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What Sins did You Commit/Dumb Things Did You Think When You First Started Playing DBD?
Over a year and 2.5k hours in DBD ago, I barely understood how the game worked.
I thought trapper was ridicuolously overpowered, and thought Nurse was weak AF, as I couldn't win a single Nurse game, but won almost every trapper game against baby survivors.
I didn't know the lunge existed until about 20~ hours in, it was revolutionizing to discover it.
I actually thought facecamping was how the game is meant to be played and almost quit!
I also went AFK infront of generators, which worked extremely well...
DBD felt like such a different game when I first started playing.
What did you do when you first started playing?
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I thought certain Killers were cheaters, because the were using the all too common "hidden perks and add-ons cheat". I only found out from word of mouth later that was actually a foolish 'Working as Intended' feature. I was playing soloq, who the heck can I snitch the build to?!?!? Still a horrible practice, and still in place for whatever bizarre reason. Naw, we won't help newer players learn the game, someone might snitch the perks on the 1 in 1000 odds you end up in the lobby with a streamer actually streaming! So dumb.
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Had a survivor complain about face camping, when i didn´t. Surprise, the next match i was matched against the same group of survivors and proceeded to actually face camp. (the real face camping, where no one could unhook because the prompt wouldn´t show up).
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Omg I also had no idea about lunge attacks at first LOL! I would get as close as I can to survivors before an M1...
For the longest time I thought Exposed meant the Killer could see my location because nobody explained what it was in-game back then...😭 So I was hiding in lockers all terrified.
I thought two survivors doing a gen meant it was going to be completed twice as fast and didn't understand why the progress bar was red so I always assumed it was a bug LOL...
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I thought Exposed meant you were revealed, i was seriously panicking when i first went against infinite tier 3 myers.
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Oh, several things:
- I did not know about lunging for quite some time
- I thought that Exposed means that my Aura is visible to the Killer (I was almost always injured when NOED was active, so I did not really realize that it means an Instadown)
- I thought you run slower when injured, so I healed Teammates despite NOED active
- Did not know that rushed actions give a notification bubble to the Killer
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I played without sound on and wondered how the other survivors always knew in advance that the killer was coming.
I also watched too many streamers who made it look easier than it was, so I'd just copy them and race across the middle of the map like I was carefree on vacation. Occurred to me pretty quickly that if i wanted to last longer in the match, I should try and avoid the killer sometimes and not just run right up to them.
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Uhh.. Trapper IS overpowered? People just dont know how to use him properly. :)
I still commit my sins today. I believe Blight is mid tier at best. Especially vs comp. Im an outlier apparently and continue to draw ire.
Thats fine though. Just waiting to be proven wrong.
I also think the face camping mechanic shouldnt apply to Bubba.
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When I started playing DBD, the killer that I wanted to play has to go with teleports, so I started from Nurse and my matches...
You know how it went...
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I thought PGTW was always active and didn't understand how old Freddy worked. So one of my first killer matches was spent dry kicking gens while every survivor was awake
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I thought insidious makes you actually invisible like wraith
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I encountered Corrupt Intervention on something like my third or fourth match. I had no idea what it was, so I stood there like a **** for about a minute. I then cleansed a dull totem thinking that would fix it. When that didn't work I gave up and left the match. Pure genius on my part.
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I was the only survivor of an encounter with a wraith, and he was a gentle killer who told me to fix the generator. Of course I tried my best, but three explosions occurred in quick succession, and the wraith took pity on me and sacrificed me to the Entity. My face must have been on fire with embarrassment and pity.
The turning point came when I met a certain claudette. She was a great survivor and she always led the match.
At the last moment, I was grabbed by the killer, but Claudette sacrificed herself to save me. I apologized, but she didn't care.
I was able to improve because it gave me the awakening to be a survivor who takes action for others. From then on, I worked hard to save many lives in her place. Thanks to that, my own survival rate is not that high.
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I unironically thought self care was the best perk in the game and though running to a corner and self caring was this brilliant high level play
I remember it was around when artist came out, I had no concept of which killers were good or bad until people started calling her S tier "like blight" and I was all like "what blight is terrible" because I was bad
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Came directly from F13: The Game to DbD in 2017 and thought pallets were equal to locking cabin doors. I thought pallets had to be dropped at the start of the game as a 'setup', so killers couldn't go there and had to waste time destroying them. After a couple of games of being called a troll and working with the killer, I learned to only drop pallets during the chase.
