Be Honest With Me Squad, Is There Really ANY Reason To Play Nice?
This goes for killer or survivor
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You dont have to...but personally I find it more fun to play nice as it keeps the game closer, making it more competitive for both sides.
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For the fun aspect more than anything, nobody likes matches that dont last and were heavily one sided.
I personally when i play as killer often ignore people that are dead on hook, usually trying to first get everyone to that stage and then kill them like that, rather than tunnel them, of course if they push me hard i would stop going easy.
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Depends what you mean tho are you playing nice/toxic because u want so or u see no reason to? There's no any legitimate reason you should play nice but some ppl prefer it as their playstyle or personality over being not nice I won't say toxic. If u think your style is more of those not nice than play like that some of other ppl want to do completely opposite for their own fun not others just like you can choose to play "not nice" if that makes you entertained
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as a killer, I feel like I'm an "entertainer". I'm here to put on some clown makeup, do a couple tricks and make your kids laugh.
So when the audience immediately just heckles you, boos you, pelts tomatoes at you and they all just leave before you even finish your first Act, that's how you get Spirit/Wraith players.
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If you want people to have fun. I like making games more fun. I want the other side (whether I play survivor or killer, and I play both) to enjoy themselves.
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i have 3 reasons i play nice:
1) i play the game for fun. if i sweat and tryhard every game i will burnout so incredibly quickly.
2) if i can win the game while playing nice (aka not rushing gens/tunneling + facecamping) then imho that's the most skillful thing of all. a lot- and i mean a lot- of people have said that i'm not as good as them as killer because i dont get as many kills, but i have a lot more hooks so i call it a win (like a 6 hook 2k vs a 10 hook 2k? im taking the 10 hook one tyvm).
3) i know what it's like to be on the other end of it. "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is i think how the phrase goes? basically if i play like a scumbag but then complain about people playing like scumbags it just makes me a scumbag and a hypocrite. if i play nice, or try to, no matter what, then i may complain a lot but at least they're semi-valid.
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The only reason you should play nice is if that is how you enjoy the game.
There is no other reason for or against playing nice.
If empathizing with the other side scratches an itch for you, then be a good sport when push comes to shove.
If asserting your dominance, and showing the other side how good you are, scratches an itch for you, then play the game in a manner which you believe is most optimal.
DBD is PvP. I think people are naive to expect either side to play nice in a game where one side comes out the victor
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I play nice all the time, which probably blows the mind of a lot of killer mains, but I do. I see teammates being toxic and I'm like, if you get hooked, you're on your own. I purposely let killers hit me out just for extra points if they didn't camp, tunnel, and slug, which is extremely rare. I stay at the gates and let noob Nurses and Huntresses get hits on me when I'm guessing the poor soul playing is just doing it for a daily challenge. I stay behind and let the entity kill me sometimes when killers are just meme'ing or crown hunting. If someone DC's and the killer decides to farm (incredibly rare these days), I stay behind about half the time. Most of those instances, the killer downs me and walks me to the gate.
When I play killer, I often let go good survivors even if I down them. I don't mean particularly skilled, but good teammates who take risks and help their fellow survivors out, and not the Claudettes who did nothing risky the entire game.
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I'd say I play nice both sides. I'm a respectful survivor, unless the killer is tunneling or camping me or someone else, then it's time for merciless bming. I never tunnel or camp as killer, unless a survivor is being a bming twit, and even then I don't really Target them but any mercy I would have shown them is gone.
As goodboykaru said I find it to be treat others as you want to be treated. We've all been screwed over and bullied by each side in this game, it really says something about the people engaging in that behavior, and it doesn't say anything good. Sadly I think most dbd games have at least 1 douche player and usually more, I'm literally often just grossed out by how sorry some players play/act. Humanity sucks and dbd proves it.
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I always have the most fun when I could easily get players out of the game but show that I’m not going to so the game plays out as normal.. we go on more chases.. maybe mess around a bit near the end and we all leave happy.. assuming the survivors realize I’m not going to kill them but throughout the match the chases are legitimate.
not for everyone but I enjoy it.
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Not really, no. Obviously it's nice to play nice (duh) but you're under no obligation to do so. As long as you aren't cheating, it's whatever.
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I just feel out the game and decide on the way if I will be nice or not.
