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The dbd community is just awful. I come from games like Overwatch and Rainbow Six and MK, and I thought those communities were toxic. None of those compare to the toxic cesspool that is the dbd community. You can't have fun at all without people sending all kinds of hate your way. Want to play Legion or a killer someone hates in particular? You are the worst human alive. Want to blind a killer? ######### yourself. Run NOED? Scum of the earth. This community really needs to grow the ######### up. Also, everyone likes to talk about face camping and tunneling and whatever, but thats not toxic. That is ######### in the game. What is toxic is how you as a person behave and what you say to others. Tunneling and NOED is not toxic, but calling someone a slur over it is toxic. Most of my experiences come from toxic survivors. I get maybe one toxic killer every other week. I mean actual toxicity, playing like an ######### to just be an #########. I don't mean camping or tunneling because they have to catch up and want to win as well. It is so rare I actually run in to killers just simply wanting to be an #########. But for survivors? It is every game almost. So much hate gets sent my way just because I had the balls to load in as a killer. And even when I paly survivor, I still mostly put up with toxicity from the other survivors! This community needs to grow the ######### up and quit encouraging it. And the double standard is atrocious. It is funny and cute when survivors act toxic, but it is awful when it comes from the killer. And the devs need to quit promoting toxic behavior in the community, as well. They could easily fix the things people abuse for the sake and purpose of being an #########, and also make camping and tunneling unnecesssary, but I still don't see what is being done about it. They can also make flashlights only click so fast. I get so many people macro clicking in my face, and it is so disorienting. This community needs to grow the ######### up and start acting like decent people.
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We live in A Community™
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It is a mind game. Do not let it break yours. Take a break and enjoy your life.
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I— - can’t say I disagree.
I’ve started playing Evil Dead lately and I am so happy there is no post chat in that game. You can tell a difference.
I think it’s the devs’ move at this point. The ball is on their court if they want to see players have a better experience. The game currently is full of RNG, whether it’s map design being against killer or survivors, whether it’s survivors wanting to play with non-meta perks only to be subjected to being camped and tunneled, whether it’s killer being subjected to false accusations… we could go on.
The game has the potential to be fun, and it makes me angry that we don’t have that. I know there is no simple answer or solutions and there are many hours and players who genuinely just want to have a good time. The devs should re-work the game from this perspective… that EVERYONE wants to have a fun and interactive game. Winning is absolutely fun, but much of the matches you win in DBD have some type of RNG attached to them followed by players cheesing the match via perks or in-game playstyles.
I remember I used to have more matches in the past where I was losing but I was still having fun, now not so much.
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Yes there is a lot of terrible people who play this game, but to me its like 50/50. There are a lot great chill people who play too. My current issue is the devs actively encourage gaslighting with their treatment of swfs and mmr values. So it almost gives the terrible side encouragement to act like they do.
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Where honor is a distant memory
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* Grabs my flash light * ;)
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This is something i put in another topic, A saying i know "The fun you have will come at the expense of another person unless your willing to make a sacrifice for them to also have fun" in games like this and any pvp games it's very true while one player is having fun the other side will not be, if the killer is having fun chances are survivors are not and if survivors are having fun chances are the killers not.
This game has a major problem of people not thinking about the other player and this goes from the players all the way up to the devs, the surveys we get are pretty much a waste they need to work out what is fun for both sides and then try to balance it around that. If 90% love being chased and thinks its funnest part of the match then look at ways how they could do that in the game, the result could be changes killers need 2 hooks to kill a survivor but they have made being more fun by adding in stuff so chases go longer.
But you do meet some really nice people on this game some that will meme around with you when your the killer and say your playing the pig people will boop the snoot soon as they see you and if they die there just happy they got to boop the snoot.
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Step 1 : turn off game chat
Step 2 : deactivate steam profile comments/ make profile private
Step 3 : stop caring about what people think of you over pixels
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The game actually used to be fun at some point. But that was before SBMM became a thing
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Step 4: realise you aren’t responsible for anyone else’s fun so can justifiably play how you like because it’s only a game and doesn’t matter.
