We all play DBD differently and we all contribute.

This thread made me smile. :)

Mushwin is basically our vocal leader at this point. PREACH! RIOTITITITITITITITIT!! Haha... got a bit carried away there :)

I mostly play cause whether with friends or solo, I have a ton of fun. I love the lore behind it, it was a pretty different game than I was used to, and even if there are some things people complain about consistently, I think the devs do some really cool stuff with it!

@Mushwin you play your role by dying first :P

What is this thread?! It feels like the OP intended to reply to another post and instead started a new thread. Who are you even addressing this thread to? The mere idea that "all gamers are created equally and have equal value" is heresy. Gaming is a meritocracy. The player that is only good at working on gens does not have equal value to a player who is good at working gens and also good at keeping the killer occupied. The entire premise of your argument is inherently untrue. It's like you are trying to convince all of us that 2+2=4, but also 1+1 can equal 4 if it's good at hitting skill checks.

*Prayer Beads intensifies*

Mmmhmmm *anal beads electrify*

I'm sorry but I disagree.

I could switch tables and say if you were better at hidding no one would've needed to be chased at all.

I feel ppl who are thinking this way don't understand the game and how it's played. Like there's a huge world of difference between me counsciously trying to pick Up the killer to help you juke and you running to me with bonds hoping the killer goes for me.

In one case I was prepared and no objectives were broken.

But back to my point, if ppl like you were better at hidding you'd understand chases are extra bp. Yes it can help delay the killer but you know what helps more ? Everyone doing gens whilst the killer is furiously patroling a gen almost done but finding no one.

You know what doesn't help tho ? Trying to 360 a killer over and over, fail and get hooked twice before the first gen was even done.

Moral if my comment ? We both learn to be better at each others job but it is a mistake to think one contribut more or isn't has toxic when failing.

I'll see your wholesome intent and raise you the truth.

The key is to have a good team.

Your TEAM decides what the outcome will be. It doesn’t matter if you can loop, if your teammates are too afraid to touch a gen, this will hurt any possibility you might have had to escape as a team.

Sometimes common sense beats any perk or looping ability.

We need more of this in the community to be honest. I don't play survivor as often as I do killer (that might change with my boi comin in the new DLC), but seeing survivors that are good at something and bad at something helps the killer too in a way and makes it more fun in my opinion.

As a killer I can tell who's getting gens done faster sometimes, who's good with a flashlight and I should avoid or chase away first, and who's an insane looper who I should avoid chasing till later. On the contrary, if I see a bad looper, I know I can easily put pressure on them and/or scare them away so I can do something else, as they naturally will want to avoid conflict with the killer more than the others, because they're less skilled and thus less confident in that aspect.

Variable skill sets makes the game more fun for all five players imo. I find it a little sad there isn't more to really put differing skillsets in the spotlight for survivors. Killers are all varied in their abilities and thus require different skills, but survivors just become different skins at a certain point which deters me from playing them as oftem.

Overall, keep up the positivity and have fun above all else!

Well you must be lucky because anytime I see someone with a flashlight they try to save me, miss and then continue to try and blind a killer looking up right by the hook that just slugs them, hooks me in front of them down and doesn't leave , those things have caused me to die way more than saved me TBH

Everyone is entitled to their own playstyle this is true, but people who choose to hide should be aware that there are people like me who see them as bait/a free down.

If I see a fellow survivor hiding, rather than doing a gen or a totem, when I run by being chased by the killer (I swear I'm cursed to be chased from the start of the match no matter what) I will almost always go out of my way to lead the killer to you because:

• If the killer chooses to swap targets to you, I can go do a gen and make it 3 people doing one instead of 2 and
• If you go down I can get a stack of WGLF, Deliverance, and some tasty altruism because I'm the closest person to you

In a similar vein, if I am killer and I spot someone attempting to hide while I'm in the middle of a chase I will always swap targets to chase the hiding individual because

• They will likely not expect me to drop the chase to swing around their tree, meaning I'll get a free hit
• If they're hiding they're probably not confident in their ability to handle a chase, meaning I can down them rapidly

Of course in both of these scenarios I'm referring to those who hide near a chase and are thus unhelpful to the team. If you're just good at hiding and the killer never finds you, good on you. If I run by and you're crouching a little ways from an active gen I'll feel bad and let the killer keep chasing me because I know you were trying to do your job.

This isn't me trying to discourage people from playing in a more immersed and stealthy fashion, I've just been harassed for taking advantage of their playstyle for my own gain multiple times and felt it should be brought up that you're wearing a target on your back when you play stealthily. A killer is much less likely to chase someone in the open over someone trying to hide because the person in the open obviously has a plan.

I hope I explained well.

I'm sorry but definetly not.

See the problem here is you THINK you are good bc you made it to red ranks when it actually means NOTHING.

Also, I've seen so many red ranks who can't even do 10s on a gen without missing a skillcheck...btw "menial" tasks ? Dude how do you think those gates open ?

The fact you can juke well means NOTHING if ppl aren't able to do gens.

Going back to my original statement. We need to get better at juking, you guys need to get better at sneaking around.

P.S There are perks designed to make it harder for the killer to find you but since most red ranks run the same exhaustion build...most probably don't know...

Looping takes no effort to learn and do and everyone can do it regardless of playstyle tho, especially on godawful maps like the game...

@Mushwin You probably played enough times to get matched with mediocre killers. Couple that with being on a team full of good loopers, and it's not hard to see how you ranked up.

Red ranks are full of survivors who shouldn't be there. Many of them get carried by other survivors who are good in chases.

If you don't believe me, record a match with you playing against Zubat and one of his top killers like Billy. Show me how to win without being good in chases. I'm going to guess you either depip or safety pip. A safety pip is getting lucky btw.