Is hook camping allowed?

[Yeshalot]

just curious, recently started playing killer.

revving the chainsaw as billy and sitting in front of a survivor hooked makes a pretty easy kill and guarantees anyone who comes to get the survivor on the hook goes down.

but lots of players get mad.

as far as i know the reporting system doesn't say anything about that being bannable.
or is it considered toxic?

[tinytmss]

yes, it is allowed because you can play however you want for your enjoyment. if you purely play to kill, then yeah, go for it. it probably won’t give you much points for doing so, but it’s your call.

[Rezi Le Rae]

It's toxic but you can't be banned for it however being known as a toxic killer will often be met with toxic survivors who will be happy to return the favour. Just remember, you can play however you want but you don't get to control how others respond.

[Totally Not Myers]

Here's some advice OP:

1) Put your profile's comments to Friends Only so people can't leave harassment quality comments on your profile.

2) Turn off the game's chat box for post-game lobbies so you don't even have to see them be angry.

Enjoy the camping.

On a more serious note; it's ok to camp under the right circumstances if you're trying to get 4k or a lot of BPs.

The 2 main situations to camp are when gates are opened and you hooked someone so camping prevents them from escaping through the gate. The other is when the survivors are WAY too altruistic and are literally at the hook ready to unhook as you're hooking the person.

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Yes if survivors tbag or harass you!

[Esoteric]

Originally posted by Yeshalot:

just curious, recently started playing killer.

revving the chainsaw as billy and sitting in front of a survivor hooked makes a pretty easy kill and guarantees anyone who comes to get the survivor on the hook goes down.

but lots of players get mad.

as far as i know the reporting system doesn't say anything about that being bannable.
or is it considered toxic?

It was never not allowed. Many (all) players will be mad. Do what you want; who cares.

[Gremling]

You will receive a lot of hate and the strategy will not always work with skilled survivors but it's not forbidden.

Just do what you were advised to do. It's good advice:

Originally posted by Not Myers:

Here's some advice OP:

1) Put your profile's comments to Friends Only so people can't leave harassment quality comments on your profile.

2) Turn off the game's chat box for post-game lobbies so you don't even have to see them be angry.

Enjoy the camping.

On a more serious note; it's ok to camp under the right circumstances if you're trying to get 4k or a lot of BPs.

The 2 main situations to camp are when gates are opened and you hooked someone so camping prevents them from escaping through the gate. The other is when the survivors are WAY too altruistic and are literally at the hook ready to unhook as you're hooking the person.

[Ted]

Originally posted by Not Myers:

Here's some advice OP:

1) Put your profile's comments to Friends Only so people can't leave harassment quality comments on your profile.

2) Turn off the game's chat box for post-game lobbies so you don't even have to see them be angry.

Enjoy the camping.

On a more serious note; it's ok to camp under the right circumstances if you're trying to get 4k or a lot of BPs.

The 2 main situations to camp are when gates are opened and you hooked someone so camping prevents them from escaping through the gate. The other is when the survivors are WAY too altruistic and are literally at the hook ready to unhook as you're hooking the person.

I agree with this very much.

I try to avoid camping but sometimes you HAVE to do it or you will lose, or at best lose a kill.

Since playing killer I had to change my name and go completely private as I got death threats and lunatic salty survivors commenting on reviews, screenshots and anything they could find to abuse me

[peppermint hollows]

As someone else has already pointed out, you won't get a lot of points for doing so. Just want to elaborate since you're new to killer - like survivor (assuming you were playing survivor before), you get emblems for different categories of play. The better your score on these emblems, the more BPs you get. You take a penalty to the chaser emblem for being within 16 metres of a hooked survivor 10 seconds after hooking them.

However, this penalty does not apply if you're in a chase or there are nearby survivors in that 16 metre radius. My advice is just to not camp unless you know the team is being overly altruistic, you can patrol nearby gens or just stay on the hook if you know for a fact someone's going to try and come for a cheeky save.

[Joe]

I can tell you from personal experience that you won't get better at chasing and downing by camping. You also won't get many bloodpoints. It makes it unfun for the person being camped as well, as they will get basically nothing.

It is not bannable though. If you ever play much as survivor and get camped you will see why most people get mad about it. The majority of the people I play against don't mind it during endgame though as you aren't always left with many options. Doing it with 5 gens up though just kinda ruins the game.

But being the hypocrite that I am, I love watching vincentvega do his leatherface skit. Even though I've been hit with it.

[[NTOG] Rave]

I mean if you want to be a complete piece of ♥♥♥♥ and ruin someone elses gaming experience by being said piece of ♥♥♥♥, sure knock yourself out. Dont be shocked when you find your getting dodged alot since MLGA is a thing.

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by BOB:

I agree with this very much.

I try to avoid camping but sometimes you HAVE to do it or you will lose, or at best lose a kill.

Since playing killer I had to change my name and go completely private as I got death threats and lunatic salty survivors commenting on reviews, screenshots and anything they could find to abuse me

That's honestly really sad that you had to change your name and go private just because of that.

