Slugging the new meta?

[Monkeychops]

I've just returned to the game after a huge break and at rank 5 I've had 4 games in a row where the killer has either started slugging from the offset or patrolled the first hook and then slugged everyone that came to the rescue. If I don't go for the save (running Kindred) and stay working on gens then I get to watch everyone else run over and get slugged until I'm last alive and get hunted down while the killer stands over my body nodding his head acting like he's won the internet or if I risk the save (no-one wants to die one the first hook) then it's a very short game. This is usually followed in chat by lots of 'ez' and 'stop crying' if I dare to ask what's going on.

All I can see this doing is more people joing swf to negate this, which I'm aware seems to be the killers biggest bane or as usually happens people d/c since they're going to depip anyway.

I play solo, rarely t-bag (only to try and get the lonely killer to actually leave the hook once in a while without getting seperation anxiety) and usually say gg at the end of the game. but even saying gg/gl hf seems to get a torrent of abuse these days.

Has this game gone even more toxic than it used to be?

[Kitten Airi]

Slugging is meta, it’s great to slow down the game

[ILoveFanta123456778899TheGoatOFD]

if you think about it, slugging is kinda genius if you have a killer who can support it. It robs survivors out of decisive strike, borrowed time, we'll make it. Only crutch you have to worry about is unbreakable and maybe soul guard (if you run hexes, I don't for that reason). It also robs survivors out of keys because it requires survivor death which you won't be doing.

My personal slugging build (i.e. i somehow get salty after a match or feeling like a ♥♥♥♥ that day)
Knockout, infectious, sloppy butcher, and Bloodwarden (if i don't win thru slugging)
addons: Kava + fragile wheeze, standard omega blink cheese nurse addons

only problem with slugging is it hardly pays for addons so you gotta run blackwards or lose tons of addons.

[Totally Not Myers]

Escrito originalmente por Airi K.:

Slugging is meta, it’s great to slow down the game

Agreed. It's a very effective way to get others off gens.

[Heru Ra Ha]

Escrito originalmente por Shiro-sama♌:

Escrito originalmente por Monkeychops:

It’s obviously a valid tactic (for a black pip), although you’ve missed my point as to counter this it drives people to become swf and use voice comms which in turn can only make killers lives difficult. I was talking more about the chat abuse....it seems that a lot of killers are desperate to prove that they’ve triggered you (probably goes both ways though) so even a ‘gg’ can get a ‘stop crying/don’t be salty’ response.

No, SWF premades are here, because they can't play on their own. They know it, we know it.
In Solo Q., they'd get nothing done, but only if they know every single time the position of their team mates, while knowing, what's the killer doing, they can fight back.
There's no other reason to play SWF.

Regarding triggering each other, I do see and agree with your point wholeheartedly.
People are like animals nowadays.

Yeah unless you play with your friends, sorry swf doesn't upgrade the skills of the survivors they are just as bad.

[Budoshi]

Escrito originalmente por Sonu:

if you think about it, slugging is kinda genius if you have a killer who can support it. It robs survivors out of decisive strike, borrowed time, we'll make it. Only crutch you have to worry about is unbreakable and maybe soul guard (if you run hexes, I don't for that reason). It also robs survivors out of keys because it requires survivor death which you won't be doing.

My personal slugging build (i.e. i somehow get salty after a match or feeling like a ♥♥♥♥ that day)
Knockout, infectious, sloppy butcher, and Bloodwarden (if i don't win thru slugging)
addons: Kava + fragile wheeze, standard omega blink cheese nurse addons

only problem with slugging is it hardly pays for addons so you gotta run blackwards or lose tons of addons.

make sense too , unhooking takes seconds, healing one health state takes longer especially if you bring stuff to make healing take longer.

[Caturix]

Escrito originalmente por Monkeychops:

I've just returned to the game after a huge break and at rank 5 I've had 4 games in a row where the killer has either started slugging from the offset or patrolled the first hook and then slugged everyone that came to the rescue. If I don't go for the save (running Kindred) and stay working on gens then I get to watch everyone else run over and get slugged until I'm last alive and get hunted down while the killer stands over my body nodding his head acting like he's won the internet or if I risk the save (no-one wants to die one the first hook) then it's a very short game. This is usually followed in chat by lots of 'ez' and 'stop crying' if I dare to ask what's going on.

All I can see this doing is more people joing swf to negate this, which I'm aware seems to be the killers biggest bane or as usually happens people d/c since they're going to depip anyway.

I play solo, rarely t-bag (only to try and get the lonely killer to actually leave the hook once in a while without getting seperation anxiety) and usually say gg at the end of the game. but even saying gg/gl hf seems to get a torrent of abuse these days.

Has this game gone even more toxic than it used to be?

Thats basically 99% of the survivor experience! You don´t have any chance to win at all! You can´t do anything about it and it´s not you fault! But of couse its totally your fault! And you are supposed to have fun on this situation!

[zero]

slugging is the same meta its been since the start: useful to use, so people do it.

[DrFronz]

Escrito originalmente por Monkeychops:

I've just returned to the game after a huge break and at rank 5 I've had 4 games in a row where the killer has either started slugging from the offset or patrolled the first hook and then slugged everyone that came to the rescue. If I don't go for the save (running Kindred) and stay working on gens then I get to watch everyone else run over and get slugged until I'm last alive and get hunted down while the killer stands over my body nodding his head acting like he's won the internet or if I risk the save (no-one wants to die one the first hook) then it's a very short game. This is usually followed in chat by lots of 'ez' and 'stop crying' if I dare to ask what's going on.

All I can see this doing is more people joing swf to negate this, which I'm aware seems to be the killers biggest bane or as usually happens people d/c since they're going to depip anyway.

I play solo, rarely t-bag (only to try and get the lonely killer to actually leave the hook once in a while without getting seperation anxiety) and usually say gg at the end of the game. but even saying gg/gl hf seems to get a torrent of abuse these days.

Has this game gone even more toxic than it used to be?

Pretty much yeah. They usually just REALLY want the win.

[Keyrala]

Get WGLF it gives you double speed when healing downed survivors, or you can use "for the people" to instantly resurrect them.