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Killer Anxiety
Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well.
As the title suggests, I have killer anxiety before I even click "Play".
I haven't played killer since a little before the ruin nerf was announced and it took me a while to fully move myself away from killer. I stopped playing killer because at the time, I thought it was becoming more and more difficult to just legitimately play casually as killer. Ever since then, I decided to move strictly over to survivor. Yet, I found myself wanting to play killer still VERY much. It's just a more fulfilling role in my honest opinion and it felt better to play both roles like I used to.
But I'm a survivor main now and every time I boot the game up, I think about trying killer again. I WANT to play killer.
I think what a lot of this really stems down too is that with the current meta in dbd and the countless problems within it, I feel I wouldn't have any fun with killer. I play survivor completely as a solo que and I can see just how miserable it can be for both sides. Yet, I feel like it's more unforgiving for killer.
I think about all the things that are wrong with killer right now and it just gives me anxiety when I'm really close to giving in and just playing that role. I have sat at the menu for ages now contemplating whether or not today is the day I finally just put everything aside and play it. But I'm anxious to just do it.
Can anyone help me get over this anxiety? Thanks.
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My advice? Just play. Killer anxiety is something that I struggled with a lot early on and still do struggle with in a competitive setting. The perceived and imagined negative outcomes are almost always worse than the reality. How you imagine you'll feel is always worse than how you actually feel after a bad game. I'd get myself worked up because I'd imagine that players are going to make fun of my skills, but I'd actually end up more upset with my performance than with how I was treated. And the only way to improve on that performance is to keep practicing.
The thing I do to actually deal with it in game is to make an easy basic play to settle myself down. Do something basic and positive to start the game. An easy hit, an easy mindgame, etc. Don't start the game like you're a twitch streamer going for a sick clip. Keep it simple and settle in.
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I used to have this problem back in 2020 when I was new DBD, but eventually I just brute forced into matches and faced my fears. Now I am pretty much a 50/50 survivor killer player since then. That’s really all it’s about. I gotta say, I was way more anxious in the menu screen. Once I was in a match, all the anxiety just went away and I just played.
The best advice I can give you is this. Getting out of your comfort zone is important in life as a whole to take some leaps, not just playing DBD. You got this! 👍
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The best technique that worked for me was to come up with my own goal instead of winning the game.
Take a sticky note and write something like: 2 hook every single survivor before sacrificing anyone. Stick it onto the side of your monitor and click that ready button. Keep focusing on the paper so that you don't lose focus when a survivor T-bags or clicks. Don't care that gens are flying by, flashlight saves are happening, you aren't playing the same game as them, you have your own objectives.
Disable end game chat, that's a potentially horrendous source of anxiety. It feels bad not to say gg to a friendly group of survivors, but too many people will be toxic for the hell of it.
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One thing I've found has helped is have a reason to want to play killer. I often think of playing a Killer match but once I'm in game the mood fades. The last few times I played killer games is because I had a build idea I wanted to try, either my Oblivious Doctor or Totem Defense Skull Merchant. I also tend to play during BP incentives when they pop up since they usually mean even a bad game can still work out for me.
I think @Beatricks has a good idea, too. Mine probably ties into it. Rather than focus on winning the game outright I'm trying to figure out if my builds work as intended or if I need to tweak anything.
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Time for a break.
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