Please give me an advice based on my gameplay
Was playing until 4 AM and decided to record my gameplay to analyze it later, can you give me any advice based on my gameplay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5r58nSs6Y&ab_channel=Yetti
Was playing until 4 AM and decided to record my gameplay to analyze it later, can you give me any advice based on my gameplay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5r58nSs6Y&ab_channel=Yetti
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Can we get an edited version of this, cutting loading screens and lobby waits? I'd love to help, but I don't really have two and half hours to watch it.
I also would like to help but I have to confirm I'm 18+ years old to watch. It asks me my ID card and my bank card to confirm... 🤔
It didnt do that to me. Kinda a red flag lmao
As far as I know youtube is testing a new age verification thing, it is not fully implemented yet, so it's not active for everbody, so I don't OP is responsible for that.
i don't really play billy so i'm not gonna comment on like, usage of his power since i don't know anything about using it. i don't know if it's correct to take loops wide with the intent of chainsaw drifting, i'll just stick to what i know.
also, is your gameplay choppy too, or is it just the video? i'm going to assume it's your whole computer based on some of the things you miss due to wiggly survivors at low framerates.
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game 1: aight now it's your turn on the hookyou do just fine, no major mistakes, the survivors go down one after another. game was basically over as soon as meg used for the people on dwight and you chainsawed him, giving her absolutely no value and leaving her broken for 80 seconds. they made a lot of mistakes and didn't manage to punish you for yours.
all i have to say is that you seem to lose track of people super easily in this match, so try to use your ears more. it makes you tunnel them in order of how obvious they're being instead of picking targets based on priority, which can lead to you losing gens left and right if they had properly played.
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game 2: girls weekend at the winter retreatat 23:57 you're chasing this kate around a generator that's like. massively nearly finished. you get a discordance alert all the way on the other side of the map and decide to fly straight there, dropping the kate completely. so you've given up a gen, AND you've given up a pop by not committing to this kate to go to a gen that you know isn't nearly done because tinkerer hasn't gone off.
so you fly all the way to the other side of the map to find zarina and feng. you injure them both, and then zarina taunts you into a chase. she gets away a bit, then you give up on her and go for feng, who's closer. but then zarina closes in again so you switch back to zarina. you finally down her and start flying to a gen that's popped tinkerer and then discordance, and you can see there's 2 people on it with BBQ. you really should've just pressured the gen you were on, and the feng, because if you bully the feng here then one of those other two has to save zarina for her.
ultimately the pop you get from hooking the zarina here doesn't end up going into a generator which is unfortunate. at 26:44 you can hear that the generator is 40%-ish completed and popping it here could have been huge.
i think this sequence is borne from information overload. you get and respond to the myriad of alerts your perks are giving you without planning around them. it's just very reactive gameplay rather than thoughtful gameplay, if you understand what i mean.
by and large though i think this game went downhill because of your computer being choppy. you miss a bunch of easy chainsaws because you just can't keep track with how wiggly these survivors are at your framerate. i think i counted like... 8 missed saws due to low framerate? it's just unfortunate, i'm sorry dude.
there's a chance you're joking around here, but like. if you are actually seriously thinking about not playing billy any more, i'd support it. i think you should play someone who's more consistent at a lower framerate. for game 3 you switch to bubba, so i'm inclined to believe you're not joking so much. in any case bubba is much more consistent at a lower framerate, so i'm glad you did this if billy was getting you down.
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game 3: hubba hubba it's bubba43:55 this is a minor thing but when you're chasing survivors at the TL walls (named for the fact one of them is a T and one of them is an L) you never want to go around the outside edge, otherwise you are physically incapable of ever catching them. cut through the middle and force them to go around the outside, then they have to take a 50/50 of vaulting/faking the window to keep away from you, it's just better.
