Camping

Unless the gates are powered, then I do not understand killers who camp. Apart from it being a stupid strategy that lets other survivors get stuff done while the killer stays in one spot, it is boring. Just standing there watching a survivor slowly die on the hook. You get crap for blood points, too. I've seen campers take out a whole lobby by camping and barely scrape 10k.

I have no issue with someone who camps/patrols an area around the hook, esp if there are gens nearby. I have a problem with someone who face camps. I do not see the fun in sitting right in front of the hook.

Camping is not always a good choice but if survivor's are overly altruistic it can definitely pay off. It's a strategy, and like any other strategy there is a time and a place for it. While gates are powered it's a safe bet. A lot of survivors will stop working gens for a while anyways.

I will camp at the conditions below

• If the gens are powered i will camp, since there is no point in going to a gate to get one hit.

• If i know at least 2 of the 3 survivors are swarming the hook instead of doing gens. I will proxy to lure them in

• If 3 gens line up close by with the hook. I will patrol both gens and the hook ( I dont consider this camping but some people does)

• If something irl unexpected turns up, making me have to end the game quick ( I might just leave the match depending on how urgent or serious the matter is)

It really should not be a thing having made up community rules. A game is a game play how you want aslong as you're not breaking any actual rules such as greifing hacking ect. Sometimes i wonder why the community's fake rules always only applies to the killer, i mean you expect the killer to play with a rule book you dont have to follow. Survivors will ######### about camping and then see no wrong in t-bag and flashlight clicking. Heard the argument that the killer affects people's games so therefore he has to follow some rules, This idea is as stupid both killer and survivors affects other people's games. Just because survivor players are in the majority does not mean that people that want to play killer should be ######### talked for not prioritising the fun of survivors over their own.

To sum it up community rules are one sided bs that people shouldn't think about, Just play how you think is fun and ignore the people who tells you otherwise

I can camp and chase at the same time, so It doesn't matter to me ^^

i'm not a camper BUT i do see the benefit of it.... i just prefer the hunt. playing beats staying....

The problem is, if you camp and they are a decent survivor team, they can easily get 2 - 3 gens done in that time. I never camp unless its a particularly toxic survivor.

Camping is when the killer is still in the map after hooking a survivor...
Ignore the people that complain about camping. Hard to feel sympathy for them when they bully every killer they come across... They're trying to get you into a playstyle that gives them free points and makes it easier for them to escape. Camp when you think it's necessary.
Edit: But I disagree that it's the "best way to win the game". Best way to win the game is by chasing everyone and making a lot of points. Camping doesn't help with making points, that in some situations.

@Jack11803 said:

@wraith_only said:
When you see NOBODY with your BBQ & Chili after you hook one and so I sit invisible as the Wraith waiting for a new target then they cry in the post chat: CAAAAAAAMPPPPPPPPPPPERRRR, BBQ & Chili and camps!?
People forget the fact that the perk also gives you knowledge on the amount of people who are near the hook.

Funny....killer mains always tell me it doesn’t ruin stealth, and that hiding behind a generator masks your aura....so who’s wrong here? You, are the literal thousands of killer mains denying any reasoning to buff stealth? Actually curious. I main doc, so I understand the whole “stealth is ruined”.

I don't even know what you are on about... what did I say wrong?

@Jack11803 said:

@wraith_only said:
When you see NOBODY with your BBQ & Chili after you hook one and so I sit invisible as the Wraith waiting for a new target then they cry in the post chat: CAAAAAAAMPPPPPPPPPPPERRRR, BBQ & Chili and camps!?
People forget the fact that the perk also gives you knowledge on the amount of people who are near the hook.

Funny....killer mains always tell me it doesn’t ruin stealth, and that hiding behind a generator masks your aura....so who’s wrong here? You, are the literal thousands of killer mains denying any reasoning to buff stealth? Actually curious. I main doc, so I understand the whole “stealth is ruined”.

I'm not good at being bold (must be because I am a Killer main, or I suck. Hah.) as survivor so stealth is my only option, but when I get Doctor it's over. I hope they can balance him.

@Jack11803 said:

@wraith_only said:

@Jack11803 said:

@wraith_only said:
When you see NOBODY with your BBQ & Chili after you hook one and so I sit invisible as the Wraith waiting for a new target then they cry in the post chat: CAAAAAAAMPPPPPPPPPPPERRRR, BBQ & Chili and camps!?
People forget the fact that the perk also gives you knowledge on the amount of people who are near the hook.

Funny....killer mains always tell me it doesn’t ruin stealth, and that hiding behind a generator masks your aura....so who’s wrong here? You, are the literal thousands of killer mains denying any reasoning to buff stealth? Actually curious. I main doc, so I understand the whole “stealth is ruined”.

I don't even know what you are on about... what did I say wrong?

