5 most common mistakes my Survivors make | Dead by Daylight 

I wanna see outtakes/bloopers video of your intro/recordings

The way to make sure the killer doesn't know all four of your perks is to not run perks. Works every time.

Please make a video of 50 intros.

The mistake that I see the most and i wish some people started to understand is to NEVER work on a gen at the start of the game with 3 people if noone has Prove Thyself. This is such a waste of a time - killer has much easier time pressuring you, after hooking your teammate across the map. Always split up if you're in groups of 3 or more, go to the other side of the map, start different gens. If a killer has no info perks or even if he does - seeing 2 people on different gens with BBQ and not seeing the 3rd one is that exact moment a killer realizes "i'm fucked"

Sometimes your teammates just want to see you suffer and the mistake you made was thinking you were going to have a good time.

Speaking of the whole "Dying in the corner of the map" thing, some survivors used this against me in quite a nasty way yesterday. They just had one guy with no mither who would constantly run to the corner of the map when I was about to get them then their team would sabo the only hook that was in distance of them so I would be forced to leave them so they can self revive and repeat the process.

This is why I say DBD is two separate games with some mechanical crossover being played at once. Killer is a totally different ball game than survivor. I think this is why the community is so often split as to who is more powerful.

After playing with solo queue, #1 is less of the player issue and more of a team issue. Players I think naturally play more passively with more hooks as they know they are going to die but I have met so many solo queue survivors who just never take a down for a teammate. As a killer, I once managed to find a blendette who had 0 hooks despite some of her teammates being on death hook already, only for her to dc at 1st down which threw them the game (last gen already). My worst example and also funniest experience was a guy who brought a key and whose perks were distortion, empathy, sole survivor, and left behind. He openly bragged that I didn't manage to hook him once and get the 4k as he was the only one who escaped by letting his team die on 1st hook, then unlocking a hatch I closed. Endgame chat was hilarious: his whole team cursing him while he replied that solo queue is ass, deal with it and it was every man for himself. For me, that was the 1st time I saw somebody actually bring the perk sole survivor and learned the type of person who would do that

Otz: Do not reveal perks too early Survivor: Reveals DH, BT, DS and Unbreakable Otz: Wait, that's illegal!

Love these tips, some more I'd throw in: 1) Please do NOT rush to rescue right away. Each hook stage has 60 seconds, so you can play time and do some gens until you figure out who's doing the rescuing and who's still on gens 2) Get a gate to 99 percent if you or your teammates feel like rescuing someone. This will prevent EGC from happening, so you have more time to rescue the survivor should you wish to do so 3) Abuse 99s more in general, because when you do a gen that location is given away to the killer. You can sneak in a heal before popping the gen for example. 99s can help if you have a hunch the killer has NOED (e.g. he's been hard camping people) and need time to take out the totems for it before popping the last gen. 4) Know when to cut your losses and get out of there. I've seen altruism get survivors killed, especially in a scenario where NOED is up and people don't have BT + DS + DH etc to fight it during rescues or someone isn't doing totems. That said PLEASE don't be the person who hides in basement/locker and lets everyone die early just so you can get hatch, only do so when you realise the game is hopelessly lost and it's looking like a hatch game (survivors dying early, everyone's on death hook, only 1-2 gens are done etc) 5) Keep an eye on your teammates status icons, if you see one get injured "killer's on Jake" and if you can't hear TR/see them you know they're miles away and you're safe on the gen 6) Speaking of status icons, use those to ID the killer ASAP as well as other clues (generic terror radius means it's one of the older killers, sound helps ID a Wraith by his woosh sound when cloaking, chainsaws are obvious, Nurse's scream etc). This helps you ID who you're against, so you know what killer power you're facing and how to deal with it. Nightmare has the white clocks on survivors faces, Pinhead's is blue circle chain, Plague has green circle to denote infected once she's infected a teammate, Pig has her timer circle with traps, Jigsaw boxes if you see them before you see her that's Pig also. Spine chill on + no terror radius + red stain, could be stealth killer as well as perks/add ons 7) Be mindful of hook states. Otz did touch on this in this video, but if you've not been hooked once and the others have been, perhaps it's time for you to be the one rescuing others + taking hits if you have to 8) One trick i do (it seemed to work judging by this TTV I faced in solo queue, I checked the VOD and the gen mostly masked my aura vs BBQ and Chilli unless he's at a certain distance/angle to said gen), is soon as I hear someone's downed, I let go of the gen, rotate round so it's between me and the downed teammate and then keep repairing it. That way I can keep working on my gen while denying the killer value after his hook. It's not foolproof, sometimes the hook is at another angle relative to the downed survivor but it definitely makes it harder for the killer to track me post hook 9) Be mindful of verticality on 2 floor maps. Basically Midwich and RPD, but some maps have upstairs parts too (Lery's, Thompson house of the farm maps, Dead Dawg's Saloon etc). This is good to know because you can hear the terror radius like he's very close to you, but the killer is above/below you. Don't let this make you panic, try to get confirmation before fleeing that killer is near you and not above/below you in a spot they can't immediately get to you. On that note, nurse can blink vertically too, so be careful of that Optional tip: - I HATE camping as much as any other player, but if you wanted your team to win, along the lines of 1), waste his time on both stage 1 and 2 of the hook. That's 2 minutes your teammates can do gens while he stares at you like an idiot wanting you to die. This is assuming your teammates collectively agree to punish the killer like this. Of course it's EXTREMELY unfun for the person on hook and the survivor side feel bad leaving that person on hook, so that's why many don't do that and I don't blame you either. I wish the devs would punish it the same way Pyramid Head's cages do, teleport after a few seconds of being near it but they won't so *shrugs*, that's just how it is sadly

