I'm not having fun as killer

Huntar

I'll be honest, I've never been a hardcore player of this game. I really enjoyed playing it, and played it a lot before, though. So I, just by playing it so much, eventually got myself up into red ranks. But it's miserable to play in red ranks. I have a lot to say, but TL;DR: I really like the game when it feels like I can play it fairly, but a lot of things make it feel like I will only lose if I decide to keep playing fairly, but being rude isn't fun either. I don't know what can fix this, but I wanted to give a comprehensive assessment of what I've been feeling over the last month or two.

I keep trying to be nice and fun and make sure everyone gets to play the game. However, I've found that I simply don't get any kills when I play this way unless I'm playing one of the few killers that I'm very, very good at. I can get easy 4Ks with Myers, GF, and Doctor, but basically every other killer is a 0k or, if I decide to camp after the gates are open, a 1k, but that doesn't feel good and it doesn't feel like a win. And I understand that I shouldn't expect to kill everyone every game, or even necessarily get to really have a chance of winning with everyone I get matched against, since red ranks have such a wide variance of skill in them, but it doesn't feel good to be entirely outmatched so consistently against people that I'm supposedly on par with. I don't think I've gotten anything besides a 0k or a 4k in a month or two at this point.

However, playing mean and pouncing on every single mistake every survivor makes means that one person will get to play for less than a minute, one more might get another three or four minutes, and then the last two drag things out into 20 minute slogs, and that's not fun either. It's ruining the game for the survivors, and it ends up just ending with me trading slugs of the last two until one of them gets bored and just gives up, and that doesn't feel like a win either.

I could also stop playing for a few weeks and wait for rank reset, and that's what I used to do when I stopped having fun, but the recent changes to reset have made it way less valuable to do so. I can't just wait a while to get matched with the people that are actually on my level, since I'm mostly just getting pushed down one or two ranks at this point, and I'm still getting matched with all the people that are dedicated to playing fully optimally in all situations.

I'm not sure what can be done to really make this situation better since there's so very many interacting systems that result in this state of affairs, but I just finished a KYF match with a bunch of folks that agreed to not play 100% optimally at every chance, killer or survivor, and each game was close and actually exciting, and enjoyable at every step. Just having that little bit of extra time as killer, even when everyone is bringing toolboxes and still using them, but not using the meta add-ons, made the entire situation feel better. And as survivor, knowing that a single mistake wouldn't just cascade into three quick hooks or a drawn out camp made everything feel adaptive enough that I could play naturally instead of popping one gen after the other as optimally as possible.

Like I said, I don't think there's any one thing that would fix this. But I know the devs have stated they'd like honest statements of how players are feeling, and I'd just like to say that I'm not having fun anymore, despite how much I love this game.

Huntar

Just an update, but I'm going to take a break from this game for a while. I'll play KYF, but I think I'm going to just stay out of everything else until I can feel like I'll be having fun again.

I know basically nobody will care about this, but just another data point for the devs from someone who genuinely loves this game, but can't find the fun in it anymore.