am i the only one who feels really anxious before playing killer?

But for real, you really need a break if you can't handle losing and take "those bully-swf" personally

DBD Burnout its real, play other stuff and come back latter when more relaxed.

May i suggest baldurs gate 3?

Hahahahahaha no

No? Please tell me why not.

Absolutely this.

Killer is the way more stressful, nonstop action and focus role.

Survivor start a match with up to 400% progress on gens and killer have to constantly wrestle that away from them.

You can hear it all the time on these forums that even slightly experienced survivor listen to music etc parallel to playing since the gameplay is always broken up by time on gens rather getting bored/annoyed by underperforming teammates than being stressed.

Edit: This is also the reason why I stopped playing years ago, never played survivor long enough in the beginning to get numb to the "horror/being hunted/on edge feeling" from being new (before looping and all that stuff got invented) and got too burned out/turned off by the inability to play killer truly in a relaxed casual way without getting slandered for it.

While we've never felt anxious about playing, we can say to stop feeling it is alot in the mentality. When we play we're a hunter and are fighting to stay at the top and if some of the prey escapes every now and again, so be it. Remember its a game not real life or death, a win or loss won't really matter. Learn what you like as killer and find a way to make it work. And if your worried about them harassing you, as the Count above said, anonymous mode is a thing.

Now I'm a little more experienced, I do find Survivor to be the more chill role but it wasn't always that way when I first started playing. Playing survivor was a truly terrifying experience and I do miss that feeling. I still get that adrenaline rush, but the fear is mostly gone unless I'm facing a stealth Killer like Myers.

Killer on the other hand... I'm a competitive person by nature, so I definitely get where you're coming form. The fear of being made to feel ridiculous for daring to queue up for a Killer game is real. It can feel like some survivors are going out of their way to disrespect you. But that's what they want. They want you feeling frustrated, so mistake follows mistake and before you know it the gates are powered. They want you to be rattled. But I think experience will eventually numb you to their efforts and they won't be able to rile you up anymore. If you can keep your cool, you can call that a win even if the match is ultimately lost.

Sometimes there's a tactical reason for the teabagging and goading. They might be trying to draw you away from a group of gens ready to pop or a weaker looper. Eventually you'll learn not to fall for it. Sometimes it's fun to take chase even if you know it's the wrong decision, just to see what they're really made of.

Of course, you still might not win and you have to be fine with that before you queue up. Take the loss, clear your head and focus for the next match. Or take a break to chill for a little while if you can't shake the bad feelings.

Personally, I like to take Lightborn and Iron Grasp into every trail so I can hook my downed survivors in peace (and usually get some free hits in too). Lightborn is always good for a laugh if they don't realise you have it as you rush towards them. These teams rarely have a plan B for when their sabo plays and flashy saves just don't work. I never worry about facing survivors like this anymore.

Bully squads are so rare. Plus if you barely play killer you won't be at high enough MMR to likely cross paths with them. The only reason bully squads are effective is because there's four good players coordinating it. I mean, you're just as likely to meet a killer that will target and BM you. You never know what you're getting as survivor. It's a crapshoot.

Maybe it's just nerves. Playing killer is nothing like playing survivor. The roles feel completely different. Plus you have to multi-task a bunch of stuff. I usually go into matches and try to let the survivors know I'm not gonna sweat. Spamming Nurse's Anxious Gasp usually does the trick. Maybe try something similar. It could help relieve some of the pressure you are feeling as the survivors won't be bracing themselves for a bunch of hook camping and tunneling. So they will be more relaxed too.

btw BHVR, please reduce the rarity of Anxious Gasp. I want enough of it to use it every match. It's not OP and it's hilarious. Give me more Anxious Gasp, please. Thank you.

Telling someone they should take a break if the game stresses them out is not being rude lmao. There's no secret advice that's going to cure them of their burnout. I'm speaking from experience when I say taking distance from the game is the best way to realize that it's just a game and not care about losing or bullies when you come back. Also, it's just an advice, they don't have to follow it.

This is one of my favorite topics when it comes up. Before I joined the forums my thinking was 'obviously survivor makes you feel like you're going to have a heart attack, and killer is sit back and relax time': I've always found it interesting that people split radically on what role they find stressful.

i'm scared to ######### up as a killer more than as a survivor...why?

I'm the opposite on this. One of the reasons I find survivor more stressful is the team aspect.

