I though he would talk about it at the end, but another very important tip is to check the hook states of your team, and sometimes deliberately throw yourself at the killer. Hooks are also a resource, and spreading them between the team if possible is a good thing. Also, you can easily check if the killer has interest in chasing you and go back to a game goal if that’s not the case.
So true. Sometimes depending on the context I deliberately run into the killer’s POV so they could hopefully chase me who has no hook or one hook. And save whoever is on death hook from being chased
Was about to comment this, hook stages are crucial. Can't tell you how many times the entire team is death hook and the only person with 0 hooks is still on a gen when anyone else could do that.
The bad part is when you're good at looping, the killer will intentionally ignore you, because they know they'll waste too much time trying to chase you. I try to save my best loops for when I'm on death hook, if you go down normally the first and second time, they'll usually overchase because they think you're just getting lucky on that last chase, little do they know they're being played like a fiddle. Just sucks when I try really hard on the first chase, and I literally stop existing after that, so I am stuck on gen duty bc the killer won't do anything beyond pushing me off a gen.
Sometimes I fail at it but I personally often try to help my teammates who're about to be hooked the third time, if I wasn't hooked at all, and sometimes even when I already WAS hooked once. The amount of times I've run past my teammates who're just sitting on their gens with 0 hooks while I'm about to die and not even bothering to help me in any way is beyond me. With just one teammate out of the match, everything usually starts falling apart...
This video is unironically better for new players than any "how to loop shack" guide. 1000s of hours later I still have teammates with the same amount of hours as me incapable of understanding basic teamwork.
Something to add and this applies to all games: If you fond yourself not enjoying the game, take a break from it for a day or two. Give yourself some time away. We can’t expect to grind continuously and stay Happy. You’ll enjoy the game more once you come back to it :)
7:02 it sure is! Nothing can prepare you for the soul crushing sight of 3 people coming to save you off your first hook at 5 gens, while the killer is setting up a 3 gen. That's the type of pain and despair reserved for a Hellraiser dimension.
I still think running kindred is very underrated. It gives so much information to you and the team and definitely made solo q much easier. never see anyone run it despite the advice people give
ive been running kindred ever since i started playing like 2 years ago. the information is invaluable. i even run it in 4-mans lol, and I am always trying to get my new player friends onto it. even just the map sense it can teach you is amazing and helps you improve at the game so much.
The UI addition is actually what made me stop running kindred and instead run bond, I get much more value out of bond throughout the game. Wish more people ran aura builds that aren't just windows
im gonna be honest and say i just dont trust my teammtes to actually use the information. a lot of the time 2 people still get off a gen to rescue or just sit around even though the killer is not near.
To add on: Reassurance, Rebecca's perk, is exetremly strong in Solo Queue. Since the introduction of the Anti FACECAMP mechanic, killers stay out of the anti hook range and wait for the unhook. Running up with Reassurance, applying it to a hooked teammate, then running away, depending on the situation, tends to be a better play. I've gotten many killers to leave the Reassured survivor time and time again, to chase me instead. I haven't taken off Reassurance since anti face camping was introduced, it's had a ton of value. Scott: "If the killer intends to tunnel, the safest place for the survivor is on the hook. They can't be killed while on the hook". Paraphrased a little bit. It's absolutely true. In a swf, if each person has Reassurance, proxy camping becomes almost a non issue. Good luck gamers. Thanks for the video Scott!
100% this. Stop unhooking survivors inmediately, you are killing your teammates! Wait for the killer to start chasing someone else so it's less likely they come back to tunnel
Would recommend BT honestly. Kinda hard to get value out of it solo. And killers usually just for the hard tunnel anyways. Can't count on the other 2 teammates to crank gens regardless at the very least those meathead killers can''t eat through endurance
If you've ever been absolutely destroyed by a team and they say they're solo queue, it's because everyone knows the priority. The guy who is injured dead on hook isn't going for the save, you have 1 hook stage and the other guy has 0. The guy with zero knows he's the best person to go save, you know that - he knows that - so you do a gen. You now have two people doing gens (or resetting) and a guy going for a save with absolutely no downtime. Even if your teammate goes down kind of fast, if they know just to split up and run away to a corner that's already so much more helpful than looping a pallet right next to a gen. There's an order of operations and the closer you follow it the smoother your games will go. Being on a team where everyone knows what to do, the solo queue god squad, is a thing of beauty.
I only destroy baby killers. Idk how a solo queue team destroys competent killers unless they're just really skilled because sometimes you do everything right and the killer is just too skilled.
@@Rye-jl2fk 1000% this. Both you and @JustXiox nailed it. I have 2500+ hours of playing survivor exactly as Scott describes, and I kid you not, 90/100 games would end in a 4k; leaving 5/100 1k - 3k games, 4/100 baby killer games, then 1/100 being the glorious solo god squad.
I find that putting on some music at medium to low volume while playing makes the game so much more fun for me (especially if its goofy aaa music), that and silly builds makes solo q great as well. my favorite build is (Head on, Background player, Flashbang, Blast Mine.)- I've ran that build overall for probably 150 hours and I'm still not bored. Most of all I think its the mindset you have when coming into a solo q game - probably sounds stupid but when I go into games with a positive attitude I do 1,000 times better than if I had come into a match tired or upset. Watching some TH-cam when searching for matches also helps me reset and clear my mind. (you should always be taking breaks as well) any game will become frustrating after playing it straight for to long. Anyways I wish you all the best in enjoying your games more
The one argument there with a GIANT hole in it: If you’ve left someone on hook for 40 seconds in solo queue they’ve already killed themselves long since
It's crazy how common sense this all should be but anyone who played solo knows that very few really use this information. I thought killer was stressful until I started playing more solo survivor and sometimes I feel like my head is gonna explode
Tome challenges. That is a significant part of the reason why most solo survivors are awful. Many of them just outright read 'throw the game until you do x'. Until that's changed (i'd suggest making players use a perk that the x is related to for x amount of games instead) expect solo queue to be solo queue.
After 1k hours i learned to make solo Q bearable by not taking it seriously and just having fun. After another 1k hours i realised the real way to win was by uninstalling the game.
Right there with you. This guy seems awesome but everything he recommended was stuff that I was doing over a year ago, before i stopped playing. The devs have just screwed soloq is the real elephant in the room.
YOU'RE the teammate that made it impossible for me to get my teamwork on gens Archives done! I've had to do ten of those things and wanted to do as many of them as I could in each match. Thanks for the video Scott.
Ive been having unusually miserable matches of people just giving up and things like that and wondering why-but then I realized it’s winter break and these are all the kids who have time to play while theyre not in school, lmao
I disagree that the HUD is "as good as comms", but I do think it's underutilized. It gives you a LOT more information than people may realize. It can even help you determine if a Killer is camping, AFK, or is possibly trying to set up a 3 gen from refusing to commit to chases. You can also anticipate when your adrenaline goes off, you can pre-run to exit gates, and you can even prolong someone's life by looking at hook states.