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Yeah ,idk why people get so affected ,,i have great fun with salty gamers flaming in post game chat,,but some people just get affected and feel bad afterwards,,if they can't change their mentality they should cut off any communication with said people
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You’re not wrong, SBMM definitely made a giant difference in the casualness that came from in between matches you would get after playing sweaty ones.
For me there are issues that are seeded so deep that have to do with perk-reliance (BT, DS as examples) and Map design on both killer pressure (M1 killers not having mobility to get from point A to point B in a decent amount of time) AND also Maps lacking interaction via more than just dropping a pallet and playing ring around the Rosie.
The game is about to reach its 6th anniversary, like, at this point we should have other things to do besides gens and other ways to play when in a chase.
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The only thing you can really do is just ignore it, or just laugh at how toxic it all is.
...Also, please use line breaks.
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sort of glad I don’t see chat on console
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Hide chat
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Well said :)
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I don't know ... when I started out I tried to be a good killer and played "like I got Devour Hope equipped", ie leaving hooks, roam around, chasing others etc. I lost some games, won others and had a lot of fun. But over time I won more games then I lost, my MMR rose, and nowadays the quality of the survivors is so high that you can`t good around or do something funny without essentially throwing the game. Heck, even a single prolonged chase or a single flashlight save can foil your chances of getting anything out of that game considerably, such is the state of the meta.
And it wouldn't be half as bad, if the survivors would just win the game and move on, but they all need to rub it in as much as they can. I know that you should stand above the twerking and clicking, but it isn`t always possible. Add to this the overabundance of pallets on every map, how 50% of the player base have DH equipped at any time and your killer instinct can be broken pretty easy over the course of just a few games.
No other game that I know of punishes you that hard for playing consistently good and pummels one half of its playerbase that hard without resorting to tactics that are utterly hated and despised by the other half. And such the wheel of hate and misery turns and turns and turns.
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Everything you wrote is true but toxicity is the core of DBD culture. It is promoted by the devs. They like tbaging (they made jokes about it last anniversary stream), flashlight clicking and rage (which leads to insults and threats…).
This game is all about toxicity and humiliation. A way to protect yourself is to remind people (mostly survivors let’s be honest…) to stay respectful in the end game chat and write a warning on your steam profile to not send hate or be reported on steam. The steam warning reduced like 90% of the toxicity I receive .
Also when you see "VAC ban" or negative toxics comments on the survivors steam profile before the match starts : dodge the lobby. You don’t have to play with them.
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How quaint, I have exactly reversed experience. I had 5-7 toxic comments in my WHOLE killer experience. So few that I even can estimate number! But I have tons of good comments and proper afterchat discussions, even friend requests from survivor being a killer! About half year ago I started to screenshot endgame chats to show that killer's more fun, but stoppend after 50-th nice chat in a row (one girl even gave me god blessing 😃)
But when I play survivor, it's about every second match "ez", "learn to play", insults, even wishes to catch uncurable diseases. I don't mentioning constant hook slaps and fervent nodding. You might think that I'm super toxic t-bagger flashlight clicker within sever bully team, but NO, I don't tbag (it takes precious time to run), I don't use flashlight, I play solo (because my former team stopped playing more than half a year ago, because of toxicity btw), I don't even run with DH (do me more harm than good) and DS (super situational and overrated).
So why is that? I'm on some kind of special server with mentally broken killer players? Can I go to yours? How can I switch?
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You don't seem too nice yourself tbh. While your anger is maybe directed to bad people you still seem prone to it and impulsive.
You can say what you think without swearing in a wall of text. That just makes you similar to people you described.
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Glad you're enjoying Evil Dead!
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Step 1: turn on game chat and get trash talked
Step 2: get those sweet -reps on your steam profile
Step 3: brag about all your -reps
maybe I just enjoy abuse or something, but I just love when people get angry at me
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