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Discord/Swf herd mentality?
Been starting to follow a budding streamer lately. Due to long que times, I joined them in a kyf session. It started quite well, was having what I thought was a casual session, its just kyf anyway. Once the stream was over I watched back to see where I can improve my gameplay. What I witnessed after was shocking and dissapointing.
Start with me as killer, ofcourse theyre on comms letting each other know what was up through spine chill since I was playing scratched mirror hospital for jump scare fun. At 4 gens I had 3 of them downed with another injured. Obvioisly I couldve just hunted the last one and ended the game but since I thought this was just for laughs I let them reset fully so they could finish the match. Cue the incoming excuses that any swf would make, is she on bad connection? (used bf memo to extend lunge) probably cause she's on console? I escorted them to gate and a dwight was spamming flashlight in a kyf game,I thought ok its just for laughs. Ofcourse during the match acting all swat calling out perks, but even questioning my choice of perks saying its useless in the build. Sorry dude og players know tinkerer's main function is to interupt a nearly finished gen, not for undetectable status.
Then played surv died to pig's rbt, no worries its just rng anyway. Last match played surv killer was oni. This is where this herd mentality might exude from people that may not themselves be terrible, but perhaps the inner intuition of us humans looking for something to blame. 4 incidents during the game highlighted such behaviour.
1) I commited and got downed to a gen which was nearly finished. In my view (as purple-red killer/surv), a hook is 8-10% of killer objective while a gen is 20% of surv objective. Its a no brainer, you go down for a gen (it was a middle one as well). I commited for the third gen as well (didnt get downed) and oni just hooked someone 10 feet away coming in hot with pop. Killer comment: what a big mistake to commit against oni! Maybe he was just annoyed I completed a gen in his face in front of his friends.
2) I hid in a locker as he was about to hook (to avoid bbq/pop). Worked well the first time, he just dashed pass the area. Second time he saw me and I took a hit. Comment: You dont hide in lockers! I proceeded to loop him for a minute and he had to give up chase. Comment: Throw that pallet I dont care! Again he had to validate the failure of downing me to save face in their discord maybe?
3) A guy was struggling on 2nd hook so I let go of gen that 2 of us were working on (near 80%) to unhook across map. I didnt take the obvious route cutting through the map as any competent killer (or one that tryhards in a kyf) would intercept. Some badluck as I disrupted the pathing of a guy that was in chase so unhook failed and chased guy got downed. The salt was in full motion blaming me for both outcomes. DO YOU SWF MAINS NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE GAME IS BASED ON IMPERFECT INFORMATION AND ######### CAN HAPPEN? Thats what happen when youre not on discord knowing each other's every move!
4) Now its no longer surv vs killer but just streamer friends vs some random player blamed for everything. I was doing killer shack gen and the killer literally asked thru discord are any of you here? If not then it must be her, Im just gonna kill her. I ######### you not those were his exact words. Ok proceed to loop him another minute again in demon dash - this also allowed the last gen to be done. During chase there were some more unpleasant insults: Youre camping god pallet? (Against an insta down oni-yes) You already dropped 3 pallets this chase! (Im on death hook - while the other 2 finish the last gen-yeah) Dodged maybe 4-5 of his bam bam so it was a good chase.
Cant understand why but the others who werent initially #########, started to stoop lower than their actual respectable personalities. Making assumptions about this unknown person in their discord based on my id as if being from another country makes you less of a player/person. Its easy to gravitate to a negative viewpoint but friends should not let each other do so. In this bad instance only one person was a rotten apple but it somewhat ruined the bunch.
DBD does show you how people act in situations as devs wanted, but I never thought it would be in such a way. Remember its another person on the other side, so please treat others like you want to be treated. Safe to say thats the last time I ever join stramer friends in a session.