Scott is not saying that HUD is as good as comms generally, but in many situations like those showcased, it is just as good because everyone knows what other people are doing and can act accordingly. Then he talked about the limitations of HUD too. Personally, I too think the HUD is getting overlooked a lot and then we see complaints about no info bad info and general solo queue salt most of which could be avoided if people paid attention.
Nothing is as good as comms. Comms make your team two to the three times more efficient. That's why killers can't stand swfs but have an absolute ball against solo queue.
This is helpful, but I feel like for most people who are attuned to the game enough to be watching a Scott Jund video, they know a lot of this stuff. The only way to make solo queue bearable is psychological. Constantly manage expectations. Assume you’re not going to escape any of your matches, but always re-evaluate that assumption. Have you loaded into an advantageous map with a novice killer? Adjust your expectations upwards to a possible escape. Are you going up against MomoSeventh? Consider that even doing one generator is a massive success. Is the game going badly, quickly? At least you’re earning bloodpoints. Prioritize tome challenges. Don’t be afraid to carry and set the tempo of the match, but only if you want to. It’s your time and it’s your game: you can choose to derive fun and satisfaction from it, or you can choose not to.
Oh please, it’s very obvious that this is a team game and that two people should not pull the weight of four because at the end of the day it’s just not possible for very long. All anyone is asking is that you do your part get out of the locker get out of the corner. Hook states are resource that one person that ran killer all match could use one hit to get out the door for crying out loud. Nothing like running the killer the whole match only to get down right in front of the gate with everyone else healthy with no hooks. You really mean to tell me you couldn’t take a hit. ? This is a team game so I expect team effort. It’s really not rocket science. From now on once I get frustrated I bond with diversion. Best of luck, hiding in the corner while the rest of us do all the work lol.
@superdazed I have no idea why the guy above replied the way he did lmao. Everything you said is completely true. I've been saying this for so damn long, I genuinely think for survivor specifically, the mindset of many is really off. A lot of people think that if you die, you just lose. That's not necessarily the case though. Like for me, even if I get hard tunneled out of the game, as long as I play solid in loops, don't use every single pallet on the map and run the killer for a while, that's a dub in my book. I gave my team a shit ton of time to get gens done and stuff, ya know. Same thing if I get camped. I actually genuinely love when I get camped. I have a collection of screenshots saved on my steam of every time I'm camped. Feels like an accomplishment to me. Especially if they're camping me after I ran them for a long chase lol. The only thing that gets on my nerves sometimes, these days, are when someone's playing like blight for example and they are slugging with 5 gens left. That can be tilting sometimes. Other than that, honestly it's all good for me. Sorry for ranting lmao. Somewhat unrelated to your whole point, just wanted to chime in lol.
@@BucsFanO22i really love your perspective. i used to get so tilted in solo queue, but a perspective adjustment to something like yours can really make a difference. it sounds like you're a really good survivor too!
I wish everyone would watch this and take it to heart. In my internal monologue, I call this "counting to four." As in, think about what all four survivors are doing. I frequently have scenarios where someone will be hooked, another in chase, I'm on a gen at 50%, and the last person (healthy, no hooks) does nothing for 20 seconds, then sits down on a fresh generator. My guy, did you not look at the HUD at any point?!
1:39 This is why I run discordance. 1) great information perk with basically no downsides 2) can’t be countered by survivor perks 3) survivors can’t tell if you have it or not unless they keep noticing you walking to gens with two people on it (and even if they do notice it, they can’t tell the other people in solo queue)
Only one note I feel should be included is that Survivors working on the same gen is fine so long as they think about *why* they're doing it. Notably, I like grouping with multiple survivors if it means we can complete a gen before the killer can start regressing it (especially when getting the Killer to waste stacks of Pain Resonance).
i legit had a game where i was doing the last gen as the other 2 survivors were downed trying to get the save of the 4th guy, when i popped the gen those 2 had adrenaline as the killer came to me and it took that guy ~10seconds to realise he is not winning that game anymore, so he facecamped me until the other 3 were healed and then they just left because fuck me
Were they out of time with everyone on death hook? I feel like it is acceptable at that point. The people I don’t get are the people who act like they can’t be even injured when they haven’t been touched all game
@@LuckyKat89TV no, as i said, i just did the last gen so there was no collapse yet, and they healed up as the killer facecamped me and then just opened doors and left
My tip for solo queue: NEVER bring any perk that contains the text "When you unhook a survivor". In solo queue, everyone is a goddamn unhook ninja, and while I have a safe flowchart to decide when to go save (even if at worst, it means *maybe* going for a trade), teammates are rushing it long before me (and, quite likely, getting the victim tunneled). I'd challenge most solo queue players to close their eyes, and take a guess when *60 seconds* have passed. It's PLENTY of time. In fact it's funny that the B-roll is Garden of Joy, since I actually got a tunnel victim out on this map thanks to a teammate using Reassurance - something I picked up on by, as Scott suggests, watching the UI (hook pausing shows through the red bar flashing). Not just using Reassurance, but then *not immediately unhooking anyway*. I ended up finishing last gen, saving the teammate at the tail end of that pause, and they got out.
As someone who’s been playing for 5+ years this is a very well done video, the perk build was obviously just for the heck of it which I totally respect but healing can sometimes be a bad thing, it depends on the survivor, killer and setting but you made perfect sense on it overall. The gist really is to just have common sense and you made that nice and clear.
Biggest reason not to heal: if the heal target has demonstrated themselves to be both bad in chase AND not interested in doing gens. Wasting your precious time by healing them is literally a gift to the killer.
Something else you can look out for is weather your team are in swfs or not, these can be as obvious as people having similar names or as subtle as people getting off gens as an unhook comes in as to not give out additional information like 5:37 with the cheryl. It may not seem like much but it can help you out in minor ways that are hard to explain. Also run bond
great video! only thing i want to mention is the camp dance, when you start the trying to unhook yourself bar repeatedly to tell people hey dont come save me the killer is here, helps a ton!
I remember in a stream recently you had asked viewers to give you ideas on what to make videos for. You could make a video about every killer and how they should commonly be played excluding the best perks for them. I know I'm still confused about quite a few killers because I had been out of the game for a long time and this would be beneficial for both survivors and players who are thinking about getting certain killers.
I've been playing a lot of solo queue lately. Getting back in the game after a huge (well deserved) hiatus. I'm really bad at being chased currently but focusing on getting better. Dying is expected. So my expectations are low so I get less tilted. Slugging still tilts me but being tunneled doesn't at least. :)
spreading out i so important. pain res would become less of a problem if every team spreads out on 3 gens while the other is chased. that way when pain res goes off its one gen hit and two gens ok. vs one gen hit and one gen ok
I play solo queue regularly and my games are either too easy or impossible. It's rarely ever jn between. I've also noticed a lot of teammates suiciding on their first hook lately for no reason.
@@Rye-jl2fk Yeah I get what you mean. It feels the same with killer. You either get a bunch of babies or navy seals in comms. It's rare you get a nice back and forth match it's sad.
@@Punishment_for_Decadence Won't disagree with that. Scott just gives me this false sense of hope then I shake myself back to reality and realize it's not worth it. I just like watching his videos haha.
