Is it me or are survivors giving up way too quickly in a match?

[AngeryBlueBerry]

Something I noticed lately is that sometimes 1-2 survivors give up within the first minute regardless what side I play on. Why is that? Doesnt seem to matter what killer it is either its just really strange

[Tunnel = surrender]

As killer you can be losing, 4 gens done and 0 hooks, and you can hook someone, camp/tunnel and get 2-3k. As surv you play against a good blight with lethal pursuer and in 30 secs. you know it's a 3-4k. Add camp, tunnel, iri addons and you'll know why.

[belbonassa]

Is this some kind of protest that i am not aware of?

It's happening the very same thing for me. I haven't won a SINGLE match as survivor since i started playing again this week and that's mostly because in every match at least 1 survivor will kill themselves imediatelly on first hook.

I played a killer for the first time with no addons and the first down i got they just killed themselves. I played many matches as survivor and usually when i'm not the first to get downed, everyone else just kills themselves on hooks.

Reading the other guys comments it seems the game is unbalanced on the killer side, but then why even join a match and kill yourself imediately?

[AngeryBlueBerry]

Originally posted by belbonassa:

Is this some kind of protest that i am not aware of?

It's happening the very same thing for me. I haven't won a SINGLE match as survivor since i started playing again this week and that's mostly because in every match at least 1 survivor will kill themselves imediatelly on first hook.

I played a killer for the first time with no addons and the first down i got they just killed themselves. I played many matches as survivor and usually when i'm not the first to get downed, everyone else just kills themselves on hooks.

Reading the other guys comments it seems the game is unbalanced on the killer side, but then why even join a match and kill yourself imediately?

Yeah I'm not really understand it either, and honestly its just making the game boring when they give up but at the same time i dont want some sort of esports sweatfest either

[(You)]

I'm not interested in watching someone self care sloppy while I'm hooked and the killer is nowhere near.

[Onichan]

DbD community has one very weird kind of mentality where players want to be topcurators of matches they are playing, but if it could be as easy as possible aka. they want to really bully and stomp their opponent.
Once people realize their opponent can not really be bullied (is/are better than them in many aspects), people will just give up and head onto next match where they will try to do the same.
On the other hand, you also have people that are heavily tilted so they decide to throw the match at the slightest inconvenience.

[Branchu]

Originally posted by belbonassa:

Is this some kind of protest that i am not aware of?

It's happening the very same thing for me. I haven't won a SINGLE match as survivor since i started playing again this week and that's mostly because in every match at least 1 survivor will kill themselves imediatelly on first hook.

I played a killer for the first time with no addons and the first down i got they just killed themselves. I played many matches as survivor and usually when i'm not the first to get downed, everyone else just kills themselves on hooks.

Reading the other guys comments it seems the game is unbalanced on the killer side, but then why even join a match and kill yourself imediately?

A lot of survivor players are crybabies and DC at the first sign of difficulty. Or they make really dumb plays and cry that the killer is OP instead of recognizing their mistake. Then they come to forums/twitter where other crybabies (or trolls sometimes) validate and circlejerk them.

Survivor is pretty damn easy right now as long as everyone actually tries. I was running mostly meme perks and still escaping 60-70 percent of my matches; and the majority of those losses were because of early DCs/rage quits.

You'll get a sweat-lord Blight every now and then, but you also get sweat-lord SWFs every now and then too. It's part of the game.

[Arson Aardvark]

It's definitely an interesting phenomenon that I'm guilty of partaking in. With so many killers, so many maps, and so many perks, it's really easy to not have a good time in solo queue. Throw in 5-gen tunneling, proxy camping, needless slugging, and you have a powder keg of pissed off survivors lashing out in the only way they can without incurring a penalty. Sometimes one survivor making a single mistake can throw the entire game, and even if it's not intentional, it can ruin the experience for people. Not saying it's right or wrong, it's just how it works. It's also rooted in the idea that the game considers VOIP SWFs and solo queue to be the same exact thing. SWFs with VOIP and good chemistry can destroy all semblance of "fairness" and the killer responds in kind. Play enough of these groups and every match looks like a sweatfest to you. You kill as quickly as possible because "killer objective is to kill". Not wrong, but there's still some unwritten rules in this game. Everyone knows it, some people ignore them. Again, nothing wrong with it but nobody should be surprised at this behavior on either side. So what do you do? You want to play the game but sometimes these unwritten rules get subverted, and the experience of others be damned.

