As a Survivor do you ever take it easy on the Killer?

Yeah they announced this in the developer update. Along with updated tutorials, there will also be offline bot matches.

I also agree that the only way you're going to get better at the game is to play against real people, but if you're just starting out or learning the mechanics of a new killer, obviously I want to know that I can take my time doing so knowing that I'm not going up against a team of highly skilled survivors that are going to have every generator done in less than 5 minutes.

I'm not really good enough at the game to take it easy on a killer but I don't taunt them or abuse them. I ran a nurse pretty good today before matchmaking went to ######### and I didn't teabag or anything.

Yep, if the Killer has less than two sacrifices throughout the match AND I don't have challenge/daily that requires me to escape, I'll willing give them them a sacrifice. If it's been a good match and it's 2 to 2? I probably still will as long as the above challenge/daily isn't in effect. Even better if I'm the last and the Killer wants to spend ECG playing around with powers and looping.

As for why the body block. That's tougher to answer. You might be facing ppl who just don't care about your skill or how you do in the match. They're focused on their team. They could just be jerks. They could just not trust that you're as inexperienced as you seem. There have been plenty of Killers that have used the 'I'm new' or ' I want to farm' trick for Survs to be leery. I never offer up a sacrifice until ECG for that very reason.

I like to think I strike a happy medium with Killers. I don't really take it easy on them, I play to my objectives in all matches, but I also don't go out of my way to be a tool to the Killer.

i too am new at killer i mostly play survivor mode but through my experiences both play is difficult as a survivor to configure a way to escape the killer and then not given any opportunity to have fun and enjoy the game they go all out on a strike and be hardcore a**hles.

in my sessions upon trying killer mode i have had a lot of players giving me the loopy loo run around chase that really gets my anxiety way up in there and i have the urge to throw the game controllers at my television if i am on console or my laptop if i am on steam and i just don't understand why do players give us newbies such a hardtime and make us feel horrible in playing the game.

I want to enjoy and have fun with dead by daylight but for the last few months since i started DBD my gameplay was always bad matches i'm always losing progress going back and forth and nothing earned.

Killer main here

You should always expect that everyone is going to play their best, even if winning by a lot, especially against a killer. Killers are more likely to do nice things when winning because there is a lot less chance of survivors coming back once some of them are dead. But a killer could be either running end game perks like NOED and blood warden or they could get a slug streak snowball to victory at any time if they get lucky.

That being said, it does happen. I was playing like my 5th spirit game ever, so i wasn't good, THEN my headset died. Once that happened i struggled to get a hit, much less a hook. At the end, 3 survs left but one came back and waived me over to the hook so I could get a kill. Very kind lass

Me and my buds always go easy on them. I don't go easy in chase, because I believe that if you do, then they won't learn- but we already don't just sit on gens all game and do a lot of side objectives, so we'll normally just mess around a lot more. Again though, I won't go easy in chase.

Not intentionally. I'm not going to throw a chase or anything, and I'm not gonna let up on gens.

In general the Short answer:no

Long answer: A lot survivors are sore winners so they try to harass/insult killers who are doing poorly. While most others won't give an inch and let the killer snowball a win.

So...Idk what you expected from this discussion.

During the event here's how me and my swf does things:

1. Me: I start by finding a mate to double gen with (Want my gen points)
2. I then run around looking for the killer to get into chase with or get totems.
3. If the killer has 2 or less hooks when 2 gens are left then I'll run around looking to farm WGLF stacks by taking body blocks for teammates. Basically draw the game out a bit.

yess, ill try n do totems or chests if the killer seems new. i feel bad in general bringing keys and maps for challenges even if the killer is skilled.

Idk how having 2 people in chase, 1 of which then goes off to heal before getting back on a gen, makes the game shorter than 1 person in chase and 3 people slamming gens constantly but

No I play around rank 11-13 and the killer usually is half decent and beats me and/or the team im playing solo on. I won't taunt or be a dick unless they were face camping people out.

It depends on the killer, but if i have the time (aka the killer isnt just tunneling and camping) i usual hunt down all totems, open chests, and work a little on gens.

In a chase, i usually dont loop too much in one tile, and try to juke the killer (i like that better when i play killer than just running in circles around obstacles). I seldom bodyblock (unless he is tunneling or in a chase with someone on death hook, but then i try to switch places, not just annoy the killer), and i see no value in running around with a flashlight (but i will do pallet saves if i can).

I think this is taking it easy, but for some, even that might be toxic. Oh, and i NEVER teabagg, because i belive thats just an insult.

From my own personal experience playing Killer ... There are no friendly Survivors.

During the Event I decided randomly that I would like to learn how to play Nurse, I tried her once like 3-4 years ago around the first time I started to play DBD and I really hated her, but I figured now that I'm a Rank 1 Killer I can try to give her a try again and maybe it will go better.

I've now played probably around 50 matches with Nurse starting at Rank 1 since the Event started, using a Sacrificial Cake for BP boost every single round. I've deranked down to about Rank 6 multiple times, then I get my Rank back up playing other Killers when I finally get fed up...

HOWEVER, the point is, your story is exactly true to my experiences which is why I felt the need to comment:

I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU how clear it is that I am a TOTAL noob Nurse player, I mean I literally miss my Blinks point blank over and over again every single match, and one single Survivor can Loop me often for 3-5 gens...

You know what has happened to me a TON of times?

