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Camping Need To Stop
Camping Needs To Stop! Seriously I'm tired of playing a game and the Killer go to move is to camp the ---- outta the survivor! It's NOT needed! If you're the Killer when you put the person on the hook the damn hook turns yellow to let you know they're on the hook and you can go off to find someone else to hunt down, there's NO NEED TO CAMP ya jackholes! Just monitor the yellow hook and when the survivor is taken down THEN go after em, there's no need to be a camping little ----- it makes the game less fun when you do that, so just freakin' stop man. I've noticed lately that Hag, Doctor and Hillbilly Killers so this. One the Hag has traps that make it easier for her to come to your location if you are on the hook so you don't need to camp. The Doctor well they're just jerks they put you on the hook and then stand there like goobers shocking you "too death" while you're on the hook which is totally stupid and a waste of time and you wonder why people disconnect all the time from the game because of lame a-- ---- like that. Don't get me started on Hillbilly, I mean what is the damn point of camping when you're Billy when you're as big as a house and have a chainsaw, same with Leather he does the same thing. I think it's mostly "kids" and newcomers to the game who camp because 1.) they don't know how to play, 2.) the Killer who camps probably think it's funny to just waste everyone's time to be a camping little punks because they've seen others do it so they'll do it too and 3.) probably little kids who want to be annoying and waste the gamers time why camping because that's they're go-to move because they suck as that Killer.
Oh I know what you're thinking that campers is a way of playing the game, it might be but when you play a round and you get camped almost every game it takes the joy outta playing. I don't camp when I'm the Killer and believe me I could if I wanted to because I can't see that well, so camping would be a good way to get kills BUT I ain't gonna go do it because one it's annoying, it's not needed and I don't want to be reported for being unfair to the game which is basically what it is.
What do you guys think? I'd love to hear what y'all think on the subject matter.
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"I don't camp when I'm the Killer and believe me I could if I wanted to because I can't see that well, so camping would be a good way to get kills"
Camping is a terrible way to get kills. If the survivors have any experience with the game, they will team up on gens and the game will be over with you walking away with the single kill you camped. Camping only works on overly-altruistic players who insist on getting that hook save even though their teammates have tried the same thing and are getting downed.
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Camping is fine, run BT use DS. Rush gens if the killer is camping if anything. Easy victory. It's annoying but still a strategy that usually only occurs in ranks 11-20 from my experience.
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Camping only happens in really low ranks; from people who honestly just don't know any better.
It's horribly ineffective because of a lot of the perks the survivors run, and unless they are stubbornly greedy/altruistic then they just bust out all the gens and honestly STILL get the guy off the hook and get out, meaning it's just a waste of time and very ineffective unless you are like...Bubba- but even then all he can really do is camp out one kill unless you feed him.
In my experience most people who complain about campers are the ones I see in my games, who literally unhook someone right after you hook them, and you punish for it- and they scream camper in post game chat because of their own bad plays.
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Thing is camping is effective.
I see it every night. Someone on the hook. 2 others sitting in a nearby bush doing nothing.
Hook swaps where the rescuer gets downed whilst the other one escapes.
Ridiculous unhooks right in front of the killer.
Killers camp because it works. Maybe not in the low ranks inhabited by this forum but in the mid ranks this is what is happening all the time.
PS4 rank 10 - people barely do gens anyhow. Once someone is on a hook they are drawn to it like a magnet...
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New kindred perk will counter camper and tell you to go gen rush instead hiding bush or wall by doing nothing even if you're hooked or not hooked
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If a killer is camping, as in staying in front of hook, it should be an easy game for the survivors.
Camping has its time/place, but if it is the killer's only strategy it is a poor one.
BT and DS can really help with this.
Alternatively Spine Chill is a big help for not getting caught and/or knowing when killer is heading back to hook if you are attempting a save.
