Seeing Killer Username in Lobby Chat and Match
I guess this is more so for streamers or content creators, but do you guys think it’s a little unfair that we can’t see the killer’s name until the match is over.
I’m asking because when I watch killer gameplay, they click on survivor’s profiles to check the hours.
OR, should survivor usernames just be disabled until the end of the match.
EDIT: I accidentally left out infamous Bully Squads as a potential issue for the second option
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I think its better to keep everything anonymous till the end to be completely honest, just to avoid teaming with the killer
Just use anonymous mode as a survivor if that's an issue for you about the hours and if killer uses anonymous then the name has to be hidden cuz anonymous show the name of the character you are playing so nothing will basically change, hypothetically if killer doesn't hide their profile then if they chose to say who their main is in the profile and also if it's epidemy for example then people will obviously will dodge them, survivors will dodge them depending on the killer, survivors cannot see the killer for that so they suffer the penalty if they want to dodge the killer which basically ruins the match for the team and killer actually). There are much bigger issues then this one, while this is not even an issue.
It’s not really an issue for me because I’m on console, I know about anon mode, and I put a vote option if it really isn’t all that important.
Needs to be hidden for everyone. Killers being able to shop for lobbies and be like "nah ill pass these people are all pc" is annoying. recently killers have started to dodge lobbies that have to many annons. its like we playing in annon because they dodge all the time then now they starting to dodge because we are annon, something needs to change.
I kinda agree with @random1543, it is pretty stupid to even show them at all because you can skip lobbies then. At the same time I want to add, that I personally like to see the hours of my opponents, but not to dodge them or something, but rather to decide if I have to play more serious from the start or not (this is probably also it's own problem).
For example if the team i'm playing against has 800 hours each I don't really take them serious, but if they have 3-10k each I'm playing a lot more serious from the start to not lose instantly. If everyone would only do this instead of dodging I think showing both sides could also work.
No one should be able to see anyone's name and I've never understood why you can just shop people's profiles.
I have never dodged a lobby, if I had to leave, I needed to leave for a good reason, I actually dodged a cheater once cuz of the discord username, queue times are quite long now (was like 30 seconds before 2v8 and now it's like 5 minutes after 2v8 which is annoying, 5 minutes is basically half of what an average game lasts), Idk what killers you get but I don't think killers dodged many games like you cannot know if they dodge cuz you are on pc or cuz of the anon.
Its just anecdotal from my own experience, the lobbies that tend to have killers shuffling in and out of them nowadays are either PC lobbies or lobbies with multiple anon users.
I don't see this really changing ever because sometimes usernames are the only way to track which survivors you've hooked or not. The game does a horrible job of distinguishing survivors who all go the same character with the same outfit. Also it's so much worse to find killer profiles because you could potentially use achievements to see who they use the most.
Well, no. The names we see could be the actual survivor’s name, i.e Claudette Morel 1 or David King 2
Not really useful when your HUD is cluttered with the same four icons and the same four names, and you have to take the extra time to scan the very last character to see which actual player you're chasing. It doesn't sound like much but having to decipher that 100 times in a match to keep track is tedious and eye straining.