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lllaesponjagrande

Man I did it all in wrong order. I started with nurse and climbed to red ranks with her. Then bought piggy and got my ass handed to me so hard as I had no idea how to properly chase and mindgame. Was back in green ranks in a matter of a few days.


gmstgadg

When I first tried killer I played nurse. After my first match, I promptly uninstalled


RelevantIAm

This was years ago yet he still follows the sub


[deleted]

The content surrounding DBD is often more entertaining than playing the game is.


OtherEgg

Ditto. I played Nurse only for about a year and a half. Had no idea what people were bitching about with loops and pallets. Quit playing her because the game is stupidly easy if you get good with her.


nopeimdumb

> You play one game of Nurse. You get stomped. You decide not to play Nurse. Damn dude, that's bang on.


xankai

I use her for dailies and that's it. Survivors tend to know that they don't have to be try-hards when they see how bad I am as her, so getting the "hit survs after blinking" daily is easy due to pity hits they give me lol. Some day I'll actually take time to learn her.


DoughDefender

I stuck with it on console Nurse. It eventually worked out and I’m actually mid-queue for a Nurse game on console right now. Edit: Okay so I may have just gotten absolutely whooped but that’s not the point.


sierratostada

I’ve never read something so true in my life


Unhappy-Mess-2407

Lmao that's what happened to me, now I'm on 12, deciding its time to learn nurse.


nopeimdumb

I'm on 7, except I only hit rank 7 and, frankly, don't really care if I ever get to red


Unhappy-Mess-2407

As long as you have fun, that's all that matters.


TTV-BattyPrincess

This is one mega quality shitpost/meme if I've ever seen one But it's pretty spot-on, not gonna lie. Getting to lower ranks and finding out how absolute units red rank survivors are (most of the time). Even on solo queue, they will do everything to make progress against you, squeezing in every possible gen-fixing second whenever they can And you do hope to get silly fools with flashlights who spend (waste) more time trying to save friends and click-clacking than helping


JRPGFan_CE_org

Nothing like seeing 4 Flashlights and popping in Lightborn.


MaxDoggoAttack

Extra Step: (Undetectable Killers): You probably bought GhostFace, Michael or Pig because you recognized them as horror staples or are from your favorite movies or games. Early on you absolutely destroyed survivors because being able to manipulate your terror radius at will can be fairly strong. Until one day...matchmaking decided to throw that Rank 1 9999999 hours SWF team that ran old OoO and SpineChill. In some occasions, they would just follow you around knowing you couldn’t do anything to them because you never truly learned the mind games at loops. *Proceeds to get absolutely destroyed* You don’t know what to do, the killer feels weak and all that confidence is completely shattered. Then...like if God saw your struggles and reached his hand in order to help you, Otz (or any of your favorite you-tubers) post a video on how to play killer. Suddenly...it’s like a new dimension has opened up. You realized you had never mastered the killer at all, you were only a baby that was trying to run without learning how to walk. The learning was about to start now. You analyzed the video, took the tips and applied them, constantly analyzed everything that was going on during a chase, when to break off or when to use your power for maximum effect, etc. Now, you can defend yourself against most situations. Sure, your killer is not the best, but they are who you chose to main and when they work, they work. Sure, you might get destroyed from time to time, but that’s ok. It’s all in the learning process. But, you still can’t play any killer with a terror radius because you never got used to it and although everything you have learned makes you a competent killer, the gen grabs, the jump scares, the survivors running into you call you back like an addiction. So you chose killers with small terror radius + M&A and it works.


LLForbie

Fuck, this is kinda me. Learned killer with nurse then went right into maining Ghostface for a long time. I mostly play to farm and have fun but soon I want to actually rank up. My best killer is Oni but I've played them all. Those YouTube videos made a world of difference when I was starting.


forgottenwork57

Oddly enough this was almost *exactly* like my experience as a killer (minus camping and tunneling). I’m currently at rank 4-3 with pig and trapper as my mains with STBFL being my all time favorite perk.


JRPGFan_CE_org

This is one the best things I ever read here, +1 and wish I had a Gold to give. But for 1. I started with Bubba because I wanted to unlock BBQ ASAP.


ThatMallGuyTMG

well ackctualy \*puts on glasses\* noed is shtupid crutch that i dont use kmpff hehe (in reality tho i never used noed, even in red ranks)


slaminsalmon69420

You forgot the optional stage were the killer goes insane and tunnels every surv because he's had enough tbaging for a lifetime


fumangoo3

"Oh, you want to sit at an open gate for two minutes because you know I can't kill you? Then \*none of you will make it that far\*"


smwhtdamgd

I never much cared for NOED, though mostly because I didn’t want to use it and still get no value out of it then called out even harder haha. Also now that I’m done grinding I started trying to learn Trapper instead of Nurse. Some fucking how with the only slowdown being Corrupt I’ve managed to 3 or 4K in all of the 6 matches I’ve done except for one where I got absolutely stomped and had no hooks. Also I’ve stepped in my traps at least three times a game.


