As a solo q survivor what do you do when you feel the match is doomed from the start?

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.

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.

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

Secure my safety pip, try to die last and on my first hook if hatch/gate is not an option.

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!

Never is. However, it does feel great when an escape is made during those most dire of circumstances!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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i still try, but if its clear its over sometimes ill just give up on the hook and go next.

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.