I just steamrolled a sweaty, flashlight-camping, T-bagging, body-blocking SWF team...
....and it feels great. I had to share the story here.
Well, when I enter the lobby, I see four guys (and girls) with cosmetics and flashlights. I knew right then and there what was going on. My suspicions are confirmed when an offering shows up as the game is loading - we're going to The Game. Dammit.
Well, Hex: Ruin is gone immediately, of course, and I had switched out Undying for Lightborn. Crap. I find some survivors and chase them around a bit. I get some downs, and there are bodyblocks, attempted flashlight saves (glad I ran Lightborn), pallets, looping... the whole shebang.
One of the weaknesses of teams like this is their willingness to take risks, so I camp every other hook (both to confuse them and to get downs), and eventually, I get two of them on deathhook, down them, and Mori them (always pays to have a spare pink Mori when you see a SweatWF in the lobby); the survivors attempting to save them click their flashlights in frustration.
There are only two gens left (four on the map), so I patrol. And patrol. And patrol. The last two are hiding. I do this for probably ten to fifteen minutes until I start getting loud noise notifications - one of them is trying to bait me. I ignore the first few until she becomes really desperate and gets sloppy. I find her and allow her to loop me, getting rid of a few pallets at a time before going back to my patrol to make sure the other one doesn't touch a gen.
Eventually, the map isn't safe anymore, and I manage to down her. I leave her there. (I tried to come back and hook her later, but she crawled to the edge of the map and bled out.)
The hatch spawns a few feet away from me, but it still takes me a second to find it. I patrol the exits until the endgame timer runs out.
The last survivor tries to trashtalk me in endgame chat. He was hiding in a snowman and saw no reason to continue to play the game since he wasn't winning and insists that I couldn't claim credit for his death (as if this matters). I reply that I knew what I was doing; either he was going to go for the gens/exits, or he was going to do nothing and die. I was right.
Best part? I was playing Legion on Stadia with a controller.
I know this isn't a big deal for some people, but the most I can usually manage against teams like that is 2K. I can't say it doesn't feel nice...
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No way.
After 10 months, I found a [BAD WORD] Stadia player. I thought it would take longer, but here we are.
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Good for you...
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Flashlight, tbagging, etc. Is not sweaty
Sweaty is doing everything in your power to win, that would mean bringing the best stuff and using the best strategies
These arent it chief, thats just your generic bully squad
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In the adventures in the fog... I have only found a measly 4...
legend has it... this is the 5th stadia player..
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what's wrong with being sweaty, flashlight camping ,body blocking or being in a SWF?
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This... changes everything.
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The shift that this will cause... oh god
if ever there are 3 more an official stadia tourney can be held...
we must stop them at once!
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Me. The four people who upvoted me. You, at least enough to reply to the thread multiple times.
As I said in the OP, I know it doesn't matter to some people. If a thread isn't your cup of tea, feel free to keep scrolling. There are plenty of other places on this great wide internet where you can spend your time. I feel good about myself right now, and I feel justified in posting about that.
Constantly going for flashlight saves and taking protection hits, instantly destroying hexes, swarming me when carrying survivors, teaming up for unhooks, running towards me with a flashlight every time I got a down, favorable map offerings and good flashlight addons, looping, trying to wait me out and bait me away from the gens after they four-genned themselves... more than sweaty enough for my taste. Their goal was to win, not to have fun, and I met them at their level and succeeded. It was a triumph.
I wouldn't have won if I hadn't run Lightborn. I caught them by surprise a number of times.
Nothing. Just like there's nothing wrong with facecamping, tunneling, and slugging. Different people play the game different ways.
This thread isn't about condemning those people for being who they are, it's about me patting myself on the back for beating their asses when the odds were against me. I don't usually win when I play against people like that.
Actually, I play on PC as well, but Stadia was what got me into DBD. It was free for subscribers a while back, so I played it and loved it. Bought some DLC and became addicted.
I ended up cancelling my Stadia subscription and bought the game on Steam, then ran out of hard drive space, deleted it, and bought the game on Stadia (so no need for subscription - I only use Stadia for DBD and CP2077, anyhow) until I get a bigger hard drive.
Note that Stadia isn't very playable on Windows (don't know if it's all the telemetry in the background or what; constant glitching), but it works well on Linux, mobile, and Chromecast.
DBD is going to support Linux at some point, as confirmed by BHVR, but it's worth it for playing on mobile if you have a controller. There's a slight (0.1 secondish) input lag, but it's still more playable than the DBD mobile game. And there's cross-progression.
