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Letting stuck survivors die to endgame?
Does this count as bug abuse or maybe griefing? Idk it doesn't feel right to me.
Three times now I've watched killers see a survivor stuck in a hill and refuse to whack em to hook them. They will literally stare at them, shake their head, and let them wait the full endgame timer to die.
It's kind of an excessive, spiteful thing to do.
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The sooner the Patch comes and makes the "Hungry Hill" extinct, the better. I can't address the specific Killer experience you had, but I've never seen anyone do that. It would be long and boring for the Killer too. It is also worth less points. The lost potential in chasing, hitting, downing, and hooking you multiple times is very cutting. So, I think you just had bad luck with a very rare exception of a bad player. We have to judge things by the Bell Curve, not the statistical outliers.
For my own part, I'm always torn when I come across the stuck person. If I notice them, and I'm ashamed to say I'm often so busy chasing other people that I have missed it before, I hit them and hook them and then leave the area so someone can pull them off. I consider this tax a fair exchange for the release. What I will not do is:
- Use a stuck Survivor to charge up my Stalk and go Tier-3 Myers for free. This would be unethical.
- Leave the Survivor there until everyone else is dead. This too is unethical.
I'm not going to drop a chase or important activity I've got going on the second I see them stuck (that would be prohibitive to me depending on what is going on) but I will get them out as soon as it is possible without handing over a different hook or generator in the process. All this being said, this is just what "I" do. I don't really think it is my place to tell other Killers how they should handle the situation. I had one Survivor mad that I didn't down them and drop them. I got grief for still putting them on the hook. I was like, look... I lost time and valuable chase/pressure getting you out of the hill. I didn't HAVE to do it. Some people are never happy.
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I mean, that has happened to me before where I was stuck and the killer was otherwise occupied or maybe did not notice me, and that is completely understandable, imo. I think I'd likely do the same thing where it'd be easier to finish a chase, get that done with and get the stuck survivor off the hill after I'd hooked the one I'd been after.
It's the endgame scenario that has been bugging me. In general, I have been getting left to die to endgame WITHOUT being stuck in the hill just because, frankly, some console killers are spiteful and because they can't rage in chat they'll do things like that. I'm not one to DC because I like my BP so I'll just do something else while we both wait.
However, doing it to someone who is stuck in the hill seems like a reportable offense to me. Like, it's trolling or bug abuse, but I didn't want to go about dealing false reports so I figured I'd ask.
I don't know about two of the other cases, but in one case I know for sure that survivor was stuck in the hill from the start of the match, as we'd both spawned near a hill gen and I had watched him get stuck in there from the very beginning, so I can't really figure out what he was getting punished for by being left to die to endgame after the rest of us had died.
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Just wanted to add that I was able to get out of one of these "Hungry Hills" By trying to go up the hill, then strafe left or right. Im not sure if that works or not but maybe I just got lucky.
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You just got lucky, when I was stuck, killer was seen that , I got killed with no mercy
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