What do you believe "gen rush" means?

I don't consider survivors coordinating well on gens to be gen rush - that's just playing optimally. In my eyes, gen rush is when all the survivors bring loaded toolboxes/BNPs and pound out the gens faster than you can find them.

Even if they were ignoring their teammate, you had to have gotten unlucky in where you were patrolling if the rest of them were able to do those gens uninterrupted.

It means "I need to project my own lack of skill onto other people and uses loaded words to make myself feel better about losing a video game."

The objective of survivors is literally to do generators. It's the point of the game. Imagine what would happen if "hook-rushing" was taboo. It's a wholly unreasonable demand to say, "don't do gens, just sit around and do nothing."

Sometimes, it can get frustrating when it feels like the generators are flying, but that's not the survivors' fault. That's their job. It's up to the killer to prevent that, with a fair bit of luck too.

@Rivyn

Before yes, now if you get stunned with DS, you were tunneling.

I think the only real true gen rushing is when there's more than one survivor with toolboxes with all bnps and group up on each gen with maybe Prove Thyself which is freaking annoying but whatever.

Other than that, it's simply your lack of map and gen pressure. I'm guilty of this myself when I play killer sometimes, I'll realize it too late into the game I'm losing, the gens are flying because I'm not giving them any reason to get off. If you hook one person at a time, one gets off the gen and go rescue. The other two have complete freedom. There is no reason for them to get off. Now when there's a teammate hooked, one down and one being chased, obviously the one that's completely safe needs to do some damage control.

Sometimes man, teams just play so optimally.

Its when you forsake all other objectives and altruistic actions to hammer out generators.

Mind you this is genuinly the only viable strategy against things like infinite T3 Michael where altruistic actions don't help you all that much if at all and the longer the games goes on for you the worse it gets.

Another example is completely ignoring totems/chest/waiting for the last moment to do a hook save to max out generator completion and thus risking a hook state for generator greed.

Yesterday, I had a trickster game. It took me approx 15 seconds to find a survivor, and approx 30 seconds to down them. The moment they were hooked, 2 generators popped and I discovered my Hex:Ruin was already destroyed.

Second survivor I hung, another 2 generators went and I was already fighting to keep any generator against 4 players that I could. They had 1 toolbox and Prove thyself, as well as another generator speed increasing perk.

I simply played my best and never stood a chance, I used to be a killer main but am prefering survivor, because games like this are all to frequent and it's highly difficult for me to play against it.

Stealthing around and doing the gens before you can find anyone.

A man and/or a legend

The rushing of gens.

A term scrubs use when they are incapable of pressuring survivors off their objective.

Much like scrubs call killers campers or tunnelers instead of doing what's needed to block the killer from their objective

They must of hidden parity well from you and got back on Gene's not giving two Fs about there teammate hate survivers that do that.

I'm on the fence about whether gen rushing still exists with all the nerfs to toolboxes. If it does, I think it would be the matches where the survivors come in with the intent to speed run the gens and get out, even if they lose points for not doing anything else. It's boring to play and boring to play against, IMO, but some people seem to consider it a victory to slam all the gens and run out the door.

For me its when you use toolboxes, brand new parts and prove thyself.

Or simply doing gens even if you should be unhooking teammates or looking for active Devour totem.

Most of the gen rush is actually just a big gen spread on large maps that it seems impossible to defend, or just simply bad plays from killer who is spending time somewhere else than defending gens

There's a scale for things where people will use the term

On one end survivors with toolboxes, BNP, separating on gens, doing pretty much nothing except for gens including potentially letting teammates go to struggle or die on hook just to do gens, and bringing perks centred on gens and item conservation, on the other it's gens being done in a short space of time by three survivors while the killer just goes on a long and fruitless chase with the 4th.

I'd lean more towards the first definition, although you don't need all the elements for it to be a True Genrush (i.e. made in the Génrush region of France)

Great job on missing the point COMPLETELY. If it was 4 randoms... I can see why the person went into second phase. Instead of everyone running off gens - people tend to finish their gens and see if someone else goes for the unhook. THAT was my point - and what I said. The only mention of SWF in my post was to state that I rarely SWF and that as a MAINLY SOLO survivor - I was explaining my thought process.

Sorry even the MENTION of the word SWF triggers you so much. NOTHING in my post was about what SWFs do - it was about SOLO survivors. I'm sorry you failed to comprehend what I thought was a very simple use of the English language.

Gens before friends, but when it gets your teammate killed for no reason cause they weren't even being camped.

So one survivor is being chased and the other two just start fresh new gens and never go for the unhook.

Also known as solo queue.

Gen rushing is survivors playing optimally to repair gens as quick as possible. Usually involves no more than 2 on a gen, working two gens at a time, and using perks and/or toolboxes, ideally with BNPs.

It is most definitely "a thing" just as much as camping and tunnelling are "things". The issue is that none of those things are necessarily "bad", they are simply strategies/tactics that have their own pros and cons.