As a solo q survivor what do you do when you feel the match is doomed from the start?
Do you still try even if it is most likely pointless, completely give up or something else?
I know it depends on situation and that you can also be wrong.
Most of the time I still try but at the end I feel like I wasted a lot of energy on lost cause, because depips also happen anyway.
What do you do?
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I still try.
I just feel like d/c-ing or killing myself on hook is cheap. I'd rather stick the match out even if we'll most likely lose.
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I usually enter matches with absolutely zero expectations and at least one fun perk, lately I've been addicted to flashbangs. So I just try to make the most of it, do something cheeky etc. It really helps. Though If I see that everyone's trying their best I'm happy to match that, but the lower my expectations are, the more fun SoloQ is.
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Wait for them all to die because my whole team being dead is still a win condition with how I play
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I still try my best and if all fails, then eh, I move on to the next game.
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I find the killer and let me hook him, and try slippery meat without the slippery meat. Sometimes the killer takes pity on me and protects me, so, you know, those games turn out well as he massacres everyone and I farm bloodpoints. Rofl.
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Red Herring wins solo games because it tells the killer where to go.
Left Behind is Bills best perk just sayin
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I'm only ever a solo survivor. I always play to the end. if I ever feel the need to give up, I give up for the whole night.
Never start up a game unless you are prepred to take the worst the game throws at you. to do any less is rude to the other players.
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Keep playing. If you're not gonna win, you can at least get bp.
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Keep trying because hatch exists
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I try, but if two survivors are out and there's more than one gen left, it's dumpster-divin' time.
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The only time I generally ever feel that the match is doomed from the start is when I recognize that the Wraith is the opponent. I'm not trying to beat a dead horse or start an argument, I'm seriously just being honest.
I won't DC but I take a long sigh, roll my eyes, and prepare for the next 5-10 minutes of my life to be wasted regardless of what happens. There's literally nothing in this game that I enjoy less.
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I try to cobe 3 times and then miss two skillchecks.
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Doing as much as possible for BP. And we don't know... Once, we had someone who DC'd early. They got downed, they DC'd. We were still at five generators.
We managed to complete all the generators and to escape. And no, it wasn't a farming game. And yes, we were all red ranks, it's not like we were against a new player.
(For the Killer's defense: it was Badham Preschool.)
Sometimes solo Q is full of surprises.
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I'm primarily a solo Survivor. The only thing that Survivors can do that really dooms a match from the start in my opinion is to DC or afk. If someone DCs instantly because of the map or Killer or because they were thrown onto hook in thirty seconds then I'll try and pick up the slack and play 'more seriously'.
If I notice that my other two teammates are goofing off or are trying to get hooked then I'll just grind for as much BP as I can get and take my pitiful 8-10k BP and move on. Wasting too much time isn't worth it because it's not going to be enough for any significant or noteworthy bloodweb progression and the chances are I won't be able to complete whatever Rift challenge I'm working on either.
So I'll knock some totems, open some chests, try to have a good run, and then move on.
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So last match I was downed like 10 seconds into the match (School against a Nemesis) because of course I'm gonna spawn next to him, why not? One of my teammates decided to loop the killer next to the hook and another one unhooked me without BT with the killer 5 meters again, it didn't matter tho because the zombie that was in front of me downed me immediately after I was unhooked. So yeah, I accidentally missed the next two skill checks... oops
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I never try. I'm just running around and being a total dumbass all game. I don't take this game seriously anymore lmao
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Secure my safety pip, try to die last and on my first hook if hatch/gate is not an option.
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If im not in a good mood them i'm probably gonna suicide or rarely dc. I will still try if i'm in a good mood
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I use the opportunity to improve aspects of my game I need to and still attempt an escape. Afterall, if it took a while to enter the trial, I want to make the most out of each session if I can. Often, the result is much different to what I expected: once there were 2 of us with 3 gens still to do and we both escaped via the exit gates at Lery's. That was a memoriable match!
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Yeah those games can definitely happen that is why I said we can be wrong sometimes. I had a game recently in which guy suicided immediately and all the rest of us still managed to escape. It was not easy mind you.
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Never is. However, it does feel great when an escape is made during those most dire of circumstances!
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If I'm losing, I play the loss -- meaning, I keep playing normally until my character actually dies. It's for all the reasons people have already said -- it's good sportsmanship; you keep getting points; there's a small chance you'll escape.
There comes a certain point where I just mentally shift, and it's like, "Okay, we're not winning this one, but we'll see how far we can get."
