People dread playing Killer
So i have 3 steam friends who recently bought dbd this month and we played some survivor together. I asked them if they gave killer a try and all of them said the same thing like "yeah i tried, but it's stressful and i get nervous lol, it's not for me. I feel like 4 people are ganging up on me. I just play some friendly killer to get daily rituals done and that's it" The funny thing is these 3 friends of mine still have the nerve to say killers are op and be toxic towards killers, even when they don't have the balls to play killer themselves. The point is i don't see many new players wanting to play killer, they just wanna chill and actually have fun playing survivor, even if it means waiting 15 mins for a match, and i don't blame them.
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It doesn't take long to become a hypocritical Survivor Main.
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To be fair, it is kinda normal.
I experienced this as well in the past and I think my friend (who don't play the game anymore) maybe too.
You feel nervous when you are not used to it. Because you are playing againts 4 vs 1 So It feels nervous and "oh maybe they will judge me, what if I do a big mistakes, etc."
Anyway, later on you will be fine and not care about it the more you play.
However if you are talking about being stressfull because of balance reasons... Oh well.... F
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I don't find either role to be very fun.
Killer is far too stressful and is much to taxing.
Survivor depends entirely on how nice the Killer is going to be and how good your teammates are.
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That was me last night: had some time to play. So I powered up DbD, received the 100k bloodpoints, spend them on 1 1/2 bloodweb and then I couldn't bring myself to play killer. Survivor had a queue of over 5 minutes, so I just shut down DbD and watched a struggling streamer instead.
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It is fine, killer is not for everyone. That is a great thing from my point of view. I came from Overwatch where dps queues were outrageous. I would have never played DBD if the killer queues were long because people actually liked it. That is the main reason I heavily support survivor buffs and advocate for killer nerfs, to be perfectly honest. The more miserable it is for the average Joe, the faster my queues are.
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Pls BHVR buff killer. My mom is scared of playing killer. It's so stressful. Do something!
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A lot of people like my friend don't want to play it because the fov is so bad. It's even given other people motion sickness. It absolutely needs to be changed.
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I believe some games and roles just aren't for everyone. If you don't like a stressful role/game, you can just play something that is more of what you're looking for.
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I might be wrong, but shouldn´t survivor be the stressful role? After all, someone wants to kill them and they have no way to "fight back".
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This was me today. Played 1.5 games and just quit to play something else.
I am over gen speed and SWF. I also can't play survivor because i refuse to sit there for 6-10 minutes between games.
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"Stress" has nothing to do with "Scary".
For me killer is stressful not because I'm the one being hunted, but because I need to focus on 4 people at the same time and because I don't like being the center of attention against 4 other players.
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Being in the same building with someone who wants to kill you isn´t stressful?
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Unfortunately, we have pallet stuns, head on, flashlights, flashbangs, decisive strike, and blast mine that all say hello.
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Why did you ignore the rest of my post? Seems odd.
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DbD tries to much to balance for 1vs1 and whats worse, tries to balance around newer players. For example, the Undying nerf seems reasonable, when you think about 1 survivor cleansing 4 hex totems. But when there are 4 survivors that can cleanse a hex each one, it suddenly isn´t so reasonable anymore.
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Because thats a different type of "stress"? Like for example, when i´m in this situation, then i´m stressed:
Because getting all other 3 survivors back up depends solely on myself. This is how survivor should feel (i mean the stress level in regard of "omg, we´re all gonna die").
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Yes, I also get stressed when I have 3 team mates on the ground and the killer is going for me, because if I go down everyone is dead.
When it comes to "stress" from "scared from being hunted down", that stops after 5 hours.
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I'm currently at the stage where I just farm against good survivors after getting tilted with 3 gens popping during my first chase and then feel incredibly ######### afterwards when I 4k a match because it comes across as sealclubbing little baby survivors. Please send help.
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I have exactly the opposite feeling. I dread more solo q than playing killer. If you pressure hooks a lot of team crumbles. I can actually work on it. But when i play solo q my teammates are never taking the game as seriously as the survivors i face. Add killers that sweat like crazy against noobs on top of that, and you basically have a gameplay that is miserable no matter the skill you have.
