CryingMan
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First I want to say, good on you for backing up your claims with your own evidence and sharing it with us, and while this isn’t high mmr and it’s someone with some knowledge going against people that probably don’t have any experience with the game I think dismissing it because of that isn’t good for the game/community. I’d say while you can’t apply this to experienced players because most survivors that have been playing the game know how to counter camping/tunneling, you can definitely use this to show what the possible new player experience is like for survivors and to an extent killers. Everyone knows that rank and role are inversely related as survivor is harder then gets easier and vice versa for killer. While I personally love this patch because it shifted the meta and actually made changes for experienced players, it definitely made it harder for newer players, specifically new survivors. A lot of the changes are good for us who’ve been playing for a long time (such as perks being unlocked after prestige, nerfs to DH, etc.), but largely it doesn’t help the new player experience. This is not to say that after the patch camping/tunneling became some new thing, as it’s been part of the game for it’s entire life. New players are equally as important to the game as people who have been playing it for years and years. They’re what expands the community and playerbase so their experience matters as much as ours. Camping and tunneling are unfortunately more prevalent and effective at lower ranks, and while you are free to play however you see fit, it’s just not a fun experience for survivors in general let alone someone who’s brand new (and there are definitely unfun things to face as killer too although those situations mostly happen at high ranks, at least in my experience). Now if someone that’s new is constantly getting tunneled/camped they probably aren’t having fun, and when a game isn’t fun why play? People are probably more likely to quit the game because of this, and while as stated before, tunneling and camping isn’t new to this patch it’s just become a little bit more effective with some of the new changes in lower ranks. And you can’t really tell a new player how to deal with something like this because they lack the knowledge to apply it properly and the only way to gain that knowledge is to play the game which is probably less likely for them because they aren’t having fun; it’s like showing someone how to run a structure, it’s good to know but actually applying it is a different story. One more example that is somewhat related, but unrelated to DBD would be frame data in fighting games. Experienced players know how to apply knowledge of frames to optimize their gameplan, but if you showed it to a new player it would be meaningless because they wouldn’t know how to apply it and it wouldn’t even someone teach how to play a character/the game itself.
tl;dr I think that while, yes, this doesn’t apply to high mmr players it could be a good way to show what the new/low mr players are experiencing and that it shouldn’t be ignored because the new player experience is equally as important to the game as ours as experienced players.