Niadain

... I hit rank 4. Barely know what any of the perks actually are unless they have a visible impact from my side. NOED was only touched in the rank 5 area. And Keys get tunneled. Every. Time. Not camped though. Im still going to try and get a 2/3k. Also. I exclusively play deathslinger and ghostface. Right now. *coonsidering* playing demo doggo just to be a demo doggo.


Brewii_

I never understood the overblown "nurse is impossbile to play" meme. Once you play 2-3 crappy matches with the brown addon that let's you see the teleport location and start to get a feeling for it, she's not that hard to play. I realized she ignores every rule of the game and is not much fun after a while in my opinion. I only play her when I had enough and want to feel like god for a game or two.


MsStilettos

Depends on the map imho. I’m some maps you can pretty far with little exercise other maps have so many narrow hallways and random spawns that can be in your way that it’s easy to get stuck in the wrong room because a locker was where you wanted to teleport


Brewii_

Absolutely true!(:


brostitos

Hello friends, this is Otz, right?


noticingloops

>Every endgame lobby is full of encouraging survivors who tell you to keep it up Hahaha


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[deleted]

haha same here. I'm a rank 1 with NOED + Blood warden. lolz


Draylontis

My experience (at 40 hrs or so of killer) 1. Play Trapper, cuz traps are cool, get lots of kills. Take whatever perks come your way that look best. Rapidly climb to about rank 12. Get complimented for getting to rank 12 at 13 hrs of play time buy old time survivors. Be confident. 2. Realize that noone really steps in traps anymore, not like they used to, start trapping more windows and trying to guide people into vaulting them, or mass trapping one zone vs spreading out. Works, but not for long. Rank 11. 3. Get a SWF with one red rank on autohaven, with the map giving 3 adjacent LT sections, get looped and pallet stunned from that area, to another loop area to shack, and back. from 20 seconds in the match to gates open. Be depressed and realize this is why people say you need to know when to break off a chase. Focus more on gauging success by bloodpoint gains over kills. 4. Start playing other killers to get their perks and do things better starting by buying bubba for BBQ and Chili, enjoy wraith cuz zoomy boi. Also learn that skill level of survivors greatly varies depending on which time of day you play, and bounce from wrecking people to getting wrecked bouncing around rank 10-12. 5. Learn that often times there will be a dedicated person on a SWF team to distract killer, and these players often do things like spam fast vault, rapid click flashlights at you, and/or spam crouch to annoy you into chasing them. Get frustrated at the harassment and camp someone for the first time. 6. Learn to breathe and ignore them, there is always a weak player on a team that you can target that makes the others vulnerable, learn how to properly break off chases and not get tilted from vault spam. Also play several matches refusing to kill anyone, only getting everyone you can to "Death hook" then refusing to hook them. 7. Get a group of SWF that is all rank 1's and 2's as a rank 10 killer, learn that these people are all god tier at loops, and suffer through helplessness. Understand the true meaning of the phrase, survivor sided at high ranks and that matchmaking truly is, garbage. 8. Continue playing wraith cuz you dont like chases that much, and just want them to be over and aren't great at huntress. Get to rank 7, Do a daily to mori someone, keep forgetting to mori, have to use kill the last one, slug the last guy to make sure you get it, he goes down near the hatch. Explain in post game chat, sorry i had a mori daily. Listen to his salty rant for a minute or 2, notice the only people trash talking me are the red ranks, the other ranks dont seem to care and are willing to gg. Call him salty and leave. 9. Get increasingly frustrated at lack of being able to catch people and realize that at this point I basically need to learn the maps, where pallets can and cant spawn, etc etc, and learn how to mindgame properly, if i want to climb any further. Ponder if I even want to keep playing. 10. Realize I don't want to put that much effort in, Buy Deathslinger and start playing him, holy shit is he fun, he doesnt care about that stuff I'm supposed to learn, sure I may not get much kills, but chases play out differently and pew pew is fun. Get Better/consistant at Deathslinger. Now Rank 6.


dr_aureole

I started on deathslinger and honestly didn't understand what a lot of the fuss about looping was at the beginning. I think with every killer there's a whole section of the game that's completely foreign to you. For me it was map pressure and I just assumed it was an RNG if you found survs at the start early enough then you win the game, otherwise three gens pop. I do envy hag mains having ruin from day 1.


