They should give the killer player a surrender option. Stuck playing against bullies? Surrender and move on to the next game. 3 gens done at the first chase and everyone is pre dropping? Surrender!

I once had a bully squad against me, who sent me to Autohaven out of all places. I quickly realized what they were up to, and while I normally play killer in a mild-mannered way (going for 8 hooks before sacrificing), this time the white gloves came off, and I resorted to slugging them. If they want to have fun on my behalf, then I can have "fun" on theirs as well 😈

Pretty much. What I think is worse is that user you responded to, is telling others to break in game rules, rather than play the game.


I think I have had bully swfs fail or straight up throw more times than actually succeed. Usually they try the silliest head-ons or flashlight saves that end up not working out at all.

Uhhh I wouldnt even bother worrying about SoloQ its just gonna get worse, the devs are out of touch when it comes to this game mode.

Just have to hope 2v8 comes back to really enjoy soloQ.

Iron Grasp and Lightborn never leave my loadouts (Agitation is also a solid choice). Coupled with Fire Up, you can sometimes fool them into repeatedly going for beamer saves, since they'll keep thinking they just got the timing wrong. Bully squads will often never touch a gen, but there's usually a Solo Q player with them doing gens away from the action, so you'll still likely get some Fire Up value. In my experience, lots of Survivors will keep trying to blind you anyway (and that never stops being funny to me).

Honestly, my games have been super chill since I put these perks on and I personally don't mind losing to more "typical" Survivors because I wasted two perk slots on perks that never come into play.

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about head-on but at least it's an exhaustion perk, so they can't really spam it. I've faced so many bully squads by this point that I rarely let them get to me anymore (and the perks help a lot too). That's kinda how I deal with them, by not feeling anything.

You can also use lightborn for flashlight and flashbang users, franklin's demise aswell.

Iron maiden if you are scared of head-ons. But they happen rarely.

Down one. Anticipate that someone is nearby, especially if they go down by a pallet. Down the one nearby, or try to. If you can't, go back to the slug, usually there is another waiting for you to pick up. If not, pick up, try to hook. If they Sabo or hover, drop th one you're carrying and try to injure the harrasser. Ideally, you want to have injured all of them, so they waste time healing. If they are all injured, you can choose to slug them too which is ideally the play here.

If they're playing by lockers for head on/ flashbang saves, you literally just wait till they leave it. It can be a long wait, but usually these types of players are either jumpy or impatient, so you have to be more patient about getting near the locker in which theyre hiding. And honestly, best of luck to you.

I had one game where there was a duo that had headon, flashbang, resi, and wglf. I managed to kill the other two, and hooked one of the duo in the basement. The other of the two managed to save and immediately, they jumped into the two lockers near the stairs. I literally just sat there staring at the lockers until one of them leapt out to bait a swing. Luckily, i downed them as they were trying to enter the locker, but the other was still in the other locker lol.

So, he had to watch his friend bleed out until he couldnt anymore, and he jumped from the locker. Smacked him as he burst out. Then i proceeded to hump them until the last minute, hooked the first one that i downed. And then, i got to watch the other one bleed out in thecorner next to the chest in basement. It was so satisfying. Mind you, they got multiple locker/flashbang saves before all this went down because i was just playing normall. As soon, i realized what perks/game they were playing i was merciless. Hope that helps.

You pick one of the op Killers that ignore the vast majority of game mechanics, get good with them while also tunneling/slugging/camping. This is what everyone does or tries to do.

This then leads to other issues, such as you getting used to this baseline of play and then carrying that over to SoloQ matches which cause the plethora of issues that people then complain about on here, and why the game is going nowhere.

Yes, I have always enjoyed playing killer in a relaxed manner, and 99% of the time I am running non-meta builds. I do sometimes run into the odd SWF group that are intentionally doing what they can to annoy the living daylights out of me.
All you need is practice, and you can easily learn the patterns that bully SWF's are using, since they often times play around you, and not necessarily for rushing gens. Usually one player is designated as a "gen-jockey", while the others are there to pull off things like flashbang/flashlight saves, head on etc. If you play your cards right, you can easily turn this into your favor.
They will always body-block, and pretty much all the time, they have perks like Decisive Strike and Dead Hard, to squeeze out more time. Sometimes, they will also bring sabo toolboxes, paired with Background Player to really mess with you. This can also be played around, if you don't down a player in an area that is scarce on hooks.
Also to add to my previous comment, while I sometimes resort to slug bully squads, I never go as far as to bleed them out intentionally. I slug them down, and then I hook them, just to keep the annoyance to a minimum.

Granted, I only have around 1125 hours logged in the game, and while at least 60% of this is played with friends over the years, the times I play solo, I mostly play killer. Most of the time, I play Doctor, Myers or Demogorgon, but I have also played the majority of the roster at this point. Excluding Twins, I hate the playstyle, and I don't like facing them.

BBest Way to handle bullying is to recognize that it's happening and to be patient and bide your time for an opening.

These gamers will start strong by farming their 3x Flashbangs but eventually somebody has to do the gens. If 2 or 3 people are following you I treat em as deadweight and try to get the guy on gens

Pretend to get angry. Pretend to tunnel. Let em think you're bothered. But when it matters, never give them what they want. Keep your eye on that prize

Just break the pallets quickly. The faster you get rid of them, the faster you can make every pallet loop winnable

Yeah they don't run out of pallets by the time the gens are done. The amount of pallets on most maps besides 3 is overly abundant

The best way to handle bully Squads is to Stay calm. Lightborn does help alot and Mad Grit is another good Perk. How to handle handle sabotage Squads is To just slug them to provent them from Sabotaging ur hooks. Morely just be calm and play it smart. One there not going to be on Gens so that's not gonna be a issue.

Morely just take advantage of them being around you. There wasting there stuff on you so they will run out.

bully squads will usually ignore gens, meaning you are safe in terms of that aspect. Even with the fact that they are gonna try to bully you through constant flashlight/flashbang saves, they are easy to deal with since they are very predictable. Every time you down a survivor always look around for a save (Infectious helps a lot here btw) and don't be afraid to slug to force people off the downed surv.

Also, avoid using Lightborn because you will just make them switch to gens, meaning you'll have a much more difficult time.

Head on/sabo bully squad is hard to deal with but my favorite bully squad to go against is the beamer squad! It's when I see a 4 man beamer lobby and they give me a chance to switch to my "F- around and find out" perk build :D!

There always a weak link or a designated looper. Do not chase the looper at any point unless you know you can catch them. The beamers will usually hid around while you pick up. If you're taken to dead dog saloon then you're probably have people in locker waiting with head on.

Maintain a mindset of no matter how it looks for you as a killer player, that you're gonna do the best you can to make it a good game. If you come out short then you tried, and on to the next one.

Yes, my intro-to-killer experience also involved being bullied a lot. That seems to be the DBD way. :(

If they've taken you hostage (ie — if they're just running around you throwing flashbangs and refusing to do the gens), then just DC. If they're still doing the gens, but they're being really annoying, either walk away and wait for them to finish the gens or try to find the weakest link. At that point, you can try to slug that person and defend the slug while the others try to help them, but it will be pretty tedious, so up to you.

Once you get more experienced at killer, there are more options, but early on it's really hard.