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Survivors…stop getting mad over lockers.
I am a survivor main and the one thing I cannot stand about fellow survivors is when they get mad when you go into a locker and continue to try and open it or make a bunch of noise so the killer comes. STOP doing this.
Most people are not hiding in lockers the whole game or because they are scared. Especially, survivors who are at a high level. There are perks for survivors that are meant for you to go into lockers from time to time for some odd seconds.
I swear I can unhook, heal, pop gens, take protection hits, etc. and the second I go into a locker, bam! someone’s mad. I just don’t get the point in ruining the entire match because you saw someone go into a locker. I can literally heal someone and go right into a locker and then they will run in and out of the locker next to me trying to get the killers attention or make a bunch of noise then try and keep me in the locker lol
In the long run you’re just hurting yourself and need to mind your business and do something 🤣
EDIT: This post is NOT about ALL survivors. There are a lot more survivors who understand that lockers are for strategy not hiding in all game
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may i ask? how many survivor did this to you?
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It has happened more times than I can count. Past 2 days alone it has happened 3 times
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If so many survivors are trying to get you out of lockers that you need to make a forum post about it asking them to stop... maybe you are spending too much time in lockers.
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I’m not even going to feed into the trolling because you have no idea how I play as a survivor. As I stated in my post, there are perks that you have to use lockers for. built to last and inner healing are two of them.
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Another reason for lockers:
- I lost a Distortion token when a survivor was hooked. (BBQ & Chili)
- Someone wrecklessly traded and got hooked soon after. I now have 1 token left.
- Another survivor was downed before I could get close enough to the killer to replenish my tokens.
- I hop into a locker for 7-10 seconds to save my last token and wait out BBQ...
But no... Kate saw me go in. Guess the first place she ran to when she was found and chased. My gen.
And why was she found? Because she didn't use the forbidden locker to hide her aura from the killer.
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See that’s why when I’m on hook I immediately check the indicators on the left to see progress of gens, who’s injured/healed, who’s being chased, etc and the auras. This helps me in that situation get an understanding of why someone would go in a locker at that time.
I’d much rather go in a locker for less than 10 seconds and then unhook so I can take an extra hit (inner healing). Just smart play in my opinion 🤷🏻♂️
I healed someone during endgame with my medkit and used it up. Pointed them towards the exit gate and ran towards a locker and of course they followed me to the locker. Then proceeded to try and open the locker and throw a pallet down and vault out of there so when my medkit was finally fully charged the killer was also fully charged and knocking me to the ground.
All I did was heal them and try to get them to open the gate while I healed myself 🙄
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So you're excessively hiding, and not doing your fair share of the chases? And you're hoping the rest of the team will carry you, because you don't want to help with chases? You're making the survivor team worse by excessively hiding.
Do you know what's better than excessively hiding? Learning how to be good in chases, so you can actually be useful, and help your team.
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This has happened to me before as well. The instant they see you go into a locker it's like it flips a switch in their heads and they start raging for no reason. I've had players spam lockers next to me to get the Killer's attention and then run off. My fellow Survivors, please educate yourself about locker perks.
The same thing sometimes happens if I get spotted using Self-Care. I had one Thalita follow me around for the rest of the game spamming loud notifications. We were the last two left and were never going to get the final gens done anyway, but she still followed me around clicking her flashlight into the sky like a bat signal and blowing up every gen I was working on.
Some Survivors are just trolls and there's nothing you can do about that.
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some people really need to touch grass and it shows.
You got all of that simply because they use the perk distortion? 🤔
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I got all of that from you complaining that people keep telling the killer where you are, when you try to hide in lockers. And that it's happened so many times, that you made a forums post about it.
Why do you think people get mad when you step in a locker? Do you honestly think those survivors feel like you've been doing your fair share of chases?
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I've got thousands of survivor hours and I rarely touch a locker except to dodge a hit or remove crows. It sounds like you're afraid of taking damage or hooks, which is necessary in helping to support your team. I can't think of a scenario I would be in a locker instead of getting chased or doing a gen.
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I literally had this same issue 2 days ago with a Kate. Did they have blonde in their name?
I can only hope you're being sarcastic here. There are several perks that revolve around utilizing a locker, and lockers counter some killer perks such as BBQ.
Not to mention they can be useful in chases.
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I understand they can be used to evade aura reading, I'm saying I rarely use them for that reason. Maybe if I'm in a dead zone, injured working on a gen and have a locker right next to me I'll do it, or if I'm the last one alive and I want to look for hatch without getting immediately chased.
If you're dropping whatever you're doing to go find a locker in order to avoid BBQ, then you're not a very good survivor.
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You said you can't think of a single scenario where you'd use a locker, but then you mention a few examples of when you'd use a locker. So yeah, lockers have their place. Hiding in them for the whole match obviously is silly. We aren't talking about that.
