Survivors' Steam usernames revealed - Killer's one hidden

[Rec Ohm]

Since the Killer is able to see the Survivors' usernames on the lobby, why is his/her username hidden and not displayed, too? Shouldn't everyone be able to know who they're playing against before the game starts? If not, why bother reveal only the Survivor's usernames?

Edit:

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

Originally posted by Chewy102:

Profile checking aside, Killers are suppose to have an advantage from the start. Being able to know who you are hunting and what items they are bringing gives Killer Players the ability give themselves an advantage by adjusting their loadout/Killer if needed. Survivors are suppose to be at a disadvantage in not knowing what Killer they are playing against till in game all while having to make due with a lack of information as a whole.
That is how things are suppose to work. That is how DbD was built to be. Killers with a slight advantage, Survivors without.

The only advantage a Killer can get by checking a Survivor's profile (and vice versa, if a Survivor could check the Killer's profile) is just whether or not they should dodge them. I don't see any actual gameplay or mechanic advantage from accessing a Survivor's profile (apart from potentially figuring the SwF out of course). It has nothing to do with the lobby (that provides information on the Survivors and their items), which is undeniably reasonable.

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

Originally posted by Alex Anarchy:

Why do people keep posting these threads like they don't know what asymmetrical games are and using fair as the excuse to act dumb about it?

Asymmetrical games include in-game advantages and disadvantages. This is a Steam feature that only increases the dodging potential and thus the queue times.

[The Sin Of Cain]

They used to allow Survivors to see the Killers names. Till Survivors abused the crap out of it and lobby dodged every Killer that they labeled a “Camper/Tunneler” as well as played any Killer they didn’t like.

This lead to MASSIVELY long que times for both sides.

[rj1567]

If the killers name is shown survivors would dodge killers they don't like or go on their profile and look who they are playing mainly and only run perks that are the strongest against this killer.
The reason survivor names are shown is something i don't really know as you gain no real advantage knowing their name or going on their profile. Personally i wouldn't mind if they take the names of survivors out as like i said doesn't matter if you can see them or not

[Wisdom]

Here is a good solution;

Don’t give anyone access to anyone’s user names. They can talk to each other in the end of game chat.

The killers name will just be “hillbilly” or something and the survivor name would simply be “Claudette” (as an example, of course)

[Rec Ohm]

Originally posted by Soveriegn King:

They used to allow Survivors to see the Killers names. Till Survivors abused the crap out of it and lobby dodged every Killer that they labeled a “Camper/Tunneler” as well as played any Killer they didn’t like.

So Killers are allowed to abuse it by dodging, but Survivors are not?

Originally posted by Wisdom:

Here is a good solution;
Don’t give anyone access to anyone’s user names. They can talk to each other in the end of game chat.

Cheers to that!

[Rec Ohm]

Originally posted by rj1567:

The reason survivor names are shown is something i don't really know as you gain no real advantage knowing their name or going on their profile.

To be honest, there is an advantage: the Killer can check their profiles, which means:

• they can check their comment section for feedback (potentially by other DbD players, mainly Killers), regarding "rep";
  
• they can access their friends list and see if they're SwF with other Survivors.

That's why an increasing number of Survivor profiles is getting private.

[iSpeed]

Originally posted by Soveriegn King:

They used to allow Survivors to see the Killers names. Till Survivors abused the crap out of it and lobby dodged every Killer that they labeled a “Camper/Tunneler” as well as played any Killer they didn’t like.

This lead to MASSIVELY long que times for both sides.

It still works streamers use the recent player list.

[rj1567]

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

Originally posted by rj1567:

The reason survivor names are shown is something i don't really know as you gain no real advantage knowing their name or going on their profile.

To be honest, there is an advantage: the Killer can check their profiles, which means:

• they can check their comment section for feedback (potentially by other DbD players, mainly Killers), regarding "rep";
  
• they can access their friends list and see if they're SwF with other Survivors.

That's why an increasing number of Survivor profiles is getting private.

Reps mean absolutely nothing most people that write them give you - reps because you didn't play like they wanted.
Regarding swf yeah could be used for that but you can often also see if they are swf when multiple survivors join at the same time

[Bdbtoys]

Originally posted by Wisdom:

Don’t give anyone access to anyone’s user names. They can talk to each other in the end of game chat.

+1

However...

