Dead by Daylight is very psychological and I wish more of the community understood that.

Whenever I come across a killer that runs Mori, noed and tunnels hard, I usually assume that the killer got bullied hard in their previous game. The same can be said for survivors with their perk choices.

There isn't much point in discussing the origin of this toxic whirlpool as it'll just turn into the chicken or the egg scenario.

But it is interesting that you bring up the psychological aspects of the game. Some survivors do the whole t-bagging and pointing to get a psychological edge over the killer making them mentally unbalanced and more likely to make mistakes, the intention isn't always to be purposefully toxic.

I've facecamped the first survivor as wraith (only the one hook) to make the survivors think that I'm gonna facecamp everyone for the rest of the game and it makes them uneasy to go for the unhooks even though I don't continue that strategy.

Yes, there is. I've been here since launch and I know for a fact survivors started the toxicity. Then killers responded in kind. Now we're here.

As someone who plays Killer and Survivor both at Rank 1, I think most of the “toxicity“ is just based on interpretation.

Killers have to juggle four Survivors and manage seven generators. If they’re slugging or “tunneling”, most of the time it’s for map pressure or an early kill. They’re just trying to win it usually isn’t anything personal, even if you feel like it is. It’s sometimes just part of normal gameplay

The only truly toxic stuff is outside of normal gameplay and doesn’t have any benefit to winning. Facecamping, T-Bagging, Flashlight Clicks for example.

Looping god windows, blinding, taking BT hits, bodyblocking, sabo etc aren’t toxic they’re normal gameplay that happens to make Killers mad

But it’s not “toxic” its just normal gameplay. They’re trying to win. It shouldn’t make you mad

Spending 60 minutes on the ground because the Killer is slugging for DS isn’t particularly fun either, but it shouldn’t make someone mad

Really? The last time i said gg after a killer game i was told to drink the brightest thing under the sink.

I don't understand the people who justify being toxic to one side because one side was toxic to them. I just can't understand the mentality you need to have for that to make sense, I was always taught two wrongs don't make a right. As a player, whenever I play one side and the other is attempting to ruin my game, do you know what I do? I continue playing the game like normal and move on, and if I do start to feel frustrated I simply stop playing for the day. Too many feel the need for vengeance, and too many lack empathy.

I wonder if people realize that when they decide to go into the next trial with the intent on making it a miserable experience for the other, simply because they were miserable last trial, if they understand they are facing different players. If someone slights you, it doesn't make sense to take it out on someone completely unrelated. They very well could be upstanding players, ones who just want to have fun, never make an attempt at being toxic, and may even have even shown some empathy for you. Yet it somehow makes sense for some to punish them all because someone else did something to offend them. Reminds me of my time in elementary school, when teachers would punish the whole class because one student misbehaved, where is the logic.

One last thing, I believe a psychologist or someone did a study on this game? They made a post about it which was an interesting read, should give it a read if you can find it.