At the end of the day DBD is a multiplayer asymmetrical game. What is fun for one side is to the detriment of the other. Just gotta go GG and move onto next match :)
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In my experience very few killers are doing hardcore camping.
Most 'campers' are doing a little patrol all around to look for rescuers or a short trip to the nearest gen and back.
They are generally near enough to get in a chase straight away after an unhook.
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You don't see it when survivors are better because all gens pop before that guy bleeds out.
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Railed against camping but advocated tunneling. 🤔
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Camping is a legit strat, like it or not. I never really do it, but I can see the value in doing so if someone is ruining the match for their fellow survivors. I'm willing to lose a pip for it since rank does nothing for you.
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camping is a strat, but needs more penalty. like say for example if you camp the whole match you actually go into bloodpoint debt and have to pay
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What's worse is when a killer is face camping you, and you're watching the auras of all of your teammates slowly crouching around in the distance as far from the hook as possible. Well, that's actually kinda funny.
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Personal opinions on camping aside, it wouldn't even be near as big a deal as it is if survivors would start doing gens instead of throwing themselves into the altruistic meat grinder over and over. It's done because it works, and it's really that simple. Survivors are just as much to blame for the issue as killers. I'm not sure why you expect them to just walk away from easy bloodpoints for no reason.
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Wow guys thanks for all your great comments. I notice mostly kids are the ones that are face camping which I agree is annoying as hell because it just waste the time of the victim and it makes it harder for the other teammates to work on gens with one less person available to help escape.
Echorion That is true you should NEVER unhook a survivor infront of the Killer why would you even do that unless you want to be hit and have your friend get knocked down again.
FancyMrB Yeah camping doesn't take any skills to pull off and is it a poor way to play the game and it shows that the Killer doesn't know how to play.
yermom Agree face camping is a waste of a game in my option.
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it ain't bannable so people are gonna keep doing it. borrowed time and ds are perks for a reason :/
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Wah wah I don't want you to play how you want to play so I can win wah - basic translation for you guys who don't wanna read all these mental gymnastics.
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Behavior can't really do anything with that problem. It's just something u have to deal with. Also, it's not just on DBD, it's on other games like COD and Bf, just can't be fixed
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ohh yeah, altruistic players. Hey you do realize it's also a category for points. 8k per category, and your need to camp screws everyone out of those points. this belief that the game is only about killing or surviving is bull. I've played rounds where after a good run and still dieing, I'd end up with 25k pts. But when the killer camps, forces gen rush and leave, he can walk out with 12 to 18K for being a POS, while survivors being denied in 2 categories are walking out with maybe 8 to 10K, Yeah what a win there! I got out, but that POS killer doubled my score.
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I mean... just playing devils advocate here...
If I play LF and camp someone, I can proooobably get them sacrificed with Ruin up. Guaranteed if at least 1 survivor looks for it/comes to save.
I can then pop NOED on, and down and hook/camp someone else out to guarantee 2 kills. I can probably do this every game. You can probably do it as several killers, though you want to grab any survivor making save attempts.
It's not really hard or terrible, and it's certainly not fun. I honestly rarely run into killer who camp like that, more like...proxy the hook. Sometimes they do it to easily hop into another chase, sometimes they do it to tunnel the survivor, though at least that gives them a chance.
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You forgot reason #4: to stick it to toxic survivors, #5: to use altruism against you, #6: it's a killer's job to kill, and #7: because we can.
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Whether the survivors come or repair the generators does not change anything in your situation.
The problem is the killer who does not move while he must chases the other survivors. Why he does not do it? This has a name: griefing. And according to my interpretation, we must report it. I do it and will continue to do it until it changes.
It's exactly the same when killers denounce survivors do not repair the generators and block the game. Except that the killers, unlike the survivors, ensure a kill while camping. They can even do this to prevent a survivor from trying his miserable 4%... It's dirty.
