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Camping hooks is a major problem for lower ranks/newer people

jaawn
jaawn Member Posts: 80
in Feedback and Suggestions

I have been playing a lot with someone who is brand new, so we've been going against many newer or lower-ranked killers, and it is way, way too common for them to hook someone and just camp that hook until they die. Yes, I know if the rest of the team just goes and does generators it punishes the killer, but that's assuming you can convince everyone to do that. For a 4-person SWF this is a way to handle it, but that doesn't work when you can't talk to the others and it also still feels super unfun for the person who gets hooked and just doesn't get to play that whole match.

I think there really needs to be some fundamental feedback in the game to discourage camping hooks. I know there are some point adjustments that do this, but I just had a long end-game convo with a killer who "doesn't care about the points" and admitted they do not care if anyone else is having fun.

I think it needs to be something like a temporary movement speed and vision nerf similar to the timing of crows circling over a survivor who stays still too long. It needs to discourage the behavior in a way that they can't just ignore it if they "don't care about points". These people are really hurting the amount of fun new players can have, and "good" killers tend to agree that just camping a hook is generally not the ideal way to play.

Comments

  • SuzuKR
    SuzuKR Member Posts: 3,910

    do gens

  • jaawn
    jaawn Member Posts: 80
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2838665#Comment_2838665

    Only works if everyone is on board, the game doesn't make it clear to newer players that that's what they should do, and that doesn't solve the issue of the unlucky person who's first hooked and just has to sit there and die, not getting to play the game.

  • Starrseed
    Starrseed Member Posts: 1,774
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/313073/camping-hooks-is-a-major-problem-for-lower-ranks-newer-people

    The thing is puneshing isn't the way to go at this problem. The game is at a state where as a killer the best you can do is to take one survivor out asap to get better odds at winning. Most killer are just bad when the survivor knows just a little bit about looping the game is lost so you camp the first one and get one kill safe plus like you said against solo q often survs try to unhook so you get more pressure and often even a second down.

    To get rid of face camping killer need a good reason to don't do it because for most of us it's boring to and we would love to chase and three hook every survivor but that's just not realistic and the higher you get in. Mmr the worse it gets till the pool of viable killers is down to three