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Insidious Basement Bubba: Urban Legend or Real
The most common toxic killer stereotype is of course Insidious basement bubba. However, I rarely come across a Bubba like this and have come across a lot more body-blocking wraiths than them. Could their population have been greatly exaggerated?
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The purpose of the exageration is to convince the devs to do something about camping. Entitled survivors have a loud voice. And they have made it clear, there should be some kind of barrier to block killers from camping.
Insidious Basement bubba camping is so rare. The only time I came across one was when I tried it myself.
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Some say he is still guarding that basement chest, to this very day
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Lmao I've encountered exactly one, and it was my own damn fault he killed me. Dude is absent the entire match, we bang out gens and see nothing of him, no tr, etc
So, as we're opening the gates, i decide to run down to the basement and see if i can score a nifty item. As i round the corner to the chest, he's standing there.
Bubba.
I froze, and we just kinda stared at each other for what felt like ages before I started sprinting and he started revving, long story short he chainsawed me and proceeded to hook me and dance the dance of his people as the entity whisked me away.
Tl;dr they're like four leaf clovers :)
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They're real, but definitely rare. Like @LegioPotatica, I have only encountered one until now.
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im one
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I've seen a couple as survivor - We all laughed and joked about it endgame - Normal people don't care/rage about it because they realize it's a meme/throw build that 'may' get one person if Bubba is lucky.
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I used to see it rarely(About 5-6 times total) but basement Bubba has effectively disappeared with the rework making Bubba actually viable outside of tunneling/camping.
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They were a lot more common before his rework though still rare. As Bubba is now, he's a pretty decent killer so there is no need to camp or anything.
Back then, some people felt the only way to win was to facecamp and he was one of the best at it so they just played to his strengths.
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I've never run into one. I've used a Spooky Myers myself to hang (4) people out to dry in the basement by appearing to leave, using my wall hack to track/time the rescuer and then go down behind them and interrupt the rescue. I never stay in the basement though, as that would defeat the point of the bait.
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I've run into a couple recently. If the end game chat was any indication they were doing it specifically to make people mad. Which is charming.
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I used to encounter them alot but I think the last time I saw one was when drag bubba first came out and he only camped one survivor that way so I'm not sure if it was a grudge or what, this game has a funny way of bringing out rage in people
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Camping killers are rare in general, because no matter how effective it can be, it's boring to play like that. But to be fair, Insidous Bubba is rare, but you should run into one from time to time. At least the Meme chest protecting ones.
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Insidious Bubba is a meme at this point.
Bubba is such a powerful chaser that playing him defensively is silly at best, game-throwing at worst.
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People usually do this when they’re trying to mine for salt, because it’s completely boring to play otherwise, and despite popular belief most people just play this game in a normal way to have fun.
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I've come across this type of bubba about once every 400 hours. I have been lucky to always be in a SWF, so we lose 1 teammate, finish gens and 3 of us escape.
I can't imagine being bored of a killer to try to do this but it must work against random teams. Just seems really sad and pathetic though, but people spend time doing all sort of weird things
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Definitely real but I think a lot less common these days. I use to see them rarely a couple years ago, but I've only run into 2 in the past year I could just be getting lucky, but I've seen much less then previous years.
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I've seen a couple, one a few days ago. Rare though.
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It happened to me just today. I wasn’t anywhere even close to the shack basement but he somehow got me on that damned hook before I could escape. He walked past two friggin hooks to get me there. The second he went to stand in the corner I killed myself and went on to the next game. He tunneled me from within the first 30 seconds I spawned and didn’t get a damned thing done. I wasn’t going to waste the entire match being bait. Find another butt monkey, Bubba!
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Bubbas camp at a rate 3 times higher than the average killer.
Like it's been observed when people track statistics of like hundreds of games, he is the most heavily camping killer just cause it's the easiest to do that as.
That being said, insidious is rare, I generally never see that.
