Double Helix, who develop the sort of free-to-play Xbox One fighter Killer Instinct, have recently shared details regarding the game’s next patch. Apart from a new character, it will introduce way to punish folks who don’t like to play fair.
In their notes, Double Helix calls their new system their “rage quit solution”. Basically, what it does is it puts players who disconnect from matches early in a “Jail” pool, where they can only be matched against other players from the pool for a certain amount of time. Here’s how it works:
– The first time your disconnect percentage goes above 15 per cent you go to JAIL
– A 10 match minimum is required
– JAIL lasts for 24 hours. During this time you can only be matched against other JAIL members
– Each time you go to JAIL the amount of time increases by 24 hours (capped at 5 days — 120 hrs)
– While in JAIL your profile icon will be automatically changed to a custom JAIL icon to let you know you are in JAIL
– When your JAIL time is up, you go back into the public again (even if your disconnect percentage is back over 15%)
– However, when back in public, if you disconnect and you are still above 15 percentage you go directly back to JAIL
– For any match that sends you to JAIL, player will take a loss
So, yeah, fairly thorough. Quitters shouldn’t be much of a problem after this. If you wanna give the full patch notes a read, you can do so here.
1/30 Developer Notes [Double Helix Forums, via Destructoid]
Prison bar clipart courtesy of LazyEye.
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5 responses to “Quit A Killer Instinct Match Early? You Go To Jail”
Good, I hate when people drop out at the end
This idea is completely broken. Right now if you play and the person you are against quits, you BOTH go to jail.
The issue with that of course is most of the legit players get annoyed and stop playing, waiting for it to get fixed only for the rest who are forced to play online in jail to play against a larger number of ragequitters than usual.
I really hope they fix it quickly. Matchmaking is completely broken at the moment because of this.
This is so stupid. If though you vs someone that disconnects you will be jailed.