Hook bombing and unnecessary trades with BT are a big problem i see in my killer matches, sometimes its best to just let your teammate marinate on that hook for a bit instead of unhooking before the killer has had a chance to leave the area

#5 revealing perks too early is exactly why adrenaline is so much stronger than it’s base value. Because 95% of the time killers don’t see it coming.

Another thing to note with the final tip, this strategy has actually gotten stronger, as this is THE hard counter to Scourge hooks, as from what I've seen, they favor the center to cover most of the map.

5 Most Common Mistakes: 1. Not hiding when dead on hook 2. Allowing camping by being injured 3. Starting gens that you cannot commit to 4. Bad timing or placement of boon totems 5. Revealing several perks too early

I've done the reverse of strategy 4. As a very bad survivor, I will clicky clicky, to make them think they don't want to chase me.

Yesterday I told my friends I was playing with “I’m gonna act super immersed so the killer commits to me” and it worked beautifully

The thing that bugs me most is my fellow survivors always do a far off gen, I wish people would understand to just do more centralized gems more!! And to not do all the gems on one side!!! It’s so vital yet so overlooked

“Don’t let them know your perks” it’s why I love running dumb builds like: inner strength, head on, dead hard, q&q. They see one exhaustion and don’t account for the other, stupid gimmick build but I’ve made a lot of killers whiff, get needlessly stunned or let me heal mid chase because of. 10/10 works sometimes everytime.

Another boon tip is to not keep going back to the same damn totem every single time. I had a game where I got free hits and downs purely because Mikaela kept booning the same totem and it was right next to the gen she and Laurie were working on, so I just kept snuffing and pressuring while knowing they were there every time I heard the boon thunderclap. Try and find at least two totems that you can bounce between so the killer doesn't immediately know where to go every time you boon.

Best strategy that I tell my friends, ALWAYS be doing something. Being on a gen/saving a teammate is #1 priority. Healing is next then doing totems (unless you see a hex before a gen then of course do it) I see SO many new survivors who think they have time to walk around and check out the killer, check the basement chest, vibe around then don't do a gen for 4 minutes when the killer gets a couple hooks and you end up losing. 1 or 2 people like this on your team can mean an auto lose if they don't get chased

my recommendation for boon totems is place them where gens are already finished one it gives your boon a much safer spot but two gives the survivors a much better area to waste killers time if they have to be in or around the area.

