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Who's like me when you want play killer you start to stress before the game
Now with the MMR I tress when I want play killer lol, it's because the MMR too high
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MMR is a failure, I have 500 hours and played against someone with 15000.
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I used to be like this granted this was way before mmr was announced but, yeah I get how it feels you just gotta push past it and if the first game is stressful just do a survivor match and than try killer again and see what happens.
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Yes,that's why I do not play killer. I'm a survivor main and my husband is a killer main. But when I try to play killer my anxiety goes thru the roof. 😂😜
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I used to be like this up until i realized this game was a joke balance wise with some killers , since then i stopped being stressed because it's not worth it.
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I've been there a few times.
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I've had to...I don't know if train is the right word but the best word I can think of. I've had to train myself not to do that.
It's hard, trust me. I've always had a bit of an...anger issue and this game absolutely brings that out in me at times. It's rarer now as I have done a good job of keeping that sense of dread at bay before the game (so I'm not riled up to begin the match) but it's hard.
My counselor gave a great exercise if that might help. He said when you're getting frustrated and flustered, try to use all of your senses to calm yourself down. See that you're on a TV (you're playing a game, no need to get mad). Hear the sounds. Feel the controller/mouse in your hand. Take a deep breath through your nose and breath out through your mouth (a yoga breath of you're familiar). Taste doesn't really come into play but go ahead and lick the controller I guess :D
You can do that midgame or pregame if you're struggling to bring down that anxiety of starting a match
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Being a small streamer. 0 viewers. And playing killer in dbd. Is also very stressful.
Streaming puts the pressure on me to be good. Cause i doubt someone wants to watch someone have 4e every other match. Then if i kill the survs, they sure love to remind me i have 0 viewers. =T gotta love it.
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A) I have 7,837 hours between Steam and Xbox and I'm trash at survivor, so hours doesn't always equate to skill (or escape/kill rate).
B) Maybe you were queued for so long that the game decided to get you in a match, even if it was against someone with better or worse rating.
C) Maybe you had a full lobby of players at your rating and one of them left the lobby. At that point, matchmaking will back-fill that empty slot with a fast match, not a quality match.
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I have a hard time playing killer when I haven't been drinking a bit.
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Not really. It's just a game. I don't care what anyone I play against thinks. If I do good, then great! If I do terrible, then whatever. I just move on to the next game.
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I have pretty bad anxiety and an issue with failure so when I first start killer (waiting in lobby and start of the first killer game) my heart will be rapidly racing and can quite often cause my body to shake/become cold.
Its honestly stupid and I hate it happens because I'm actually a good killer and do well nearly all matches lol. But it's out of my control sadly, never get it with survivor though... think its because survivor is just easier and more relaxed
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Oh definitely me! Especially when I'm going for some meme build or use a weaker killer. Or when I play Nurse, since I'm bad at her, but still get the really experienced survivors of course.
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It's weird for me. I honestly find killer the less stressful role, yet also the one I'm more hesitant to play. I can jump into Survivor but can find it easily now aggravating depending on the matches I get.
To use an example, yesterday I played Hillbilly and didn't get any kills. I did, however, he 4 barbecue stacks, a daily, and a rift challenge done, so I had no complaints.
My first survivor game I pull aggro from the killer, get downed far from anyone else, and he have Kindred, I die on first hook despite not being camped (and everyone knowing it thanks to Kindred). I can only think "Seriously...?"
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I used to get stressed out when selecting a killer because I just want to have a fun, chill game and the old matchmaking (and now the new) kept throwing me against fully decked out sweat or bully squads. Like, I’m playing Trapper with padded jaws and even then, I’m getting the clicky clicky butt dancers.
So now, I only play Killer for the rift challenges if the free rift has a cosmetic I want. It’s much more chill because I just stand there and nod at a survivor until they get I’m willing to farm.
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Honestly, as a Marine vet, video games are the least stressful thing I deal with.
Now if a car backfires while I'm walking down the street, I just may jump into the nearest tree.
Stressors are definitely relative.
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why stress? It's just a videogame.
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A) Yeah he never lasted more than 1 minute in a chase
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Just wow
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Agreed I don't care what anyone says it's easy as F to tell when you're reaching higher MMR spectrum.
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SBMM doesn’t work, so most of the stress comes from not knowing whether you’ll face a bunch of brand new potatoes or a four man SWF seal team with 4,000 each
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I used to care a lot about winning whatever role I'm playing, but over the years I've realized that so many people record this game to the point that there is likely a thousand videos of me doing the most stupid things you can imagine and my most awful gameplays are probably recorded in someone's highlight reels just because I wanted to play the game when I was sleepy.
With that knowledge under my belt I thought about it one day like two years ago. Every time I play this game there's a risk of that happening. Do I really care? Like legitimately and truly? It's a choice I have to make, because it's going to happen anyway.
I don't care. That's all you have to do. Just don't care.
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Heartbound gets it.
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I start to stress when I turn the game on.
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I've never gotten anxiety over LOSING. I dont mind eating Ls so long as I get some chases, some mind games, or just being able to do anything really.
It's the games where nothing I do matters that get to me. Cant hit anybody, cant defendanything, survivors give up on trying and just prolong the match to torment me etc.
I dont think mmr has much to do with it though
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I guess I might have starting out - but now I don't care how the match goes I'm just going to chase and what happens happens.
I perform way better.
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Same, until i stopped going for kills, let survivor intentionally go and just focused on bp and 4 bbq stacks. Given that i sometimes don't even reach that still the "don't give a ######### mindset" really helps (also me out of my depression even if it didn't solve the root problems.)
And yeah, MMR at prime time is a no argument anymore, again. When the system is setup that it ignores all rules for queue time brevity then it's useless.
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This is the reason why I always just tunnel without using any brain, end results will be same, but you are stress fully and have much less things to care about.
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Yeah loading up killer makes my anxiety instantly shoot up, I don't get that with survivor. So I stopped playing altogether as killer is too frustrating and stressful and the tunnel/camp meta is the result and it makes playing survivor very unfun now too
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...Why do you stress? At worst, you're going to lose.
You can't win every game.
Sure. It happens, and the devs have confirmed that this is mostly caused by lobby dodges making SBMM freak out. It's going to be fixed.
Thing is - it happened a lot more under ranks.
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Used to happen to me when I had like 300hrs, now I don’t gaf and 4K almost every game
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I think that stress is basically your body anticipating the tension you'll need while playing.
It's only because you care. The game is stacked against you : don't worry about the outcome.
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Playing survivor is more stressful really, because I suck at it.
Besides there are few things more relaxing than listening to some classic music... While you watch a survivor waste away in the basement as Bubba. I'm actually offended when other survivors interrupt that little me time.
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