And people really think being able to see my perks is going to help the vast Solo Q experience when the majority of players don’t ready up , are afk to the start of the match and ignore the wealth of information the HUD gives you .
My main tip is run deja vu and leading the killer to no gen zones. If a gen is completed in one area then there should ne pallets there to waste the killers time and it means you wint run the killer into other players and dont hook rush or else that player will prob be tunneled out.
This video was recommended to me after i lost like 6 games in a row cause soloq teammates can't exchange when they wasn't hooked even once, they run at killer when on death hook, can't double up on a last gen untill killer comes with pop and etc It's just painful...
Bro I had a Thalita come rescue me when she was on death hook right in front of the killer's face and neither of my other teammates were injured or on death hook. You can guess what happened next.
I think making Solo Que bearable only needs one thing. A Proxy Chat between Survivors. That's it. Let your teammates talk to each other....cause one of the key things teammates need to be able to do is communicate with each other. If you wanna make it interesting, maybe find a way to make it detectable by the killer if their within a certain radius and you talk too loud.
@@legendaeri That's...stupid. Most people want to have someway to communicate in objective based gameplay...especially when you have to rely on your teammate as much as this game does. But, hey maybe the DBD community is unique in that regard. And going by your response, I assume that I'm not the only one to bring this us up? If I'm not, maybe it's something the dev's should consider making optional. After all, muting a mic isn't something that's unheard of.
@@midasthestallion4105sadly it will never happen. People have been suggesting voice chat since the game came out basically. I will say though, I'll literally never ever understand the argument guy above made. "People don't want to talk to strangers, don't add coms." Like, it's true, a lot of people don't want to talk to randoms. But that's why there's a mute function. If you don't want to do it then just dont and let the people who do, do... This same argument is used in league of legends. A game that requires infinitely more macro and micro skill and it still doesn't have coms. Makes no sense to me.
@@BucsFanO22 Ah. Well that I didn't know. My main thing is that people will complain about how their rando teammates don't do anything in solo que. "I hate how I'm leading the killer away and my team won't touch gens!" A pinging system or chat, or even a messaging system in game, might be able to help with that. You can't bitch about things like that then when the solution is offered shut it down with a reason like "people don't want to talk to strangers." That's stupid. But, if the devs don't want to do it it is what it is. Personally that almost seems like a way to handicap survivors or force them to play the game in a way that the devs want them to play (kinda like the medkit "fix" imo).
Listen I admit I hate talking to strangers but if one of my teammates was telling me useful info over game chat I'm taking it all in. I think it would be extremely healthy for solo queue if voice chat was implemented.
I simply run bond, open handed and that one perk that shows the killer's aura when someone is on hook. The fourth perk slot is free to change. But with the first three perks I always have a good knowledge of what's going on and also if I am on hook, the others can rescue me more easily, so I am usually not left hanging there to die.
There’s also this guy named Mr. Tatorhead, he makes looping guides for specific maps, so it makes my solo que games 1000 times better so I highly recommend checking him out
Spreading out on gens is definitely the right strategy, but I wonder what Scott's thoughts are on if you happen to be running Prove Thyself? For instance, say I'm on a gen by myself and someone else comes up and joins me, and either I or the other person have Prove Thyself, the speed bonus we both get from the perk mitigates some of the benefit of me running to a different gen.
I'm willing to bet Scott thinks that prove thyself is a bad soloq perk. the reason you spread out isn't because of the speed loss from multiple people on a gen, but because the killer coming over can pressure two survivors off a gen instead of just one. the idea is to be working on as many different gens as you can to keep your map pressure spread as much as possible
I believe Scott has always disliked Prove Thyself even before it’s nerf. I never understood it because it comes in clutch a lot especially in 3 gen scenarios but he talks a lot about gen efficiency (which technically speaking 2 gens in 90 seconds is better than 1 gen in about 40 seconds is better) but it never really works out like that
@larsliamvilhelmI agree with this. Just don't run prove thyself. It's definitely not worth it. Even if you have it, it's still better to split up, making it even more useless.
09:00 thats why i always use kindred and my nickname is "USE THE PERK KINDRED". So much soloqueue problems would be solved if everybody used this perk.
I play solo queue because I like not knowing what’s going on. The pure randomness of not knowing what my teammates do. I also go with the mindset that I’m most likely not going to escape and I’m ok with that. Also I play with my tome challenges as my priority even if it means I throw the game just for the challenge.
Also, people are often to afraid to trade hooks in Solo lobby. I know many solo lobbies suck. But often enough also you get good teammates. So if it makes sense to rescue and trade hooks, do so. Especially when you have adrenaline and the last gen is being done. USE THE UI FOR INFO... that is all one needs.
Sometimes it’s not better to spread out even in the beginning of a game. A finished gen that spreads a 3 gen can be worth more than 3 gens at 50% on the edge of the map that can be regressed with perks
and id still disagree its worth rushing it first. you'll likely not even finish it before the killer finds all 3 of you and then you've all wasted a ton of time
@@yanyan_r1no. Pop three gens by first down consistently and tell me you preferred to to one less gen in the same time. If you’re going to 3G, then you’re going to 3G and that’s your fault and not the killers Just… stop doubling on a gem for no reason please. Just because you’re scared there’s going to be a three GEN doesn’t mean there has to be a three GEN just do one of the 3 gins and do three gens in a general triangle shape on the map and you’re fine.
@4:14. I respectfully disagree. I won’t go so far as to say healing is always a waste of time. In this case, a gen is being progressed, so it’s OK. However a chase is in progress, and I believe healing is less efficient than working on gens. Even in this case, if you two work on a gen, the injured person can stay and keep working while you get the unhook. Again, as long as a gen is progressing, it’s OK, but I think the biggest mistake Survivors make is healing at an inefficient time or healing when no gens are progressing. This is a big debate that I’d like to see discussed, but I think healing should only happen in a few situations. 1). No chase in progress, which means killers are really not making any progress. 2). The unhooked Survivor is on death hook. 3). At least one gen is being worked on, but even then I wouldn’t personally recommend it. I’d love discussion on this.
Context clues are super important for solo queue. I also wish teammates wouldn’t kick me off gens so much. It’s really annoying having to go find a new generator that’s spread out because Meg wanted to help out, when they could have found a different generator instead. Also that’s Thalita, not Elodie.
9:52 Scott be like: The killer is coming, go this way quick! And the survivor is like: Nah i'll just go this way instead. 30secs later, she goes down. Definitly a soloQ moment if I ever seen one.
-do not cleanse empty totems! -do not open chests unless you are on deathhook, hurt and no one is around to heal you or in endgame or something like that. -stop using selfcare -dont do dumb challenges that kill your team, if you play well and escape, you will earn more bloodpoints than from those dumb challenges or something useless like opening chests, cleansing empty totems etc -start learning how to loop the killer instead of stealth. -dont DC! -dont suicide on hook. -try to genrush like your life depends on it (maybe even bring a toolbox) -take a protection hit! -do not take a protection hit for no good reason! -learn to trade hooks if a killer is camping! -DO NOT unhook your mates in front of the killer! -DO NOT unhook your mates early if they are being tunneled I think if most randoms would actually follow the above and the ones from this video, solo q would be much more bearable.
