I was just toxic
I was playing my third ever games as Demogorgan and I was griefed so hard I went toxic.
The entire game they blinded me nonstop. 4 purple flashlights with extra batteries. I could barely do anything and I was getting so upset that I finally gave up on having fun and just downed them. Over and over and over. No hooks. No nothing, I must have done it for a good 3-4 minutes until they all disconnected then I hooked the last person.
I feel terrible for it. I really shouldn't have done it and I feel gross for being part of the toxic problem. I had sworn I wouldn't be like that but it just made me so incredibly annoyed. I get how people get so toxic in this game now, toxicity really really spreads so easily.
Comments
-
ya i know how you feel
6 -
Flashlights are the most counterable item a survivor can bring. Specifically what were they even doing lmao. Blinding at pallets? Use your ears to track survivors instead of your eyes for a couple of seconds. Blinding in the open? Look up or down...
Flashlight saves? Look at a wall or bait the save, or run lightborn. In fact you wouldn't have ever been blinded at all if you ran lightborn.
I really don't understand why people hate flashlights so much, they're such a terrible item.
7 -
They were specifically surrounding me at a distance and flash lighting me, wherever I looked they were trying to flashlight. It started at a pallet and I brushed it off then they got on either side of the little corridor I was in and did it, I rushed them but was blinded and couldn't get them. I had to actively run away where they then started giving chase. It wasn't until one of them ran out that I was able to down them and I knew if I picked them up they would just flashlight me again.
and I don't have light-born because I haven't maxed hillbilly.
A coordinated team activly trying to grief you can do a lot of damage. If you are going to be incredibly dismissive and rude I'd recommend reexamining how you interact with people.
7 -
I mean, ethically, I think being toxic to someone who was toxic to you first is better than being toxic just at random.
14 -
How was I rude? Because I didn't agree with you and instead gave you ways to counter flashlights instead of giving you my sympathies? They are objectively the worst and most counterable survivor item in the game (unless you count maybe green maps or something). One perk completely negates them. Looking up, down or away won't blind you and they have to be off gens to use them so if there are 4 survivors who are all running flashlights they're all not gonna be working on gens. I don't get it lmao.
The only items I'm scared of in lobbies are medkits, if I see 3 or 4 of those I know I'm in for a world of pain. If I see 3 or 4 flashlights it's the easiest game of the night.
3 -
Eye for an eye.
Just think of it as that :)
6 -
So they got what they deserved? ;)
It's brutal how the game behaves, on both sides, with animation locks outplaying players. Pick up lightborn from Billy and they will be fools.
5 -
just saying, u don’t “fix” toxicity with toxic behaviour, so I get why op felt ashamed, bc he gets that. They deserved to lose, they lost, just end the game, that’s it
0 -
I mean, if they all had flashlights it would be silly for you to pick them up, so you just played around their items by slugging. Not that toxic imo.
If you encounter people like this again who try to blind you when you’re not locked in an animation, you can avoid the beam by looking up or down and track them through the sound of their footsteps or cries of pain. They’ll stop trying to do it once they realise you know how to avoid it.
5 -
It sounds like you encountered a Bully Squad, so don't feel bad for giving them back what they came to serve you. Bully Squads don't come to play the game. They come to torment the Killer. One such squad entered a game my gal was playing (full Head On type Crew) and lured her to the Killer Shack so they beat up on her and get their jollies. Unfortunately for them, I was watching her play and she tagged me in.
Bully Squads are terrible for the game; they are often made up of a Smurfing Squad (potent Rank with some lowers to pull weak Killers), or they are all potent Rank who have dropped their Rank on purpose for their so-called fun. Don't feel bad about taking them down in the most humiliating, horrific way. I always do, and I always record them. They make great blooper reels later.
9 -
It's OK to lose your cool every once in a while, you're only human. It's also important that you recognize why it happened and can learn from it, just like you did.
On a personal note, I don't think you did anything wrong here. You were being trolled and responded proportionately and appropriately. It's unfortunate but true that, sometimes, trolls need to be taught a lesson, or they won't learn to be better people.
5 -
you kinda just played the game strategically in that situation though.
they all had flashlights, so it’s fine to assume they are gonna try to try flashlight save. So then you slug. Nothing wrong with that.
it would be different if you were treating the next bunch of survivors in the next match this way, but reacting to their playstyle is totally fine.
