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Newbie Misconceptions

fluffybunny
fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161
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When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

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  • popoles
    popoles Member Posts: 831
    My first killer I played against was Nurse and when I saw her blink for the first time I was like, "Wow! She can *run* super fast!".
    I also thought that Claudette is a healer class, so she has to heal quicker. (I mostly play Healer and Support in MOBAs and MMOs).
  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @popoles said:
    My first killer I played against was Nurse and when I saw her blink for the first time I was like, "Wow! She can run super fast!".
    I also thought that Claudette is a healer class, so she has to heal quicker. (I mostly play Healer and Support in MOBAs and MMOs).

    My first killer I faced was pig and she was very nice. I remember apologizing for taking so long to find the hatch (was the last one alive) and explained I was new and she encouraged me to play more and was basically had a "we all start somewhere" kind of sentiment while she was talking to me.

  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

  • pemberley
    pemberley Member Posts: 1,510
    I thought Claudette was a healer too, which was why I chose her first. I also chose Nea second because I thought she was naturally more sneaky. 

    I didn’t realize until later survivors were basically just skins and didn’t really have special stats. 
  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @pemberley said:
    I thought Claudette was a healer too, which was why I chose her first. I also chose Nea second because I thought she was naturally more sneaky. 

    I didn’t realize until later survivors were basically just skins and didn’t really have special stats. 

    I believe some are louder while injured and some have different frames, but yeah, They're basically just skins, so it's dependent on what you wanna look like.

  • thesuicidefox
    thesuicidefox Member Posts: 8,223

    When I started I thought the maps were WAY bigger than they actually are, and way more randomized with procedural generation. Once I learned the game, especially after playing killer, I realized how tiny and predictable the maps actually are.

  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    I use to think Killer was the stronger role.

    Ok all flame war aside, I use to think you didn't lose progress on your death timer when attempting to unhook yourself at the last second before phase 2. I wasted so much time back in the day....

  • JawsIsTheNextKiller
    JawsIsTheNextKiller Member Posts: 3,367

    I wouldn't play killer for ages as I thought it was my responsibility to host an entertaining game and if I put on a bad performance and couldn't hook anyone, the survivors would by annoyed with me.

  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200

    @fluffybunny said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

    Never noticed the speed burst you get when you become injured?

  • TatsuiChiyo
    TatsuiChiyo Member Posts: 712
    I never knew the hatch opened up on its own. I thought you HAD to have a key to open it. Learned it opened when I repaired the last two gens against a Pig solo and opened doors, only for them to ask why I didn't go for hatch.

    When I responded I didn't have a key, the Pig than politely explained to newbie me the thing opened on its own, and was impressed I stealth repaired the gens.
  • ClogWench
    ClogWench Member Posts: 2,582
    I thought walking also left scratch marks, just not as many
  • Milo
    Milo Member Posts: 7,383

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

    Never noticed the speed burst you get when you become injured?

    That's the adrenaline burst. And it only lasts a short while so no you don't run faster when injured!

  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200

    @Milo said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

    Never noticed the speed burst you get when you become injured?

    That's the adrenaline burst. And it only lasts a short while so no you don't run faster when injured!

    Adrenaline activates when the last gen has been repaired

  • Milo
    Milo Member Posts: 7,383

    @Master said:

    @Milo said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

    Never noticed the speed burst you get when you become injured?

    That's the adrenaline burst. And it only lasts a short while so no you don't run faster when injured!

    Adrenaline activates when the last gen has been repaired

    ... speed boost better?

  • ClogWench
    ClogWench Member Posts: 2,582
    Master said:

    @Milo said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

    Never noticed the speed burst you get when you become injured?

    That's the adrenaline burst. And it only lasts a short while so no you don't run faster when injured!

