Can someone help me stop caring about pips/rank?
I've never really cared about ranks etc before, but recently I hit rank 5 and felt pretty good about it. Felt like I could hit red ranks even. It didn't last long; every game after that was a disaster. Everything from technical issues, internet crapping out on me, EAC giving me an error that forced me out of the game, to tunnellers and facecampers, even a couple hackers.
Long story short, I'm rank 7 now. The feeling of "######### yeah, I can even get to rank 1!" is long gone. I just want to enjoy the game without worrying about this ######### ranking system. I guess venting like this helps.
Any thoughts?
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I stopped caring about ranks once I got rank 1. I wanted the achievent, and after I get it I just playing for fun.
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There are no reasons to care, you only get harder matches at higher ranks when matchmaking properly works. Until there is a benefit to being high ranked like ranked rewards, it's irrelevant.
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I'm consistently in red ranks and my rank, pipping, and/or escaping are the last things on my mind when I'm playing survivor: I just play to have fun. Honestly most of my teammates probably end up thinking "What is that other person doing?" referring to me, of course. I f around most of the time just for the lolz, and if that means suicide bombing a hook (injured save without borrowed time) after the exit gates are open just in an effort to get my last we're gonna farm forever stack, so be it. I'm having fun, I had fun, and that's all that matters to me.
One code I do try to live by with dbd is, "I don't care. Healed or no, perks or no, no man gets left behind." Which most of the time leads to me and only my dying at the end of the match, which I'm fine with. If the killer only got me and nobody else, after I screwed around the whole time, who's the real winner?
Funnily enough, in most of my games even if I'm just being super altruistic, constantly trying for flashlight saves, we still get down to 1 gen left at the end. And I can say "We would've had em' all done and been able to escape, if I cared at all about escaping."
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Never got the achievement for reaching rank 1... even though I got to rank 1
Focusing on what happens during the match and less on what happens after
That's how I play the game now
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Posted this a few times, now
...it’s kinda like a testimonial, I suppose
I was tunneled out of game in 3 consecutive matches.
Then, the next 9 consecutive matches I neg pipped from a combination of teammates farming each other right in front of the killer, DCing, and ending the match on first hook, so quickly that there wasn’t even time or opportunity to safety pip.
I went from Rank 1 to Rank 4 and 3pips
It was a unfortunate streak😔
Took a short break to rest, mentally
Then came back and pipped up to Rank 1 again in a single day.
Best part about it is, I wasn’t worried about pipping... I wasn’t even trying, really. I was completely at peace with everything and simply content in getting to play.
The +pips just happened.
Just because you pip down doesn’t mean you won’t pip back up and achieve ranks you haven’t reached yet.
Even though ranks don’t necessarily matter from a standpoint of skillset, doesn’t mean you can’t strive to maintain whatever rank you aspire to.
DBD is streaky during matches, and setbacks from technical issues are part of the journey, as well
you’ll never enjoy playing the game by worrying while you’re playing it
So no need to stress, just play.
When you rank up, you rank up
...drop some pips, no worries😌
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Idk how to help you, it just….really doesnt matter, just play to have fun and if you are not having fun, move asap to a match that is because its a game and if you are not having fun you are literally wasting your time.
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I remember that I accidentally reached rank 1 one month without even trying to pip (or paying attention to my rank til someone pointed it out) just because I happened to be playing a fair bit with perks that nudged me into using a pip-farming playstyle. That usually helps me stop caring about rank when the twinge starts, but I doubt that little story will help you directly til you have an experience of your own like that.
As for killer, I just think about the fact that you can rank up as Legion with one kill but black/depip as Plague with a 12-hook-4k.
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I think once you've played for any length of time and got the achievement, you naturally stop caring about your rank. I got the achievement way back in 2016 and haven't really thought about rank since. I don't even know what rank I am right now - I care about BP, for me a game was a win/loss if I got good BP out of it or not....that goes for whether I am playing survivor or killer.
I definitely think it's a mindset and many people care a bit too much (purely my opinion) on whether they escape the trial as a survivor or kill 4 survivors as a killer without actually taking the time to enjoy the game. I still enjoy playing after all this time, but I am the type that will die to save a team mate and when playing killer will get myself back into a chase as quickly as possible - because I enjoy the chases, even if I do badly in a chase, I enjoy it because that's the fun element for me.
TLDR cos I went off at a tangent - find what you find enjoyable in the game and focus on that instead of whether or not you pip.
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Get to rank one.
Then you'll realize how absolutely godawful red ranks are. Too many players are funneled into red ranks because of the horrible emblem system.
Once you start going up against the one percent that actually earned their place in red ranks, you'll want out as soon as possible.
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I love dying for the others. Especially being the only one dead and having the most points 💜
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*Gets out my wand*
Obliviate.
Here you go, you now don't know what caring is. Now you just need to relearn everything you learned.
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give yourself another goal mine is to p3 lvl 50 all perks on all killers and survivors so my goal is now blood points and not rank
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If it's an emotional attachment, there's not much anyone can offer in the way of rational arguments. You will stop caring eventually once you have that epiphany that rank really means nothing for your game experience
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Personally I think it's very detrimental to the fun that can be had with this game knowing that there's an achievement that is tied to getting to rank 1. There are so many things that can prevent that from happening: tunneling, face camping, bugs and glitches, poor matchmaking, etc.
There have been so many times when I've gotten close to rank 1 only to have the rug pulled out from underneath me, that I've now adopted a carefree attitude. Not caring about how a match turns out helps immensely. I play the game just to play it. Naturally not caring can only take you so far when you're faced against things like poor matchmaking, but accepting that how the game runs may prevent me from ever getting there is a reality I now accept.
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Nobody can really help you here. You have to decide it for yourself.
Words can help you feel a certain way but none of us here are going to brainwash you into not caring about Rank. Has to come from you.
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I stopped caring when i got to red ranks and realized the killers are really skilled but your teammates are worse than brown ranks.
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Rank doesn’t really mean anything for either side. It really never has for survivor, maybe at one point back in the early days of the game it meant something for killer, but not anymore.
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The tech and internet issues you need to fix with your wifi or provider. EAC, I'd verify game files on Steam or your platform before going in again. As for the toxic players, it really comes down to learning to push past them and work on your own. If you suspect a facecamper focus gens hard, or play a really immersed stealthy build. Tunnellers, it comes to learning how to loop efficiently and hoping your teammates can push out gens quickly enough to get the Killer's attention.
Even with all that, I still recommend staying at lower ranks. I'm Rank 1 both sides and it is miserable. Achievements are hard to get, almost all other red ranks are sweaty tryhards, the meta perks, items, and Killers are in all my games- generally its repetitive and unfun. After you get the Rank 1 achievements, stay at low ranks. Practice really hard achievements, run really meme-y or niche builds, play Killers that don't preform well- lower ranks are fun.
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Same
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Once you play enough to realize what your solo queue teammates are doing in red ranks you'll come to appreciate lower ranked matches more. Every game you're guaranteed to have at least 1 or 2 Spine Chill + Urban Evasion + Self Care teammates that just does nothing all game and lasts ~8 seconds in chase from healthy when found.
Red rank killers are more likely to run gen regression and play better killers in my anecdotal experience, which makes the game feel impossible to escape with said teammates (not that I base my fun on escaping but Ruin+Undying against solo queue is a free 5 gen smash imo and that isn't fun for the survivors at all).
Lower ranked matches are more chill as a result imo. You get the same teammates but the killer isn't always running the best stuff and plays a bigger variety of killers. And as a result I feel like I can run less meta builds and play more altruistic.
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