New Player; How to keep up with the people I am up against?
I recently bought the game and have been playing killer mainly. It is enjoyable for the most part, but ever since I hit like rank 15 (currently rank 13) I noticed I am being matched up against survivors of like 8,9 and even 4,5,6. Which literally just run circles around me.
I have asked for tips afterwards and the general answer is: Your build is bad, get better perks... but it seems that I am so far off of being able to make even one decent build. Teachable perks seem to be so expensive, nothing really seems to come together as a cohesive idea with the random perks I am getting.
The only manner in which I seem to get some success is if I tunnel someone down at the start of the game and do it quick enough that I can apply proper pressure. I have tried tagging everyone, not focusing on a single player... but it seems like I cannot even get a kill at that point, people just heal up and I lose everything I gained.
How am I suppose to compete against players that not only have the experience advantage over me, but simply the far superior builds? What would be the best way for me to properly learn how to play if I don't have access to a single proper build?
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Let me correct my mistake above, apparently I get matched with even Rank 2s.... like how is a new player supposed to have a chance in this game?
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Start by watching these..
SURVIVOR GUIDES
How to loop almost everything else
How to loop Midwich Elementary School
How to loop Lery's Memorial Institute
How to loop Gideon Meatpacking Plant
How to everything on Suffocation Pit
How to everything on Ironworks of Misery
How to everything on Coat Tower
How to Window Tech, CJ Tech and others
How to save your team with Flashlight and Pallets
KILLER GUIDES
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Looks like my links are not clickable. I'll keep a copy on my steam profile description https://steamcommunity.com/id/merceshts/ .
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Do not skip survivor guides if you are wanting to main killer. Understanding your opponents is the best way to outplay them. I'm sure you will have a harder time playing killer without optimal builds but there's a lot of free perks that are very good. If barbacue & chilli still in the shrine please take it, it will help you farming bloodpoints.
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Matchmaking sucks, sorry you have to deal with that. Try watching some killer guides on youtube, in general and for the killers you play. The grind is long, its gonna take a minute before things click.
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I would like to recommend some twitch streamers too. I really like Umbra, ZubatLeL, Hexy, Otzdarva and tru3ta1ent.
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its hard to give advice when i dont know what your working with or what you are doing. what killer do you play? what perks do tou have access to? what addons are you running? the best loadout if you just have the global perks and limited experience is: hex:no one escapes death, unrelenting, sloppy butcher, and whispers of course knowing what killer you are playing might change this as well as what teachables you have.
basic ideas:
holding m1 allows you to lunge and makes it far easier to secure hits
it may be worth abondoning loops depending on what they are: cow tree, killer's shack, double L walls might be worth abandoning
some pallets are extremely safe until you memorize which ones you dont need to break you might want to just break them all
patrol generators to find survivors
getting stunned by a pallet is no big deal just swing through them to force the drop and try to the hit
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Otzdarva came up in my suggested YouTube videos, is actually funny enough how I found out about the game ;)
Thanks for the lists of guides, I will check them out.
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Why exactly the unprompted insult? This is a competitive game, some of the best make stuff specifically to help people.
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Others may have insights you haven't yet realized. I don't watch dbd videos aside from the odd look what i did and only when i am bored. This game has a bit of a learning curve for new players and things change a lot. Nothing wrong with getting some info from a proven player if you need it.
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Competitive games have strategies and tactics you may learn from other people. It is not a casual game you may complete. It's more like chess. You can play over and over, learn moves and get better. And there is nothing wrong to get advice from better players.
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I had this exact problem when I started playing.
One practical suggestion is to try playing at different times of day and see if maybe there's a time block in your region where you get better matches with people closer to your rank/skill level. It took me a few months to realize I was playing on hard mode because I only logged in at off-peak hours.
IMO, build doesn't matter as much as being good at chase, so another tip is to try to identify when you should drop a chase -- like, if a particular survivor seems really good at juking, or seems to be trying to get you to chase them, or seems to know where every single pallet is and runs directly between them, etc. It's fine to abandon that survivor and go after someone else.
My last tip is to strategically slug people if you don't want to tunnel them. A slug is almost as good as a hook in terms of how much pressure it puts on the survivors, and what a time suck it is to deal with, so, if you slug the person who just got unhooked and chase the one who unhooked them, you can still draw people away from the gens without the negatives of tunneling. (But, for the record, I think that if you're a yellow matching with reds, you can tunnel one of them if you want to).
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Learn the hard way and brace through it. You'll get skilled in it quickly and will win most games unless you're against SWF's.
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