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Why is body-blocking only ok for survivors?
Title pretty much says it all.
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Because killers can hit the survivors to stop them from body blocking
If the killer body blocks you in a corner they can genuinely keep you there until the server closes after 1 hour if you’re the only survivor left
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Body blocking is okay for both, unless you mean either genuine hostagetaking bodyblocking or "I got you in a corner at 4 gens left but I'm just gonna keep you here to kill you with EGC" which has repeatedly been declared undesirable gameplay to the point of being reportable by BHVR people on this very forum.
Taking hits for teammates? Fine. Catching someone in a corner and keeping them there while charging up a power hit, or getting ahead of a survivor to block a pallet/window? Also fine.
The difference is that unless it involves some map exploit where a survivor can block a killer in a way that changes it, the killer always has a way to stop being bodyblocked - hitting the survivor. That's not the case for survivors, if a killer blocks them there is no way to get free without the killer's "cooperation".
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I still believe that if 2 players hitboxes collide for 15 seconds they should lose collision for a short time.
15 seconds is more then enough to get any use out of your power and it will stop holding someone stuck for extended periods of time
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Depends on the type of Bodyblocking. A survivor blocking another survivor in a corner is still bannable, just like the killer doing it, whereas a survivor Bodyblocking a killer is perfectly okay because the killer has the ability to hit the survivor and force them to lose collision and/or down the survivor.
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I only bodyblock with the knight as its a design fault he has (hit first and you lose hunt)
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What do you mean? You can't bodyblock the hunted survivor.
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Because the killer can hit survivors which survivors can’t do
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Lots of Knights, when a survivor is being chased by a guard, will come in from the opposite side and try block/slowdown the survivor in order to give the guard a chance to catch up and hit first. Then the Knight hits the survivor a second later and they go down.
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I see this posted pretty regularly and I have to wonder how much time you spent thinking about it? Did you genuinely think it was a great point to make? Or are you trolling?
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I usually toy with them if I pinned them in a corner but eventually will let them go. I never was a sweat killer but more of a meme style mess with you a bit...but when somehow I got EZ Baby Killer comments or constant bully squads that stopped repairing Gens to farm me and how the current meta has unchanged for Survivors I have taken a long break....been about 4+ months now.
I mostly get on the PTB to see if anything has changed that would get me back to the game....so far nothing has.
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I understand that, but it doesn't work because he loses collision with hunted survivor and that's intentional.
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Survs bodyblocking the killer for other survs to protect them is perfectly ok, and is even tied directly into several perks, scoring events, and challenges. I get this can be fustrating when the gates are powered or open, however enough survs still alive and actively using teamwork should be expected at those times.
As others have said, the killer pinning a surv in for any lengthy amount of time is not cool and I believe reportable, due to the killer having the option to smack them and the surv loses collision, able to play again.
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It’s fine if you’re not intentionally holding up the game, for example if you were waiting for Wesker’s dash cool-down instead of just hitting them.
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Bodyblocking is ok for killer too for example blocking survivor who tries to get up from basement so you can wait his bt timer out or blocking hin from getting exit gate when edngame collapse has started.
But bodyblocking someone on the corner for 1 hour is not bodyblocking it's keeping survivor as hostage as only way that to end is when the game ends automatically. That is agains't rules and easy to understand.
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What I mean is. When a guard chases a survivor, I sometimes block the path of the survivor to hold them up in an attempt that the guard catches up and gets a hit. Effectively like jockeying in football
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But the Knight loses collision when a hunt is active. You literally can't body block during a hunt.
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