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The only time I accept survivors doing that (either as a survivor myself or as killer), is when a survivor hasn't participated in the game for basically the whole match and is just essentially waiting for hatch and hiding, as they truly deserve to escape the least as they have not helped the team as a whole escape and are just being selfish.
Otherwise I don't condone it, idk why people would do this, maybe they haven't seen you much that match and just assume you've been hiding the whole time, or don't see much activity in the survivor hud? Or maybe they're just griefing, in which case is a bannable offense that people can be banned for with evidence, though idk how well reporting that goes as I've never done it.
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not to condone the behavior but if you are at 0 hooks while the team is getting slaughtered and the gen symbol didn't appear next to your name in majority of the match on top of that, you still going into lockers to avoid the killer will upset your teammates.
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Had someone sabo me cause they saw me hop into a locker for literally 2 seconds to get a flash bang. I had popped 2 gens at this point while the rest of my team did jack all and ran around like headless chickens. Killer knew what was going on and let me get hatch.
Had a Claudette throw a fit after she saw me climb out of a locker next to a gen with 80% progress (this was the 4th gen, I had solo completed 2 of the 3 ), I climbed into the locker because I suspected the killer to have BBQ (and I was right) and the gen was positioned so I couldn't use it to block the read.
Had a Nea throw a fit because I crouched behind a blocked gen to hide my Object of Obsession proc.
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I've run into this a few times when I've brought Built to Last to do a 'deplete' item challenge. I just ignore them and get it done. I assume they'll see BTL in post-game and feel bad. Other than that I don't use lockers unless the second last survivor is about to be hooked and the killer has BBQ. I can somewhat sympathise with other solo players who are probably over having useless team mates so automatically jump to conclusions when they see someone entering a locker. They probably don't consider the use of perks when they're having a knee jerk reaction.
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Yes, I also have around 2k survivor hours in the game. Not sure if you read the part about the perks that need to activate inside of a locker and everything else I do in game. I’m not afraid to take damage or a hook at all. It’s crazy to assume you know someone’s play style because they asked their teammates to not throw a game simply because they THINK I’m hiding.
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I agree with this! I just don’t think we should be making assumptions right off the bat. If I’ve been doing gens, taking hits, unhooking, getting hooked, healing, etc. then I go in a locker to use inner or built and you wanna throw the game, that’s bad sportsmanship.
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You're the one talking about ppl getting mad about you hiding in lockers. I've got more than double as many hrs as you and I've never had that happen once. So naturally I have to consider you might be the problem. My goal is to get a 4-man escape so if I see someone not making gen progress or taking chases consistently it's not good. Efficiency is key and lockers waste time.
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These players simply don’t understand the omniscient thought of a head on user
Predicting head on saves before they even happen
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There's Built to Last and Inner Strength, Head On, and a number of other totally legit reasons to jump in a locker now and then, even for very good players. Unless the player is constantly doing it, or you know what their build is, myob.
Even setting all that aside, it's still pointless to open a locker with a surv in it to "shame" them or something. It's like standing up and staring at a teammate who missed a skill check. It's just a waste of your own time.
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that's true. people should have more awareness before judging.
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I have seen this happen maybe 5 times. But I only have 3k hours in this game so maybe it will get more common with more playtime
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The hell is a "Fair share of chases"? Who decides that? I ain't getting chased to please a bunch of people who would let me go to stage 2 Hook for no reason.
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Sorry to hear that.
Hiding in lockers or elsewhere while killer is looking for you is still helping teammates because it wastes killer's time.
Just don't try to think about it. If those players you witnessed were actually smart, they won't be blaming others for that.
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LOL imma start saying this when someone complains about me "always jumping in and out of lockers" (I have a thing for flash bang).
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So if other survivors don't play exactly how I want them to play, I'm allowed to get them killed?
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Had a Steve do this right at the start of a trial a few days ago. We both spawned into the map beside each other, already in a Huntress' lullaby. It switched to a heartbeat before either of us had a chance to move too far, so I quietly jumped in a locker to wait out the Huntress going by. The Steve took it upon himself to keep opening the door to the locker I was in until the Huntress saw us both. Hatcheted him, pulled me out of the locker and dropped me, hatcheted him again while he was running away. Both hooked.
We both got unhooked, the Steve gets seen again, then runs over to where I was unhooked and getting healed. Downed again, the Steve hides. When the survivor who was healing me gets the killer's attention and drags them off, this infected cyst has the audacity to come out of hiding to try to heal me up. I crawled around the map with sprint on to prohibit it, with him t-bagging me the whole time. I passed a low wall in LOS of the Huntress, a hatchet come flying overhead right into the Steve. Steve takes off to try to get away, and runs around a corner straight into the Huntress. While he's downed and getting hooked, I move away so the killer doesn't hear my injured sounds. When the killer leaves and starts chasing the other two survivors, I crawl over to the Steve's hook and hang out.