I had a killer yesterday just go off on a Nic Cage, two hooks in a row before the first gen popped. Proxy camped and ignored the survivor who rescued him from the first hook. I gave up. Hopped off my generator and I ran directly toward the killer and mocked them, and go figure they ignored me for much of the game. Am I wrong for doing so? Maybe, but the game doesn't get to decide if I'm wrong or right because it hasn't included a sufficient mechanism to discourage any of the negative variables in this petty equation.

[MIZISUAISALIVE]

Why moan on here start moaning at the devs might get something done but i would'nt hold my breath with them if money is not invovled they wont do a thing game is un balance until this is sorted things will stay the same

[Toods]

This happens because of repetition.
And a lack of discipline.

[Budoshi]

Originally posted by Toods:

This happens because of repetition.
And a lack of discipline.

and weak egos that are getting hurts.

[Evil Minіоn]

Survivors can't be bothered playing matches that aren't easy claps. How dare evil killer players wanting to win, too! Clearly survivors are more deserving, because there are 4 of them and only one killer. Don't be so selfish killers!

[Yikes]

I wouldn't say I've seen people giving up. But I have seen people using all three of their unhook chances to try and get off for some reason almost every single match since Friday. That has made some games incredibly difficult since essentially you're going to be 3v1'ing the rest of the match their next hook.

[Ashen One Chris]

As annoying as it may be, be happy that what you are getting is dc'ers.

Because EU is flooded with the exact kind of players that you don't want the US servers become: people see a single Killer they don't like, a single perk they don't like facing or get into a single chase that was too fast >> immediate speedhacking in the open.

Talking about outrunning Bloodlust 2-3, or straight up outrunning Blight or Engravings Billy in open tiles btw. Hell, I was playing Knight and someone got locked on by a Guard and the Guard flew across the entire edge map before he could start chasing him.

But to the point: people react badly to any single thing they don't like in this game. Result of years upon years of cultivating a community around making others miserable.

[mudqueen :(]

imo, its bad matchmaking (for both sides) that's the culprit. its crazy uneven lobbies the game thinks is balanced (2 newer, 2 experienced survs = avg to above avg killer.) result is: the new ppl go down like dead weight, make the game impossible, exp players just want out. rinse repeat.

[Fezix93]

Originally posted by Lemon Kate:

This forum is over run by the campers who over play with OP Meta. They call everyone else toxic. They call new and typical players cry babies.

The posts here are always turned into a justification of camp and tunnel, and blaming the survivor side. The streamers online do the same to try justify playing a simple game for thousands of hours, and killing new and typical players who often play a hundred fold less games.

The game has reached a critical mass, where the number of OP killers, who keep crushing games using OP meta builds, and calling it skill and smarts, has meant most people are not happy day to day. Between 30 to 100% of games you now play in a 2 hour session, consist of this mismatched nonsense.

At late as 2021, camping was a rare thing. Back then most killers did not have combo 4 perk meta builds. But that changed in 2021 with the massive changes to the blood web system and rank system.

Since then the game has rewarded and thereby kept and drawn in this type. They have ruined the game, but stay on and do it month to month, year to year, like their hero streamers do, for ad revenue.

The game needs amended to remove the gross overplayers from the general pool of mismatching. It needs to be acknowledged, that they are here for themselves, and/or ad revenue. They do not care about the game long term or the fun the other four players have in the game.

Your critique about matchmaking is legitimate, but the amount of DH/CoH survivors in each lobby that existed back then would disagree with your assessment that only killers have used OP meta builds.

Survivors take themselves out on hooks because it is a way to rage quit the match without being penalized for quitting early. Survivors have demonstrated when the DC penalty is taken away, that they will routinely quit the match if there is a killer or perk that they don't like. Like others have said, a lot of survivors are just looking for easy wins, and so they take themselves out on hook so that they can go on to the next match as soon as possible without being penalized.