What's wrong with playing stealthily?

Nothing wrong with being stealthy, and I say that as a killer only player who loves playing as Doctor because it makes it easier to find hiding survivors. I definitely don’t consider it rude or anything, if someone hides and I can’t find them then I got outplayed, simple as that.

As a caveat though, if a survivor is just hiding and not doing anything useful the whole game, then they’re just hurting their whole team’s chances of escaping. So I can totally get why another survivor might get irritated by a teammate hiding the whole time.

Theres no problems with playing stealthily, face camping, proxy camping, tunneling, slugging, gen rushing etc.

Theyre all effective strategies that should be utilised if the player wants to, people who get angry over how others play the game should stop blaming the players and rather ask the developers to change the game.

A lot of players dislike it as being stealthy has little impact on stalling a killer, or progressing objectives, but it keeps you alive longer and more likely to survive and escape.

So yeah there isnt actually anything wrong with it, just poor reputation.

For stealth?

Teammates hate it because you're either spending time hiding that could be spent doing/committing to objectives, or they don't see you and they assume you weren't doing anything. They also hate it because you don't take your share of chases and hook states, which is true even if you contribute.

Killers hate it because it wastes tons of time - either panicky wasted time trying to find the person you know is at this gen while the other gens march their merry way on, or 30 minutes of frustrated wasted time at the end trying to fish out two hiding survivors.

It causes a tunneling problem for both killer and survivor. If the killer only finds 2 people the whole match because the other 2 are hiding, he's just gonna go for them and get them out of the game early, meanwhile the 2 hiders are still on their first hook. The survivors who are dead on hook need the people who aren't to take a chase for them, or the killer's gonna find them and chase them til they're dead. The killer having to focus on just 1 or 2 survivors is annoying for them as well, because there's usually DS to contend with, so even though they can't find anybody else they get stunned for going after the same guy. There's also the issue of getting gen rushed by people who you can't even find because every time you come to a gen, they're gone.

Consider that black mist has been removed and every map they rework varies from "Very Bright" to "It's actually just full-on daytime, apparently the Devs do not want you to play stealthy anymore. Only loops and running forever. Forget about the "hide and go seek" that this game was originally founded on.

Urban Evasion, Spine Chill, Inner Strength and it used to be Plunderers so I could get keys and escape but I switched it out with BT because of the current tunneling meta and I feel bad for the unhooked people.

What’s yours? Things have gotten a little stale for me and need to switch it up.

Like others have said, hiding is fine in general.

That said, I do think there should be something that discourages excessive lengths of hiding via walking and crouching through the introduction of a new mechanic.

This mechanic can be called "dummy thicc," and will work as follows:

"If you walk or crouch around without interacting with anything for x seconds, your ass cheeks begin to clap. This alerts killers within y distance of your position."

The distance the clapping can be heard will vary for each survivor, which Jane obviously having the highest sound radius.

Ooh, I forgot about Iron Will, I may switch out Urban Evasion for it, but it's so helpful against Hag, which I face on a semi consistent basis. Still die to her though, since teammates just run everywhere.

lmao literally a rat

If my teammate was hiding and not rescuing me I'm playing the Golden Rule against them. You're taking that out of context.

Same reason I don't farm; it's incredibly boring and quite frankly, annoying. This isn't a real problem however, I'm just impatient and like the action of this game. But this is a me thing since like I said, I'm impatient, I'm always on the go and I like the chaos of the match. If I'm killer and I know there's a hiding survivor, I'm going to get annoyed even after searching for said hiding survivor. As survivor I only have a problem with steathliness when the survivor isn't doing anything constructive to the team. No hooks, not taking aggro or trying to take aggro and just glued on gens and hiding. Yes, you're supposed to do gens but it's also beneficial to take a hook even if you're not the best at chases. Your chances are higher of escaping with more survivors alive than dead. Just sitting on gens and hiding is almost equivalent to letting your team die because you don't want none of the heat in any way, shape or form. Those are my only problems with stealth.

Can you explain that? I had games where i done 3 gens alone, did 3-4 unhookes, and healed others, and broke some hex totems. but the killer never saw me. How was i an active detriment to my team, when i did the majority of the objectives alone, can you explain please?

There's nothing wrong with it. It's boring for the killer if they can't find anyone or get into a chase and that prevents BP gain but that can just mean the killer's map awareness is, for that game, below the stealthy group's skill in stealthing or the killer doesn't have a useful tracking perk in their build. I find a stealthy group to be a lot of fun to play against as a killer unless they're just making a hatch play; then, I make an effort to try to find them, kill them and give the hatch to the other survivor.

It's a smart move as well to play stealthily at first. I do it as well as a survivor and normally start getting chased after someone else gets hooked as making sure everyone only drops one hook stage per hook increases the survival rate a lot in most circumstances.