Basically, in a game if I fail myself it's not great, but I can live with it, but if I let my team down I'm devastated.

most of the time, it's those bully-swfs that make me feel like this the most. the feeling of disappointment after losing is just...real. how do i stop feeling like this?

I don't know what you mean by bully-swfs. Usually when I hear the word bully squad its the groups that aren't even playing to win, just trying to hold the killer in the game via flashlights, stuns, etc.

On the other hand, SWFs who are trying to complete their objectives as quickly as possible, I think it is helpful to adjust your expectation on what a win is there. If I'm playing a group that seems way better than me and in communication, I try to see if I can get a 1k as a goal. On the other hand, if I'm playing against 4 solos, I'll generally view a 3k as a draw on whether I did well or not in the game.

Killer is not meant for having that much fun in terms of playing a chill game. It's a stress and time management simulator.

I find over the course of the match that the tensions reverse. At the start killer can be stressful when you have to get an idea of the map and make some quick decisions on where to go, and you have the pressure that if you screw up the first chase the end result will look very embarrassing. As a survivor, you are basically just looking for a gen at the start, though until I hear a terror radius part of me is always worried there's a ghostface around a corner.

On the other hand, a couple of minutes into the game the killer should be in a much more comfortable position. I generally know how good the survivors are, have less areas to defend, the survivors are now having to use time to heal, unhook, etc. On survivor it gets really tense, I don't know for sure what my teammates are doing, unless I'm running windows I have now idea what pallets exist, and having to get off a gen to protect a death hook teammate can make or break the game.

Finally, as it gets toward the end, survivor always faces the possibility of an escape turning into a death. Those games where you get taken down right at the end are one of the hardest experiences in gaming.

This game is heavily RNG based, and many cases a win or loss is detirmented by perk matchups, map tiles, and straight up jank. There are many scenarios in games you will come across that will just be unwinnable, and the only way to play this game and not lose your marbles to toxicity is to just accept that.

You dont need to care about what other players in the game thought of your performance, at the very least not in any persona way, its super hard though and it took me years to get to a mental point where I can let this games aspects not affect me, and entity knows you only have to look through this forum to see the negative effect it can have on people.

. It is after all, just a video game.

Yes. Getting hard tunneled almost every match and proxy camped is definitely relaxing.

Many swf throw it to you face when they're winning teabag, flaslight click etc

Im still the one that is the most stressed I my lobbies. I'm asking survivors how the match went most of the time. Most of them say, if they respond, that they had a chill experience. I dont lose these games. But that does not make my games less stressful.

I have to disagree. Even and especially end game is a pure stress fest. Downing survivors and making an attempt to interrupt exit gates is one of the most stressful parts, dbd has to offer.

Things you mention can all go wrong. And are currently very realistic to go wrong. What happens when the killer doesn't get into this good spot after a few minutes? What happens when survivors don't have to heal (adren, MFT, resilience)? What happens when all survivors do have windows and the likes?

And I have to be honest: are survivors really threatened by a two hit killer at the end of the match?

The problem is ego for a lot of people. DBD players take losing more personally than any game i've ever played. I had one of the worst games of my life as Blight on RPD the other day. Got absolutely destroyed by a strong team and made a million mistakes. They made sure to rub in it too. So what? It's just a bad game and it's not a big deal. No one is going to remember these games other than you. Get over yourself and accept that you're going to lose badly at times. The reason losing feels worse as killer is because you don't have as many believable excuses as survivors do. You're the entire team and it all comes down to how you perform.

Killer is stressful, you get used to it.

Playing killer was making me pretty tense until I've reached around the 1000 hours mark. (I must be at about 3.5k hours now. I need to add the play time of 3 accounts to know the exact value)

At that experience level, "bullies" have a tendencies to die. They are so focused on fooling around while I'm focused on not playing the way they expect (and predict). They are usually too cocky for their own good.

I can only recommend avoiding playing killers too easy to bully like Hag.

Main one of the S or A class killers and sooner or later you'll be fine.

I agree, that it also depends on killers. When playing Pig, my survivors seem to be very.... Unkind. They know that I'm not good at chase and they let me know that. I get underestimated in 7/10 matches and that more often than not, leads to the teams downfall. I very rarely encounter the BOOP enthusiasts, which is sad course I think games are about fun.

Generally, I think that the stronger the killer, the more stressed the survivors become.

Thats unfortunate that was one of the reasons I got pig was because some survivors are more friendly towards her than others. But yeah some survivors know I'm weak but I try to use ambush to suprise them.