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Someone tell me what is being toxic?

The word toxic is so widely used, can someone tell me what IS toxic and what ISNT toxic.

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  • Xyvielia
    Xyvielia Member Posts: 2,418

    Intentionally sandbagging your teammates is one form of what some consider being toxic.

    Incase you weren’t aware:

    Sandbagging is a term describing the event or events where a survivor teams up with the Killer in some way for points or other reasons, especially making every effort to divert the killer’s attention towards chasing/ killing other survivors nearby in an attempt to save themself.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    Presumably anything, according to most anyone playing this game.

  • Paina
    Paina Member Posts: 231

    don't ask stuff like this in the dbd forum 😯 Most people here even think that a sleeping puppy is toxic. No matter what you do as a killer or as a survior: you are toxic. Since there is nothing in this game I would call toxic, cause I know it's just a game and I have problems in real life to worry about, this is what a lot of people think:

    • sandbagging (sure, this is BM, but life still goes on there is always a new match soon)
    • teabagging
    • camping
    • tunneling
    • doing gens
    • escaping
    • killing
    • using emotes
    • clicky-clicky
    • DC (BM as well and annoying, but still nothing I worry about)
    • survivor/killers using specific perks/add-ons/items
    • map offerings
    • playing specific killers/survivor

    So everything people don't like or consider unfun is called toxic 😂

  • Breque
    Breque Member Posts: 427

    For me what can be toxic is

    EZEZEZEZEZEZEZEZ

    Facecamping

    Tbag

    farm someone

    Moris/keys


    What it isnt toxic


    Play with you friend

    Use perks

    Bodyblock

    Escape

  • PigMainClaudette
    PigMainClaudette Member Posts: 3,842

    Just treat others as you wish to be treated. If you would not wish it upon yourself, then just don't do it to others.

  • TheButcher
    TheButcher Member Posts: 871

    "Another type of online disinhibition is called toxic disinhibition, which represents an increased tendency towards online flaming and inappropriate behaviors. These often contain hostile language, swearing, and even threats. This norm describes the negative side effect of the loss of inhibition on the cyberspace." - Online disinhibition effect - Wikipedia

    But I think it also includes actions in the game that belittle or ruin the experience of another player that doesn't have any gameplay value at all.

  • CashelP14
    CashelP14 Member Posts: 5,564

    Surviving in this game while 2 people are drunk is pretty toxic.


  • hillbillyclaudmain69
    hillbillyclaudmain69 Member Posts: 1,528

    I personally see it as going out of your way to intentionally ruin someone else's fun.

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,713

    Toxic is a synonym for being rude. Insulting people in chat after a game is the main example. Ragequitting is also toxic, as is cheating at the expense of the other players in the game. To a lesser extent things like excessive teabagging and flashlight clicking just to annoy someone or a killer standing at a hook hitting the hooked player for no reason would be toxic as well.


    Perks, Add-ons and specific characters are not toxic. If the devs didn’t want people to use moris or keys they wouldn’t be in the game, there’s nothing rude about using them. There are things in the game which have some balance issues but that doesn’t make them “toxic” or the players that use them “toxic”. Likewise running to strong loops to survive, “tunneling” an injured survivor, guarding a hook, and bodyblocking a killer during a chase to protect another survivor aren’t “toxic”. Playing to win the game is the object of the game, there’s nothing wrong with it.