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Do you ever get mad at your SWF for not playing good enough?
Do you ever feel that your teammates, your friends, could have played better? Do you ever feel that you have to carry them? I've felt that way on many occasions and especially tonight. I realize it was a 3-genning Doctor, but he was rank 14 and left his 3-gen for way too long and still none of them got done. I felt that my teammates had thrown the match. How do you respond to situations like this?
How I responded to this was rather brash, turning off my PS4 and not saying a word to my friends. But after cooling off, I decided to apply the wise mentality of a sports player who I can't remember the name of. It was in response to an interviewer's venomous question, something along the lines of "Does your team perform better when he's on the bench or when he's off it?" In response the player pretty much said, "You're just trying to get a shocking statement out of me. We're a team. When we win we win, and when we lose we lose. Stop trying to pit us against each other." And that made me think also of "Your team is only as strong as its weakest member." Perhaps my anger was the shock-baiting interviewer. Perhaps I'm not blameless when my team fails. Maybe it was my responsibility to teach the less experienced how to play efficiently, and I failed them in that. So the next time you experience the anger and disappointment that I felt towards my friends, keep your spirits high, learn and improve, and hope to do better next time.
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I play a lot of solos. I'm used to it.
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I'm talking about Survive With Friends. Like you and your friends teaming up, but losing to a killer who was clearly beatable.
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No?
Why would I? It's a game-- we're playing it together to have a good time, not to win.
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Haha I used to play with my sister and her boyfriend who was rank 20 the amount of times he's struggled on hook for no reason, been grabbed off of gens and just can't loop to save his life I'm used to it there are times I've wanted to yell at him but that is counter productive instead I tell him where he went wrong so he can better improve his technique. I even de-ranked from rank 4 just to teach him in the lower ranks whilst also keeping it fun for the killer by lowering my own gameplay.
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I usually play to win. That's what's fun to me. The good times have been featured in both our wins and losses though.
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No, but if that were to happen (and it did happen in a different game), I would immediately stop playing because I was being a dick to my friends for no reason. It's just a game, and should be handled as such.
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Yeah many times
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Considering i only play survivor with actual real life friends , not randoms off discord, no. I DO get pissed they're fairly new and all lack BT and considering they're new we tend to get alot of tunneling killers....
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Don't really care about how my friends play. Getting pissed at a friend for not performing in a casual game makes me look like a dick.
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Always. They literally throw the game. No, you wouldn't be able to tell, either. Them throwing is playing like most rank 1 players play. However, I've seen them actually trying, and that's basically a comp team. If I hadn't ever seen them trying, I wouldn't have known they were throwing either.
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No. Because end of the day i enjoy the time with my friends. Escaping or dying doesnt matter to me
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If my friend goes down in 2 seconds to a pig or something I just laugh to myself a little but I don't get mad at them. Maybe a little disappointed but whatever.
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My swf teammate is my older brother so yes, I've definitely gotten pissed at him playing the game.
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Then I hope your friends play to win too, because.. frankly, that's a real #########' bummer way to act in regards to you and your friends losing, and I wouldn't want to play with you again after that. It's ridiculously uncomfortable when that happens.
"Could I have taught them to be better" probably isn't as important a question here as "Could I have kept my cool better and not taken the loss so seriously".
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Mainly when I have to keep explaining the exact same things to them over and over again. Seeing as this game takes up most of my free time, I always subconsciously assume that my friends must know everything I know about the game, which they don't.
One example is one of my friends only just found out that Hex: Haunted Grounds lights up 2 totems yesterday, despite the fact that he has been playing the game since before Clown was released.
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I don't play swf but i get pretty upset at myself if that counts
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We just laugh and maybe say something like "unlucky" to be honest.
I do try to "teach" more inexperienced players though if I play with them, but it's not really an angry thing at all. When I started I had someone doing the same for me and I appreciated it a whole lot, and the people I've introduced to the game seem to agree there.
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No, I don't think you did. I have a feeling you ignored the second half of my post.
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Only when they leave me on the hook for no good reason. It's like the solo queue experience all over again. But the anger subsides quickly.
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So you never want your teammates to improve? And you never lose your cool? If you stopped wanting to play with me after I rage quit once, I wouldn't want to be your friend either. My friends have rage quit multiple times, and it never hurt our friendship. I'm not the selfish villain you make me out to be, and you'd know that if you actually read my post.
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No. If they do end up playing bad, I'll always try to give them advice on how they could've played better so they will know the next time. Besides, We're playing the game to have fun, Not to win every match.