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Bro you have no idea how long it took me to realize it meant 1 shot. To this day I still think the name is very misleading
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old freddy. match 1 my first ever killer game. i attack awake survivors. though game was broken lol.
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When I was first playing DBD, I was confused why the Decisive Strike skill check didn't appear when I was picked up after seeing it in some videos.
I didn't own the Halloween chapter. I thought that was just something that happened.
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Using whispers t1 "are there survivors on the map" "yes"
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Playing Ninja Claudette on a map with darkest Moonlight offering against Trapper. I was hiding in the high grass in front of a building and Trapper came. He didn´t see me and placed a trap right next to me. I didn´t move. He turned around and after a few seconds the trap decided that i was close enough to catch me. Trapper stood there confused on what just happend, while I was laughing so hard, that i didn´t even think about trying to get out.
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I was scared of old ruin's skillchecks so I would just tap generators for half a second until completion, taking more than double the time
I guess it was quite an effective slowdown
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I was 50+ hours into playing the game before I realised that items were consumable and had to be activated with a button press.
I thought that by simply holding a toolbox it would help me to do gens faster... I know this sounds hard to believe, but it's true. Don't ask me why I didn't think items in DBD would work the same way they do in every other video game ever made. Because I don't know.
I also kept going down to deep wound every time I played against Legion. Not so embarrassing really, this happens A LOT whenever I get matched with baby Survivors from time to time. But what is embarrassing is that after 700+ hours of game time, I still sometimes forget to mend when I'm playing a Legion.
I am a Legion main. Yeah.
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Took me about a solid 2 weeks with the help of friends to figure out there's an audio cue before skill checks 🙃🙃
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I also thought Insidious made you invisible. I would hook someone then back up a few feet and just stand there waiting for an unhook.
It worked surprisingly well which perpetuated the invisibility notion for a while.
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i started playing after watching a good amount of dbd streams so i don't remember being that much of a baby sadly
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I started when the game first came out of ps4. I played tapper. and would camp like a noob hitting the hooked player.
I miss the old days you could hide and had to sneak around.
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It makes a squish noise and blood spatter. It must do something! I was also guilty of this for a few games.
I also teabagged at the exit because it felt like such an accomplishment to actually escape.
Then I learned those were BMing, and now... I've come full circle and don't give a damn if people do these to me.
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Trying to 4% ALL. THE. TIME, I didn't know it sends you to second stage and i was always dying really fast because of it 😂 obviously I don't do it now unless I'm not being unhooked at all and it's a last resort.
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I thought killers could only see your footprints when you ran. It wasn't until months later that I played killer and realised that survivors leave red ######### all over the place.
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Playing survivor, I did not understand how to perform a secondary action for an embarrassingly long time. Playing killer, I didn't understand how to do grabs for also an embarrassingly long time.
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First time I took a flashlight expected it was to help see in the dark🔦😄
Thought they were the worst, most useless items in the game😂
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I never read perk descriptions so I just equipped any random set of perks I had in my loadouts and that was it until I started watching YT content and then started to understand how perks work in the game
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When we started we would always flee at the heartbeat. The amount of times we did that without looking was....a looot. We'd jump right into the killers arms for a friendly smack to the face~
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I thought that wounded survivors were slower, but it turned out that I just had as hard a time as catching them then their unwounded companions.
I also didn't know that the deep wound timer would stop in chase and thought myself quite clever, trying to run some Bill to death with Legion. You can easily guess how that turned out ;D
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Same here. My first match as a survivor was against an Oni who whaled on me when I got hooked (I got out, though!). I thought it was part of the game that choosing to stay and hit someone on the hook was a calculated gamble. I eventually watched videos and saw that hitting people did nothing and was considered bad form, so it was a little embarrassing 😕. To this day I wonder if that Oni thought the same thing as me or was just angry for some reason.
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OMG the lunge! I played without it. How could I forget?
I was also naive and thought I had to purchase those killers that are top tier and when I face them I lose very fast. I thought winning with them will be very easy. How wrong I was! I barely touched Blight since purchase, played some Oni mostly because of challenges.
