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What The Hell Is The DC 'Etiquette' Now As Killer?
Because, yeah - this one is grinding my grapes at present.
Queue up on Doctor (hate the daily, not the killer) and get a quick down. Don't hang around hook, run into a Nea and she makes a mistake, wastes her BL running into a wall and DCs. I say 'fine', as I brought a flan and let everyone farm for a bit before the Nea walked up to me, got hooked and Dwight got hatch.
Postgame, Nea complains at me for 'not ending' and threatens to report.
A few games later, I play Cenobite - box goes off and someone immediately DCs. I just decide 'okay sod it' and wipe everyone out ASAP to get to a proper game.
Of course postgame: "OMG killers sweaty in events'.
Ahahaha, you just can't win.
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Just ignore them. I don't care what anyone says in chat. Just play the game.
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I want to say just do whatever you want, but I am of two minds here:
- Just play on as normal. It sucks for the three remaining survs, and increases the chances that one or more of the others will also DC.
- Back off the gas, maybe even farm. You'll still come out all right on points, and it will take the edge off having the game ruined for the survs. Downside is that when this becomes the norm, it helps DC'ers justify DCing, since they feel like they're not totally screwing over their teammates. Actually makes the problem of DCing worse.
My empathy wants to go easy, but I feel like going hammer down and just ending the game asap might be the best play, except that so many will blame the killer and not the cause of the problem, the DCing surv, which is backwards.
We need to make disconnectors the villain as much as possible, imo.
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I just farm.
If they want out, they'll ask and i'll let them out. Almost every time they're thankful I didn't just wipe them out.
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No mercy. Kill all of them, bottle the salty tears. ❤️
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Usually I'll keep playing like I have been but a bit more forgiving, like if you just got off the hook and I tried chasing the unhooker and I find you again, I'll turn a blind eye. But then back to normal gameplay and last player gets hatch. Unless you were a jerk, example: Teabagging rapidly after getting a pallet stun. It's like, bro, you're already at a disadvantage, just please hit me and run.
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Don’t force them to farm. But don’t camp/tunnel either.
personally if all are on death hook it depends how many gens are done. Only 1-2 to go? They can all go. If more then I will probably kill the next one I see/play normally just so it doesn’t get dragged out too long. Haven’t had complaints for that. Though I rarely get complaints as killer (I do normally not dominate in game either so I get why)
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If someone DC’s I usually try to kill two out of the three as quickly as possible and give hatch to the last survivor. When I’ve tried to be nice and let all survivors go in the past, the matches usually took way too long as survivors would take their sweet time repairing gens - so I’m not doing that anymore.
I realize that killers are entitled to play however they want, but I think it’s kind of a d*ck move when they go super tryhard after a DC and don’t at least let the last survivor get hatch.
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Best course of action:
Try to see how the other survivors react: If one's nearby, look at them. if they nod or single tbag in agreement, farm or at least take it easy.
If they get sweaty and nasty, it's stabby time.
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Eh, I end up feeling guilty. It's hard for me not to go 'well, that must have been awful from the other side'.
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In all seriousness I will let the best looper go, when there’s a DC.
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I someone DCs early I'll usually get the other survivors dead on hook and then start chilling and farming a bit. If someone just wants to go next they can point to a hook and I'll kill em.
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kill them all and let the entity sort them out...
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You can't "force" someone to farm.
If, as a survivor, you don't want to farm, you can just do the gens and leave.
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idk
We just had a moronic Chris farm Ada off of hook until she DC'd (would probably do the same) after Huntress tunneled her.
Huntress then proceeded to tunnel everyone else out and send us messages saying EZ
So, I would say that's probably a good example of what not to do.
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There is no correct answer because different players want different responses. Some might want you to farm. Some might want you to just play normal. Some might want you to end the game ASAP. And just to mess with you, all three types will be in your same game so no matter which way you went, someone is gonna be pissy at you.
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I had this interesting DC match. It's just uploading to YouTube, but once up have a look...
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Be a Killer,kill the survivors!The heck with their rule book.Don’t let survivors dictate how you play.
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Eh...it's not so much a 'rulebook' thing as a 'what do I hate when I play survivor/killer, and how do I not do that to others' thing.
Maybe it's an odd mindset, but I struggle to have fun while feeling like I'm being a jerk.
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Turn off chat or just ignore it when there's a DC. Play how you want.
When I'm survivor I personally like the killer to chill out a bit - not farm but like let me atleast get some BP or maybe do enough to safety pip. I understand if they are just killing everyone quickly so they can go to next match to hopefully have a real match. I get annoyed when the killer decides to waste the remaining survivors time by slugging them until they bleedout.
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Yeah, I do try and go out of my way to let people safety because *holy crap* is it way too easy to depip on survivor for what often feels like stuff out of your control. Honestly, depipping needs to go away.
I'll also often let folks finish a gen or get some extra healing for this purpose, especially if I've brought a flan or streamers.