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I've seen several through my time playing (around 15-20).
Actually found one just camping the chest in basement. He downed the person who went for the chest but let them crawl out. Endgame chat all they said was "my chest"
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Jesus christ, can you guys comment on a thread without making it a discussion about "da evil survivor/killer mains" instantly?
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depends on what rank u are looking in. you're not going to see it in red ranks
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Wrong.
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I think in 2 years...I've seen 2
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Yeah they’re very rare.
Even though when it does indeed work, the survivors are screwed, it’s still such a huge gamble for the killer. This is why it’s rare.
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I've probably seen 3 of them. Some people say, "Oh, it's just an Wraith AFK," when nothing is going on during the game, but sometimes it's actually an insidious Bubba. If you never check basement you'll never know :o
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I have found the elusive insidious bubba! and what happened is he let me give him my brown medkit in payment for searching the chest. once i got another brown medkit, the other time it was a pink key. then someone stole my brown medkit and the bubba took him down and me accidentally.... he gave me hatch!
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Yea its just a meme build.
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I'VE MET ONE.. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE!
It was a dark and lonely night and my spooky cat wasn't going off..... All of a sudden THREE GENS WERE DONE.... NO SPOOKY CAT.... then two MORE GENS DONE.... People were like
ARE THEY AFK?!?!?!? LETS SNOOP... BAD IDEA....
All of a sudden I see a default MEG GO DOWN IN THE BASEMENT, I HEAR "HelP IVE falleN" So Yui goes to investigate and BOOM while im opening the exit gate ACE GOES DOWN TOO ALL 3 IN THE BASEMENT
Shoooo0o0o0o0ot I LEFT. I WAS SCARED. And in the after chat there i saw with my OWN TWO EYES a player named bubbas basement and he said that they paid the price for invading the basement and that i was smart for playing it safe....
I'll never forget that night bro i was legit scared
SPOOKY CAT = SPINE CHILL
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The one I met was named Sales Clerk Bubba !!!!!
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GODS AMUNGST MEN THEY ARE
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The should be an official "Bubba's Basement Day" where ALL Killers go Insidious Bubba for 24 Hours!
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It's a story used by the entity to shroud the basement in mystery and danger.
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Ooooo!!! A spooky thread.
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always a good thing, but a month late! hehehehe
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Maybe not the Insidious Bubba, but we played against a Basement Camping Bubba tonight, and they were PC Rank 2. My friend got downed first, was carried towards the basement on Lery's, wiggled off, got downed again, then this time ended up in the study basement. The Bubba was running Mad Grit, Agitation, and Iron Grasp. When I headed for a potential rescue, I could hear the terror radius fire up, so my friend told me to work on gens and not attempt the save. One of the two other teammates (who were playing together but not on coms with us) went to save him and got downed. Their teammate (who had BT) went for a rescue and managed to get their friend out, but mine didn't make it. He went back to the basement, struggled to the end, and gave us time to finish all the gens and get three of us out. I was stunned that the killer was a Rank 2 -- my assumption would have been that running that build and playstyle wouldn't work, but if it wasn't a one-off match for them and is their regular build/gameplay, I guess it must work more often than not.
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Although getting an insidious camping Bubba is a thing and huge bummer, but they are not very common. I get that kind of game maybe once a month. I also feel like the lower I am in rank the less I see it, so maybe only newer killers really try this out.
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you do come across the odd harcore meme commit in red ranks no question but it is generally a yellow rank strat
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I have seen more insidous basement bubba's then i've seen so called god nurses.
Those are the real urban legend around dbd
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I meet several ones so far. There are 2 kinds of bubbas i encounter, the bbq bubba, who hooks someone and runs of the get the next one, no camping at all, and the insidious basement camper. If a bubba hooks you in the basement, and i dont hear his tr outside, i won´t come for your help.
On the other hand, if i play bubba, which is rare and only for achivements/dailys, i AM an insidious camper
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