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To struggle or not to struggle

Member Posts: 15,095

So when we have one of those rare cases, where the killer camps (with Insidious). Could we agree, as a community, to either struggle as much as possible or to sit tight and don´t move at all?

We need a consense here. So people don´t think "oh he´s struggling, so the killer is camping" when he´s not. While we also avoid "oh he´s not struggling, so the killer must be somewhere else", while he´s right in front of the hook.

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  • Member Posts: 15,095

    Years ago, the playerbase agreed to struggle, whenever the killer is nearby. But this seems to have changed. Now i see teammates struggle, when the killer is clearly chasing someone else around the map.

  • Member Posts: 504
    edited April 2022

    If a killer is camping...with insidious...the survivor should look directly at the killer, if both the players are looking at eachother directly... both side give the bird to eachother until a save/survivor dies.


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  • Member Posts: 6,090

    I use kindred, and it becomes really obvious if the killer has insidious or not since the survivors will just see their aura disappear when the killer isn't moving.

    IMO insidious should be reworked into something that is useful outside of camping. I've had people tell me how insidious can be used for some 100000000 iq plays but lets be honest, I have not seen it used in that way, ever.

  • Member Posts: 8,589

    Regardless of the consensus, I think the fact that survivors in solo queue have to pantomime unless they happen to have a perk says it all. It's been 6 years BHVR.

  • Member Posts: 5,211

    There's never going to be a consensus unfortunately

    Let's say for funsy it was declared right here and now that X equals camping and every single person on the forum agreed that X equals camping

    The forum is what....MAYBE 2% of the entire playbase? And I think I might be generous in that assessment...

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    A chat wheel would be nice. Since most people are against ingame voice chat, a chat wheel would be the closest thing that allowed for some basic communication.

  • Member Posts: 2,557
    edited April 2022

    Well, just because you haven't, doesn't mean much. I have seen it and used it for plays.

    Literally watched a YT video two days ago with a rank 1 Killer using it, not to camp, but to hide in fun places, sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. Go on YT and watch "coconutRTS rank 1 strategy"

    The irony here is, you watch competitive DBD and camping is not only expected, its used to actually beat teams like Oracle,... watch Mathiis beat Oracle with Bubba on YT,. He was the only killer in the comp to beat Oracle. And, he camped.

    Only casuals complain about camping, real pvp players understand this is a PVP game and camping is a strat.

    The best players in the game do it at the highest ranks and highest level of gameplay.

  • Member Posts: 6,090

    I am a casual with more than 5 thousand hours, totally. That is also why I prefer to play with crossplay off on PC, because playing casually is wanting to go against sweaty nurses and blights. Totally.

  • Member Posts: 2,557

    Translation: I cannot retort or debate what you just said, but I got 5k hours! Totally.

  • Member Posts: 9,402

    Buy as much time for your teammate as you can. Even if they squander it.

  • Member Posts: 276

    What I do is:

    • I struggle a lot when the killer is camping/facecamping trying to say "don't come!";
    • I struggle a tiny to barely raise the hands trying to say "come over here!" when I see a survivor is hesitant;
    • I stand still if I have no information;
    • I sometime kobe if I'm annoyed by survivors' bad decisions.

    Voila.

  • Member Posts: 8,589

    A chat wheel would be ideal. I don't want voice comms unless I'm with a pre-made group.

  • Member Posts: 6,090

    When I first started playing I was told it was "the camp dance", but I don't see many people using it that way anymore. Most seem to struggle as a means of showing impatience

  • Member Posts: 366

    I’m old school and a Killer main but back in the way back machine, when my friends actually played and liked DbD, and I was forced to play survivor (I enjoy it now), it was BEAT into my skull that you only squiggle and wiggle when the Killer is near and clear.

    Now people just immediately kill themselves, in my shallow survivor experience the last week or so.

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