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Playing killer as a beginner: It feels like I wasted time but can't find where
So I play this game not so often and wanted to try out the killer side more. I tried different killers but I have the same problem on all of them. It feels like someone cut out 5 minutes of the match and I just see what happens afterwards. What I mean?
For example I played Oni yesterday and I chased a survivor. When I finished the chase 1 generator was finished everthing fine. I immediately found a new survivor and started the next chase. So 2 out of 4 survivors don't do gens. But when I'm finished with that chase, that maybe took a Minute, I'm down to 2 generators and the third survivor is unhooked and healed.
Like I said I'm newer and don't know every mind game but it sometimes feels like I don't have any control over the match and just watch a movie where half of it is missing.
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Same here, its because there is no basekit corrupt intervention
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doesnt help i still spawn in the middle meaning i have to choose 2 points that are the farthest from me without ANY info wich one. so i just waste 40+ seconds simply walking over there and whoops wrong choice there goes your first gen bozo!
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Yeah… there is no real easy solution for that, sorry.
Survs spawn and are usually right at a gen and start with it.
The start of the match is pretty significant for a lot of killers - not all.
This is a reason Corrupt and Lethal Pursuer are popular - it gives you a fast start. The mobility of the killer is a huge factor here. Normal M1 killer need to walk across the map.
Can be very demoralizing if the gens pop so fast then.
A lot of my games (leave total stomps from both sides out here) decide with the last 1-2 gens. I have had teams who pop 3 gens, i got no good chases and thought they were way to good for me but then they start struggeling with the last gens and i still got them.
Other option - learn Nurse or Blight or right now Kaneki. These are so fast that a lot of what the team does does not matter.
Killer needs a lot of practise. Thats it. And dirty tactics (sadly) can work very well. So some killer players just do these and win.
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In scenarios like that, it'll mostly be because the survivors only finished one generator, but they had other generators with some progress made too, meaning finishing those ones takes less time after the first one pops.
Broadly speaking, one of the best things you can do is make sure you have information. The biggest timesink that killer players fall into without realising it is that they spend too long looking for survivors, with the second biggest being spending too much time kicking generators.
Someone else has already mentioned it, but if you have the Resident Evil chapter (or just Nemesis as a killer), the perk Lethal Pursuer is great for giving you a fast start, which cuts down on how much generator repair survivors have before you finish your first chase. Very good perk, I highly recommend it.
Other good info perks can include Barbecue & Chili (Leatherface perk), Friends Til The End (Chucky perk), and Alien Instinct (Xenomorph perk). These all give you information after a hook, and BBQ can give you info on all three other players, letting you choose the best one to chase. I also quite like Gearhead (Deathslinger perk) but that one can take a lot of paying attention to use well.Other than that, one thing you should remember is that you gain in power as the match goes on. At the start of the match, you're at your weakest- survivors have nothing to do but gens, and they've got every pallet still standing. By the last generator, though, you've probably pushed them off gens multiple times and they have far fewer resources to work with- so don't panic too much if you get a rough start.
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I don't like the current style of play where if you don't have at least one surv on hook by 3 gens you're probably gonna lose.
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The urge to rush is caused by a few things:
→ You are swf and try hard to win
→ A lot of killers are not super fun to go agaisnt
→ Map resources can be quite limited
→ Killer is not very good
→ A lot of fun elements been removed for price of healthier game
→ Randoms are never truly responsible teammates
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While all killers have a weak early game, Oni is especially bad in that he essentially doesn't have a power until you've injured a survivor. You really need to snowball the match in your favor by making the most of his power, so I wouldn't suggest him for someone new to killer.
I'll also say that the first two generators essentially don't matter. You're pretty much guaranteed to lose them no matter what killer you're playing unless you have a really good first chase. Bring a good combination of slowdown + chase / information perks to help keep rolling that snowball downhill after you've gotten that first hook.
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Simple answer: you're new and still learning. you need to get faster downs, pressure gens, snowball by injuring more than one survivor at a time, etc. also…it is important to drop chases against a survivor early (like within 10-20 sec) if they're in a good position to run you for a long time. look at it this way…as killer you need to be of average skill level to win the majority of your matches (a "win" being 3 to 4 kills). those survivors you're losing to need to be above average skill level to win the majority of their matches (above 50% escape rate). the issue is that you're going to face a lot of experienced survivors that can run circles around you as a new killer. the learning curve is steep for new players because people have been learning to play this game since 2016 and the matchmaking is not very good at measuring player skill, so you're liable to get matched against seasoned vets even as a new player. the killer mains telling you that more nerfs to gen speed or buffs to killer are needed, are quite frankly just coping, because gen speed was already heavily nerfed throughout the history of DBD and gens used to get completed much faster than they are now.
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