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What do you do when you encounter a noob? Sad tales from introducing this game to someone.
So last weekend I visited my brother, and we got talking about video games. I hyped up DBD as I've been playing that a lot, and he was interested. I bought the game for him on PS4 and started teaching him how to play. First of all... there's SOO MUCH to learn right away, and the tutorial does not teach you:
- What a pallet is, how to use it, when to use it, or when to break it
- How to vault a window
- Fast actions send a notification to the killer
- Missing a skill-check also notifies the killer
- Almost NEVER try to unhook yourself
- How the bloodweb works, how items and addons really work, and when you get to keep them
- How to tell when there's a generator nearby on indoor maps
- When you're actually able to kick a generator
- What player level, devotion, character level, bloodpoints, iridescent currency and all that other ######### actually IS and what they're for
- and more I can't remember
I can look past some of this stuff, as it's a lot of information and it'd be a very long tutorial, but it seems like they haven't updated the tutorial since the release? I don't know. But whatever. The worst is yet to come..
What was most disheartening is how survivors acted as soon as they realized he was a noob killer. He's obviously rank 20, but was still matched with people who had T3 perks from multiple different survivors, and a few times a green or purple ranked player. He was making the most basic of mistakes - not knowing how far you need to be to actually hit them (so he was constantly missing even when they were going in a straight line), or losing track of a survivor who was 180-ing or 360-ing, or simply losing them as soon as they went into a jungle gym. His eye wasn't trained to look for the slightest amount of movement in the corner of your screen, or the slightest glow of scratch marks in the distance, or where people go on certain maps.
What did the survivors do once they saw this? You guessed it, immediately started teabagging, clicking, and baiting him into pallet stuns followed by more emoting and teabagging. I didn't really comment on this, but he knew he was being "clowned on" by veterans. I was disappointed, but can't say I was surprised. As soon as someone gets the upper hand I guess they can't resist the urge to BM. He said he had fun regardless, but I'll see if he keeps playing or not.. I really don't think he'll play again unless I ask him to co-op.
Once again I'm baffled that matchmaking is not based primarily on devotion rather than an extremely flawed ranking system.
Him playing survivor was insightful too - I could see how scared he was of the heartbeat, constantly getting into lockers to avoid detection as if it was Metal Gear Solid. Contrast that with how I play as a survivor - constantly running, repairing in their face, having no fear of the killer at all. I definitely feel the devs believe the game should be played more like the former than the latter.
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I literally tell everyone new, and people considering the game - not to buy or play this game. Until I see changes made to actuaally make it fun, and not some broken addictive cash grab.
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I tell them to imitate me, and I'll explain what I'm doing. Then I'll take them into a custom, play my main against them (nurse), and show them what red ranks is like.
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When I see people who are obviously very bad- I let them leave and I soft throw to make it fun for them. As a rank 4 killer I play vs. a lot of groups and sometimes these very good players will drag along their low rank friend. It'd be easy to lean on the weak link and get a 4k off it, but that's hardly fun for anybody.
Unless they are disrespectful. Then it's murder o clock.
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I wish I could do that, but we only had his PS4. I did take over and show him what to do and what to look for and that was kind of helpful, but even I had trouble hitting survivors when I had to use a joystick to move the camera instead of my hand. I have no idea how people can play FPSs on console! lol
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I'm on console too! It just takes practice 😆 tell him to turn his sensitivity to 100 on both sides tho
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Theyre noobs, not babys. They can stand getting their feelings hurt a little. I learned that way, now I'm decent. Everyone starts somewhere
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It's not about their feelings, but what people do when they realize they're playing against a novice.
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Dude, please tell me how to tell when there's a generator nearby on indoor maps. I've been playing for almost 2 years and I don't know.
I do agree with you, though. When I started playing I was surprised by how much info was not communicated to the player. It's partially a stealth game and, on either side, you can be making sounds that give away your position without knowing that those sounds even exist.
I also agree that it feels like the way the game was intended to be played (or, how I presume it was intended, based on the way the features are designed), and the way it's sold to people, is different from what it's actually like. When I first started playing, there was an adjustment period of realizing that it was not really a long game of hide-and-seek where the survivors tried to evade the killer, so much as it was a fast, vicious struggle that happened out in the open and could involve a lot of aggression from both sides.
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A very common experience. I mainly play on weekends, and rank reset had sent me back to rank 16 i believe. Somehow i got matched with a red rank and their friend.. clicking and tbagging non stop until i got a kill.
These groups will literally act as toxic as possible until you give them reason to fear you. Mission set to grief. You don't have to be a shrink to realize that's in essence bullying mindset 101. Tier 3 perks and all that. This is deliberate cheesing of mm'ing to make newer players feel as terrible as possible apparently.
The rank 4 barely escaped.. such a good looper; but i sacrificed the 3 others. As soon as i put the fear of god into them, i only received respect in return. God help these genuinely new players weather this storm.
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I'm usually going hard at all times, because you never know if you got a lobby full of rank 1's, or a lobby with 1 rank 1 and their three rank 15 friends. I feel kinda bad when I see the ranks at the endgame screen but hey, not really my problem. I took my beatings learning the game a long time ago.
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Similar to certain houses in Haddonfield or Bedham, there's usually lights flickering nearby. Most of the time the flickering light is in the same exact room as a generator. Some of it is also knowing the gen spawns, there's always more gens on the bottom floor of The Game, and certain rooms always have a gen in there (the room with the ladder that goes up and you can vault all the way to the basement?)
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I don't recommend this game to anyone because of the reality of your brother's experience right there.
When I find new survivors, I typically toy with them a little more if the other survivors aren't making the game unfun for me (and if they are, then I start not caring what happens to the new player experience). New survivor players who are altruistic tend to be adorable, and I love them for that.
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