I wish there were some way to tell the others that you're going for a unhook. Happens way to often that multiple people go. They should really add more emotes or something.
I ran prove thyself for years because it sounded awesome but Scott's right, the worst thing for a killer is 4 survivors spread out and constantly working on something. Those are my hardest killer matches by a mile.
I usually run kindred, light weight but have been swapping it out occasionally, deju, and I can't remember the last. But I try for 2 ish perks to help others and 2 to focus gens.
Rebecca (if you have her) with kindred, we'll make it, empathy, and aftercare. Personally I don't think you need perks to slam gens. They can help not get 3-Gen'd, but I find that realistically if you remember somewhat where gens spawn, and try to do gens based on what your teammates are doing (which you should know exactly where they are and what they're doing most of the time with this build), and you get a similar effect as deja-vu.
I play soloq, and never expect anything from anyone XD I use kindred purely because I expect the others to be dumdum's and I like watching the urban evaders out there
10k+ hrs mainly solo q (EU) who leaved dbd after b-day, because bhvr dosent want do any thing, i wait it for ages, but nothing is happen and after q and a, im happy i did left it before :) im also happy Otz is waking up and saw how the devs are :)) i will came back to dbd when bhvr gave us a real buff for solo q or making the matchmaking to a real skill based mm...
Thanks Scott now I’m not gonna have any value out of Deja vu, prove overzealous value because everyone will run away from me. How can I recover from this
The problem is that the people likely to watch this video are the ones who are already trying to be helpful. Great tips nonetheless that helps double down that but yeah it's preaching to the choir a little bit. See there's the dreaded thing called 'tome challenges' which is a significant part of the reason most solo queue team mates are awful. Take the example given at 3:26. The person behind you backs off, but if they had an 'unhook' challenge or a 'healing' challenge, there is a good chance they'd have tried their best to get that unhook anyway. Also applies to generators too at the start. There's a few that require you to do cooperative actions for x amount of time. Now if you are running away from a gen and that person has the challenge well... Those challenges are also mild examples because they are likely to occur in natural play. Sniff the killers butt (without getting caught) or whatever it is and 'cleanse totems'. Ew. Those things need to die in a fire. If you want to encourage people to interact with totems or whatever, make them 'run this generic perk (e.g small game/inner healing though that's gone now yeah? Haven't played since then) for x games'. This way it's actually helpful and doesn't encourage players to throw games for the sake of their tome challenges. If the perk comes into play, great! If it doesn't it doesn't matter, progress is still made. Sure some people might hook suicide or whatever to get it over with but you could make it time based instead. Like run x perk for 10 minutes of gameplay.
Its not really having nobody to play with, some ppl like me have plenty to invite but for ALOT of complicated reasons i wanna sometimes play alone and i do find more fun in solo q than with my swf, sadly solo sucks so bad that i fall back to my friends that i don't wanna play with just to make survivor playable
I think solo queue is alot more fun than survive with friends. Everything is more of a mystery and you have to make quick assessments on team member strengths and shortcomings which make the match much more exciting. The only time solo queue sucks is when a player or players throw the match.
Scott calling thalita elodie for 13 minutes
They’re all Meg
@@fixedice nope, they're all Jeff, obviously
And I’ve called Leon’s, Clown before
@@itzKidDope55 And I see nothing wrong with that
After looking that up, yeah. Don't need to watch the rest of the video.
I though he would talk about it at the end, but another very important tip is to check the hook states of your team, and sometimes deliberately throw yourself at the killer. Hooks are also a resource, and spreading them between the team if possible is a good thing. Also, you can easily check if the killer has interest in chasing you and go back to a game goal if that’s not the case.
very true, i've lost alot of killer matches vs survs who do this
So true. Sometimes depending on the context I deliberately run into the killer’s POV so they could hopefully chase me who has no hook or one hook. And save whoever is on death hook from being chased
Was about to comment this, hook stages are crucial. Can't tell you how many times the entire team is death hook and the only person with 0 hooks is still on a gen when anyone else could do that.
The bad part is when you're good at looping, the killer will intentionally ignore you, because they know they'll waste too much time trying to chase you. I try to save my best loops for when I'm on death hook, if you go down normally the first and second time, they'll usually overchase because they think you're just getting lucky on that last chase, little do they know they're being played like a fiddle. Just sucks when I try really hard on the first chase, and I literally stop existing after that, so I am stuck on gen duty bc the killer won't do anything beyond pushing me off a gen.
Sometimes I fail at it but I personally often try to help my teammates who're about to be hooked the third time, if I wasn't hooked at all, and sometimes even when I already WAS hooked once. The amount of times I've run past my teammates who're just sitting on their gens with 0 hooks while I'm about to die and not even bothering to help me in any way is beyond me. With just one teammate out of the match, everything usually starts falling apart...
Scott's declassified soloQ survival guide 😮
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*Results may vary
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A lot of new generation people won't understand this reference lol
@@CrimsonHeart3 99' and I got this lol probably not gen alpha though
This video is unironically better for new players than any "how to loop shack" guide. 1000s of hours later I still have teammates with the same amount of hours as me incapable of understanding basic teamwork.
I've seen p100s look like they started playing the game a few days ago. I don't know who these people are but something is very not right with them.
Something to add and this applies to all games: If you fond yourself not enjoying the game, take a break from it for a day or two. Give yourself some time away. We can’t expect to grind continuously and stay
Happy. You’ll enjoy the game more once you come back to it :)
Took me like 8 months but I'm back having fun though I'm waiting for new gamemode before I really start to play again
what if i need a break after every game /hj
7:02 it sure is! Nothing can prepare you for the soul crushing sight of 3 people coming to save you off your first hook at 5 gens, while the killer is setting up a 3 gen. That's the type of pain and despair reserved for a Hellraiser dimension.
I still think running kindred is very underrated. It gives so much information to you and the team and definitely made solo q much easier. never see anyone run it despite the advice people give
ive been running kindred ever since i started playing like 2 years ago. the information is invaluable. i even run it in 4-mans lol, and I am always trying to get my new player friends onto it. even just the map sense it can teach you is amazing and helps you improve at the game so much.
It’s like one of the most popular survivor perks
The UI addition is actually what made me stop running kindred and instead run bond, I get much more value out of bond throughout the game. Wish more people ran aura builds that aren't just windows
im gonna be honest and say i just dont trust my teammtes to actually use the information. a lot of the time 2 people still get off a gen to rescue or just sit around even though the killer is not near.
Ahh, Kindred how I love and hate thee… you tell me where the other two survivors who are doing nothing are.
To add on: Reassurance, Rebecca's perk, is exetremly strong in Solo Queue. Since the introduction of the Anti FACECAMP mechanic, killers stay out of the anti hook range and wait for the unhook. Running up with Reassurance, applying it to a hooked teammate, then running away, depending on the situation, tends to be a better play.
I've gotten many killers to leave the Reassured survivor time and time again, to chase me instead.
I haven't taken off Reassurance since anti face camping was introduced, it's had a ton of value.
