Pre-dropping and Camping Meta Now?
Is this because of the comp scene? Why do I encounter so many killers who hard camp at 4-5 gens and SWFs who pre-drop every pallet? Doesn't anyone want fun chases / mind games anymore?
I don't care which role I'm playing I want chases again.
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You camp because pre drop and you dont have the time
You pre drop because you dont want to get camped
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Exactly, can we arrange for a ceasefire and have fun again?
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Camping is incentivized by killers being able to grab a healthy unhooking survivor regardless of what killer is brought. Even face camping Cannibals set up to grab, not chainsaw.
Predropping is usually a penalty of tile spacing and number of safe pallets. Er map design. The problem is balancing maps for who? Fewer resources for new players will result in survivors getting wrecked. More resources with five skilled players results in killers getting wrecked.
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You know I was actually play in a fun and all player included playstyle before and still be able to at least get a 2k.... Now if I do that I'm just asking to lose 3 gens first chase, go for the next survivor, 2 more gens pop by the time I hook them. So now I really don't put myself at a disadvantage for survivors fun.
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I've never pre-dropped a pallet in my life.
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Not necessarily because of the comp scene. Very few players watch it or are aware of it.
Pre-dropping is effective at many tiles because the pallet count vs optimal gen speed means you don't have to conserve pallets. And many killers have powers that make pre-dropping safer. It doesn't make someone a good player if they take a silly hit trying to loop a tile. It's actually a pretty bad play. Zero reason to ever get curved at a tile by a Billy, for instance.
And camping works because the devs refuse to give solo players reasonable tools to work with. Solo players shouldn't have to spend perk slots on things SWFs get for free. That's bad game design IMO.
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It's always been that way. Look at any comp scrimage or whatever and every match will play the exact same. It's the safest and best way to play the game for both sides really. If we're talking about wins. Sadly the most efficient way to play dbd is the most boring version of the game.
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Your MMR is low then maybe you'll get some survivors who at least knows how to use the windows.
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Doubtful; often face 4-6k hour players, legacy skins, teams that hit most flashlight saves, 360 clickers, moonwalkers. I mean it's possible we all have low MMR but it's very unlikely.
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Pre-drop has become something of a meta due to the persistent arms-race between new killers (who almost always have anti-loop tools) and an increasingly savvy survivor base that knows how to abuse really strong loops, in particular the still unfixed 'House of Pain' pseudo-infinites on Haddonfield and Badham.
Camping...it depends what you mean. Facecamping I barely see unless someone BMs the killer or they are evidently newer/playing Bubba (two things that go together oddly often :) ). The BP penalty is pretty huge.
Proxy camping (patrolling a wider area around the hook to try and spot rescuers on the way while also checking gens) is just smart tactical play.
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I mean actual camping, like putting someone in the basement and staying upstairs on the first hook of the game.
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Yeah I see that sometimes. That's sort of what basement is for, and on some maps it's a desperate strategy (Haddonfield, Badham, Swamp sometimes) because you know that if you're up against a good team on the wrong killer, you are going to get stomped.
Getting someone into the basement and then trapping/patrolling the approaches is something a lot of high level players do whenever possible. It's also why high level survivors will always lead the killer away from basement whenever possible.
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Most definitely. I am not a camper at heart but go down near basement....best believe I aint going far.
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Legacy skin is more likely a sign of a hacked/cheater account than genuine legacy. There are only like a hundred players with genuine legacies earned.
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Not when you can check their profile and you can see when they started playing and the thousands of hours they have.
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Most the ones I see have their accounts set to private. For a reason.
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