Is being "sweaty" bad?
I see this a lot on the forum of survivors being sweaty and all and I have to ask, is that a bad thing? I mean this is a game in which players want to win and players are going to so what they can to win. Why shame survivors or killers for wanting to win? I imagine the players can't tell if the opponent is playing casually.
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I don't think so. I think it's okay to want to play to win and to want to try your best. The important thing is that the game be balanced when people are doing so.
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No not really. I play the game pretty casually most of the time so I don't really understand the hardcore sweatiness of some but I don't think it's all that bad.
I tend to just t-bag them if they're being overly sweaty, like omega tunnel-y, campy, or slugging until the person is about to bleed out kind of thing. I get a laugh before I die, they get to feel happy cause they won the game. It all works out.
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It is if you're a killer main expecting to feel badass. Cater to the fragile killer's feelings or be shamed on the forum!
I actually just posted about this yesterday (solo survivor game). A poor rank 16 that got run by a rank 15 the whole match, and then gave an opening for us to save the rank 15 at the end (who managed to escape via DS), and DC'd because of it. I felt bad, I wanted to help the Killer have fun, but the replies were basically, "Nothing you can do, you were just better than them." But does that killer thing we were sweaty? Maybe. But if there's nothing I can do, then the only other choice is to stop playing (and Entity willing, the game will die soon and we will all be free).
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Well what does it even mean to play casually? Like you do some gens and then dies or what?
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Depends on who you’re fighting against imo
If their being sweaty go ahead
If you’re against newer players I go easy
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I sweat a lot after the gym but I normally just take a shower. Excessive sweating though? Maybe see a doctor.
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There are plenty of sweaty players on both sides.
Personally, I don't condone sweaty builds because they are usually overkill and unfun.
Not to mention, I think sweaty builds are unhealthy for the game. When players on either side experience sweaty builds, they are left with a negative and often wrong impression of the game.
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While it might change depending on whether I'm doing a challenge or my mood my playstyle is generally the same.
As killer, I don't tunnel even with no DS, I don't slug the 3rd guy to find the 4th, I don't even really patrol hooks. I'll also just stop trying all together if one of the survivors starts to meme around or makes me laugh in someway.
As survivor, I'll search chests, do some bones, try to meme around if the game is over, mess around with over survivors as well. If I know the game is lost, I'll build an item shrine sometimes or just stare at a locker and point at it to try and get the killer to check it.
I still try to win on both sides of course, I just don't tunnel vision the main objective and play more to have some fun.
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Define sweaty.
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Using one of the strongest killer/survivor setups possible. Or anything close to that.
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I don't think so, people can play however they want. Some people just play casually, others play to win. I don't think it's fair to say someones sweaty cause they wanna win.
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If I play against a team who are a SWF and all happen to be running the same build (e.g. Decisive Strike, Dead Hard, Iron Will, BT), then yes I'd say that is sweaty. Similarly if I was a survivor and played a Spirit who had Ruin, Undying, Tinkerer, Surveillance (or something similar), then I'd say that is also sweaty. In this case sweaty just means trying hard to win.
I don't think sweaty-ness is a problem in and of itself. People will typically use "sweaty" as an insult when they've been beaten, so it makes a nice excuse, I lost because I wasn't sweating as much as that person, or I lost because I didn't want to win as much as they did.
It becomes a problem (to me), when the sweaty person is ALSO being a bad winner or loser, and being toxic on top of that (e.g. aforementioned SWF saying "GG EZ" when they win with their sweaty builds against an unprepared or under-ranked Killer). Or just generally raging and being salty when they lose, despite having the build/offerings to have a good chance of winning.
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No. As long as you're not toxic, play how you want
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Being sweaty isn't a bad or good thing. It's just a playstyle suited for different situations. Problem is the current matchmaking because you never know if you'll be playing sweaty against some newbie Rank 20 who has no clue how the game works, and in that situation, the other side ends up feeling like they couldn't have fun.
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It isn’t bad to try hard. I think the worst is dealing with killers and survivors that already have the skillz to pay the billz but then choose add-ons that make them completely OP and unfun to where you quickly decide that there isn’t even a point in playing beyond first hook. Rank 1 Huntresses with iri hatchets or Wraiths with the addon to see auras while cloaked, for instance. And then piling on ruin and tinkerer so that not even one gen gets fixed. It wouldn’t be so bad if the killer exhibits some form of playfulness but most are so damn serious about it all.
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I can't blame any Killer for going hard. You don't know if you are facing a tough team until it's too late and you lose 3 gens.
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I'd say it depends on context. If you can tell the survivors aren't great calm down and play for hooks. If they are good or attempting to bully you...all bets are off
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If they’ve downed each player at least once within the first few minutes, I think it’s probably safe to let up a little. Continuing to go hard against players that obviously don’t have a chance is literally overkill. I think these players have clear emotional problems that have nothing to do with the video game.
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Smart post right here.
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Quite often though someone might have already DC'd, someones been abandoned on a hook and is on stage 2 and about to let go, and everyone else you bump into can loop for about 2 seconds and you have to stop chasing them and just stare at them within hitting range.
Sometimes it feels the damage of the matchmaking system has already been done, and you just want to move on to the next one.
But yeah sure if you're at 5 gens and everyone is injured and multiple downs, maybe you can let up a bit, if only to avoid DC's. I've had a few situations though where I had the game in my hand, let up a little, and ended up losing and then go through the whole exit gate teabagging. It's a tightrope lol.
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Lol. Nm I misread. Apologies.
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