What is your opinion on techs?

Honestly I feel like the term tech is used very loosely now just in jest at how technical and serious certain players made regular plays. There are a few more unintuitive things that I think are still true "techs" like the CJ tech. But I think most egregious techs have been patched out. (like double locker saves)

It's when a survivor moves into the killer model as the killer vaults the window and shifts into their space (I think this is caused by a momentary loss of collision as the killer model needs to fill a larger space than the survivor model), allowing them to vault the window back. The timing is very tricky and if the killer suspects it they just turn around hit the survivor as they vault the window.

The only CC I've seen able to do it it consistently is Ayrun, I see others try and mess it up pretty frequently.

Some people call walking/running around the shack to avoid chase starting a shift tech as well. Again it's tricky to actually pull off as BL is not the most precise thing in the world.

If the tech isn't too harmful to the overall health of the game (crouch tech being a middle finger to dash killers, kidnap tech being just a "teehee you are dead", ect.) or too easy to pull off, I'm fine with them.

Blight hug tech was fine and had plenty counterplay, and tbh it was more counterable than a good blight that knows bump logic. Techs increase skill ceilings and increase the fun factor. They shouldn't be patched out unless it's extremely problematic ones that don't really have counterplay or don't increase fun factor.

It really comes down to what the impact on the game is. Heal techs for example let Survivors eke out a 4 escape in situations when they have essentially already earned it, so I am fine with it. The CJ is extremely gimmicky, can be anticipated, and is hype when it works so I also quite like it. And on both sides, it can really extend the longevity and fun of the game.

One of my tech opinions that I think might be controversial is that I don't like point teching. I think its gameplay benefit is so negligible for Survivors most of the time, there's no reason not to do it every time you go down, and it makes the game look notably worse, so I would personally like to see it patched. I'd be fine with downing mechanics getting adjusted so Survivors have less need to use point tech in the first place, and there's a billion other things with higher urgency to get patched, but I think the game would be better off without point teching.

Blights hug tech 100% had counterplay. You pointing out the fact he's still the second strongest killer literally only proves my point that hug tech was inconsequential to the killer's strength and wasn't broken.

Well, they did make shadowborn base kit as a feature.

And as an aside, DbD is a video game, which is going to be fairly different in a number of ways from a typical horror movie.

You know what a common horror trope is? You know what ghost face, nemesis, xenomorph, Freddy, Demogorgon, and more, all have in common?

They die in their respective media... and usually at the hands of the survivors. Everyone wants a rocket launcher for nemesis, but true to lore, Leon is the one who would get to use it.

So no, just because "it happens in movies" isn't a good reason to automatically put it in the game.

Some "techs" are just clever use of mechanics, others are outright exploit abuse. Exploits, if interesting can add to gameplay. Simply needs to be case by case

Yeah, video games like this can't operate on what makes sense irl. I mean half the killers' attacks would kill a survivor instantly, and no amount of others waving their hands over them would restore them. No one would keep running after taking a 50mph hatchet to the face.

And unless the survs are all also olympic gymnasts, they wouldn't be vaulting windows and pallets one after the other, or dropping from heights without their knees exploding. Or doing anything after having a meat hook through their torso.

Now there are things I don't like thematically (like voice comms because there's no way the entity gave the survs equipment to talk across the map), but the game is about suspension of disbelief. Very little of it would hold up to any level of logical scrutiny.

I have completely lost respect for the concept of "Techs" in DBD purely because of how frequently this community uses the term to describe a glitch or basic game mechanic.

Examples

Crouch Tech? A move that makes use of the fact that the crouch hitbox for some reason lets you completely avoid things like Hillbilly's Chainsaw despite the chainsaw going straight through the survivor from the killer's POV, this is a glitch, not a tech

Hug Tech? Made use of the fact that Blight's Bumping hitbox acted really finnicky while looking down, this was a glitch, not a tech

That old locker exploit that let survivors infinitely blind killers if two people go into lockers next to each other? Basic gameplay feature at the time that could be abused with minimal effort, not a tech

FOV Tech? Makes use of the fact that the survivor's hitbox goes away when Channelling a item and the Killer's FOV is often not looking directly down, this is a basic gameplay feature that anybody with a key or map can perform with minimal issue, and barely qualifies as a tech

These are just the examples off the top of my head, very few things that this community calls "Techs" are actually techs, and I roll my eyes every time the term gets mentioned because there's a very high chance it's just a glitch or intended game mechanic.

Because survivors having a giant meat hook protruding through their shoulder/chest and somehow magically being fine after being unhooked definitely makes sense IRL.

It's a video game. It's not meant to be realistic.

this is not shift tech, this is a window tech.

shift teching is letting go of shift (run) while the killer can see you around corners briefly as well as after starting vaults in order to lose chase so the killer cannot get bloodlust and windows will not block.

This post is giving off "magic xylophone" levels of unearned smugness.

Just pretend I said "make sense in a horror movie" instead of "make sense IRL", Captain Sarcasm.

I mean, this is already a nerdy discussion. If you think my ludonarrative opinions are bad, that's fine, but at least save your pwns for something that's gonna get you laid.