Not you I’m complaining about, it’s just people who demand that I play stealth, while running bbq, whispers, all on billy.

Ye that's just silly.

@dbdcamper_66 said:
I hate when everyone complains about camping... it is the best way to win the game FYI

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@Master said:

@Runiver said:
Camping is a legit reason to complain because it's quite unfun to be camped.
Camping is also a legit strategy, and a necessary one, considering the recovering abilities of survivors that can get back to work under a very few seconds if left unchecked, leading to very one sided matches if you do not camp at times, unless the survivors are really slow and low ranks.

Looping is a legit reason to complain because its quite unfun to be looped.
Looping is also a legit strategy, and a necessary one, considering that most survivors dont know how to hide

Its just sad, but I dont think that DBD will experience a major rework anytime, I had hopes for the 2.0 patch, but turned out that they forgot about mindgame pallets and sticked to the super safe ones instead

Looping is a legit reason to complain because it's quite unfun to be looped.
Looping isn't necessary to the game, as you can actually juke without looping in this game. And when I say juke, I mean juke effectively. Not throw all of the pallets randomly

Sparrklebus said:

I recently had a game where I would place a trap - it would get popped.. I'd place another.. And it would be popped. So I said to hell with that - and ran around until I found someone - And every time I looked there were 1-2 survivors flocking around me. So when I hooked the person I sat there circling the hook/walls because there were 2 survivors flocking around the darn thing.

I just needed a sacrifice for the daily - so I just sort of sat there and circled the hook. The after game chat was fun to read. But - when I know I'm being followed by a survivor and there are survivors flocking the hook - yes, I'm going to sit and try to smack them away from it/try to get another hook out of the deal.

Normally - outside of a situation like that or where they're right by an exit gate/hatch or where I KNOW a survivor is lurking around "that bush over there" I generally wander away towards a nearby gen or something else.

I know what you mean. About a month ago I had a game where I hooked someone, I would see someone run to the rescue before I could get even five steps away. Now listen, I'm a lousy killer. I main survivor. But I try to play fair when I'm the killer. However, when the survivors give me no reason whatsoever to believe they are not going to rush out for the same the moment my back is turned, why would I ever walk away? That game I killed the entire party because they'd run out for the rescue as soon as I hooked someone. I could take five steps backwards and watch them rush out from cover. At one point I had three buddies crawling on the ground around me with one in the hook. All near the same damned hook. 

And at the end of it all, I was the "Camping #########." Despite that I was never given a reasonable time to get away from the hook. Despite that they gave me no reason to every leave the hook. C'est la vie. 

I've ben very tempted to camp, I have. Technically camping and tunneling would probably make me get more kills, I play Freddy mostly after all, and I love Dying Light for some stupid reason despite never killing them in time to matter. But.... its not the most fun as killer, and as survivor I know it sucks. Plus, I have witnessed from both sides, the magic of genrushing. And that is why, despite being a survivor main, I don't hate camping with a burning passion. It sucks to be camped. It really really does. But camping is a flawed strategy that only works off of altruisim snowballs. If you dont feed into the bait... well then it just doesnt work. You genrush and they end up depipping or not pipping because while they got that one kill the rest of you either genrushed, or if the doors were open, just left. So... its a strat, but it only works if survivors let it, to be angry about it is to be angry for falling for it

Camping i snot the best strategy in all situations. Indeed, in most situations you are better off chasing somebody else.

Remember.....

• Killer's most valuable asset is time.
• Every moment a survivor has on a generator is time getting stolen from the killer.
• If the survivors aren't completely stupid and punish you for camping by doing gens, you've only taken 1 person of generators for 2 minutes.
• If you chase somebody else, you've taken 3 people off generators. The guy on the hook, the guy your chasing, and the guy doing the rescue.

Now, if they're all standing near the hook t-bagging you, then you've gotten you 3 people off gens and have every right to camp; nobody has a right to complain because they've refused to put generator pressure on you.

onark said:

So funny, reading this thread seems like almost no one camps, there are some screenshots of facecamping me. All of them the same day (you can see it in my perks):

*camping pictures*

The only really scummy one is the one where there was only two gens left. I can understand camping when there is one gen left, but I’m not entirely sure how I feel about doing it. Camping when the gates are powered is 100% fine because the Killer’s trying to secure his/her last kill. 

@AsianMammoth said:
Camping is when the killer is still in the map after hooking a survivor...
Ignore the people that complain about camping. Hard to feel sympathy for them when they bully every killer they come across... They're trying to get you into a playstyle that gives them free points and makes it easier for them to escape. Camp when you think it's necessary.
Edit: But I disagree that it's the "best way to win the game". Best way to win the game is by chasing everyone and making a lot of points. Camping doesn't help with making points, that in some situations.

I agree with this and I just camp when it is necessary.