When does playing a Survivor get fun?

If you play solo never expect to escape even if you have 1 million hours in the game. If killers really want to win they can always just bring a top tier killer with every slowdown in the world and then slug, camp and tunnel which is an automatic win in easily most of the matches against 4 solo survivors.

So if you can't enjoy the game unless you escape you really need to build or join a SWF (Survive With Friends) team.

A good SWF team can escape fairly consistently due to communication (you can tell each other what the killer is doing and where he is allowing for better decisions throughout the match), more motivation (solo survivors often run around like headless chickens and refuse to repair gens), possible perk synergy between team members etc.

Some killers will hate you for playing in a SWF team as it increases your chances of winning dramatically so expect a lot of salt, though.

It depends on what you find fun. I find it immensely enjoyable to fly under the radar and never letting the killer find me while I rescue, cleanse totems, search chests and fix generators.

Getting chased by a killer of similar skill is also fun. I'm bad, so against a rank 1 killer, it's miserable, especially since I can't mind game. But when you get better at the game and know how to chain loops together, wasting the killers time while your teammates finish objectives is very satisfying.

As a new player, start of playing with Spine Chill and Inner Strength if you have Nancy unlocked. Level them both up on Claudette, since Claudette is the Best. Learn how to take advantage of LoS (line of sight) by hiding behind objects and trees, or even in bushes and stay out of the killers sight. Just don't be useless to your team. Work on gens and totems. Rescue them when you can and even take the heat off of them if you haven't been hooked and they have. Once you get used to stealth, start practicing looping. You will die a lot, but its part of the game.

Watch YouTube videos that teach how to loop. It is more than just running in circles. Also, play some killer, doing so will teach you about their different weaknesses and reveal to you how strong survivors really are.

Yes, it's nice to survive, but you need to understand that it isn't a guarantee and that even though you can play selfishly and let your teammates rot, the Survivor role is a team role more than it is anything else. Working together will grant a greater success and you should try to find the fun in getting your teammates out, even if it means you dying.

Some of the most fun I have playing this game is when the gates are open and the killer is camping the hook. Trying to rescue the hooked person, with the clock counting down can be exhilarating and immensely rewarding if you succeed. I usually go down and die, but I got my teammate out and that's all that matters to me-well, as long as the teammate has shown competence during the match and did objectives and not just hide behind a rock the whole time.

Since you're just starting out, you're going to have bad teammates, so I suggest you don't go too out of your way to help them and play a little more selfishly, unless you see they're not terrible. I recommend you run Plunderers for the chance at a key. If you find a key, hide it in a dark corner so your teammates don't find it and the killer doesn't see it in your hand (if he does, you will get tunneled). If the game looks like it's hopeless, embrace the bush and become one with nature and don't let the killer find you. When your teams all dead, get the key and look for the hatch. Sometimes, shadowing the killer will let you find the hatch faster, just be careful.

Finally, every time the killer puts someone in dying state, stop what you're doing and get in a locker. They have a perk called Barbecue and Chili that reveals your aura (if your a certain distance away from him) whenever they hook someone, allowing them to know to head to your direction. Getting in a locker hides your aura.

Oh, another thing is Ruin and Undying, two common perks lots of killers run. Ruin causes the gens to regress, so when you get to a gen, work on it for 3 seconds and let go. It will have a regression animation and you will know to look out for a lit totem. When you find the totem, cleanse it to disable it. It is important to do this asap if you're against a highly mobile killer like Nurse, Spirit, Oni, Blight or Hill Billy.

Undying is another hex. It basically gives a different hex a second chance after being cleansed. You will know the killer has it if you walk by a dull totem at the start of the match and you get a hex notification on the right side of your screen. Just be warned that Undying reveals your aura for a few seconds every time you get near a dull totem. If you realize they have Undying, you will need to look for at least two lit totems to disable Ruin. Getting rid of Ruin and Undying will greatly ease your time in fixing gens.

I didn't really click with survivor gameplay till six months into the game. Survivor can be fun once you really find out what you're good at doing as a survivors. I'm good at doing gens, but not the best runner so I prefer to avoid being chased as much as I can. The thing that will vastly improve your experience playing the game is getting friends to play with you as survivor as solo q can be a bit of bear.

When you're starting out though you're usually going to get killed almost every game as you've not developed the necessary skills and understanding of how to connect or pick out really strong tiles mid chase. If you find yourself getting stressed as survivor just switch to killer and play that for a while. Gives you a different view of how people play and imo teaches you to be a better survivor since you experience what it is like to have to try catching people.

The most fun you'll have is when you're learning something early on because you're games aren't necessarily gonna be full of SWF or Comp play killers in the low ranks.

Play with your friends. I Find survivor decently fun since the chase dynamic can be interesting to me. But in general yeah, survivor isn't particularly engaging considering most of the time you get chased 3 times then die, if you don't die then you just held M1 fora total of 5 full minutes and escaped.

Something that helps for me is to set goals besides escaping so it doesn’t feel like as much of a loss. “Okay, so my archive quest is to break a total of ten totems. Let’s try to keep an extra sharp eye out for them and get at least one this match.” (I break as many totems as I can, but you get the idea.)

Also, pallet stunning is really satisfying. I try not to camp pallets, so blowing through the space and slamming it down at just the right time feels great. Not in a smug way, but in a “yeah, I got one finally!” Kind of way.

When you start to unlock teachables imo, the grind put me off for the first 10 hours of play but then I started being able to use some builds that suits me