"Sometimes killers tunnel and camp" Yeah i wish it would be sometimes...

Thank you for addressing Boons, they have become just as tedious to watch as Self Care. Loading into a game as survivor just to see 3 people booning and wasting time constantly. Constantly rebooning instead of just using the one that already exists.

I like how otz thinks like a real survivor. Personally I try to go for the save all the time even if there is litterally no chance even if thats just dancing at the urges of madness because its a game and I have nothing to lose other then my mental healt and its already in a bad shape anyways. Otz trying to get whatever he can get from the situation and its not a bad thing to do.

one common mistake I see survivors doing is not dropping the pallet, I downed so many survivors just because they were so greedy. Many games just because of this I win as killer.

The "jump into a locker" thing reminds me of a round where I just had to laugh about the killer as I was the only one killed in a round of solo queue. It was a legion, chasing me and 5 seconds after I was on the hook 2 gens popped and he started camping the hook in a 5 meter radius... Two of the others came to unhook me and he tunneled. I jumped into the locker next to the hook. He was standing in front of the locker and trying to bait a head on stun out of me for so long that I had crows above me and the next 3 gens popped... He then took me out of the locker and face camped. The other 3 got me unhooked once more but no BT so I was instant down, dead and they escaped. My perks where: Borrow Time, Bonding, Kindred, Spine Chill 🤣 They saw him camping and did the right thing, just finishing the gens. And he had a whooping 3 people watching him camping on twitch. 🤣 Sorry but nothing can excuse that play style and I was just happy to waste his time by standing in a locker.

Common mistake: Randomly letting go off the gen for no important reason and then having the gen explode cause of a skill check you couldn't react to. In the beginning of the trial I like to let go off the gen to see if the killer has Ruin and having the status icon show up on the HUD. Instead of randomly letting it go you should wait for a skill check and let go immediately after the skill check is done. This makes it so the gens won't explode, giving the killer no information and avoiding the regression penalty.

I love saving the funny vault for the second chase, lots of killers aren't expecting the survivor to quietly get lithe with no scratch marks as soon as they try a mind game

A funny thing I've found to do with flashlights is to shine it in the killers eyes at a pallet and they'll turn away whilst approaching and allow for a very easy pallet stun, it's helped me stun so many killers that are otherwise very hard to stun because they're aware of mindgames.

Survivors after watching this: stop using bad strategies, start using good ones Killers: improvise, adapt, overcome!

Survivors: Watching to learn from mistakes Killers: getting ways to catch survivors

As someone who's only been playing survivor for 2 months, I can't/won't say I'm skilled or good at the game. I try to watch lots of DBD content so I can learn new things or learn from my mistakes. I'm by no means a veteran; just your casual gamer who tries to be a decent teammate on solo queue. But last night I had a game against a Wraith on Autohaven Wreckers where I followed Otz's Good Strategy #5 without realizing it. I was on death hook and injured; most of my team was also injured (shout out to David, Steve, and Mikaela, btw). I saw that one of the exit gates was open, but not the one I was closest to. I didn't want David or Steve to go down because they were also on death hook, so I caught Wraith's attention and ran to the opposite end of the map. He chased me (luckily) and I got downed in a corner near the unopened exit gate; he hooked me, but it was too late by that point. My teammates escaped; I was the only kill that that Wraith got. He played fairly, I think, so I wasn't upset. I'm just glad my teammates lived.

it's easy to say "just hide when dead on hook" but the sad reality is that the vast vast majority of your teammates aren't going to take a chase, so unless you're planning on urbaning from corner to corner, you'll end up dead soon anyway. because you'll still try to do gens, while your teammates hide at the slightest sound of terror radius.

