do survivors have an issue with other survivors playing stealth?
I got in an accident on Tuesday (3/22) and spent the whole next day (3/23) on the couch playing dbd (everyones fine, car needs a new fender and bumper though.) in that time, i played maybe 11 soloq's and in 9 of them, anytime id hide in a locker, another player would come and open the locker, incessantly, until the killer showed up and downed us both. granted, i spent the entire match doing only gens and being one of the only survivors to actually do so, i was being trolled by fellow survivors who didn't do a damn thing to help the rest of us out.
4 of those 9, i actually made it out alive. the other matches were spent trying to distance myself from said survivor as well as killer.
I don't know what to do in those situations, wondered if anyone else noticed the same thing.
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I have no issues unless you play so stealthy you don't push gens.
Stealth is fine, but overly stealthy to the point of hardly finishing a gen all match is a problem.
Also, when you continue to Stealth with no hooks and you won't take agro for someone on death hook. I find that pretty selfish.
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for the first few rounds, we steamrolled the killers and everyone made it out, i ran an unhooking/stealth build w/ BT to give everyone a fighting chance, almost every round was a gold or iridescent lightbringer. i tried to play as altruistic as i could while still getting gens done, but i guess some people still had issue with it
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I think players in general never like it when others play a playstyle different to their own. So I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Sorry about your accident, I hope everyone is ok and that the car damage can be easily rectified.
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Personally I don't like stealthy survivors. Generally those survivors are the ones who won't commit to a gen when it's near done, won't trade before 2nd state or won't take agro from the killer when he's chasing a death hook survivor.
It really just depends on the person tbh. If your playing stealthy and smart then I think it's ok.
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It depends. There is nothing wrong with stealth gameplay, and some players are better at it than others. But if you’re stealthing all game to the point where it’s significantly hurting your team/objectives aren’t getting done, that’s where it becomes a problem. You just have to find a good balance between avoiding the killer while still pushing gens and helping your team.
Also I’m sorry to hear about the accident! Glad to hear everyone is okay though.
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In general I don't enjoy playing with people who prefer stealth. In most cases it results in the rest of the team racking up hook states, and it's much less stressful to play a game where everyone has 1 hook state, vs having 2 people dead on hook in the same time.
A bit part is also that your team can't always see that you're doing gens. If you're dodging BBQ with lockers, then all the person getting hooked really sees is you running away from a gen then going into a locker while their time counts down. Even if you are doing the gens, it might not be apparent to others.
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Yeah, sounds like you were doing just fine. Why people get so upset when someone is still contributing to the team is beyond me
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Regardless of whether or not someone dislikes your playstyle, sandbagging other survivors by intentionally trying to get them killed is petty. It’s also probably reportable under Griefing (i.e. “Working with the opposite team to gain an advantage or grief teammates“ is a reportable category subject to temporary ban.)
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If a survivor really tries to avoid interacting with the killer, it encourages the killer to camp and tunnel the other survivors. It’s a waste of time for a killer to go far away from a hooked survivor, if the killer isn’t going to find anyone because the survivors are actively hiding. Yes, it’s a valid strategy to hide from the killer, but don’t expect the other survivors to like it if they are getting hook states, and you aren’t.
This game has a major camping and tunneling problem, and BHVR should be discouraging killers from doing it, and at the same time discouraging survivors from trying to avoid the killer for the entire game. If people really want the killer to apply pressure on all 4 survivors, then it needs to also encourage all 4 survivors to interact with the killer.
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Play how you play. I would never open a locker on a survivor except by accident. I only get into lockers with head on and I rarely use head on lol. I started as a stealth Blendette and absolutely avoided the killer. Sadly I must admit that I started as an UE empathy Blendette to make sure is did (used Empathy to know where the person who just got hit was so I could avoid them... or if being chased to know where the hurt people are to pawn the killer off on... Roast away I know this is horrible game play). Now I like to be a mix of Stealth and aggressive. I can now loop some killers (some is just have no idea how to loop) but I would rather do gens and be left alone. I commit to a gen now and no longer UE away at first HB. If your looking for perks that can help you get out of chases: self aware, Dance With Me, Lithe and Quick and Quite work well together.
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i normall split my builds 50/50 for gens/rescue. Lithe, BT, situational awareness and prove thyself (lithe and bt usually subbed for no one gets left behind and we'll make it, more blood points (we'll make it x prove thyself means two healing one survivor = blood points galore)
if i avoid the killer, it's mostly to sneak up to whos ever on the hook, get em down, heal em up and back to gens.
Occasionally,l i have a build where all i do is follow the killer from the shadows and do strictly body blocks, sabos, unhooks etc. If im blood point farming, i play stealth and rescue, if im just having a row, i'll go agro for sure.
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Speaking for myself, I've done the incessant opening of the locker, but only when I can see someone has been there long enough to attract crows. At the point that's not hiding or being stealthy, that's actively not participating in the game.
