i swear it feels like every pc player is cheating
and I'm not talking about about how good they play because i suck, i know that's what u were thinking
I'm talking about the amount of private profiles on survivors
Holy hell I've never seen this amount of private profiles in a community before
I swear every time you try to check how many hours someone has or literally anything you just get hit with with private profile
like is every pc player insecure? or yall just subtle cheating , because I'm a killer main, which you know sparks more salt and toxicity then survivors, and my profile is as public as it can get.
i know this has nothing to do with Bhvr since this is a steam option, but why so many, are you really that afraid of people calling you bad in game, or u just doing something fishy
like i honestly (mostly, holy hell i just forgot to add it here) reported every single private profile even if I killed them, not that i meet them that often anyways, NA is filled with console players which i kinda feel bad sometimes for.
moral of this post? i have no idea, I guess I'm saying its fine to suck (even with the ludicrous of crutch perks that survivors have)
i know this is in usual post but hot damn I might just start dodging pc players if everyone is just gonna private their profile
Edit : please feel free to ignore most of the post and the fact hackers take huge advantage of private profile and just tell me that because i got "outplayed" and im bad i decided to report someone and get them banned, surely that's the whole point of this post, and when i said mostly even if killed them, its mainly cuz they did some sketchy stuff im not about to report someone for outplaying like everyone is implying or that my "feelings" are hurt, if u play this game for more than an hour forget feelings or u will get hit by a rock to the face.
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even tho i said is not about me sucking or them being better u completely ignore that point but ok
im saying is when people do something amazing in the game AND BESIDE ME IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON PLAYING KILLER
they will report you falsely I'm not the only person getting suspicious here when someone does something that looks amazing but fishy
having a TOTAL private profile adds to the suspicion
But why would I bother with that when I can just turn the whole thing off, if I don't feel like showing anyone anything?
Why is one of these things somehow more suspicious than the other, and again, why do you feel entitled for people to show you any part of their Steam account? Because from where I'm standing, it looks like you just created the bizarre equivocation that anyone with a completely private profile is a dirty cheater and must be flagged to Steam, but somehow it'd be totally okay if they blocked off every other part of their profile but showed you that they were Steam level 8 and lived in Tennessee.
The problem is yours for deciding private profiles are sus, not theirs for not choosing the account settings you like.
People like you is the reason I keep my profile private for those not on my friend list.
and yes i would rather leave them under the the radar of bhvr then just let them ruin some poor killer's day
and it has nothing to do with me winning or losing
yes we heard that 3 times already
thank you
sorry to disappoint you but literally anyone who plays this game gets suspicious from private profiles not just me
and again i don't care if they live in even in jupiter, leaving the smallest thing available again NOT JUST FOR ME because you know 60k players and for some reason everyone thinks I'm the ONLY PERSON who get suspicious of private accounts
might just help you not get falsely banned and might help not getting dodged every damn game
maybe people wouldn't get falsely banned if you didn't falsely report them
Yeah, so the whole "I got outplayed, sus????" thing isn't really convincing me of your legitimacy much. Because I don't know what you consider an amazing but fishy play, and your sheer willingness to assume somebody's cheating on dint of private profile, to the point where you report 'most' of them, tells me you're a bit trigger happy on the subject.
Sure, I'll squint over repeated impeccably timed Dead Hards or the like, but I don't report people for cheating unless I'm sure of it. Anything less is a waste of time.
Also, nice job claiming literally everyone gets suspicious of private profiles. Except when you look at this thread, the population of private-profile-distrusters appears to be you and one other guy who thinks they're suspicious conditionally. I'm sure there's many people who avoid private profiles, but to the point of taking proactive action against them...? And implying it's your own fault if you get banned for being reported for using an option Steam freely gives you? Yeah, I'm pretty confident in saying this specific thing is a you problem.
You've been given an ample list of why people private their profiles on Steam. If you don't like them, or think people owe you every bit of information that isn't related to the things that they have a direct reason to hide - deal with it.
Yet you have a bunch of people who play the game telling you that this is a solely "you" issue. It's clearly not a widespread thing for people who play as most people understand why people private profiles.
You're being a sore winner/loser because someone made an "amazing play" and your response is "must be cheater" instead of "they're just good at this game and made a cool play." You are then using private profile as a lame excuse to make yourself feel justified for reporting someone that just made a good play even if you won in the end when most likely its private to avoid the toxicity/harassment that is quite popular in the DBD community.
