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Please stop using the word "toxic"
I have a feeling that for most people the meaning of toxic is:
Toxic = I don't like what they are doing
This is however incorrect. Most people call completely legal gameplay as toxic.
I think the only toxic things are: DCing, cursing and being rude in chat, holding the game hostage, using some exploits and bugs, hacking, afk, survivor cooperating with killer, suicide on hook.
What is not toxic: bringing strong items and add-ons, map offerings, Tbagging, flashlight clicking, gen rushing, notification spamming, body blocking the killer, camping, tunneling, noed, slugging.
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Tbagging, flashlight clicking,
Understandable, have a nice day
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Lol, okay. Tbagging and flashlight clicking is definitely toxic. What is their purpose? Annoy to killer?
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Toxic.
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To divert the attention of the killer, try to make the killer to commit to a chase.
If you as a killer can't handle these situations it is your fault, but it is not toxic.
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To divert the attention of the killer, try to make the killer to commit to a chase.
And why does it divert the attention of the killer?
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Teabagging is a form of disrespect. So it's toxic. Especially at the exit gates.
Clicky clicky is annoying, but not really toxic.
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They are by definition toxic. They don't give you any sort of gameplay advantage, and aren't there to do anything but serve to annoy the killer.
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Flashlight clicking: creates sound and light, "look, I am here, come and get me"
Tbagging: "come and get me if you can, I am not even running away"
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And both of those are pretty toxic. You're trying to get killer's attention by being toxic. Is that a strategy? maybe. But it's also toxic as hell. One doesn't exclude another
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How else are you supposed to do it? Some killers literally stop camping because someone clicks them or t-bags them, it's far more than just "toxic", it's genuinely useful in some situations.
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There is no another way. Just be toxic. But stop pretending it's not
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Absolutely agree. A lot of people categorise tunnelling, camping or slugging as toxic when it's simply a strategy the killer can use to win the game, just like how survivors can bring any perk or item to help them rush gens.
The only things that are toxic for either side, IMO are:
Killer: Hitting on hook, standing over a slug until they fully bleed out.
Survivor: Take the game hostage (hiding), sandbagging, clicking and tbagging.
But even so, I find survivors tbagging cheeky and funny occasionally. Depends on the match.
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Bad sportsmanship is universally frowned upon and not accepted in any way shape or form with any sport?
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I don't find it toxic when I play killer.
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you're saint
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idk, i don't let things that don't have an impact on a match bother me tbh.
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No he/she has thick skin
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Why exactly are those toxic? Could you explain it a bit with some valid arguments?
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"come and get me if you can, I am not even running away" - In other words "look at me, i am superior survivor race, you're so bad im not afraid of you i will run you for 5 gens without even moving from this pallet. I'll show you teabagging, symbol of disrespect since early years of gaming, which literally means touching your face with my ball sack.
Sounds better? Because that's what you do by teabagging a killer
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yeah like a rhino
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The word's lost all meaning at this point, it's just people calling the most pathetic things toxic because they can't handle someone pressing the crouch button at them in a videogame.
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whats the purpose of tbagging at the exit gates or hatch then? Or clicking/tbagging every few steps even if you are chasing them anyway?
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I'd say things that are done to ruin the experience of someone else is toxic.
Noise notification spam, facecamping, teabagging, flashlight clicking (in some situations), tunneling just for the sake of it, slugging everyone and not hooking to make everyone waste time on the ground, sandbagging, bodyblocking.
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People already have. Taunting the other player has always been the opposite of good sportsmanship, and a failure of empathy. That's the definition of toxic.
If you actually follow your own logic, it just as strategic to be insulting in chat & BM players outside the game since they might remember you & be flustered in the next match too. Hey, maybe they even quit & you never have to face them again. The ultimate victory! Truth is... it's just childish as hell.
That's what children do in a games until their coach calls them a dumbass and makes them run laps next practice, because that's the sort of thing childhood spots & teamwork are meant to teach you about. Same reason everyone lines up to mumble "good game" to each other 30 times after the match whether you win or lose, blowout or nail-biter.
People love to pretend that taunting is a thing in the real world and accepted as normal, but it's really not. In an actual professional, that sort of thing results in both gameplay penalties against your team and personal punishment in with monetary fines upwards of $10,000.
If you want some psychological edge that flusters and intimidates the other players strategically, then you play with composure--that's playing well and making it look effortless and expected. You never insult and belittle others in ways intended to minimize their experience and turn something that's meant to be fun competition into an act of bullying and frustration.
You never need to actually BM the killers to get them to chase you. You deflect them by putting yourself in a seemingly vulnerable position while you've actually got a plan. As a matter of fact, 'strategic' taunting is specifically such a ######### up thing because it's only going to work on the people genuinely having a bad time already--making a miserable experience that much more insulting--while its not going to do anything for people with the upper hand & experience who won't fall for it. It's just laser focused bullying where empathy and sportsmanship should thrive most. That's toxic as #########.
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Wow you must like tunneling camping,noed.And just cause it is legal doesn't make it right.
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Worst is people who calls camping/tunneling/gen rushing etc "toxic" when the game is free to play how you want.
The things that are not strategies to win like t-bagging, hit people on hook, clicking etc ok that might be something that could be toxic, or close to it. But toxic for me is people trashtalking after a game. This is why there should be no way to write to others after the game.
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This is a typical statement for someone trying to make a legit statement sound invalid. If you reduce the action of tbagging to pressing a button, it is the same as comparing a said insult to words coming out of someone’s mouth. That one’s action has an intention and a message that is send to the consignee is a fact that does not just disappear because it is send via internet. Stating that we are talking about ones behaviour in a videogame is a sad attempt to lessen the responsibility one has for their actions and behaviour at all times (yes, we all are responsible for our behaviour and decisions even in virtual/internet settings).
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Anyone who thinks DBD I’d toxic in any way is just a snowflake, and needs to evaluate what toxic behavior actually is.
People who’ve played any moba, or any shooter prior to 2010 knows what real toxic behavior is. This game is not, in any gameplay sense toxic. You got clicky-clicky’d, or bagged at a gate or pallet, good the player gained less distance or isn’t doing gens, win for you as killer. Got camped and tunneled, kinda lame, but if you play it right everyone else should get out and survive.
The community by and large isn’t toxic, most take the game pretty easy really. I’ve played 1400 hours and maybe had two people try and make post game chat personal, getting salt about camping isn’t toxic.
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The gaming community invented the "tea bag" to be toxic, that's the whole reason. "I don't find tea bagging toxic" good for you but that doesn't mean it isn't toxic.
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...okay? You know, if you try to divert the attention of the killer by annoying the player behind it on purpose, that's kind of the definition of toxic behavior. Be toxic if you want, but don't try to sugarcoat it.
I can get the attention of the killer easily without bm. Choosing to do it in a way that community considers bad behavior is...well, bad behavior, which is toxic.
"The word's lost all meaning at this point, it's just people calling the most pathetic things toxic because they can't handle someone pressing the crouch button at them in a videogame."
That is really flawed logic. Simple actions get a specific meaning in every community, and you can't hide behind the action itself. Like, if you give someone the middle finger, you are basically saying "######### you". It's not suddenly not toxic if you tell you just raised one finger, big deal. Just basic social norms, it's not that difficult.
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