http://dbd.game/killswitch
Teaming with killers. How to tell when it happens?
I have matches sometimes where I wonder if survivors are teaming with killers. Now I have had blatant teaming happen to me before, even the killers and survivors admitting to it after the match. Sometimes though it doesn't seem so clear but you still get that strong feeling of its happening. I'll give an example where it may not be as clear but it very well could be happening.
The killer plays a mori and you get grabbed out of a locker early in the match and put on your first hook. Ok, well played you got me this time killer! You get unhooked by someone on your team and you try to make up for the time. One of the survivors is going out of their way to do as many of the unhooks as possible even if the killer is right by the hooked survivor. Maybe they have an unhook challenge. Who knows? Well the killer suddenly decides to start tunneling and they go after the unhooked person and then you start seeing some early moris go off. Now since "you" the survivor trying to get gens done and seeing all of this happening can't quite see everything that is going on. You don't know for sure if the killer is actively avoiding the survivor that is doing all the unhooks. I suppose this can happen because the killer can simply use it to their advantage. So 2 people get tunneled and mori'd fairly early in the match and its down to you and the unhook happy survivor. The killer finds you first and downs you. Theres still 3 gens left to do and you see the situation as grim so you try to give the last survivor a chance at the hatch. Before you even get a chance to miss the first skill check you get pulled off the hook right by the killer who at this point the other survivor knows very well the killer is tunneling and has a mori. With 3 gens up and only 2 survivors left, how can the other survivor think this is a good idea unless they're just trying to be toxic towards you? Now I guess since you can't see every interaction all the time its hard to conclude that teaming was actually happening. Still you go on to your next match wondering if that was indeed the case the whole time.
Has anyone ever had a match where you really felt like someone on your team was just going out of their way to help the killer win?
Comments
-
It's pretty rare, coming from a killer's perspective. There's a ton that goes on in an average match between survivors that the killer is pretty oblivious to - those kinds of selfish plays feeding into a killer who independently wants to take advantage of it being a good example.
0 -
I have seen survivors like this in my lobbies. They just exist. I am not trying to team with a filthy survivor. It just happens. I will go for them instead of the person they are sandbagging, if it makes you feel any better.
5 -
I don't team with survivors but will let them farm off me and I farm off them and will usually let them go because we all just wants the points tbh.....heck the time I was Vommy Mommy and I had a entire team of Flashlight clickers using their flashlights like spot lights to get my attention....they spun around looking up as I did the se using my Vommy and that was a signal that we all wanted to farm off each other lol it was actually a fun match. It so good to have non stress silly matches all the time.
The closest to "teaming" was when I was doing the invisible glyph challenge and a little witch noticed when I hooked a survivor I would randly run off in another direction. At the end game I had no kills and the witch alerted me by fast vaulting a pallet. When I got there she pointed at her boon l, then pointed towards the hatch then finally pointing to a hook and crouched to let me hook her. She was nice and wanted me to get a few points for my troubles.
0 -
Ngl i like to give survivors a fake sense of security by "befriending" them. Just to backstab them in the end.
It's a dirty strategy, but hey, everything for those kills. And in the future that survivor may not trust another killer, so it's kinda preventing that situation of working with the killer ;>
It's a different situation if survivor straight up snitches on their teammates as soon as they see me. If they do it without me "befriending" them first, ima make sure their game is hell. I'll be called camper, but snitches get stitches.
0 -
I've been seeing a lot more survivors running around with bond and leading the killer to their teammates in solo queue.
Haven't seen it much at all as killer since I'm in MMR hell. Saw it a LOT as killer on console before crossplay, however.
Edit:
I don't really mind survivors memeing around near the end and trying to befriend the killer to get hatch if the game is pretty much over, however. I also don't mind teaming in end game all that much if they're helping me find a survivor that betrayed the other survivors or threw the game (e.g. unhooking in the my face for easy tunnels, or a Claudette that was hiding in a bush for 5 minutes)
0 -
Running the killer to other survivors with bond use to be a thing that happened alot but I haven't seen it in a while, in fact I used to run empathy years ago just so I knew when people were injured and heading my way with the killer to avoid trolls.
0 -
Yep. That is clearly teaming. I had a match just like this a long time ago when I was still learning the game and didn't understand everything yet. I'm just glad it doesn't happen all the time. Lately though I have seen more of this kind of behavior from survivors and killers. Bonus BP events seem to bring these players out more so I guess its just an unfortunate side effect we have to look out for. Every match is a roll of the dice when you're doing solo que.
0 -
Honestly these kind of matches can be fun for both the survivor and the killer. Its much different than just teaming up with 1 survivor and going around giving the others misery. My friends always told me when I started playing, "never trust the killer no matter how friendly they are." I didn't always take the advice and I learned the hard way. 😄
0 -
Just watch out for odd behavior. It’s not just teaming, but some people think it’s funny to tank other survivors. Every time I’ve noticed odd stuff, that survivor turned out to be a betrayer - trust your gut and don’t save them from the hook. I play with head-on and occasionally will have other survs point me out to the killer when I get in the locker. Last person who did that died when I could have taken a hit for them and let them escape. One other time was a Claudette who opened my locker in front of killer. I got the stun and escape and she got the hook, later I sandbagged her at the gate and she got sacrificed…don’t open my locker!
0 -
In 2 years I only seen it once. And I was the killer while Jane showed me where 3man was hiding entire game and were dragging it out for many minutes while I only found and hook Jane twice since she was the only one doing gens entire game.
As a survivor I dont really know. Maybe it happened but I never really put it together or I maybe didnt even cared about it at that moment.
Other survivors leading killers around the map were only in farming games where all of us survived anyway
0
