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Ok after my last post I decided to try to have fun and not win. Cause some of you gave me hope.
Should I be using a killer that I'm good at and stay with that one?
And any other tips I can try to make me not so frustrated?
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What I found to help me was forcing myself to laugh at the ridiculousness of whatever happens.
It feels weird at first, but then you actually start to find it funny lol. It helps you reframe certain behaviors so instead of angering you, they make you roll your eyes and chuckle.
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Hmm ok ill try that:)
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I don't know why are u so obsessed with win. I'm currently testing things (10 games on each side) and play perkless with rule if killer finds me, I let him kill me, i don't run away. And no matter who i get as killer i let them go.
And i found that even when i play as complete 0 braincell machine im able to get pips. And pips is only important thing left cause i can't see my mmr. So when i play for win i still don't know am i capped or no.
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I'm not. I'm just saying this game pushes my buttons when. I want to play for fun
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They gave you hope so you can experience even more despair.
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What can I say I like shape
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Play killers you have fun with and use fun perks instead of meta ones ^^ Try and come up with some weird perk/ power combos. I like to do that to keep things fresh and feel less pressure.
Also remember that your opponent is also just trying to have fun and they are just doing their best. For example I was playing Hag today and I had a really goo bunch of survivors. It was a pretty even match but they were giving me a run for my money! 3 flashlight saves, knew how to play around my traps, unbreakable messing up my snowball. You name it they countered me!
I kind of just laughed at the unbreakable because of course right? As for the flashlight saves I was impressed. They were really well done!
At the end of the match 2 died and 2 escaped. Its hard feel frustrated when we each gave each other a good run you know?
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Damn Shaped... you need a hug?
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It was just a danganronpa reference lol.
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Danganaropa is just un~bear~able
<I will see myself out...>
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Omg lol. How did I miss that 🤭
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Stop caring. Seriously thats the answer.
And I mean, don't care. Tunnel, slug, camp do whatever is most fun for you in the moment. Play whatever perks you want and screw around as you will. It's the only way to have fun.
The game itself is built on lopsided ground. It has no unified goal, so you have to make your own. If it's late game and I am doing bad but I got someone in the basement hell yeah I'm camping them. I'll either get a kill or a bunch of points from stabbing anyone running downstairs. Either way I win and it was more fun then playing find waldo.
One fun game is to play wraith without perks or addons and just bing bong at people. Once they assume you're harmless you'll eventually nab someone off a gen. Run them to a hook and ring the bell over and over. Next you try and grab the survivor who goes to rescue and run them to another hook, repeat. The goal is to see how far you can run them around the map.
Shock Doctor is fun, basically NOED and whatever perks to help you be speedy. Spend the whole match ceaselessly shocking people but never swinging. Once Noed activates down everyone you can.
Until a mode comes out with more clear and defined goals just keep making up games to play with your four volunteers.
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Honestly I tried to do the same thing, but when you're destroyed match after match, not caring can only take you so far.
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Then you still care. That's your issue.
What I mean is stop caring about the concept of winning, because its pointless to try. Anything you can do to win will be labled BM toxic behavior. The criteria for a killer to win is that the four survivors decide that you won, otherwise you lose. So discard the concept. Play for yourself and mess around as you see fit. Do stupid things, meme it out, everything you do is wrong unless stated by the four whom are your opposition so might as well have some giggles.
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Here's what I do. At the start of the match I try to play like I care. But, the second I see 3 and a half gens going off in less than 2 minutes, I put up a youtube video on the side, and I start playing like a bot. I'll camp the first survivor I hook, I'll tunnel them out of the game, I'll barely try to mindgame, etc. I don't mean this out of spite. I mean it out of indifference. At that point it's not worth getting invested, cuz you're in an unfair situation and you'll put too much effort into something that set you up to fail already. If the gens go at a decent pace, then i'll care, and I'll mindgame and I'll put in a lot of effort and I'll get invested. This is easier said than done.
