Camping & Tunneling After a Survivor Disconnects
If you do it, I want to know why.
Does it not behoove you to play with more dignity, once it has become clear that you've won the game? Do you feel empowered by beating someone when they are already down? Or do you genuinely believe that you are still on the backfoot in a 3v1 with 3-4 generators remaining?
"BHVR needs to make Killer easier, so that less Killers will camp and tunnel"
This is often the sentiment I see on threads about camping & tunneling. Yet so many of you continue to camp and tunnel, even once you've been handed the win. Why? What do you get out of it? Is it asking too much to give the survivors an opportunity to score some bloodpoints while you practice your chase on someone else?
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They probably just want the game to be over.
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I try not to blame people for it at that point.
They usually just want the game to be over.
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Once upon a time when one person disconnected, a killer might show a little leniency. Maybe letting one of two generators finish depending on how many were already completed, etc. When 2 dc'd then the unwritten guideline of farming was accepted. Players were a lot more laid back. Of course, this was before crossplay so make of that what you will. Now killers play like they're in the Super Bowl.
BVHR's handling of camping and tunneling has been horrible for quite some time. They go out of their way to say it isn't against any rules but continue to move the goalposts so they can create more perks to "counter" it. They won't do anything substantial because, like with SWF, everyone knows it makes the game worse but they think they'll lost players and money if they remove it. I find that hard to believe since there's little competition.
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I have no desire to defend this kind of behavior, but at the same time, do you really think people who camp and tunnel as a first resort, especially when it's clear they've already won the game, are concerned with things like dignity?
Though I suspect that in the case of tunneling, they're often just trying to get the game over with ASAP so they can move on to a match with proper parameters, or they're so used to it that they don't know how to play any other way. And some of them just hate survivors and want people to have a miserable time, either as revenge for other players/previous matches or just endemically, and nothing anyone can do will change their behavior.
I dunno. Whether you're asking this question in good faith or not, I can't imagine you'd get any responses to this topic that aren't either "I don't care, I do what I want" or seething screed about how survivors are entitled scum.
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Spoiler alert, they had every intention of doing it before the dc. They just got to 3v1 faster.
Killers just so you know we all know you've won at this point thank you for humoring us by not camping and tunneling condemned 3v1 survivors
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I would like to hear from someone who does this, but I also assumed it was pretty much a shot in the dark.
I'm mostly curious because of the way BHVR has tried to handle camping & tunneling. It is extremely apparent to me that it is not going away any time soon, so I'd like to understand the person behind the killer a little more. Especially their behavior can inform the direction BHVR needs to go with further changes to camping and tunneling.
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With killer queue times upwards and beyond 10 minutes, the argument that they want games to end as soon as possible doesn’t really track. What it comes down to, in my belief, is that they’ve got an easier path to their 4K and intend to walk it. Like the 4K is what truly matters to killers, you must understand.
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Add to it- after one survivor disconnects at 5 gens, and there are 2-3 double BP offerings, WHY do (some) Killers still face camp? Like, there is no way for 2 survivors to do gens in time. No way to make a safe save. So at this point, I just think they're doing it to be bungholes.
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Camping and Tunneling don't suddenly become less legit tactics just because there's one less survivor in the trial.
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If I am proxying a hook its because all of you are hiding and it's a waste of time to keep looking, you will eventually stop hiding.
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Camping and tunneling isn't my default regardless, though I occasionally will if it becomes necessary. There isn't an excuse for camping or tunneling after a DC unless it's really late in the game.
If someone DC's super early I may or may not show leniency. It depends on several factors. Farming isn't really fun by default, so a DC might actually make me want to play super aggressively just to get the match overwith so we can all go next. Sometimes I do feel like some chill farming for a bit, so it just depends.
If the killer had the option to open the gates after a DC, I'd probably just two-hook everyone then open the gates. I don't need to play to win in that scenario (it's not exactly hard to 1v3 at 5 gens on any killer) but I also don't want to stick around doing nothing for the time it takes 5 gens to pop.
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And killer mains still can't figure out why people are DCing and killing themselves on hook.
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It's a pvp game. If you are quitting because you don't like your opponent trying to win then maybe the game isn't for me. I won't say it doesn't suck to be tunneled or camped out of a game. But quitting simply because it's happening to do shows you don't have the maturity to play.
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I don't think that is reason usually. Once had this freddy ramdomly starting facecamp me while everyone was on dying hook in 3vs1 situation and still 2 gens left. There were 3 cakes in the game so I was not pleased. But before he didn't camp and went for chases but I still want to know why he did that. Maybe it was revenge that is my quess maybe I have facecamped him before?
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There is nothing immature about abandoning a thing you do for fun, when it is no longer fun.
It is selfish, sure. But so are many other things you can do in-game, such as camping, tunneling, slugging for the 4k, gens before friends, and throwing for archives.
You're not more mature because you're a masochist.
We live in a world where we can find entertainment at the tips of our fingers in a moment's notice. It is no surprise that people walk away from those they owe nothing to, when they stop offering us the entertainment we turned to them for.
And the "go play a different game" argument doesn't even hold water, when the next match can play out very differently from the last. Not every game will be the most fun game ever, but so long as players have agency to walk away from the boring ones they will.
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