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Points grab. Chests, totems, get chased, hook bombs, whatever I can to try and salavge a safety pip or even just to finish top of the survivor board.
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The hatch is a kind of hope for me every time the game goes wrong.
I will play as usual and try my best to survive with others.
If i ever DC in the middle of the game, will be because of a slugging killer who refused to hook and watch us bleeding.
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If I get found first and run the killer for a long time and absolutely nothing has been done then I'll suicide on hook, I'm not sorry either. It will be a hatch match and the killer will likely slug and let the other survivor sell you out so might aswell get out early to another match.
If another survivor has been found first and they dc leaving us at 5 gens then I will try if my team can by time to do gens.
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Look, sometimes my entire team manages to get slugged at 5 gens, or 2 people go down at basement when the Killer is Hag. At that point I will play for hatch. If I've had a really rough night, I may just go afk by a hook and make some food or something. Just being honest. When you've played for thousands of hours, you know how to recognize an unwinnable scenario.
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I will always try no matter how grim the situation.
If it looks very bad then i will try and being chased for as long as possible.
If lucky my team knows how to do gens and who knows, maybe we're able to get out that way.
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Is it a hook bombing session with everyone but me involved? Because anyone looking for a game in those matches is just wasting time.
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I used to give up and let myself die on hook. Usually you can tell when your teammates are stupid kids trying to copy Ayrun with their flashlights, and that the match is going nowhere fast. Other times you think your teammates suck, but in actuality they are pretty decent and just made a mistake that screwed you over. I’ve unintentionally sandbagged a teammate or two trying to body block the killer. Other times the killer is just too damn good. So damn good, you’d actually pay money to seem him go against the 4 man SWF ######### you have to deal with when you play killer.
‘Anyways, I stopped letting myself go on hook for a combination of two reasons- 1)the revamped struggle system kind of forces you to continue 2) I now have a desire to try and pip every match. So no matter how bleak ######### looks at the beginning of a match, I hang in there with the thought process of: “ok, at the very least let me try to black pip instead of depip.” I already accepted death at that point, so then it just becomes a matter of “when?” Can I get enough points to black pip before I get taken out the game? I try to focus harder and make the best decisions with what little time I have left in the match because my teammates and I are getting chased and hooked quickly. The personal challenge of trying to black pip and me accepting a loss in advance helps me navigate through what I used to consider- a waste of my time.
It doesn’t happen all the time, but the games where I actually “hung in there,” and escaped tend to be some of the most thrilling & fun matches. Those games are the ones where the killer had it in the bag so to speak, but we the solo que survivors rallied together and fought back. Not everyone survives, but to come back from nearly getting 4Ked & 5 genned to getting all gens done and 2 escaping is pretty damn awesome. Bonus points if I’m one of the two who made it out. (Man, sometimes Deliverance & Unbreakable can literally be game changers). So games like that and other little things has shown me it’s just best to try and keep at it.
Now as a killer, when ######### turns left fast at the beginning, I just shake my head and accept the ass pounding from SWF. What the hell am I going to do? Ragequit like a little girl? Hell no. When the 5th gen is done I hit the exit gate for them, then run into shack basement and cry in a corner facing the wall.
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I always keep playing. I often thought why is nobody doing anything and suddenly two gen pop or many gens are near completion.
But even in the worst case, i often have fun in a chase, even if its impossible to win.
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It depends. Did we just get outplayed, did the killer tunnel at 5 gens, or did we screw up?
If the killer brings in an Iridescent Head and tries to tunnel and mori from the start, being the vindictive ######### that I am, I’ll become one with the shadows and prolong the game as long as I can without holding it hostage. I’ll take my time doing totems, searching chests and only do gens when I’m sure I’m safe.
If I was the first hooked and all three teammates are crouching around doing nothing? I don’t try to hit the skill checks when I get to second stage.
If the killer is just better than us, spreads out the hooks and downs us quickly, I’ll stealth since it’s my natural play style but let them kill me in the end. Sometimes I’ll try to meme around to give them a good chuckle before they kill me.
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If playing with a Hag you should all just know to not run and crouch to your best abilities. I've won plenty of games this way when other thought we wouldn't. She cannot use her traps unless she has an add-on (I believe) or if you trigger them. I run urban evasion and it comes in handy at all times but 100% during a hag match with more than one person in the basement.
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It depends on what stage of the match you are on and the situation is i.e whether survivors are playing sensibly and killers fairly.
If all three other survivors get downed early on I will try and heal or unhook providing it's safe to do so - there is no point in me rushing in and getting downed too and give the killer an easy score. If it's not possible and the killer camps so I would not be able to do it, as it seems to be killers like Hillbilly who have instadowns that do it, I wait out the hatch.
