Fellow Solo Survivors - Some NOED Questions

1. Rarely, if ever.
2. Rarely, if ever.
3. Yes. See a totem, break a totem.

EDIT: Wait, #########, I'm sorry. I didn't see this said "solo survivors". I don't really play solo.

1. Maybe 1 in 10 games (rank 5-3 btw).

2. Hardly ever :P

3. Yes!!!!! I make it my goal to get all 5 totems every match. I bring DH or a map ^^

1. Not too much and not rarely either
2. I’m usually the first one down
3. Almost never, unless I just so happen to see the lit totem. If the game goes so well for us, that all we have to worry about is NOED, then I don’t mind dying

1. Not very frequently. Not sure of the exact tally, but I'd say around one in five.
2. Personally, maybe one in three cases where it fires. Someone drops to NOED if it fires, in almost all cases, but it's not always me.
3. It depends. I've spent some matches hard-focusing on wiping totems with the aid of DetHunch, but after a while I stopped doing that because it never works. Either the killer didn't have NOED and I wasted all that time, or I cleansed 4 and the killer got NOED anyway, and I also wasted all that time. I think there's been -one- instance of a 5-cleanse against a killer carrying NOED.

These are exactly the reasons why I -hate- the 'do bones' meme. It is such a terrible counter to NOED, it often ends up actually making it stronger instead. Because as an addendum to point 3 of my questions above: I've shut down more NOEDs by saving totems for post-5, as NOED-traps.

1: I haven’t kept count, but I can do that. Maybe 40% of the time.

2: Too often.

3: Yes, and I run Detective’s Hunch or Small Game if Detective’s hasn’t come up in the web.

1. Rarely see it. 1/20 games. Thank god.
2. Someone will usually get killed by it. It wastes a lot of time when you play solo q.
3. I try to remember the totems I see that are easy to spot. Hard totems to spot I usually cleanse to get them out of the game. This is so that if NOED pops I can quickly check on the easy ones.

I have noticed that in a lot of maps the Hex totem tend to spawn in the same places or area. Have anyone else noticed that?

1. Not very often, but not very rare either.
2. At least one person will very likely die to it, sometimes it'll be me.
3. Depends, if it's a good time to do stuff other than gens, then yeah I'll crush that thing.

So, I’m going to start keeping count of how often I encounter know it and how often it gets players killed. I’ll come back to you in like 50 games.

1. I actually "see" NOED quite often, it doesn't normally come into play. I play red ranks and people are pretty diligent about breaking totems, and in the event it actually comes into play, the killer normally downs one person before the totem is broken.
2. Almost never, I die because the killer actually kills me or my teammates are braindead. Had a few games where they stand at the gates just... staring at me. It's creepy. If anything its face camping that kills me more.
3. I do cleanse totems, I'm a Dwight main and I get the most out of my lockers.

1. How often do you see NOED in your games?

1 - Can't tell. But it's very rare

2. How often does it get you killed?

2 - only when it activates on me and no one can get me or the totem. Otherwise, if I can't find the totem I just leave.

3. Do you cleanse totems?

3 - whenever I see them. Inner strenght gang baby!!

1. Semi-Frequently, depends on the hours and nationality (yeah, some regions have more toxic gaming cultures than others). I would say 1 every 5 games as it keeps bad killers in the ranks that satisfy their egos (red lol).
2. Not too often, mostly because I won't feed a killer dumb enough to run it outside of some gimmick build I noticed. I'm rarely the first hit.
3. If I'm running a build for it, yeah. Otherwise? No, it's a waste of time in solo queue, and time is precious when your idiot colleagues might fall to an equally stupid killer. If I don't run a map or small game, I can't keep track of what's been done and I won't comb through god awful map design to find them. Nor can I rely on my teammates to do the same.

EDIT: I also don't cleanse because I make mental notes of where some totems are in case the NOED happens. I will say there is nothing more amusing than breaking a dumb killer's NOED and just remind them why they need it so much before I say goodbye at the exit gate.

Instead of getting entity displeased against the team of Pepega solos they can't keep up with, because they're not in the right rank, they instead get Brutal Killer or even Ruthless if they managed to score a kill or more. It's not uncommon for uncoordinated and silly solos to feed kills to a NOED killer. They'll still sometimes depip if they perform particularly badly, but most of them manage to get just enough in to secure a black pip. Which is all they need in a meta full of ruin/undying/tinkerer or any other heavy build combined with NOED.

Make no mistake, the vast majority of killers I face that have NOED I can call it. They tend to have a similar playstyle which is often devoid of game sense. The times I'm wrong are usually 1 or 2 perk Andies that are learning a killer.

No, because if they're being fed downs, they'll get more hooks. It's not uncommon for these killers to tunnel/camp someone out of the game too, making a snowball very likely with NOED. Note that this is as solo survivor where Pepega results are expected (from both sides). Usually it'll end up with Brutal killer, which still secures their rank, but the strategy I just mentioned is applicable by any moron with a controller/keyboard and can be reliably applied.

These killers also have sweaty builds that drag the games long enough to get a few hooks and many 'chases' in, which help the score and make gatekeeper gain in value since the game lasts longer via slowdown.