Waving Hands & What does it mean?

[costasiero]

OK... I have been playing for years and in the past I was under the impression that waving hands while on hook meant that the killer is camping and that you should stay away and do generators.
Recently , I noticed people doing the exact opposite where the killer was miles away and they were waving hands like signalling people "Hey ! I am here... come and get me"
In the lobby , I asked them and half of them were saying (a couple of them argued about it too) that :
Waving Hands = DONT COME CLOSE
whilst the others were saying
Waving Hands = COME GET ME!

Well... which one is it?

I play both survivor and Killer (I prefer Killer) if that makes any difference

[master uff]

Easy solution. It means Don't come close, so survivor should not come close, because killer is probably camp the ♥♥♥♥ out of the poor survivor. That other survivors thinks that means the opposite is their problem. The meaning of waving your hands was from beginning a signal that the killer is camping. And I will use it for that reason.

[Chase Visconti]

Its more logical to use signal in abnormal situation. Which is being camped. So thats when you should use it. If it was : "come get me I am here" that would be just like what are you waiting for save me you dumb. The biggest problem is that ppl rarely use it at all let alone properly.

[76561197972068810]

If you want to be sure play SWF. If you rock solo it's just a guessing game. Are you and 1 other guy healed up? go get him. When someone gets smacked, go get him. About to die on first hook? go get him. All other times, just sit on your gen.

[Vladimiś]

Even on wiki says its supposed to be "Killer is camping, go away". Makes more sense this way if you think about, youre also telling the killer that his facecamp is pointless since rest of the team is probably doing something productive, putting some pressure on him

[SevenXes]

That is one of the two reasons why I believe that "Kindred" should be (or is) absolutely mandatory when playing solo.
Second reason is that it's easier for your team to see wheather someone is going to unhook you or not. So you're not dying because everyone thought someone else is going to unhook you.

[be nice =)]

waving = camp
fast and short waving = get me

[L.Gaala]

I read somewhere that is the opposite. Waving is supposed to be "come rescue me" cause that what are you trying to do with that interaction. And stay still means the killer is camping. But people use it in a way or another, so it difficult saying for sure. You can only go and see for yourself if the killer is camping.
PS : Bubba + Basement = Camping. No way out.

[Chuck]

Waving hands had meaning? I don't recall a single time that was used for anything other than just being bored.

[costasiero]

Originally posted by Dont dc pls:

waving = camp
fast and short waving = get me

This is confusing

Originally posted by Lord Gaala:

I read somewhere that is the opposite. Waving is supposed to be "come rescue me" cause that what are you trying to do with that interaction. And stay still means the killer is camping. But people use it in a way or another, so it difficult saying for sure. You can only go and see for yourself if the killer is camping.
PS : Bubba + Basemente = Camping. No way out.

Exactly what is driving my crazy. A big portion knows that it means that killer is camping but somewhere , someone decided the exact opposite

[L.Gaala]

The waving is useful to do for when you can be unhooked cause you can see the other surv. If you see one run away, it's probably being chased, so you can notify the other surv that is safe to unhook you.

[Chuck]

Originally posted by bkn.:

When i facecamp people often wave very quickly when i starte at them. I think everybody waves for whatever reason they want to.

The killer signal that you facecamp somebody is hitting them on the hook and nodding.

This.

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by SevenXes:

That is one of the two reasons why I believe that "Kindred" should be (or is) absolutely mandatory when playing solo.

Kindred has always performed well for me (probably increased my chances of escaping by a small amount), but it's one of those double-edged perks.

The other survivors will always know if you're being camped and some of them will just take it as an excuse to not bother lifting a finger, and newer players also tend to get too scared if they can see the killer, rather than getting into a position with others to make a rescue.

On the other hand yes it probably dramatically improves the rescue attempts that aren't complete trainwrecks. But it's one of those nebulous perks that's really hard to see the effects of.

Originally posted by bkn.:

The killer signal that you facecamp somebody is hitting them on the hook and nodding.

Laughing at the idea that there's a book of killer signals they all follow along with.

And I always thought Mikey was telling me how much he likes my red tracksuit.

[Salmon Chasew Mint]

I always thought it means "dont save me, i'll unhook myself" because the killer is near...

[Mad Doctor's Cat]

I always thought waving was a signal that the killer was camping, do gens instead. I've always used it as such when playing survivor.

[Knobz]

from the other thread about this

Originally posted by DrDeepwound:

Originally posted by Maelstrom:

First. Wiggling arms - "unhook me, nobody is coming for me".

wiggling arms on hooks has meant "he is camping" since 2016, pretty much from the start of the game, problem is all the newer players from 2018 on seem to think it means come save me.

If you waving your arms im not coming.