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Pizzasauce Pizzasauce
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I've played a lot of dbd but still consider myself fairly new as I only started the beginning of the Halloween event. With that said I am still learning about game etiquette. Some in game behavior confuses me. What are some dos and don't when it comes to in game politeness?

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  • Tr1nity Tr1nity

    Do whatever you want, if your not cheating / being toxic theres nothing wrong with it.

  • Beaburd Beaburd

    Here's my general take on respectful game etiquette.

    Survivors shouldn't:

    • squat spam (AKA teabagging)
    • flashlight click spam
    • body block each other (body blocking the killer is fine)

    Killers shouldn't:

    • repeatedly hit people on hook

    Neither should:

    • Insult, bully, prey on, or otherwise attempt to harm others in post-game chat

    ---

    Everything else is more or less fair game.

    This includes tunneling, camping, using certain perks, gen rushing, whatever else.

  • Shaped Shaped

    @Beaburd

    Good luck making others follow it.

  • JPA JPA

    DBD has a kind of reverse etiquette where the idea is to be as rude as possible within a short space of time

  • Beaburd Beaburd

    @Shaped said:

    @Beaburd

    Good luck making others follow it.

    Yeaaahh...

  • Volcz Volcz

    Just play however you want. Don't let anyone try to control how you play the game.

    Some killers however hate:

    1. teabagging (at exit gates, after dropping a pallet and stunning the killer, or even just mid chase)
    2. flashlight macro/flashlight clicky

    Some survivors hate:

    1. Camping killers
    2. Tunneling killers
    3. Sandbagging teammates

    These are just the popular ones that are complained about pretty frequently on the forums.

  • themoobs1984 themoobs1984

    @Pizzasauce said:

    I've played a lot of dbd but still consider myself fairly new as I only started the beginning of the Halloween event. With that said I am still learning about game etiquette. Some in game behavior confuses me. What are some dos and don't when it comes to in game politeness?

    Welcome. Wanted to inform you that most of the cave dwellers on this forum won't know what etiquette means.

  • Gamedozer7 Gamedozer7

    @Pizzasauce said:

    I've played a lot of dbd but still consider myself fairly new as I only started the beginning of the Halloween event. With that said I am still learning about game etiquette. Some in game behavior confuses me. What are some dos and don't when it comes to in game politeness?

    Please don't slug(leave people on the ground) and let them bleed out on purpose. I believe its 4 minutes to bleed out and as a killer main I believe its the worst think a killer can do.

  • StarLost StarLost

    @Pizzasauce said:

    I've played a lot of dbd but still consider myself fairly new as I only started the beginning of the Halloween event. With that said I am still learning about game etiquette. Some in game behavior confuses me. What are some dos and don't when it comes to in game politeness?

    Sure. And welcome to the game!

    A few things (from a killer perspective):

    As a survivor:

    • Don't teabag or flick your flashlight on and off at the killer. This is usually taken to be a taunt/BM, and is usually frowned on. A lot of the time, this will also cause the killer to fixate on you and probably tunnel/camp you out.
    • Sometimes, a quick teabag means 'thank you' when another survivor heals you.
    • Get out of the exit gates once you've won the game. A lot of survivors like to stay and gloat, but not only is this just a really lame thing to do, it can occasionally backfire. Just leave please so we can both get to our next game.
    • A 'gg' in postgame never hurt anyone.
    • Don't DC. A lot of survivors will pull their cable the second they get picked up, to deny the killer BP/Adepts etc. It's extremely BM and also puts your team at a disadvantage. If you really want out of the game, run to the killer and point at a hook.
    • Sometimes the killer will ease up if you are getting hammered or have a DC. This is usually a sign to farm some BP, do some gens, heal etc. If you don't want to farm and just end, see above.
    • Finally, if the killer picks you up and instead of hooking you, hits the air over the hatch/a generator/the exit gates, it usually means that they are giving you an out. If you run away instead, they will take it that you want them to kill you.

