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why do players get tilted over repeated crouching?
I never understood why something so vital to the game gets people upset.
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Because it has been done solely to make players tilted, people tend to read intention behind the behavior/act, and not just act itself.
It's not something hard to understand, really.
Basically any of human communications are pretty much that, "reading the actual meaning behind act".
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It's not necessarily "vital" to the game, but it also isnt something to get upset over either.
I just think people take this game way too seriously, Im waiting for the day I can Insidious camp with Bubba while hitting the Griddy, or bust some moves after a pallet stun.
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Tbagging is vital to the game, Survivor logic.
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Artical 7, clause 13 of the survival rulebook states "crouching rapidly up and down, otherwise known as tbagging, is a necessity for survivors to feel a sense of comfort and victory, it is also a mechanic that allows for the game to run properly. without it, dbd would have half the player base it has today and the survivor side of dbd would be heavily corrupted."
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Because it's the closest players can get to going "######### you" with in-game actions.
If you were totally new to the game and gaming in general and had no context for what it was, you'd still pick up what it's meant to mean over time just by seeing it used at pallets, vaults, and people refusing to leave at the exit gate to get their teabags in.
But we do know, so what you're really asking is "why do people not like being taunted" (bonus points for survivors that draw out the game and won't leave because they really need the Killer to see this). In flavours of "Hahah, you lose" and "Hahah, you didn't get me".
I dunno, maybe it has something to do with the people who consistently, game after game, think it's not enough that they win, they have to make sure the other person feels bad about it. There's a reason I don't play long sessions, even if they're going well, dealing with the negative attitude just isn't worth it.
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I mean, it's there simply to taunt the killer. I always laugh because 90% of cocky survivors below A tier and none of them are S tier, not one. If I could mark a player that I have seen before I would alch ring tunnel them out next time just to laugh. Although, I really don't see survivors like this very often since 6.1.0.
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Yeah i don't know. I've had survivors tbag me and then immediately go down, I've had survivors tbag me at the exit gates and compliment after the match or come to my defense when someone was being rude. It's just in-game banter to me.
Same goes for killers nodding or hitting on the hook.
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As others have said it's the intent, not the act. If I hold my middle finger up in your face, why should it bother you? It's just me poking a finger up, but you know what the intent and meaning behind the action is. I usually find the douche-bagging only starts if they've managed to 99 a gate, thats the point the meg or ace I had on death hook at 4 gens but stupidly took pity on suddenly starts bobbing up and down like their keyboard is broken. The REALLY good survivors don't tend to do it I've found.
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Honestly I’m well past caring about Tbagging and anyone who consistently plays online games should probably try to get over it to
Their doing it solely to piss you off so that’s all the more reason to ignore that and punish them for doing so
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Nah, I'll just go play a co-op game or something.
If people want to repay playing fair with gloating, they can enjoy one less person in the queue.
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Fair enough. My point is that this kind of behavior isn't easy to police and it's best if you yourself become resistant to it as you'll encounter it everywhere even in the real world.
But it's always good to have a backup game when you get tilted. That's what fallout 4 is for me
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Currently, Darktide on my end (with VC off). Was Bannerlord before that.
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It's essentially taken as a taunt towards the killer, also known as "teabagging".
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No one can control how another person chooses to behave, all you can control is how you react to it. I always say to just remember it's a faceless person sitting behind a screen clicking a button. It's not any more serious than that. People talk about intent but that's completely up to interpretation. I remember someone posting a clip several months back, asking why the killer hooked them after showing them hatch. People asked why she was tbagging next to hatch and she said she was trying to say thanks lol the killer obviously did not interpret it that way
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Why do survivors get so tilted when I hit them on hook? All I’m doing is role playing a hateful, evil, and vengeful killer role. It’s completely vital for the gameplay.
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Its a well know taunt and some people don't like being taunted. Simple really.
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It's a combination of ego and kicking someone when they're down. Usually heavy teabagging is done in situations where the game is completely one sided. You're already losing and then people teabag you relentlessly. For killers who are less skilled and less experienced this can happen quite a bit and feel discouraging. I try to make a point to never teabag the killer when he/she is having a bad game. Overall some people can handle it and others melt down. I have more than 3k hours in this game so I don't care about getting teabagged anymore. It's entirely different for a newer player who is struggling to get kills. There is also the ego aspect. Teabagging someone is essentially telling them that you think you're better than them and have zero respect for their game. A lot of people take that very personally even if it's not actually a big deal.
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Vital? You use that word but I don't think you know what it means
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Enough has been said to this bait comment, but I will humor OP one more time: you know whats vital to the game even more? Hitting survivors! Its absolutely core to the killers gameplay, in theory you could finish a trial as a survivor without ever crouching, but you need to hit survivors as the killer. So why is it that survivors call me rude and toxic for hitting them on the hook? Its just the most natural thing for a killer to do, even vital. Get it? :)
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Why do people get tilted over letters and sounds arranged a particular way? How silly of them!
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These things are not two sides of the same coin. The proportion of killers that BM compared to survivors is comparatively small. Most killers simply do not have the time to sit there and do that stuff if they want to win. However 90% of my games, I am not exaggerating, have people waiting at the gate wanting to taunt me before just leaving. It's not "I get tunneled and camped every game!!" whining and hyperbole. It's literally, actually every game.
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It all started with Halo.
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Thank you, that was very cathartic.
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If survs had weapons to knock down and stun the killer I'd imagine it would be about the same. I.e. Sheva with a Rocket Launcher, Chris with a boulder. They'd be out here double dippin' and all other types of tomfoolery. It should be seen as a direct challenge. Fastest way to get camped and tunneled. Smacked a few times on the ol' meat hook for good measure too.
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is that considered tilting someone though?
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i see it most of the time when the killer chases someone after crouching and letting us do gens seems like it is vital gameplay mechanics.
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In theory you dont have to hit survivors to end the trial though.
I have seen ghostfaces that just run around crouching repeatedly and playing hide and seek and dont ever hit a survivor and the game ends with a happy time for all.
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