Should clicking and teabagging be addressed?

if you start adressing clicking and teabaging then you need to adress killers hitting on hook too ? and then every "offensive" things in the game... who cares

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The only thing that needs to exist is a buffer to prevent flashlight clicking, and it's not because it's toxic (it isnt toxic by any means), I think adding a buffer or transition animation between using and not using a flashlight can help those with epilepsy. Ive made posts regarding accessibility in DbD, and epilepsy was one of the major ones I addressed.

First, i do not like the idea of punishing Clicking and T-Bagging, because they are also a tool to communicate with your teammates.

Second, i personally don't feel offended. I just ignore it or laugh about the stupid people teabagging me after poorly predropping a pallet and then getting hit because they wasted time trying to make me salty. I alsl never hit Survivors on the hook after they did such things, I only shake my head after downing them, to let them know, it was their one fault of being stupid.

Learn to ignore it.

It nothing more to enrage emotionally sensitive players and to throw them off their game.

Because people are getting offended by pixels on a screen instead of just going on about their day, every game has BM. Flashlight clicking and teabagging can be used for numerous reasons; to take aggro, communicating to teammates, ect.

In the end it's just BM like any other game, if you get offended that easily don't play games like R6S, Apex, ect. cuz clearly you can't handle a person BMing in a game even though they're probably not ballsy enough to actually hurt someone irl. But sure, your fragile feelings will be preserved from the mean pixels.

With the sole exception that the actual light effects of click spam should be removed, for potential photosensitivity issues. Just make it so there's very little light until the beam starts to "solidify" and tighten as you start actually blinding the killer. Everything else has zero actual game impact unless the killer reacts like a mmorpg mob getting taunted by a tank player.

I just want them to find a way to get rid of flashlight macros. The sound is really annoying.

And it is precisely because they don't impact the game they are considered toxic. You are not trying to win by clicking your flashlight, you are just trying to be annoying against your opponent which expresses some unsportsmanlike behavior.

I'm not that bothered by these...

I don't have object permanence and often lose survivors when they leave my FoV for a moment, so clicking ironically helps me in chase. If it's at the gate and bothers me, I just leave. That's always more time to commit the map to memory or go break a few pallets.

I usually nod back to teabags, and often enough it gets a bit better, either because the survivors realise I'm a person and let up on it, or because it becomes us memeing together rather than them making fun of me. If they're wasting time at the gate like this, again, always more time to explore the map.

Though to be fair it doesn't happen that often in my experience.

Also, as some have said before me, it's a good way to communicate between survivors as well.

In solo the clicking can sometimes just be a way of getting attention to communicate. Its not always a completely negative thing.

I'm a killer main too and I don't think it should be addressed. If survivors want to be toxic, just face camp them and let the other survivors go to mock them XD

I would have nothing against them adding more gestures. Not a whole mess of them, but yes a few more would be great for player communication.

I was just stating that no matter how innocent a gesture is, someone will find a nefarious use of it and hey, why not? I'm all for flavour.

teabagging is my only way as a survivor to communicate somehow with the other survivors, but as the killer i just find it pathetic when the survivors are just teabagging me when they are 1 step away from exiting the game. An easy eay to fix it si to disable the crouching at the exit gates.

The flashlight clicking is absolutely an exploit. If you click it you dont spend it and you can use it forever. I've been in several games where the survivor using the flashlight has an autoclicker for it and they have an unlimited flashlight the entire game. The clicking sound even debotes the autoclicker.... An animation to "raise the hand" on click and one to lower the hand on release with at least 1s delay can easily fix that too