If I get genrushed to oblivion and I get the chance to snowball the team in the end (because they just fall for my traps (as trapper) as flies), I kill all of them or just as much as I can.
If they don't genrush and I feel like I have a chance to can play nice, I will do it 100%. With events even more, since I experienced dumb behaviour before from others.
As survivor I do the same. If the killer just camps and tunnels right off the bat, I'm in no way going to play nice in return. If the killer plays "normal" (like, give everyone the chance at some points and the feeling I could do something) I will totally play nice too. Don't mind if I get killed in the end or not.
Occasionally farm matches I can enjoy too. It takes some pressure off and everyone walks away with some nice points.
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Do you want to be part of the problem that's strangling the life from the game, or do you want bloodpoints?
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Not perpetrating toxicity is enough of a reason to me.
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Not really other than being a nice guy
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I play nice and do meme builds because I already got a majority of the achievements. Rank 1 means nothing to me. I gain nothing from winning. Why would I want to please the Entity? What's that killer going to do? Kill me?
I get a lot of fun out of this game by messing around. I don't mess around TOO much because a lot of survivors at high ranks queue up to get their mettle tested and expect you to press on them but I'll drop into memes at the drop of a hat.
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Depends on your goals and your definitions.
I don't start out that aggressive. I start a game planning on killing everyone by hooking them three times. I think that's nice. When players are inexperienced, I'll go easy on them because stomping them doesn't feel fun. I try to make the game scary for them while still giving them a chance. I like giving hatch, it's both nice and a flex showing I own that map. I don't want players leaving the match hating the game, quite the opposite, I want it to be exciting. That's my job, without me it's a gen-repair simulator.
To be clear, I like to let everyone play and have a good time, but I get mad when people act like I have to. I don't owe you #########, I'll play however I want. If you don't like it, run. I'm the killer.
Also I like to play nice because that gives me a place to go when someone wants to piss me off. There's nothing sweeter than playing chill and then stomping the ######### out of someone that didn't appreciate my chill. Going from 65 to 100 on a fool is awesome. You go to prison for that ######### in real life, in DBD I get points for it. ######### genius.
So there are reasons to be nice, but I think this game would be boring if everyone played the same. I love it when a survivor is doing some ######### plays. I love it when they try to piss me off. It's fun when it's personal.
Ultimately, I play nice because I am nice. I don't want to ruin anyone's time, it's a game and I'm glad others are willing to let me try to kill them.
But I play how I want, if you don't like it, run.
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I play nice because I don't feel good ruining expirience to other players.
If you are sadist, you might enjoy facecamp and slug to death as killer. Or make streaks of stuns and blinds as survivor. I understand that. It's matter of your personality.
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When ever I run fun builds I get tunneled by the killer and he calls me trash for dying so early :')
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I play both sides. I have empathy. I usually play nice because I often feel crappy if I don't, and there's no "thrill" in winning that overcomes that. I'm not really competitive, my playstyle is casual, so my goals are usually to do a challenge or earn BP rather than kill/escape.
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No. There is no particular reason to play nice. Personally i play nice because i feel that its my duty to make sure everybody has fun, but you have no obligation to assure fun for the other side. Its just kind to do so.
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Playing nice is more fun for me, so I do it.
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Treat others how you want to be treated
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Nah, there really isn't. However I prefer playing nice because it's fun for both sides. Plus, it makes me feel like a good guy.
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Playing nice and not tunneling/genrushing are not mutually exclusive concepts. Good sportsmanship goes a long way.
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I don't think you can be able to camp for so long anyways because of gen rushes but can playing nice displease entity?
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Points.
I could slug and kill everyone, but I won't get much points.
So I give them second chances so I can get more points out of them.
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I am entirely convinced that this game survives purely by the goodwill of its playerbase, and that if no one decided to 'play nice', the game would die within a week.
So playing nice not only makes the game more fun and rewarding, it helps to keep it alive too.
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I personally have more fun doing so, that's my reason.
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The golden rule, treat people the way you want to be treated. I live by it. If I played killer like some of the extremists who just want to 4k, I wouldn't be able to complain as a survivor when some loser played like an absolute joker. I love complaining and I am no hypocrite, so you know, I need to play nice for that reason. Plus it prevents me from ranking up. I could easily be purple ranked if I played to win, but playing for fun gives me a nice balance of lobbies which always keeps me guessing what kind of match I will have.
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