    Adrenaline activates when the last gen has been repaired

    Not the perk Adrenaline, just the idea of adrenaline in general upon getting badly hurt
  • Mrs_Fairfield
    Mrs_Fairfield Member Posts: 125
    Coming to DBD from Friday the 13th I thought I would have to conserve stamina and didn't run outside of chases. I also didn't think stealth was any kind of option (in Friday your character screams if Jason walks by) so I took off running the opposite direction as soon as I heard the killer's heartbeat. I didn't know what to run to exactly so it was mostly just in a straight line. If I wasn't easy enough to kill already, I also didn't realize there was a sound cue before skill checks and failed them all miserably. 
  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:

    @Master said:

    @fluffybunny said:
    When I was a newbie, I thought you ran slower while you were injured. Did anyone else have anything like this when they were just starting playing? c:

    Thats what logic would dictate you yeah. Only in DBD you actually run faster when you are injured..... :wink:
    Being a newbie, I never understood when the hatch spawned :lol:

    I think you run at the same rate, unless I'm mistaken. I've had friends with the same issue. Have seen plenty of people looking for hatch when it wouldn't have spawned yet. I think it's common.

    Never noticed the speed burst you get when you become injured?

    You mean the initial hit? You're essentially hitting the survivor forward. I was talking about remaining injured and running around.

  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @TatsuiChiyo said:
    I never knew the hatch opened up on its own. I thought you HAD to have a key to open it. Learned it opened when I repaired the last two gens against a Pig solo and opened doors, only for them to ask why I didn't go for hatch.

    When I responded I didn't have a key, the Pig than politely explained to newbie me the thing opened on its own, and was impressed I stealth repaired the gens.

    Awe, that's precious. Good job newbie you on doing the two gens. c:

    @Mrs_Fairfield said:
    Coming to DBD from Friday the 13th I thought I would have to conserve stamina and didn't run outside of chases. I also didn't think stealth was any kind of option (in Friday your character screams if Jason walks by) so I took off running the opposite direction as soon as I heard the killer's heartbeat. I didn't know what to run to exactly so it was mostly just in a straight line. If I wasn't easy enough to kill already, I also didn't realize there was a sound cue before skill checks and failed them all miserably. 

    I can understand how that'd throw you off. Despite seeming similar, the two games are quite different. I actually watched streamers for a while before I caved and bought the game, so I knew some base stuff (this was before tutorials). There was quite a bit I didn't know, though, or misunderstood.

  • Mushwin
    Mushwin Member Posts: 4,598

    i didn't do the tutorial, so i went in the game knowing nothing, other then the tips on the screen, and i had no clue about what the heck the gens were, i was in the summer event and didn't know what the hell was going on.....but i can't think on anything else other then my totally clueless lol

  • blue4zion
    blue4zion Member Posts: 2,773

    I thought every killer had the same terror radius. Boy did my heart die when I first encountered a michael and he was staring at me through a window, thinking I was safe atm.

  • blue4zion
    blue4zion Member Posts: 2,773

    I also thought the keys were meant to open doors. When my purple key wasn't working, I just gave it to someone else. :|

  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @blue4zion said:
    I also thought the keys were meant to open doors. When my purple key wasn't working, I just gave it to someone else. :|

    Yeah, keys usually go to doors in games lol. xD

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 16,246

    One of the things was indeed that I thought that an injured Survivor is slower. Got explained that this is not the case, when I wanted to heal someone while NOED was active.

    Another thing was that I did not realize that rushed actions like fast Lookers or Fast Vaults would result in a Noise Notification. But I was wondering why the Killer always found me right away, when the first thing I did was fast vaulting a Window to get to a Gen....

  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @Aven_Fallen said:
    One of the things was indeed that I thought that an injured Survivor is slower. Got explained that this is not the case, when I wanted to heal someone while NOED was active.

    Another thing was that I did not realize that rushed actions like fast Lookers or Fast Vaults would result in a Noise Notification. But I was wondering why the Killer always found me right away, when the first thing I did was fast vaulting a Window to get to a Gen....

