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Is it bannable to camp 3 gens so survivors cant do them?
Just had a match against a ghostface where once we got a bit in to the match he started to just camp the last gens and we could not in any way do them without having to kill ourselfs or get downed. I even ran him towards the other side of the map but as soon as i ran far enough he just left me and went back to camping the last gens. The match went on for around 35 or 40 minutes and only after me and another survivor went on to sacrifice ourselfs to give the team more time did the gens get done. But it was not possible otherwise so is this bannable as in my eyes this is taking the game hostage.
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This is not bannable, it's not even the killers fault, all he/she can do is protect gens, it's the survivors mistake. Take it as a learning curb.
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No. It's a valid strategy. This is an unfortunate situation for survivors. He's not obliged to let you do those gens. Sometimes the final 3 gens end up very close to each other. Survivors are not always aware that they are falling in to this 'close final gen' trap, but killers can start planning earlier in the match. Some killers will pursue a survivor and this gives the other survivors to work on gens. Some will want to guard the gens. But if all the survivors band together and work at it, it's not impossible to get that last gen done. It can be tough though.
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You just said your team managed to finish the generators after 2 of you got sacrificed.
It's your fault for letting a 3 gens situation happen in the first place. You need better map awarness.
The game is in no way held hostage, as the survivors team still has the ability to do the generators. No killer can complelty prevent 4 competent survivors from doing the gens even with gen defense perks. And the killer can still end the game by sacrificing everybody.
As a matter of fact letting the survivors trap themselves with 3 close generators is a fairly common killer game plan. Good survivors learn to deal with it. Great survivors don't let it happen at all.
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No it's not bannable, taking the game hostage can only really be achieved by I believe about methods/reasonings.
1: Forcing a Disconnect (I.E hiding all game, or completing all gens and hiding, you'll understand what that means, or body blocking basement <Patched>).
Also, currently (So far as I've seen) only survivors can take game hostage by not doing gens. (Ghost didn't take game hostage, you three/two had poor planing and ghost capitalized on it. (3 gen strategy).
Tl;Dr No he didn't take game hostage.
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If the last three gens are really close, then you and your teammate did that to yourselves.
Always pay attention to where gens are, and don't do all the gens on one side of the map just because the killer is on the other side.
I mainly play solo when I play survivor, and i'm always going straight to doing the middle gens and focusing on gen placements so that the last three are as far as possible. It seems a majority of players don't even pay attention to this, as I constantly see survivor hop on the gen right next to the one they finished. I've even gone and blew up gens survivors we working on so that they'd stop doing it. Sure, call me a jerk but I'm just trying to help the team.
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Not bannable, it is a strategy. A boring one tho.
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No,not bannable.
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no :D its joke? ahahahaha killer must not give that survivors repair gens :D
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It's not bannable
It's the survivors' fault they didn't manage their gens right
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You 3 Gened yourself. Depending how close the gens are, it can become very hard against an instadown Killer.
Not bannable as the others already said.
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Lol just be a claudette and hide the rest of the game he cant do anything unless he gets off the generators
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No, it's not. You lost that match by 3 gen yourself. At that point try to find a key and the hatch or run into the killer.
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Unfortunately it is part of the survivors job to watch carefully when they are doing gens, to not allow this to happen. The three gen strat is very common and you have to ask yourself why the killer wouldn't protect those three gens rather than run around a large portion of the map that he know's you aren't going to be. If he was able to keep you all off for that long, they had to be fairly close together, a self made situation sadly, it's not bannable.
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Such double standards. So hiding the entire match to prevent the kill from killing you is bannable, but camping three gens to prevent the survivors from escaping is fine?
Laughable.
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Going immersed isn't bannable either.
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That’s pretty much the only way a killer can succeed on Haddonfield unless they snowball early. When it gets down to only 5 gens left with 4 survivors most killers are going to be pushing for that 3 gen strat
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Depends. When the killer is clearly just holding hostage and not attempting to killer survivors then yes it's bannable.
Otherwise not as long as he is actually trying to kill. It's a grey zone.
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It's not always the fault of the survivors to let 3 gen situation happening. A hostage doc picks 3 gens in the first seconds of a match and protects them forever. This results into a 3 gen situation at the end no matter what, unless the killer doesn't stick to his plan.
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Not bannable. It's also not bannable to camp or tunnel survivors. Just play without cheating, abusing bugs or using macros and you shouldn't ever be banned.
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I wouldn't even say that it's holding the game hostage. Sure, it's a very defensive strategy and it produces long matches. However, as long as he doesn't bodyblock you into a corner for a long time or watches you bleed out when he could easily hook you, you always have a choice. You can search chests for a key, you can try to get the attention of the killer or you can just commit to gens which, in the end, you did. You still have full freedom of playing the game even if it's not in the way that you want to play it.
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So..... From the start of the match?
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You start with 7 generators...
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Just an odd way to word it. Usually when you hear "5 gens left" its in relation to the completion of the gens. I understood your point after I mulled it over several times.