One really big mistake I see a lot is "gens before friends". A lot of survivors don't understand that it doesn't matter if you finish 3 gens if you let someone die, because a 3v1 is almost impossible to win. It's very situational if you should do the gen first or save first, but the biggest takeaway is don't let anyone on your team die unnecessarily if you can help it (unless it's a camping insta down killer, then leave them). Edit: Obviously I was exaggerating a bit in my previous comment, I clearly didn't mean that a 3v1 is impossible to win. My point was only that it makes the game so much harder to win. Also it's very situational, for example a good nurse is far more likely to win in any case vs a lower tier killer or if a killer plays on their worst map they are more likely to lose. There are a plethora of things that can change the odds of winning or losing and every game is situational. That's what makes dbd the asymmetrical game that it is, which is one of the reasons why I love it so much! All I'm saying is don't let your team die unnecessarily because it makes the game more difficult. And personally, I try to save my team even if I die or if it might not be the best play because I find that fun and I hate not trying my best to save everyone.

One thing I have been seeing constantly since Circle of Healing was introduced is survivors running directly up to the totem itself to heal instead of taking advantage of the aoe effect. Don't give away it's position! Let the killer waste precious time looking for it.

A lot of survivors also don't acknowledge perks like Retribution, Haunted Grounds or Pentimento. They see a hex totem and they cleanse it. While that is tempting ofcourse, I'm of the thought that if you don't know what a Hex is (ex. no ruin, blood favor, etc. in play) there's no reason to cleanse it. Unless ofcourse you see a lit totem after all generators are done, then you can usually quite safely assume it's NOED.

I believe that clip of ayrun is just ayrun trying risky shit as always 😂 great video otz!

Lovely tips and hopefully we get to see the outtakes

Mistake No.1: Not doing Gens Mistake No.2: Not doing Gens Mistake No.3: Not doing Gens Mistake No.4: Not doing Gens Mistake No.5: Not doing Gens 7/10 times the reason I lose a match on survivor is because either my teammates or I are not doing gens. You can do all the sick plays with flashlights and blocking the killer from hooking you want, but at the end of the day that only stalls them, and you're still going to have to do the gens.

These were super helpful! I have about 1k hours in the game mostly on survivor and I was surprised by how many of these I hadn't thought about or don't consciously practice in my own games. Thanks!

The sight of Myers just silently judging you for your gameplay during the entire intro...

Yo the fake stealth idea is something I never thought of doing. You’re a genius Otz

Mistake number 1 is my friend. He is always willing to die to complete a generator. Even if he's on death hook, he will sit on a generator even if the killer is nearby. One match he got triple hooked quickly because he kept going back to the generator and popped it in the killer's face. It was only the second generator and we were on the game lol. One good thing I can say is that if he's alive he's most likely on a generator.

15:42 Otz being more brutal than any killer

I wish those "team perks" would also be used more. They're so powerful but they really only work when you have at least one other person queue with you. Distortion, for example, is more or less useless in that aspect if you're alone and you might as well bring one of those meta "selfish" perks. Honestly, even a chat system between survivors when in-game would be good but I understand why they won't do that (console). I genuinely think if they want to bring Solo up to the level of SWF before they buff killers, they need just give a better way for survivors to communicate with each other. Whether thats through pings, voice chat, text chat, etc. Communication is what makes SWF so strong and once you give that to solo survivors, you can make killers stronger assuming that ALL survivors have those good comms instead of having to cater to the survivors that solo queue and will generally be clueless and have a 4th of the information.

#6 is not reading the FAQ

Smart use of team oriented perks is huge! Cope just posted a video yesterday of him against a nurse and during end game he used deliverance and was broken but also had DS and he got downed near the gate. The issue was that both DS and Deliverance has a 60 sec time and the killer knows this and was looking at the icon to see when his broken status went away to pick up because that means DS is also gone but when he picked up DS was still active because a teammate had Vigil and that tricked the killer and Cope used DS and escaped.

I’m really putting time into watching these type of videos just to better myself as a teammate, not that I’m bad but I might’ve been harming the team unknowingly. I’m definitely keeping these tips in mind for the next match, that minute I take to assess the situation before I go on ahead to bless a totem or do a gen could help the match later on. Thanks Otz ❤

A common mistake I've seen a few times too often is survivors unhooking their teammates early, especially if everyone was on gens or the killer has been seen tunneling or camping.