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THAT i understand. If they're going rogue and letting everyone else do the heavy lifting, yeah thats justified. However, in one match in paricular, i had been hooked, gotten three gens done myself, and managed to unhook a dweet. He proceeded to follow me around the rest of the match and start locker harassing's me when i heard the killer getting near. Dweet goes down, i burst out of the locker, barely make it by and circle back around to give dweet another unhook, just for him to do it again.
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If that's the case you'd be good in my book. I have no issue with stealth players one way or the other, long as everyone's doing what needs doing.
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I don't mind survivors who stealth at times. I've hide from killers in situations where the killer had no idea where anyone was and it wasted their time searching an area for nothing.
But when stealth survivors avoid any confrontation and allow the rest of their team to die while never taking pressure or if they hardly touch gens while other survivors are getting chase. Well that annoys me.
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As long as you are doing gens, and helping with unhook if you can, no other survivor should be harassing you by revealing your location to the killer.
I play this way when I play survivor.
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100% team player. Unhooking takes precedent over gens when the situation applies. Until then, i run gens and go for heals.
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Hey you know this is the suggestions forum right?
But yeah, I had the same issue when I tried running a whole build of stealth perks in an attempt to escape without being seen. I did succeed several times but, other players don't seem to like that playstyle very much. They take it as you "doing nothing" even if you're doing the objective. Apparently not getting chased is doing nothing.
I even had one Nurse say I was "trash and hid all game" when I in fact just managed to avoid him most of the match. At the end he had to cheat and use another Survivor to find me to kill me. So what, am I supposed to let you chase me? It's not my fault you couldn't find me.
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If you're playing dbd to be "Stealthy" you are throwing.. it's that simple.
You win the game by keeping the killer busy. If the killer is ping ponging Gen to Gen looking for "Stealthy" survivors gens can not be completed.
Never heard a killer rage or complain about strong "Stealthy" gameplay.. unless ur trying to get the killer to DC out of boredom.
"Stealthy" playstyle depends on your teammates chases, deaths and avoiding the killer at all cost.. basically you want to be carried as a random while earning the easiest points.
Take your chase when needed and play the game to benefit your teams chances at survival as a whole js
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boy you dont really read the whole thread before commenting huh?
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i love that most people say you do nothing, while you're the one essentially carrying everyone else by actually getting gens done . if im able to hide from the killer the whole game, get gens done, rescue hooked survivors and still make it past the EGC, i'd call that a successful match for me, not so much for the killer.
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As a survivor, I genuinely don't care. Play how you enjoy. Is it always the best play for the team overall? Honestly, no. But if I die because of it, I'll be in the next match in a few minutes, so it's not a big deal in the grand scheme. You do you; have fun!
As a killer, when I see another survivor sandbagging a hiding survivor, I'll just only down the sandbagger and nod at the one hiding in the locker as I walk away with the sandbagger. It causes SO MANY early game DCs, but honestly, people who try to ruin how others want to play bugs me way more than people just playing differently than I would does.
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THIS!
I wish more people had this mentality, but most of the crowd seem like toddlers throwing temper tantrums when they dont have things their way.
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I think it is more of a blaming everyone else for everything which is a popular mindset in multiplayer games.
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you got a point there
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I guess thats the points in the game has a survivor ya know like don t being seen and don t get caught. But that doesn t being happening lately since alot Nerfs on the Killers start..
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Playing stealthy is completely fine by me as long as those doing it (a lot) are being productive.
However, it does get irritating when those who play so stealthy won't even attempt to save teammates who desperately need agro taken off of them. A simple altruistic body block can go a long way.
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I think generally survivors like to see other survivors doing things. There's a lot of negative stigma against 'baby killers' that are very scared of the killer and try to hide at times that they otherwise wouldn't if they knew better.
Stealth is a legitimate style of play, but due to this stigma, other survivors can often become offended by another's lack of action.
I think the Mod response is perfect:
If you like being sneaky. Be the sneakiest there ever was.
Don't worry about what other people think. The real objective of the game is to have fun.
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I'll rat out a stealthy player if playing stealthy is all they do.
I don't mind it if you hide in the locker because you hear the killer incoming or someone is about to get hooked, so you hide from BBQ.
But if i see someone who's entire gameplay is going around the map on Urban Evasion and hiding in locker, not touching any gen, not trying to rescue (my absolute freaking favorite are people coming to the hooked person just to show them they're not going to take them off, cuz they're obviously waiting for hatch). It makes my blood boil.
When i'm a killer and i see that gens aren't going as fast as they're supposed to, and i didn't see a specific survivor for a longer time, i'll start looking for them and make sure they'll have a hell of a game. If you play like that, you could just dc, cuz you're as useful as gone.
But your gameplay is 100% valid, people shouldn't sandbag you over normal stealth
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I don't mind stealthy gameplay since I'm more chase oriented. However, it's annoying when you reach second stage or die on second stage because of the Dwight crouching behind a rock close by the hook
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