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Lol this sounds very familiar! Every time I boot up DbD I sit there for a minute trying to decide if I really want to subject myself to the stress and frustration of playing killer. Sometimes I do what you did and after thinking a minute I’m like “screw it, I’m doing something else.”
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Learning killer is stressful, playing a killer that you've mastered is not. The fact that playing killer is stressful is not an indicator that killer is weak or strong, it's just the nature of how killer is played.
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Killer actually is much less stressful for me tbh.
As you play more and more teams that you can't beat or struggle with, you get better and more confident.
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But why does it have to stop?
A jump scare Myers on an indoor map is fun as hell. Even after countless hours. That's a moment where the game feels like a horror game.
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A good example being horror movies. Watching it the first time can be scary, jumpscares can get you, second time? Not anymore.
This also goes for other horror games. Resident Evil can be scary the first few times you play the games, then you just get used to it. DBD is no difference.
And yes, I agree that scratch mirrors Myers can be scary, same with Rusty Shackles for Hag. But most things just aren't scary 99% of the time.
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Yeah, for sure. Killer is a lot more stressful than survivor. Like I can die something like 10 out of the 10 survivor games I play and walk away saying "I had fun." Can't say the same on the days where I do that badly as killer.
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According to dbd forum every killer needs to have counterplay even though the game is 1 vs 4.
So any decent survivor can waste so much of the killers time that playing as killer stressful because survivors controlling the game, and as a killer you can only react to their plays. Survivor = true killer in dbd
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Was in that exact same scenario last night. Thankfully someone's single handed UB saved the entire match for us.
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I don't dread playing killer, but I do have to be in the right frame of mind for it. You can't play relaxed, you litterally have to fully concentrate on what you are doing all match and any lapses, will probably end up in you losing the match.
I wouldn't fancy playing an m1 killer given how much work it is to get a 3+ kill with Oni who supposedly a top 8 killer in the game.
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I have a lot more fun playing killer than survivor personally.
- Survivor has a lot more downtime where you’re either on a gen, downed or hooked. Killers are always actively moving and doing things relatively speaking. (I guess unless you like to just facecamp, I don’t find that very effective typically though on top of being a dull way to play.)
- I like the first person view better than the third person view personally.
- Killers have way more variety of abilities and effects and themes than survivors which are basically just all the same thing aside from their loadout.
- And since I play the game exclusively solo I have no incentive to bother with swfs.
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I focus on blood points and having a good time and it makes the role less "dreadful". I go into matches with a goal related to a daily or a rift challenge, or I am trying out a new combination of perks. I spread myself around and do not take survivor antics personally. This old game is filled with players with thousands of hard-earned hours of experience. No way to avoid them so try to learn to hide those red lights.
I go with the flow and try to enjoy myself. Otherwise, what is the point of playing this game?
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I remember that when first playing killer. The music didn't help either - it was meant to make you anxious.
Maybe this is their first game ever and really not knowing that having performance anxiety when you are alone against more than 1 really should be expected.
Practice and getting some perks and it becomes a walk in the park.
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This is me too. I'm only playing killer for dailies from now on. I started playing SWF with a few friends and it's hilarious how piss easy surviving is with comms and overloading 2nd chance perks/CoH. My friends are mediocre survivors but know enough to stay on gens, predrop, and hold w. Killers stand no chance lol
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I prefer survivor because I'm too shy to be the centre of attention lmao. It's fun playing killer in a custom with friends tho.
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I will agree with that. I would say my experiences have made me more hardened to the stress than anything. Eventually you learn to enjoy the adrenaline, especially in a safe environment like a video game where your life is not really at stake. You screw up on something like a motorcycle and you are just dead completely
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I dread both sides which is mostly due to my anxiety issues and how pvp tends to spike my anxiety. I would say the feeling while playing killer is less but more consistent, while with survivor it fluctuates more making it bounce between being better or worse than playing killer.
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