Fun fact: Otz was playing all the matches that appeared in real time while he talked

Thank you, Otz. I feel validated in my choice to always bring Distortion when I'm playing with friends to call out perks and add ons. People don't give it enough credit as a strong team info perk, I very rarely don't get good use out of it in a full team. 🥰

I love the "be relieved, relax" reference to Dance With Me, I was listening to otz ramble about the common mistakes while playing Darkest Dungeons and when I heard him say that I felt happiness pump through my heart

• look behind you every so often; • try to remember what perks your teammates have and who has what; • always think killer has noed UNLESS you figured out 4 perks; • don't use selfcare to heal yourself UNLESS there's no sloppy butcher AND it's only you and another person with no way to get healed: • take a hit/down for teammate if they're on death hook or you haven't been hooked; • open chests if you can afford it - not when someone is on the hook about to die, you can see gen regressing 10 meters away from you; • if you know there's a Blendette/extremely immersed lazy survivor - sell them out for self satisfaction and killer may let you live

Most common mistake my survivors make: trying to do the gens. It takes 80 seconds per gen (PER gen!!!) and you need to do 5 of them! Think of how many chests you could loot, totems you could boon, or self-cares you could complete instead :)

Mistake #1 and Good Strategy #5 are VERY important, I've been executing them since very early in my DBD adventure and both have worked extremely well for me. Excellent video dude!

i’m glad you touched upon boon totems, that’s something i’ve noticed has become the new “self-caring in a corner” in solo q in terms of wasting time. yesterday i had two teammates who kept activating circle of healing & self-caring against a huntress with iri head (who was hitting all her shots), forcing the match to come to a standstill due to all the time that was being wasted. in the end i was the only one pretty much ever on a gen lmaooo.

"That's all I have for you today" he says after giving out 10 great tips, we don't deserve this man!

Otz, I tought that using Camaraderie would be one of the unused strats! You ALWAYS talk about how "a Camaraderie activating right now would be really bad for me", especially since you just divulged the benefits of camping those last 20 seconds of a survivors final hook stage.

The absolute worst mistake I see survivors commit, is wasting the first 60 seconds of a match. Setting up questionable boons, opening chests or running around the map. You have a 1 in 4 chance of being the first survivor found by the killer. That's essentially a free generator most of the time, barring edge cases. And if the first caught survivor gives a decent chase, you could be looking at not 1 but 2 or 3 free generators.

Amazing vids, once I get the twitch prime, I am giving it to you because you are doing so much for the community

Man, I feel like you just watched my entire history of DBD games and pointed out every single thing I do wrong 😂 I promise I'll do better

I love using Kindred (for team knowledge), Detectives Hunch (for gens and totems) and COH for keeping my team healthy!

so helpful Otz keep up the amazing content!

This was awesome thank you so much otz!!!

50 times? That's a new video for sure. "50 Intro Streak on Otzdarva".

I actually main Dwight with Prove Thyself for BP gain and I’ve noticed the serious difference in not bringing it. I also unironically use stealth to hide from Killers, and it very rarely fails. I really do like to play a team-oriented kind of build as Survivor since literally no other Survivors use team perks that I’ve seen. It can make a huge difference.

Otz talking about people needing to use perks like Distortion more makes me so happy. Distortion is literally my favorite perk it gives so much information.

Great video as always Otz

12:23 Detective's Hunch, Kindred, and Open Handed with a Rainbow Map and a Crystal Bead is one of my favorite team perk combo. Kindred provides high quality info for the position of the killer and survivors for the entire team and Detectives Hunch with a Crystal Bead map allows the entire team to gain the benefit of Detective's Hunch. Great for revealing nearly the entire layout of gens and totem spawns to the entire team. It is also impossible for the killer to detect these perks.

