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Is There a Reason Survivors Do This?
I noticed in high ranks some survivors will run self-care and if they are injured and you’re chasing them they will drop a pallet and start self-caring right in your face. Is there a tactical advantage to doing this? Is there a reason for it? It mostly feels like a slight dig at the killer more than anything. Like I think you’re such a non threat I’ll heal in front of you. Cause self-care takes so long it’s practically worthless if you have teammates to heal you.
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I guess you can call it a tactic. If I running a healing build with a med kit I want to prolong the chase as possible by getting back to health state. I don't really do it to insult the killer.
Side question: do you always suspect survivors are being nefarious in their actions? If you do that's probably not a good mindset to have.
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Well, healing mid chase could be beneficial (with a medkit), not with self care tho, so I think there just beaing an ass
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It's mostly to mock you but if they are really good they can finish healing or at least progress far enough so when they lose the killer it takes like 2 seconds for someone else to finish healing them (or they can just finish healing alone and it will take less time)
They still do it just to taunt you. It's better than teabagging behind a pallet or when survivors start to point like crazy.
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Yeah--if the chase goes on long enough you're going to finish healing yourself and get a health state back. I do the same thing with exhaustion perks, I stop and take breaks from running as much as I can during chases to get my lithe back.
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it was an old tactic back in the day that people still try to do it to meme. heal mid chase. they are just not building distance when doing this so dont be discouraged.
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You would've HATED the self care meta lol
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it's to pressure you more. and it's a legit strategy, not bm.
if the survivor is using literally every spare second they get to heal, they are winning even more time from you than simply being in a chase. it makes you commit. you have to make the decision to see that chase through to the end or drop it NOW, and every second you quibble internally is two seconds you're losing if you give up on the chase later. it amplifies the sunk cost fallacy. if you cannot quickly determine whether a chase is good or bad, then having someone self care in your face is going to compound your problem.
forcing the killer to commit to a bad chase is a winning move. when you see a survivor doing this, analyse what's going on around you. don't just go "oh it's bm", it's so much smarter than just teabagging.
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I like the way you've analyzed the situation, I never really understood it when i see it as survivor because i usually run injured
Then when I see it as killer I thought it was just them trying to agitate me, I never really thought about the fact that whether or not they actually can successfully heal, it puts an ultimatum on the chase
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Only in high ranks where no chill exists. I suspect them of going to pull some crap eventually.
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I guess that makes sense. I didn’t know if it was a strat move or a dick one is all
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It used to be a strategy, and to some extent it still is because predropping pallets is ridiculously effective.
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I love self care on survivors - when I am the killer.
No clue why they would drop a pallet and do that - don't think I have ever seen anyone do it; or if I did it was a rarity.
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I’ve seen it a lot myself and on Twitch streamers Vids on YouTube.
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Awesome - I have streamed DBD for over 3,000 hours but honestly don't think I have seen this. I guess if I did it didn't affect me enough to notice. Then again - red ranks running self care - it's a choice; not a good one imo. (Imagining Tatiana saying "Choices" now)
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Stalky Boi just released a video where someone did this to him, with a Myers. So he was self-caring in front of a Myers lol
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Again... cool. I stated my experience - doesn't mean there isn't someone who has seen it 100 times. I can't speak to others experiences I can only speak to my own.
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I’m just having a conversation with you. Geez
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Same. I can't speak for others and very rarely watch other streamers (Just don't have a lot of time for that). 99.9% of my posts are from my experience/data that I have collected. I have tracked 6,724 of my matches in DBD and use that information as the basis of most of my statements/conclusions. I am more of a factual than emotional poster as I find those types of posts full of hyperbole and vitriol to be not conducive to conversations.
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I'm currently rank 12 since the reset and surprisingly, I go against red ranks and they're not really doing this. It's mostly purple ranks that do it to me and I haven't quite figured it out yet lol but I never take it personally or view it as BM. Sometimes when they feel confident enough in their looping abilities, they'll heal after a vault or especially after they throw the pallet and run again when you're back on their heels needing about 90-75% left for a full heal. If I can't catch them within a certain time frame, I will move on until I find them in a better (for me) predicament later. What tends to happen is if you chase them for so long and they get that heal, you're just going for a repeat situation and losing a bunch of gens 'cause you've given survivors no reason to get off gens. Either commit fast and end the chase or find a more suitable target. They're healing anyway, not on a gen so that buys you some seconds to find your next chase.
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They do it because They're trying to see if the killer will take the bait and not break the pallet so they can loop it for longer.
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myers is... literally the only killer that this is explicitly a bad move to do it right in front of.
maybe also plague, but doing it to myers is much worse.
i feel like this is a case of, "the risk i took was calculated, but man am i bad at math" lol
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I always felt they do that to pressure me to break pallet. Like, I could want to play the mind game but if I lose and he keeps jumping over at the right time and keeps healing, then he might get a Health state back.
So panicked I just break pallet.
Be that the best move for the survivors is debatable, they might be indirectly shortening the chase by pressuring me to break pallet.
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If you posted this four years ago, I would say it's because they can heal before you can hit them again.
Because it's 2021, they are just wasting time they could use gaining distance.
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