48:30 this kate is running you in circles because she's running the loop much tighter than you are. try to hug those corners tighter. i know you can't do this while your chainsaw is revved but she's already injured so just m1 her. you keep trying to go for the chainsaw here which isn't gaining you any ground because you're not allowed to hug the loops otherwise you'll hit tantrum, so she's just going to stay faster than you. what i'm saying is, be aware of bubba's weaknesses. you do eventually realise this and then go for the m1 but a whole lot of time is eaten up here and i have a feeling it's going to be costly.
at 50:00 you're struggling to get up onto the hay bale so you can get the dwight, personally i'd just vault the window and force him off of the harvester entirely. if he tries to go back up to it, vault back and he's forced to go somewhere else. again it just seems to be time getting eaten up because you're in a rush. less haste more speed. once you have the dwight, you hook him near to either your ruin or your devour hope - i would've taken him to a different hook, tbh. you really can't afford to lose either of them.
52:04 you eat a DS. that's actually probably the right move - you have massive momentum here, you've just killed the kate and your devour hope is at 4 stacks. if there ever were a time to tunnel, this would be it, and you're tunnelling the guy that's really good at running you around, so getting rid of him will probably win you the game outright even if you lose devour hope afterwards. unfortunately you kinda switch target as soon as you see david which imo is costly. i think switching target here is what gives them time to find and cleanse your devour hope.
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game 4: step into my parlour... ok now step out of it thankscorrectly predicting that the claudette would jump into the locker and mindgaming her with the chainsaw is some GOOD STUFF. i saw it coming, you saw it coming, i hoped you'd do that, you did that. beautiful. poetry. that's a free basement hook.
however the gen she was working on... doesn't that seem a little bit too completed? doesn't that seem like someone else was working on it while you were chasing her? i would have proxy camped off the bat with the knowledge there was another person. claudette gets unhooked and you're nowhere near to do anything about it.
1:04:58 you should've taken the m1 hit on the dwight. there's just too much stuff around for you to get a chainsaw off. you're running nurse's calling, an injury now can be two downs later if you play it right. this is a trend in this whole chase with this dwight, you really wanna get that instadown chainsaw but there's just too much stuff. take the m1's when they're spoonfed to you, you would've had two hits by now.
again you basement someone and then you don't proxy camp it. you know everyone's around since you've just chased off ace and you've seen claudette pick dwight up on your nurse's - stay where the action is. if everyone's hanging around a hook, you should too! you have a tendency to want to Keep Doing Things and Remain Active no matter if the actions are accomplishing anything.
1:11:18 you hook the ace and then hit him on hook and nod a bunch. because he was clicking his flashlight? i know it's annoying, but listen. the generator literally 5 meters away from you just had a skill check failed on it. the dwight is right there. you can't afford to waste time BMing, the longer you spend wiping the blood off your weapon the more distance that dwight is getting on you. you've hooked the ace, get over him, stay focussed.
1:13:16 you break the pallet here when you could've just gone around it. the path on the left is literally lunge length. the dwight gets way more distance than he deserves here since he didn't stun you with it.
the chase with the ace takes much longer than it should. if you had m1'd him while you were bodyblocking him instead of going for a chainsaw, you'd have downed him on the pallet. again, the greed! and stop hitting him on hook and nodding at him, you're giving dwight a shitload of time and your pop is ticking. fortunately for you the dwight is stupid and just walks into you which is gg. i would not have been so kind.
also, being nasty in postgame chat is just. stupid. don't do that. you want to improve on killer? don't let some dude piss you off so much that you waste a bunch of time and then insult him in postgame chat because he clicked a flashlight at you. you ######### up so much purely because you were busy BMing him and you won because his teammates weren't as good as he was.
