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Thoughts/Opinions on Camping
I was wondering what opinions were on camping. On high ranks people know how to deal with it and think it’s fine but on low ranks, everyone feels the need to save someone on hook while the killer is camping. Also, do you think there is a difference between proximity camping and face camping?
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Pathetic. The killer is desperate, obviously not comfortable being killer or in his/her skills.
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Camping is a viable gameplay tactic, regardless of how anybody feels about it. And in certain situations, it's the killers best option. When the other survivors are around the hook or when the exit gates are open are two common reasons for camping. And if the killer camps early game, it's in the survivor's hands to punish them for it by rushing gens, or reward them for it by waiting around for them to leave. I wouldn't necessarily call it fun, but it is fair and part of the game.
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Camping is a terrible idea against a team that knows what they are doing and punishes the tactic by gen rushing.
But if all the survivors come to the hook and the killer knows they are - the killer has no logical reason to leave at that point as nobody is doing gens.
If survivors don't pressure the killer to leave by popping gens, it's not the killer's fault.
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If I see your buddies by the hook waiting for me to get a few meters away, I'm not leaving
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While I certainly don't condone unjust camping, it is a necessary evil depending on the circumstance, I certainly wouldn't call it pathetic, desperation maybe.
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I need to lay off the weed. But as for what I think about Proximity and 'Face' camping, it's situational. If you're running BBQ and see no one, that should give you reason to think people are nearby. Face camping as you know it was removed, the term is HARD camping, which is being a few mere meters away. This is when you want to insure a kill and thus is pretty eh.
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Like anything else it's situational. Against highly altruistic Survivors a Killer has no real reason NOT to proximity camp. It can also depend on perks, Dying Light for example. If I run Dying Light and I find my obsession, it might be prudent for me to camp my hooked obsession to get Dying Light to go off.
Of course there is always the reverse of camping. If Survivors know you are camping a hooked Survivor, there is very little chance they will come for the save. I've escaped quite a few games because the Killer wanted to camp which gave me time to run gens or find the hatch. Kindred makes it even better since that perk actively punishes the Killer by letting all Survivors know that the Killer is indeed camping.
tl;dr Camping is like any other strategy, situational and with just as much potential for success as failure.
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It really is just a case by case thing, same to an extent with tunneling. It can be very frustrating when done out of ignorance or to be a dick but there are times where a killer is justified to. I’d say in lower ranked games it’s a lot more common to run into those killers who are camping because they’re bad or mad tho.
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I'd say it's more likely they just don't know better and survivors aren't punishing the behavior properly at that rank.
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Mindlessly camping is (and should be) basically throwing the game against survivors that are any good.
It's not really camping in the first place if you hook someone and see survivors swarming the hook though. But at that point it's not mindless, it just makes sense. Same for when gates are opened.
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