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• @Laluzi said:

  Killer or survivor. Or do you not dodge at all?

  I dodge lobbies if I see more than two flashlights. It's not even a git gud situation, I just know these survivors are going to be really annoying - either they're going to find other ways to badger me at hooks, or they're just going to click at me all game. Lightborn makes good gotcha moments but doesn't stop annoying survivors from being annoying. I also don't trust Dwelfs; if I see a Dwelf with a flashlight, or a lobby of Dwelfs, I'm gone.

  I don't dodge keys unless I'm doing an adept or an archive to get a 4k. And I love lobbies where all four survivors are the same character or identical, even if it probably means they're a SWF.

  As a survivor, I dodge if I end up in a really provocative lobby - like all three of my teammates are carrying keys. I'll also dodge if I'm doing a flashlight challenge and I see other players with flashlights, because I don't want the killer to bring Lightborn.

  I'm just curious about what things different people nope out at.

  P3 all flashlight

  in What makes you dodge a lobby? Comment by ultraaaaah May 13, 2021

• @Mister_xD said:

  hey all,

  a rather short (looking back at it after writing it, it wasnt that short after all - ive added a short TL;DR at the bottom ^^), rantish kind of post today, so my apologies for that.

  so ive been playing quite a bit of survivor recently. obviously my main goal is getting the tome challenges done, so ive been doing that a lot lately.

  however, throughout the games ive played as a survivor i made two observations (they tie into one another, so they are based on the same thing):

  1) hook suicides are VERY common with solo survivors

  2) a vast majority of my games that the killer got a 3 - 4k are because of someone suiciding on hook early on. more often than not, with a functioning team (you know, one where no one ragequits at 5 gens), the killer got 0 - 2 kills (unless we threw last second and started a basement party ofc - not that that would ever happen of course. ahem anyway...)

  why is it that so many people feel the need to suicide early on into the game?

  at least to me, this is the main thing that ruins the solo survivor experience: teammates that just refuse to participate and quit, leaving everyone else behind to die.

  yeah certain killers arent the most fun to play against or sometimes you meet your occasional hardcamper / tunneler / slugger, but none of those instances are even close to the amounf of people i see suiciding on hooks.

  wasnt the whole point of the DC penalty system to force people to keep playing the game they queued up for? im not saying hook suicides were as frequent as DCs were back in the day - that would just be an absurd statement - but they are still way, way too common and imho there should be a penalty for it.

  that doesnt have to be as big as the DC penalty, but when someone repeatedly suicides on hook early on imo its best for them, and everyone that has to play with them (and gets forced into an instant lose scenario due to their actions), if they were to take a little break from the game.

  and just to be clear: i am NOT talking about someone not struggeling to give their mate hatch or sthg like that. i am soley talking about those who will suicide on hook immediately when they are caught, usually pretty early on into the game, ruining the experience for not only their fellow survivors, but (at least in my case) also the killer. at that point its no better than when someone DCed back in the day.

  my suggestion:

  make hook suicides reportable. I'm not saying someone who hook suicided once or twice should get banned immediately, however if you hook suicided like 5 (or more) times in like two hours, maybe you should be taking a break. at that point you basically left more games early than you had time to complete, so why are you even playing?

  so please stop hook suiciding, if you are someone who does it. you're ruining everyone elses game. I dont want penaltys to be necessary, but sadly they are - and YOU can change that!

  welp, thats about it.

  thanks for reading, sorry that it was such a rantish post of mine - but hook suicides really get my blood boiling.

  anyway, whats your take on the topic? do you too hate hook suicides too or do you think they are fine / dont care? do you think my suggestion is good or bad? i'd like to hear your thoughts on this!

  have a good day / night!

  TL;DR:

  hook suicides suck the fun out of DbD and imho they should be a reportable and ultimately bannable offense. if you queue up to play the game, you should be playing it and allow everyone else to have the chance of playing a normal game aswell.

  please stop hook suiciding.

  I'm gonna be honest.

  
  

  There's no real reason to force someone to keep playing a game they don't want to.

  
  

  I'm sorry team, but if I had the killer chasing me for 5 minutes and you still didn't even progress in one generator don't expect me to keep playing.

  
  

  Someone who doesn't wants to play isn't gonna do well, and someone who doesn't do well is worse than a dead teammate.

  in Hook Suicides Comment by ultraaaaah May 12, 2021