So the official PlayStation Blog is promoting camping...

"4. Bait the hook
Grab a weakened survivor, stick them on a hook and then…hide nearby. Wait. Would-be rescuers will be distracted long enough for you to launch an attack."

Its a strange turn of phrase which doesn't quite fit the game.

I would actually interpret this as encouraging the use of insidious near the hook.

OMG EVEN WORSE!

@Master said:
Flipkick661 said:

Just stumbled upon a blog post on the European PlayStation Blog, with tips on how to play DbD, as it is one of this months free PS+ games. I found it very interesting to see the 4th bulletpoint on how to play Killer:

"4. Bait the hook

Grab a weakened survivor, stick them on a hook and then…hide nearby. Wait. Would-be rescuers will be distracted long enough for you to launch an attack."

I'm a killer main myself, but encouraging new players to camp hooks is a surefire way to turn off any potential newcomers from playing survivor.

Not sure if you realized, but camping isn't a bad thing.
And in fact, bailing the hook is one of the strongest strategies because this way the survivors come to you and you don't have to follow them running in circles just to be stunned by a pallet

Experienced survivors make a u-turn and do all of the gens while you think they are still close and whine in post lobby about gen rushing.

It is part of the game and, at times, is a smart move. I see nothing wrong with it.

Hell, even the Devs said something along the lines of this around/before the time of release in a Dev Diary.

Outright "face camping" during the regular course of a game should be discouraged and is definitely NOT a strategy. It just leads to a negative and bitter feeling for the survivor being camped. Not fun at all.

As a killer mains, I actively "patrol" the hook as I search for nearby rescuers as far as 20-25 meters away circling the area of interest so this to me is legit. I am not willing to allow a rescue without a fight.

However, if I'm being looped constantly by an individual or body blocked, I may reconsider once I've got you on the hook. To me, body blocking and looping falls into the same category as camping.

If the gates are open, face camping is legit at this point since it will affect my Emblem results.

There is such a massive difference between facing 3 or 4 survivors. Witness the games where someone doesn’t load in – the survivors usually get trashed.

I’m a firm believer that you need to get one out the game asap. Once you get your first survivor to struggle stage you might as well camp them out. You will waste
far more time chasing and hooking them again.

AshleyWB said:

Exploiting in my eyes is taking advantage and is part if the game. Cheating is different. Toxic strategies are unfun generally but they can be excused by saying oh its a valid strategy. Like one time the killer bodyblocked me in a dead end room for 20 mins with no doors or Windows and refused to hit me ir move then claimed to use strategy when I told him he played unfairly.

@Flipkick661 said:
Wow, I created this thread because I was surprised to see Sony encouraging a strategy that breeds toxicity (not patrolling a hook, litterally camping it). I'm aware that the strategy is "legit" and the devs condone it, but it doesn't make it any less unsportsmanlike, and survivors witnessing this behavior time and time again are sure to employ equally toxic strategies in an attempt to counter this. Furthermore it's a boring strategy for both the killer and the hooked survivor. New players reading the blog post will end up thinking that this is how the game should always be played, and will end up walking away from the borefest that is staring at a hook with a struggling survivor.

Once again, I'm a killer main, and I pretty much never play survivor. I'm not above admitting that I've used the strategy from time to time, but I much prefer running perks that reward moving away from the hook, as it's a lot more fun, and in my experience a much more effective way of winning games. I don't buy into the "it's not my job to ensure my opponent has fun" attitude many people in this thread seem to share. The way I see it, it's in all of our best interest to ensure that some fun is had on both sides, otherwise we'll end up with a toxic mess of the game, that will be so far from enjoyable, it'll die out.

I doubt that it will die out because of some camping low rank killers. The toxic problem comes more from the videos of Ochido and Noob3.
We already have a toxic mess of a game. But surprisingly it hasn´t hurt the game. So i really don´t see the problem with Sony. Camping has been announced as a feature from the beginning. It´s a design choice. Killers get encouraged to leave the hook by perks like BBQ and MYC. But survivor don´t like those perks for whatever unlogic reason. Devs can only give players the tools. But it´s their choice if they want to play one way or another.

The borefest takes maximum 2 minutes (even less if the camped survivor gives up) and then he can search a new game.
And let´s be honest. Killers get called out for camping all the time. Even if they don´t camp.

@Master said:

@Tizzle said:

@Tsulan said:
AshleyWB said:

Camping is a valid strategy BUT some killers use it as an excuse to play cheaply and dirty to exploit how the game works. It's easy to say it's part of the game and a lot harder to address it as an issue. 

You mean like running in circles?

Yeah, I'm sure these brand new Survivors THAT HAVE NEVER PLAYED THE GAME BEFORE at Rank 20 are running Killers in circles.

Camping at that Rank is a surefire way to turn off new players.

Well as a rank 18 killer you can easily verse a SWF consisting of 3 rank 1s and a single rank 20. Now try to argue taht you wont be looped in that game

I wonder how a "baby killer" will react after such a game. He will be like "#########, I need to get better" proceeds to google and finds out that the only way how to get better is by playing nurse or tunnel/camp.

I remember a free weekend were tons of rank 1 swf groups tried to bully noob killers.