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Why are you still allowing them to camp inside their door? Cancelling their power and unlimited no TR is a bit much.

This isn't jump scare, it's just getting stupid. Where's the speed adjustment when not holding axe you promised?

No wonder people just gen rush. It's all getting quite dull.

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  • Valimure
    Valimure Member Posts: 257

    Sorry the person above me was a bit rude.

    While I would love to see proxy camping made completely unviable, it's utilized by killer players who have no idea how to create pressure. My advice would be to use that against them.

    Especially now that people cannot struggle on hook, it's perfectly fine to leave them for a bit. Do gens for 20-30 seconds and see if the killer starts a chase with someone else... *then* go rescue.

    If they're proxy camping, punish them for it. Do the gens, then rescue at the last moment even if you have to trade a hook state for it. At most the killer should only get a single kill this way.

    Also, a lot of killers will return to hook even if they are currently chasing someone else. Don't heal under hook.

  • Zuiphrode
    Zuiphrode Member Posts: 598

    It's ilterally what he does in his own home game

  • MadDragon
    MadDragon Member Posts: 168
    edited July 2025

    Proxy camping has its place, but hard focusing it as a strat is bad, yes. You don't have to be negative about newer or less experienced killers doing this lol. The only issue is that a lot of survivors play into it like tunneling or normal camping (instead of ignoring the hook and doing gens). Good advice to go for gens and save closer to the end of their struggle phase.

    You can struggle on hook, you just can't self-unhook during your first hook state. The counterplay to this and tunneling is the exact same from before that change went live.

    If you mean camp inside a door near a hook, the survivor will still get anti-camp from him being there (like Drege in a locker or Singularity hiding around a corner in a bio-pod). Cancelling his power, as in his axe or his doors? Forcing your hand for either once you go for it would just punish him for no reason.

  • Lexilogo
    Lexilogo Member Posts: 801

    I don't see how Springtrap being able to wait inside a door to proxy camp is any more problematic from other Killers with stealth abilities, or any Killer who equips Insidious. Travelling to doors near hooks I understand as a complaint, there's a precedent for that kind of traversal being limited on other Killers, but not this. It's a jerk move, but it's one of the oldest tricks in the book.

    IIRC you can also visually tell if Springtrap is bluffing a door, because the screen on the door flickers, which happens to the door Springtrap enters and is leaving from if he's travelling.

    As for speed adjustment while holding axe, please just be patient. Springtrap got a round of kneejerk addon changes and is now waiting a bit before basekit balance changes while a bunch of other stuff in the game is getting changed. Considering that there doesn't seem to be a massive consensus on him yet, that seems fair IMO

  • LockerLurk
    LockerLurk Member Posts: 1,683
    edited July 2025

    What's wrong with letting this low A to mid B tier Killer hide in his doors? Dredge can briefly hide in its lockers. Ghostface gets free undetectable on demand. Sadako can hear someone on a TV or see the aura of a TV and instantly port to it. Pig can crouch not far from a Hook and ambush you. Myers can proxy stalk hooks, as can Ghostface. Nobody is complaining about any of these Killers, so why complain about Springtrap? I don't see why you'd even want to nerf this Springtrap trick; it's not even that common… maybe don't hang around the doors too long?

  • RafterMaster
    RafterMaster Member Posts: 46

    I'm sorry for you and I hope you receive the help you need, but this is a forum and we are allowed to make comments. It isn't however just a place for your cretinous poison.

  • RafterMaster
    RafterMaster Member Posts: 46

    All sensible stuff and nice of you to adjust the cretin above. My issue is 'cancelling power', that should just be removed. It's not balanced and doesn't make any sense. The other points are good, I follow those already, but appreciate that :)

  • RafterMaster
    RafterMaster Member Posts: 46

    Just meant going into door and cancelling to come out of same door, resetting power (no TR for 20/30 secs). There is an issue with the cancel power of all killers, it should just be 'commit'.

  • RafterMaster
    RafterMaster Member Posts: 46

    The doors are by all gens. You can see dredge in locker. You can't see door face from most gens, no identification and no TR on exit.

    Ghost face and Pig aren't comparable at all, but I see the point you are making. But at 115 with no axe… I mean, come on. The nerf is obviously coming.