Originally posted by Wisdom:

The killers name will just be “hillbilly” or something and the survivor name would simply be “Claudette” (as an example, of course)

-1, Survivors are just skins, giving away what killer it is will prevent certain killers from getting games.

[BteteZ]

Originally posted by rj1567:

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

To be honest, there is an advantage: the Killer can check their profiles, which means:

• they can check their comment section for feedback (potentially by other DbD players, mainly Killers), regarding "rep";
  
• they can access their friends list and see if they're SwF with other Survivors.

That's why an increasing number of Survivor profiles is getting private.

Reps mean absolutely nothing most people that write them give you - reps because you didn't play like they wanted.
Regarding swf yeah could be used for that but you can often also see if they are swf when multiple survivors join at the same time

Not exacly m8 atm its very hard if not Impossible to ser the Diference between swf and random. Normaly evento if the 4 are random them Will entre on the exacly same momento.

So a big % of the time a Killers Dodge. Because are a suposed swf can not be.

[Rec Ohm]

Originally posted by rj1567:

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

To be honest, there is an advantage: the Killer can check their profiles, which means they can access their friends list and see if they're SwF with other Survivors.

Regarding swf yeah could be used for that but you can often also see if they are swf when multiple survivors join at the same time

That won't be the case anymore due to the new matchmaking system which will load Survivors at the same time.

[Killer Killer]

Originally posted by Bdbtoys:

Originally posted by Wisdom:

Don’t give anyone access to anyone’s user names. They can talk to each other in the end of game chat.

+1

However...

Originally posted by Wisdom:

The killers name will just be “hillbilly” or something and the survivor name would simply be “Claudette” (as an example, of course)

-1, Survivors are just skins, giving away what killer it is will prevent certain killers from getting games.

I think they mean post chat.
You only get to see the Killer's name but not in the lobby.

[Bdbtoys]

Originally posted by Dels Kibara:

I think they mean post chat.
You only get to see the Killer's name but not in the lobby.

If that is the case I'll remove the -1.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

Originally posted by rj1567:

The reason survivor names are shown is something i don't really know as you gain no real advantage knowing their name or going on their profile.

To be honest, there is an advantage: the Killer can check their profiles, which means:

• they can check their comment section for feedback (potentially by other DbD players, mainly Killers), regarding "rep";
  
• they can access their friends list and see if they're SwF with other Survivors.

That's why an increasing number of Survivor profiles is getting private.

Profile checking aside, Killers are suppose to have an advantage from the start. Being able to know who you are hunting and what items they are bringing gives Killer Players the ability give themselves an advantage by adjusting their loadout/Killer if needed. Survivors are suppose to be at a disadvantage in not knowing what Killer they are playing against till in game all while having to make due with a lack of information as a whole.

That is how things are suppose to work. That is how DbD was built to be. Killers with a slight advantage, Survivors without.

[Allivan]

Originally posted by rj1567:

Originally posted by Rec Ohm:

To be honest, there is an advantage: the Killer can check their profiles, which means:

• they can check their comment section for feedback (potentially by other DbD players, mainly Killers), regarding "rep";
  
• they can access their friends list and see if they're SwF with other Survivors.

That's why an increasing number of Survivor profiles is getting private.

Reps mean absolutely nothing most people that write them give you - reps because you didn't play like they wanted.
Regarding swf yeah could be used for that but you can often also see if they are swf when multiple survivors join at the same time

Especially since people can tailor their message boards and delete comments they don't like.

[Rec Ohm]

Originally posted by Chewy102:

Profile checking aside, Killers are suppose to have an advantage from the start. Being able to know who you are hunting and what items they are bringing gives Killer Players the ability give themselves an advantage by adjusting their loadout/Killer if needed. Survivors are suppose to be at a disadvantage in not knowing what Killer they are playing against till in game all while having to make due with a lack of information as a whole.
That is how things are suppose to work. That is how DbD was built to be. Killers with a slight advantage, Survivors without.

The only advantage a Killer can get by checking a Survivor's profile (and vice versa, if a Survivor could check the Killer's profile) is just whether or not they should dodge them. I don't see any actual gameplay or mechanic advantage from accessing a Survivor's profile (apart from potentially figuring the SwF out of course). It has nothing to do with the lobby (that provides information on the Survivors and their items), which is undeniably reasonable.