I started to feel anxiety when I want to play killer...
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i know this feeling from back then, i can say that after 3000 hours i don't feel anxious playing killer anymore.
There are those matches that just make me rage or make me feel bad because everything is survivor-sided (map, rng, spawns) and i get genrushed and BMed, but that's just part of the game i guess. It also doesn't happen a lot.
Bullying me isn't really possible anymore because i can profit from stuff like bodyblocking or overly cocky macro-clickers, and i know when to proxy camp and tunnel or when to switch aggro. I started to play Nurse around one month ago and i have a very good time with her, even though she can still be bullied if the survivors are VERY good (aka "in your head") and you have a bad day.
But generally my experience as killer is much better than as solo survivor, with a lot of killers i have low MMR and play against survivor with ~200h while i'm very experienced, i don't know the killer's power much in those cases but i still can profit from my game sense and M1 gameplay.
I recently played Hag and Trapper and i had a blast because the survivors would run into every of my stupid traps. I often just let them escape at the end (at least 1-2 of them) so my MMR with those killers doesn't skyrocket, because those are my chillout killers.
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I'm a little late to this thread, but I feel like people feel this way because they know how bad survivors can behave. They can make you feel bad and question your ability as a killer, literal example of cyber bullying... it's never fun. You're basically signing yourself up to be bullied playing killer sometimes and that's what the anxiety means. I get it every single time I play! My heart races, my hands shake, I get closer to the screen... it's horrible but I play killer only to get my rift fragments now and I play Spirit.
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I'll give you the same advice I give everyone.
Play Trapper.
The beauty of playing Trapper is, you don't need to sweat. Just casually play Trapper. If you do well, great! If you don't, well you were playing Trapper. Bonus, you'll get better at playing M1 killers, therefore just generally better at the game and the chase mechanic. You can play around with funky builds, you can use meta builds, you can do literally anything with Trapper. Make a crazy build and focus on getting it to work rather than winning. It's literally the best Killer experience in the game I'd you ask me.
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I do agree that I'm always a bit more anxious before playing killer than survivor, even though I do better as killer than as survivor (and, dare I say, often have more fun as well).
It's normal, you'll be alone versus 4 people who have the potential of being toxic, or so out of your league they make you feel lesser.
For me this anxiousness is nearly always unfounded, as I very rarely face toxic survivors, sabo SWFs and the like. And when I do face survivors who are much better than me, with matured strats and perfect coordination, they're often just that : better. Not toxic or cocky or mean. Just playing the game at a higher level, which I don't take personally.
For me, survivor is less anxiety-inducing to get into because I only ever play with friends, so even if the game will go badly, we can always joke around on comms and make our own fun. Survivor also has downtimes, just sitting on gens and chilling, whereas killer is constant chasing, or worrying about not being chasing. It doesn't have chill time, which is why is can make you on edge more easily.
So all in all, it's not uncommon to be anxious before playing killer.
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Playing Survivor stresses me out far more than killer ever has. As survivor, I feel like dc'ing when I finally get caught and see everyone else just walking around, not knowing what a gen is. Its why I switched to playing Killer only now and my stress has really went down since doing so. I enjoy the chases and outsmarting people while juggling gens. I have ADHD so this really helps me since I'm forced to focus on one thing at a time.
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That stress and anxiety comes from knowing that your skill might have no bearing on the outcome of a match, before it even starts. A lot of Solos feel it as well, but its one of the reasons I wish this game was actually balanced and not balanced by averages. People who are susceptible to it create worst case scenarios in their mind the whole time they're waiting for the queue to pop (and considering most of the complaining topics on here, this is a lot more common than one might think.) Have an anxiety disorder of some kind? good luck!
The only way to really get over it for any role is to acknowledge that you will lose games where your agency is denied. Ignore all ego in the results and do your best to ignore the BM that will come in win or lose. Or just quit and play games that are more mentally healthy, as this one purposely refuses to address its effect on its players and community.
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The fact that they don't have a FOV slider years in is laughable. Just look at some of the people that make the game then it will make sense. Lot of weirdos.
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