Most enraging teammate moments

We all make mistakes and sometimes misjudge situations, but two solo-queue players stick in my mind as WTH moments:

• I went against a Nurse the other day and had a Mikaela and Claudette on my team. Me and Ace were trying to plug gens but these two were just stealthing around the map and doing nothing productive. Anyway, I get downed and hooked but as the Ace came for me he got into chase and got downed. I then reached the second stage whilst Ace was hooked, meanwhile, Mikaela and Claudette were both injured and Mikaela proceeded to bless a totem for CoH and heal herself and Claudette. I had a matter of seconds left and Ace reached second stage. When I was sacrificed I decided to spectate and I couldn't believe what I saw: the Claudette ran up and farmed Ace right off the hook in front of the Nurse. Despite having no hooks, she left the Ace for dead and ran back over to the gen that Mikalea was on. Ace was sacrificed and then they were both just walking around the map and trying to evade the killer. Eventually, the Nurse got them both so I was glad neither escaped lol.

• The other instance was a Laurie who was the most selfish player I've ever met. Myself and the other two survivors were doing all the work (gens, getting chased, going for saves, etc.) whilst she'd just work on a gen for a little bit then get into a locker the second she heard a heartbeat/TR. The last gen pops and me (Jake) and Dwight were both on death-hook, whilst a Feng had been hooked once (no hooks for Laurie lol). Unfortunately the killer had NOED, and Laurie just camped the exit gate and set off the EDG whilst we all looked for NOED to try and save Feng from being sacrificed. We save the Feng, but Dwight goes down in the process and gets sacrificed. Me and Feng run for the gate but it was a Myers and despite NOED being cleansed, he pops T3 and downs me... meaning only Feng escaped ( which I was fine with as she was a great teammate). When I got to the ending screen with player information, I was NOT surprised to see Laurie running Self-Care, Left Behind, Urban Evasion, and Iron Will (basically a selfish survivor build). She only got like 11k points, and when Dwight called her out in the chat, it wasn't because she was doing a daily or anything, she was just like "every man for himself" lol.

Last night we had a Claudette get to second hook state, and because of my Aftercare I saw everyone, including myself all working toward getting her, which means she ALSO saw we were all closing in to get her. Killer landed 2 hits during the attempt but we got her down with everyone still standing. Claudette gets off the hook, runs directly at killer, goes down and gets killed on hook. Thanks man, glad we put all that effort in.

Prior to the hatch rework, when it would spawn before the last survivor was left, I was playing with a friend with two other randoms. We were down to the final gen, meaning hatch had spawned when the killer eliminated one survivor. My friend has committed to a gen and was downed as he finished it and was hooked. Moving into range to get a save, I watched the other random -- who had never been hooked -- sprint AWAY from me and my hooked friend (I was injured, and had no way to heal). The survivor definitely saw me, went right by me, and had too much distance on me to catch up to them to get a heal. Instead, they had booked it to the hatch, used the key they'd brought in, and essentially left me and my friend in a hopeless situation. They could have healed me, we could have coordinated a rescue, and all three of us could have gotten out, but their selfishmess gave the killer an easy 3K. :shakeshead:

Special props recently to another random (matched with our 3-person SWF) who, against a Plague and already infected, but not broken, cleansed on the way to rescuing me off a hook while I was fully infected. They immediate;y got re-infected the moment they pulled me off, AND they gave the Plague -- who was relatively close -- her power to immediately down both of us shortly after. Truly a 200 IQ play by them. It was almost as if they had never faced a Plague before.

Legion proceeded to slug me until the end game collapse timer ran out.

Yeah, survivors healing while sick is a common one. Another is people cleansing right before they unhook a sick player or touch a dirty gen. There's not thinking a minute in advance, and then there's just not thinking period. Or not knowing how Plague works, because that's the only other way I can explain some of the stuff I've seen.

Legion's another common one for 'help, my teammates have no idea how to play against this killer and it's Screwing Me Over.' Or when you watch your teammate tbag behind a pallet against Myers...

To be fair, there are valid times to cleanse before unhooking a sick survivor. When a plague is hanging near the hook it's too unsafe to attempt a rescue while injured so you need to heal just so you can trade.

Yeah. I didn't remember to exclude that, but yes, there are times you have to cleanse in order to make a save. I'm more talking about random cleanses on the way to an unguarded hook. Or my favorite; touching a gen, getting sick, cleansing, and then touching the gen and getting sick again.

If they have an urgent need to get away from the computer, nothing is stopping them from physically walking away and just going AFK.

When I'm constantly subjected to this kind of behavior as a solo survivor and the game has become borderline unplayable? Yes, I am that spiteful. I am not going to enable ragequitters. Eat your DC penalty like you're supposed to if you want to quit a match.

Does it do anything to prevent it from happening? Do you really think they'll be more useful next match because they don't want to be slugged for four minutes? No, it won't. You cannot force someone to keep playing a game they don't want to. It sucks, but you won't stop it. In fact you may make it worse because it makes them madder and they just ragequit faster

It's just the simple things like, maybe take a hit since I equipped BT and there's a tier 3 myers behind us?

It slows them down so they can't join and ruin as many matches. With survivor queues being instant right now, the only limiting factor is how long it takes for them to die plus about a minute to load into a new match. Ideally, the wait causes them to DC and actually get the stacking penalty they're supposed to - and for people who had a sudden IRL situation come up, they don't DC habitually and aren't in danger of getting hour-plus bans from that.

Alternatively, sometimes people do start playing the game again once the killer has made it clear they're not acceding to the request to hook them. I don't even slug them most of the time - I only do that when they sandbag or get in my way. For the most part, once it's clear they want to die, I ignore them and let them follow me around begging for attention. They're stuck in the match longer that way. If I slug, then they only have to wait four minutes.

When they start sandbagging their team out of pissiness, then I let the teammates live but slug them out.

And honestly? I'm frustrated enough with these people that even if the only benefit I got out of it was spiting them, I'd still do it. Solo queue has been an absolute nightmare with how many suiciders I keep getting. I refuse to enable their behavior from the other side.