Survivors who exploit the can't-hook bug: is it reportable?
If the killer carries the survivor to the hook successfully, but the survivor continues to wiggle free even though they can see that the killer is unable to hook them, is that considered "exploiting a known bug?" Can we report for that?
If this bug negatively affected survivors, it would have been hotfxed by now, but it only impacts killers in a negative way.
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Probably not, because it is Survivors doing the exploitation.
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It's not a bug, it's a cheat called lag switching. You should just press ESC and watch how high this survivors MS are, probably 1000+.
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"I don't really see how that's 'exploiting.' It's not like they know 100% that you cant hook them."
Oh, right because every killer just stands in front of a hook, spazzing out, almost every match, and it just-so-happens to become a "trend" after the new Chapter release. Okay šļø
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https://twitter.com/thealpha_king/status/1303391789999689733?s=21 apparently this can counteract it if I believe this is what you are mentioning
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Is it reportable if a killer exploits the DS bug and downs a survivor after getting a short stun?
No, it's not. And it shouldn't be. The bugs should be fixed, but it's not the fault of survivors or killers that the bugs are there.
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You mean where the game just won't let you hook them? To my understanding that it usually latency. Specifically it is abused by people also using lag switched. While anyone can do it, it's often paired with a BS build like no mither/soul guard/unbreakable/DS or whatever so that you can't slug them, can't pick them up, and if you do pick them up, the lag switch means you can't hook them.
Frankly all that kind of BS could easily be resolved by making people with extremely unstable connections just stand completely still as though they're AFK until their connection stabilizes, encouraging people to play with the best connection possible, but also not punishing people with just generally high pings, just those that suffer sudden packet loss or massive spikes in ping.
That's what good games do. DBD just gives you a nice chunky win for your lag switch.
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Lol is this a serious question?
Regardless of weather a survivor knows its a bug or not, you cant seriously expect survivors to stop wiggling so you can get the hook.
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Its just like when ds use to glitch and not work even though you would hit the skill check perfectly.
Or the hill bug that just happened. Lost so many games because the killer either left me there the whole game or just slugged me their.
So if none of those killers got banned for exploiting the hill glitch then its free game on this new hook glitch.
Bout to get me some easy wins just like killers were getting easy wins because of the hill.
Edit : the hill glitch only really affected survivors and that lasted almost a whole month before they patched it.
So stop your whining and just play the game already. They'll patch it next week along with the 749584738 bugs this new chapter introduced.
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What I want to know is what causes this to occur? I've been very lucky with not having it happen to me.
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No. It's like saying killers who hooked survivors who were stuck in the hill bug were abusing an exploit. They weren't. Not bannable.
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I just read up that this is actually a new bug, so they gave you built-in lagswitching! Nice!
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When I saw survivors stuck there, I downed them, picked them up (sometimes getting stuck myself, which required attacking while carrying to free myself), and then let them wiggle free. I'd then walk away and patrol gens as if it hadn't happened.
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That was good of you, most killers didn't do that and took advantage of survivors being stuck there, completely ignored us and tunneled the unstuck survivors, horrible games.
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I did the same. The point is, neither you or I had any obligation to do so. It was a free choice. Same for the survivors. They have no obligation to stop wiggling until the killer figures out a way to hook them. If they do, more power to them. But if they don't, they're not really abusing an exploit. They're not causing the bug that makes it impossible to hook. They're simply wiggling, which is an intended mechanic.
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I don't see how it's exploitable. They're going to wiggle regardless. It's just bad luck and just another BHVR new chapter ######### up.
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I mean, I haven't experienced this as a survivor, but as a killer, I did. Yet, I can't expect the survivors to not try to wiggle free even if I couldn't hook. It's not fair for the killer, of course, but it's probably a bug and not the survivor's fault either.
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Its a killer bug this wont get fix this fast you can expect this bug to last until the next chapter and maybe even more. Just take nurse for example she is bug and they still did not fix her the same with sound
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Just drop em pick right back up and hook... Worked for me every time.
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i mean... i the hill glitch primarily affected survivors, and even that took a few weeks to fix.
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If they don't wiggle out, what happens then? Does the killer ever finish spazzing out and get them on the hook or are they frozen there forever?
Because if that's the case wiggling out is 100% the right thing to do.
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