Scott: "If the killer intends to tunnel, the safest place for the survivor is on the hook. They can't be killed while on the hook". Paraphrased a little bit. It's absolutely true.
In a swf, if each person has Reassurance, proxy camping becomes almost a non issue.
Good luck gamers. Thanks for the video Scott!
100% this.
Stop unhooking survivors inmediately, you are killing your teammates! Wait for the killer to start chasing someone else so it's less likely they come back to tunnel
I only run reassurance in a swf. Random are usually too dumb to understand/play around the perk
2 survivors having reassurance is enough, if one of them is hooked, the other will reassure.
It also means you can work on a gen for longer before going for an unhook
Would recommend BT honestly. Kinda hard to get value out of it solo. And killers usually just for the hard tunnel anyways. Can't count on the other 2 teammates to crank gens regardless at the very least those meathead killers can''t eat through endurance
If you've ever been absolutely destroyed by a team and they say they're solo queue, it's because everyone knows the priority. The guy who is injured dead on hook isn't going for the save, you have 1 hook stage and the other guy has 0. The guy with zero knows he's the best person to go save, you know that - he knows that - so you do a gen. You now have two people doing gens (or resetting) and a guy going for a save with absolutely no downtime. Even if your teammate goes down kind of fast, if they know just to split up and run away to a corner that's already so much more helpful than looping a pallet right next to a gen. There's an order of operations and the closer you follow it the smoother your games will go. Being on a team where everyone knows what to do, the solo queue god squad, is a thing of beauty.
I only destroy baby killers. Idk how a solo queue team destroys competent killers unless they're just really skilled because sometimes you do everything right and the killer is just too skilled.
@@Rye-jl2fk 1000% this. Both you and @JustXiox nailed it. I have 2500+ hours of playing survivor exactly as Scott describes, and I kid you not, 90/100 games would end in a 4k; leaving 5/100 1k - 3k games, 4/100 baby killer games, then 1/100 being the glorious solo god squad.
My teammates kill me instead
“Elodie made a mistake there” -Scott making a mistake there
I find that putting on some music at medium to low volume while playing makes the game so much more fun for me (especially if its goofy aaa music), that and silly builds makes solo q great as well. my favorite build is (Head on, Background player, Flashbang, Blast Mine.)- I've ran that build overall for probably 150 hours and I'm still not bored. Most of all I think its the mindset you have when coming into a solo q game - probably sounds stupid but when I go into games with a positive attitude I do 1,000 times better than if I had come into a match tired or upset. Watching some TH-cam when searching for matches also helps me reset and clear my mind. (you should always be taking breaks as well) any game will become frustrating after playing it straight for to long. Anyways I wish you all the best in enjoying your games more
The one argument there with a GIANT hole in it: If you’ve left someone on hook for 40 seconds in solo queue they’ve already killed themselves long since
This is so true. In fact, sometimes it's only 20 seconds and they suicide.
It's crazy how common sense this all should be but anyone who played solo knows that very few really use this information. I thought killer was stressful until I started playing more solo survivor and sometimes I feel like my head is gonna explode
Tome challenges. That is a significant part of the reason why most solo survivors are awful. Many of them just outright read 'throw the game until you do x'. Until that's changed (i'd suggest making players use a perk that the x is related to for x amount of games instead) expect solo queue to be solo queue.
@@Peachrocks5I don't playing with other people all the time I like to play on my own peace and quiet from people complaining
After 1k hours i learned to make solo Q bearable by not taking it seriously and just having fun. After another 1k hours i realised the real way to win was by uninstalling the game.
😂😂😂😂
Right there with you.
This guy seems awesome but everything he recommended was stuff that I was doing over a year ago, before i stopped playing. The devs have just screwed soloq is the real elephant in the room.
I'm a masochist I enjoy solo queue thoroughly and now do it almost exclusively now. 7 years of this game does strange things to a man.
YOU'RE the teammate that made it impossible for me to get my teamwork on gens Archives done! I've had to do ten of those things and wanted to do as many of them as I could in each match.
Thanks for the video Scott.
Ive been having unusually miserable matches of people just giving up and things like that and wondering why-but then I realized it’s winter break and these are all the kids who have time to play while theyre not in school, lmao
I disagree that the HUD is "as good as comms", but I do think it's underutilized. It gives you a LOT more information than people may realize. It can even help you determine if a Killer is camping, AFK, or is possibly trying to set up a 3 gen from refusing to commit to chases. You can also anticipate when your adrenaline goes off, you can pre-run to exit gates, and you can even prolong someone's life by looking at hook states.
Scott is not saying that HUD is as good as comms generally, but in many situations like those showcased, it is just as good because everyone knows what other people are doing and can act accordingly. Then he talked about the limitations of HUD too.
Personally, I too think the HUD is getting overlooked a lot and then we see complaints about no info bad info and general solo queue salt most of which could be avoided if people paid attention.
Nothing is as good as comms. Comms make your team two to the three times more efficient. That's why killers can't stand swfs but have an absolute ball against solo queue.
@@Rye-jl2fk agree.
This is helpful, but I feel like for most people who are attuned to the game enough to be watching a Scott Jund video, they know a lot of this stuff. The only way to make solo queue bearable is psychological. Constantly manage expectations. Assume you’re not going to escape any of your matches, but always re-evaluate that assumption. Have you loaded into an advantageous map with a novice killer? Adjust your expectations upwards to a possible escape. Are you going up against MomoSeventh? Consider that even doing one generator is a massive success. Is the game going badly, quickly? At least you’re earning bloodpoints. Prioritize tome challenges. Don’t be afraid to carry and set the tempo of the match, but only if you want to. It’s your time and it’s your game: you can choose to derive fun and satisfaction from it, or you can choose not to.
Oh please, it’s very obvious that this is a team game and that two people should not pull the weight of four because at the end of the day it’s just not possible for very long. All anyone is asking is that you do your part get out of the locker get out of the corner. Hook states are resource that one person that ran killer all match could use one hit to get out the door for crying out loud.
Nothing like running the killer the whole match only to get down right in front of the gate with everyone else healthy with no hooks. You really mean to tell me you couldn’t take a hit. ?
This is a team game so I expect team effort. It’s really not rocket science.
From now on once I get frustrated I bond with diversion. Best of luck, hiding in the corner while the rest of us do all the work lol.
@@LuckyKat89TVlol ok. my comment was not for the perpetually victimized, like you. you're beyond help at this point!
@superdazed I have no idea why the guy above replied the way he did lmao. Everything you said is completely true. I've been saying this for so damn long, I genuinely think for survivor specifically, the mindset of many is really off. A lot of people think that if you die, you just lose. That's not necessarily the case though.
Like for me, even if I get hard tunneled out of the game, as long as I play solid in loops, don't use every single pallet on the map and run the killer for a while, that's a dub in my book. I gave my team a shit ton of time to get gens done and stuff, ya know.
Same thing if I get camped. I actually genuinely love when I get camped. I have a collection of screenshots saved on my steam of every time I'm camped. Feels like an accomplishment to me. Especially if they're camping me after I ran them for a long chase lol.
