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Gen tapping - technique or exploit?

ermsy
ermsy Member Posts: 580
in General Discussions
Hey guys,

Just wondering what the general consensus is about gen tapping. Is it a valid counter to ruin or just an exploit and if its an exploit, why is it still in the game?

Comments

  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675
    edited July 2018

    It's technically an exploit, but I think the devs figure that the benefits and drawbacks (avoiding skill checks by severely delaying generator progression) make it pointless to patch.

  • Irisora
    Irisora Member Posts: 1,442

    Yes it doesn't worth it, gen tapping takes too long. And for some unknow reason getting great hex skillchecks is easier than normal great skillchecks. I would like to know why this happen someday.

    it's the red color that makes it easier? Or a game fault that gives you for Great Hex skill checks hits that shouldn't be great? Because i got the feeling that the second thing i say is happening.

  • SanKa_Games
    SanKa_Games Member Posts: 201

    Gen tapping is absolutely useless, unless you've repaired ~90% and want to finish it without risking to break it instead of repairing. But generally, repairing though Ruing is faster - you can always hit Great skillchecks it's not hard even with low FPS.

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  • Grey87
    Grey87 Member Posts: 346

    @ermsy said:
    Hey guys,

    Just wondering what the general consensus is about gen tapping. Is it a valid counter to ruin or just an exploit and if its an exploit, why is it still in the game?

    Same as dribbling the obsession.

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  • Jack11803
    Jack11803 Member Posts: 3,918

    People who gen tap through ruin are stupid.

  • Grey87
    Grey87 Member Posts: 346

    @ZombieGenesis said:
    It's an exploit that the devs turned into a technique because of whiny survivors. There was a time it was the same as dribbling an obsession but they nerfed dribbling hard and left gen tapping as it is so the two are not comparable anymore.

    Dribbling is still a thing.
    It's as much of an exploit as tapping.
    Not comparable....right.
    No point talking to you , you're biased.

  • BoxingRouge
    BoxingRouge Member Posts: 606

    Gen tappers are annoying, just plow through the gen, it's not rocket science.

  • Mc_Harty
    Mc_Harty Member Posts: 3,293

    Used to hate gentapping, now I don't care.

    If you want to work on a generator slower by all means do so.

  • RagingRealm
    RagingRealm Member Posts: 70

    It's faster if you just power through the ruin so gen tappers are screwing themselves over as far as I can see.

  • taemgod
    taemgod Member Posts: 4
    It's a strategy for people who suck with skill checks, but it's not really a good one. I find it to be a huge waste of time personally.