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"It's a casual game"
I've seen this argument a lot, I just wish they would tell this to the people in red ranks because HOLY [BAD WORD] they play like their lives depend on it.
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It's funny, I find a lot more killers than survivors sweating pubs. I thought it would be the other way around.
But yea I wish there wasn't as many people sweating from both killer and survivor, just kinda makes the game unfun when you play against a ruin undying spirit or a 4 man DS UB squad.
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it really is just a game but you'll still have people coming for your life post-game on both sides lol
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monopoly is a casual game, but ppl will "try hard" to win...
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I'm quite a literal person, so when I read 'sweating pubs' I thought of a local bar with full of sweaty dudes
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Most of the time in red rank survivor I don't go out of my to do gens, I search for chests and totems for the extra points.
Most of the sweaty players I've encountered have been the survivors. But that's most likely because I play killer more often.
The moral of the story is, I want out of red ranks. It sucks up here T.T
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I have a better chance of convincing the midnight console swfs that dbd is a casual game than I do convincing my mum that monopoly also is one
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Competitive people prefer the rush of winning to everything else. It doesn't matter how much the odds were stacked in their favour, they can very easily trick themselves into thinking that the trial was completely fair.
If people want to try their hardest to win, whatever. It's a casual game, it means pretty much nothing to win or lose. But it is wierd that people come into DbD with a competitive mindset and insist that that should be the norm.
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Do people even consider monopoly casual?
Most of the time when I see people play that they go for the throat.
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Doesn't stop in game BM though, which I think is where the majority of complaints are.
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Anything but the god damn midnight console SWF. Especially the ones with randomised names like QZ_EBR- (maybe that's just a ps4 thing).
I'm trying to have a chill night and boom, 4 DS UB with an object.
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it is casual game but wont stop people sweating to win I liek the kick back match well anything could happen.
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It's not esports but it definitely is a competitive game. Google the definition of competitive. One player wins and one player loses. Only adjust the numbers to 1v4.
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I mean every game is competitive in one way or another, but yes it's a casual game at its core no matter how you look at it.
Anything that implements asymmetrical properties to a game will naturally be less competitive than something else that's more even on both sides. Of course that doesn't stop people from making tournaments for any asymmetrical game, but it'll never be on the level as a game presented at Evo, at least not in my opinion.
Also most players that're competitive or "sweaty" in DBD find enjoyment in that. Of course some people find that silly in a game like this, but it's something others enjoy when you play. Even I enjoy playing seriously against a good team, but I don't do it every match since I find it stale. Naturally people want to win when they're playing any game, I guess that's what makes us all human.
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Its probably more accurate to say its played best as a casual game.
Anytime you have competition some group are going to take it seriously and often that group are the killjoys. Play the way you want to play and that's all you can really do.
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This. I really don't think this is a competitive game, but some people really do be playing like they're in Hexy's Tournament 24/7.
With that being said though, I do think the issue is more so that there isn't a split queue for people who want to play the game seriously and those who don't. It'd be like playing OW and everyone being put in the same queue, from an OWL player who's trying to get in some comp hours to a guy who only plays drunk with friends, which is pretty much what DBD queues are.
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It is indeed a game. Some people have fun trying. some people like to make fun of people that try. Some people make fun of people because of many reasons.
People in general are the worst part of this game. We remove them from the game, it becomes more enjoyable
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Well, killer at red rand is stressful as heck. As a survivor, you have 3 potential meat shield in the game to take the killer's attention while you hold M1 to pip.
Killer need to catch survivor's many times, patrol the map to apply pressure, be mindful of not getting punished for playing fair (i.e, good ol DS after you hooked someone else and you find the freshly unhooked person on your way out of the hook, insta unhooking with Bt and body blocking survivor purposely slowing you down to cover for the risky and bad play of their teamates)
If you attach any importance to your rank, as a killer, you have to try as hard as you can, as a survivor, you just chat with your friend on VC about the weather and what not and still get safety to promo along the way.
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It starts off as family game night and devolves into a drunken soccer brawl...
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All games are "casual' by definition; they are GAMES. However, that doesn't have anything to do with how hard you play them. I watch people play casual games of tennis all the time, and they are doing their level best to win. The problem is that people online seem to be very subjective when it comes to the word "casual" and it seems to mean many things to different people.
The traditional meaning (before people started misusing the term) is a pick up game that is not scheduled, nor important to some larger competition, or official Ranking. A casual game is an "unofficial" game as far as tournaments are concerned. The term never has had anything to do with how hard the participants play, or whether or not fun is involved.
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You remember Fall Guys? The super casual game where blob people would compete in little activities and the odds of winning were next to nothing? The whole point was just mindless fun to most, but people took it to the extreme and tried their hardest. Streamers were sweating hard on the game. People will try hard at anything. That doesn't mean that the game isn't casual. Many things in DBD make it pointless to be anything other than casual.
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I don't consider this 100% accurate. Not all competitive people prefer the rush of winning to everything else. I compete largely with myself, and it is the challenge that interests me. That is why I want more accurate matchmaking. I don't want to get games where I consistently 4K because that means I'm not really in a worthy match. Winning is not satisfying at all if you don't earn it. Being competitive can be, at least for some people, about the journey and not the destination.
I agree, however, that there are people who just want to win, but they aren't really competitive people. People who just want it and aren't particular about how they get wins, aren't in it for the competition. I think people like that have real life issues, feel powerless, and use games like these to try and gain the illusion of being important somehow, somewhere. It is kind of tragic.
So, unlike most people who lament the sweaty, hard fought, try-hard matches, I kind of like them. When I have to fight that hard and that long, I know it was an actual competition. Win or lose, it was worthwhile and I will have had my fun in the fight.
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that is because kilers need to sweat their ass off in order to not get destroyed. as simple as that.
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the game is casual, since is not competitive or at least is not balanced to be competitive.
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If you want to play casually get a group of friends together and play a kill your friends match where you can laugh and not take things too seriously. Otherwise, I feel like this game is best played seriously. If you're not playing to win, why are you playing at all. That being said, a game where one group stomps another group is not fun, but that's more a problem with matchmaking than of try hard killers or survivors.
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Except this is DbD, where nothing is fair because RNG, power disparity, and perk disparity.
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I don't think that is an issue unique to DbD. Things are as fair as they are ever going to be in a PvP game with this many variables. Personally, I think sweaty, hard fought, long matches are sign of parity, not disparity. Blow-outs, and matches over in 3-5 minutes are a clear indication that something is way off with the balance. The best we can hope for is to reach Ranks where most of our games are hard.
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you cannot "not sweat" on killer because of how much pressure survivors can apply to you for nothing. Got to compensate that
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