The only thing that gets on my nerves sometimes, these days, are when someone's playing like blight for example and they are slugging with 5 gens left. That can be tilting sometimes. Other than that, honestly it's all good for me.
Sorry for ranting lmao. Somewhat unrelated to your whole point, just wanted to chime in lol.
@@BucsFanO22i really love your perspective. i used to get so tilted in solo queue, but a perspective adjustment to something like yours can really make a difference. it sounds like you're a really good survivor too!
I wish everyone would watch this and take it to heart. In my internal monologue, I call this "counting to four." As in, think about what all four survivors are doing. I frequently have scenarios where someone will be hooked, another in chase, I'm on a gen at 50%, and the last person (healthy, no hooks) does nothing for 20 seconds, then sits down on a fresh generator. My guy, did you not look at the HUD at any point?!
1:39 This is why I run discordance.
1) great information perk with basically no downsides
2) can’t be countered by survivor perks
3) survivors can’t tell if you have it or not unless they keep noticing you walking to gens with two people on it (and even if they do notice it, they can’t tell the other people in solo queue)
Only one note I feel should be included is that Survivors working on the same gen is fine so long as they think about *why* they're doing it.
Notably, I like grouping with multiple survivors if it means we can complete a gen before the killer can start regressing it (especially when getting the Killer to waste stacks of Pain Resonance).
scott's pronunciation of rudimentary at 0:19 was wild, had to take a step back for a moment ngl
How did he say it?
@@Rye-jl2fkabout 0:19 in you can hear it
@@hogryder6522 That was... interesting
i legit had a game where i was doing the last gen as the other 2 survivors were downed trying to get the save of the 4th guy, when i popped the gen those 2 had adrenaline as the killer came to me and it took that guy ~10seconds to realise he is not winning that game anymore, so he facecamped me until the other 3 were healed and then they just left because fuck me
Were they out of time with everyone on death hook? I feel like it is acceptable at that point.
The people I don’t get are the people who act like they can’t be even injured when they haven’t been touched all game
@@LuckyKat89TV no, as i said, i just did the last gen so there was no collapse yet, and they healed up as the killer facecamped me and then just opened doors and left
@@middox239Thats what I call some trash tier teammates. It's happened to me too several times.
I want this video to be shown to all new players
Thank you, Scott Cawthon the Wozz. Very cool!
Having Bond and Kindred help significantly, information perks are extremely helpful in solo queue.
I agree. Too bad minbreaker counters both very well.
My tip for solo queue: NEVER bring any perk that contains the text "When you unhook a survivor". In solo queue, everyone is a goddamn unhook ninja, and while I have a safe flowchart to decide when to go save (even if at worst, it means *maybe* going for a trade), teammates are rushing it long before me (and, quite likely, getting the victim tunneled).
I'd challenge most solo queue players to close their eyes, and take a guess when *60 seconds* have passed. It's PLENTY of time. In fact it's funny that the B-roll is Garden of Joy, since I actually got a tunnel victim out on this map thanks to a teammate using Reassurance - something I picked up on by, as Scott suggests, watching the UI (hook pausing shows through the red bar flashing). Not just using Reassurance, but then *not immediately unhooking anyway*. I ended up finishing last gen, saving the teammate at the tail end of that pause, and they got out.
bro was really calling her Elodie 😭THAT'S MEG, YOU NUMPTY!
that's not Meg that's thalita
@@MacaroniMan_ ???? Pretty sure It's meg, bud. I've been playing since the beta
@@Noobwater if uve been playing since beta maybe get ur eyes checked
@@MacaroniMan_ I already have, that's why I wear glasses
@@MacaroniMan_you're clearly not a golfer
the best way i found is offering garden of pain or springwood every single time that redueces the misery by a noticeable amount.
As someone who’s been playing for 5+ years this is a very well done video, the perk build was obviously just for the heck of it which I totally respect but healing can sometimes be a bad thing, it depends on the survivor, killer and setting but you made perfect sense on it overall. The gist really is to just have common sense and you made that nice and clear.
Biggest reason not to heal: if the heal target has demonstrated themselves to be both bad in chase AND not interested in doing gens. Wasting your precious time by healing them is literally a gift to the killer.
@@lilben4184 PRECISELY that!!! Which is why I said it depends on the survivor (and other reasons). Good to know we are on the same page!
Something else you can look out for is weather your team are in swfs or not, these can be as obvious as people having similar names or as subtle as people getting off gens as an unhook comes in as to not give out additional information like 5:37 with the cheryl. It may not seem like much but it can help you out in minor ways that are hard to explain. Also run bond
A guide on making soloQ bearable: play killer
great video! only thing i want to mention is the camp dance, when you start the trying to unhook yourself bar repeatedly to tell people hey dont come save me the killer is here, helps a ton!
for sure, but if people started doing that to communicate, it would make proxy camping way way less effective@@hewmanbeing
I remember in a stream recently you had asked viewers to give you ideas on what to make videos for. You could make a video about every killer and how they should commonly be played excluding the best perks for them. I know I'm still confused about quite a few killers because I had been out of the game for a long time and this would be beneficial for both survivors and players who are thinking about getting certain killers.
I've been playing a lot of solo queue lately. Getting back in the game after a huge (well deserved) hiatus. I'm really bad at being chased currently but focusing on getting better. Dying is expected. So my expectations are low so I get less tilted. Slugging still tilts me but being tunneled doesn't at least. :)
Go in each match expecting to die as survivor with your sole goal being getting blastmine and head on stuns. That’s how I enjoy solo anyways
I guess that's how you get all the baby killers which can be fun to mess with them.
i just go in for the flashbang saves, too satisfying
the only thing that solo q needs to be almost equal to swf is a basekit kindred that only shows the aura of the survivors
Every killer would boycott the game. I'm a survivor main who basically only plays solo queue so I would be all for it.
Absolutely not
Epic guide.
omg the russian demo main!
omg the slovenian demo main!
I use Aftercare when I solo queue. Knowing the exact locations of teammates being chased/doing gens can help me understand what’s going on better
spreading out i so important. pain res would become less of a problem if every team spreads out on 3 gens while the other is chased. that way when pain res goes off its one gen hit and two gens ok. vs one gen hit and one gen ok
WAIT IM THE KILLER THIS IS THE BEST WESKER GUIDE IVE EVER SEEN
and before anyone complains about me tunnelling it was my third game on garden of joy in a row and he brought me there :angy:
When you have thousands of hours in solo, you forget how this is not obvious to everyone else. Good video
Scott actually making me want to play solo queue again.
Fool
I play solo queue regularly and my games are either too easy or impossible. It's rarely ever jn between. I've also noticed a lot of teammates suiciding on their first hook lately for no reason.
@@Rye-jl2fk Yeah I get what you mean. It feels the same with killer. You either get a bunch of babies or navy seals in comms. It's rare you get a nice back and forth match it's sad.
@@Punishment_for_Decadence Won't disagree with that. Scott just gives me this false sense of hope then I shake myself back to reality and realize it's not worth it. I just like watching his videos haha.
im watching this because i watch every scott video
This works if your teammates aren’t drooling on their controllers.
