Is dcing so someone can get the hatch a strat
i got in an argument the other day with several people about if dcing was a LEGIT strategy survivors can use to help win the game. The ideal situation being that there are two people left and they both find the hatch. One disconnects so that the other can get the hatch (that being the two are in SWF). Would that be justified as a strat or is that still something someone would get potentially punished or even banned for? I personally think there is no excuse for disconnecting unless it was due a sudden loss of connection (not pulling the plug). I also think that a survivor dcing is in no way a legitimate, respectable, nor fair way of playing the game, especially when dcing for the intentional reasons.
so is that really a justified dc, because it’s a strat?
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No. It's not a strategy. With the DC penalty system, they will be punished. It's literally cheating.
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No
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No. It's an exploit for salty survivors who can't handle a loss.
I'm really looking forward to DC penalties for console. You PC players are so lucky
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Disconnecting is against the rules even though it's not handled like many other rule violations (aka you report them and stuff), so no.
Dying on hook on purpose to try to give someone hatch is a legitimate strategy though, as it doesn't break rules or circumvent the non-instant hatch opening that is supposed to happen when the penultimate survivor dies on a hook.
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Not anymore. ;)
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"dcing was a LEGIT strategy survivors can use to help win the game: - this doesn't make sense to me. If someone dc to help other survivor get the hatch they already lost the game.
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Ok well if thats the case if someone is death hook the hatch needs to insta open.
Half the time the other survivor gets screwed because it takes a year and half for the hatch to open
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Is it a strategy? Yes. Not a legitimate one. But it is one.
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I’ve been one of two remaining survivors in a match where the other one DCs so I can get the hatch and frankly I don’t understand it. Are you really so against the killer “winning” (I consider a 4K to be the only true “win”) that you are willing to de-pip and get 0 points from a 20 minute match? It only makes sense to me when it’s SWF and one of them is on the hatch. Even then, I wouldn’t consider it a strategy, I would consider it cheating (coming from a survivor main).
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Its a scummy move on the survivors part so they can have someone escape with a rare item or to throw it in your face that you didn't kill them. Thanks to the dc system that will be implemented this is not a strat and more of an exploit to rob the killer of a 4k if he knows where the hatch is.
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idk chief, with how dedicated servers are looking I'm not sure I want them on console
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i think it’s a strat. it’s definitely not fair, but it’s a strat. it goes two ways though, say if the killer slugs to get a 4k, then i guess the one who is slugged who DC’d and the killer are both in the wrong...
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Those two are completely different, slugging can be countered with unbreakable, while DCing is just an exploit.
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Sure is. Are you a team player? Then take the timeout for them to escape the trial.
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It is a strategy in the strictest sense of the word, albeit an illegal one. However, what it is not is a game mechanic, because quitting the game is, definitionally, not participating in normal gameplay.
It's not justifiable, it is bannable, and you're correct that it is neither excusable, nor respectable, nor a legitimate way of playing the game. So to answer your question, it is, technically speaking, a strategy, but not in the sense that your friends are meaning.
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And switch users
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Plus there’s nothing wrong with slugging. There’s still gameplay involved. When someone dc’s to throw the outcome of the game than it’s like being the guy who throws the monopoly board
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You have my respect
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The punishment literally starts at 60 seconds though lmao. I can still see people abusing this, unless they implement the husk system they mentioned months ago.
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If you don't care about breaking the rules, your time or your BP then sure its a strat. Its not a legitimate strat though. But you have to question what kind of person cares so little about their own time.
I can't tell if you are serious.
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yeah, you’re right.
but people will still dc for hatch purposes. it’s literally unavoidable not that it’s right, but it’s still a thing.
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well technically it still is. the dc person could just take the timeout to let their friend escape.
so yeah...
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That would just lead to an eventual ban unless they just stop doing it.
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yeah but they wouldn’t need to do that every game since they wouldn’t be in a situation where they were slugged every game so the killer could get a 4k.
it wouldn’t be often.
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You never know. :P Either way, if it's something you're not allowed to do more than super infrequently without being punished, I wouldn't call it a strategy.
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Not a strat.
When its two people left I will find hatch with them and then bait the killer away and die on hook.
This is the way.
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This is the way.
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Id say Quitting is Far worse than Slugging; i don't even mind being slugged (granted, I often run Tenacity)
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I know, but the person I was replying to was trying to compare a legitimate strategy with an uncounterable exploit
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No it's a filthy dc ######### are you!
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It's as much a strategy as it is to have cards up your sleeve during poker
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