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That is not abuse. The vote kick feature is not an "anti-cheat" mechanism only, it is a general self-admin. If the rest of the players feel that someone's prese

That is not abuse. The vote kick feature is not an "anti-cheat" mechanism only, it is a general self-admin. If the rest of the players feel that someone's presence is not fun, they will vote kick that someone. It could be because they are a cheater, it could be because they are much more skilled and outplay everyone else or it could be the opposite where they are unskilled and burden the team they end up on. A really good player can find a server where they can compete at their skill level instead of repeatedly noob-stomping others. A new player can find a server with other low skill players where they can compete at their skill level without being a dead weight.

nirvdrum 7y ago
I tried to play "Sea of Thieves" and gave up entirely after about an hour. They have a feature where the majority can vote to send someone to the brig, where you can't do anything, except apparently drown if your teammates sink the ship. Then you get to come back to life, in the brig still. I never even got a chance to play the game, so there was no reason to vote me out other than just to troll. And this happened repeatedly with every crew I was matched up with. There may be valid cases for these "vote to kick" features, but they do get blatantly abused as well. I don't think they're a good replacement for more intelligent matchmaking.
- Fabricio20 7y ago
  Hey, some personal experience here: Sea of Thieves had an issue in the past where you couldn't _lock_ your ship, and it's a forced-multiplayer game. Which, the way I see it, made this brig thing get abused. Basically all you wanted was to play with your close friends, but you had 3 players not 4, so you can't go with the small ship (2 players) but the big ship (4 players) had one extra slot (and forced public). So you would just end up sending said extra unfortunate player to the brig since said player could just well go and cause havoc by several means (turning the ship/setting sail to somewhere not related to where you wanted to go, firing on "allied" ships (or even just at everyone), etc..). Not saying this was your case, but it surely happened with me and my friends. Things changed however, nowadays we have a 3-player ship and you can lock your ship to private mode only, so you can also go 4-player galleon with only yourself in it. It's an awesome game (that keeps getting more awesome) and hope you can have another go at it!
  - nirvdrum 7y ago
    Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
cooljacob204 7y ago
In a game like BF5 which has no match making for skilled players to verse each other this would not be an option. And even then it doesn't stop it. I use to play a lot of counter strike and every once in a while I would get accused of hacking. This was at the highest level of matchmaking available (Supreme/Global). In some games where I was popping off or the enemies were having a bad day I am certain the enemy team would have kicked me if they had any power. And in that game your teammates have the option to vote kick. They do not kick hackers, like at all. I have over 2600 hours in the game and I have seen exactly 1 game where a hacker was kicked by their team.

nirvdrum 7y ago

I tried to play "Sea of Thieves" and gave up entirely after about an hour. They have a feature where the majority can vote to send someone to the brig, where you can't do anything, except apparently drown if your teammates sink the ship. Then you get to come back to life, in the brig still. I never even got a chance to play the game, so there was no reason to vote me out other than just to troll. And this happened repeatedly with every crew I was matched up with. There may be valid cases for these "vote to kick" features, but they do get blatantly abused as well. I don't think they're a good replacement for more intelligent matchmaking.

Fabricio20 7y ago
Hey, some personal experience here: Sea of Thieves had an issue in the past where you couldn't _lock_ your ship, and it's a forced-multiplayer game. Which, the way I see it, made this brig thing get abused. Basically all you wanted was to play with your close friends, but you had 3 players not 4, so you can't go with the small ship (2 players) but the big ship (4 players) had one extra slot (and forced public). So you would just end up sending said extra unfortunate player to the brig since said player could just well go and cause havoc by several means (turning the ship/setting sail to somewhere not related to where you wanted to go, firing on "allied" ships (or even just at everyone), etc..). Not saying this was your case, but it surely happened with me and my friends. Things changed however, nowadays we have a 3-player ship and you can lock your ship to private mode only, so you can also go 4-player galleon with only yourself in it. It's an awesome game (that keeps getting more awesome) and hope you can have another go at it!
- nirvdrum 7y ago
  Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

cooljacob204 7y ago

In a game like BF5 which has no match making for skilled players to verse each other this would not be an option. And even then it doesn't stop it. I use to play a lot of counter strike and every once in a while I would get accused of hacking. This was at the highest level of matchmaking available (Supreme/Global). In some games where I was popping off or the enemies were having a bad day I am certain the enemy team would have kicked me if they had any power. And in that game your teammates have the option to vote kick. They do not kick hackers, like at all. I have over 2600 hours in the game and I have seen exactly 1 game where a hacker was kicked by their team.