Advice on playing survivor

ShamelessPigMain

I'm pretty bad at survivor, I only play as them occasionally. Usually what happens is that one or two people are on death hook by three gens, nobody's making generator progress, and most of us are injured. At that point, is it worth healing, or should we just push generators?

SilentPill

Nope, run left behind key. Swap at 6 seconds from a firecracker so it’s less obvious.

DawnMad

Depends on many things. Is there a safe tile nearby? Is it a predictable killer you can reliably loop for a while? Are you the person on death hook? How close is the generator to being done? How far away is the killer and how much time do you have? Things like these are called game sense that you develop by playing the game, or you can watch some YouTube videos. Those help a ton.

Also don't expect Solo Queue teammates to play well, more often than not they will be walking around doing nothing the whole game.

PotatoPlayer

What helps me is thinking each game is expendable, or that each game's purpose is for bloodpoints. Don't think of winning, just do what you think is right lol. For me, I like unhooking people and doing gens, but for others it can be escaping on their own or hiding. (and I'm at low rank, where people don't really make high level moves to ensure team victories)

In your case, sometimes it's hard to make a turn around especially if you still have 5 gens left and the killer is constantly after you. I personally make healing a priority no matter what, because I personally think it helps, and also some other teammates might not think the same so I might be the only person willing to heal in a pinch lol. Then do what you can: do gens or elude the killer.

ShamelessPigMain

@SilentPill said:

Nope, run left behind key. Swap at 6 seconds from a firecracker so it’s less obvious.

I swore to never join the dark side but if you say it sure lol

Zozzy

Learn to wait at corners and learn the safe points on every loop.

Play on ultra to make the killer glow brighter and longer.

Look behind you now and then to see what the killer is doing.

Master all this and the killer won't be able to catch you.

MikeyBoi

@ShamelessPigMain said:

I'm pretty bad at survivor, I only play as them occasionally. Usually what happens is that one or two people are on death hook by three gens, nobody's making generator progress, and most of us are injured. At that point, is it worth healing, or should we just push generators?

Well based off your name I’m assuming you’re a killer main, so why not do things as survivor that irritate you when you play killer. For eg: pre run early off the gen to a safe tile, greed pallets (pause in front of the pallet) and if the killer respects it time for another loop after you’ve looped it twice, toxic swap to a flashlight and go for cheeky flashlight saves, learn to run shack properly, good survivors can run any decent killer at shack for 1-2 gens before slamming god pallet. Abuse main buildings, dead hard for distance to a safe vault/pallet.. Iron will at long wall gyms is disgusting and for combining gyms/tiles.. Play smart and optimally. Pre slam pallets against deathslingers and pyramid heads. If your at L and T walls fast vault over and then maybe slowvault over again to mind game the killer a bit. Dumb tech the killer every now and then to throw them off.

lagosta

@SilentPill said:

Nope, run left behind key. Swap at 6 seconds from a firecracker so it’s less obvious.

hahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhaha. I luv this advice, true SQ here :D

TheWarNung

Learning to loop well and conjoin tiles is pretty key. Assuming that you're a killer main (based on your name and nearly 800 posts) I'm guessing you've already seen numerous examples of survivors looping well. Learn from them and practice. Learning to loop individual tiles well like jungle gyms and shack is important, but learning to conjoin tiles is what the best survivors do.

Equally important is learning good game sense from the survivor perspective. A good teammate spends a lot of time on gens in addition to getting chased. Prioritize splitting up and doing multiple gens. Tackle the central gens first to avoid getting 3 genned. Learn (through experience) when you should be slamming gens and when you should break off to get the save. Trust in your teammates to be altruism-crazy.

Scouting the map and remembering which tiles/pallets are where is very important. "Scouting" often just means looking around while doing gens to see what's nearby. When the killer starts a chase with you you should already have a plan on where to run to and how to loop them.

Also, don't be afraid to take a dive fir your teammates. Letting the killer hook you for the first time to draw him away from your teammates on death hook is super helpful.

Above all, be efficient. You need to do gens to win, so they should alaays be your priority. Nothing causes me more distress as survivor than getting chased for several minutes and downed only to see my teammates aren't doing jack-squat.

Starr43

@ShamelessPigMain said:

I'm pretty bad at survivor, I only play as them occasionally. Usually what happens is that one or two people are on death hook by three gens, nobody's making generator progress, and most of us are injured. At that point, is it worth healing, or should we just push generators?

Small tips I would give to all survivors is to be mindful of others hook states and to capitalize on situations that can increase the pressure you place upon the killer

examples:

• if everyone other than you has been hooked once then you should be the one going for the unhook (unless someone is healthy and you are unable to heal or safely unhook)
• If you haven’t been hooked then depending on the situation it can be beneficial to take a hit for your teammate to hopefully give them a chance to escape and reset/heal, while in a best case scenario you manage to take aggro from the killer (even if you end up going down you’ve successfully prolonged/prevented someone else from reaching death hook) - Managing to take the killers attention off someone on death hook by risking one of your own hook states to keep a teammate alive can be huge
• If you see a survivor get chased off of a gen then don’t be afraid to stick by because they might leave the area. Take advantage of this situation to finish off the rest of that survivors progress if possible (this is invaluable if completing that gen means breaking up the possibility of giving the killer a 3 gen they can easily defend
• Spread out and pick which gens you work on strategically. If a survivor is on a gen near the outer perimeter then see if you can apply some pressure to the gens in the middle of the map (complete a gen, skip the next one you see and start working on the next one after that to avoid finishing all the gens in one area of the map
• Don’t be afraid to be injured sometimes because there are times where it is reasonably safe to complete a generator, unhook, pick up a slug, open the exit gate and so on where the opportunity may be lost if taking the time to heal first wasn’t the right call - you can even finish the rest of a gen with your buddy hanging beside you on the hook before you rescue if the killer went across the map and has little reason to think the objective is being completed.

These were just a few very small tidbits and I’m not an expert by any means so take what I say with a grain on sand. Make your judgment calls based on in-game events and have some fun out there:)