Holding game hostage

OH MY GOD, I HATE THAT. Something that happened to me yesterday:

I was playing a pig and one person disconnected, I put the other two on hooks and the last one left was Claudette, slowly crouching around and I only had one perk and could NOT find her. I finally messaged the guy, and he replied with,

'I'm waiting for you to d/c.'

I was like, are you ######### serious right now. But he was, he was waiting for me to d/c because he had a purple flashlight and didn't want to lose it. Like, what the hell? I reported him, obviously, but I'm sure it'll go ignored.

@mintchapstick said:
OH MY GOD, I HATE THAT. Something that happened to me yesterday:

I was playing a pig and one person disconnected, I put the other two on hooks and the last one left was Claudette, slowly crouching around and I only had one perk and could NOT find her. I finally messaged the guy, and he replied with,

'I'm waiting for you to d/c.'

I was like, are you [BAD WORD] serious right now. But he was, he was waiting for me to d/c because he had a purple flashlight and didn't want to lose it. Like, what the hell? I reported him, obviously, but I'm sure it'll go ignored.

On one had, I understand that he wanted to keep his purp flashlight. But on the other, not doing gens and admitting to waiting for you to D\C is pretty much taking the game hostage instead of doing objectives.

You can report him and action will(most likely) be taken, maybe not a severe one but he will get punished and hopefully not do it again.

We really need a mechanic to help with this issue.

@Lagoni said:

@Captain_Spaulding said:
I've got two Meg swf sitting in the game not doing ANYTHING for the past 20 mins+ just urban evasioning around the map. I've had 3 gens up for all of this. They won't touch them or anything. Is this bannable because holy ######### this is irritating. I'm not gonna dc and give them what they want because that's not even close to how this game should be. I want to report them but have no idea if that even does anything in this game.

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I don't think there's a lot of people being opposed to some kind of counter mechanic to this issue. for example, if no gens has been done, and no chases has been initiated for 5 minutes, the auras of survivors are revealed.

Yes, something along these lines.

@powerbats said:

@NoShinyPony said:
We really need a mechanic to help with this issue.

@Lagoni said:

@Captain_Spaulding said:
I've got two Meg swf sitting in the game not doing ANYTHING for the past 20 mins+ just urban evasioning around the map. I've had 3 gens up for all of this. They won't touch them or anything. Is this bannable because holy ######### this is irritating. I'm not gonna dc and give them what they want because that's not even close to how this game should be. I want to report them but have no idea if that even does anything in this game.

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I don't think there's a lot of people being opposed to some kind of counter mechanic to this issue. for example, if no gens has been done, and no chases has been initiated for 5 minutes, the auras of survivors are revealed.

Yes, something along these lines.

The issue with that is that a killer can just go someplace with clear los or to where they're terror radius covers an area and wait. Then the 5 minutes come up and whammo free aura reading and in the op's case one person is obviously waiting for the other person to do something.

If it's a high mobility killer and now with the new Surveillance it's suicide to touch anything which again some killers wanted this and look what they got. The law of unintended consequences has bitten them in the rear again the same as the healing and SC nerfs/Exhaustion nerfs did.

Now granted the exhaustion and healing changes needed to happen but making them so extreme beyond what most killers wanted made things worse.

One way to do it instead of an overall aura reading make it a personal aura reading reveal where they need to actually be doing something interactive.

They could be doing totems, looking through chests, working on gens at least get 5% done or so, may'be sabo a hook at least 5% without a toolbox or 15% with one.

IF they use say the mighty Pebble and the killer actually goes for it ie into their terror radius and to where the Pebble is it counts.

If the Killer is doing nothing for five full minutes and the Survivors have not yet escaped, that's on the Survivors.

powerbats said:

@Orion said:

If the Killer is doing nothing for five full minutes and the Survivors have not yet escaped, that's on the Survivors.

1 gen left to be done all 3 in plain view and killer is a Nurse or Billy on a hill and the killer simply turns around and looks.

The killer blocks them in the basement as we've seen screenshots of thus preventing said escapes for 5 minutes or longer.

someone gets stuck and can't move ie stuck on tree or in building like on Badham Preschool etc.

I could go on but there's plenty of scenarios where it's not the survivors fault.

@powerbats said:

@Orion said:

If the Killer is doing nothing for five full minutes and the Survivors have not yet escaped, that's on the Survivors.

1 gen left to be done all 3 in plain view and killer is a Nurse or Billy on a hill and the killer simply turns around and looks.

Then the survivors didn't play well if they end up in a 3-gen-scenario. It's not the killer's fault.

@powerbats said:

@Orion said:

If the Killer is doing nothing for five full minutes and the Survivors have not yet escaped, that's on the Survivors.

The killer blocks them in the basement as we've seen screenshots of thus preventing said escapes for 5 minutes or longer.

That is a case of the killer taking the game hostage and a bannable offense. Also, this hasn't got anything to do with the issue being discussed. The issue is that a killer would like to chase a survivor but can't since they are randomly hiding on the map and doing nothing.

@powerbats said:

@Orion said:

If the Killer is doing nothing for five full minutes and the Survivors have not yet escaped, that's on the Survivors.

someone gets stuck and can't move ie stuck on tree or in building like on Badham Preschool etc.

That isn't an issue since the crows are coming when the surv can't move and alerting the killer. If the surv got stuck so that the killer can't hit and pick them up, the surv has to dc.

*Edit: fixed typo

powerbats said:

@weirdkid5 said:

I think this situation he is presenting is meant to be used after all gens are done and the gates are powered, that's what I assumed at least.

In those situations unless they're injured and can't heal or both gates are close to each other cough Badham/Lampkin Lane cough. In some circumstances I can understand it but for the most part at that point it's go for it.

For the most part I've not run UE on a character in forever so trying to sneak around versus a high mobility or insta down killer is a royal pain. I also don't use SB or AD either so no ms buffs and I stopped using hope last year when I 1st hit rank 12.