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No three gen is you own fault as survivors. Why should it be bannable?
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Well, with a three gen strat theres only 1 left to be completed, I was keeping it with those numbers
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Don't quote me on it but I swear I've seen that if the killer makes it blatantly obvious they have no intention of actually trying to catch the survivors ever then it can fall under taking the game hostage? Think a 20 meter beam doc just walking around shocking 3 gens that are close to eachother and doing absolutely nothing else no matter what, never interacting with survivors in other ways than shocking them.
But from what the original post says the killer did chase, just didn't blindly chase a parsec away from the generators. It's why you should always make sure to knock out a gen from potential 3-gen clusters as early as possible, as once you get in such a situation (especially when it's 2v1) it can be very hard to finish a generator. At that point you basically either try your best and accept it can take forever, surrender to the killer or search chests + look for the hatch in case you find a key that can open it.
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It does force a stalemate especially if the killer just chases survivors off gens and does not commit to any chases. Then it comes down to whoever gets more bored first, but it is not subject to a ban to my knowledge. Another flaw with this game is since the killer can see gens, they can reliably setup this situation just about every game if this is their intention from the start.
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It's not in the killers authority the majority of the time to force the survivors in a 3 generator situation. You can't possibly be banned for something that's not in your control, furthermore it's used and it's one of the many strategies survivors can force themselves into.
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It's highly likely that four survivors are still alive if the killer camps three gens from the start. Take the two gens furthest from eachother. Two survivors on each. Repair until you see/hear the killer coming and run away. Just go far enough away where the killer cannot risk chasing you. When the killer goes back to the other gen jump back on your gen. Repeat. Probable best to break all totems before doing this.
You also run the risk the killer DCs after the gen is popped.
🙄
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It isn't bannable either but ok...
If you say so
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Fact. The surviving team should of done one of those gens instead of gen rushing, you really had only yourself too blame. Next time make sure you look at gen spawns and if you see a 3 gen, just do 2, then do the others away from it, so that way one is far away but 2 are close, so the Killer has too leave too protect gens.
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This is why it's best to work on gens starting from the middle of the map. Often as a killer i'll look for three gens close together for this very reason.
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Your fault. Don't 3 gen yourself next time.
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"Is the killer not going to stand in a corner and wait for us to win bannable?"
No.
It's all about map awareness, if you choose to leave 3 generators close enough together that the killer can be close to all 3, it's on you guys to work out how you're going to attempt them.
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Nope they 3 gen themselves so its not an offense since its the killers job to protect gens
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3 gen strat is legit, it’s up to the survivors to coordinate properly and not put themselves in that situation.
The killers simply defending their objective.
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Only if the killer is holding the game hostage with their 3 gen.
ie. Wont down survivors unless the survivor doesn't run and does nothing but sit there and make sure the 3 gens aren't being touched leaving the survivors with absolutely nothing to do.
The killer has get pretty lucky with the 3 gens being close to each other for that to work though
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No.
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As a Doctor main who runs the 3-gen "Hostage Doc" build (Distressing, Unnerving, Overcharge, and a fourth perk which is BBQ for me but sometimes Coulrophobia) I can confirm a killer can force out a 3-gen from the start.
IMHO a 3-gen strat isn't bannable as long as the killer is still downing people. If he's playing extremely defensive and not taking bait to be lead away from the 3-gen that's not an actual hostage situation. I run the 3-gen doctor build and I still hit, down, and hook survivors when I can.
A real hostage 3-gen situation would be a 3-genner doctor simply zapping people off of generators and kicking them with Overcharge and refusing to actually get survivors dead. I.E. never leaving treatment mode, not killing survivors when they're pointing at hooks, clearly wanting out of the game, grabbing survivors off gens only to dribble them so they get reset and don't bleedout, etc. and otherwise forcing survivors to disconnect because the killer is literally refusing to kill them even when they're standing under a hook.
To me there's a difference between doing the 3-gen strat to win and actively holding the game hostage.
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Its perfectly fine to do it but bring a packed lunch as you may be in for a longer match than usual if you dont commit to chases.
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What the killer did was not bannable at all. I mean, it was the last 3 gens, what was the killer supposed to do, leave the area so you could all fix and escape? Sometimes it happens that the gens get fixed and we end up with the last 3 very close to each other. Letting a match go for so long is mostly the survivors fault, with that time you could have started and finished another match entirely.
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We both know that you know the answer to your own question. Playing a game the game in way that you may not like is not a bannable offense(unless they’re exploiting, griefing, throwing the match, etc.) This has always been the case with any multiplayer video game.
It’s unfortunate though because there are players on here who abuse the report system and make false reports towards other players.
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It's not bannable if the killer does this as the survivor made the mistake of three-genning his/herself
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If your purposely trying to hold the game hostage. Like doing a 3 generator doctor build and only shocking survivors and not trying to engage on chase. I'm pretty sure it's a bannable. But in your case it's not.
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Using a Macro isn't bannable to let you know.
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