Stop playing competitive until you sort out your connection issues, otherwise you’ll just keep collecting penalties. Try looking over this thread for connection issues:
Greetings all,
We’ve been working to improve some of the available troubleshooting resources for our games. Since connectivity problems are a common problem in gaming, we wanted to provide some information on what causes connection problems and what to do to resolve issues when you’re having them.
Table of Contents
1. Connection Troubleshooting Resources
2. FAQs
3. What to do if you need more help
Console
Hey folks,
This thread will highlight the usual troubleshooting steps that you will want to try when experiencing connection issues on your Xbox One or PS4 console.
1. Completely close out the Overwatch application and restart it to see if the issue went away.
Here’s how to do that:
Xbox One
While in the game, press the Xbox button on your controller > Make sure that the biggest application tile is highlighted, and then press the Menu button > Select the Quitoption.
PS4
Hold down the P…
As for the penalty, Blizzard has no way of discerning if you dc’d or pulled the plug, and because of this everyone suffers the same. More info here:
Hey everybody,
I wanted to take some time today to discuss Leaver Penalties and how they relate to Technical issues. We understand that leaver penalties are an annoying thing to experience. Technical issues can be complicated to troubleshoot. To add penalties to your account can seem like adding insult to injury. This isn’t our intent. The competitive penalty system may not be perfect, but there is reason behind it.
When we created the leaver penalty system, we took in a lot of player feedbac…