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My first game I was playing as Hillbilly. His gen kick animation is two kicks but you have to hold the button for a half second or so after the second kick to start the regression.
I didn't know how gen kicking or gen regression actually worked so I would stand there kicking the same generator over and over and over for like 30 seconds thinking I was regressing it little by little.
Survivors would just stand there and stare at me while I did it, clearly confused.
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Thanks to the tutorial having you attempt escape I thought you were supposed to attempt escape every time. Took awhile before I realized I should wait for someone to unhook me instead of forcing second hook state.
I started when BT wasn't basekit and on console Bill wasn't available yet so his perks were general perks - I didn't pull BT from bloodweb for awhile. When I had random teammates unhook me in front of a killer with BT I thought that was a basekit thing where I just needed to get timing/killer distance right. It was awhile until I found out it was a perk and I shouldn't just unhook in front of the killer.
I thought exposed meant the killer could see my aura along with instadown.
I didn't know you could grab survivors from a trap instead of downing them. Found out that was a thing when I was trying to get the Trapper achievement.
DS description says something like "using whatever is in your hand" - I thought that meant I had to have an item in my hand to use the perk so I never used it because at the time alot of the killers I ran into would run Franklin's.
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Okay this made me laugh 🤣
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I had no idea scratch marks were the orange marks on the ground so literally played my first 100 hours of killer without even knowing they existed. (I knew they did by tooltips etc but I was always confused where u saw them lol)
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Oh dear
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I saw compilations of funny DBD moments and thought you could stun killers when fast exiting a locker… I didn’t realise you needed a specific perk (Head On) for this, so there was me trying to stun killers without head on. Ha!
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I joined the game this year, so had the luxury of numerous content creators to learn from, so didn't really hit many issues... beyond taking forever to assimilate exposed doesn't mean visible XD
One mistake I did for a solid month was thinking that flashlights and pallet saves were bugged... because its been common knowledge for ages, noone explained explicitly how saves worked... so I made the rookie mistakes myself where I was throwing pallets and blinding the killer while the killer was still standing up... but I didn't piece together it was cause I was early, so was baffled when someone else pulled it off.
I now look back and realise the pain I inflicted on my teammates, that only comes from the excitement of thinking you're going be saved... on for those hopes to be ruthlessly dashed as the newb throws the damned pallet too early xD
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I never destroyed pallets first because i thought they respawn if i do.
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I ran into a Tombstone Myers. I lost track of him and suddenly I was dead. I had no idea what was going on and I vividly remember screaming: "What's happening? What's happening?"
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Bled someone out as trapper. Had the daily ritual for killing a surv by your own hand with trapper. Since I didn't have any mori tokens I assumed the only way to so it was bleeding them out 😅
Sacrificed 2 survs and bled the third out while the last one repeatedly pointed at me.
That and i always used to give survs on hook a quick whack after I hooked them
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They're messing up with Trapper alot. I have to remember titles spawn, pathing between them to set up traps, but recently alot of new maps released (I will cant remember the titles in Red forest, Toba, Alien...), maps getting less grass, brighter; and alot of new type of titles, I just cant remember all of them and dont know where to set traps anymore.
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I first mained Claudette so Botany Knowledge and Hope confused me a lot.
- In Hope’s perk description it says “it gives you wings” I actually thought it gave you wings so I was so sad when I found out it didn’t.
- In Botany Knowledge it says that “plants around the campfire help with healing” so I went around the map crouching and trying to look for the plants for that extra speed unknowingly that I already had it.
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I used to hit people on 1st hook until they were sacrificed because I thought they would enjoy the terror 🤣
I play Jason very seriously in Friday The 13th: The Game and I thought these killers would create tension by having the Survivor tortured, while their teammates attempted to interrupt me. I'm sincerely sorry and it was for your enjoyment. I get it now obviously. But omg I'm so sorry to anyone that suffered playing against me.
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When I started playing, somewhere in 2019 (I think) i tried a few killer.
I had fun with Trapper and Wraith but there was that useless piece of asthmatic killer that was utter nonsense:
Her power was to look at the ground and to pant.
In the end game lobby, some survivors, touched by the utter noob that I was, told me that I had to charge her power.
That was more than 32000 blinks attack ago. 😆
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