Instead of asking them how they made the amazing play so maybe you could learn and get better at the game you instead are reporting them because you have decided without any actual proof that they are a cheater.
maybe its because if anyone says anything like this, would just get horded like it just happened
i mean people still horde you if u just say NOED isn't op hence this
Ive had that happen to me. Someone was upset they lost a match of dbd and they posted rude comments on screenshots I had for xcom2.
im starting to feel like you didn't even the read the post
but allow to tell you
PULLING SOMETHING AMAZING and then someone checking your accounts and finding it private will get some alarms raised again its not about ME WINNING OR LOSING are
and even tho u said this yourself that toxicity is spread across the community
asking someone how they made that AMAZING PLAY will just fuel their ego and they will start calling u baby killer
so what the hell are u even on about
This is exactly why I leave my profile private, I'll talk in the endgame but I dont want to put up with an adult with a childlike temper tantrum spamming comments on my profile or messaging me accusing me of hacking when I wasn't or being upset because they think I did something in game that got them killed, or survivors messaging and talking trash after the game was over like 30 mins before that, yea no thanks I'm gonna leave my profile private so I don't have to listen to it, if you got something to say then say it in the endgame and leave it at that.
Let me Copy and paste for you what i recently wrote in another thread:
The reason i have a private profile is that i, when i started this game 4 years ago, i used the same name for my online-persona, meaning i used the same name in games, forums etc (it was not a common name, and i have a gaming history back to 1998, there are transcpits of matches i played in starcraft around the internet).
When i started this game, a very salty killer started to stalk said online persona, registering in forums i am member of and sending me messages, and entering other games i played to find me (and if possible backstab me).
I learned, and since then, i use a different name for every forum, game, or whatever.
And yes, i keep my profiles private if possible.
that's very extreme, like i annoyed a lot of individuals in many games but i never got anything like
the best one which is more toxic than any game would be LoL and even in that game i never got anything like this
the best one, was one person adding me saying oink and unfriending me which just left me confused and laughing
You're just making up excuses to report people for cheating without any proof. You're being a sore winner/loser claiming if someone makes an amazing play and happens to have a private profile the only reason is that they are a cheater. You just want to feel justified for falsely reporting people when really you trying to get innocent players banned is just as bad as an actual cheater ruining players games.
But WITHOUT PROOF it's doing nothing but wasting everyone's time of the staff who's job is to ban the cheaters. @MandyTalk will probably say something similar too.
As I said before and others said. Just because someone is private and okay better than you didn't make them a cheater and they shouldn't be put on the Van Staffs radar for just being better than you.
you just said the comment in 3 different ways but whatever u say mr sore winner/loser since u like that word so much
i would get some evidence but again there is no replay nor history in this game and im no streamer soooo
what do you think i should do when someone pulls something sketchy just watch and bang my head on wall?
and again its not about justification if a kill or give hatch or they escape if they played normally even with a private profile i won't report them mainly the fact that they did good
you're basically saying that i call people who use dead hard cheaters which just kinda funny
that's the thing
there is no way to get evidence in any how, i would record but again record just crashes my game so why not just report them if they pull something sketchy and who knows if they are hacking they will banned if not they can continue their gameplay normally
its not the end of the world if u report someone because they pulled something sketchy
but everyone here is making it like I'm thanos just getting players banned left and right
bhvr is responsible for the toxic community, especially when he claims to see even encourages camping, camping ultra toxic anti game behavior that holds the game hostage.
Balance sheet of the survivors either leave the game definitively or cheat because we are tired of being camp.
When we allow toxic behavior, you have a game with a toxic community.
It is if they were not doing anything wrong and you get a inocent player banned because your paranoid. I see this post being deleted anyway because you refuse to see other people's points and basically say I'm right your wrong. You just want to ruin other people's fun because you got outplayed
I am a grown man, but the extend to which that person followed through really really shocked me, and crept me out. I play games my whole life, and online games since around 1997, but i never experience a toxicity like this in any other online game i ever played.
And ever since then, private profiles it is.
I get where you are coming from and yeah people are probably gonna try their best to avoid reports, bans and sharing info if they are a cheaters.
Just making the point that private profiles aren't indicative of cheating.
Also with steam profiles you can still see vac ban notes they can't be hidden by profile settings. Its usually a pretty good red flag to go off.
why would it get remove and for some reason everyone thinks that ONE Person reporting a certain account will get them banned
which is just weird
and some people here are right but they make it like i got 600 players banned when you know i only ever reported like 5 people who felt like they were hacking
i don't blame ya that is very extreme for just a game
if its EU servers
that word is very common i play on EU with a vpn because NA in the morning is empty, people there tend to tryhard a lot and even if they make a mistake somehow they blame it on you
I'm guessing you obviously don't know what a sore winner/loser is. It is someone that no matter if they win or lose they do not handle it well - in your case it's wanting a reason to report someone in hopes they'll be banned because they made a good play at some point in the match that you think can only be cheating and not just a good play. You use "private profile" as your "proof" since you have no actual proof that it was cheating and because it was most likely just a good play.
There are ways without being a streamer to record your matches. A simple Google search will show you how. Since you are on PC it is much easier to record and share than it is for those on console. If you run into as many cheaters as you claim then you should start recording your matches for proof. If you can't actually prove they are cheating then you are most likely making false reports and like I said before - trying to get innocent people banned with false reports is just as bad as an actual cheater ruining players games.
