The Experience
So being a long time fan of DBD having over 1500 hours clocked in I have a hard time after this change, finding the same enjoyment as of before. Ruin made games take longer, feel more enjoyable. It left room for chases to be tried and learned, and actually gave the killer room to breath, but now especially being someone who is trying to play all killers after only playing Hag, Legion, and huntress. I'm not only seeing weaknesses of all the killers they've all be dramatically increased.
Killers who can't pressure as well, going through my games, is Huntress, and Legion (I say legion people aren't grouping up the same way they used to, to try and power through generators so there are plenty of times after landing a hit in frenzy I don't get any heart beats, or the heart beats are so far away I can't afford to leave the current chase.) Now I am aware these killers aren't that strong like Clown, and Trapper. But in the few games of playing killer I can't get a match to last more then 8 to 10 minutes, and I only experience a handful of chases before 1 to 2 gens pop.
This leads to a stress that is already felt as killer and only amplifying it, trying to find ways to end loops faster, trying to find ways to mind game a window in a different way that saves you that extra 15 seconds that could be used walking to a Gen, or breaking a strong loop that you mind gamed and landed a hit.
Then, to follow are the play styles I've been having to use to just try and secure two kills by the end. I've had to resort to things like slugging, or tunneling, or even proxy camping. None of this is either enjoyable or entertaining to do. I've never liked chasing the same person on the hook, I've always tried to give survivors the best chance that I could but without giving them a match to make the feeling of a tug of war on chases and gen speeds feel tough, causing tension on how quick I can end a chase and how quick they can complete a gen. But as it stands right now, I can't afford to try and provide this enjoyment to myself or the survivors I have gone up against.
I get T-Bagged at doors, and things like sprint burst and Lithe just delay chases enough seconds that it doesn't even seem worth it. Playing Legion the fact I can't hit the person during Frenzy just delays it, and if I'm near the end and land this hit. The chase I just started has now become...almost meaningless, the time it would take for me to catch up after the cool down on the frenzy they've already set up at a pallet and have began setting up for a loop to delay this chase.
I understand the Ruin was in a lot of games, I understand that it needed a change being that prevalent. I understand why it needed these changes, but if as a 110 killer found my first survivors because they were all on one gen and it's already 75% of the way done. This isn't fun anymore, I didn't even have a chance it's the first patrol and the first gen is almost done, and I can still only chase one person. leaving that gen soon to pop moments later.
So far in terms of game play, It's become too of a stress and for the payout of getting 2 kills, isn't satisfying, the BP at the end not even rewarding enough to make me feel like I actually did anything. The black pips, and the down pips don't make me want to continue playing killer, the headache of being told EZ, or "Probably a killer that needed Ruin to be good" the tactics that I have to resort to just further this headache that this is developing. I've been playing for seven hours now since this update, and I can't say that my experience is something to be well received. I feel bad for any mid-teir killers that get stuck up against a couple of red ranks.
I'm not going to quit this game, I want to see it go somewhere greater but I just wanted to provide feedback on how I feel this is going. See you guys on the playing field, Good Luck.
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I agree. Playing killer is a miserable experience. I’m not sure what the devs were thinking.
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I enjoy playing like before. Probably cause i never used ruin any way. Nothing really changed. Just adapt and get more skilled.
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Honestly I kind of wished it worked that way to the full extent, enjoying killers like the hag, and legion and such are kind of a death sentence right now.
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I personally didn't like using old ruin on my killer builds, I preferred pop goes the weasel. As old Ruin just got destroyed in the first few seconds. I'm actually excited to try out new ruin in my killer builds.
With Legion, survivors will just assume that the killer is using discordance, so survivors will avoid working on the same gen.
Speaking as a survivor main don't be afraid to slug. It's excellent way to provide map pressure. How I see it if the survivors allow me to slug, it's due to their incompetent rather then me being a "scummy/try hard killer"
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I know how slugging can cause massive amounts of pressure but it's just a way that i don't like to play, the loss of Ruin tends to force those types off gameplay that Ruin let me babysit to have when it lasted. Allowing everyone to get some decent pips, and allowed me to try and 3 hook everyone where right now it feels like a force rp a 2 hook or 1 hook game.
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