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game 5: the doctor is indoctor is a killer that i actually play, so you get more specific and nuanced critique of the actual usage of the powers on top of general gameplay stuff. hooray for you!
off the bat, you static blast to lazily check a generator from 30m instead of just looking at it. it was pumping and making noise, you could've known someone was on it without static blast, and then used static blast to find where that person was more specifically. as it is, all you know is that someone was on it, which the generator itself could've told you. so, it's a misuse of info gathering. i know this is like ten seconds into the match but static blast is extremely important to use well. this could be the difference between finding her and not finding her. as it turns out, you don't find her, and it's probably because of this static blast.
your 2nd static blast finds noone. it's really important for you to use static blast to precisely locate where people are currently hiding, and not broadly locate where people are generally in the vicinity of. patrolling generators can take care of the broad strokes, static blast is for homing in on the precise stuff.
pay attention to the UI when you do this, because you can see survivors get madness even if they don't scream due to calm spirit. you should be doing something like
find active generator -> kick generator (you have brutal strength, use it!) -> static blast
if there's a scream, go to it. if there isn't a scream, but the UI changes to indicate someone's madness went up, it's a calm spirit user.
if there's no scream and no madness tier up, listen to the lockers to hear a survivor's breath inside of it. checking it actively makes too much noise, narrows your camera too much, and if you get it wrong, will allow a survivor to slip out of the locker and start hiding normally. do not give them that opportunity. use your ears.
your 3rd static blast, you're using mid chase. you know where the feng min is, she's there! you're chasing her! you are 2 gens down and you haven't even landed a single hit yet. the core thing to blame here is your usage of static blast and this is the 3rd static blast out of 3. i don't mean to harp on about this so much, but this is super important to playing doctor.
this is your 4th static blast. can you tell me what's wrong with it, based on what i've said so far?
basically, if i had to point to a single reason as to why your first down is during the endgame collapse, it would be complete misuse of static blast. i hope that this has helped you understand what doctor's strengths are. you only get the kills in this game that you get because the survivors are overly altruistic - if it were me, i would have just left you with the 1k. or perhaps they're trying to get the gnome? i'll admit, after the EGC starts i skipped ahead to the results of this one since it's pretty conclusive.
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game 6: an apple a daythe next game is doctor again and it opens the same way, using static blast to cut corners on checking gens. i'm not going to hammer it in, since this is all prerecorded and there's literally no way for you to have acted on the critique that you have not received yet. basically, you know by now, and i know you know by now, so it's fine.
1:40:07 you lose track of the survivor here and, if i had to guess, i'd say that she Quick & Quiet'ed herself into that locker as soon as she turned the corner. survivor perk knowledge could have found her and gotten you your first down super quickly. remember, you're doctor, people want to jump into lockers a lot. you have discordance unlocked, do you also have iron maiden unlocked? i would equip that over third seal any day.
actually, watching the rest of the match and watching your horrible and evil plan come to full fruition, i change my mind. i would equip iron maiden over brutal strength. dude, this match looked like it was falling apart at the seams and then all of the sudden you'd won it. this was some gripping stuff, i hope you feel satisfied because i could not smell what the rock was cooking until he was feeding it to me. bravo. just, bravo. watching that survivor in the postgame chat flaming their teammates and then telling you to stfu was just... magnificent.
i do have to say that this only worked because claudette was the first one you slugged. either you actively chose to, or you got lucky, but empathy completely trumps knock out, so sealing her aura reading and making her unable to do anything was pivotal. this was partially great strategy on your part and partially them not cleansing third seal - that feng pushing the generator as the last one not slugged was just such a massive mistake, and her whole team died for it. gg as hell, dude. obviously she's the one flaming everybody too, because of course she is, lol.
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ok, that's all i'm gonna watch for now. so, big tl;dr and conclusion:
think before you act! information misuse is your achilles heel. saw it a lot on billy, saw it a lot on doctor. on one, you were given info without controlling when you were getting it, on the other you had the choice when you were acquiring info, in either case you tended to make mistakes with it. have a plan, and if you don't have one, make one.
don't tilt! don't let survivors get your goat by clicking flashlights and being annoying. you mismanaged opportunities a couple times because someone was tilting you, to the point of insulting them in postgame chat. and don't do that either, it sucks! once the game's over, if you have nothing nice to say, just say gg and leave.
take the free m1's! this one's more for bubba than anyone else but if a survivor's in your mouth, bite! don't waste time snarling, just bite!
