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Survivors. I'm begging you. Stop healing in a 3v1 while someone is in chase.

edgarpoop
edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,447
in General Discussions

Solo survivors seem to struggle the most with playing in a 3v1. It's a tough situation, but most players also don't seem to know how to play in a 3v1. The gameplay loop has to change a bit if survivors want to come back. I see a couple extremely mistakes that cost survivors games.

1: You can't sit there and heal while the 3rd player is in a chase. That chase is doing nothing if you spend half of it healing. You have to repair the generators to power the exit gates. Never in the history of DbD have the exit gates been powered by repeatedly healing and not touching gens. Chases aren't going to magically start going for 2 minutes in a game that survivors are already losing. You have to do something productive with the time that a player is occupying the killer. You can't spend that entire chase time healing, and then try to start working on gens when the killer is finally able to patrol again. That's completely backwards. It only works in a 4v1 because you have a 4th player to keep working on gens. If someone has a 45 second chase and you spend 32 seconds healing each other, that chase did nothing.

2: You aren't going to be able to double up on a gen unless it's the last one. This one is really common. Players try to double up on a gen in a 3v1, the killer hooks someone, sees the other 2 players, and the game is immediately over. You have to spread out. Again, chases aren't going to suddenly start going longer in a game that survivors are losing.

3: Pay attention to where you're running in chase. Your goal should be to give your team ~30 seconds to work on gens (assuming they're not wasting the chase time healing each other smh my head ). If you only have a single health state, book it early and just try to get as far away from the gens as possible.

The most common mistake I see by far is number 1. That one kind of drives me nuts, to be honest. But I'm a cranky vet. The gens don't have to come to a complete halt in a 3v1. You're probably going to have to play injured. It won't be pretty, but you can get a couple gens done if you play it right.

Comments

  • Huge_Bush
    Huge_Bush Member Posts: 5,424

    Trust me, with my lovely looping skills, you’re going to beg me to heal when I have the chance. Don’t worry though, I use Inner Strength so it’s not too terrible.