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Hateful Messages After Match
TLDR: obviously brand new player (who can't find the run button) gets sent hate messages on PS4 after I kill their teammates and I don't understand why this community is so quick to negativity.
For context, most of my matches (probably about 99%) are as survivor and I've only just started playing as killer in order to do rift challenges (but considering the queue times for killer are so much faster I might start playing more of that side.)
I played a match as Pig today, and as soon as I'd taken about 5 steps someone disconnected (the disconnect was audible so it wasn't a connection issue) and I figured since they were already a person down I would just try to hook everyone once and if I managed anything more than that it would be a miracle (I'm rank 16 and honestly getting a single kill is a real struggle for me.)
I came across a Jake walking away from me around the shack, and I assumed their camera just wasn't focused on me, so I hit them once, then they continued walking giving me ample opportunity to down them less than two minutes into the match, at which point I assumed they were probable new, so I put a trap on them, hooked them, and decided I would focus on the other two so the new player could have something of a good time.
Jake got saved by a Feng, who outplayed me while constantly clicking their flashlight, and I left them because I was honestly getting tilted, and found a Nea instead, downed them, put a trap on them, and got them on the hook.
During this time I came across the Jake a couple more times, but allowed them to continue on (still walking) and figured they would make the save while I chased down the Feng. By the time I got the Feng on a hook, Nea had died on hook as Jake was busy getting their trap off (which was activated, so they definitely were short on time) and I came across the Jake once again, who, still walking, ended up slamming the pallet down on the wrong side so they were just trapped against me.
I downed Jake and carried them over to Feng so they could unhook (I was over my tiltedness re: Feng since I knew they were in an unfair situation with the insta-DC and Nea dying on first hook) and dribbled them until they were on their feet again, but by the time the stun wore off, Feng was still on hook and Jake had walked away.
Feng died and Jake continues walking aimlessly, I really just wanted this done, so I downed Jake again and carried them to hatch, and at the match results screen they were rank 20 with only Iron Will. Afterwards I sent them a message that just said "L1 to run - have fun next match :)" and after a couple of minutes passed they replied "ur nicer than my teammates. they told me to kill myself."
Don't get me wrong, if I had been on that team I, too, would've been in a RAGE during the match, but when you see they're new why would you take the extra steps it takes on PS4 to just spread hate when it's so obvious they're learning the game? I had a back and forth with this player via message and it was their first game ever, and having your teammates take the time to tell you to die probably isn't going to make them want to continue.
Basically...can't we all just not be awful to each other?
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Good Lord. I hope they reported those people to PSN. This kind of thing hurts new player retention as much as if not more so than gamebreaking bugs or matchmaking.
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I encouraged her to do so, but I'm not confident she will.
She ended up messaging me again (she had another rough game) and I took her into a custom match just us so she could get some practice without people yelling at her and I could try my hand at Huntress is a non-competitive setting (result: I'm trash) but she managed to learn flashlight placement pretty quickly but is about as terrible at looping as I am, but she seemed genuinely grateful to just have the opportunity to try things out without having to worry about winning or losing or teammates being angry.
I hope she sticks with the game, because it was a lot of fun just trying stuff out together, but I feel like this isn't how the situation resolves for 99.9% of players that get told to kill themselves after a rough match.
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No, unfortunately what you described is far too common. It's really great that she had you to help her out, though - I'm glad there are people like you out there who care about other people's experience, trying to make this community a better place 😊
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It is indeed good you could help them=p
id give advice to people if they seem like they need help but all I end up with is salt lol
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I’ve only been playing since about October and I still get messages from what I call “losers” from time to time. There’s nothing more pathetic than picking fights with complete strangers via IM just because a game doesn’t go your way, I don’t care how lousy (or good) of a player they are. An exception might be made if they were deliberately holding the game hostage somehow, but even then 99% of the time I would simply report them and let it go.
But yeah, it happens a LOT more than it should. People need to grow up.
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Brings me back to my first game on dbd, yup I got hatemail for it smh. Shoulda took it a sign of things to come xD now I'm just used to it reporting literally every message thats vulgar to psn bc they respond fast af ahahahah
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That's really kind of you. As a PS4 player myself, the community is tragically pretty negative. I turned off my messages for that reason. I wish more people would be willing to teach others, or compliment their strengths, rather than beat them up over mistakes, or this "gg ez, baby killer, git gud, #########" mentality. Sadly I can hardly ever message somebody GG because they have their messages off because of the toxicity.
