Where are the "friendly" killers at?

For the most part, I've been playing the game like normal. I've had one survivor walk up to an event hook and point at it to let me know he was willing to be hooked. I let him live. If I get down to one or two survivors and they are harvesting a plant, I'll usually let them finish before killing them.

But I hear what you are saying. I had one game as a survivor against a trapper and the trapper put two traps by the last plant. He caught the only other survivor and was camping that survivor so I squeezed between his traps and tried to fill up my vial. He caught me working on the plant with literally 1% left to harvest. He hit me once and I stayed put to try to finish it off, but he hit me again, hooked me and then did the "no" head shake. That triggered me a little bit.

You have to know that at this point, a lot of players already met their quota so they either want to play normally, or they're not offering anything. Why would a killer want to let you farm if there's only 3 offerings up? Might as well play a regular game at that point. That's how I feel, at least.

I think your best bet is to put in your offering and if there's 4 or 5 of them, play normally, but if you get found first, do the "come" and "point" gesture and see how it plays out.

I mostly have been playing normally. Respecting the plants (in addition to my subpar skills) has screwed me over, though. A bunch of survivors were happy to keep harvesting their plants while I monitored generators, but as soon as they were done, turned into the toxic little s**ts they were before the event, looping, teabagging, body blocking me, etc. and doing their best to make sure that I don't get any hooks.

After having that happen to me several times, I mostly just play normally. I main hag and I do not trap the plants and I only patrol generators, but if I'm on the path from one gen to the next and you're at a plant, you'd better run. Honestly though, Hag's kit basically has built in event respect with benefits to both parties -- I get to lay all 10 traps carefully instead of hastily placing down 5 or 6 and hearing the first 1-2 gens go off, and they get their nectar. Everyone wins.

@steezo_de said:
You have to know that at this point, a lot of players already met their quota so they either want to play normally, or they're not offering anything. Why would a killer want to let you farm if there's only 3 offerings up? Might as well play a regular game at that point. That's how I feel, at least.

I think your best bet is to put in your offering and if there's 4 or 5 of them, play normally, but if you get found first, do the "come" and "point" gesture and see how it plays out.

thats what i do, 24 easy nectar vials since i started yesterday.

I tried playing nice. Got looped around the whole map and the 360-jukes robbed me of several successful hits. I finally downed that survivor and decided that everyone can escape except for them. Their team did everything they could to save him/her, and pulled it off because of Stolen-- Borrowed Time. For that, I slugged them one at a time (Knockout) until they were all crawling in the dirt. Then hooked them one at a time and watched them enter struggle before hooking the next.

Stopped playing nice after that.

Indeed, where are you at @friendlykillermain ?

@nssBoB said:

@steezo_de said:
You have to know that at this point, a lot of players already met their quota so they either want to play normally, or they're not offering anything. Why would a killer want to let you farm if there's only 3 offerings up? Might as well play a regular game at that point. That's how I feel, at least.

I think your best bet is to put in your offering and if there's 4 or 5 of them, play normally, but if you get found first, do the "come" and "point" gesture and see how it plays out.

thats what i do, 24 easy nectar vials since i started yesterday.

I don't know if you're doing killer, but good luck with that side of farming. It takes a lot longer because of the queue times and because there aren't as many offerings as there were over the weekend... but the whole time I've been farming, there hasn't been one game where at least 2 people didn't want to farm. The vast majority of my games have been 3 or 4 cooperating survivors.. then sprinkle in some knuckleheads that just didn't get it or didn't want to farm.

There's a way of approaching survivors and it doesn't start with hitting them first. It starts with you letting them get distance and showing some body language that tells them it's safe, then you move on to the next survivor and let them know too. This doesn't mean that you won't get fuckheads that will farm their nectar and leave, but those are just games you have to forget about because ######### will be #########. I still finished my 30 in about 40 games.

Very few nice people on either side at the minute. Few enough, in fact, that I've been able to clip all the times it's happened.

