Is Hiding in a Locker for the Entire Match Reportable?

I think that qualifies as griefing

That's probably grounds for a griefing report. Idk why people wanna waste their and others time like that

"Griefing," in the context of gaming, is when someone goes out of their way to annoy other players. Taking all turrets and creating your own shack fortress falls under that, IMO.

Yes but if they set all the turrets up there and stayed at shack, I'm not sure they were unfindable. I could be wrong, I didn't see the match. It sounds like they were just trying to be annoying.

See, I'm not sure how the developers see this though. It would be nice if maybe @Peanits could chime in. To me, seeing teammates crouch hiding behind objects and not doing anything is also annoying. Or someone doing tomes, chest, or totems but not touching gens. But these are not bannable or considered griefing as far as I know.

Someone taking all the turrets and using them to hide out at shack is selfish and would also be annoying. But not really any different than the former if they are doing it for survival.

Im sure they were doing it as you said, to be annoying. As well as going out of the way to do it. But in the unlikely event they were doing it to ensure their own survival, would it still be griefing?

I'm not trying to say what they did was right by any means. There just seems to be no clear definitions with what is what in this game or what is considered normal gameplay.

My other big question is how did they manage to get and keep all the turrets there before anyone else could place or take any?

I don't think so. Dude clearly had a plan of playing for hatch and building a fortress to protect themselves.

Is it annoying? Yes. Would you be in your right to flame him? Yes. Was he breaking any rules? Possibly but I don't think so.

If BHVR didn't want people to play in this way they wouldn't have made perks like Left Behind and Self-preservation.

I'd say it could be reported as working with the killer/griefing since they are actively removing the other survivors main defense against the xeno's tail

It sounds rather annoying but I doubt it's reportable.

Not participating in normal gameplay really should be removed from the report because it's simply not true. Chest Protector, Farming, Sabo Squads that won't do gens and other meme-y things are not bannable so I don't see how this would be.

Holding the game hostage only applies if two+ people are actively hiding to prolong it. One person making a fort to hide in isn't holding anything hostage.

For griefing you'd have to prove he's doing this to try and hurt his teammates and not just protect himself. If someone wants to play super selfish they can; there are even perks designed around it.

Considering the billion challenges it could also be argued he was working on something specific.

If you banned people for hiding in lockers all game then brand new players would likely get banned.

Again, this is certainly annoying but I doubt it's bannable without the player themselves admitting to try and grief.

Yeah I kind of hate how they work. I wanna say someone could've just gone in and took them but that would've been a slow journey walking with them.

It's realistically unfindable if survivors ONLY exits the locker with sole purpose of avoiding crows

If we go in technicality, we can always find survivors unless they are cheaters, but in reality it's impossible because killers can move and see only so much

If that was the case, body blocking single survivor for an entire match would not be considered as hostage because other survivors can progress the game

I believe if you need other players to progress the game, that's enough for hostage

I understand that they are unfindable under normal circumstances of locker hiding. But in this case they had loaded the area with turrets. At the very least it would give the killer a reason to search the area and lockers around it. As xeno they could even exit a nearby tunnel and possibly see their heartbeat when exiting.

Again, I'm not saying I condone this by any means. I don't even know if it qualifies for any kind of report is more or less what I'm saying. it seems to open to interpretation.

If I saw it once I'd probably find it funny but if I already had a bad day of solo queue I'd just be more annoyed lol. Setting up every turret though means they had to be taking the time to do something at some point, even if briefly.

This is one time I really would love to see the match from different perspectives.

A survivor hiding in the locker is stopping killer from playing UNLESS other 3 survivors generously participate in game and allow killer to play the game

Seems very same to be honest

AFK person doesn't actively hide, so eventually crows will appear and just get hooked by killer, game will ends

This is with expectation of that survivor is seriously hiding and only doing things to avoid crows, if that's not the case problem would be different

I guess because playing stealthy, and doing tomes, chests, totems, etc, isn't necessarily done with the intention of annoying your team mates. Those things earn you individual emblem points as they're still objectives. I get what you're saying, that it can be hard to determine intent, but i'd liken this scenario to someone running around the map dropping every pallet. They know those are useful to their team, and there's no good reason to take them out of the equation unless you were going out of your way to ensure every one had a bad time.