HagIsBestGirl

Jeezus, sorry. Thats been in my head for a while and just came out as an essay.

Lol

in I Have to Vent a Little Comment by HagIsBestGirl March 8, 2020

@Ghoste said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1144111#Comment_1144111
I know the drill, I went AFK as you can see the crow above me.
I just don't understand why some people feel the need to take every opportunity to be unsportsmanlike.

Tl;Dr: people are jerks. But it's complicated.

I've actually been thinking about this lately.

I think the biggest force involved here is use of dominant strategies. With a side helping of internet anonymity.

Basically dominant strategy is when you find one strategy in a game that is objectively better than others at obtaining a win condition, regardless of what another player may do.

Regardless of what the devs intend, for many people a TPK (or TPE) IS the win condition.

Lemme make an analogy: Boxing.

Theoretically, if you took a gun to a boxing match and shot your opponent you would win regardless of what your opponent could do.

So, why aren't there more glocksings in boxings?

Things like refs, and rules, and regulations, and social pressures. If you shot your boxing opponent you would have to answer to ejections from the sport, other punishments, and shame from your audience. There are massive incentives to not shoot your opponent, and instead play by the agreeed upon rules of the sport.

In a game like DBD there are rules. But no refs. No audience, per se. Just you, and maybe your stream audience if you're into that.

On top of that, having a layer of internet between you and you're opponent WILL lead you to dehumanize them unless you make a special effort not to. Your brain will just default think of them as a part of the game, or a hostile hindrance, not another person.

So what this leads to is this, and I hate to use the word but it's apt, toxic salad of human behavior.

1. If your goal is to achieve your win condition, you will gravitate towards the most effective strategy to make this happen.

2. If you're like everyone else on the planet, you're not going to lose a lot of sleep over beating someone at a video game.

So when these two factors add up, killers AND survivors will just default to doing the thing that is most likely to give them the emotional hit of getting that win. And they won't care if they bruised someone's pride along the way because, well, they win.

I feel like the only way to counteract this behavior would be super fine, granular and nuanced control over the game rules and disputes of those rules. In short: a ref.

But let's be realistic, that's a stupid idea. The amount of effort expended to give dbd a system that could function like a ref, making human calls that computers struggle to in cases of like and kind, would be a stupid waste of time. No one wants to adjudicate an online game so randos will play nice.

The closest approximation would either be a system of gentlmens agreements that dictate what is and isn't considered fair play. (...which we are clearly incapable of doing. It just turns into 'survivor rulebook' and 'killer rulebook' people just disagree and get angry and then dig their heels in. ) OR something like custom servers where players could tweak what rules do and don't apply and how they work...which isn't a great system for dbd because the player base likely isn't large enough to support such a splintered menu of choices.

So, to wrap up jerking myself off I guess...people act unsportsmanlike because they just want to win and doing what it takes to do that has so few consequences they don't care.

And fixing that is really tough.

(If you read this far for whatever fakkn reason, thanks. I just brain dumped because I could and I like this forum.)

in I Have to Vent a Little Comment by HagIsBestGirl March 8, 2020

@ohheyitsbobcat said:
Haven't seen an auto-aim thread in a while. I believe it's called Animation Enhancement by most people now as well as the "official" term the devs use. There was a stream talking about it some time back as well.
Here's a thread where a dev talks about it a bit.

Yeah, this is most of the info I was thinking about. I didn't realize that last sentence was clickable. My bad.

in Please remove auto aim! Comment by HagIsBestGirl March 8, 2020

They broke this down a while back didn't they? Weren't there even graphics displaying how the hit cone works?

The 'auto aim' doesn't change -what- you hit, it redirects the camera to show where you -did- hit.

The camera redirect seems to be implemented to insure the player is oriented towards the target of their strike. Not so that the game can ensure the player -has- a target.

To address the lifted survivor thing, I would hypothesize that the camera redirects towards the survivor being lifted by the entity because, for whatever reason, the model is still "allowed" to be hit.

So: killer swings >> game checks for hit >> registers hit on model of character being lifted >> turns view towards model.

Also, why are these threads always so aggressive and...personal, for lack of a better word. It's like people have a rough round, or get frustrated and need to come tell some anonymous-to-them dev to go screw their dog and die.

You all know this is just a game, right?

in Please remove auto aim! Comment by HagIsBestGirl March 8, 2020

@csandman1977 said:
Got called a lag switcher when guy came in with red ping. Everyone else was low yellow.

Can you even lag switch with ded servers?

Like...is that still a thing?

in Salty messages Comment by HagIsBestGirl March 4, 2020

@Yung_Slug said:
Winning isn't the most important thing for me
But I don't enjoy DBD either
help

U ok, buddy?

in "I enjoy playing DbD, even if I don't always win." Comment by HagIsBestGirl February 26, 2020

@Almo said:
Curious about why the two different yes and no answers.

Interestingly enough, for both versions of the poll there seem to be a roughly equal number of responses for "Yes" and "Yes, etc."

It's too early to draw any conclusions from that, but it is intriguing. Also, something I'll likely modify in future because that does seem to muddy the data ever so slightly.