You're just making up excuses to not prove someone is actually cheating, just your "they did an amazing play and have a private profile" which is not proof at all that they are a cheater. You want to be justified and you made this post thinking people would agree and give you a pat on the back but instead you have 3 pages of people repeatedly telling you what you are doing is wrong.
Just saying private profiles alone are not really enough to be indicative of cheating.
You can't hide previous VAC bans on your steam profile via privacy settings.
Vindictive players, abusers and creeps can be very determined people making privacy settings a valuable asset to those whom feel they need them.
and this is why they keep they're profiles private
my man seriously that's the 4th time and i don't just report ANYONE if they make a good play for the billtionth time i said something sketchy if they pull some outplay on me there is no reason to report or anything but when someone is literally uncatchable without lithe or dead hard you might just start getting a little suspicious and recording dbd is a nightmare since the game just tends to crash for ME
and i don't expect any person to agree with me
this whole community literally can't agree on anything
and again 1 person isn't gonna get ANYONE BANNED not sure why everyone is taking it like im getting people banned as we speak
reminder : SKETCHY NOT OUTPLAY, SKETCHY, just so you understand it <3
The amount of times I've seen people run to someone's profile to try and leave the ascii spam or just call someone a "Pro Gamer" word because they couldn't handle losing a game of dbd is insane. Privating your profile becomes even more important if you're very open about being POC, LGBTQIA+, or neurodivergent because sadly people in general and in this game in particular people will harass the absolute heck out of you if you beat them in a game.
Like even playing ranked League of Legends has never generated the level of childish hatefulness that I've seen and received.
I don’t even understand why gaming profiles need to be private. A lot of games would expose players for cheating if there were no private option.
Haven't read the whole discussion - just two very short cents on the original post: For the longest time the vast majority of my Steam-friends were IRL friends and we would post things meant for each other and not the general public to our profiles / in comments on games/screenshots etc. Hence my profile having been "friends only" for the longest time; this will be shown to not-friends as "this profile is private". And I think a lot of people have their profiles set to friends only.
I don't want the salt of a stranger that lose against me on my profile, in 2017-19 i had my profile open but nowdays the toxicity is out of control and you literally get insulted for whatever
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like make it so you can disable comments on everything and have limited access to what others can but not completely private
I don't use Dead Hard or Lithe but have outrun killers for way too long because they just aren't that good or make mistakes. You yourself in this post have said you aren't that good so it's very likely you aren't catching them due to your own poor playing. If your game just tends to crash it could just be your game is running poorly making others look like something sketchy is happening but really it's on YOUR end.
If you can't prove they are cheating then you shouldn't be reporting them. Whether or not you think being 1 person reporting matters it's still crappy to falsely report players just because mid-game you thought a player with a private profile maybe did something sketchy. You're reporting them because you're hoping to get them banned - you are trying to ruin another players game just like a cheater tries to ruin players games.
What kind of satire is this?
"I got outplayed so they are cheating because they are private". That satire....
The big problem you have is using discrete cheats like light speed hack, light speed repair hack, 100% excellent Skill Checks
Their cheat software just uses existing in-game perks except that it's permanently active throughout the game.
They can disable comments without making their profile private.
Steam added those privacy options not too long ago. The second it happened people started hiding their profiles so no one could see their game time or friends list and of course cheaters use it too.
This was back when killers could still switch to Nurse in the lobby if you saw an SWF.
Exactly. If this world wasn’t full of terrible human beings, there would be no need to have private profiles.
You reported every private profile? For what? I hope you get banned for abusing the reporting system
It's like most players in high MMR has faster gen repair or speed cheats on, you won't be catching them even if you run in a straight line even without loops and they vault incredibly quick.
This is just my observation but if you're playing in SoloQ and you're fixing a gen with a closet cheater, it seems like you have prove thyself running secretly, the gens pop real quick, not to mention they run faster than your average survivor.
I know the difference speed of gens depending if its a normal survivor or a cheater is doing it.
wow im scared
you know i would say something if the system even worked to begin with
clearly u can read better than everyone here
im reporting them so if they were hacking they get banned if not they go on with their gameplay
NOT HOPING TO GET BANNED why the hell would i wanna ban anyone that isn't cheating
This community is way to toxic to have your profile open.
Don't follow the survivor rulebook? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA on your profile
Don't save the guy from the camping bubba during end game? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA on your profile
Click play killer? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA on your profile
I have an alt where i just play normally and it has 20 pages of salt from survivors i beat. From hackusations to waa camper (mostly camper) even some wishing me to commit no life. I don't know what it is but this game seems to attract awful people or it messes with peoples brain.
The only people that get away with an unprivated profile are streamers because people won't say anything in fear of their dirty laundry being shown to others.
“I just report everyone so in case they are cheating they’ll get banned”
You probably don’t realize or care because it’s pretty obvious that you don’t consider the impact of your actions on others around you, but people at BHVR have to waste their time reviewing all your garbage reports and thus have less time to spend reviewing actual legitimate reports