Dashboarding

Ok, I am still not sure why people do this, but correct me if I'm wrong. Dashboarding is the act of quitting the game mid-match? Does this only work if you are the host? Does this basically just eliminate all records of that game ever being played?

Audio tried to explain it to me last night but I had a few too many Sam Adams Oktoberfests to fully comprehend.

If this is true, what is the reason for doing it? It's kind of a selfish thing to do, if you ask me. Some people may be having great games and you're eliminating their accomplishments. If someone would have dashboarded my 40-4 match on Drive in last night I would have probably smashed my controller and PS3...

Someone give me some clarification on this...

Thanks in advance.

Not sure how it works on PS, but for Xbox, you can hit start and opt to leave the game. If you are the host it tailspins the entire lobby into a host migration that occasionally crashes the match. If you are not the host then it just leaves your team down a player until someone else gets platooned into the match later.

As far as stats go, it counts as a loss and doesn't remove your previous game stats. If you went 1-10 before you bailed it still shows. Not sure why people do it. It just proves you are a weak player and ruin the game for others as well.

From what ive seen you keep your kills/deaths but there is no record of w/l and it will not show up on your recent games list. So if someone on your team does it you still get credit for your kills and such. Ill be honest ive done it 2 times in the 20 something days of play i have. Yeah you do have to be host for it to happen. The times i did it was cause i thought the enemy was cheating or glitching and i was so damn pissed. I dont care about being beat legit but wont stand for being beat by cheating.

I agree with Nixon if you think someone is cheating then I don't have a problem leaving a game or if you have a connection which it totally crap. From what I've seen if a 30 host wants to leave they'll check with the others first before bailing.

I do think these games show up in your recent games, but you have to wait for the game to end before it will be available.

I definitely leave games if I sense shenanigans. But my question was the difference between leaving the traditional way and hitting the PS button and quitting the game.

The X-Box main menu is called the dashboard, that is how this dirty trick gots its name. In pre vious CoD titles dashboarding would clear you stats whether you were host or not. Blops made an attempt to fix the exploit and as a result only the host has this power now. Dashboarding is quiting the game entirely not just the match (returning to your dashboard or XMB) or disconnecting your internet, so that the system has no time migrate host. If the host dashboards, all stats for everyone in the game are vaporized.

Yeah if the host dashboards everything is lost but if not the host you're just down a player....if the host quits normally then you get host migration....I think!!!

I cant imagine doing this if I was the host. I usually have great games when I'm the host, which is almost never.

It happened to me last night, but I'm not sure who the guilty party was.

Dashboarding is different than Quitting a game, and the only time I even try to dashboard is when getting spawn camped with no end in sight. K/D really doesn't matter, but games like 4-50 just aren't for me and I find doing this is my only chance at getting back at a spawn camper.

I would never stick around long enough to go 4-50. I go 3-10 it's usually time to go.

I rarely have seen dashboarding. The chronic dashboarders are those kids with outrageous win streaks. If you dashboard ie shut down the PS3 with a hard shut or pull the internet cable you keep your W/L record complete. The kills will affect your KDR though from in game. If you are host then the game will usually fail to migrate hosts and crash. That is my understanding of it.

BigDaddyN8 wrote:

I rarely have seen dashboarding. The chronic dashboarders are those kids with outrageous win streaks. If you dashboard ie shut down the PS3 with a hard shut or pull the internet cable you keep your W/L record complete. The kills will affect your KDR though from in game. If you are host then the game will usually fail to migrate hosts and crash. That is my understanding of it.

I was curious about that awhile ago and made note of the number of losses I had, and then pulled the ethernet plug to see what happened. It did indeed hit me with another loss. It might not do that EVERY time, i'm not sure.

Sometimes it does erase everything though. I was in a game that I dashboarded after finishing the grenade throwbacks for my flakjacket pro perk (this was months ago). Mostly as a F.U. to some random who went 25-1 in the first 2 minutes of the game. However, even though i got the congrats message for fullfilling a perk requirement, i still had to toss back two more grenades and didn't have my pro perk. So it was really an F.U. to myself.

I'm more careful about it now, unless I have a real life emergency and need to shut everything down and run upstairs. I still do it ocassionally I must admit. Example:

yesterday, Demolition in Nuketown. My "teammates" decided to not actually defend the crate, but to camp BEHIND the house in corners and pick off guys that were running the outside allies. Half of them were laying on their stomachs in the lawn. They didn't go inside and of course the objectives were blown up.

Turn on mic....told them to go f themselves...shut off main power switch in back.

PTFO. Next.