Those are some great insights, one I see often is people giving up when they ID BBQ or alternatively not properly playing against it. Some things that should be remembered are that the killer sees auras for a short period after hooking, it does NOT show your aura if you are inside the terror radius and that the aura reading follows normal aura rules. By hiding in a locker, running in a fake direction for 4 seconds, faking a gen or running distortion you can give the killer faulty info or even no info from their perk. If you are good at chases faking a gen or faking stealth just outside the terror radius is a great way to make yourself a very tempting target for any BBQ&Chili Coneuseiur If you are terrible at chases or are death hook and see the killer pick up a survivor near you, hop in a locker to avoid tuneling. If you are going for saves stick near the killer like glue once they pick up, but for the love of the entity stay out of sight. Just because they can't see your aura doesn't mean they lose the ability to see your face sticking out from behind that tree And if none of the above apply run in a fake direction for 4 seconds from the moment the killer hooks, then go in the correct (preferably opposite) direction via walking or stealth.

This video is actually really helpful. as an experienced surv, some of these things i never concidered, such as going in locker to avoid franklins, jolt, etc.

Your effort is appreciated Otz.

We’ll make it is my favourite perk because it saves so much time and works for 90 seconds so even when that survivor who knows you have it runs away to a corner to self care like a dumb dumb it can still help on others

I'v been playing a lot of DBD and a lot of these tips are something that i'v taken to heart over the last couple weeks. When it comes right down to it every Trial is basically a game of applying pressure points, both as a killer and survivor you should be aware when someone is trying to apply the right amount of force on a match to trigger what I term 'cascading failure', the point where one mistake takes the otherwise steady tempo of the killers and survivors and then gradually blows up into increasingly severe problems. Last night we were playing a Ghosface who was camping on hook. It was obvious that he just wanted one of us out of the game early so that he could then apply pressure to the rest of us when we were much weaker. He should have taken Bubba because what we proceeded to do was essentially rotate who was on the hook. At the low end of stage two we would go over to the survivor, yank them off with the expectation he would down one of us(While our fourth was still doing gens of course.) and then when he was hooking whoever went down, the person who had been hooked previously would hide and do gens. He eventually killed me but it cost him every other generator and all of my teammates escaped because he simply wasted too much time watching us on hook rather then applying consistent pressure to our team. Also as someone who always love to run team perks like Vigil, I appreciate the shoutout to them. Perks like that, For the People, We'll Make It, Leader, Prove Thyself, etc will make the killers life very difficult. Altruism is the Survivors greatest weakness but also their greatest strength, because at the end of the day the Killer can't be in four places at once. If you all work together you can overwhelm him.

Very interesting video with a lot of helpful information. Some things you have mentioned are currently really hard to implement considering playing solo or duo :/

thank you for the tips i'll try to apply them to my games more often specially the flashlight and locker ones cause they seem easier for me i often go into a locker if i know i'm going to get hit but i get out right away if the killer misses the attack and it serves no purpose because they hit me after that and if they have some perk that benefits from that they still get it, so maybe i'll stay in the locker when i know the killer will get me so they don't get value from their perk i will also try to make builds so i can use the flashlight like in that one other tip i often use builds that i need to bring a medkit to be able to heal, so i'll need to change it up a bit so i have a method of healing with my perks and then i can carry a flashlight and maybe try to help my teammates that way i'm not that good at flashlight saves but now i know how i can help my teammates in some other way using flashlights! often when i try to be the flashlight saver i don't get to do anything with my flashlight because it's kinda difficult to learn that, but now i can at least mess up the killer's chase when a teammate needs it i have to admit tho when i didn't know that i found it really weird how some players would just used the flashlight in a way that obviously wouldn't blind the killer, but maybe *some* of them were using this technique to buy time for other teammates(some of those players were just being a bit dumb tho i'm sure :' ) ) i'll rewatch this a few times too so i don't forget the tips

This was actually so good for me, I just recently started using boon perks and first thing I did in every game is to find totems and bless them. 10 seconds pass, I find out it's a Bubba/Plague and proceed to be like 🤡

See, the meme was cool, but by saying you tried to record the intro 50 times I can say for sure you ARE the real Otzdarva. Blink twice if you're being held captive by this Not Otzdarva guy.

