Casual or Competitive?
So, I've been playing Dead by Daylight for a couple of years now on the PS4. I also have the Steam version, but due to a good PC I can no longer play it. However, with recent matchmaking as Killer I have been paired up with some insane survivors. I mainly hang around the green ranks and sometimes even end up with SWF Rank 1's which are likely on comms as well.
This has gotten to me because I'm more of a casual player and it's disheartening as a casual player to lose interest over the game due to the competitive nature of players. In matches like these I learned to just open the exit gate and get it over with because it wasn't a game at all. It was just... gens being done in 3 minutes and then leaving. Yet I wonder how fun that is for survivor. I mean... to each their own and I can "git gud" but as I said... I'm a casual player of the game that doesn't want to spend endless hours of perfecting various killers to stand a chance. Too many other games to play and so many things to take care of in life.
So it has brought me to this question. Do you find casual or competitive funner? For me it's definitely the casual and even though I sometimes swf it isn't exactly is as toxic as most. Mostly just the casual conversation, but yeah... I'm at fault for "Oh, I'm in a chase, just do gens" scenario as well. However, SWF is a rarity for me. Would I like to do competitive? Probably not. I think Dead by Daylight is meant to be taken slower and be savored like a tri tip steak. The reason for not wanting to be competitive for me is because it takes way too much time and I find it less fun in this game in particular. If it was Street Fighter, etc I would love to be competitive at it, but then I don't have the time for that either.
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Keep it casual. This game is about as competitive as super smash bros. Can it be competitive? Sure if you turn off all items and only use certain characters, but...is that really the game anymore?
When you're competitive you end up reeeing that you didn't get a 4k because a survivor got an invincibility star as a random drop. It's not that kind of game.
So I'm with you. I don't even use items or offerings anymore. I just pop in and see what happens. Hit the greats, do the saves, get sacrificed to a spider goddess looking for the big D of whatever the male version of the entity is.
Just Dwight things.
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When I did play competitive I would get salty and upset when I don't get the results that I want and this is for both sides. When I don't play competitively, I usually get better results, especially with Killer. If games don't go well then eh, I learn from it and see what I can do to do better next time I play.
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Yeah, I feel pretty much the same. Lately I don't care about my killer games, but I've lowered my expectations every time I play against survivors since they're too "skilled". Using skilled as a way to say coordinated or good at looping. As soon as the exit gates are powered I tend to not care anymore and open it myself instead of play the game further. Especially if 4 are alive (being aware that is because I can't keep up with survivors). I can't really say it's my fault entirely though. Feels like I chased one person for 3 pallets and 3 gens got done. Then another after the down. At that point... why should I put anymore effort into a game?
It's a mismatch between competitive and casual at that point for me. I really don't want to sweat for kills, but I don't expect them to be handed to me either. Playing as survivor I want to feel the burn more, but not constantly being in the way of the killer. I want to make those saves, run from the killer and expect an overall good match. If it's not that, then I wonder if the game is really worth it's game play.
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I try to play casual when I'm playing survivor, but I usually get a very try hard killer. That just makes me want to play competitively, so I move to killer and play competitive. All depends on my personal mood tbh 🤷
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Oof! Reminds me that I got a rank 1 hag. She slaughtered the team. We played bad. I'm also a casual survivor. I can loop a bit, but not that great. At the moment I'm a rank 7 survivor. I feel like the killer played really well, but it's a both not a well coordinated team and good killer. Made the plays and we made the mistakes.
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Casually competitive is the way I would describe my style🤔
I try my absolute best, but I'm just trying to have fun.
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Play CaSuAl with RaNcOr and NoEd, and CaSuAlLy TuNnEl 2 sUrViVoRs to death. If you can unlock some mori, then cAsUaLly MoRi them all, hehe.
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I definitely play competitively. I wouldn't mind a more casual focus tho
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My default loadout as a survivor is Plunderer's Instinct, Ace in the Hole, Pharmacy, and a usually good perk like Unbreakable in the last slot.
You tell me, am I competitive?
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More fun* (instead of "funner")
I am the type of player who is competitive and looks to play something until I can compete with the best.
With that said, it would be illogical to say balance the game to be competitive... now MAYBE theres a way to make it still fun and breakable walls could be 1 way but imo theres too many variables that make the game fun that would be taken out.....
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