What goofy mistakes did you make when you were brand new to the game?

Oh man, I've got a few from when I was newer.

When I was brand new at survivor, I'd consistently run myself to the edge of the map instead of actually using any resources, that's definitely a big one.

On killer, it's not so much a mistake but it is a fairly amusing misunderstanding: I thought NOED was a completely nonfunctional perk because I thought Exposed meant aura reading, and got put out when it didn't show me everyone's aura at the end of the match haha

• I thought windows were the same as a wall, so I watched srick to the winsdow the killer, confident that the killer couldn't do anything to me... I found out with an (unforgettable) Oni that it's not like that at all.🤣

Oh I got another one buried deep in my memory.

When I started playing the game I played Hillbilly alot.

But I never got a chainsaw down because I thought i have to hit the Survivor with the animation while stoping the sprint.

Don´t ask me why but I didn´t thought about bumping into the survivors.

• Another anecdote. I was convinced that male survivors swung more than female ones on the killer's shoulder... so it was harder for the killer to hook me, so my first survivor was Jeff, who in my eyes was the heaviest and most difficult survivor to carry.
• Edit: Over time and experience, Jeff has become one of my first P100s😜

Running two exhaustion perks as survivor

As killer, i camped hooks and didn't understand why people were unhooking themselves. I hit people on hook thinking it was injuring them. Had no idea I was being gross.

As survivor, I also learned about Micheal the hard way. I completed outer gens on the same side of the map and thought I was clever for it, 3genning us over and over.

As survivor, first time I ever found hatch I ran up to it and just expected to automatically jump in, ended up getting me killed.

I too didn't understand Mikey.

didn't understand how canadian teenagers always knew where I was, either.

didn’t know instaheals had a button for it and completely ignored it for 2 whole years until I used it accidentally one game vs pig

I thought exposed meant the killer could see you so every time NOED popped I would run around in a panic like a headless chicken on the other hand when I tried to use NOED and couldn't see survivors auras I thought my game was bugged.

I don't remember anything stupid I did when I first started as I had watched streamers and knew the gameplay loop already. Still I had some odd brain fart like few years back getting annoyed that I did not catch a survivor while playing Nurse while normal chasing some reason totally forgetting that Nurse is the slowest killer in base movement speed. Like it did not even register when the guy told me it in the end game chat. Then little bit later I went like what in the world was I even thinking of course I will not catch the guy with Nurse moving normally. I think I even facepalmed quite hard too when the realization came. This was not new information either.

Still I do enjoy playing Nurse with the movement add-on as its fun to surprise survivors when they don't realize how fast you are while using it. :P

I carried a Toolbox around for way too many hours before I realised they don't actually do anything by themselves.

In my defense, I thought that because my Dwight was always holding it, then that must mean he was using it. I didn't realise they are consumable items that need to be activated with a different button press.

I did something similar but with Wesker. I couldn't understand how he always seemed to find me after using the First Aid Spray. It took a couple of Trials against him before I realised that using the spray was telling him where I was somehow. To this day, I still think BHVR need to do a better job at letting Survivors know when Killer Instinct has revealed their location. It's an unfair knowledge check that only really trips up completely new players.

Because the tutorial would have you attempt escape while on hook I thought you were supposed to do that every time instead of wait for someone to unhook you. I was 2 hook survivor for awhile.

Also didn't know BT was a perk, thought when people were unhooking me in front of the killer and I could take a hit that was just a base game mechanic. I would also unhook in killers face and was confused when they could not take a hit. Thought maybe I just wasn't timing it right to trigger BT. 😂

Not necessarily when I was new, but After Demogorgon came out, I had it in my head that if I just spammed the Shred Attack, I'd move around the map Faster kinda like a worse version of Nurse. Not only did I NOT move faster in the long run, but I also didn't realize that survivors could hear Demo's Roars both globally and Directionally, meaning that while I was hopping about, Anyone with ears new exactly where I was on the map at all times…

Sigh… You live, you learn.

I did a lot of the basic things mentioned. Hitting on the hook because I thought it lowered health, camped a lot. I also didnt rely on killers powers much and didnt understand them. I also went from playing trapper to playing hag so I thought all killers used bear traps. I didnt even notice hags traps allowed you to teleport until I saw the notification.

As a survivor I thought flashlights were to help you see because I had a hard time finding gens in the beginning. I also thought running made a killer be able to see you anywhere on the map so I always walked.