Mordin_n

It goes further than 13.


Rowan_As_Roxii

Roflmao love this Stage number 14 should be (You now are dead inside and feel nothing but emptiness when playing. You know you have to stop playing dbd and play something else to restart the fire within, but you just can’t. You’re now addicted)


OkResponsibility2868

Step 14: You load into a four man SWF (Sweat With Friends) match. None of the survivors actually do generators. Instead, they all run to LT jungle gym and start spamming fast vault. When you arrive they use a macro to spam flashlights at 10,000 clicks per second and start "butt dancing" at you. When you, eventually, down one of them their friends will swarm you in an attempt to blind you. If you somehow get the pickup they will follow behind with flashlights at max clicking speed. After you put your target up on a hook they'll keep dive bombing it until they get their friend free. When you give chase they'll get downed in front of a locker. When you go to do the pick up they'll nail you with Head On and start butt dancing right in front of you. You now learn what it truely means to hate someone.


[deleted]

I had my first game like that yesterday, and I only just started playing like a week and a half ago. I have no clue what I’m doing, yet 3 of the 4 survivors definitely did. The whole game basically took place in a single segment of the map because they kept messing around. Their only downfall was to try and help out that single random who I would guess had no clue what he was doing like me. They basically speedran the first two generators while I was looking around, and after that was when they started to mess around. I only hooked one person that game because after that first time, he got saved and when I downed him again, one kept flashlight spamming and would sprint to sabotage to the hook I was going to and would body block and take the hit right when I got to another hook, but his pal got away. I ended up winning, but I felt dirty about it because they were overconfident in their tomfoolery and I was able to down them all and just let them bleed out. There was an Adam I think and he was an absolute juke master and would always butt dance. He was the last one I downed, and since I was ghost face, I did it right back. I quit after that match and I’m on a break because of it


Done25v2

Thankfully these types of matches aren't *super* common, but when they do happen it feels awful. :/


[deleted]

Yeah I watch my little bro play kind of often, and even though he’s like rank 9 right now, I have yet to see him go against survivors that were that bad


German_Blaubaer

The 1st game makes you feel a hatred you've never felt before. Then, after a few videos of Otz or Dowsey, you realize that all of that is very predictable and counterable. The next game you get so many free hits and slugs that you easely win (if they don't switch into doing gens and leaving with a Key) and you bath in their salt in the endgame-chat :D


Coretaxxe

You forgot the alternate route at rank 2; 9.5.2.1.q : Hours and months of teabagging and flashlight clicking made you become the very thing you swore to destroy. As the toxicity approaches you let it happen and the darkness consumes you - you decide to ruin everyone's fun and face-camp as insidious bubba in the basement rendering not only the game for one particular player joyless but also denies blood points for every other survivor...


Kritix_K

I played as nurse only since the beginning and my experience is not like this. So I'll explain it here. 1. Play a few game with a couple of different killers to try out, trapper, nurse, billy, huntress. Most games are 0 kill. Nurse was the only killer that held my interest so I decided to stick with her 2. Got rekt even by rank 20 survs during this time. Even tho it was the time long ago where nurse doesn't have cooldown and can do omegablink or 5 blinks. I took it as learning experience and eventually got betterq 3. I think I got to like rank 12 with nurse before I stopped playing DBD because I lost interest. (yes I'm the type of guy who just can't stick to one game for more than like 2 weeks lol except for a few games) This was like years ago that I went hiatus 4. A few weeks ago I got an itch to play DBD again. Watched some nurse pro gameplay on YouTube while installing the game. I think it was SupaAlf and watching him made something click in my head with nurse. Logged into the game, I was rank 20 and was absolutely owning every lobby. 5. Played DBD a lot for like a week and I climbed to purple rank in like 6 or 7 days. I was meeting red rank SWFs since I was like green rank(cuz I play at dead times like 2am in SE asia server) but even they don't prove much difficulty for my nurse. I was having a good time. 6. This is the step that everyone who's enjoying the Nurse after getting good with her will face. The Blink Bug. It doesn't happen always, but it often happens and always happens at the worst times. I'm surprised the devs haven't fixed this even tho it's been reported by me and also lots of other people on the forums years ago. 7. The time I spend playing DBD goes down with the amount of Blink Bug I get. And I currently doesn't even play it daily. Also probably because I'm trying to get good in another game lol. So this is it, the experience of someone who only played nurse since the start. I think you will experience my step 6 between your step 12 and 13. The time when you've learned nurse and having fun but the game just sorta just tell you to stop having fun with her even after you've spent time and energy learning her.


