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Exploit or Design?

VESSEL
VESSEL Member Posts: 1,068
in General Discussions

Random question. If the killer stands in the exact place of the pallet where the survivor can't pull down the pallet, is that done by design?

(Waiting for the "salty noob survivor main" comments...I played 200 hours of Billy for this #########...)

Comments

  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172

    Yes it's called bodyblocking.

  • DeadByFlashlight
    DeadByFlashlight Member Posts: 1,642

    design

  • VESSEL
    VESSEL Member Posts: 1,068

    @MegaWaffle

    "Kills can body block too"
    A S C E N D E D

  • chefdave12118
    chefdave12118 Member Posts: 193
    This is especially good with wraith 
  • Michiko
    Michiko Member Posts: 623
    chefdave12118 said:
    This is especially good with wraith 
    Spirit can do it really well too while shes in Phase Walk. 
  • slingshotsurvivor
    slingshotsurvivor Member Posts: 943
    MineAntoiya said:

    Random question. If the killer stands in the exact place of the pallet where the survivor can't pull down the pallet, is that done by design?

    (Waiting for the "salty noob survivor main" comments...I played 200 hours of Billy for this #########...)

    It's an exploit on would think? But, we are talking pallets soooo idk. Great question! 
  • davidps4DBD
    davidps4DBD Member Posts: 79
    Explot every possible design flaw this game has. The developer's game design is meant to grief us. Both sides. I believe that they truely want the community to be toxic or at least to toy with one another
  • holywhitetrash
    holywhitetrash Member Posts: 289

    @MegaWaffle said:
    Yes it's called bodyblocking.

    that is not what body blocking is...
    body blocking is purposefully stopping your team mates from going through windows or narrow spaces

    and on killer side body blocking is trapping someone in a corner or at the bottom of the basement stairs and never trying to down that person

  • Delfador
    Delfador Member Posts: 2,552

    @holywhitetrash said:

    @MegaWaffle said:
    Yes it's called bodyblocking.

    that is not what body blocking is...
    body blocking is purposefully stopping your team mates from going through windows or narrow spaces

    and on killer side body blocking is trapping someone in a corner or at the bottom of the basement stairs and never trying to down that person

    If you use your body to block something, it is called a body block. What you describe is bannable acts. Body block becomes just a tool in this case.

    For example, fast vaults are not bannable acts by any mean but if you do that in order to give away one of your teammates position to the killer, it becomes an offense.

    Body block is also used when survivors try to prevent the killer from hooking and it is completely okay. I am sure blocking pallets is also okay.

  • holywhitetrash
    holywhitetrash Member Posts: 289

    @Delfador said:

    @holywhitetrash said:

    that is not what body blocking is...
    body blocking is purposefully stopping your team mates from going through windows or narrow spaces

    and on killer side body blocking is trapping someone in a corner or at the bottom of the basement stairs and never trying to down that person

    If you use your body to block something, it is called a body block. What you describe is bannable acts. Body block becomes just a tool in this case.

    For example, fast vaults are not bannable acts by any mean but if you do that in order to give away one of your teammates position to the killer, it becomes an offense.

    Body block is also used when survivors try to prevent the killer from hooking and it is completely okay. I am sure blocking pallets is also okay.

    in bannable acts it says "body blocking" so using that term for anything other than what the devs mean is idiotic and is part of the reason their report system is flooded constantly

    so yes standing in front of the killer to stop them from hooking your team mate is okay, as is standing in the way of a pallet to stop it from dropping neither of those things are what the report system means by "body blocking" so it should not be what we mean either, call it meat shielding for all i care but dont call it body blocking

  • Delfador
    Delfador Member Posts: 2,552

    @holywhitetrash said:

    @Delfador said:

    @holywhitetrash said:

    that is not what body blocking is...
    body blocking is purposefully stopping your team mates from going through windows or narrow spaces

    and on killer side body blocking is trapping someone in a corner or at the bottom of the basement stairs and never trying to down that person

    If you use your body to block something, it is called a body block. What you describe is bannable acts. Body block becomes just a tool in this case.

    For example, fast vaults are not bannable acts by any mean but if you do that in order to give away one of your teammates position to the killer, it becomes an offense.

    Body block is also used when survivors try to prevent the killer from hooking and it is completely okay. I am sure blocking pallets is also okay.

    in bannable acts it says "body blocking" so using that term for anything other than what the devs mean is idiotic and is part of the reason their report system is flooded constantly

    so yes standing in front of the killer to stop them from hooking your team mate is okay, as is standing in the way of a pallet to stop it from dropping neither of those things are what the report system means by "body blocking" so it should not be what we mean either, call it meat shielding for all i care but dont call it body blocking

    It is not idiotic. It is created by community and if the devs misused the term, it is their own fault. What you describe is taking the game hostage and griefing.

    You can't change 25k people's mentality so they should explain which body blocks are allowed and which aren't.

  • Eninya
    Eninya Member Posts: 1,256

    This literally never happens for me as a killer, but it happens sometimes against other killers. I'm guessing it's a latency thing.

  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172

    @holywhitetrash said:

    @MegaWaffle said:
    Yes it's called bodyblocking.

    that is not what body blocking is...
    body blocking is purposefully stopping your team mates from going through windows or narrow spaces

    and on killer side body blocking is trapping someone in a corner or at the bottom of the basement stairs and never trying to down that person

    No "body blocking" means using your body to block a location. You can use your comment as examples of body blocking but examples are not the same as meaning.

  • holywhitetrash
    holywhitetrash Member Posts: 289

    @MegaWaffle said:

    @holywhitetrash said:

    @MegaWaffle said:
    Yes it's called bodyblocking.

    that is not what body blocking is...
    body blocking is purposefully stopping your team mates from going through windows or narrow spaces

    and on killer side body blocking is trapping someone in a corner or at the bottom of the basement stairs and never trying to down that person

    No "body blocking" means using your body to block a location. You can use your comment as examples of body blocking but examples are not the same as meaning.

    it is when that is exactly what the devs mean when they say body blocking

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  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172
    edited September 2018

    @holywhitetrash
    The Devs cannot change the meaning of a word. What the Devs have called body blocking in streams/Q&As/etc are examples of body blocking. Again the Dev cannot changed the meaning of a word.