Unfun Survivor Perks / Strategies

I don't like flashlights. I run Lightborn every match, no exceptions.

Only thing that honestly bothers me is when survivors go full "Gloveworld Bus". If you've ever seen SpongeBob, you know exactly what I mean.

Prior to the Haddonfield rework, playing m1 killers against this was literally impossible. They just refuse to leave houses until you commit to chase. The second anyone gets a heartbeat, they run immediately to a house.

These matches are basically guaranteed losses on a few killers.

I see 4x Background Player a lot, and surprisingly see Breakdown Breakout squads a fair amount but I'd rather deal with those unhookable survivors over that boring hold W play style. These people always catch me when I'm not on a killer to deal with that. Like where's my boi Unknown to lob UVXs when I need him

dont really got a perk combo in mind that i hate going against but i kinda dislike how committed some survivors are to taunting you. Example ill get smack by a god pallet and they won't even run immediately. They just sit there and stare at you.... like "hey stupid how u get stun there lol". Same thing when u swing at window and miss! they run right back up to the window and just look at you. Sometimes shaking there heads which admittedly can be funny. Fast vaulting windows/pallets repeatedly after u had to drop chase. Don't get me started on flashlight clickers! I get it you really want to proc that DS but leave me alone please

boil over trollers

All hail to our Lord and Savior Lightborn 😎

Edit: @topic, I hate any form of excessive taunting and full on denial builds. The kind of squads that want to deny the killer at every opportunity, like blinds, body blocking, hook sabo, head-on and so on.

Part of what made me a Lightborn apostle. (Franklizns if I feel malicious)

Also part of why I quit. You want to play try hard and hardcore deny me because you know you can while I want to play casual? Play with yourself, I am going to break doors and dropped pallets.

So, I do mainly play survivor myself, but for the most part, I run a healer build, without exhaustion or meta-perks (yes, yes. I am a support player in other games). Not nearly as annoying as those who run Background Player, with beamers and flashbangs.
Aside from that, I rarely get these kind of "annoying" survivors on my team when I play that role myself.

On to the topic: I do play killer occasionally, and when I do, I often run into 4-man SWF's full of Russian teens with the sole intent of making the killer's life a living hell. These survivors will often run 4 flashlights, Background player, DS, Dead Hard and whatever perk they can utilize for gen-rushing. Two will have the role of occupying the killer as much as possible, while the other two churn out gens, left and right. This is by far the most annoying types of survivors to face against, since most of them probably has several 1000's of hours invested in the game.
In short, 4-man SWF's are the worst and most unfun survivors to face.
- Though, I love bringing out my trusty Lightborn when I see a full lobby of beamers.

Another unfun type of survivor is the "run to the corner of the map and hide" type.

Not that I really care about the outcome of the match when playing killer, since you earn points so much easier as killer anyways.

It's been a long time since I got a heal teched but it really shouldn't be a thing.

BRP has no place in game.

Distortion is an overtunned remnant for what it is from a different game.

I don't play killer much these days so nothing else comes to mind right now.

As a survivor main for me the biggest issue on the survivor side at present is Background Player, the perk is broken and incredibly unfair. Especially when combined with the fact you can blind with flashbangs even when the killers face is planted into a wall

Exhaustion perks are always going to cause some degree of frustration but are all in a lot better place these days, particularly DH.

As far as toxicity with clicky click, bagging and not leaving when the match is over etc, I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that some people are simply immature and suck to deal with and this isn't going to change.

Survivors using anti tunnel perks offensively when I'm not tunneling them it's just annoying and ridiculous

For me the things I hate most from survivors are: -

• Boil Over - Rarely works, just annoying to face in general.
• For The People & Buckle Up - It's flat obnoxious.
• Background Player - Annoying when survivors are on comms and ensuring they go down in the open to leave you unable to do anything.
• Distortion - Don't mind on its own, but ratting and leaving teammates to die on hook uncontested is a real pet peeve.

To my mind, any of these is a guilt free "All Bets Are Off" scenario. You get camped or tunneled after hitting the killer with these, kinda on you.

I don't camp or tunnel myself as a rule, but giving hatch or gate at the end is instantly revoked when hit with these perks, and prodded enough with these things, I'll eventually make a point of ensuring that player dies at all costs.

Not much annoys me in this game on killer.

The one exception - people that give up / throw matches because they want to go next, so they throw themselves at you… then hit you with the DS and still want to die. That one makes me slug them on the floor, both as retribution for wasting my time while expecting me to respect theirs, and for ruining a good game for all three of their teammates.

your posts are awesome :) love getting to hear other's opinions so that I can be either less toxic or prove things aren't toxic or don't have to be. Also Background player doesn't need a nerf, I just think it needs more counterplay or people running the current counterplay more. OOOOOOH like a killer perk that exhausts survivors when you down someone similar to the hinder on forced hesitation. Or better yet, make forced hesitation exhaust as well as hinder.

"what if multiple people in the trial have the perk" game with any survivor perk concept.

i think this concept has killed a lot of perks. It makes them paranoid in making any survivor perk good where a perk like "Better than New" becomes "What if all 4 survivor use this and get gen speed/vault bonuses". Looks too strong, "Let's make it super safe."