Why do people have a problem with slugging?
So from what I get from the community is that slugging is viewed on the same level as camping and tunneling. Whilst I'm a red rank killer I am a survivor main, I don't see the problem with slugging. Slugging is the result of the survivors team incompetence. The only reason slugging can happen if the survivor team allows the killer an opportunity to slug.
If I down a survivor and I see another survivor nearby, and I believe I can down that survivor quickly, I'll slug the downed survivor and go after the other survivor. It's a great way to create map pressure, as I have one survivor slugged, I'm chasing another, and the two survivors potentially working on a generator have to get off the generator to get their team mate up.
The only issue I see with the slugging is when the killer is slugging purely doing it just so that the survivor bleeds out, for no reason other then to be toxic.
Generally slugging shouldn't be viewed as the same as camping and tunneling. Sometimes as a killer I'm forced to camp and tunnel, I hate doing it and I'll apologize to the survivors at the end of the game. I'll never feel guilty for slugging.
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It’s just survivor mains that want the killer to be AI
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Because some people do hate every little shred of inconvenience.
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The thing about it is...slugging only works if the survivors screw up. Survivors who complain about slugging are basically saying “I got caught out of position and I’m angry you took advantage of it.”
Most of the time killers HAVE to slug because they simply don’t have enough time to hook all survivors 3 times each. A slug can’t do a generator and it forces the other survivors to come and pick them up especially if another survivor is on a hook.
I will admit that slugging can be boring, but it is effective.
The only time I understand why survivors complain about slugging is when the killer is Billy or Nurse with Infectious Fright and ALL the killer does is slug and not start hooking until all four survivors are on the ground. It’s pretty boring and unnecessary. Other than that, slugging is fair game 🤷🏼♂️
I agree with basically all you said
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Killers lose and then get told they just weren't pressuring gens. Then they pressure gens by slugging and the survivors complain about slugging. Slugging is the only real way the killer has even a chance of applying the appropriate pressure to slow the gens down. It's a lose/lose scenario.
Killers don't want to slug but the devs force it with so many badly balanced maps.
As a survivor I don't mind being slugged. I don't get why people hate slugging, there's no difference between you sitting on a hook and laying on the ground. At least laying on the ground you have something to do (crawling and recovering) and you may even get picked up without costing you a hook at all! The hate for slugging is irrational.
Not to mention the multiple perks available to counter slugging anyway.
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Stop making sense Blueberry. Don’t you know that slugging is only for bad killers and that it’s not fun for survivors and that DS is the only perk to counter slugging and it makes you an ugly killer (I swear somebody legit messaged me that).
I still believe all maps should be the size of Coal Tower/Rancid Abattoir and at LEAST no bigger than Groaning Storehouse, so between 132-156 square tiles.
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Because it's boring to just lay there slowly dying. That's it. At least with hook I can wave.
With that said, I get why you do it. I don't even run ds and I get it
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How can you say you are a main of survivor if you are red rank killer. Mains of something only play whatever they main nothing else.
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I'm a rank 1 survivor as well, I play both sides but I'm a much better survivor then I am as a killer. I've probably put more hours into survivor then I have into killer, so I am a survivor main. Survivor mains can play killer, killer mains can play survivor.
For example when i played Overwatch I was a Reinhardt main, but I could also played as other heroes.
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Yeah but that's more of a faux main rather than a true main if you see someone in rainbow six who say they main two specific operators on att and def they won't deviate
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I think the only reason it is seen as bad as camping is because it is camping in SOME cases, but instead of camping a hook you proxy the slug and wait for someone to pick them up. It is not very often a killer will move away from the slug (except Oni) unless they are chasing off someone who came to save the slug. Now, if survivors would just do gens and not run to pick the slug up, it would not be so effective. However, if you don't pick up a slug you run into the risk of having two slugs. It's hard to know what to do sometimes . That is where 4 man SWFs can be very powerful, its it the greatest anti-slug strat there is.
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A "true main" as you describe is known as a one trick.
In Dead by Daylight it's good to play as both roles as it helps you understand how your opponent thinks. You'll be able to predict what the killer or survivor is going to do better, as well as having a higher chance at winning mind games.
When I play survivor I play better against the killers that I often play as, as I know their strengths and limitations first hand.
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I only hate it when i get slugged as the killer searches for the last person to get his 4k. I get why he is doing it, I just want to die already so I can get into another match.
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Mostly because it's boring. I personally understand it when it's done strategically. It's when they slug for no apparent reason that it's annoying. That or when they slug to avoid DS.
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This isn't Rainbow Six kiddo.
I am a Killer main, but also have Survivor in Red Ranks (not that it was even difficult to get there)
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I don't care about normal slugging but when a killer is running 4 slugging perks till everyone bleeds out those are super ######### boring games
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I don't mind it much...I do it myself as killer so I know how easy it is to counter if the killer makes one misstep.
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If the survivors presents an opportunity for me to down all four survivors, as they're all in one area, I will try and down them all at once. In my opinion that isn't toxic that's just me trying to win the game.
In the games current state if the survivor team presents an opportunity for the killer to gain a significant advantage, the killer can't afford to let it slip by.
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I have seen killers use Slugging to devastating effect. As a survivor, I can only admire the killer's ingenuity and then run for my life. It's effective! And because this game doesn't claim to be perfectly balanced, it's all good.
As a killer, I sometimes use this method, but not often. But yeah, you wanna get in my face with your flashlight while I'm carrying my fresh meat to the hook? I'll drop that sucker and come right after ya. If that's slugging, so be it!
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I hate to be slugged because it is boring. Tunnel me out of the game, at least I get to practice looping and can start a new game.
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because it makes the game extremely unfun. very cool to just lay on the ground for ages and do nothing
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At the end of the day of the survivors are the killers opponents in a PVP game, it isn't the killers responsibility to provide the survivors with a fun game. Likewise it isn't the responsibility of the survivors to provide a killer with a fun game.
The only person responsibility whether you have a fun game or not, is you.
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maybe, but it doesn't change the fact that people dont like it because it's boring
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