First of all, I get completely Gen Rushed, they don't even bother cleansing a single totem (I'm not using any Hexes)

Then, EVEN if I actually got my FIRST down AFTER all 5 gens have popped (which has happened to me many times now because how bad I am) they will use Flashlights, Flashbangs, and Bodyblocks to prevent me from even managing to get a SINGLE hook.

You know what, I don't even mind only getting 1 hook an entire match if that's the one person I've been chasing the entire game and finally downed them.. but when they rob me of even that small bit of pleasure so I can't even get a single hook and they all escape? Well..

That's when after a few matches I decide to hop on one of my Main Killers and get a 4K +2 pip 32k bp game. lol

I honestly don't know what the reason Survivors have (even when there are 4-5 Sacrificial Cake Offerings Active) to Bully a Baby Killer. I mean, if they just play around with me a little bit more and actually let me get some hits in, they'll still probably escape AND they'll get more BP too by doing so.

Playing killer, I usually try to play "fair", even going out of my way to do so at times. By that I mostly mean that I don't camp, tunnel, slug or 3-gen with a vengeance, but follow a hook-it-and-book-it playstyle where I try to chase and hook everyone equally and alternatingly. Going out of my way to do so then obviously meaning that I even let survivors get hook saves for free despite knowing they're there, finding a recently-unhooked survivor and intentionally ignoring them to go for another survivor, picking up a survivor even if I know that slugging them would put me into a better or even a winning position immediately, and such.

That doesn't mean I always do that, sometimes I just chase whoever I find even if they've been unhooked 5 seconds ago, sometimes I try to play hard and abuse all those aforementioned tactics as much as possible. For a long time (and occasionally still) I even played a build revolving around Infectious Fright and Knock Out and never picking up any survivor, playing chases and whack-a-mole until everyone either bled out or they actually managed to get gens done and escape. But overall I play fairly, care about my survivor opponents having an engaging and dynamic, fun and "fair" round (in fact, the full slugging play style for me was precisely about this too, to give myself and survivors a round that is packed full of chases rather than having the usual hook-based gameplay loop), and I even let people escape at times, and regularly give survivors hatch if they're the last one alive.

On the survivor side, I do have to admit that it is much less common an occurence for me to play "nice". I prolong my chases as much as possible, even abusing some of the strongest structures there are in the game, I dilligently work gens, I intercept killer plays at every opportune moment with tactical or aggressive hook saves, pallet, flashlight, bodyblock and sabo saves, I try make the most effective and efficient macro decisions constantly, etc. etc. However, I think this mostly comes down to the fact as opposed to playing as the killer, as a survivor I have no real control over the overall quality of the match; I am just one of four survivors making up my "side", and much of the time if I play solo queue I if anything have to play as hard as possible for the "team" to even have a shot to succeed, because by the Entity, random survivors often simply do not do their "75%" share of work, far from, and so I have to play in a way that allows me to have much more than "25%" impact on the game (and of course, the better and "sweatier" the killer, the more they can and will abuse the weak links in the "team", undermining much of the impact I as a singular survivor can even have).

That said, if I notice that a round is already going really well and/or that the killer is either having a tough time or playing really respectably and fairly, I will actually leave gens and decide that if gens are to be done, other survivors will have to do it. I also do in fact then leave structures I deem to be too oppressive in my chases, not only to make it more "fair" for the killer player, but also because the chases get more engaging for me that way as well if I know the killer won't be playing "dirty". I do more subtle things in those scenarios too, such as changing into a decision-making mindset that is less efficient and effective, to artificially prolong the game without however literally throwing it, e. g. by going for heals at times where I know it is not necessary, searching for Ruin when only one generator remains, and the like.

I even give killers the kill on me at times if they played particularly well or particularly fairly or had a particularly tough time, either by letting them hook me or intiating a chase in the endgame where I'm likely to die despite having had the chance to escape. And more generally, I don't always bring the perks and items/add-ons/offerings I know to be the most effective in terms of winning, despite having enough resources stocked up to do so much of every game. On the killer side I'm actually somewhat less likely to be using "fun" builds and more likely to be using at least mid-range add-ons rather than weak ones than I am on the survivor side. And hell, I regularly play solo-queue survivor to begin with, despite that obviously being much less favourable an environment for me than a SWF setting with people I know to be competent.

But yeah, overall I would say as killer taking it easier on survivors is more ingrained in my general playstyle, whereas as survivor it is not the norm for me to take it easy on the killer, it is more so dependant on situations. Apart from the things I mentioned before, what also plays into that is that I mostly care about chase play in this game, and going for a chase-heavy playstyle as a killer can be detrimental to one's "success" in terms of consistently killing all survivors, whereas having long chases as a survivor obviously benefits the overall round. Additionally I care slightly more about surviving as survivor than I do about killing as killer. Besides, given the matchmaking in its current state, I usually don't really have a hard time killing survivors as killer anyway, so that makes me care even less to play really hard.

No - Why would I? Same as a killer - I don't care if you're a rank 20 I'm going to dumpster you and give you a warm welcome to the game.

Post game I'll give new players tips and advice but that's it.

I'm not good at the game so I guess I'm always taking it easy on the killer

First off, I'm not a real good survivor anyway, but I do adjust my play if the killer is having a hard time. If the gens are popping fast and he hasn't gotten any hooks, then sometimes I'll search out the killer to give him a chance to get somebody.

I'm not really good at chases, so the killer would have a fighting chance with me.