Survivors - happy to harvest with you there, don't nod or bow, then f*ck off. If caught, will DS you on the way to the event hook.

Killers - pretend to let you harvest but then down you anyway. Then come on here, and moan that people d/c.

If someone is harvesting, I'll leave them be. I got a bit carried away the other night and downed someone, then immediately felt bad and juggled them until they were back on their feet. And if a killer lets me finish the plant, I'll run my own arse over to the hook (or, at the very least, not wiggle when picked up).

But it's becoming so tiring to try and be this accommodating/fair just to get ######### on all the time.

I stopped playing nice once it became clear that Survivors weren't going to give me the same courtesy.

I finished my vials already. I was that killer. Yesterday was the last drop. After you let them get their nectar they stand and tbag you at the exit gate.

@NeonAlien said:
I'm just wondering why a considerable ammount of killers (way more than usual) I encounter during the event go out of their way to make the experience as unfun as possible.

Maybe you should ask them how many times they waited 20 minutes to play a match where everyone uses every mean possible to deny them special hooks, from multiple DS and flashlights to suicides, not counting eventual toxicity/bm, making them loose any interest to be friendly just to risk being treated like ######### again.

I play nice every game. I ran into plenty of nice killers starting and allowed myself to be hooked, occasionally a killer would come around that would abuse that and proceed to wreck the team and hang everyone even though i kited them to a blight hook and stood there. Those people were abusing the event mechanics to batter friendly survivors, so people become suspicious of killers.

Me, i purposely stand like 10 ft away and stare at them (Not micheal) so they realize my goal isnt to beat them bloody but to do the event. But ive been friendly in every game, though the second i face toxic survivors i murder them, and if its a full team, i go about trying to kill as many as possible, going as far as invis face camping just out of line of sight just to bring in more victims.

If being friendly is what it takes then at the start of every match I'm gonna friend everyone and just tell it to them straight. I just want the event hooks for the serum. I'll promise to not kill anyone as long as they all stay decent and we'll get serums and sunshine and rainbows.

@Vecors said:
Thing is, it always results in the same annoying situation, one of the kids wants more hookbombs than the others, one of the kids wants you to idle in pallets. Just keep business as usual.

You play nice with everyone and if one of the children gets greedy . . .
"Destroy the child."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbymSLEf1Yw

Hmmm. My experience on both sides of the event has been quite different. Most games have felt pretty friendly to me.

When I play killer, I telegraph hard that I'm willing to play nice at the beginning of the match by not attacking any survivors I find harvesting nectar and just nodding at them instead. Most survivors (but not all!) seem to get it.

I've noticed that if even one survivor in the group of 4 gets it, it is likely that the others will figure it out too when they see that I'm not guarding any hooks I do, but instead just standing off to the side at a distance.

Sometimes later in the game a friendly survivor will even wave me over and point at where an unfriendly "try hard" survivor might be hiding - offering them up to me - which is always a fun time.

When I've played survivor, the instant I see the killer I walk towards them and do the come over gesture. About half of the killers will nod their heads and come down and hook me - nodding their head again when I'm on the hook. I know that we've got an understanding at that point and I'll be able to harvest in peace for the rest of the game.

The other half of killers will just mow me down mercilessly as a free hook, but then I'll know that this particular killer isn't interested in "playing nice" and I can change tactics for the remainder of that game.

I really wanted to play this nicely as a killer, I even named my profile "EventFarming" but guess what happened.

Still tryhard looping window jumping pallet smashing flashlight blinding survivors.

Instant wiggling right away although it was clear my event hooks were on the other side of the map. Even following a survivor for half a minute NOT HITTING was no clue whatsoever that I wanted to farm the event vials as a killer.

I have gone back to tunneling and camping the guys now, this way I get at least a couple of hooks. Oh and don't forget, now it's rare to have more than my own offering in the game so its 30 mins wait to get maybe 3 event hooks, maybe not.

A job so excellently done, BHVR, I am lacking words for it.