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I honestly don't care for the toxicity,But I don't do it towards other players unless I actually know the player(which at that point their either family or close friends who does it to me first)I had stopped playing do to storage issues on my PS4,but I would like to come back to it someday,just to help other people actually play the game.
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I disabled messages and friend requests because of dbd lol. People are sore losers.
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Yeah that's one thing I love about playing this on ps4. The pure hate and obscenities people send after a match, get reported and dealt with REAL QUICK.
Wanna spam me hate mail and "#########"'s? Enjoy a week off.
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I play on PS4 as well, and (on the brazilian community) I never got a hateful message (and I main killer, so IDK how it is on the survivor side), heck, I even made a handful of playmates on it. Don't know if I'm just lucky or if the brazilian side is less toxic.
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man if i knew the op i would add them.
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Yeah after a year of playing I ended up doing the same. At first I used to laugh it off but after a awhile it got tiresome. Only once in a blue moon would I recieve a "GG WP" or "Thanks" for letting the last player escape.
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Welcome to DBD where most of the time you will get greeting by survivor with special word after match.
I play survivor and killer equally and most of the toxic message are coming from survivor.
Don't worry, You will get used to it and ignore those message soon.
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Wish the hammer would come down on ppl who dish out harassment like that. If someone cant play the game without telling another player to go kill themselves, they shouldnt be playing the game.
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Not supporting this kind of behaviour but sometimes its frustrating to be camped and tunneled to death with no reasons 8D
And its not only survivors, killers are - rarely but happens - poets. Last time ive been called of "french no life fagg0t " just because i looped a tryhard the whole game and teabagged him at gate
No regrets 🤣🤣
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I've noticed it's always killers who receive the hate after a match. Not to say I haven't had killers also send abuse, but there are far too many entitled survivors who resort to this kind of thing because they lost. It really is a sad time when they can't just GG, look back on what they could learn from their mistakes and head to the next match.
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Survivors send other survivors hate mail as well, killers rarely do it.
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Oh I know. I've had my fair share of survivor hate. Usually to tell me I'm the worst teammate ever, but usually much more colorful.
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Honestly, we need more folks like you out here spreading positivity in the game.
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Most of the time killers won't say anything until you say something first. I write killers "gg" after almost every game and sometimes they behave like animals. But they don't go out of their way to do so.
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To be honest, ive played many years Rocket League, and World of Warcraft, and i always thought, the people in there are already very mad and toxic... But Dead by daylight´s Playerbase (not all of course) are on just another Level...
This is not a excuse like yeah bud, theyre toxic so what? No, this is abolutely not acceptable. But its not in our Hands.
The only thing we can do, is report them properly, and in the End, its the decision of the corresponding Support Team to handle these Players.
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I didnt know anyone actually took Rocket League serious enough to get salty. The game is fun and all, but in the sort of way that its on par with those mobile games you only play when your on the toilet, then you put away.
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I've had some pretty colorful salt directed at me before - usually they come from those who got sacrificed and I just wear it like a badge of honor.
Although if survivors direct salt at their teammates and are mean enough about it, then I'll report them.
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People in this game can be ridiculously mean. I wish we could just bond over a game we all love instead of being horrible to one another. I really hope that this person stops getting these types of messages soon, and it was so kind of you to help them out <3 we need more people like you playing this game.
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Since matchmaking is worse than ever I sometimes message the newer players something nice if they clearly had a rough time, if their settings allow it. Most appreciate it.
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When my messages were on, as survivor I would receive compliments, (only one instance I received hate, from 2 SWF who didn't appreciate me getting them up off the ground for whatever reason, this was like a year ago) I typically play very rounded, sometimes getting compliments from killers too. I do miss that, and I miss complimenting killers or survivors who've turned off their messages when I wanted to give praise. Playing as Killer... the hate..., not because I'm "toxic" or "face camp", it's because maybe the match didn't end on their terms with them winning, or because of hit box issues, or my favorite of the hate was while playing Legion, the mending was "annoying". It's unfortunate the negative outweigh the positive so I keep my messages off.
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