And people really think being able to see my perks is going to help the vast Solo Q experience when the majority of players don’t ready up , are afk to the start of the match and ignore the wealth of information the HUD gives you .
My main tip is run deja vu and leading the killer to no gen zones. If a gen is completed in one area then there should ne pallets there to waste the killers time and it means you wint run the killer into other players and dont hook rush or else that player will prob be tunneled out.
Only problem with that is a smart killer probably won't chase you too far into a dead zone especially if its an M1 killer
@@shuroayaYup. A smart killer will instantly turn around most likely after they injured you and guard their 3 or 4 gens in close proximity.
This video was recommended to me after i lost like 6 games in a row cause soloq teammates can't exchange when they wasn't hooked even once, they run at killer when on death hook, can't double up on a last gen untill killer comes with pop and etc
It's just painful...
Bro I had a Thalita come rescue me when she was on death hook right in front of the killer's face and neither of my other teammates were injured or on death hook. You can guess what happened next.
I think making Solo Que bearable only needs one thing. A Proxy Chat between Survivors. That's it. Let your teammates talk to each other....cause one of the key things teammates need to be able to do is communicate with each other. If you wanna make it interesting, maybe find a way to make it detectable by the killer if their within a certain radius and you talk too loud.
no. most people don't want to talk to strangers. give it up already.
@@legendaeri That's...stupid. Most people want to have someway to communicate in objective based gameplay...especially when you have to rely on your teammate as much as this game does. But, hey maybe the DBD community is unique in that regard. And going by your response, I assume that I'm not the only one to bring this us up? If I'm not, maybe it's something the dev's should consider making optional. After all, muting a mic isn't something that's unheard of.
@@midasthestallion4105sadly it will never happen. People have been suggesting voice chat since the game came out basically.
I will say though, I'll literally never ever understand the argument guy above made. "People don't want to talk to strangers, don't add coms." Like, it's true, a lot of people don't want to talk to randoms. But that's why there's a mute function. If you don't want to do it then just dont and let the people who do, do...
This same argument is used in league of legends. A game that requires infinitely more macro and micro skill and it still doesn't have coms. Makes no sense to me.
@@BucsFanO22 Ah. Well that I didn't know. My main thing is that people will complain about how their rando teammates don't do anything in solo que.
"I hate how I'm leading the killer away and my team won't touch gens!"
A pinging system or chat, or even a messaging system in game, might be able to help with that. You can't bitch about things like that then when the solution is offered shut it down with a reason like "people don't want to talk to strangers." That's stupid. But, if the devs don't want to do it it is what it is. Personally that almost seems like a way to handicap survivors or force them to play the game in a way that the devs want them to play (kinda like the medkit "fix" imo).
Listen I admit I hate talking to strangers but if one of my teammates was telling me useful info over game chat I'm taking it all in. I think it would be extremely healthy for solo queue if voice chat was implemented.
I simply run bond, open handed and that one perk that shows the killer's aura when someone is on hook. The fourth perk slot is free to change.
But with the first three perks I always have a good knowledge of what's going on and also if I am on hook, the others can rescue me more easily, so I am usually not left hanging there to die.
We finally got him. Scott doesn't actually play DBD, he called Thalita Elodie.
To be fair thalita sucks as a character in terms of perks
There’s also this guy named Mr. Tatorhead, he makes looping guides for specific maps, so it makes my solo que games 1000 times better so I highly recommend checking him out
What do I do if every single person on my team apart from me cannot last more than 15 seconds in chase?
Spreading out on gens is definitely the right strategy, but I wonder what Scott's thoughts are on if you happen to be running Prove Thyself? For instance, say I'm on a gen by myself and someone else comes up and joins me, and either I or the other person have Prove Thyself, the speed bonus we both get from the perk mitigates some of the benefit of me running to a different gen.
I'm willing to bet Scott thinks that prove thyself is a bad soloq perk. the reason you spread out isn't because of the speed loss from multiple people on a gen, but because the killer coming over can pressure two survivors off a gen instead of just one. the idea is to be working on as many different gens as you can to keep your map pressure spread as much as possible
I believe Scott has always disliked Prove Thyself even before it’s nerf. I never understood it because it comes in clutch a lot especially in 3 gen scenarios but he talks a lot about gen efficiency (which technically speaking 2 gens in 90 seconds is better than 1 gen in about 40 seconds is better) but it never really works out like that
@larsliamvilhelmI agree with this. Just don't run prove thyself. It's definitely not worth it. Even if you have it, it's still better to split up, making it even more useless.
@@BucsFanO22 I agree, i ran prove a lot before the nerf just for the bloodpoint bonus.
Ive been so destroyed by modern memes that i thought the title was to make solo queue Breedable.
Plapplapplap get tunneled get tunneled plapplapplap
@@adventurer3288stop that 😮
Just play xenomorph in crawler mode and have a dying survivor beneath you
09:00 thats why i always use kindred and my nickname is "USE THE PERK KINDRED". So much soloqueue problems would be solved if everybody used this perk.
I play solo queue because I like not knowing what’s going on. The pure randomness of not knowing what my teammates do. I also go with the mindset that I’m most likely not going to escape and I’m ok with that. Also I play with my tome challenges as my priority even if it means I throw the game just for the challenge.
“Even if it means I Throw the game for the challenge” -- This right here
Literally contributing to the team dying by throwing for your stupid challenge...
@@neenjaaa Ya, I was him until he said that lol. That's when we start having problems with solo Q.
lol as you should, they made the challenges I’m gonna do em
challenges kinda the reason solo q is full of people who throw
ive been noticing all 4 survs spawning together pretty fuckin often lately w no offering which is awful for solo q
Also, people are often to afraid to trade hooks in Solo lobby. I know many solo lobbies suck. But often enough also you get good teammates. So if it makes sense to rescue and trade hooks, do so. Especially when you have adrenaline and the last gen is being done. USE THE UI FOR INFO... that is all one needs.
i needed this SO BAD
Openhanded amd bond we're gonna live forever, last one standing or whatever the hatch finding perk is called, you're welcome
Thanks for the guide, Joe!
Sometimes it’s not better to spread out even in the beginning of a game. A finished gen that spreads a 3 gen can be worth more than 3 gens at 50% on the edge of the map that can be regressed with perks
and id still disagree its worth rushing it first. you'll likely not even finish it before the killer finds all 3 of you and then you've all wasted a ton of time
@@ScottJund 3 people on a gen is almost never a good idea that’s true. 2 max
@@yanyan_r1no. Pop three gens by first down consistently and tell me you preferred to to one less gen in the same time.
If you’re going to 3G, then you’re going to 3G and that’s your fault and not the killers
Just… stop doubling on a gem for no reason please. Just because you’re scared there’s going to be a three GEN doesn’t mean there has to be a three GEN just do one of the 3 gins and do three gens in a general triangle shape on the map and you’re fine.