Got to watch the Steve get sacrificed before I bled out. Best feeling I've had coming out of solo queue in a long time.
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If I see a survivor in a locker not doing anything to preserve themselves for the win. This snitch will gladly go to the ditch. I keep an eye on what everyone is doing and if you didn't do anything your getting ratted out.
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I’m not sure how not touching grass is a flex, but 👍🏼. Also never said anything about me hiding in lockers. You should read the post again. Just remember you decided to comment on this post after hopefully reading it beforehand. So me simply letting other survivors know that throwing a game because you saw someone in a locker DOESN’T mean someone’s hiding all game and definitely doesn’t mean that I don’t do anything as a survivor lol The fact that you have NEVER had that happen to you is great! But also most likely a lie, IMO. Also, it’s funny you think you know how I play as a survivor because I go into lockers from time to time to activate perks that help us out. My post wasn’t intended on getting people as upset as you seem. It was to let other survivors know that lockers are not only meant for hiding. Thanks for your input though!
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I think some people here agree with you. The post was more so for survivors who don’t seem to understand that there are locker perks. Just because they don’t use them, doesn’t mean other survivors don’t or can’t. If I see someone doing that and have a feeling they are new, I’ll help them out and have them follow me to get stuff done. If they don’t, not my problem anymore.
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Go troll someone else 👍🏼
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this game was originally a hide and seek game not seek and chase game
can you rap your head round that?
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people need to remember not everyone good at chases but if someone still doing gens,heal and unhooking pretty much doing thing you shouldn't care if that hide sometime sometime smart move if your bad at chases.
some people need to get a life...
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and so you get banned hope it was fun because I started recording now I know it worked because I got a notice in game from my report.
so I watch out what you do to people.
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You had 3 posts when you commented. Also,
“Instead of getting the dbd world to revolve around you, why dont you try not using lockers around survivors, you wouldnt do it in front of a killer now would you?”
so now I’m having the game revolve around me simply because I wanted survivors to stop being entitled and selfish and throwing games because they ASSUME I’m hiding? I can’t even go into a locker in front of someone who I’m suppose to take hits for and unhook, heal, etc?
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To be fair some people are just really bad in chases and it's much better for them to hide or run Distortion so that the killer goes after someone else.
I'm garbage in chase even after 3000 hours in the game and instead of going down in two seconds and getting tunneled out at 4 gens left, it's better if I can stay in the game longer so I can get gens done.
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Actually it would be better to practice chases more, and you would either get better at chases, or your MMR would drop to where it should be, so that you could handle the chases.
Because doing the "I'm going to excessively hide because it's the only way to win" is just hurting the rest of the team, because it's a toss up between other people getting stuck doing your share of chases, or you losing chases super fast which also hurts the team. And if the killer knows there is a weak link that's bad at chases, then it's the efficient strategy to tunnel that person out of the game.
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I don't 'excessively hide', I just run Distortion on certain characters and play stealthy if the killer is coming.
I still do gens whenever I can, still unhook and heal and still do chases when I can't avoid them, but I know my limits and I know despite having so much time on survivor, I simply am not good in chase and never will be. No amount of throwing matches to try and improve in chases will get me any better and it's far better for my teammates if I focus on my strengths instead.
The game isn't all about chases, I hate chases as survivor and don't really like them as killer but I'm good at other aspects of the game, so I focus on those.
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No.
There are many survivors who will turn on me with murderous intent just by entering the locker.
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again people need to get a life this video game people paid for they can play anyway they want to play if it follow as the game need to be played
playing stealthy is a way people can play not just being chased.
I understand if the person really didn't do anything all match but if they doing something they still playing right other need to get over them self's.
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If in a match, I see a survivor betray another by opening his locker, you can be sure the one in the locker will be fine at least until the traitor is hanging on a hook.
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Do you have any other despicable moves you want to share?
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And there’s no problem with that! Not once have I been mad about another survivors perks that they use, unless I’m killer (which is because I just hate playing killer). I also don’t know how some players don’t get that this game is meant for everyone to do their best and get out alive while having fun. Once the game is completely taken seriously, all the fun is taken out. Just sucks that there’s people who cannot understand someone else’s gameplay so they ruin it for everyone.
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Discriminate? 🤣 yes when a random new profile with 3 posts wants to start off telling someone that the game doesn’t revolve around them after doing what? That makes complete sense. Sounds like you want the game to be completely as YOU want it. This game doesn’t revolve around you so if someone wants to go in a locker for a perk the game gives them, don’t you think it’s a bit hypocritical when YOU get mad because YOU assume someone’s hiding? So yes, keep trolling.
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Amen! 🙏🏼
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