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WHAT'S THE FIX TO CAMPING?

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  • NerfedFreddy
    NerfedFreddy Member Posts: 394

    Increase hook timer, remove hook grab. Camping is fixed

  • Katzengott
    Katzengott Member Posts: 1,210

    4% and hook grabs need to go.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    Just to confirm I understand, you want to change it so that the only way someone could get themselves down is with deliverance? Or do you mean you want to increase the percentage rate, so people are more likely to be able to get themselves off the hook?

  • foxsansbox
    foxsansbox Member Posts: 2,209

    Can't believe I'm saying this, but without reading the rest of this thread - this really is the nuclear option. If Camping really was as prevalent as people make it seem to be, and player base actually left for it - This is the quick and dirty fix that actually survives.

  • Chaos999
    Chaos999 Member Posts: 869

    You know I like this idea. I proposed a new game type idea some time ago that included not being able to remove a player from the game.

    Though I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not I like the idea.

  • Maxx_Calin
    Maxx_Calin Member Posts: 86
    edited July 2022

    I would put a penality in place where if u camp a survivor and refuse to leave them for more than 30 seconds to chase or stop other survivors. At the end of the match, take half of whatever amount of bloodpoints they earned away so if they get the penality and say for example they ended the match with 20,000 bloodpoints. 10,000 of that gets taken away as a penality. The penality happens only once so they still get some bloodpoints.

    I can pretty much guarantee u that no killer is gonna be stupid enough to risk half their bloodpoints to camp a survivor thus stopping it from happening so that everyone can enjoy the match and it isn't ruined for the one person the killer chooses to camp.

    Literally camping is one of the worst things a killer can do to a survivor cause it ruins the match for the survivor he camps, makes it no fun at all for that person and they leave that match upset at the outcome instead of being able to say that was a good match. There should be a penality to doing it reguardless of the reason the person is doing it. It's not fair to the one person u camp that everyone else gets a bunch of bloodpoints in the match cause the killer won't leave ur side. That and the fact it is very rare to find a survivor willing to risk his or her neck to attempt to save someone being camped. I've ended up giving alot of survivors I play the game with the un-sportsman-like option instead of props at the end of the match if they didn't bother to even attempt to try and help me while the killer is camping me and I feel that is justified in that instance.

    Not to mention the fact that u aren't a very good killer if u have to rely on camping one person cause u are too lazy or such a lousy killer that u can't seek people out on the map and play the game the way it was meant to be played when ur the killer.

  • serpentk1ng
    serpentk1ng Member Posts: 18

    Sure, as long as we also make it so that if a survivor doesn't spend at least 2 minutes in chase, they lose half their bloodpoints at the end too. This forces more interaction with the killer and punishes those survivors who are so bad at the game they can only do gens. That makes it fair right?

  • Maxx_Calin
    Maxx_Calin Member Posts: 86
    edited July 2022

    That would make no sense to give a penality to a survivor for not being in a chase for 2 mins. Avoiding running into the killer is something that survivors are suppose to try and do while working on generators.

    Killers who camp a survivor should get a penality cause camping is not suppose to be part of the game and people who do it aren't playing the game and giving those people who have to deal with being camped a fair chance to win along with every other survivor. Camping killers ruin DBD and should not be allowed to do so without getting some kind of penalty for it.

    Also how exactly does it punish survivors who can only do generators? Any survivor can do more than that no matter how good at the game they are. It's those who only do generators and never save anyone from the hook that aren't playing as a team with their fellow survivors.

  • Katzengott
    Katzengott Member Posts: 1,210
    edited July 2022

    It always should need a helping hand when your hanging on a meathook.

    Perks like Deliverance are also bullshit, for both sides.

  • DBK1
    DBK1 Member Posts: 66

    Completing generators restores any active hook timers by (x)sec. Then let comraderie activate only in endgame. Be it a perk or base kit ..could careless

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I've never heard that idea before. So are you thinking, if the Killer is within X range of a hooked Survivor, any generator that gets completed during that time adds X seconds to the timer (regardless of the stage, but camaraderie and it will stack unless it's endgame)?

    Hmmm. I keep going over pros and cons in my head, and mulling over different tweaks that might account for some of those cons. But it is an interesting idea. If the devs fleshed out some tweaks and variables, it might be a, dare I say it . . . balanced . . . adjustment.

    For instance, something like that shouldn't kick in the moment a Survivor is hooked. Every Killer needs time to get away, but people like Hag and Trapper also need time to set their traps. The math would have to account for that time.

  • Hi_Im_Chucky
    Hi_Im_Chucky Member Posts: 366

    Nothing wrong or bad about camping. Just a strat that survivors don’t like, but If I was to pretend it was so “awful”, I guess my solution would be…

    Have the Entity scoop up the Killer a move them to a new location, whenever he hooks a survivor. I know some people hate RNG as much as others hate camping but just leave it to the DbD gods on if Killer suddenly appears next to your gen or not lol.

    I dunno, but if Killer makes it back to the hook before rescue, Then it’s on you lol

  • premiumRICE
    premiumRICE Member Posts: 798

    Longer hook times

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    That's what I wondered, too. A lot of the valid Killers complaints against this idea were because Survivors intentionally looped near the hooked Survivor. But if the code can already account for a Killer's proximity to a hooked Survivor, then it should also be able to account for an additional Survivor's proximity to the hooked Survivor/Killer.

  • squbax
    squbax Member Posts: 1,508

    If you still get dmg but grabs arent possible, there is no risk in a save in the killers face while being healthy, you save against any m1 killer, the unhooked person bodyblocks with bt/otr, what the killer gonna do?, get dunked thats what.

