Do you prefer hiding or looping?

I enjoy looping more than hiding as it feels more interactive and fun rather than hiding from the killer’s sights.

As a survivor, I play half-immersion, half-aggression: Hide when I have to, but not to the point where it would put pressure on my other teammates. I mostly run around and am not afraid to get in chases with the killer, since SOMEONE has to be chased at some point if you want generators to be completed efficiently. I use perks like Fixated or Iron Will (if injured) to waste the killer's time when they come to check my gen after they saw me working on it with BBQ, and I can usually waste around 30-45 seconds of their time when they arrive at my location, since they saw me with BBQ and are certain that I'm around the area. Also, when it comes to seeing someone get chased, I prefer to lay low as well (unless they're on death hook), since the killer will generally slug if they know that someone is nearby and now you're in trouble as well!

As a killer, I would much rather play against good loopers, since a mixed playstyle (to me) is indicitive of a good survivor. I really don't like Spine Chill + Urban Evaders, as they tend to help their team very little, unhooking people and hiding when the killer is on their way (this happens more in the red/purple ranks than it should), or hiding in lockers when BBQ goes off (unless you're 1 of 2 remaining survivors of course, then I do the same!). When I play against survivors who stomp me because they're good at looping or mind games, all I can think is that I would love to have teammates like that in my games, so it fills me with hope for my own solo queue survivor experiences!

Also, I would like to say that I've noticed something.... in my games, people who play male survivors tend to be much better at the game than people who play female survivors! I guess because many people who play female survivors prefer them because they are smaller and can hide more easily, while male survivors are big, bulky and generally quite conspicuous.

I think you can be good in both things. But you will take other perks for a stealth build. I prefer looping over stealth. It's more action 😊.

I often have matches where one or two survivors are just nowhere in sight. Like this one game I had yesterday. Since I couldn't find half the team anywhere, I chased their teammates instead. And though I sincerely tried to look for someone else to chase, at some point wasting time searching for survivors just means throwing the game. So, I killed the two survivors I kept running into. Then, I eventually found one survivor just as they were getting into a locker and found the other urban evading around the map. These types of survivors are why I now run Whispers. I don't want to play hide and seek. And I don't want to be forced to tunnel. I want to actually interact with my opponents, and that means the entire team.

As a survivor, I also dislike when survivors are overly stealthy. It usually means they don't get found, and therefore don't get hooked. This puts their other teammates in danger because, if they can't find the stealthy one, the killer will just target who they can find. It's better to have all survivors take a turn on the hook, rather than have a game where two are on death hook a few minutes into the match.

this would be my answer too. I get bored when I can't find survivors because they're good at hiding and I'm not running whispers in that match. Dependig on the killer I'm playing it would maybe give me an advantage if they need longer to do gens but I feel like you should learn to counter loops and mindgame asap as killer because it benefits you in the long run.

As as Survivor (which I play more because I play with a friend) I hide when it's the better option but I'd say I'm decent at both.

The thrill of the killer running past your hiding spot will always beat looping for me

I like doing both honestly.

Both, though I know you don't wanna hear it, lol. If I get downed early, I'll def be hiding more. If my teammates are downed early, I'll try to take aggro off them. If possible, after I'm injured I want to break line of sight and heal up with Inner Strength or a teammate which will def help with prolonging my next loop, but that means I have to hide a bit until I meet that heal. A good balance can make a game last much longer.

Chases are exciting but there's a certain satisfaction in being able to sneak right under a killer's nose. Starting to enjoy Distortion with how many folks run BBQ & Chilli.

I'd rather face good loopers than I would super immersive survivors. I absolutely despise looking around for survivors for like 3 minutes.

Proper looping is more than just brainlessly dropping pallets and hopping over windows.

It requires anticipation, accurate movements, bloodlust control, quick reaction times, pallet respect testing while in a chase, map knowledge, combining of structures, jukes to eventually lose the killer etc.

If I chase someone and I realize that person's just dropping everything without even trying to get the most out of pallets I immediately know I will win the match by following said person through all relevant tiles. A good looper will test me on just about every pallet, fake window vaults and try to keep strong pallets even to the point where they will rather take a hit than drop shack pallet at 5 gens to name a sample.

Good loopers will also try and max out every near-by window before dropping a pallet which requires serious distance control especially when bloodlust is a thing.

Long story short: There's a reason most survivors get downed in around 30 seconds (give or take) even on red ranks. Looping is not as easy as some people think.

Hiding on the other hand... Well, just run Urban Evasion, Fixated, Spine Chill and Iron Will and hide whenever the cat lights up.

To be fair I will also ask you: Am I missing something in terms of hiding?

Looping.

I'd rather lose a game but looping than escape just doing gens while my teammates have all the fun. Hiding and repairing are the most boring parts of the game.

I rather hide than loop.

Honestly I have huge respect for survivors that can evade my gaze at every turn and vanish without a trace at a moments notice. There is an art to stealth and I simply do not understand the dbd hate for it. Being able to waste a killers time without putting yourself in harms way is just as much a show of skill and a battle of wits as any chase, typically more so. I can hold a certain respect for a good looper but it's always the ones I never see working in the shadows popping gens and making saves that I always am more impressed with. They are the ones with true finess. When I can't even catch someone with surveillance, when they can twist my own tools against me in misdirection, now that's a work of art.

I prefer hiding, only problem is that the game clearly is balanced around the fact looping is the way to go, some killer got anti hide stuff (hi doctor) and looping waste the killer more time than hiding in 90% cases.

Depends on the match really.

You have to change your playstyle with certain killers.

Like I wouldn’t hide against a Hillbilly when I know he can block and Insta down. For example.