If all three get basement hooked I'm waiting out the hatch, sorry. Again, the killer is clearly playing dirty so I have no issue doing the same.
If a killer is on a downing spree but refusing to hook for a long time so no one has a fair chance and ive been hooked twice but someone is still off the hook/up and about/escaped I will sacrifice myself to give them a chance. Killers don't like it... But then I don't like it when killers down multiple people. If Ive been downed and then they run off and down three others I try to get to somewhere where they cannot find my body and wait out the death. It might be petty but it makes me feel better they didn't get the hook. It's all underhand but normally in that situation for me it's the killer that started it so deserves a taste o their own medicine. On the whole, your allegiance is to your fellow survivors.
If it just looks like it might be going south early on but with no underhand play I try to carry on as normal because it can always turn around. I don't understand people who DC as soon as they get hooked or downed. I've had matches like that where I've been unhooked after my second hook and managed to do three gens and escape. It's all about trying to play consistently and fairly as well as making sure you try to stay alert and stealthy.
On the whole I like to play as long as possible and as fairly as possible. Sometimes you can wait so long for a match I don't want it over in 5 mins by either side.
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When i play solo, i have at least a fighting chance because i run Plunderers instinct and left behind in my solo build.
with left behind i beat the killer to the hatch quite often (especially if the game is so derailed that it hasn´t spawned yet), and or plunderers gives me a key every 3 games on average (sadly, often in the games i win anyway).
However, the goal is then to get out as much teammates as possible, and thus i still repair gens, still get found and sometimes, still die even though i had a key.
But sometimes, when you got good teammates, you still get all gens done. I had one game where one guy dc and the other hook suicides, and yet we managed to do 5 gens in a 2v1, and both get out. The killer got some hooks, but in most cases he could be juked.
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Get my safety pip and find a key. If I'm on hook, try to kobe. It's usually pretty clear early on whether you have a chance or whether you have one or two teammates who are incapable of playing coherently.
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I’ll try early in the match. Once it gets to a point where the match is clearly lost and totally unenjoyable then I’ll peace out on hook. But I always give it a shot, sometimes a bad start can be recovered but you can’t really recover from a bad start and a bad middle, lmao.
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I feel less inclined to help well a match is going south recently. We were winning one yesterday (Oni, 4 gens done, only 2-3 hooks on us) one David gets downed, the other two start trying to loop around his slugged body and quickly go down as well, he looks for me for a while, as soon he picks up one of the slugs, I charge for the David to get him up. He hadn't recovered. You can guess the rest. So in future I might just go breaking dull totems and rummaging through chests and let them throw the match in peace.
Off-topic but I never had this crap when MMR was on, now it's constant.
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Run perks that will hold the hands of the people that somehow have ended up in your lobby and probably had a lobotomy beforehand.
Borrowed Time for the campers
Prove thyself to rush gens and easy BP
Deliverance for obvious reasons
Any exhaustion perk or Bond so you can save yourself
Do all you can and don’t quit. Make the solo survivor experience better.
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I go into every game just trying to black pip. If I feel like I've black pipped and the game isn't already over I got for more than that.
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This is the way.
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I always keep playing, plus try to rack up as much BP as possible so do totems, open chests, anything to get as many bloodpoints as possible.
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As you say it depends on what the circumstances are. If I'm hooked and all my teammates are crouch walking around the map aimlessly I might kill myself on hook, if it's really going bad. It largely depends on how well gens are going. If my team is refusing to do gens and letting other teammates go to second stage if I'm in the chase then I'll usually tap gens to keep the killer occupied but I start planning for hatch usually.
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Yea you should join sometimes. I throw Pebbles at killers ;)
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Cut my losses and try to find hatch. If I find it and there is still someone else alive, I'll lead them to the hatch to let them know where it is then I'll either go sacrifice myself or hold out until they die.
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best comment in the entire thread
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You know what stings? When someone ragequits at the beginning of a match and you plus the other two managed to get 4 gens done. Always makes me say damn if they didn’t leave, we ALL possibly could have made it out the way the game was going.
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i still try, but if its clear its over sometimes ill just give up on the hook and go next.
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Really depends if I'm doing a challenge I just do the challenge and then kill myself if I'm not doing anything I just simply try to kill myself as fast as possible
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If you mean "doomed" with potatoes in my team, I try to finish the round. I try to unhook, doing a gen or try to get a protection hit. Collecting points so I hopefully don't depip.
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I try and beat the odds anyway.
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