    I don't remember when I stopped thinking that. I think I realized that after all the guides I watched said nothing about a slower speed while injured and no one (at the time) said anything to confirm what I thought. I was watching puppers recently and he mentioned it and it reminded me of newbie me who thought injured survivors were slower, too.

    If you have quick and quiet, you don't make noise! :D I used to play with that perk a lot. It was one of my favorites.

  • GrootDude
    GrootDude Member Posts: 14,110
    When I started during the last lunar event I didn’t know about skill check warnings... 
  • PhantomMask20763
    PhantomMask20763 Member Posts: 5,176
    edited February 2019

    Back when I started....dang it's been forever ago but let me see if I can remember. Ok so I was playing killer and my only perk at the time was insidious and I thought that standing still would make me completely invisible so I would be playing trapper and just camp from a distance with insidious turned on thinking it made me invisible. When I found out it didn't make me invisible I was so embarrassed :cry:

  • Poweas
    Poweas Member Posts: 5,873

    I used to think Botany knowledge made gens faster...

  • Theluckyboi
    Theluckyboi Member Posts: 1,113

    i always crouched when i was next to crows because i thought the killer received a notification each time i alerted a crow

  • GrootDude
    GrootDude Member Posts: 14,110
    Theluckyboi said:

    i always crouched when i was next to crows because i thought the killer received a notification each time i alerted a crow

    This reminds me of something else I did. I’d crouch before vaulting anything outside a chase XD
  • Mr_Myers
    Mr_Myers Member Posts: 422
    I hit the survivor on the hook to kill them faster

    Premonition triggering meant the killer was coming

    Quick and Quiet was OP

    Sabo was deadly (played a month after sabo nerf and had no idea it got gutted)

    Why Myers players went AFK so often
  • MegMain98
    MegMain98 Member Posts: 2,913
    edited February 2019

    I only played survivor for the first four months of playing the game. I started a little bit after the release of The Saw Chapter. Things I thought...

    Meg was the runner and was the fastest character so I chose her to start with

    Laurie had the best survivability due to her being the “final girl” trope

    I had NO idea to crouch over the Hag’s traps or that flashlights destroyed them

    This one is so nooby but everytime the killer would always be able to follow me step for step I thought they were just a genius because I didn’t know what scratch marks were.

    I even blew up gens everytime my first game because I thought L1 was L2

    I didn’t even know what Adrenaline did for the first month, I just knew I went faster when the gates were powered so I thought all characters went faster when the gates opened.

    I always played F13 The Game before this and I was REALLY good at that game. I was thinking about things like stamina and speed. Playing that game really helped a lot with this and didn’t make me too entirely terrible

  • e8Lattice
    e8Lattice Member Posts: 189

    @Theluckyboi said:
    i always crouched when i was next to crows because i thought the killer received a notification each time i alerted a crow

    This is now a true statement thanks to spies from the shadows buff.

  • e8Lattice
    e8Lattice Member Posts: 189

    @MegMain98 said:

    I had NO idea to crouch over the Hag’s traps or that flashlights destroyed them

    I used to think you had to crouch next to Hag traps and brush them away somehow. I gave this theory up after the first attempt failed and just assumed you couldn't destroy them and can only sneak by them.

  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161
    edited February 2019

    @Theluckyboi I believe back then I would crouch everywhere 'cause I was afraid of leaving marks.

    @Mr_Myers When I first started, I thought sabboing was super mean and didn't mess with it at all. I think I had heard from somewhere that it really upset killers and I didn't want to really upset anyone. MYERS GOES AFK, that's adorable.

    @MegMain98 I think a lot of people don't know about scratch marks when first starting off. I only knew of them thanks to watching people play both sides (I used to watch dlive a lot, but he's a bit too salty now for my taste).

  • TeaLeaf
    TeaLeaf Member Posts: 205

    When i was a newb I thought this was a scary horror game. Then i found it to be tag simulator with a Halloween theme/skin.

