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Final Preparations

Peasant
Peasant Member Posts: 4,104
Well the summer event is about to release, anyone got tips for apprentice killers?

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  • Peasant
    Peasant Member Posts: 4,104
    Use Hangmans Trick, some ######### gonna spend the entire event saboing the grill hooks. You can expect a lot of toxicity from both sides so you better come prepared.
    After the horror stories of high-rank howling grounds I was careful to get Hangman's on my main asap.
  • Chrona
    Chrona Member Posts: 245

    So....Maybe not the best place to ask. What are the events like? I've only been around for a month or so.

  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,618

    Ohh, this is just a side-thought, but...

    Since you got trolls sabotaging your Hooks, you might want to make Iron Grasp a standard Perk as well.
    If they troll you by sabotaging Hooks, they might also troll you when you carry them by equipping Boil Over, messing up your walking big time.

  • Chrona
    Chrona Member Posts: 245

    I found the wiki page relating to it...I never heard about the event coming! Kind of wish they announced it somewhere in the news section of the game's steam page. Ah well. I know now! And I also understand. Special generators, special hooks, special cosmetics, lots of bloodpoints.

    So, how does the attitude shift in the community? Do people play the same? Harder? More generous, or more trolley?

  • Peasant
    Peasant Member Posts: 4,104
    Chrona said:
    So, how does the attitude shift in the community? Do people play the same? Harder? More generous, or more trolley?
    Last time there was an event like this there were roaming Saboteur squads that would farm the gens and deny special hooks all game. I hope that this time will be different, but only time will tell.
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  • ChesterTheMolester
    ChesterTheMolester Member Posts: 2,771

    For the record, this isn't a stealth brag, I got the new Billy weapon in roughly 5-6 hours. So I don't know why there's dudes running around saying "OMG! I need to equip Agitation and Hangman's Trick to fight those dang dirty trolls!" It's really not that hard to achieve.

    Im at 33, yeah its not as bad as it is. In fact half the games SWF groups came up with offerings and party streamers wanting to farm points, hard to say no to that.



  • Peasant
    Peasant Member Posts: 4,104

    For the record, this isn't a stealth brag, I got the new Billy weapon in roughly 5-6 hours. So I don't know why there's dudes running around saying "OMG! I need to equip Agitation and Hangman's Trick to fight those dang dirty trolls!" It's really not that hard to achieve.

    It's just Howling Grounds PTSD. That event was just like this one except you needed offerings for any objectives to spawn. Also the toxicity was much higher as well.
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  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172

    Lets be honest the "Pro pain" hammer is meh at best and the "Sunrise Top" was a "take your kid to work day" cosmetic release. For me personally I don't care for either objective cosmetic, unlike the amazing jacket and decent mask of Howling grounds.

  • Zarathos
    Zarathos Member Posts: 1,910

    @Peasant said:
    Chrona said:
    So, how does the attitude shift in the community? Do people play the same? Harder? More generous, or more trolley?

    Last time there was an event like this there were roaming Saboteur squads that would farm the gens and deny special hooks all game. I hope that this time will be different, but only time will tell.

    I remember accidentally bumping into one of these sabo squads it wasn't during the event tho. At first i thought they would gen rush then my game started to explode with noises. I only equipped hangman's trick because my pig had no survivors transport perks so I used hangman's trick. The team sabo hooks only for the hooks to regenerate 10 seconds later and they didn't stop until ended up 4king all of them. Honestly sabo is a terrible mechanic why not make sabo just better at smashing hex totems?

  • Esheon
    Esheon Member Posts: 567
    Zarathos said:

    @Peasant said:
    Chrona said:
    So, how does the attitude shift in the community? Do people play the same? Harder? More generous, or more trolley?

    Last time there was an event like this there were roaming Saboteur squads that would farm the gens and deny special hooks all game. I hope that this time will be different, but only time will tell.

    I remember accidentally bumping into one of these sabo squads it wasn't during the event tho. At first i thought they would gen rush then my game started to explode with noises. I only equipped hangman's trick because my pig had no survivors transport perks so I used hangman's trick. The team sabo hooks only for the hooks to regenerate 10 seconds later and they didn't stop until ended up 4king all of them. Honestly sabo is a terrible mechanic why not make sabo just better at smashing hex totems?

    We don't need to make hex totems even worse than they already are.
  • Zanfer
    Zanfer Member Posts: 646

    Yall have this narrative in your head about these spooky squads and killers doing nasty things. How about just play around it and move on

  • powerbats
    powerbats Member Posts: 7,068

    @ChesterTheMolester said:
    Hillbilly420 said:

    For the record, this isn't a stealth brag, I got the new Billy weapon in roughly 5-6 hours. So I don't know why there's dudes running around saying "OMG! I need to equip Agitation and Hangman's Trick to fight those dang dirty trolls!" It's really not that hard to achieve.

    Im at 33, yeah its not as bad as it is. In fact half the games SWF groups came up with offerings and party streamers wanting to farm points, hard to say no to that.

    Sadly you're the exception, I've had 3 killers farm when multiple offerings were done and 1 was because someone dc'd during loading screen. All the rest have either been business as usual or the same old toxic killers. Billy's have all been hardcore jerks about it, Nurses and 1 huntress the same. I even had a Trapper use insidious on a camped person. some fair Pig's and a really cool Leatherface.

  • Chrona
    Chrona Member Posts: 245

    @powerbats said:

    @ChesterTheMolester said:
    Hillbilly420 said:

    For the record, this isn't a stealth brag, I got the new Billy weapon in roughly 5-6 hours. So I don't know why there's dudes running around saying "OMG! I need to equip Agitation and Hangman's Trick to fight those dang dirty trolls!" It's really not that hard to achieve.

    Im at 33, yeah its not as bad as it is. In fact half the games SWF groups came up with offerings and party streamers wanting to farm points, hard to say no to that.

    Sadly you're the exception, I've had 3 killers farm when multiple offerings were done and 1 was because someone dc'd during loading screen. All the rest have either been business as usual or the same old toxic killers. Billy's have all been hardcore jerks about it, Nurses and 1 huntress the same. I even had a Trapper use insidious on a camped person. some fair Pig's and a really cool Leatherface.

    Actually reminds me of a funny match I had earlier today...playing huntress, one person dced in the loading screen, 2 invites burnt, on the game. They don't do well, and I manage to get all 4 hooks pretty easily. On about the third, I go "Eh, I've pretty much won (they had 3 hooks between them all, and I was taking it easy, and no gens done), or could win easily. I'll just get my last bbq hook and let them do the special gens, maybe get away."

    Found a survivor, hooked him (accidently sacrificing, thought he had one more, whoops.), found another survivor, downed them, and dropped them repeatedly at a special gen. They ran away, not getting the message. I find the OTHER survivor, and they end up getting it. I, in the end, treated that one like a puppy, downing and dragging them to the next special generator until it was done. Then the gate (and actually downed them so they could maybe get the agonizing escape achievement). I thought it was funny that I made it really obvious I was more or less done with the match, and the first one was hiding scared, hardcore.

    Not sure if that's technically against the TOS or whatever...but given it's an event, I figured "eh, what the heck"

  • powerbats
    powerbats Member Posts: 7,068

    @Chrona I've had the same thing happen and as killer if they remaining ones aren't toxic i'll let them out and earn the points. I think the devs are more concerned and willing to punish the survivors that lead the killer to others to get them killed.

  • Khroalthemadbomber
    Khroalthemadbomber Member Posts: 1,073
    2 farm matches and the rest were flashlight swapping pricks, a multitude of body blockers, full d-strike squads, and Sabo Teams. Not really be fun.