What is Gen rushing exactly?
New to the game and community and I think I know a good amount of terms. But I don't know what exactly Gen rush means. I'm guessing based on the name some how completing the generators quickly but that's all I got.
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A lot of people will say its survivors grouping up and finishing the first gen really fast. A lot of people say it's any time 2 gens are completed within a short period of each other. I think those definitions are not fair because they're just doing their objectives.
IMHO, true gen rushing is done by a SWF team who have at least 3 players with high tier toolboxes, usually with brand new part. They will spread out and very quickly complete 3-4 gens before the killer even downs someone. Often, 1 will look for the killer and loop them so 3 gens can be completed without interruption.
I think its a bit rude, but okay if a SWAT group wants to play to win. Its in the game, so I can't be upset when it happens.
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Genrushing for me means: Survivors completing gens extremely fast. That's it, it's not toxic like some people like to think, it's just the survivors doing their objective fast.
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It's survivors doing objectives. When some less-able killers cannot apply enough pressure to prevent a "genrush," they blame "toxic salty genrush survivors."
I'm not exactly great, but even I know how to pressure survivors off of generators. It's not terribly hard.
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It's 100% not toxic at all, but in some situations (specifically when they're all split up on different gens), you cannot pressure everyone off without them hopping back on as soon as you leave. Best thing you could do in that scenario is 3-gen, but a lot of people don't know that.
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Gen rush is when all survivors do generators instead of anything else, which gives the killer not enough time to actually hook and kill the survivors.
But the game is balanced around survivors not doing generators that fast, to give new players a chance (because they waste time hiding, looting chests and so on) But veteran players can abuse the broken balance of the game and give the killer no chance of "winning".
THe term gen rush is born out of the broken balance of this game, and not something you can actively do, considering that doing generators is playing normal.
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Well, it is their main goal. When it becomes "toxic" is more like when it's just bad playing, when they're doing gens while everybody else is on a hook.
Getting downs is kind of pressure in itself, since it takes away resources and requires survivors to come help. You're going to have to give away a few gens, most likely the faraway ones, but that's not crazy. It gets progressively easier as the game goes.
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Woooo, first time my answer has been marked as accepted! Thanks @uncreative_username, feels good man lol
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It's survivors that refuse to do bones and later complain about NOED.
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imo genrush is a mindset portrait by each individual survivor.
it refers to when a survivor prioritizes gens over anything else, ignoring away any sideobjectives / waiting them out for as long as they can just to get bonus progression on generators.
people who refuse to heal up, ignore totems or chests, bring perks / items to speed up gen progress and in some cases dont even bother saving others are, under my definition of the term, genrushing.
i have come to find the definition that is widely shared as "if gens pop very fast" to be lacking in a couple of aspects. usually the question becomes, whether the survivors were actually genrushing or whether the killer just failed to apply map pressure (which is usually the case and not at all the survivors fault / anything you could fault them for).
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Gen rush is when gens are going down even you are snowballing survivors. Killers usually blame survivors from gen rush when they have long chases. Then it isn't a gen rush.
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