Dear Survivors....
Ever posted something you know you will be crucified for? Okay, this is one of those, but I want to get it off my chest. I just want to vent. I was on Michael. I hooked Claudette, walked away to a generator almost on the other side of the map. Stalked and stabbed, but couldn't hit level three on the stalk, so they lost me. Turn a corner and see Claudette from a minute ago who has also crossed the map (pretty sure she just followed me the whole way over) downed her and hooked her. Post-match I get like a 400-word essay telling me to die, quit playing, etc. etc. etc.
SOOO I don't camp. And no one else should either. Camping is stupid, and it ruins the fun factor. It's trolley and people shouldn't do it. We can all (mostly) agree on that right? Great. Now let's talk about tunneling. I never, ever tunnel intentionally. I would never like ignore injured survivor A running next to injured survivor B just because survivor B is survivor B. I want to make that clear okay?
But here's the thing yeah? So let's say I hook someone and walk away. I get X distance away, and I hear an unhook behind me. I turn around because my JOB AS THE KILLER is to kill everyone and I know two of those everyone are behind me. Half of my goal as the killer, are a few yards behind me. So I turn around and I see two people because they wanted to stop to heal right in the middle of the open instead of hiding and disappearing or regrouping with the others. They see me and now they run instead of 45 seconds ago when they should have.
Okay, sorry, my goal is to eliminate four players, that's my win condition and what I get blood points for and I see two in front of me one of whom is not injured and will take two hits to put into the dying state after we play ring around the Rosey for 20+ seconds, and one who is limping, injured, and one hit from the dying state. Yeah, sorry folks, like every creature with a functioning intelligence in a predator/prey interaction since millions of years before humans took their first breath, my choice is the injured and vulnerable one. It's not tunneling just because you sat there by the hook without running or hiding just because you expect me to ignore you based on some entitled principal. You could have let the killer get further away before the rescue, popped a gen far away for a lure, unhooked and run, or hide and then heal when I pass by.
On top of ALL of this have you ever noticed that as we play killers whose goal it is to prevent four survivors from escaping, we have all these unwritten rules like don't focus on the injured because it's tunneling, or don't use this perk, or don't do this, that, or that other thing. No one should be rude, or camp, or cheat in any way ever that goes without saying yeah? But it's also not my job as killer to make your experience a little easier. We are not on the same team, we're in competition.
And lastly, if you want killers to cushion your experience and not be "mean" killers doing things like going after the wounded prey maybe it should go both ways.
Survivors will be like you can't hook me twice that's tunneling, you can't use Franklin's Demise that's not fair, and send countless other post-game rage messages on why god hates us and we should go play Hello Kitty Island Adventure, and then tea-bag, or refuse to leave after the gates are open not because you're hatching but trolling, or crouch down in front of hooks so someone carried can't be hooked, or lie in front of windows so you can't be picked up, or stand in the exit gate emoting, trolling, and griefing instead of leaving. Survivors will do ALL of these things every single game and then be like "Um you can't hook me I was hooked last even though you didn't camp, walked away, and happen to stumble on me again randomly on the other side of the map. Jeaz L2P" and y'all wonder why one queue is longer than the other. Playing killer can be exhausting in this community.
I'm just kind of over it. I wouldn't troll, or exploit, or cheat, or be rude, I'm not into all that. I get no joy out of making someone else miserable. But I'm seriously done following all these "rules" from a survivor community that some, (not all, some, I'm not generalizing all of you here) of that community wants to troll, teabag, or exploit crouching by the hooks, or windows, and call it a mechanic or strategy, and then walk by that injured survivor healing without running because they expect me to go after the healthy, faster movement, needs two hits survivor that freed them. If you get pulled off a hook, run. From now on, while still always playing respectfully, not camping etc, I am done with the entitled stuff. If you're going to get freed and then stand there, then I, who happens to be playing a killer whose goal it is to hook you three times, am going to swing and hook you.
If I see two survivors cross my path and only one is injured, that's who I am following.
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You don’t really have to justify your playstyle. If you pursue an injured survivor who was just unhooked that is your prerogative. Why explain yourself or answer for it? Do you. But to be fair if you go back to the hook during an unhook, you could still follow the injured survivor’s scratch marks or blood pools to wherever they are so them ‘going for cover’ or some such doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll escape you.
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I appreciate your civil response first and foremost. I like that people can still have a conversation. Honestly I don't know why I feel the need to justify it either. The only thing I can even think of is as I mentioned above I get no enjoyment out of making something less fun for someone else so maybe it's that. I guess that's the only thing I can think of to answer your question. About justification.
I can tell you what made me come to the keyboard. My day ended and I wanted to relax and play some dead by daylight. I literally turned it on, picked my killer, but as I went to enter queue I had this thought. I was like do I really want to play this and potentially put myself in a grumpy mood or stop having fun if I run into this kind of thing? And that was depressing to me. That it's so bad I had to stop and think if I really want to deal with it to play this game I enjoy. That's what made me want to blow off some steam with the post.
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