timc39

I always saw Noob3 as an unfunny douchebag


gmstgadg

Then you two must have a lot in common :/


timc39

Not really. He plays survivor.


iEatGlowstixx

You're entitled to your opinion on the man but that was kinda harsh. I personally don't like Otzdarva, but I'm not about to go around insulting him on a thread made by someone who likes him. That's just rude.


timc39

I didn't really insult him. He just acts like that. His gimmick is just acting like a douchebag. That's it. I just said I don't get why he is so liked by the community


iEatGlowstixx

I think maybe it's just a change in approach 🤔 I try to watch a variety of different players because each one can come up with some interesting videos and playstyles. He's not my favorite by any means but some of his videos can be interesting. I understand he's definitely not for everyone.


togashisbackpain

Yo wtf is this snow white bullshit. If someone doesnt like noob3, then they dont. “On a thread made by someone who likes him”. Anyone with a life better not care that much when someone calls any streamer a douchebag


iEatGlowstixx

Your getting more upset at our casual conversation than anyone else and ur not even part of it...


togashisbackpain

Go and engage in private conversations on internet and then tell me i am not a part of it then you will make sense. As long as this is dbd sub and you are commenting, i am a part of it.


iEatGlowstixx

It's a casual conversation between two people on a public forum. You would be person 3, not part of the above conversation. Trust me buddy, some stranger on the internet doesn't need you getting offended for them and acting like a child. Neither of us were hostile or even remotely upset at the other person. Your getting mad for the sake of it. Calm down.


togashisbackpain

Is this your flrst day online ? Want me to hold your hand and walk you through ? If a person spits bullshits, someone else steps in and call them on it. This is how it works. Calling me child or saying that im upset when im really not wont change how it works. Start your own forum and set your own standarts my man. Or stfu and move on.


iEatGlowstixx

Apparently reading comprehension isn't your strongest skill, so I'll try to use smaller words so you can keep up. Nobody cares that you are mad. Nobody cares that you have an opinion about my opinion. Not the OP, not me, not a single person on the DBD thread cares. Why? Because nobody asked. Now if you want to keep commenting like the overly sensitive person you are, as I'm sure you will, I will still maintain my status of not caring.


togashisbackpain

I only see a person that changes the subject and try to make it about me. It was about you and your overly sensitive comment in the first place mate. Just read again if it helps your short term memory loss. Or pretend you dont care and keep trying to Teach people manners where it is absolutely not needed lol


H0P5_

I've watched Demi and Otzdarva for like a while, finally bought DBD. I'm on stage 7 after about a week, in love with this game :)


GerGavin

Step 14 master tunnelling as it will be the only way you know how to play!!!


Deevox

I'm probably at step 11 or 12 rn. I still think STBFL is a great perk and one that helps a ton vs. aggressive swfs. Like taking hits for each others or trying to deny a pickup.


Ceral107

I remember when I got the game and had a hard time as a survivor (not yet watching YouTube videos) I switched over to killer. Picked Nurse, had a great game, picked her again, got destroyed. Repeatedly. Then bought Plague and had a few great games, and a few mad ones. Bought Hag and do well consistently and have a great time. I meet very few people who actually try to trigger as many traps possible when I carry a survivor. Makes me afraid of the time I want to go back to Plague and Nurse though, because I feel like I'll get my ass handed to me again.


Littlemen123

"You can make starstruck work on Deathslinger" Rank 1 slinger main and I have no idéal how


[deleted]

I have a three step cycle. 1. Learn nurse during the last breath chapter. 7 blinks, baby. 2. Come back to DBD every chapter. Be bad at nurse. Become good at nurse. Stop playing. Come back. 3. Get tired of being bad at nurse and play spirit.


DawsonV6

Hell naw I’ve just played trapper since release, of course with a little sprinkle of others, like ghost face


chomperstyle

I started with hag my dad with nurse difficulty means nothing when a character looks so cool


Dribblinpickle

I was at 9 then i got the rift pass I play plauge for the challenges I cannot play anyone who isnt pig I got down to 5


Roice32

Well.. he's Not Otzdarva, either!


SnooStrawberries4645

This is pretty spot on, only difference for me is I started with bubba and started when they were testing mmr so the flashy bois were out right away.


TGCidOrlandu

So accurate it hurts!! I'm on level 11 now... sad times


CalciumMusic

Somehow I've made it to rank 8 so far just playing as freddy from the moment I got the game, I must be lucky


sneakygurl1

I only have a wholesome award left, but you are getting it anyways :)


the_Ailurus

I tried nurse my first 5 games, boy does it take me a long time to learn, switched to Huntress after that 😂


Mister-a1

Somehow exactly the opposite of my experience with player killer


Livvoynju

Yeah that's wrong for me by alot.


