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Should survivors be able to escape this often?

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  • ClickyClicky
    ClickyClicky Member Posts: 3,536

    All I will say is that I watch plenty of killer streamers and they win most games.

    noob3 on stream is nothing like his videos which as you would expect from that kind of personality are highly edited and most him bullying noob killers. Hell I’ve seen him disconnect when hes getting owned before.

  • leyzyman
    leyzyman Member Posts: 355

    Well, dang! Love your vids. I wish I could say "I've been around forever" but I only truly found you around a month ago.

  • ASAPTurtle
    ASAPTurtle Member Posts: 968

    He does it cause it brings in income for his channel. That's what his fans want to see.

  • darktrix
    darktrix Member Posts: 1,790

    Do they streak like that all the time would be the next question, or are they only showing what they want you to see and not the dozens of other games they got killed in...just the streak they managed to pull off.

    I just don't feel taking a individual survivor streaks on youtube then asking if survivors as a whole should escape like that is a fair question.

  • SpaceCoconut
    SpaceCoconut Member Posts: 1,962

    This is actually my question.

    But the devs have the data as to whether or not streaks like this are common or uncommon.

    If they're uncommon then oh well. If they're relatively common, then is it intended for individual survival rates to be high?

  • ScottJund
    ScottJund Member Posts: 1,118

    Eh? Don't we already have survival rates? And they're almost all below 50% for each killer?

  • leyzyman
    leyzyman Member Posts: 355

    Now, for the answer to your question, will agree that a survivor shouldn't be able to do this...

    But like some people already said, these guys had at least 1 or 2 other people helping them out. Literally throwing themselves away to keep their teammate alive. And others have shown killers getting many 4ks in a row.

    Now, in the end, you can look at it from this side: should a swf be able to pull this off?

    Personally I dont believe it should. But, as of the way it is balanced atm, it is honestly not the hardest thing to believe.

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 20,918

    I thought we had established (and been told) that the data was unreliable and not used for balance, else Trapper would be nerfed and Nurse would be buffed.

    There are too many variables at play. For example, most Survivors at Red Ranks currently are boosted. The ranking system is...not great and Rank Reset doesn't help. BUT, the system for Killer is working fine, meaning most Red Rank Killers are supposed to be there. Ergo, there can be a massive skill difference between Killers and Survivors at Red Ranks, inflating kill rates.

    Is that true? I do not know, but it seems highly likely. That's just one variable, I am sure there are plenty more.

  • ScottJund
    ScottJund Member Posts: 1,118

    Oh I agree the data doesn't mean much, but he was asking for data that was already have, as useless as it is.

  • Crimbojambo
    Crimbojambo Member Posts: 82

    The variables in all these escape streaks are aimed to favor the video creator. Can we also take into the fact that you can die as a survivor and still make decent points? Like We're Gonna Live Forever and Prove Thy Self can net large points for other objectives and you could die on hook and be ahead of the game.

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 20,918

    True. However, I think he means reliable data. Unfortunately, I am not sure if there is a way to collect that until the MM and Ranking System are fixed. I think we will all be in the dark regarding kill rates until then, especially considering the, frankly embarrassing, reaction to the stats.

  • oxygen
    oxygen Member Posts: 3,335
    edited February 2020

    I don't really see how you can compare the escape of an individual survivor to a killer getting a 4K or whatever. The equivalent to that would be all 4 survivors escaping however many games in a row.

    I don't see any problem with someone's individual escape rate being high. If we just assume a truly perfect 2k balance where every match ends in a 2k and the survivors play anything that resembles normally, over time it would become more and more statistically unlikely for an individual survivor to continue to be one of the 2 that escapes.

    And in most of those crazy escape streaks they play with at least one person that will happily sacrifice their life to keep the streak going. They're not even playing normal DBD anymore but some sort of "Protect The VIP" game mode. If survivors want to, they can select a specific survivor as the one that they want to escape, and do a damn fine job of improving that survivor's odds. But that might mean dying for them. I see no problem with that at all, if anything it can make them play less effectively overall. They will trade however many people it takes to save the VIP afterall, even if it's a Leatherface with his chainsaw revved in their face.

    The "streamsnipers" are a mixed bag too. Some just want to boost the streak, others will do everything in their power to end it for one reason or another.

  • twistedmonkey
    twistedmonkey Member Posts: 4,296

    But knowing they do exist out there shows a bias as you are highlighting a one sided viewpoint using a rare circumstance.

    The issue with using such videos is the same as using any killer ones to try and prove a point for nerfs to them.

    DBD had many skilled players but in the end yes matchmaking can and is the deciding factor for a lot of them as you so not know how well the other can play. I can't see this ever changing.

    Take AngryPug who is considered a great survivor. He played for 5 hours and escaped a handful of times. What does this say? Was he playing at his best? Was it who he was matched with? Was it just good killer players?

    DBD had no real way to reflect skill with so many rng aspects. You also have to account for the hatch and items like keys when it comes to escapes which Noob3 for one tends to use a lot in these challenges. Then their is what killers they verse on the tier list and the killers players ability. Sometimes players get lucky with who they verse and spawns of the hatch.

    I believe they have done changes based on how well some individual survivors play as when something has been shown to be strong changes have been made to that side at all. Afterall its the player base who show how strong things can be on both sides.

    I truly think you are trying to push something using a minute metric which doesn't say anything apart from they are amazing players who got lucky at that time. The same as those who 4k for a set length of games as its far and above what the normal game is.

    Now if you take the vast majority of any of these players videos you would find this isn't the norm for them and its extremely rare that they accomplish this and why after 3 years their may be a handful of videos from them.

    Since you like making videos I would love to see you perdonally try this challenge as survivor over say a 4 hour period.

  • arslaN
    arslaN Member Posts: 1,936

    Ayrun actually had 96 escapes in a row on stream and it only ended because the hatch spawned inside a tree or something.

    These streaks would not be possible if keys didn't exist (highest escapes in a row is 33 without items or offerings) or if they were playing solo. Both of these things are already problems in the game.

    I don't see any problems with this since everyone in the team is helping one person escape and they don't care if they survive or not. Getting a 3k is still a win for the killer.

    It would be possible to do a similar thing as killer by using ebony moris and powerful killers with good addons.

  • Impala
    Impala Member Posts: 145

    You're telling it as if they didn't have killers streamsniping with moris as well...

  • Joao_Bandicoot
    Joao_Bandicoot Member Posts: 286

    The post has 3 pages and only five or so people responded the real question Coconut was asking. This really goes to show how hard (for the average person) it is to interpret posts on this forum.

  • McLightning
    McLightning Member Posts: 949

    I mean of course, but even a stream sniping killer doesn't stand a chance against a team of 4, where 3 of them are willing to literally bring you items and die just to protect the 4th person at all costs.

  • DepressedClownMain
    DepressedClownMain Member Posts: 924

    If it was done often, the best players wouldn't use it for content