    Altho tbf they deserve it for selecting an m1 killer anyways.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I think it's possible to have a conversation about your earlier points, but to be honest, I just can't help but laugh at the shade in your last paragraph lol I'm stuck on that 😆

  • Bwsted
    Bwsted Member Posts: 3,452

    If you wait to injure them, then yes, they could get away with it.

    If you just swing right away, then it'd be the same as it is currently. They can't regain control of their character in time before the unhook is completed to avoid the second m1, unless there's Desperate Measures or Leader in the mix. It's a guaranteed trade.

  • Adjatha
    Adjatha Member Posts: 1,814

    Have hooked survivors repair gens way slower (and unhooked ones repair faster), so the killer isn't significantly penalized for locking down one guy instead of leaving to go chase everybody else.

    Easy Peasy.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I think to be fair, the math would have to be precisely determined before saying it'll work/not work. There have to be specific distances between different variables, and then the math would have to be tested in the PTB. Adjustments could then be made to reassess, and then that'll reveal the viability.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I have to admit, that does sound pretty funny lol No one has ever jump-scared me like that.

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,903

    I don't think its a very common use of that perk. For some reason, the idea of "Insidious" seems welded to the basement.

    It makes it more effective though.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I sincerely hope we play against each other and you pull that trick on me. I would love it lol

    See you in the fog.


  • malloymk
    malloymk Member Posts: 1,555
  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    True. Financially, BHVR has to see it as something worth coding and testing. However, if they did want to, I can think of a few beginning variables to start a test with.

  • Gary_Coleman
    Gary_Coleman Member Posts: 732

    The best way to fix camping is by uninstalling the game.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I would--after making sure it was good from watching Twitch streams/Youtube videos 😏

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,903

    If you are in Europe and that's your player name, I'll try to remember and say hi (this name doesn't matches any of my game accounts)


    o7

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    Alas, no. I'm in the western half of North America. ☹️ Not my name, either. Bummer.

  • Gary_Coleman
    Gary_Coleman Member Posts: 732
    edited July 2022
  • skylerbound
    skylerbound Member Posts: 754

    Honestly ppl are gonna play how they’re gone a play. I say baseline kinship and hardcore campers/tunnlers (at 5 gens) should have all points earned transferred to survivor if they are sacrificed at one hook or the only hook the killer has.

  • Zexbunny
    Zexbunny Member Posts: 209

    Only way to fix camping and tunneling is to make taking one player out of the equation too early detrimental to the killer, while rewarding them for spreading hooks around. At the same time survivors cannot be rewarded for leaving a player to die. How you do that is far more complicated.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679
    edited July 2022

    If that happened, I could see Killer mains saying that the same has to be true for Survivors. If Survivors click their flashlights, body block a hook, or teabag, then they should also lose points.

  • Zexbunny
    Zexbunny Member Posts: 209

    Who mentioned bloodpoint this has nothing to do with bloodpoints. Killers need to be rewarded for leaving the hook in gameplay not with points. Campers don't care about bp.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    My bad. That reply was meant for the person above you who said, " . . .  and hardcore campers/tunnlers (at 5 gens) should have all points earned transferred to survivor if they are sacrificed at one hook or the only hook the killer has."

    Replying to your comment, there have been some ideas shared here that I think might be viable. Will they ever get done? I don't know. But I think it is possible.

  • MaudetteClorel
    MaudetteClorel Member Posts: 83

    I mean it's a bit unfair that (just as an example) the artist can't use her power in a certain range next to a hooked survivor (which would only injure the survivor,if hit directly and in close proximity to the summoned birds), but Oni can pop his instadown as soon as he sees the person who came for the rescue and down both of them,given the "unhooker" didn't bring BT.

    Same thing with Dredge, he can't teleport right next to the hook if there's a locker nearby (the locker is then shown as "blocked" by the entity), but nurse with range/recharge add-ons blinking back and forth from the other end of the map to check on the poor soul hanging from the hook doesn't seem to be a problem.

    Personally, I see a consistency here. The new killers (trickster might be the exception to this rule tho, if you ever met a camping trickster,you know what I mean) are being somewhat limited as to how and from how far away they can camp, but the "older" killers don't seem to have any limitations whatsoever.

    This is just an idea, but the mechanic of pyramid-head's cages seems to be really interesting if the devs want to take a closer look at preventing camping in the future. Since the killer doesn't know exactly where the caged survivor will spawn, the survivors would have time to go for the unhook. Hell, since this game is so RNG based, the "hook" could also spawn in the basement if you're lucky as killer. The point is that you don't know that. There could be a timer (like the killer gets to see the hook after 5/15/30 etc. seconds and the general rules of hooking/hooks should be worked on as well), but I think this is something worth considering.

    I am aware that this mechanic has many flaws and might require perks/tiles/generator and hook spawn locations being reworked, it's just a thought that crossed my mind since I have been seeing more and more posts and complaints about camping, especially since the new update was announced and many content-creators voiced their concerns that even though tunneling has been addressed, camping will still be the elephant in the room.

  • Obelt
    Obelt Member Posts: 357

    Pyramid head cages are the answer

  • Marik1987
    Marik1987 Member Posts: 1,700

    The fix of camping is easy: the bar will only move when killer is x meters away (but faster).

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    Something like that is possibly a great idea, but it does have to account for a few variables like:

    The timer can't start as soon as a Survivor is hooked. Some Killers need time to set traps.

    Survivors can't abuse that mechanic by hanging around a hook and looping a Killer (as happened in an earlier test).

    I think there are solutions to those problems though.