What is griefing?

[HeeyeenA]

The patch notes talk about griefing, I have no idea what it is.

[ѠhiteѠolf]

griefing (in dbd) is messing with other people deliberatley. As in perhaps baiting teammates on purpose trying to get the other survivers killed

[Attuoz]

I report chinese people who play with 3k latency for griefing.

[鬼椒]

Griefing is trying to intentionally ruin the game for others. I wouldn't say a playstyle is griefing but for example if you were to AFK in the corner of the map for 5-10 minutes for the lols or keep trying to lead the killer to allies or something along those lines.

Some good examples of griefing in other games is feeding couriers in dota2, building teleporters on the edge of cliffs in tf2 or blocking teammates in certain rooms as Mei in overwatch. Just to give you an idea. Exploiting bugs could also be counted as griefing to an extent.

For a shorter response just go with WhiteWolf's comment.

Originally posted by ѠhiteѠolf:

griefing (in dbd) is messing with other people deliberatley. As in perhaps baiting teammates on purpose trying to get the other survivers killed

To summarize you're only playing to get reactions and ruin the experience for other players. You're not playing to play the game but to get a kick out of ruining the time of others.

[HeeyeenA]

Thank you for explaining what griefing is :P

[BackwardCap]

Running around the map dropping all the pallets when not being chased. Running around other survivors and blowing their gens to get them caught.

[Spudsy]

griefing is when a killer opens a lobby and then proceeds to start the game once 4 survivors join, if they make it into the game he is instantly face camping by just existing.