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Play Guide = Get Griefed

Destaice
Destaice Member Posts: 112
in General Discussions

The point of the Guide class in 2v8 is to see the most important generators that need done and reveal their aura while working on them. This let's teammates help complete these gens or avoid them in chase. Or in theory that is how it works.

In reality people see the gen as a means to get the killer to chase somebody else by intentionally bringing them to a survivor who has no chase power in 2v8 and isn't in a good position to start chase.

This happens every match I've played as guide. I will start working on a gen that's not inside a common loop (like shack or main) and I will see survivors B-line to my generator the second they start chase. Or I will work on a gen in a loop and same thing. You will see survivors start chase on the opposite side of the map thanks to aura reveals and they will run in a straight line my generator. And I don't mean at the start of the match when there's nowhere to go. We'll need 3 gens left to finish and they'll do it.

This griefing is just too frequent and extreme to be a coincidence. If you pick a guide your teammates have selected you as the sacrifice when they picked the classes with chase abilities.

Comments

  • cogsturning
    cogsturning Member Posts: 2,023

    I've mostly been playing Guide cause it meshes with how I play 1v4 and I'm so naive it hadn't occured to me that this is why chases keep coming to my gens lol. I think Guide and Scout are the most important roles though, so it's worth it. Gen auras and killer auras are a winning combo.

  • ShanoaLegendaryPlz
    ShanoaLegendaryPlz Member Posts: 1,200

    Ive also played guide most of the time. Happens rarely to me but when i do see them coming i simply start pre running to another generator because the killer is usualy more focused on them and if they stop to kick the gen they will see you if you are still around (not in a locker). Ive more often had times where i was the only one who knew where a generator was by the time theres 1 left. Sometimes even 1%ing one, putting a bomb on it so it lights up to others, then going for the opposite generator, so people would start piling on both.

  • SoGo
    SoGo Member Posts: 4,182

    I'm sorry for you having to endure stupidity like that.

    Guide is incredibly important though.

    A bad endgame set up with 6 gens next to eachother can grind the game to a halt. Killers can monitor all of them and quickly pick off those who start repairing them.

    Guide's job is to ensure this never happens.

  • cogsturning
    cogsturning Member Posts: 2,023

    Had a match earlier where I was with a couple other people cranking out the last gen and a Feng beelined towards us with both killers on her tail. The selfishness is crazy. She went down anyway, but she wasn't on death hook and escaped. So what was the point of delaying us? People really don't think.

  • Kaldoit
    Kaldoit Member Posts: 2

    I fully agree. I run guide because I know most of the time, I'll be the only one in a lobby that knows what a gen is for. And every single time when I'm on the only gen that is being moved, I'm greeted with a survivor giving the killer a guided tour

  • PleaseRewind
    PleaseRewind Member Posts: 343

    I have noticed this happen a fair bit to me while playing. I just assumed the other player was just foolish. Never thought about it being intentional.

  • BongoBoys
    BongoBoys Member Posts: 265

    NGL when I play guide I just trap a Gen when I hear a killer near run then point and laugh when they blow up the gen.

    Also does anyone else feel like opening gates faster as a guide not really matter? Or really make a difference.