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Anyone else notice a lot of struggle mode killer campers?

Firepaul19
Firepaul19 Member Posts: 28
in General Discussions

I am a killer main. I prefer to hunted down survivors than try to escape and teabag at the edge of escape. But recently I decided to start playing survivor for a while cause sometimes you get tired of being killer all the time. Anyways for the past, idk, 10 game sessions, I've noticed that every killer I played against, they all do the same struggle mode camp thing. When the killer gets someone on the hook, they camp around the hooked survivor for a while till they enter struggle mode. Once they entered struggle mode, the killer leaves the area to where their terror radius is barely out of range but wait till another survivor unhooks them. Then they immediately chase down the one that unhooked the hooked survivor and do the same thing till all the survivors have either gone through the same process or 2 out of 4 survivors have been sacrificed.

I'm not saying every killer is doing this, cause I did some pretty decent games just now, but this is starting to feel like a trend. I can understand both sides saying "let killers play however they want, it's their choice as well" and "survivors don't get a real game to play if all killers do is camp and tunnel" and other comments like that. If I have to be honest, from a killer's prospective, this is a pretty boring tactic. To me it kind of seems like a desperate attempt for a guaranteed 4K. Your not really trying to play the game you just want to win regardless if it's fun or not but that's just my opinion.

I just want to know if people are noticing this as well because it's kind of weird seeing an unusual tactic being used so many times.

Comments

  • GrannyonAcid
    GrannyonAcid Member Posts: 476

    Think it is very rank dependent. At red ranks killers don't normally camp anymore. Some still do tunnel because killing 1 = easier game. So they will try to get a person out of the game earlier. But that's not every game either.


    When you get to green, yellow, brown ranks. The killers will camp a lot. It's all about player skill pretty much. At red ranks the killers know they can catch survivors fast enough that it doesn't matter if they let them reset over and over again. Where as in the other ranks the killers are struggling to end chases and need to slow the game down by camping and trying to waste the other survivors time to make the saves.


    Sitting at rank 1 survivor right now and I've played vs. Spirit 8 games in a row. No camping, no tunneling. Just meta killer versus meta perked build survivors. Not to much excitement.

  • thrawn3054
    thrawn3054 Member Posts: 5,897

    Welcome to survivor life. It's always a crapshoot whether the killer will play super sweaty. Or if they'll give you a chance to play.

  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,566

    I do see it a lot... I mostly play killer and I don't do that....

  • DevourOfSalt
    DevourOfSalt Member Posts: 254
    edited November 2019

    As killer main the few times i play survivor iv been tunnelled and camped hard it was bs.

    Sometimes i understand survivors frustrations, but then red ranks survivors i vs completely change my thoughts. they, T-bagg clicking flash lights body blocking and just straight up pain in the ass.

    But to answer your questions lol most these killer that do this are trash low ranks from 10-15 in between that level.

    under 9-1 you start to see more skilled killers (i can only talk from experience)

  • humanbeing1704
    humanbeing1704 Member Posts: 8,998

    that's why I use camaraderie let's get it

  • Bleediss
    Bleediss Member Posts: 134

    I mean it's a valid strategy. To me, though, you should hook someone and patrol gens afterward. If someone is close to struggle phase or death, camp them until they reach that phase, then go back to patrolling gens.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,442
    edited November 2019

    I'll return to the hook and make sure someone goes into struggle if survivors wait too long to save. No sense in not going 2 for 1 if you have a good gen setup and the survivors are getting greedy on gens. I guess the difference is I'm not setting up camp right away. Really depends on the situation.

  • LordGlint
    LordGlint Member Posts: 8,684

    If a survivor is still on the hook and about to hit the next phase, I might stay put afew seconds, but not the whole minute.