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How would you define camping?
I've gotten plenty of messages where I'm called a camper and think people throw that term around way too much.
Three examples
1. Had a survivor on hook, EDC was active, exit was right by me, hatch was by me, and two survivors were trying to save their friend. I personally don't view this as camping since why the hell would I leave the 3 survivors for the one across the map
2. Had a survivor on hook went to go check on a few gens a good bit away and would go back to check on hook. To me, it only makes sense to not just blatantly give away free unhooks totally unprotected
3. Played Freddy's map where I hooked a survivor in basement, I'd try to leave the school but would see scratch marks leading to the basement as I'm going upstairs. Downed a player and hooked. Hapoened again with another player. I'm just not going to ignore players being careless.
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Camping is only viable if survivors play into it.
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For me, face camping is pretty self explanatory and no debating on what that is.
Proxy camping to me is basically the same but you are just moving around in a small area around the hook. How would you define camping?
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Camping is when the Killer exists. Shame on you...
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It's how you camp that matters.
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I think it’s when you pitch a tent and roll out the sleeping bag with a nice fire. My wife believes it’s when you bring a huge freaking camper with power and cable tv with a mobile wifi.
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Personal opinion:
FaceCamping is when you remain within lunging distance to the hook.
Proxy Camping is staying within terror radius/Line of Sight of the hook. If Make Your Choice or Devour won't proc, you're proxy camping
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I guess I don't really care to define it because I don't care when a killer does it. 120 seconds is enough time for 3+ gens. Up to the survivors to have situational awareness.
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There all instances of camping, but you need to get it out of your head that its a bad thing. Camping is only toxic if you do it for the wrong reasons- ofc you shouldn't let them easily unhook, and if there's multiple points of interest near the hook (hatch, exit gates, other Survivors, etc.) there's no reason to leave. You're completely in the right here.
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It's pretty simple, camping is when the killer stays by the hook without any evidence of other survivors being around.
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If the killer hooks someone and he saw somebody nearby or the team is very altruistic. So he decides to stay near the hook and wait for the save. That's camping.
If the killer hooks someone and stands right in front of the hook until they die. That's face camping.
If the killer hooks someone and goes away but not too far. He is checking gens and looking for other survivors but he can come back if a save is made. That's patrolling.
There are numerous reasons when to do this and when not to do them. Either way it's perfectly legit and it only works if the survivors are potatoes.
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Personally I like to differentiate between when no clear threat is present and staying around hook the entire time vs staying closeby because you see someone attempting to unhook or about to attempt to. Those to me feel entirely different while the first to me is camping while the second is more defensive if that makes sense. They just fall into different categories to me although both are legit strategies, the first one I can empathize more as feeling toxic while the second is more common sense
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id say that proxy camping and face camping are the worst examples of camping
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In the second example he left the hook entirely to check Generators and in the third he was simply chasing Survivors who didn't wait for him to even leave, they can't possibly be instances of camping if he's very blatantly doing other things. Even the first one is a bit iffy or at least 100% justified, since he really has nowhere else to be whatsoever (assuming EDC means the Endgame Collapse thing). Is it really "camping" to not walk into a corner and watch Survivors escape?
Unless the definition of camping is punishing dumb actions by Survivors who expect Killers to just let them speed by? Surely that's not right, but I have not been part of the community for long I suppose.
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Yeah my bad, 2nd one isn't camping. The other 2 are though, since he's staying pretty close to the hook.
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