    As a killer:

    • Facecamping (standing by the hook waiting for a survivor to die) is usually considered BM, and is only acceptable if you care more about making someone die than getting BP (you take a hefty penalty from staying close to a hooked survivor). That said, proxy camping (patrolling in sight of a hook while pressuring gens) is entirely fine.
    • Hitting someone already on hook is considered BM. Don't do it.
    • 'Slugging' - knocking multiple survivors down and not hooking them is controversial. It can be a legitimate tactic (ie. you know someone else is nearby and want to try and down them too, to snowball into a win) but it can also be BM (not hooking any of the survivors on the ground and instead just standing there and letting them bleed out/downing them again if they use Unbreakable). Use it sparingly, and only when it makes sense tactically.

    @themoobs1984 said:

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/294924/gaming-etiquette

    Welcome. Wanted to inform you that most of the cave dwellers on this forum won't know what etiquette means.

    Hey! I rather like this cave!

  • Gamedozer7 Gamedozer7

    @StarLost said:

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/294924/gaming-etiquette

    Sure. And welcome to the game!

    A few things (from a killer perspective):

    As a survivor:

    • Don't teabag or flick your flashlight on and off at the killer. This is usually taken to be a taunt/BM, and is usually frowned on. A lot of the time, this will also cause the killer to fixate on you and probably tunnel/camp you out.
    • Sometimes, a quick teabag means 'thank you' when another survivor heals you.
    • Get out of the exit gates once you've won the game. A lot of survivors like to stay and gloat, but not only is this just a really lame thing to do, it can occasionally backfire. Just leave please so we can both get to our next game.
    • A 'gg' in postgame never hurt anyone.
    • Don't DC. A lot of survivors will pull their cable the second they get picked up, to deny the killer BP/Adepts etc. It's extremely BM and also puts your team at a disadvantage. If you really want out of the game, run to the killer and point at a hook.
    • Sometimes the killer will ease up if you are getting hammered or have a DC. This is usually a sign to farm some BP, do some gens, heal etc. If you don't want to farm and just end, see above.
    • Finally, if the killer picks you up and instead of hooking you, hits the air over the hatch/a generator/the exit gates, it usually means that they are giving you an out. If you run away instead, they will take it that you want them to kill you.

    As a killer:

    • Facecamping (standing by the hook waiting for a survivor to die) is usually considered BM, and is only acceptable if you care more about making someone die than getting BP (you take a hefty penalty from staying close to a hooked survivor). That said, proxy camping (patrolling in sight of a hook while pressuring gens) is entirely fine.
    • Hitting someone already on hook is considered BM. Don't do it.
    • 'Slugging' - knocking multiple survivors down and not hooking them is controversial. It can be a legitimate tactic (ie. you know someone else is nearby and want to try and down them too, to snowball into a win) but it can also be BM (not hooking any of the survivors on the ground and instead just standing there and letting them bleed out/downing them again if they use Unbreakable). Use it sparingly, and only when it makes sense tactically.

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2640338#Comment_2640338

    Hey! I rather like this cave!

    As a killer a single crouch anywhere except a pallet or window i take as a thank you

  • RainehDaze RainehDaze

    @StarLost said:

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/294924/gaming-etiquette

    Sure. And welcome to the game!

    A few things (from a killer perspective):

    As a survivor:

    • Don't teabag or flick your flashlight on and off at the killer. This is usually taken to be a taunt/BM, and is usually frowned on. A lot of the time, this will also cause the killer to fixate on you and probably tunnel/camp you out.
    • Sometimes, a quick teabag means 'thank you' when another survivor heals you.
    • Get out of the exit gates once you've won the game. A lot of survivors like to stay and gloat, but not only is this just a really lame thing to do, it can occasionally backfire. Just leave please so we can both get to our next game.
    • A 'gg' in postgame never hurt anyone.
    • Don't DC. A lot of survivors will pull their cable the second they get picked up, to deny the killer BP/Adepts etc. It's extremely BM and also puts your team at a disadvantage. If you really want out of the game, run to the killer and point at a hook.
    • Sometimes the killer will ease up if you are getting hammered or have a DC. This is usually a sign to farm some BP, do some gens, heal etc. If you don't want to farm and just end, see above.
    • Finally, if the killer picks you up and instead of hooking you, hits the air over the hatch/a generator/the exit gates, it usually means that they are giving you an out. If you run away instead, they will take it that you want them to kill you.

