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Have about 260 hours in this game, what should my expectations be?

thebrentster911
thebrentster911 Member Posts: 55
in General Discussions

Even though I have about 260 hours, I still die a lot/don't get a lot of kills. Feels pretty discouraging.

Is this normal? Should I be doing better by this time?

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated for survivor or killer.

Comments

  • amazing_grace
    amazing_grace Member Posts: 734

    I would like to say this is normal. Back when I had less than 500 hours, I wasn't very good. I don't remember how long it took me to even move my camera around comfortably while in chase.

    Hard to give advice without gameplay or more information on what you are struggling with, but I would advise you to not get too discouraged. Make your own win conditions outside of what the Devs believe is considered a win from a gameplay aspect. You can make daily challenges your win condition, tome challenges, or even certain aspects of the game like having a good chase.

  • Mercês
    Mercês Member Posts: 376

    Playtime means nothing, only (hidden) MMR does.

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  • Pepsidot
    Pepsidot Member Posts: 1,662

    In DBD time 260hrs is not much, at all. You've still got a lot to learn!

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,371
    edited July 2022

    I probably didn't start winning half my games on killer until the 1k mark. I could hit rank 1 back in 2018 if I played Spirit with some busted add ons, but I still got rolled by halfway decent players. Everyone progresses at a different rate though. I've run into shockingly bad players with 5000 hrs and took players on my comp team at the time with less than 1k because they were shockingly good despite their playtime.

    There's a lot to learn in this game. You have your individual powers which take time to learn, maps and tiles, and then macro game sense stuff. The first two usually come naturally over time if you focus on them, but game sense stuff is more subtle. There aren't really any guides for it, and some players just never pick up that aspect.

  • Interocitor
    Interocitor Member Posts: 149

    I didn't have too much success the first 50-75 hours until I found a killer I really liked in terms of their power. Once I started playing as Blight the game really opened up for me with the increased mobility from rushing and the FOV increase from using the shadowborn perk, which helped with the motion sickness I'd get in general from killer games. I got a better feel for maps and tiles since I could move around them faster and see more. It was fun to learn more about the mechanics since the gameplay felt more rewarding and had constant flow instead of the slow, lumbering walking simulator feel that standard killers have for me.

    Then I played survivor more and more and enjoyed the change of pace. The map knowledge and survivor behavior I observed from my killer games helped a lot. Now I switch between both roles on a constant basis. Also I like going through all the past tome challenges and focusing on those as another objective instead of just kills and escapes.

  • Friendly_Blendette
    Friendly_Blendette Member Posts: 2,923
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3082573#Comment_3082573

    I found a legacy claudette that couldn't loop for her life yesterday. Like genuinely so bad I assumed they cheated their legacy and checked their profile. They had genuinely been playing for 6 years. Maybe they just came back to the game and was rusty but I was kinda shocked.

  • SekiSeki
    SekiSeki Member Posts: 516

    Watching a good streamer can help. Outside of that, the point is having fun and enjoying the game. Improving will come on it's own.

  • TheLastHook
    TheLastHook Member Posts: 495
    edited July 2022
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/336432/have-about-260-hours-in-this-game-what-should-my-expectations-be

    It´s normal. And the worse is yet to begin, but you get better eventually whether that is worth it or not... I am not sure.

    But unlike everyone tells you, don´t watch streamers, don´t mimic them. Find your way, or you will be a worse player.

  • xfireturtlex
    xfireturtlex Member Posts: 419

    Something that would help a lot is to do a lil homework. OhTofu on youtube did a series several years back where he would analyze viewers gameplay and explain what they could do better. Talks a lot about best way to run loops, how to mindgame, which tasks to prioritize in a situation....things that can help you break through to the next level. Some of the info might be outdated now, but its still definitely worth watchin some of those if you wanna take your gameplay to the next level.

  • JaviiMii
    JaviiMii Member Posts: 286

    It depends, I'd say. At that playtime I had just played with friends and didn't care about any meta-game-discourse stuff at all, so whatever I knew we had figured out ourselves. Which wasn't much. I know people who got into the game, played ten hours or so and went full dbd-youtube-school and by the time they reached 150 hours (on survivor) they could keep up with people who had ten times as many hours.

  • Aoltre
    Aoltre Member Posts: 39

    For killer, you should find one or two similar killers you want to get really good at with at least one being normal. I started playing a ton of Trapper and Hag early on. They both benefit from learning survivor pathing, but Trapper is more basic while Hag is a special cookie whose skills don't translate well into other killers. You want to get a ton of hours into these few killers and branch out from there. Be careful using powerful add-ons and perks too regularly though, you can start relying on them and actually get worse as a result.