Why is dbd so toxic?

+ cheap game. (at least the important stuff, especially on discount)

Cheap games (and especially F2P-games) are tend to be more toxic. Because even if you get banned, you can create a new account for not so much money.

A friend once told me about a game he is playing where you need to pay 60 Euros to actually play it (one-time). He said it has a pretty nice community, because it is not cheap and nobody wants to throw away that amount of money.

I dunno... I get more frustrated by the fact that the game has so many bugs and things that shouldnt hit, do hit. Or how when you go to drop a pallet, it refuses to drop and you still get hit.

I am still fairly new to the game, but even I can speak on this a bit. Well, I can't explain the toxicity. That is merely the way individuals choose to act and it speaks more to who they are as a person than anything else. I can't help that any more than you can. What I can do, as a killer main, is not be crappy, myself.

I pointed out in another post that I play it both ways, depending on the survivors and how they let me act. If they're toxic or super aggressive, I have to fight and scrape for every point I can get. I do find that enjoyable, but when matchmaking pits me against low-rank survivors, my gains are minimal at best. I'm just not good enough to take them on yet. I accept that, or I get lucky and hook or Mori as many as I can. I still refuse to face camp because I don't want them body blocking... but again, it's up to the survivors.

On the other hand... a match can go a whole different way. If the survivors are cool, we can work together at all of us having a fun and profitable match. I spent the first 2 days learning the game and grinding my butt off to get from 20 to 19. The other day, I decided to take a different approach and dropped from 19 to 17 in just a couple of hours. I could do this because I was matched with a few decent groups of survivors. I recorded that day and will probably drop a video about it soon, but the gist is simple: they were cool and so I could be cool too. I wasn't completely altruistic (which is just weird for a killer), but I didn't have to stomp them into the ground either. There was no communication, of course, but for a few matches, it was certainly intuitive. I like to think we played smart.

I'd find them, hit them, damage the generator, and then chase. If they didn't get away, I'd smack them and hook them and leave. When I came back, I'd chase the unhooker, smack them, hook them, and leave. I was careful to keep track of whom I'd hooked two times. It was catch and release for the most part. One time I smacked a guy down and carried him to the hook for the third time and just dropped him there and walked away. Once I saw he was on his feet, I'd head back and chase down the guy who healed him. Meanwhile, they pretty much had only one guy doing generators and I was playing Freddy so if I needed to I'd just port to the next generator I know they were working on and swat them away. I had a great time. In post-game I know they enjoyed it. Every so often I still ended up with a kill or two... especially if I had a mori, but what I didn't get was a hard time afterward. I'd have to check the video, but the bloodpoint totals were all fairly even in the 20-30k range for all of us. Well, the ones who escaped anyway.

Again, it doesn't always work and either they all end up trolling me and escaping or I end up killing some of them and it's win some/lose some. In those weird cases where we are all cool with each other, it ends up being win/win in the fun and profitability departments. The good news is, it should be fairly obvious which way it'll go within the first encounter or two and it's also fairly obvious when you end up with fairly matched ranks or if the opposition is much lower than I am. The fairly matched ranks are the ones I can get away with being cool with. The low ranks just walk all over me.

tl;dr: I guess what I'm trying to say we can't control how others act, but we can control ourselves. "Some people just want to watch the world burn." Some of us just want to have fun. And never... ever... care what they say about you in negative post chat. Ever.

"First off, let's take it from the start / Straight out, you can't change what's in my heart / No one can tear my beliefs apart / You can't bring me (down)." ~ Suicidal Tendencies

I think the problem is knowing that a player is controlling the moving pixels and is doing it to be a jerk. I don't feel annoyed at the action itself, but more so at the fact that the player feels entitled to behave in such a manner. Especially on the games where I get matched against SWF groups on big maps and don't do very well as killer. Or the games where I see my teammates crouch spamming at the rank 11 Nurse player who didn't get a single hook or even down the entire game and is probably already feeling irritated enough. I wouldn't consider it "toxicity", since it doesn't really affect gameplay, but it's definitely negative and unnecessary behavior.

But, then again, a lot of people get enjoyment out of making other people feel bad. It's just worse in DbD because of the massive disparity between the two roles. Killers are toxic because they feel like they're "above" the survivors and feel entitled to get the 4k, and survivors are toxic because they feel like they've achieved some great goal because they looped the killer and dropped a pallet on his head.

Killers camping a hooked survivor and nodding/smacking is new or low ranked play. Mostly why I can't stand the grind of learning and climbing the ranks of survivor, this is all you go against. It's very ineffective in the long run you'll never get a 4k.

Tbagging survivors are common at any rank whether it be to induce a chase or to be toxic that's it. So no it's not only the worst guy on the team especially when a survivor(s) is sitting in the exit gate bagging to rub the win in... very common.

Toxic survivors are celebrated while toxic killers are only the subject of hate. I don't get it, not because I'm a killer main but it's a 1v4...

As a killer I just nod if I want my boop snooped but no one ever boops, also if I give the hatch I just look at them and nod once saying yes.

As a survivor depends what you consider teabag, One or two taps is not a teabag but more than that is, but I really don't teabag, if the killer was playing fair I usually leave my item, one tap, nod and point out the door so they can get the extra hit for BPs, if the killer was facecamping me and I get saved somehow and about to escape I just tap twice and leave.

I know, I know, you can't be 100% sure that the survivor is being toxic, but I still think that that's the intent of the majority.... it's definitely a common theme for SWF groups, although.... could they be drinking and playing as well? Maybe! 😋

While it might be annoying, I don't find teabagging, flashlight clicking, camping, tunneling etc toxic.

But I truly wonder, what triggers people so badly that they need to send offensive messages after the game. Imho it should be a punishable offense to say "hope you get cancer" or "k_y_s". Just move onto the next game, why be an asshat about it

Your skin is so thin I can see right through it my dude.

I was deemed toxic askin if the killer was ok after HE DC'D, i was on a genny, and a Feng was loopin him, apparently he doesn't play with toxic survivors, aye because me on a gen is so toxic, and bein genuine askin if the dude was ok, loopin in his mind must be toxic too or should Feng have just stood there and give a free hit....