I main Trapper and only play basement.

Yeah, you depend on stupid opponents. a bubba or a billy that put the survivor in the basement, i dont go near that unless i hear the heartbeat elsewhere.

If i am the one down there, i try to warn my teammates and buy them all the time i can by struggling to the end, while they hopefully do gens.

There are 3 words in your post that illustrate what I think is one of the most confusing things about survivors that complain about camping - "inevitable save attempt". This is a strategy that should yield at most 2 kills per match. However, anyone that has played this game on a regular basis knows that isn't what happens. I sat and watched my wife play a match just yesterday against a Bubba. She was the first person hung, and it was in the basement. She was running kindred. So everyone could see this Bubba didn't even leave the basement. He didn't even take a step away from the hook. Yet within a few seconds another survivor comes running down to unhook her. Of course this being a Bubba they were instadowned and hooked. You would think this would have served as an example for the other 2 survivors to not go running down to the basement. Nope. A few seconds later here comes another survivor. Same result. The fourth survivor ended up creeping around the shack until the other 3 were dead.

If these other survivors would have played with even the slightest bit of strategy and decided to do gens while this Bubba camped the first person on the hook. They could have easily knocked out 3 gens before she even died. Instead 2 of them marched down the basement to get hooked like they have some obligation to go to a certain death in an attempt to unhook the person being camped in the basement. I get altruism, but that isn't altruism.

The problem with camping isn't the killer. They aren't breaking any rules by camping. If survivors want to see camping become less of a thing stop playing in ways that reward it. Survivors willingly sacrificing themselves to camping killers provides them with all the incentive they need to keep camping. Why stop camping when survivors will basically reward you for doing it by presenting themselves for easy kills?

As for killers that camp..... I say go for it. No need to feel bad about utilizing a winning strategy, especially when survivors are the ones that make it that way.

Who decides what playing normally means? I mean to others you might not be playing normally at all.

Regarding basement Trapper I would switch out STBFL for either Deadlock or No Way Out.

Sounds like a problem with object permanence more than anything, tbh.

I can't blame you. I appreciate the fact that you still play trapper. I quitted playing him some time ago. I would love to play him but NOT with SBMM / MMR...

Least insane Trapper main.

while a basement build is viable it sounds like you need to learn the fundamentals of chasing more. after maining killer for over a month now chases usually dont make me mad now because i have learned how to run them and how to play loops and which ones to drop. I main the weaker killers too, Wraith, GF, trapper, and i get 3-4k the majority of my games. and i am by no means a top level killer. I have bad reflexes and whiff alot.

Only baby survivors are gonna fall for someone obviously just camping basement.

Also, sounds kinda boring to do nothing but sit on basement all game. once you learn to chase and loop against survs, it does become enjoyable.

On the non god loops i often intentionally dont break them in hopes i can ge ta surv there later to play the loop on them.

I play Trapper by putting my traps in the most random places. Idk how but it works. Survivors never expect traps in places where there isn't a lot going on.

I agree, it is very cool. They are just mad jealous that they do not understand the art of the basement.

Whenever topics like this comes up I feel like Yui's tome lore is relevant to the topic. Where her grandma tells her she can not really care about anything and just win but with just caring about efficiency they're just a "machine that wins".

I think it applies here because if you're just doing the same thing over and over are you using your brain at all? Did you create an interesting experience to think about? Are you challenging yourself in any way? The answer to all these are of course no. None of this happened and what's being done would easily be replicated by a bot and for the survivors well there's nothing really for them to do other than either walk into slaughter or slam gens then leave neither of which is interesting.

I'm not going to say you're playing wrong or inefficiently the opposite obviously it's effective, what I would argue is nothing worthwhile is happening in any of your games.

While I realize there are newbies that don't get it sometimes it's not just newbies that do it. I've played this game for years and watched as lots and lots of experienced survivors do this on a consistent basis. It happens far too often to even blame the majority of it on newbies.

Camping is a strategy. As a survivor main I can guarantee I won't cry if they do something to lessen it though because I agree with you that it is extremely boring for all survivors in the match. I would love to see that happen. Until then though killers that utilize camping as a strategy have zero incentive to change. Why do anything different when survivors will basically hand you a 3k or 4k every match and all you have to do is basically stand around and accept the gift they freely offer.

I guess what I'm saying is I don't like camping. I don't even understand how playing that way is enjoyable. But the bottom line is I don't have to find it enjoyable. The only person that has to enjoy it is the one doing it. So unless BHVR decides to do something to make it less effective it's up to survivors to do so. Unfortunately the majority do just the opposite.