    As a killer:

    • Facecamping (standing by the hook waiting for a survivor to die) is usually considered BM, and is only acceptable if you care more about making someone die than getting BP (you take a hefty penalty from staying close to a hooked survivor). That said, proxy camping (patrolling in sight of a hook while pressuring gens) is entirely fine.
    • Hitting someone already on hook is considered BM. Don't do it.
    • 'Slugging' - knocking multiple survivors down and not hooking them is controversial. It can be a legitimate tactic (ie. you know someone else is nearby and want to try and down them too, to snowball into a win) but it can also be BM (not hooking any of the survivors on the ground and instead just standing there and letting them bleed out/downing them again if they use Unbreakable). Use it sparingly, and only when it makes sense tactically.

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2640338#Comment_2640338

    Hey! I rather like this cave!

    I hope the one about slugging includes the caveat "If you bleed out because you crawled off to god knows where whilst I was trying to finish hooking everyone, that's on you". 😄

  • Pizzasauce Pizzasauce

    Oh wow thanks for the responses! One thing I've been doing, is letting the survivors bleed out. I do this usually when I accidently hit a person who came off the hook recently, and I assume their teammate will save them, not that they will bleed out. Besides not hitting them in the first place, is there anything else I can do?

  • alaenyia alaenyia

    I don't know if you are asking about actual game play or just player interactions.

    Survivors kind rude:

    Teabag at pallets and windows

    Flashlight clicking

    Sandbagging teammates (trying to brush the killer off on them while they are doing an objective)

    Killer kinda rude:

    Hitting people on hook

    Body blocking people before hitting them

    Shaking head no at survivors after a down or hook

    Survivors toxic:

    Ambushing killers for multiple flashlight stuns

    Waiting in the exit gate for the entire EGC for rigorous teabagging

    Teaming with someone else to hide and keep killer on the map

    Killer Toxic:

    Face camping 1st hooks

    Tunneling people out of the game early on

    Not respecting a legit kobe (hitting someone back down when the survivor gets themselves off the hook)

    **With all that being said I think several people have noted that no matter what you will get post-game hate mail. This is 100% true, people who play DbD can be real salty. I suppose the longer you play, you will see patterns in the feedback. And no matter which role you prefer, play the otherside some. This is a good way to understand why people are triggered by some stuff.

  • Thusly_Boned Thusly_Boned

    @Pizzasauce said:

    Oh wow thanks for the responses! One thing I've been doing, is letting the survivors bleed out. I do this usually when I accidently hit a person who came off the hook recently, and I assume their teammate will save them, not that they will bleed out. Besides not hitting them in the first place, is there anything else I can do?

    If they have teammates who are up/healthy and don't pick them up, that's on their team. If they crawl to some obscure nook and you can't find them, that's on them.

    If you're feeling really charitable, you can pick them up and let them wiggle free.

  • R2k R2k

    @Pizzasauce said:

    I've played a lot of dbd but still consider myself fairly new as I only started the beginning of the Halloween event. With that said I am still learning about game etiquette. Some in game behavior confuses me. What are some dos and don't when it comes to in game politeness?

    Don't bother about others. U don't need to satisfy them or do anything as others ask u. Play the game the way u enjoy and ignore everyone else.

    Only thing u need to be aware is after-game chat. Don't badword players and it will be fine.

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