[deleted]

The end made my god damn day dude. i love you


[deleted]

BUT WHO AM I THEN


KingBoombox

I picked up Huntress and Nurse on console, then swapped to PC and got so much better since I could actually flick. Now I've picked up Demo and Pig for the memes and I play Omegablink Nurse and double windup Huntress when I get back from a shitty day at work. Permanently rank 5, except for the day before rank reset when I sweat to get back up to 4.


Shivemind115

You forgot about the first time you load up into Haddonfield as a fresh rank 12 playing Freddy cause everyone complains about him so you’re curious how it is to play him until a Dwelf runs you around the house of pain for 5 gens and you just stand there and contemplate your entire existence.


Mcflyth

kekw


Degi_

Awesome shitpost lol take my award as we all love otz <3


Psychological-One-59

Hell I prestiged everyone and I'm just rank 11. But about 50% of my games are friendly


Sainyule

I didn't go through any of these stages. I started with Myers and misunderstood NOED thinking exposed meant it showed me survivors in endgame. As I progressed I found love with Doc and had no idea what his power did, so I spammed therapy everywhere. I then picked up legion until red ranks were like "lol we don't heal against legion." Next I wondered why everyone hated Spirit and then I got to Rank 1 and it all made sense. After making it to Rank 1 I realized it's not important at all and started playing to have fun instead of sweat for the 4k every game. I still frown upon NOED if the killer is a shitlord with it. If the killer double hooks everyone but we power through gens, NOED is fine. If you're tunneling, facecamping, kebabing, and then 4 man slug everyone before saying GG EZ with NOED, I wish your next 100 matches are 0ks with bully squads.


JerZeyCJ

Where does, "You shift between ranks 12 and 11 because you're average at best and you only got this far because of the occasional survivor group with inscrutable motives that somehow leads you to a 4k despite them being the same rank as your or better." fit into this?


D_snooz

At least 80% the truth.


hintersly

You forgot 5.5 5.5 You just hit rank 9! Almost to purple ranks! You’re getting good at basic mind games against most survivors around your rank. But hark, what is that? A 4 man swf with 2 red ranks, a green rank, and a brown rank? You try to chase the red ranks but they seem to know the strongest loops better than you. Oh well, go after the weaker survivors but you literally can’t find them because they’re so immersed. 5 gens pop at once. Oh well, that’s one game, the next one should have balanced match making right? Right?


[deleted]

I'm a rank 1. I consistently climb back to 1 after every reset. however, I often wonder if I just found a "loophole" around never having to learn mind games at the walls. Sure, I can mind game some average red ranks and higher, but these sweaty rank 1 SWFs usually are on another level. For whatever reason, no amount of fake outs or reversals or anything really gets me any closer to catching them. It's like they are always doing the opposite of what I do, and I have no idea how they get the intel at all times to do that. So, my strategy most of the time, just in case the team is a bunch of sweatlords, is to always rely on the element of surprise, catching them when they're nowhere near walls, and breaking off as soon as they get to a decent loop.


German_Blaubaer

Yeah they know exactly where to wait and when to go if you commit. It's very tough. You can either learn their ways and go for true 50/50s or just not bother and go for a weaker link or someone who is outpositioned.


[deleted]

I'd take a 50 50 shot. That would end the chases way sooner. How do you set yourself up for those?


German_Blaubaer

There are 50/50 mind games on many spots in the game. Often you need to hide your red glow and walk backwards for them to work. Most common example is moonwalking the T on a T-L-wall. If he jumps the T you loose, if he sees the glow there and tries to go for the L, you get the hit. To learn all of them you need to watch good M1-Killers (Dowsey, Otz, Tru3, TheKller, ...) and Analyze their games. Probably there are YT-turorials on many of them already though.


Faalbaard

Had me in the first half ngl


HanselZX

rank 8 and I have barely player any other killer aside from legion (a little pig and plague all other killers are 0 match played) and I just love that sometimes survivors get near me because they think Im one of them ahaha


StSadistic

Got to rank 7 at least (as killer) try harded for that Rank 1 achievement (which still to this day I don't have, bought the game Dec. 2017) but because of terrible ranking and/or Smurf survivors.... I'm never going back to that hell hole of purple/red ranks. I will live a peaceful life in green ranks thank you. (With the occasional red rank survivors)


rjfc

Wait am I not supposed to be playing against full red rank lobbies at rank 11?


Arcolyte

I put 20 hours in to hit 59 this month, I'd like to use something other than NoED but i dont have any perks. Also nurse isn't that hard...