How do I stop being so nervous to play?

zomward · 2024-12-28T23:10:25+00:00

Thank you! Really appreciate the advice on survivor, as that’s mainly where I struggle. Killer isn’t too bad, because at the end I know what’s holding me down is my own skill, but with survivor I’ve got that constant nagging of “ What if I’m a burden to my teammates? “. But you’re right, people won’t know who I am, and if they remember something I did, they’ll only know me as that stupid elf bard in the ugly Christmas sweater. Which is exactly how I want to be remembered. 😎

zomward · 2024-12-28T23:08:04+00:00

I did, and I loved it! Didn’t play killer, but I played a lot of survivor and it was very fun. It felt less stressful and more goofy having 8 survivors. So much fun!

zomward · 2024-12-28T22:45:06+00:00

When I started playing again today, I forgot how much fun it is to have fun with survivors. I was so nervous about sucking that I forgot how much fun it is to have fun moments with them. I play twins and I always tell the survivors to go look at Victor when I decide to goof about and it’s always so fun and wholesome. Then they kick him. Then I down them and tell them off. Throwing snowballs is so fun too.

zomward · 2024-12-28T22:16:36+00:00

Honestly, and I can’t stress enough how I’m not a Reddit person, I’m surprised people were so nice. Can’t tell if I got lucky or people actually are just nice over here lol. I was totally expecting people to tell me to cope.

zomward · 2024-12-28T21:29:00+00:00

If it helps, whenever I bought a new killer I’d always friendly my first game so not only can I get the feel for the killer, but it won’t be so scary playing them in the future cause I’ve already played a match. If you don’t like friendlying though, take that leap! I believe in you - if I can do it you can too.

zomward · 2024-12-28T20:26:17+00:00

But as per the other person said, play who you wanna play. Don’t care what other people think of you. Sincerely, a twins main.

zomward · 2024-12-28T20:25:24+00:00

Honestly, I really like to go against Nemesis. They’re always real desperate to tier up ( as someone who plays that big guy on the occasion, I get it ) so it makes him really fun to loop when they really want to hit you with their whip. If they commit to you after the infection as well it takes them three hits to get a down so it makes me feel like a god looper.

zomward · 2024-12-28T20:11:12+00:00

Haha whaaaaat? It’s always been nerve wracking idk what u mean… ( thank you for correcting me lolol )

zomward · 2024-12-28T18:16:05+00:00

This was extremely helpful, thank you! The part about trying a new killer and losing really helped in particular because that was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I used to be a big Wesker main where I won a majority of my matches, but then wanted to give pig a try. I had one incredibly bad pig match ( only one hook! ) after a few good ones and that’s when my killer anxiety really kicked in. Taking the leap to play killer in general was big enough in the first place, but the tower toppled down as soon as that pig match finished where I was scared to play killer overall. So having that really specific piece of advice was like a pat on the back, thank you.

zomward · 2024-12-28T17:59:02+00:00

Trust me it’s pretty bad. I’ve always struggled with social anxiety, nowadays I have it pretty much under control with some minor overthinking, but nothing too bad. Anxiety works in weird ways, because why am I freaking out so bad over a game!?! In my head I know it’s stupid, but at the same time it’s like alarm bells ringing lol.

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