You folks are the ones who say killer is too strong, you can’t figure out why you lose so often. Seems like it
@@LuckyKat89TV this is why discussing dbd is literally less productive than watching grass grow
@4:14. I respectfully disagree. I won’t go so far as to say healing is always a waste of time. In this case, a gen is being progressed, so it’s OK. However a chase is in progress, and I believe healing is less efficient than working on gens. Even in this case, if you two work on a gen, the injured person can stay and keep working while you get the unhook. Again, as long as a gen is progressing, it’s OK, but I think the biggest mistake Survivors make is healing at an inefficient time or healing when no gens are progressing. This is a big debate that I’d like to see discussed, but I think healing should only happen in a few situations. 1). No chase in progress, which means killers are really not making any progress. 2). The unhooked Survivor is on death hook. 3). At least one gen is being worked on, but even then I wouldn’t personally recommend it. I’d love discussion on this.
"Always have something next to your icon"
Kk, lemme just go find a chest to pillage while my team's in shambles
scott thx for spreading awareness WE NEED MORE VIDS LIKE THIS TO MAKE THE GAME PLAYABLE THE FANbase is doggy
Another tip is *not* to do safe gens, such as the shack corner gen, first :)
Context clues are super important for solo queue. I also wish teammates wouldn’t kick me off gens so much. It’s really annoying having to go find a new generator that’s spread out because Meg wanted to help out, when they could have found a different generator instead.
Also that’s Thalita, not Elodie.
Wth is a Thalita?
They're all Meg.
@@ToniToniChopaaa Thicclita
can you make a guide next where i learn how to unsinstall the game, would be much appreciated
i love solo q, i just kept playing until i grew to be okay with the constant death and loses lol
Why dont you have advanced controls in VLC player turned on Scott?
9:52 Scott be like: The killer is coming, go this way quick!
And the survivor is like: Nah i'll just go this way instead.
30secs later, she goes down.
Definitly a soloQ moment if I ever seen one.
I think also don’t play to win, just enjoy the chaotic experience
I would like to add on garden of joy ever since the rework occurred I’ve seen 2 generators spawn right next to each other often idk if that’s just me
Grim Pantry: Always save main building gen for last. If you do it first, you most likely already lost
-do not cleanse empty totems!
-do not open chests unless you are on deathhook, hurt and no one is around to heal you or in endgame or something like that.
-stop using selfcare
-dont do dumb challenges that kill your team, if you play well and escape, you will earn more bloodpoints than from those dumb challenges or something useless like opening chests, cleansing empty totems etc
-start learning how to loop the killer instead of stealth.
-dont DC!
-dont suicide on hook.
-try to genrush like your life depends on it (maybe even bring a toolbox)
-take a protection hit!
-do not take a protection hit for no good reason!
-learn to trade hooks if a killer is camping!
-DO NOT unhook your mates in front of the killer!
-DO NOT unhook your mates early if they are being tunneled
I think if most randoms would actually follow the above and the ones from this video, solo q would be much more bearable.
What is that build Scott 👀
"if you are you watching this video you are either stupid or masochistic"
bro no need to @ me so hard in the first 5 seconds gottdang
Nothing you said will make Claudette's stop self-caring in a corner. Still the #1 Killer perk that just keeps getting buffed.
I wish there were some way to tell the others that you're going for a unhook. Happens way to often that multiple people go. They should really add more emotes or something.
*Thalita exists*
Scott Jund: this Elodie!
😂
11:45 ive had teammates leave them on hook and they die while im being chased
Ive had that happen to me too
Would you say it's okay to group up on a gen at the start if a teammate has prove thyself?
still not worth it, no
No. The very start of a trial is *the* best time to split up. By far.
I ran prove thyself for years because it sounded awesome but Scott's right, the worst thing for a killer is 4 survivors spread out and constantly working on something. Those are my hardest killer matches by a mile.
Great video!
4k hours gaming DBD, 3k as killer and 1k solo queue.
Cool guide, thanks! But I'll not lie that is we had the same in-game quick sentences communication system as the mobile version it would be way easier
Real quick, I'm an Ash main who mostly helps others. Unless they mess up for the whole team. What character gives vibes of team work and what build.
I usually run kindred, light weight but have been swapping it out occasionally, deju, and I can't remember the last. But I try for 2 ish perks to help others and 2 to focus gens.
Rebecca (if you have her) with kindred, we'll make it, empathy, and aftercare. Personally I don't think you need perks to slam gens. They can help not get 3-Gen'd, but I find that realistically if you remember somewhat where gens spawn, and try to do gens based on what your teammates are doing (which you should know exactly where they are and what they're doing most of the time with this build), and you get a similar effect as deja-vu.
I play soloq, and never expect anything from anyone XD I use kindred purely because I expect the others to be dumdum's and I like watching the urban evaders out there
10k+ hrs mainly solo q (EU) who leaved dbd after b-day, because bhvr dosent want do any thing, i wait it for ages, but nothing is happen and after q and a, im happy i did left it before :) im also happy Otz is waking up and saw how the devs are :)) i will came back to dbd when bhvr gave us a real buff for solo q or making the matchmaking to a real skill based mm...
Lisa Garland + Botany Knowledge + Empathy + Solidarity + Autodidact.
That's my answer.
that's thalita friend, not elodie
There's no way you can convince me that "TheFemboyHandler" isn't Zubat.
Rofl
Thanks Scott now I’m not gonna have any value out of Deja vu, prove overzealous value because everyone will run away from me. How can I recover from this
The problem is that the people likely to watch this video are the ones who are already trying to be helpful. Great tips nonetheless that helps double down that but yeah it's preaching to the choir a little bit. See there's the dreaded thing called 'tome challenges' which is a significant part of the reason most solo queue team mates are awful. Take the example given at 3:26. The person behind you backs off, but if they had an 'unhook' challenge or a 'healing' challenge, there is a good chance they'd have tried their best to get that unhook anyway. Also applies to generators too at the start. There's a few that require you to do cooperative actions for x amount of time. Now if you are running away from a gen and that person has the challenge well...
Those challenges are also mild examples because they are likely to occur in natural play. Sniff the killers butt (without getting caught) or whatever it is and 'cleanse totems'. Ew. Those things need to die in a fire. If you want to encourage people to interact with totems or whatever, make them 'run this generic perk (e.g small game/inner healing though that's gone now yeah? Haven't played since then) for x games'. This way it's actually helpful and doesn't encourage players to throw games for the sake of their tome challenges. If the perk comes into play, great! If it doesn't it doesn't matter, progress is still made. Sure some people might hook suicide or whatever to get it over with but you could make it time based instead. Like run x perk for 10 minutes of gameplay.
Good. Now I just need to send this to three other survivors every game.
kindred.
‘Or you’re like me and have nobody to play with’ didn’t have to call me out like that
Zubat in tears
Its not really having nobody to play with, some ppl like me have plenty to invite but for ALOT of complicated reasons i wanna sometimes play alone and i do find more fun in solo q than with my swf, sadly solo sucks so bad that i fall back to my friends that i don't wanna play with just to make survivor playable
I think solo queue is alot more fun than survive with friends. Everything is more of a mystery and you have to make quick assessments on team member strengths and shortcomings which make the match much more exciting. The only time solo queue sucks is when a player or players throw the match.