2 -
I was going to say that he slugged them for 4min for no reason after all of them being downed wasting their time, but no, you’re right (I read the op post wrong) so yh, he just played strategically
6 -
Yeah, slugging all 4 at once and letting them bleed out would be something different and kinda toxic. Still understandable in some ways during such a match though.
0 -
I would have no problem playing in a 4 man SWF with double battery purple flashlights, and I would have no problem with a killer playing the way you did LOL
If anything, I'd be disturbed with my team for all going down like that. But if they are messing around then they have to know that they're probably gonna get clowned right back on by the killer, provided that he is competent.
Honestly, when a killer BMs me for finessing him when he finally does catch me, I find it funny rather than toxic. My boyfriend is really good at running the killer (he t-bags, too LMAO, to keep the killer on him) and when he gets caught he very often gets face camped. He just laughs about it. You get what you give and that's the nature of the game. I don't even think I consider what you did to be toxic LOL
1 -
playing that way is the funniest way, no need to feel guilty
0 -
Blinding at pallets typically serves no purpose other than bloodpoint farming or just to annoy the killer. Generally you can track the survivor by sound so you usually end up actually losing more distance than you would have gained if you had just ran immediately. It can definitely be tilting as killer to know you're just being farmed for points at every pallet.
1 -
You do realize that you can look up and down to avoid the beam right? And if they blind on a pallet, use your ears. They aren't deafening you, after all.
0 -
They made a mistake if they let you slug them all at once.
There is 2 types of 4-man swf. First is seal team six type. They playing ultra compitent and effective to end game with minimall loss as fast as possible. Rare killer lucky enough to deal with them. Second type is bully squad. It's a group of people having fun no matter what the result. They rarely care about gens and escaping. I guess you get a bully squad.
Letting them beed out is toxic but this is actually what they wanted. Bully squad players know they deserve it. They expect same treatment from any killer. They expect mori and facecamping everygame and I don't think they feel bad when they get destroyed. They having fun in their own way, so don't feel bad about them. Even if they get salty in post game chat, don't trust them, it's a part of their fun.
0 -
Oh gosh, I'm sorry that happened!! I'm a survivor main but I enjoy playing as killer to learn new ways to get chased and such, but I have also met a lot of survivors who catch me mid animation of //EVERYTHING// I'm talking window vaulting, pallet stunning and breaking, and, worst of all, grabbing a survivor when not near a wall :000!! One thing I have found that makes it more fun is to just... play along! Only if you want to, since they were being cocky if they kept blinding you for no reason and provoked you, but at least you can admit to your mistake. I can't even death hook without feeling awful (nothing wrong with it, I'm just baby ;w;) But I had a match like that recently and I started to tbag with them and they actually let me farm with them, it was precious!! And then we were at the gate and they all left their items and individually tbagged with me before leaving. My children <3! Anyways, good luck in your next matches and I hope they're fun! Don't beat yourself up too much, okay? :)
2 -
So using flashlights to blind the killer is toxic? Ok pal
0 -
Think ya read that in reverse man.
2 -
It happens.
You did right.
You didn't start the fight, you finished it.
Yes the fact that it happened at all sucks, but that was beyond your control, and so long as you don't go on slugging for kicks afterwards on some revenge romp I'd say you're alright.
3 -
Don't feel bad, today I played a game with the spirit (I don't know how to use it) And I played a very toxic premade with flashlights and T-bag, Obviously they complained about my Noed at the end of the game and insulted me, and the four escaped. But if you want I can summarize what they had: 4 DS, some borrow time, 4 death hard ... And all at the end of the game after insulting and believing themselves good, I don't care, the truth is that I do not take the game as before, but sometimes you think that they should remove the chat from the game or learn to play as toxic as possible
1 -
Sounds like neither you or the survivors were toxic really. Different kind of game though when all survivors bring a flashlight.
But if you could see four flashlights in lobby why not bring Lightborn? Or at least Franklins.
0 -
After this incident I've been doing my best to level Billy up to 35 for lightborne but I had mostly played wraith and nurse before I started playing DLC killers. I don't have a ton of blood points saved up yet because I've been spreading them out leveling up different killers. I hope to grind out a bunch of them this weekend though. I also don't have Cannibal yet.
The flashlight thing originally was "oh, all flashlights, this shouldn't be too bad. They'll just be extra clicky!" Little did I know it was a bully squad.
On the main topic, apparently an eye for an eye is the right way to run in DbD lol! I appreciate everyone's input. I haven't encountered anything as close to as bad since and hope it stays that way!
0
