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Thoughts On High Prestige Characters?
Idk about anyone else but I feel more targeted when I play with my high prestige character lmao I like the idea of prestige being a number that you can see and kind of show off but I feel like the killer shouldn’t be able to see your prestige number in pregame lobby, only at the scoreboard after the match. It just feels like another target on my back. But I was curious if other players felt their prestige made them a target or not. As a killer are you more inclined to dodge a high prestige lobby or focus on the higher prestige survivor to get them out of the game(camp tunnel etc).
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When I see multiple people with more prestige on one character than I have total (possibly by 3-4x, I don't think I have more than 25 spread out), I'm possibly going to bounce. Maybe they're just really persistent and not that great, or maybe matchmaking's just desperate.
If I actually remember prestige by the time we're in the game, I'd probably be trying to not chase them, though.
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I do the contrary, when I see a high prestige survivor I will play the match (I tend to not dodge matches unless its a know cheater or I am in a bad mood and don't wanna face a swf) I will go with the asumption that they are good, if I chase them a little and they are very good I will drop chase and avoid chasing them the rest of the match until very few resources are left, and if I see they are not that good at chase, well if they had all the time to get to say p100 and are still easy to down...I have found myself a very weak link, and can take advantage of that.
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Ngl I dodge sometimes as killer. If I'm going for a challenge that requires a 4k or if I'm using a dirt poor killer. If the prestiges are high and I'm seeing the usual warning signs, bright outfits, torches, feng/steve/nea.
But in the normal run of things I won't usually dodge. I have noticed that when I play with my friend, (100 prestige kate) we get a LOT of dodges and she often gets tunneled hard or ignored entirely. One of the 2.
Myself I won't deliberately tunnel out a high prestige surv but if I get in a chase and they are clearly a loop god I'll just not engage with them and go for easy hits when they unhook or i manage to ambush them
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We play normally. We under the prestige doesn't mean skill umbrella so we go in and adapt as needed. It also gives us a opportunity to see the fully prestige decked out survivor makes a beginner mistake and chuckle.
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I'm not the best killer, but I've killed enough P100s that I don't see it as a threat anymore.
Unless the entire lobby is P50+, which could be a clue that it's a SWF, I'm not bothered. But even that is going to lose it's predictive power as more survivors climb the prestige ladder.
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I don't know about that as survivor as my max prestige is 6.
However.
As killer (and not that good at it, I'm definitely in lower average) I happen sometimes to see P90-P100, which is always immediately frightening.
I generally don't dodge, because if they're really good, it's an occasion to learn.
I'll try and go for others at first to secure some points, then give them a chase at 3 gens left and commit until I down them. If it happens fast, I'll just keep playing the game as usual because they're apparently on my level.
If they're looping me for days, I'll switch into study mode and try and see how they use the loops and chains. I'm a terrible survivor and it's not everyday I get a great example of really good looping from a killer's point of view to see what they're seeing and not seeing, what they're doing wrong. I'm lucky that most times I encounter such survivors, they're really good sports and not teabagging and such.
If I manage to down them before the gates are opened, I'll hook them and let the others rescue. If I'm downing them and the gates are already opened, and they did not BM, I generally have built a healthy amount of respect for them and will drop them near gate (if it's within walking distance), or just say no to a hook and let them wiggle out. I might get some more practice out of them that way ! =)
It just feels wrong for them to die to a subpar killer like me ! X)
Most times though, they won't need me to let them go as their teammates will have their back. =)
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It's still a bit of an extreme playtime gap, and when there's multiple, I sometimes just don't want to bother, especially if there's already a bunch of toolboxes and the like out.
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I usually just avoid chasing any P100 or other high prestige players until they're out in the open rescuing. P100s have Dead Hard 95% of the time, so you know the chase is going to go forever. I definitely don't try and tunnel them or chase them forever at the beginning of the match, that seems dumb. If I have to tunnel, I'm definitely hitting them as soon as their feet hit the ground off that hook because of Dead Hard. You're better off rolling the dice on the lower prestige though IMO
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You will get tunnel regardless of the number above your head.
Logically, a killer should focus out the lower numbers if the belief is presitge = skill.
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But it's not indicative of a certain playtime gap?
I have at least P3 on every character. That's 60+ characters, each at P3 or a bit more, which equals a cumulative 180+ prestige levels, realistically 200+. Instead of P3ing everyone, I could have two P100s. But when you face me, the highest prestige I have on my main currently is 15.
One P100 doesn't mean that player necessarily has any more time than someone at half of my personal playtime. Also, if you P1'd everyone before the prestige changes, then you automatically converted that into P3 on everyone. Someone could have P1'd everyone, with on P3 that was instantly converted to a P9, and then they only have 81 prestige levels to make up to get that one P100.
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I mean, if I add up the prestige on all my characters, it comes to 24, plus a handful in the 30's-40's from the old prestige system.
So anyone with a P100 character has vastly more playtime than I do.
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if i add up my prestiges (playing with the new system, started before wesker dropped) i have every killer p1 that I own, so 27 p1, i have meg, vittorio, ada, dwight, leon, rebecca p1, so 33, and then i have 5 killers p3. i have wesker, nemesis, ghostface, trickster, and sadako p3. so 43. I also have 2 killers p2, so add 2, and i have 45 prestige levels total! i think. i'm not that good at math.
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High prestige does not equate to skill level. I'm high prestige and suck.
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I feel like a lot of players overestimate how good they are according to their prestige (which doesn't indicate skill at all). Just had a P96 Leon thinking he was the king of bullies with his entire SWF. They all relied on DH, swarmed me with flashlights and ultimately lost with 4 gens remaining. I didn't look at his prestige until after the game and honestly? I could not tell the difference between him the P2 Jill at all.
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As a killer, I may dodge depending on my mood and their number. My main is high prestige too, and I have a lot of kills..so I know the chances of getting “babies” is low. But if there’s like a 76 and a 100 in the same lobby, I’m like nah. But also, I don’t tunnel over their prestige..I usually forget who has what when the match starts.
When I play survivor, I definitely feel that I’m tunneled because of my prestige. At first I thought I was being paranoid, but pretty sure it’s a thing…
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oh i 100% relate lmao im a P74 rn and feel even more targeted bc of my prestige, i feel like some killers have something to prove if they kill the high prestige, but that's just how my matches have been. i had a killer tell me they played sweatier bc of my prestige and at the time i was like P41.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels tunneled bc i dump all of my points into one survivor; just bc i have prestige doesnt mean im good i just want to play 😩
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I think prestige should be shown when the game is over, not before. This way high prestige survivors won't be targeted.
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Or at least let the survs see but killer not until scoreboard ;> I feel it would help feeling less targeted lmao
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I'm P51 on Steve and I main Killer.
All my BP goes to Steve despite the fact that I'm garbage at Survivor
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If you are repeatedly asked to consider two survivors based on their prestige level, and you chose the higher-prestige survivor as more skilled, and you are correct 50% of the time on average, there is no correlation at all.
I suspect you would be correct slightly more often than you would be incorrect.
Nobody anywhere is saying prestige equates to high skill. This is a strawman.
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