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I know this is something that gets put on here a lot, and I have tried to not complain about it on here, but it is incredibly annoying and I'm to that point. I just got done playing a game where one person deserted us, one went AFK, and the other player was, sorry for sounding toxic, not that great. Honestly, I can say that I'm nowhere near the best player in the world, but it would be nice to be able to get into a game and know for a fact that I'm going to have a full team to back me up.

I honestly wish there was a longer penalty for deserters, I wouldn't care if it was an hour penalty. The surrender button rarely gets used (at least in the games I have played). And then the people who go AFK, can we please have an option to kick them? When I'm playing Strikeout, we probably would have a better chance of winning with just three of us. The AFK person is a sitting duck and people can easily steal our lives. If not strikeout, they just sit there and don't help. It would be cool if we could kick them and then sometimes replacement players could get put into the game to take their place.

Like I said, I know this gets complained about a lot, but this isn't fair to the players who actually want to play the game.

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over 3 years ago - /u/HiRezRadar - Direct link

Thanks for bringing this up! The team is very aware of the impact and frustration created around folks leaving games early (not to be confused with people who don't load in to the match). There are some adjustments with Deserter penalties coming with the next update that we believe may deter some of this behavior.

We look forward to hearing your feedback about how it works and hope this helps balance out more matches for you.