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What are some reasons Killers hit hooked Survivors?
I'm thinking it's to pass time during struggle, or to practice aim, or to practice lunging? I very seldom play Killer, so I was just wondering what some Killer mains' reasons were for doing so, if you do it.
To clarify, this is smacking the heck out of the last on-hook Survivor or two, so there's no pressing chase to be done, no camping, etc., just killing time.
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for fun.
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the survivor made them that salty
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Generally giving an extra whack is the killer saying that the survivor pissed them off with some dirty play. Someone that sits there hitting the survivor over and over like a zombie is usually just someone with an infants level of intelligence playing killer. Someone proximity camping after the gens are done givong an occasional whack is the killer saying come rescue your friend guys.
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Oh just saw the very end of your post. Definitely an infant in that case.
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Thanks, guys! I was just curious some ideas behind the occurence and this helps explain some alternative reasons.
I've had some Clowns and Huntresses do it and assumed it was for aim (I'm usually yellowish rank and on PS4, so practice seemed logical). Although a good "smack" because I was annoying makes sense too.
I don't mind when it happens because it's not like it affects the outcome or hurts anything -- I'm the last Survivor and I'm hooked and not going anywhere, so it's like the DBD equivalent of a Snickers, I thought maybe.
Thanks for the input!
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When it happens, I figure it's because I annoyed them.
Had a really bad match against a Myers a couple days ago, where the other three survivors died quickly so I just gave myself up. He dropped me a good distance away from the hatch and motioned for me to crawl towards it. I put my controller down. He finally gave up, hooked me, and smacked me until the entity finished taking me away.
The only time I've hit survivors on the hook at the end of the game is because they held me hostage and forced me to find them rather than do gens (before the EGC became a thing, one survivor could do it if fewer than 2 gens had been completed; since the EGC, it takes at least two survivors to do this). Otherwise, I go off to quickly break a pallet or kick a gen or something if I can.
If I'm Plague, I might vomit on them for fun to pass the time, but mostly I don't do that stuff because it can come across as BMing. I know when I play survivor, if a killer hits me on the hook, my instinctual reaction is, "What did I do to you?? Why are you mad at me??" I don't want to cause that reaction in others when I play killer. Unless they held me hostage; then I'm pissed.
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If a killer hits you right away after hooking you, its probably to cancel the loud screaming every survivor do when they get hooked.
If they hit you continiously and there's more than you left in the trial, they're probably salty as #########.
Hitting the last survivor on the hook is basically just a "please die already damnit" thing.
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Especially if it’s a Nancy
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The only thing i do is hit the last guy with FF cause it lets me do the animation as I run off for more points.
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Personally, I'll hit them once after hooking to stop the scream, or if they did something ######### like unhook right in front of me or sandbag a teammate
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If Huntresses + Clowns throw their hatchets/bottles at the hooked person, then yes, this can indeed be just some practicing.
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I mean you should be happy if a Clown does it. It's part anesthetic so it dulls the pain.
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Its a pat on the back for such a good chase. 🤗
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Jeff's scream is too loud, and hitting him stops that.
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For the same reason survivors t-bag at exit gates or just flashlight macro spam, just to BM and rub it in your face. I find it quite funny that survivors are allowed to BM and we're told "it's just crouching, get a thicker skin" but if the killers BM we're salty. I love throwing around the saying what comes around goes around, so if survivor BM me then I'll rub it in their face and BM them back and then usually get told to get cancer, etc. Well any form of salt is a victory for me.
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well if a killer camps me because I pissed them off that much then I'm proud of myself
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Oh I've had proud moments when I loop killers for multiple gens just to be face camped by them at the end. 2 days ago I got a head-on save and was camped to death by a Myers because "Head-on is toxic!" when I was running meme builds.
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Honestly out of habit. I watched YouTubers play it a lot before I got it and saw killers doing it in videos. Once I started playing it, I started doing it just as a "Yay! I got one!" thing. Still do it on occasion. It never occurred to me that it could mean one is salty though. I'll have to keep that in mind.
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I didn't know that thanks for the info
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Because a survivor teabag my doctor and nope, nobody do that while my sexy lough is on. So hook him and bash him like a pinata!
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I usually do it either to acknowledge a good chase/attempt or if the survivor was doing something disrespectful like sabo teammates, breaking hooks/insta med etc
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To hear jake scream
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stridor
it worked well if you shut up the screaming so you could hear other survivors/ footsteps
but now that cant be done anymore.
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