However, I think it's sad that we are so used to this game being atrocious that people unironically say "try to have fun and don't try to win" Like...why should I bother with the game and not play something that it's actually worth getting invested in?
This indicative of very very poor design if the only way people can have a good time with your game is by not getting invested in it. Might as well design an clicker game at that point.
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But you see that therein lies the problem. It's a competitive game, and it's just human nature to want to win. The reason why losing in dead by daylight is harder to accept than in most games however, is because there's a lot of BS that goes into playing the game. Both killers and survivors feel cheated, and they have good reason to. A lot of it has to do with how the game functions (bugs and whatnot), but too much of it is also pure luck.
Too often the deciding factor of who wins is heavily RNG based, and trying not to care when your totem spawns right next to a survivor/generator, or you couldn't hear a survivor on the ground because the silent bug is STILL a thing, or you have multiple LT walls that allow you to run the killer around for days, etc, it can tend to drive you nuts. Trying not to care amongst all of that is a hard pill to swallow.
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Play the characters you have fun playing, do your best and don't worry about if you lose. Playing repeatedly is the best way to win more often anyway, and despite what some people think you can win with any killer if you play well. (All the killers average between 2-3 kills per match, except Nurse who has about a 1.6 kill rate on average only because she's extremely hard to become good with. People who do manage to master Nurse though do exceptionally well with her.)
Likewise play around with the different perks and add-ons and use the ones you think are fun to play. Don't worry so much about how powerful or not they are, if they seem to be doing something fun or useful for you in the match then that's good enough.
Basically the more you play with a killer the better you'll get so I wouldn't worry so much about whether you think you are "good" with them or not. If you think a killer is fun, but you're having trouble with them, just keep playing and having fun and you'll improve with them. Then you'll be good at a killer that you also think is fun which is a win-win. 👍
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Thx guys
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Without the needd to winning. You may still need to feel you have the power.
I use Noed, Remember me, Blood warden, Rancor, Noway out as a way to make me feel Im in control.
Of course the number of kill in the end doesnt matter. But I know I have moments to make survivors struggle alot, is what give me fun
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What I am saying is you have to not care to enjoy the game because the game has no clear rules for winning if you're killer and is based entirely upon whether four strangers decide you played the way they wanted you to.
As long as you play it as anything other than a screw with strangers simulator you're going to have a bad time for al the reasons you listed. Once you realize that calling the game competitive in any serious way is a bad joke you'll either quit playing or just start screwing with people and maybe start enjoying the game again.
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All I can offer you is what I personally did to remove my own negative attitude in the game. I can't guarantee it will help all the time, but it will at least make you more self-aware of your play and mental state. These are the rules I personally follow myself.
The first step I took in removing my negative attitude in this game is acknowledging that a tactic is a tactic, and I have no control how other people play (repeat it to yourself over and over). It's on me to beat them and nobody else. I should always expect others to pull every dirty trick in the book and deal with it. Even if that means repeating it to myself over and over. This also frees a person to act in the same manner without shackling themselves to made up rules which I feel is the source of much frustration.
The second step I took in removing my negative attitudes in this game was asking myself one simple question after every match I found myself frustrated at. That question is "Where did I make a mistake?". I operated under the premise that nobody is perfect and thus I should always be able to find something I could of done differently. And if I made a mistake, I have no right to be upset that I got beat. And true enough, I always could find something I could of done differently - a wrong decision here, a bad execution there. And once I found it, I would verbalize it in an attempt to acknowledge that I bore responsibility for my loss. (it also helps in acknowledging that you made a mistake to also say "it's okay, all people make mistakes")
The third step I took was asking myself before I even log in is "Can I handle the worst this game can throw at me today?" if not, then I don't log in. People like to meme on McCote for saying "if you aren't enjoying the game, go play something else for awhile like CivV". But can you point where in that statement he's wrong?
The last step I took was enforcing a rule on myself... I'm allowed to ragequit only once. If I do ragequit, I have to turn the game off for the rest of the night because I'm no longer in the right headspace and shouldn't be playing.
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