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No because I don’t cheat
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You'd be surprised to hear it-- I don't lose my cool, because I don't actually take this game seriously.
If my teammates want to improve, great! If they don't, literally who cares. The important thing is that we have fun. We can get absolutely destroyed and have a good time.
There is literally no good thing about getting actually genuinely angry with your friends and leaving without a word 'cause you lost, dude. That's one whole bad. That should never happen, ever. And you should feel bad because it happened at all, not "because I failed them as a teacher".
As someone who used to lose their cool over losing at games before dislodging the stick from my ass-- don't.
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If you're gonna give your post a title that's different to the actual content of the post then yeah people are gonna ignore it more often than not. Especially if you asked a question in the title. Should know this by now on these forums, and it's something we're all guilty of.
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It's been a while since I SWF'd. I don't like to get mad at my teammates though, all I want to do is have fun, not get angry. Not my teammates, my friends.
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Don't play swf, but always find it funny when I escape after they get cocky and die
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no because i play in a duo and i'm usually (99.999999% of the time) the one making the mistake.
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I play mostly Solo as my friends and I aren't able to synch our schedules that often. That and I'm not entirely comfortable with SWF unless we all agree to talk about anything but the game while playing. :) But the direct answer to your question is yes, I'm far more likely to get angry at my Survivor teammates (Solo or SWF) than I am the Killer. The monster trying to kill us is just doing his/her job. Nothing within the rules is going to tilt me. The only exceptions are slugging everyone and making everyone bleed out, pretending to give the hatch for sick jollies slamming it on that person's face, or pretending to let someone leave via the gate for the same sick jollies. Those actions are just bad manners, a breaking of the fourth wall where the intent is to upset the Player and there is no in-game purpose. Those are the ONLY things I get mad at the Killer for doing that are within the rules. Hacks and Lag Spikes anger me because it is cheating, and after game salt and hate speech is just bad sportsmanship.
However, my Survivor Teammates can just doom us all for a multitude of reasons, and it mostly amounts to bad play. So yeah, they aren't doing their job and it often enough to irritates me.
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My real life mates who I play with they aren't the best at this game. I just basically try to coach them during the game. Telling them stuff like:
- What to do
- What perks/add-ons the killer has and what they do
- What we should/shouldn't do
There are times where I get frustrated but I cool off very quick because I know me being annoyed at a video game is dumb.
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ehh not really because my friends are I are pretty well coordinated. Now when I play solo that's a different story....
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I'm the captain of a competitive team that played in BOTB, has won many games, and has had an extremely stable roster for over a year.
The best thing you can do is review footage of the match after the fact to determine what really happened. I've come away from a frustrating loss thinking one thing happened only to review the vods and realize it was something else entirely.
Everyone is different and responds to criticism differently, but I'm always hesitant to call someone out in the moment in front of teammates unless they're straight up throwing a winnable game. You need players to be confident and decisive, as that leads to efficiency, and that won't happen if they're afraid to make mistakes.
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Not really.
My friends don't really throw games at all, but sometimes they make some silly mistakes that lose us the game.
When that happens, I just shrug it off. So? We lost one game. It's not the end of the world.
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I'm always explaining the same thing to my swf teammate, it's so annoying. We started playing at same time, I've just played bit more than him and understand the game mechanics better. I swear it's just because he doesn't like that his youngest sibling knows more so he refuses to listen even when he is the one asking question about the game. 🤦♀️
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um.. no? why would i be mad at my friends over a game?
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Haven't played SWF in a while. But me and my friends never really cared.
Sure, we liked winning, who doesn't? But even after we got pretty decent and made it to red ranks we were still just playing for fun and messing around.
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can't get mad at your SWF if you never SWF :)
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You mean you don't play SWF?
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The only time I ever get mad at anyone on my "team" (I solo survivor) is when I can tell, through perks or otherwise, that they're legit not playing the game. They're just hiding the whole time, staying out of sight, not contributing, letting people die on hooks while they switch between lockers, etc., just so they can get the hatch escape. I DESPISE that kind of player.
Now, do I myself get crapped on by the rest of the "team" because, based on the fact that I prefer stealthy, sneaky gameplay, they simply assume that that's what I'M doing? Yep.
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Looping is the safer bet in almost every scenario. There are exceptions, like if you're injured or dead on hook. But if the killer's not chasing you, he's chasing your teammates. So in a way, any time you're hiding, you're making the killer chase your teammates, unless all 4 of you are hiding. The best way to play stealthy in this game is to just play normal but have Iron Will equiped, and there you go, you're stealthy.
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