This practice must be made impossible by blocking the progress of the Entity when the killer is alone close to the hooked survivor, the killer no longer seeing this progression. It's very simple, and it will not bother killers who play normally.
Yes. Camping needs to stop.
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I think there should be a radius around the hook and if the killer is camping the entity won't be summoned!
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Camping has a time and place
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Can we add that survivors lose their arms if they gen rush?
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Run Breakdown, DS and Deliverance.
Ez stop to camping, hell, run Head On too if he keeps wanting to chase you, hide and hit em with the stun.
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I didn't know gen rush was such an issue compared to camping a hook survivor. Your job as a survivor is to do gens. Your job as a killer is to find the survivor and kill them. Not sit there camp one survivor and wait till they die or DC
Camping is far worse than getting gen rushed imo
If your getting gen rushed that much maybe you should come up with a new plan of action or simple get better
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If you getting hook and then camped perhaps you should come up with a new plan of action or simply get better
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Not really, camping at the hook is ringing the dinner bell to come and save your friend. Best thing about SWF, the 'never want leave a man behind' mentality backfires 99% of the time.
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Having to sacrifice perk slots for an issue that shouldn't exist in the first place is baloney. The whole "just run this perk" idea is a problem for a lot of issues in the games, like slugging. (It's not anywhere near as bad as camping, but it can still be pretty annoying.) "Oh yeah, just run Unbreakable!" except most of the time, it's useless.
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Lol, I guess.
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I always run Kindred now, trust me, it doesn’t stop dumbasses who altruism lemming when I’m on the hook. I’ve got a recording from a while back where I was hooked for the first time by a Leatherface who refused to go farther than 8 meters from me. I had Kindred, they could see him not leaving. Every. Single. Survivor. Swarmed my hook, easy 4k for him.
If you want camping to stop, you need to stop rewarding the behavior. Kindred helps the intelligent player make intelligent choices, and will do so more after its incoming buff. It doesn’t stop the altruism lemmings from lemming-ing.
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I think camping a survivor being an a-hole with you during the trial is ok.
Otherwise it's not.
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Whoa! I just noticed 4.1K views on my discussion on camping. Well let me go get the marshmallows and hot cocoa so we can discuss this more. Hi guys, just yesterday I got camped by Myers who main action is the stalk so he doesn't need to stalk, stalked my butt the whole game by hooking me and just standing in my face to watch my butt die....now is that fair? I don't think so. Did I report the Killer you better believe I did after I died and I hope DBD does something about it. Because believe me IF EVERY KILLER camped NO ONE would play DBD! It wouldn't be any fun anymore if every killer camped. Thank you, please help yourself to cocoa and smores.
Btw thanks for all the comments and sorry I haven't been here on the forum, I'm getting ready for the holiday and I just celebrated my birthday in November. If I don't see y'all comments by Christmas please have a nice and safe holiday :))
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Just suicide on hook - now with the DC maybe lessened in favor of suicides, those games won't get thrown out and kill rate stats should shoot up even higher.
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I think one of my major Pet Peeves for DBD when a Killer camps you is when they keep stabbing you while you're struggling. That doesn't do a thing, you're just making a jack--- out of yourself.
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If killer vs good survivors wasn't like the wet bandits vs Kevin McCallister, you would probably see a whole lot less camping. As it stands, you can camp the area and get other survivors off their gen rush. I don't do it often, but if they're going to be in the area, I'm not leaving. After a while, you get tired of feeling like this as killer....
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Well like I said in my original discussion as a Killer theirs no reason to camp when you hook a survivor the hook turns yellow so you can go off and look for others or kick gens or whatever while keeping an eye on the hooked survivor. Camping is a d move and only people who don't know how to play use it.
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Short answer: No, camping does not need to stop. It's a legitimate strategy as confirmed by the devs. If camping works, it's only because survivors allow it to work.
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killers just slug or mori u so u dont get to use ds
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typical no skill scrub killer mains lol
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That's so true my friend ;)
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