"stop trying to kobe in my face; it's toxic" Forum posts
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Letting someone struggle or refusing to heal them after they Kobe in your face is harming the team, but Kobeing in someone's face in the first place isn't? When you Kobe in someone's face you wasted your teammate's time, you cost them more BPs than you earned, you denied valuable perk procs, and you destroyed the mutual trust between you and that teammate. This will hurt the team, since you now have to expect that player to play selfishly. When you can no longer trust that player to make the right play for the team you are forced to play sub-optimally. Even making an unsuccessful attempt to Kobe in someone's face does this.
The bloodpoints you deny your teammates by doing this can be really substantial too. I run WGLF in every survivor build. A WGLF stack is usually worth like 5-8k BPs, in addition to the 2-2.5k you get for the unhook and the subsequent heal that you might refuse to do if someone kobes in your face. So, not only are you costing your teammate like 7-10k BPs in exchange for 1.5k points for yourself, you're also causing them to entirely waste all of the time they spent running over to the hook during which they normally would have been helping the team and accumulating more BPs.
This is just the BP side, though. Kobeing in someone's face denies extremely useful in-game perk effects, like 90 seconds of We'll Make It, Borrowed Time, or Deliverance. Your decision to Kobe in someone's face can often be the difference between dying and escaping.
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By all means, Kobe in someone's face for some extra survival BPs or to have fun; you're of course entitled to play the game however you'd like. Still, you have to acknowledge that this is an extremely selfish play that hurts the team. If your teammate doesn't take kindly to it and decides to let you struggle, don't give me a shocked pikachu face and run to the forums. Actions have consequences, and your teammates are also entitled to play the game however they'd like. I know I would personally rather harm the team in one match in order to teach a teammate a lesson that will benefit the team in subsequent matches.
TL;DR making a selfish play in a team game is a dick move
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Let's imagine I walk up to you and punch you in the face. Would you say that it's more toxic for you to punch me back? Not punching me back would be taking the high road and it would be a fair choice, but not doing so is hardly worse than the initial offense. Not seeing this says to me you don't really understand why Kobeing in someone's face is so selfish and detrimental to the team.
Edit: Reading the rest of the thread, "It's MORE toxic to leave them stranded" doesn't line up with the rest of your comments. Maybe you didn't mean to phrase it this way?
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kobe for accuracy, yeet for distance.
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If you are on the other side of the map, finish the gen.
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Good players should realize more than bad players how detrimental it is to the team to make a play like this.
"If you disagree with me you're a bad player" lol
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I see.
I was in high school in the mid-'90s. Let's just say I was the type of person who was playing Magic: The Gathering, rather than basketball, at lunch.
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They way I see it is this... You tried to take points away from me in the game, survivor is already the crappier said to earn points.
You want to try and take my BP away, you can go to stage two. Is it petty? yup. Do I care? Nope.
Unhooking, plus more if safe unhook, is BP that you greedily tried to prevent me from getting. Now to be clear, if you try to kobe when I am on the other side of the map, I don't really care, but if I get all the way over to you and then you try taking my BP away... Enjoy stage 2.
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Lmao, you take things way too personally. Wow.
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Pro tip: whatever you think is "just a dumb millennial zoomer thing" most likely isn't.
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Sure if thats how you see it. I am just saying, I am a BP ######### and if you take my BP away from me, I am about to become a petty #########.
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Haha, usually when it's some slang that I don't understand, I assume "This is some 'I'm too old and don't get it' sort of thing, right?" I've never seen the term applied anywhere else, but then again I am also mostly very sports-dumb.
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You're most likely a millennial too, just FYI.
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I was born in 1980, so I am right on that "Xennial" knife-edge between GenX/millennials, where I can't fully/entirely identify with either cohort.
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That's because using generations to try to paint everyone with the same brush is BS. We're people, not checkboxes.
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Point taken!
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An eye for an eye makes the realm blind
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