How To Avoid Broken LeaveBuster After Your Game Crashes

SleepinGhostFace·May 13, 2015·2 votes·844 views

If for whatever reason your game crashes and you don't reconnect within 2-3min, just close the entire game and wait for the match to end. 2nd time I'm getting affected by leave buster just because the game crashes. I've left matches before and avoid leave buster, so it should work unless its been patched. Also, If your affected by leave buster and it unjustified, Riot will not remove it.

One last thing, if you join a lobby very late after pressing yes on the vote, DON'T pick a champ and wait for the time to run out. Close your game and login again cause your game is about to crash on you.

If you got anymore tips on how to avoid it leave buster then leave them in comments below.

6 Comments

T RexHasTinyArmsMay 13, 20151 votes

Doesn't leaver buster only sanction you for multiple leaves in a contracted time period? If your game crashes you won't get busted if it is your only leave that month. If your game crashes frequently fix the issue with your comp/Internet/client or whatever before you keep playing. You say riot won't remove unjustified leaver buster, but why does that mean? If leaver buster only affects you if you leave a certain number of games in a month then it isn't un justified to restrict you after x games bc you continue to que up even when you can safely assume you run the risk of a probable dc since it keeps happening to you. At that point it is the same as the legal principle that says drunk driving is illegal even if you were too drunk to be competent to make the decision when you drove, you were competent when you started drinking and didn't secure other transportation home so bam, jail time. Same thing here, you might not have known you would dc the last game that got you a temp ban or something, but you knew it was a frequent problem with your game crashing and you continued to play pvp without fixing it so you knew eventually it would happen, thus you are responsible for that decision.

KrigjerMay 13, 20151 votes

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Doesn't leaver buster only sanction you for multiple leaves in a contracted time period? If your game crashes you won't get busted if it is your only leave that month.

Not true. League refused to connect me to the servers for the first ten minutes of a match, and when I did get in, I played for the rest of the game. I still got hit with a leaverbuster warning at the end, despite

it not being my fault I couldn't connect
I came back to play and was only gone for roughly seven minutes
it was my only 'leave' at the time. I never dodge/afk games, and my internet probably drops me from games once every two months.

Leaverbuster is HARSH these days.

T RexHasTinyArmsMay 13, 20151 votes

Doesn't it just warn you if that happens that seldom though? I mean I was more referring to actual punishment, like temp ban or ranked restriction or something. I've gotten a warning for a DC (although I think mine was the second in a week or something since my internet went out later that week for half a month, fuck you TWC), but I don't think I've ever been sanctioned and it definitely happens to me from time to time. That's why I assumed you needed multiple DCs in a small time period to actually get sanctions and not just a warning.

Mr JimirMay 13, 20151 votes

There are degrees. I got dropped from a game one night, and by the time I got League working again, I was on a temporary hold before I could join the queue for a new game (I was playing bots both times). At the time, I had rarely been disconnected from a game (not once in over 6 months from what I could recall). I got disconnected, again that night. I suspect that if I had continued attempting to play that night, I would have immediately faced additional restrictions.

SleepinGhostFaceMay 14, 20151 votes

Its not a constant problem. I've already scanned my files for any corruption and I even re-installed the game at one point. The problem still continued even after I've attempted to do some troubleshooting. I've been playing since season 3 and this only happened to me in season 5; this makes me come to the conclusion that its a technical problem on Riots side. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to see 99% on your load screen only to have a message appears saying that you couldn't connect to the game. Then you finally get into the game and play the full duration of the match or until your team forfeits. Suddenly your hit with leave buster and have to be played in low priority queue for five games. This is also a ban-able offense, an I dont want my account getting banned.

T RexHasTinyArmsMay 14, 20151 votes

That sucks. I had a comp a while back that was so old it struggled w/ the update on SR map and its graphics and would drop a bunch and I couldn't play for a while. Sucked a lot.