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Congrats. It feels good to be rewarded for playing smart. :)
I always run Lightborn. It saves me a lot of frustration. More than once a survivor has disconnected when they realized they couldn't blind me. If I don't run Lightborn, I end up with three survivors finding flashlights in chests and then I need a four-man slug before I can attempt to hook anyone.
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What's a flashlight-camper??
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Good job bro, I wish I could say the same but I was one of many that got destroyed by a 4 man squad as a newbie
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The only thing I see here that indicates them being sweaty, is them breaking a 4 gen.
An actual tourney squad would probably wipe the floor with you, since they do everything in their power to maximize gen efficiency. And Im afraid to tell you that going for flashlight saves, clicking, tbagging and swarming hooks aint being efficient on gens
That group was likely dying of laughter till the very end
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Why is it that like every post I see by you is always negative?
Sorry for singling you out like that but why can't you ever just be happy for somebody for once?
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I remember a match with trapper two days ago. I got at least 2 swf or 3. Two of them had head on and flashlights. They both stunned me in a house. Lucky me I trapped them in a house with basement and I had starstruck lol. I killed them all even if they tried to escape from basement with head on, I didn't let them. I had no reason to leave the basement as long 3 of them were there. One on hook and 2 in lockers with head on. The innocent survivor was mad on his teammates. Pretty sure he was a random. I would also be mad if my team is trying to bully instead of doing gens and objectives.
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Filthy flashlight-campers got what they deserve.
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Congratulations,you kicked their asses and mouths to end of the world jaja.
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I didn't think there were any Stadia players.
I forgot that was even a thing tbh.
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Good job
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Wasnt meant to be negative, just to correct.
But damn, didnt know I was known as a Negative Nancy.
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^ this.
Those players go for interactions with the Killer, the teams which are constantly bodyblocking or trying to go for Flashlights are not the teams who want to win every game.
The sweaty Survivor Teams are those who minimize the interaction with the Killer to a minimum, those who try to get Gens done as fast as possible without getting into chases or anything.
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Υour first win in dbd. Congrats.
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I'm happy you won that game mate 👍 though they may have been trying to annoy you and be toxic, they weren't sweaty.
If they were sweaty then they would have all brought flashlights. They would've just rushed gens and while 1 survivor looped you. From what I've read it seems like they were just messing around with flashlights, rather than rush gens.
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Was just about to ask. First time I've seen this one. If it's just survivors following the killer with a flashlight to get saves, I'd say it's pretty good since they're being useless all match.
If it's a survivor who camps pallets, drops them and blinds the killer, I'd just drop chase, or in the case of OP with lightborn, it's again pretty good since they are too cocky and you usually can get free hits.
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Colour me slightly baffled as well haha
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A lightburned wraith
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Just a guess but I think he’s talking about someone who goes out of their way to get flashlight saves even at the expense of gen progression, particularly in conjunction with a swf teammate on comms who can give the heads up when the killer is going to down them during the chase, or when for instance they’re planning to duck into a locker and the flashlighter can get an automatic save during the locker grab animation.
I don’t think the poster is claiming there’s anything morally wrong with that, they’re just happy they beat a coordinated team I think.
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Congrats, glad you had a good game against salty swf. it isn't the sweatiness of the teams which bothers me. it's the general poor character you typically see. The only thing missing from this match was some dc after you outplayed them. One positive from that swf at least.
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God I love lightborn.
Just got a message today from a confused survivor who had no idea what was going on until they saw i was running lighborn.
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It's always great to steamroll a bully squad. I dare say that there isn't a better feeling in the world as killer than getting a 4K on that kind of group, especially if it's due to their own hubris (even though it's not useful in 90% of matches, it's why I run Bloodwarden as catching jerk SWFs F'ing around only to find out is BWs bread and butter).
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Yes, I invented this word to describe a survivor who camps a killer with a flashlight. The kind who will sit there and stare at you for two minutes waiting for you to pick up the survivor you just downed, even at expense of the gens. I slug people like this, because there's not really another counterplay other than running perks or being able to consistently avoid flashlight beams (I can probably do it 80% of the time, but some survivors are better than others).
I used to always run Lightborn, but... man, that's an entire perk slot. I'll run it if I see two or more flashlights in lobby and I have a slot to spare. If I see three or four, it'd be suicidal not to run it. I've noticed I see less flashlights in the lobby past few months; I think a lot of them are properly scared of Lightborn at this point...