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I don't know. I just play normally. The faster we end, the faster we can move on to another match. Farming as a killer is boring as hell to me.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it when I get to farm as a survivor because getting points as survivor is absolute hell, but as a killer I would rather, like... do things. Points kinda come passively anyway.
I really can't blame killers that go all in after a disconnect.
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This is probably the best way to handle it if you really care for the other people's experience. As mentioned above, the survivor can easily tell you they want out. Let the others do their challenges and boot the ones who want to go next.
This is what I've been doing since there's an event active. Normally I wipe everyone out so I can go next asap.
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For me, it's more about actually acknowledging the immense ridiculous advantage I now have and making it very explicitly known I don't want to abuse it more than anything.
Yes, there probably isn't anything malicious about killing them as quick as possible, and it can just be about getting it over with as soon as possible for everyone, but as a survivor in that situation, it's hard to distinguish motivation and it can very easily be taken as taking advantage of their situation to stomp them into the dirt just for kicks.
I hate when that happens, and I try to avoid it wherever possible.
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Agreed on depipping needs to go away. Negative pips should've been removed the moment they switched to grades and they had nothing to do with matchmaking.
If you brought flan/streamers it's the smart way to play so you get BP too. I always find it odd when killers bring BP offering only to quickly kill everyone and get like minimum killer BP. Seems like such a waste.
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Always blame the first DC or selfkill on hook. Everthing else is just a ripple effect.
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You can. It’s even stated as a reportable/bannable offense in the game rules.
you can farm with some survivors and prevent the one from progressing the game without killing them thus forcing that one to farm with you.
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How do you do this without bodyblocking them into the corner?
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Some people are actually taking this stuff serious?
it’s a game. You are only playing as the killer in a game. Against other human people playing the survivor side.
you can of course play how you want as long as it’s within the rules. But don’t try to dictate how others should play if you are so against it on your own.
Stay with them, as soon as they try to do a gen, chase them/grab them away. Let them struggle free (while kicking the gen) - can’t do that effectively with multiple survivors but to some degree it’s still possible to prolong a game like that.
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There is no etiquette with a DC at 5 gens as far as I am concerned. Either kill everyone off quickly or farm to salvage some points, it is up to you and you don't owe everyone else anything.
I personally will usually want to just move on and if you are the killer I will make that very clear. But if the killer wants to salvage some points with some hook trades and a few chases etc I will generally go along with it.
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That is a nuisance, not holding the game hostage. Even if he leaves you on the ground, you'll bleed out.
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Never said it was holding the game hostage.
it’s forcing to farm, which is definitely a grey area and will be determined case by case. It’s not even directly stated in the game rules but probably would fall under griefing or something
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While I sometimes feel bad, honestly sometimes I feel like if I were to show mercy every time I get a disconnect, I'd always be showing mercy... and the thing is, I'm not even that good at this game. Seriously. I am a big hater of when people say that getting to Iridescent I is just about how much you play, because... yea no its not, for me it's literally "a skill issue bro, you're bad. git gud" and I'm mostly accepting of that, but when I hear people that are actually skilled claim it's not about skill, yeah. It is.
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My go to was always farming as many BP as possible.
My problem with that always was, when am I "allowed" to kill survivors if they drag the farm out too long?
I have all categories already maxed and want to end the trial but the survivor have stopped working on gens and don't get my hint when hitting on gens.
And when i try to kill them they take it as farming and keep unhooking and then are surprised or shocked when i hook someone for the third time. Sometimes they even start to scramble and make the whole thing a hassle again.
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I could be mistaken, but I do believe that punishing someone for not farming is punishable.
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There's no universal etiquette because only a small minority of survivors and killers read and post in this forum, therefore you'll never be able to please anyone.
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See you’re exactly trying to tell him how to play!Whats the difference between you telling them to let ‘em go and me telling them to kill ‘em all?Hypocrisy.
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There is none. Do whatever you want.
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The Devs have said that forcing to farm can be reportable under certain circumstances so it doesn't matter if it is holding the game hostage or not, it's not okay.
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Different people might prefer different things, there's no universally agreed upon thing. Some want to go next to an actual game asap, others want to salvage some points/challenges if possible.
Personally I'll just play normally (which by my standards also includes "nice", I just want to chase people 99% of the time honestly) but I 100% understand if someone just decides to peace out on hook if someone else already DCd early or anything like that. I do whatever their actions imply they want, if they just point at a hook I'll put them on it and that counts when they're death hook too, even if they got there through the classic "everyone takes turns getting hooked/unhooked" farming - I assume they want to be sacrificed then.
If they seem like they just want to get chased like normal I'll just do that, and I'll completely understand if after one "final chase" they let go on hook. If not, I'll just keep playing normally.
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Just play the game the way you want. You are the killer. You get to choose who lives and who dies so yeah
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My general play is, if someone DCs, go hard in the paint until there are only 2 survivors left. If they've done at least 2 gens, mess around and farm; if not, murder their ass.
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