It's a game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lol. I've had a few salty comments on my profile so far, but I don't have too many hours under my belt yet, so needless to say I'm excited for what's to come the more I play.

[Ted]

Originally posted by StrawberryPi:

Originally posted by BOB:

I agree with this very much.

I try to avoid camping but sometimes you HAVE to do it or you will lose, or at best lose a kill.

Since playing killer I had to change my name and go completely private as I got death threats and lunatic salty survivors commenting on reviews, screenshots and anything they could find to abuse me

That's honestly really sad that you had to change your name and go private just because of that.

It's a game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lol. I've had a few salty comments on my profile so far, but I don't have too many hours under my belt yet, so needless to say I'm excited for what's to come the more I play.

It is.

I literally only played survivor since starting this game and I heard there was a lot of toxicity but I never saw it as I was a survivor only. But once I started playing killer... my God there are some really toxic and very salty survivors out there.

Don't get me wrong, I have gotten salty but I have never made death threats or wished cancer on people etc but I got exactly that.

Funny thing is, I admit I am a pretty sh*t killer ha ha... So I can't imagine how triggered they get with really good killers.

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by BOB:

It is.

I literally only played survivor since starting this game and I heard there was a lot of toxicity but I never saw it as I was a survivor only. But once I started playing killer... my God there are some really toxic and very salty survivors out there.

Don't get me wrong, I have gotten salty but I have never made death threats or wished cancer on people etc but I got exactly that.

Funny thing is, I admit I am a pretty sh*t killer ha ha... So I can't imagine how triggered they get with really good killers.

Despite my limited experience, I've seen some survivors be toxic to each other, so I'm surprised you've never seen it yourself. Including one game where one of the survivors admitted to sandbagging all their teammates and letting them die so he could get the hatch, and I noticed that most of the game he didn't seem to be doing gens or anything, he was just crouching around, probably looking for the hatch.

And yeah, it's funny, whether you're good or you're bad you're not free from toxicity. My very first match I had 3 kills and 1 disconnect, and I was accused of facecamping. I didn't know what it was at the time but now that I do, I know for a fact I wasn't doing it, it was just an excuse to berate me.

I remember asking my friend (who has more experience on this game than I do) if rank 20 was good or bad and he laughed and said it means I just installed the game, and the other people in the match must've been salty for losing to a literal noob killer.

[Ted]

Originally posted by StrawberryPi:

Originally posted by BOB:

It is.

I literally only played survivor since starting this game and I heard there was a lot of toxicity but I never saw it as I was a survivor only. But once I started playing killer... my God there are some really toxic and very salty survivors out there.

Don't get me wrong, I have gotten salty but I have never made death threats or wished cancer on people etc but I got exactly that.

Funny thing is, I admit I am a pretty sh*t killer ha ha... So I can't imagine how triggered they get with really good killers.

Despite my limited experience, I've seen some survivors be toxic to each other, so I'm surprised you've never seen it yourself. Including one game where one of the survivors admitted to sandbagging all their teammates and letting them die so he could get the hatch, and I noticed that most of the game he didn't seem to be doing gens or anything, he was just crouching around, probably looking for the hatch.

And yeah, it's funny, whether you're good or you're bad you're not free from toxicity. My very first match I had 3 kills and 1 disconnect, and I was accused of facecamping. I didn't know what it was at the time but now that I do, I know for a fact I wasn't doing it, it was just an excuse to berate me.

I remember asking my friend (who has more experience on this game than I do) if rank 20 was good or bad and he laughed and said it means I just installed the game, and the other people in the match must've been salty for losing to a literal noob killer.

Oh don't get me wrong, I got the odd bit of toxicity like sandbagging and abusive comments in chat etc but nothing like I got playing killer. Most of the time even if we had arguments in one match, we would still save and heal each other in the very next game and give a 'gg'.

You will get accused of camping even if you are on the other side of the map, so don't listen to it. The comment I quoted above is so on point, when you play killer you have to disable comments etc or you will just get endless abuse.

Rank 20 is a fun place to be, it's new and everyone isn't cynical and arrogant, they just want to have fun and learn the game so you don't get the sweaty killers and/or survivors

Don't be in any hurry to rank up as killer either, it starts to feel very unfair and unfun the higher the rank gets imo

[Defenestration]

It's funny how players get mad at other players for playing the game a certain way without them using cheats or exploits.

I've never seen such a whiny community over somebody taking full advantage of the game. You don't like it? Get mad at the developers. Do not get mad at the players for playing the game.

It's like when you're playing a fighting game and somebody cries "Wahhh stop using the same move wahh!" Ok, it's the developers fault that move can be repetitively used, not the players.


I may get bullied by a SWF squad, but I don't blame them one bit. I actually appreciate them doing it. It makes me realize that I need to get better, or realize that even if I did get better, the game is unbalanced in a competitive standpoint where killers are a joke to experienced survivors.