This might not have been the greatest, most talented, most skilled SWF to have ever played the game in its history. It seems really important to you to hear me say that, so I admit it. They were definitely very practiced, however.
And, in all fairness, you don't get to genrush against my builds. My Legion was Deadlock/Thana/Ruin/Lightborn (last perk is usually Undying) with the Broken and Mangled addons, and it was a small two-story map where they couldn't easily hide from Killer Instinct. I had people scattered across the map looking for Ruin, and when it was done, they were scattered across the map trying to heal themselves/each other or loop me (they say good survivors don't heal against Legion, but they will if Thana is in play, esp with gen regression perks). If Ruin remains in play for any amount of time, those gens ain't getting done.
My main Michael build (who is my main killer) is Dead Rabbit, Vanity Mirror, M&A, Ruin, BBQ (or Surveillance/Deadlock), and Undying (or Lightborn/NOED). No terror radius, regular speed, instant gen regression, can see you through walls. Good luck with those gens, hope you have Spine Chill.
Also, from what I hear, the main reason I'd get the floor wiped with me is that "tourney" games don't allow the use of any reasonable perks or tactics, and most killer builds are basically Spies/Sloppy Butcher/Bitter Murmur/Brutal Strength.
And no, the guy in the endgame chatbox was anally discomforted.
Nice. Yeah, Starstruck is the only reason I want Trickster (other than pure completion).
I would imagine that most of us who still play on Stadia use it to play on platforms that DBD doesn't support and switch between Stadia and PC using the cross-progression feature.
I highly recommend it if you want a fun, reliable, usable way to play DBD on mobile (with cross-progression). Can't stand the DBD mobile game, myself.
Stadia's marketing was laughably bad and targeted all the wrong people, but it works well for what it is. Also have CP2077, ESO and the Doom games on there (which I also have on Steam). It's not going anywhere, despite all the negative press.
Well, two of them hid in lockers and a snowman, respectably, without any intention of trying to win/further the game, then tauned me in the endgame chat for not being able to (read as: not trying to) find them. They didn't strike me as the model of sportsmanship.
Agreed.
Am I still a newbie? Been playing for a little over a year and have 1000+ hours. Maybe.
I don't usually get "destroyed" by teams like this anymore, but a solid 4K is a rarity. I can usually manage 2K, and then 1-2 of those usually happen during endgame collapse. But I don't usually outplay them so well in the first half of the game that they go into hiding with two gens left, especially not on Gideon's when Ruin is gone in the first minute.
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If you're looking at survivor for 2 minutes because you're afraid to pick them up I think that's a you problem. You can chase them off, use lightborn, look at a wall, use franklins etc
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Well, I don't usually do that. I'm thinking of one game in particular where I did wait around just to see how long before the survivor would go away and let me pick up her teammate. Didn't run LB or Franklin's, and she had knocked more than one kill out of my hands. She got tunneled and facecamped eventually, which she was extremely upset about in endgame chat, which is where I invented the term. I didn't feel like she had any right to be angry about my play tactics when she was doing essentially the exact same thing.
I usually slap them once and run them off, especially now that Vanity Mirror's been buffed (yes, I can see you hiding behind that rock).
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I call that Tuesday.
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It's actually Thursday right now, and I'm pretty sure it was Wednesday when that post was written and the game in question happened, so you'd be wrong to call it Tuesday, but.
One day I hope I'm good enough for steamrolling a sweat squad to just seem like just a normal day to me, yeah.
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Easiest squads to beat.....even without Lightborn. Congrats though glad it made you happy (We should all be happy in life).
I had fun a few days ago with a body blocking, breakout, flip-flop, unbreakable, DH squad. They were able to get a couple off my shoulder but not long after the entire team was on the ground. Killed 2 and reset the other 2 (I like to play with my food). I killed them 1 minute later....They bored me.
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I have no doubt they were skilled, but also they were probably going into that match with the intention of bullying
Sweaty survivor gameplay is boring af, you minimize the amount of interactions with the killer and do this by making sure gens are being done at all times. Some one on hook? They can hang out till 2nd stage. some one being chased? every one splits up on gens. Some one on the ground? stay on gens.
Watch tourney gameplay, I can assure you they dont swarm the killer looking for flashlight saves and bodyblocks, and if they do that team likely has very little experience in comp dbd and doesnt know what theyre doing
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