still land in the same instance. That mechanic seems to be broken as of late too so you end up with incomplete teams.
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