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BMing: A Poll
Easing my hyperfixations today by discussing BMing in a more neutral setting. I played a few games as killer last night and got the cheekiest survivors I've yet seen, some really good at the game, some confident but… Not so good.
I don't let BM affect me at all, no matter how badly the game is going for me. If I keep playing as best I can, I'm more likely to catch someone out when they get too confident, and at the very least, they'll not see any reaction from me. Sometimes I even find it endearing, especially if I'm getting humped by a killer that has clearly had a very difficult time catching me. It's like a dog that found the best stick and is just so stoked about it.
One thing, however, is I never BM. I just don't understand what I'm supposed to get out of it. I know sometimes people might BM because they're just so excited over a play they made that they have to showboat a bit, but hoping to make another person's day worse for no real gain is a baffling concept to me. I've thought about this in other games too, but DBD has a whole culture for nonverbal trash talk that goes a little beyond your standard Xbox lobby shenanigans.
So I'll put it out there, hoping for some honesty - Who here BMs? How often?
Bonus question:
If you BM, why?
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
I think i maybe light BMed a few times ever when the other side really BMed first.
But i usually curse to myself and go on. I know that once i am back in the menu all rage is usually gone.
You never know how the match before this one went for them.
The bullies these days dc most of the time when things don´t go as planned.
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I BM whenever I can, even if it puts me at a disadvantage.
It’s a PvP game competition and having fun is the only way to enjoy dbd lol
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I avoid BMing but have moments of weakness.
I almost never do it but when I do, it's reactionary, like when a killer is super toxic or tried to tunnel me. If I manage to survive such a match, I will give them a few squats on the way out. This happens maybe once every few hundred survivor matches. As killer, if someone keeps waving, tbagging, and flashlight clicking, I'll nod when I down them or hit them on hook. I personally find these sorts of back-and-forths more playful than malicious. Not everyone is taking the game that seriously.
Humping is a no-go though, and killers who hump everyone for no reason are peak gross to me. I've also had killers that will just spam their power at me when I'm on the ground. Also a no-go. Nor would I ever wait at a gate to BM even the most toxic killer. I just leave. Anything that prolongs the game at the other's expense is a hard no.
I do a hell of a lot of chat trash talking though.
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
The playful aspect gets me because I feel there have been a few examples where I've been BM'd but don't see the malice in it. Like it's after a really stupid series of events resulted in a bad outcome for me, it's almost like they're thumbing their nose like a mischievous scamp that tied my shoes together, and less a "ez" sort of vibe. That kind of thing has me laughing, usually. I had a match againt a slinger that 3-man slugged and chased me around the area with all my teammates. I must have managed 6 or 7 pick ups during his reload but he always got the immediate M1 and kept them down. When he finally got me, he humped, and honestly I just laughed.
Another thing I notice is if a killer BM's after a particularly unimpressive play - like just caught me in a bad spot while I was 99'd vs Ghostface - I'm unoffended because that tells me they don't often see that kind of success and overvalue how good it was. They're more telling on themselves in those cases.
I've accidentally BM'd when I was new to the game before. Example I've commented before was ringing Wraith's bell over and over after a down. I thought I was being cute. I think in my entire DBD career I've only ever hit one survivor on hook, and he had been giving me hell all match with bags and clickies, to an absurd degree, but was only mid in chase.0 -
I avoid BMing but have moments of weakness.
As killer, I can't take survivor BMing seriously. I don't know how something as silly as rapid squats tilts people. They look like little children acting out and I think that's so embarrassing to get mad at. It's like you said, they're like mischievous scamps. Even when the whole team is BMing, I usually don't respond. I also don't think it's nearly as common as people act like it is. Most of my survivor matches, everyone just runs out. The egc drag-outs rarely happen on my teams (though they do happen to me as killer, just not constantly.)
Unprovoked killer BMing bothers me more because they're already the power role, and it feels like they're abusing it. It's often the ones who play dirty too. Add in that soloqers have little control over their fate, so even if someone on the team tilted you, its not the whole team's fault. But people are unreasonable.
I used to hit people on hook when I was new. Didn't know I was being toxic. I thought it would help me somehow or something idk.
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
I actually remember you from a post I made a couple months back about new player habits. You told me then how you hit survivors on hook because you thought it would kill them faster or something lmao.
I don't think I ever BM as killer. To be honest the thought hasn't much occurred to me. I've seen it but honestly getting the down is enough satisfaction for me, especially if it's a survivor being cheeky the whole chase.
As for getting tilted by it; I can admit that it got to me a little after I got out of baby jail and started playing against survivors that could loop a little. They noticed the baby killer in me and went full blood in the water. It wasn't the majority of matches, but I wasn't used to it. I never raged or BM'd back, but sometimes I'd have to take a sec after a bad game, maybe play another game. That stopped fairly quickly though. I now see a BMing survivor as one of two things; an opportunity for an easy down, or an opportunity to play against someone good and learn from them, as they have confidence at the very least.
The worst I get these days is a mildly exasperated "C'mon man" in my head when a survivor is waiting at the opposite gate for me to force them out. Not that I care about bags on the line, that's whatever, it's just only ever happens when I'm playing a killer with no mobility and have to drag myself all the way over.0 -
Other: Please specify.
I'm sure I already did something that other think its toxic, bm on purpose.
Teabag, waiting in the exit, mori, tunneling, slugging, quests, whatever.
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I avoid BMing but have moments of weakness.
Yeah that was a funny post. Nice seeing all the dumb stuff people did.
Like I said, in the rare case I do it's because they were going wild. But yeah, the down is usually enough. Can't tell you how many people tbag me in chase and get instadowned, and that's the end of that behavior.
I usually just go break pallets and doors if they longer. I'm getting points: they're tbagging no one.
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
People think Moris are toxic?
Breaking pallets, huh? Shocked that never occurred to me. Cheers!
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
I actually used to BM all the time, tea-bagging, flashlight clicking, hitting on hook, etc. I'd even send stupid little messages after the match like your classic "GG EZ" and stuff.
That was around maybe seven years ago now? I stopped after I realized that I was acting like a child and making people's days worse for no reason, and I suggest everyone who still BM's does the same.
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
Congratulations on your recovery lmao.
You right. I can understand the mental warfare angle and truth be told it's not evil to BM, but I get more pleasure out of being kind. Throw me into a TF2 lobby decade or so ago however…Post edited by zonkednb on0 -
Other: Please specify.
People have such a range of what BM is, some things I do in game with be considered BM
Eg. If the killer continually drops chase to go back to gens, ill teabag him and try to bait him into chasing me longer works fairly often.
Another example is I just stand at exit gate and take hits as I see on HUD other person it getting the other door done.
I picked other but would put "I BM for strategic purposes"1 -
I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
Even if relentlessly tunneled and bm'ed by the killer ive never felt the need to tbag and im usually the only one that just runs out the gate instead of waiting for the killer to show up.
And even on Killer, even against very toxic players and bully squads i've never felt the need to sit there hitting them on the hook or bming them on the ground. I just take them out methodically and avoid stooping to their level.
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I never BM, no matter how I personally feel.
My mindset as well.
I wait in exit only if I do not know where my team are. I play super altrustically and will always try and save someone that gets hooked in the endgame, even through something like NOED.
Although, recently not been afforded the same courtesy. Not sure if something changed but yesterday, a non-insignificant chunk of my games had people insta-leaving, one instance where I was left to die as a slug with 0 hooks (I hadn't ratted, Killer had a bad game and only hooked 2 people overall, both of which I unhooked through proxy camp.)1 -
Other: Please specify.
Yes but no don't ask me why 🙂
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