Smart! I did not even think of the "hiding in locker to avoid jolt"!

Tbh I have to say I have seen loads of videos saying common mistakes survivors make when playing dbd but I have to say the videos I’ve seen and I’ve came across haven’t even came close to your videos otzdarva you truly are a god among gods. But one final thing I just played dbd for the first time and I saw this and I listened to all of it you truly made my day thank you.

Otz it’s okay to use the first intro we don’t judge here

Ah yes "5 mistakes MY Survivors make" otz dosent even try to hide his paid actors anymore.

I was hooked the whole time. Great video.

On the topic of boons.. Don't go back to set up a new boon at the same spot over and over.. The killer knows what you're doing and is going to kick it out over and over if you insist on wasting your time doing that

A little extra on Boon Totem placement, specifically for Shadow Step, in my personal experience it's ok to place it as the beginning if you're placing it right next to a Gen, because you can get on that Gen and if the killer comes you can just sprint away and hide before they get there and see you and have no scratch marks. You don't even have to worry about the totem making noise since if you're doing a Gen there's already noise in that area anyways.

As killer, recently, I've had quite a few of these happen to the group I'm playing against. Among them is 3 genning themselves and me getting a survivor hooked by the 3 gen. They can't do gens or save safely because they are all injured. So that ties problem 2 with 1 and another problem. I have no reason to leave that area, and they get mad at me for stating there, but why should I leave? This list is very important to abide by

Thank you so much for doing survivor content. You're very popular but most of your content is killer based and I don't play killer so I'm always thankful when you show survivor some love. Big hugs!

Distribution of team perks was a great tip to see, thats one thing that I actually felt me and my friends do well. Me and my friends all distribute perks, I'm the information junky with Distortion and Kindred, Another teammate runs provethyself, and so on.

Love the video Otz, one thing i would like to mention is I disagree on your take that using perks like ds, iron will, and dh as selfish compared to other perks that would help all your team like prove thyself, I had the same mindset as yours till I reliased the only person you can rely on in SoloQ is yourself, if you make all the perks you use benefit you and your experienced at the game, then using the strongest perks like DS is actually more beneficial for your whole team then other perks that would help your team directly, yes I can speed up gen speed slightly for my whole team, but did my DS or Deadhard I used mid chase that gained me an extra 20 seconds in chase actually benefit my entire team more than ANY perk?

Otz, please do a killer sided version of this video, i would LOVE to see it:)

I would really like a video about how you stay so positive and play so much of this without getting tired of it. I love this game, I love the art, the idea, most of the gameplay-loop but somehow I can't bring myself to play it a lot and I rather watch videos of other people playing.

Thanks Otz been losing a lot lately with survivor runs. This will help me later on.

This is a pretty obvious one but one that is very important don’t camp pallets. also don’t throw down killers shack pallet at the start of the game even if your going to go down.

Otz’s chair made it look like he’s ready to get married, don’t worry Otz you look beautiful :)

That flashlight tip is so helpful. I'm terrible at flashlight saves. I'm kinda new but knowing I can at least distract or divert the killers pov seems very helpful. I die in corners all the time rofl! I thought it's cuz I was actually bad but maybe it actually helps lol.

I feel like doing gens separately is better than together because it pressures more at once. If 2-3 people are on one gen (even with prove thyself) and get pushed off, then learn the killer has ruin or pop, then all that progress is gone completely.

So basically a good survivor should know exactly what they should be doing at any given time throughout the match

This was super fascinating and educational thank you!

My favourite faking-stealth play is what I call "the classic jebait", where I get in a locker with head on just as the survivor gets hooked. If the killer has BBQ, they'll think I'm making a mistake and trying to avoid the perk too late, and they pretty much always come to grab me without considering the possibility of head on; I then stun them and start looping. Even if they catch me quicker than I'd like, the knowledge that they had that moment of "haha, gotcha" only to be totally blindsided makes it 100% worth it to me xD

Thanks Otz, this vid is really helpful!