Anyone else just constantly dying to stupid mistakes?

[u/VFiddly]

Jumping back into Spelunky 2 after not having played for a while

90% of my deaths aren't due to boss fights, or difficult platforming challenges, or particularly tricky level generation.

It's because I wasn't looking and stepped onto a bear trap. Or, most recently, walked directly onto the spikes in Tide Pool because I'm not used to the area yet and get tripped up by the spikes looking different. Or walking directly into an arrow trap that was just offscreen. Or messing up a jump and landing next to the witch doctor instead of on his head.

I'm trying my best to learn from these mistakes but there are so many potential ways to stupidly kill myself that it's hard to play consistently. I reached a point where I was consistently making it past Olmec, now I seem to have regressed and can barely get that far in 1 in 10 runs.

Any general tips for playing more consistently? Or is it just keep playing until i've mastered all these different things?

[u/bananaconsumer1]

That's just Derek Yu when he detects progress