  • Mat_Sella
    Mat_Sella Member Posts: 3,556
    • The concept of Wraith was horrifying
    • Exposed meant you were visible to the killer (still think it should be renamed)
    • The basement had more than one escape and was also horrifying ( i was too scared to ever go in the basement and assumed there was another way out)
    • Trapper traps didnt notify the trapper when you snapped them
    • when the huntress laughed during her hum, that means she caught you
    • crouching everywhere wasn't a waste of time
  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    @Mat_Sella said:

    • The concept of Wraith was horrifying
    • Exposed meant you were visible to the killer (still think it should be renamed)
    • The basement had more than one escape and was also horrifying ( i was too scared to ever go in the basement and assumed there was another way out)
    • Trapper traps didnt notify the trapper when you snapped them
    • when the huntress laughed during her hum, that means she caught you
    • crouching everywhere wasn't a waste of time

    I've had some people I was playing with who thought exposed meant killers could see them and was confused when they got one-hit downed. The terming is quite confusing, I agree.

  • PigNRun
    PigNRun Member Posts: 2,428

    As the last Survivor alive, I would think that when people said "Look for the hatch", they meant a type of hatchet hidden somewhere on the map that you could use to injure/kill the Killer.

  • Peasant
    Peasant Member Posts: 4,104

    When I was new I thought that Saboteur broke hooks permanently (this was in 2017, mind you). I also thought that flashlights were always toxic and OP. (I hadn't realized that the survivors are just trying to save their buddy for the team's sake. I also hadn't discovered the wall trick yet.)

  • Dead_by_David
    Dead_by_David Member Posts: 270

    I used to think Exposed meant the killer could see your aura and I would run around panicking. Now I know what it actually is and still run panicking xD

  • KingB
    KingB Member Posts: 747
    edited February 2019
    I didn't realize the tings warned you about skill checks
  • GrootDude
    GrootDude Member Posts: 14,110

    @KingB said:
    I didn't realize the tings warned you about skill checks

    Me too fellow David main. (assuming because of your picture)

  • e8Lattice
    e8Lattice Member Posts: 189

    I thought crouching rapidly was like Dead Hard and actually allowed you to dodge hits (because so many Survivors where doing it)

  • Chi
    Chi Member Posts: 781

    Up until like 400 hours I thought there were 5 dull totems and a hex perk spawned a new totem, so there would be 6 totems.

    I thought urban evasion and premonition were amazing perks.

    I didn't know you could see the wraith cloaked.

    I didn't know you were supposed to follow scratch marks. I honestly did not notice them until someone pointed it out. I just thought they were random claw marks all over the place at certain spots

  • Nea_Death_Experience
    Nea_Death_Experience Member Posts: 316

    I played years ago and then didn't do well and then didn't pick it up for ages. I thought there was a black guy that looked like Russman from COD Blops 2 Zombies.
    I think it was Bill? The game was darker back then and I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was nurse and I barely used blink

  • Nea_Death_Experience
    Nea_Death_Experience Member Posts: 316

    @Dead_by_David said:
    I used to think Exposed meant the killer could see your aura and I would run around panicking. Now I know what it actually is and still run panicking xD

    This is so true.

  • NuclearBurrito
    NuclearBurrito Member Posts: 6,807

    @Theluckyboi said:
    i always crouched when i was next to crows because i thought the killer received a notification each time i alerted a crow

    Well when you are playing against me he does.

    Spies from the Shadows for the win!

  • KiraElijah
    KiraElijah Member Posts: 1,187
    That I was invisible while cloaked
  • HeroLives
    HeroLives Member Posts: 1,985
    pemberley said:
    I thought Claudette was a healer too, which was why I chose her first. I also chose Nea second because I thought she was naturally more sneaky. 

    I didn’t realize until later survivors were basically just skins and didn’t really have special stats. 
    To be fair when you first start out they are special stats until you unlock everyone’s abilities to be shared. Newbie life was hard, I still have nightmares