What happened during the Howling Grounds event?

Peasant

I've seen multiple killers mention peak toxicity during this event and yet when I reflect on my matches during the event I can only recall one such occasion. Can anyone enlighten me on the toxicity that transpired during that event? Why specifically were survivors toxic at this time?

Mc_Harty

Killers just like to project how awful the event was when it was actually just awful mechanics.

For example, hooking survivors on a specific hook to get a token.

It didnt help that flashlights were also broken during this event.

Khroalthemadbomber

During the initial bit of it things were fine. But then halfway through it the Devs altered flashlights and pallet slams so that the stuns would release picked up survivors immediately after the pick up animation was complete. I believe this was also the period of time where the nurse was getting double stunned after successful hits on survivors. So after that patch hit you had multiple last second swapper teams bent on just being dicks. That or sabo teams going out of their way to break every holiday hook in play to prevent the killer from being able to use them. Flip side you also had killers camping and tunneling, but I didn't go for the survivor skin until after so we were WELL into the Howling Grounds at that point.

Dwight_Fairfield

It was awful. Killers were camping the lunar gens. Survivors were sabotaging the lunar hooks. Toxicity on both sides. Brought out the worst in the community. At least on PS4 it did. Did not enjoy that event.

Khroalthemadbomber

The caveat ofcourse being that even though killers would camp people, as long as their teammates were working generators the hooked person would still get tokens. A full sabo or flashlight team could have full red envelopes played and prevent the killer from ever getting a hook.

Khroalthemadbomber

TrumpJunior said:

Do not forget all the BNPs for the lunar gens. I think another reason why they get nerfed now is because of the upcoming summer event.
What me personally triggered the most back then were the „balance“ changes they released. It was so triggering that I only unlocked the cosmetics and stopped playing, until they reverted it.

Yeah I quit until the event was over as well. I think that was around the time one of the devs said "If you don't like the changes play another game."

DocFabron

Both sides were being toxic to each other. Killers camping lunar gens and survivors saboing lunar hooks. Nobody played for fun, it was pretty much just who can bully the other side the most

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Boss

Flashlights everywhere + no skill required + during animation + gotta wait for animation to end + not everywhere where you pick someone up is a wall + face a wall with 1 degree to the left or right and you'll still get blinded + Lightborn was useless = Hell for any Killer who went up against a Survivor that read the patch notes.

SovererignKing

Dwight_Fairfield said:

It was awful. Killers were camping the lunar gens. Survivors were sabotaging the lunar hooks. Toxicity on both sides. Brought out the worst in the community. At least on PS4 it did. Did not enjoy that event.

It was a damn disaster for this reason alone. I tried my hardest to make sure the Survivors did the Lunar Gens. I camped the ######### out of the Gens that weren’t Lunar. Just to make sure they got the Lunar ones. I wanted the Donkey Jacket myself, but after 15 matches in a row, I gave up even trying. I felt terrible for Survivors. 

Though I know the only reason I got the Huntress Mask was because I clearly gave the Survivors a “Let’s farm and do Lunar stuff!” signal. I tried normally just playing and after getting 3 Lunar Hooks in 20 games, I knew farming was the only way I was getting that mask. The tool boxes and people running Saboteur was a nightmare.

Toxcity was at an all time high on both sides. Even after I got the mask, I still kept farming with Survivors to help them get Lunar Gens. Next time, they need to make it so ALL hooks and Gens count, not just special ones. That was a disaster. 

FayeZahara

I think this year anniversary event was worse cause never got to experience it with new content if were from north america. I had a million bloodpoints to put in clown and had to skip event to not gain useless 0 bloodpoints.

deadwolfwalking

every time i downed someone, i carried them to a lunar gen.... never even hung anyone till they were all completed.... and for my efforts and generosity? body blocking and sabo'd hooks.... with an occasional tbag.... i ******** hated the lunar event....

Tsulan

Flashlights got "fixed" which turned every flashlight into a guaranteed save. No timing or skill required.
Survivors did everything to negate the killer hooks: Sabotaging the lunar hooks, body blocking, DS, flashlights and even disconnecting if everything else failed.
It was a true nightmare, and showed the ugly face of survivors. It showed how powerful they really are.

Peasant

Thank you all for your feedback. I had seen multiple killer mains shivering while speaking about this event and wanted to understand their plight.

jaerthebear

Oh you fool

If only you knew

If only you knew

Be glad you dont

Peasant

I remember the event fondly as aside from one game at Autohaven Wreckers vs a Myers I never saw a single sabotage of an event hook. Most of the folks I met all wanted to farm coins. The most toxic person I met was a killer that watched the survivors I was with offer 4 red envelopes then immediately disconnect taunting "rip your offerings".

[Deleted User]

We killers tried to play friendly yet survivors kept destorying LUNAR HOOKS AND ONLY LUNAR HOOKS -.-

Bravo0413

It' was a disaster that we will always remember survivors were at the peak of their power for that period... All who played killer during that event should have a badge of honor LOL

Volfawott

It was massively toxic on both sides

Survivors: were sabotaging lunar hooks and only lunar hooks most of them would literally just camp out by lunar hooks waiting for the killer to bring someone.

Killer: camped lunar generators and would literally throw the game just so the survivors can't complete them.

Survivors: in retaliation to the generator camping they started bringing brand new parts and decisive strike a lot more often. Also they abused the new update to flashlight and pallet saves until was reverted

Killers: in retaliation to the sabotaging they started bringing in ebony moris and hangman's trick. Also there was a sharp rise in impossible skill check doctors.

Basically both sides were being absolute douche bags to each other. Now it wasn't like anyone was asking for everybody to farm but mainly people just asking to not go out of your way to be a douche to the other side.

SnakeSound222

Right from the beginning, players were constantly getting disconnected and the Killers that could play a 4v1 had to deal with the broken flashlights and pallets. It was braindead easy to make a save. All you had to do was drop a pallet or blind the Killer during the pickup animation, and the Killer would drop the Survivor once the pickup animation was over. It thankfully got patched out quickly (I think within a week at the most, same thing with the constant DCs). However, those were not the only problems. This event brought out the worst in the DbD community. Killers would camp lunar gens and Survivors would sabotage lunar hooks in order to deny one side their coins. Unfortunately these issues were not addressed at all by BHVR, meaning that you would have to hope that you didn't get jerks that would purposefully try to deny the other side their coins. I remember getting extremely lucky as Killer and not running into a lot of Survivors who sabotaged my lunar hooks. I ran into one who tried to sabo my lunar hook as I got closer to it, but he had just started, so I was able to get my coin. My only major problem with the event was a personal problem, and it was a power outage that happened near the end of the event. Thankfully, my power was restored the last day of the event and I got the Huntress mask.