Do survivors mental pokes get to you?

I usually nod back or do a cheeky spin. That seems to confuse the ######### out of them and they just stop.

Flashlight macros otoh make me laugh uncontrollably. They feel so silly.

I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I do get frustrated when it happens.

Most of it doesn't bother me. Some stuff like running up with BT is really funny, as I'll just mentally count and down them when it expires, since many survivors do this when they're not near any pallets or windows. Only thing that really gets to me is getting hit by a late 59 second DS, it's much less common ever since the DS change, but sometimes it might happen in a really close game and I don't even realize they would still have it up, and it can be rough to deal with.

Not really, theres nothing you can do about it and they only do it when they know they are safe.

If anything the map layouts is what pisses me most

I'm gonna be honest, they used to aggravate me a lot and make me feel bad, especially when I performed poorly. Fortunately that hasn't been an issue for quite awhile.

What changed for me?

I used to play with a very specific mindset where I'd restrict to certain play-styles. For example, I would actively avoid tunneling, and literally run to nowhere to avoid camping, even if I had a hook between 3 of my last generators. I noticed that the taunting was getting to me mainly because of these self-imposed restrictions that stressed respecting the experience of my opponent, but I wasn't getting that respect back.

Now I fully support tunneling and even camping if it's done constructively, like in my above example where I'd be pressuring all my gens + the hook by camping.

Once I let go and focused on tactical efficiency more than the feelings of others, the game became a lot more enjoyable for me.

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It used to, but now I think of survivors as objectives more than people (akin to moving generators) and I'm not as bothered as much.

I won't bad mouth anyone or put them down in post-chat, but I'm also not going to make special exceptions for them in my game-play anymore and instead focus on being as efficient as possible within the confine of the games core rules.

Eh not really. It is really just a mindgame and sadly a lot of people see it as toxic or mean when it isn't all the time. Using a flashlight as intended isn't really toxic, it is using it how it is supposed to be used, similar to healing with a medkit or doing a gen with a toolbox.

If someone is running at me with BT, I just ignore or wait it out, running at me with DS? Ok i'll just eat it, now you don't have it when I actually need to tunnel. Flashlight clicking at me? Hey, they aren't doing gens lol. After time you just realize the solution to most stuff is just staying calm and handling it correctly, and most of those clicky people aren't even toxic, they do it to get your attention.

Not really, I only get tilted when survivors think that playing that role is hard and they are screaming at you for saying that it is not hard play.

I have really good hearing so if I get flashed at all pallet I can still follow them by ear.

If they force body block with BT, I will just wait the time and tunnel them out, I mean that is what they wanted.

Macro spam is slightly annoying but not enough to get a reaction out of me.

Not really. Its just a game. Aint going to take it that seriously and get triggered off the stupidest of things.

I tell them to get a life. I'm usually playing with brown add-ons and lower tier killers, so they're complete clowns with no self-awareness when they tbag out the exits.

Not really. Why would it? It's a game.

The only thing from this list which is somewhat bothering is the flashlight macro. Not because it annoys me, but the sound is not really pleasant for me.

Some things listed are even counter-productive. Like going for DS and Head On, they lose their DS and dont gain much distance due to Head On AND I know that they wont have Dead Hard available. Same for blinding at Pallets, the Survivor would make more distance if they would just run away. But especially if they do it while injured without Iron Will, it is just a free down most of the time.

Running at me with BT just results in me tunneling this person out. IMO if someone runs at me or bodyblocks when I clearly try to go for another Survivor, I will just tunnel them. They are basically asking for it.

But overall, it is not really annoying. I dont care for the most part.

Everything else I don't care, but this infuriates me since I always do my best to not tunnel... for those who do this I make an exception.

I don't know why we're using the term "mental pokes" to refer to rudeness. But, yes, if people are rude to me, it bothers me.

Most of it doesn't bug me bc they're sabotaging themselves to be cheeky. The only thing that legitimately frustrates me is when survivors don't just leave. I've made various posts/threads about it, but that's the one thing where it's just the inverse of killer's facecamping. It's purely done out of pettiness and spite from the survivor's side, there's no other reason to linger in the exit gates when the entire team is there or already escaped. They just want to hold you hostage in the game as long as they possibly can and rub it in that you lost. They specifically will wait the entire duration of the endgame collapse to try and force you to come push them out and pay attention to them doing it too.

Wasting my time and deliberately trying to be petty & spiteful? Every time it happens I switch to a killer/build that is far less merciful, and tunnel as ruthlessly as I can.

Maybe the only other thing would be flashlight spam/macro clicking, if it's going on the entire game. If BHVR wanted to stop it from happening they easily could just by making it so activating your flashlight always uses up like, 1 charge. Does nothing to the intended use of the flashlight, only stops people from being able to BM with it.

It didn't bother me at first but after playing for 3.5K hours it does make me just not want to play Killer. Primarily because the majority of people who BM are good enough at the game or are completely carried by the Meta. (And that goes for both sides, I've had NOED Killers never down anyone or lose the match because they kept chasing me despite me never BMing them and then Facecamping and hitting me on hook like I committed a warcrime.)

But the reaction it usually gets out of me is "Okay..?"

I'm not bothered by them doing it, it's the fact that they can get away with it is what is annoying. Cause in most fighting games if they T-bag you can still win even if it is hard but in Dbd you just lose no matter what.

Rapid flashlight clicking shouldn't be a thing. There's no good reason why turning your flashlight off doesn't come with a cooldown like every single killer power. Or, at the very least, have turning it on consume a bunch of charges up-front, but doesn't consume any for a couple of seconds while it's on. So if you're just clicking for attention, you drain the battery super quickly.

Tea Bagging would be less irritating if survivors hadn't successfully whined to get the Devs to remove the updated smooth-movement animations out of the game. Survivors actively made the game look worse just to preserve their obnoxious two-frame dips.

The thing that annoys me the most, though, is when all survivors have made it to the exit gate, they're all full health, and they refuse to leave until the killer walks over so they can teabag to their heart's content. The Exit Gate area really needs to be more like a revolving door, where only one survivor can go in at a time. That way, if they want to waste the killer's time to taunt by not just leaving, there's actually SOME danger.

I don't have much to say about flashlights and teabagging but offerings to Haddonfield feel like a declaration of War.

They used to really upset and annoy me. These days, I'm too jaded to care, lol.

Some people gets off on it, so.... as a decent person i pretend not to see it. but imo its weird.

Exactly.