Am I playing too cautious?

Morfedel

So I've been playing just over a month now, strictly survivor, and I tend to play cautiously - perhaps too cautiously.

I will take some risks, but I often won't risk saving someone from the basement unless I see the killer chasing someone else, and usually wont risk saving camped people as well.

But I also noticed I often scored lowest of the survivors, and started making myself take risks. My scores have improved somewhat.

But I've also noticed something. Other survivors will often power the gates then run into the map again; sometimes I can't even tell why, like if no one is hooked for instance. Other times it's obvious. I have to admit, my gut instinct is to hover at the gates, maybe take a risk to save someone, but it really goes against my instincts to go back into the map when I'm at the exit gate. I've taken the risks sometimes, but I've been forcing myself to do so.

that has lead to a couple cases where I've had a person angry that I didn't take the risk to save that person; so I started taking the risk, and watch the killer end up killing all four of us.

So I'm now trying to assess the situation on a case by case basis. I want to be a team player, but I dont want to give the killer 4 kills either.

So that leads me to what happened just now. We got the gates powered, me and a claudette were at the gates, and she ran back out there. Everyone was on their feet at that moment. I was hesitating moreso than normal because I had a daily, escape with a plundered object, which I now had in my hand, and I really didn't want to lose that daily. While I hesitated, in quick succession, all three players went down one after the other. From the auras I was reading, it looked like one went down, and the other two one after the other tried to heal the first, who wasn't hooked, and each got dropped.

So all three were down. They weren't next to each other, but they weren't exactly across the map from each other either. And none of them were getting hooked. It seemed like a trap to me. I started going in twice, and each time I heard the huntress lullby. Meanwhile, one of the survivors was crawling towards me.

Finally, she hooked one, and I went closer to the one crawling towards me, no lulliby, and healed her up and the huntress was on us right as I finished. We both ran, and I made it to the exit gate, the other didn't.

And one of the survivors, I'm not sure which one, was very angry with me, cussing me out, calling me names. I explained to her that I hadnt felt I could rescue them, as it sure seemed like the huntress was effectively camping them, using them as bait to lure me out and I didnt think I could rescue them. This led to more insults, and that "If I had rescued them the huntress would have had to chase two of us," etc etc.

So my question is, as the title states, am I playing too cautious? I mean, I've watched altruistic groups with open gates end up giving the killer four kills rather than giving up, say, two kills and getting two exits. So I don't really get what's going on here, and wondering what, if anything I'm doing wrong, what am I missing with the motivations?

Morfedel

@Skarkio said:
You seem to be in the natural course of your learning curve playing as survivor, every one of us who play went tru the same, just play as your gut tells you, little by little you will be more and more confident about your skills and start to be more audacious!

If you play as a solo survivor , you have absolute no obligation to rescue anybody, specially if they put themselves in danger and failed to escape once the gates were open!

I often leaved the other 3 player who went to get extra points in front of the killer in middle of the map and failed miserably, and when they call me various names in thw chat, my only response was: "this kind of behavior is exactly why I play as solo survivor"

Well, that's a relief to hear. Its one thing if I think maybe I can rescue them, but when three of them are crawling on their bellies and not getting hooked, I recognize bait when I see it. Frankly, when its me on the hook when the gates are open, while I'm well relieved if someone comes in and saves me, I don't blame them at all if they go for the gate.

GodDamn_Angela

In your example you stayed longer than I would have. I would have dashed once I saw two go down because I would much rather head into another game instead of waiting around and MAYBE getting a save, or healing someone for a few more BP.

Also, it was obviously a trap and if they expected you to go in when they were stupid and got downed in the first place after the gates were opened then they really need to relax and check themselves.

KiraElijah

I’m out, possible blood warden