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Is this considered "holding the game hostage"?
So I was in a match vs a very sweaty blight a few weeks ago. Super strong addons and perks, all the good stuff. Within like 5mins we were down to 2 players at 5gens.
I already just wanted out of the game. The killer though wouldn't hook me, also didn't leave me on the ground to bleed out, and when I would try to do the objective to progress the game, they would immediatly down me and pick me up again, so that my bleedout timer wouldn't progress. Last person was hiding expertly btw and the killer just didn't wanna "risk" only getting a 3k.
This went on, until I decided to test how long this person would do this. I tab-ed out of the game and just started watching something on netflix. Only occasionally tab-ing in to see, if they finally decided to hook me. This took like 20mins until they eventually gave up, hooked me and the last person made it out through the gate.
It might be obvious, just still wanna ask, does this constitute griefing/ holding the game hostage?
PS of course when I had the audacity to say something about it in endgame chat, I got the usual, haha, omg it's just a game
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This seems to fall pretty squarely under the category of "refusing to participate in normal gameplay."
Survivors not touching gens for an extended period of time is bannable. I would very strongly suspect that the killer refusing to hook anyone for an extended period of time when given the chance multiple times, and not doing anything else to advance their objective (such as searching for the other player) would at a minimum be categorized as griefing.
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It sounds to me like details are missing.
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I mean if you keep wiggling off and trying to do gens the killer will have to either slug you to bleedout or hook you or lose, so technically no.
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that is the point, they didn't slug me/ make me bleed out nor hook me (not until 20mins later)
plus I'm pretty sure if he hadn't given up and eventually hooked me, we would have hit the 60min mark when the server kicks u, with the constant not letting my bleedout timer go barely any further (would have just been 40 more mins :D )
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like what? :)
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Why didn't you finish gens and leave if the killer wasn't hooking or slugging you?
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That detail wasn't missing. Any time he would work on a gen, the killer would knock him down and pick him up, but then refuse to hook.
As for the OP: This is absolutely abuse of gameplay.
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The other survivor should have done gens and I'm not sure if it qualifies as taking the game hostage, but it should absolutely be considered some sort of undesirable gameplay/griefing if you ask me. In no way your fault the other survivor decided to just hide, I can only imagine the Blight hoped you'd run to snitch on the other survivor eventually but when even after it was obvious you were afk the Blight didn't even take that opportunity to go looking for the other survivor is just giga weird behavior.
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They really should allow a survivor to bleed out when they have been slugged for more than 60 seconds.
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