use your ears! don't check lockers with the spacebar, check them with your ears. pay attention to grunts of pain and footsteps.
and... probably the worst thing i'll say today... maybe look into upgrading your pc? i think your framerate was the thing hurting your billy the most out of everything that was going on. i know, i know, it's not something that can be easily helped and it's mean to point out, but if you want to play to win, i don't know if you can play billy with your framerate. if you wanna play for fun, that's totally fine, but if you're really looking to win more and play more competitively, i don't think you can play billy at a higher level like that. decisionmaking aside, you can make all the best decisions in the world, but if you miss easy saws because survivors are teleporting around on your screen, it won't matter how good the plan is.
I don't think we were saying OP is responsible.
I never had the case, I didn't know Google was implementing such a verification. Good to know.
What a nice person you are. Stay safe, buddy.
i... don't know if you're being sarcastic... 😰😰
I'm dead serious lol You took your time to help someone. All of this nicely structured too.
you absolute mad lad dividing this into chapters lol!! Good advice (and chapter names jhddshka) hopefully OP can get some help from this :)!
Big thanks! That helped me a lot... I think... I'm losing framerates a lot while recording.... By the way, the last game 2:15:40 was as wraith, I 4k-ed but still feeling I messed some stuff up, bless you if you could give me any advice on that... 😅
when it comes to wraith he's pretty mindless now. he's literally so fast that it's really hard not to score hits, even if you do the most obvious things in the universe. all i can say is that the mistakes that are universal remain universal here.
2:17:12 it takes you a while to down this elodie because she's looping tight and you're looping wide. hug the corners closer to actually close distance.
2:19:46 you have two players on hooks in close proximity and you don't patrol at all. hooking two survivors is where you can start snowballing with constant hook trading. you can even slug for the 4k in this situation if you're lucky, or have the right info perks.
2:21:21 misuse of info, you see people healing up with nurse's but they finish healing before you're in a position to properly go for them. it would've been better to get yourself into a position where you're cloaked, like after hooking the jane, so that you then get all your speed bonusses and you can score the hits much easier. elodie ends up taking you for a ride here while jane gets picked up, since you left a slug in proximity of her teammates (and you knew they were there). this ultimately causes the team's full reset at 2:22:48.
2:23:38 same mistake, you down one girl and then see two more on nurse's and go into pursuit. thankfully it works out because the feng runs over to where her slugged teammate is at the same time you do, but this should have been a waste of time.
2:24:31 is basically GG. all survivors accounted for, one on hook and two down. recovering from this is going to be nigh impossible, and now it's gonna be all about cleanup speed.
the last two survivors are nearby and you don't patrol your basement hook which is unfortunate, then you're not there to catch them as they leave. this is gonna cut into that cleanup speed.
2:27:29 good use of those ol' Hears. stopped following the blood and started following the footsteps which ends the hunt extremely quickly. the subsequent chase is taking a while but i don't think there's anything you can do to shorten it. knowing she has a flashlight, you can't cloak and uncloak specifically to get the ambush because she can lightburn you. this is just going to go until she runs out of stuff.
2:28:41 remember what i said about TL walls? this is the same thing (two windows facing each other). eventually you cut across the middle which forces her to leave, but the entity also blocked one of the windows which double forced her to leave. again though there's no way for you to have taken my critique onboard before this game so it's fine, i'm just pointing it out for next time.
ultimately for wraith there's no real tricks or strategy to him any more, you just hit people until they die. it's a shame how his new lunge distance means they basically have to run sprint burst to avoid your hits because it kind of took all the fun of popping out from around corners away. mistakes made on him are going to be super minor and they're going to be mistakes that'll appear on other killers since his skill ceiling is so low.
Mostly be more efficient with your movement. Don't waste a bunch of time looking around and changing directions. Pick a destination and go to it. And then don't run loops too tight else you'll hit them walls, and don't run them too wide else you'll never catch up to the survivors.