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Nobody wants to play as a killer
Bullying, genrush, YouTubers lie about the game , killers rank 15 Vs survivors rank 1...
360 in ps4 is broken , cause auto aim , auto aim gets crazy and don't let you take aim on survivor ...
Queue of 30 min to play as a survivor ...
Devs need to do something ...
Devs get bots in rank 1 dbd ...
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And again , only premades of genrushers, veterans don't like to play the game
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Playing Killer needs time man, you aint gonna get good at that in even a few hundred hours. And you shouldn't focus on the bad games you have, there will always be good and bad matches. Just keep on going if you enjoy the killer gameplay in itself and at some point you will be good enough to beat these premade teams aswell. :)
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Matchmaking just isn't working how it should be. As a green and purple rank survivor I get red rank killers too. And to add to that: survivor lobbies are almost instant for me while I have to wait a good 5 minutes at least to get into a killer match as green rank killer
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That's interesting! Even in a four stack it takes forever for me to get a game as survivor. My killer wait time is consistently 5-10 seconds. I'm currently a red rank survivor and purple rank killer.
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I wanna go fast!
Wait, I mean, I wanna be killer!
I find both roles super enjoyable so I will continue flip flopping from survivor to killer and back again.
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This is a weird time for this thread. Killer queues are currently high because people are still trying to get crowns for the annivesary event. And because of the 4 survivors to 1 killer per game, it's gonna be about 4 times more difficult to queue for killer with most people wanting crowns on all characters. If you're having long queues than you want for survivor, stop playing swf.
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You must be amazingly lucky, my que times are 10-15 mins as survivor and 3-5 mins as killer.
Ps4 btw.
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I have the platinium trophy in ps4 but you tell me that I need time, but you don't say anything about rank12 killer versus 4 red ranks, same bullshit of "get presion on gens"... The game in ps4 is broken , there are only red ranks survivor Vs low ranks, and the reason idno people
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I like playing killer. Sometimes I lose, but often I win.
Either way I'm competitive.
But respect to all killers sticking it out and giving me a game when I play survivor!
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Killer has been fun except when I started and today. Long queues just to get against swats, so much fun.
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In ps4 , population is so low, the only thing I do is blocking all toxics , and when they appear on my lobby, just leave the lobby... That's what I do ... I wait 10 seconds as a killer , they wait 30 minutes in the lobby as a survivor ...
I'm ps4 player
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I do, get gud
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I play during the night, 10-15 seconds killer , 20-25 minutes survivor
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DBD killer is either going up against potato teams, too afraid to touch gens even when there's an icon showing the obsession being chased somewhere across the map.
Or, you get full meta teams and 3 gens pop in 3 minutes and also; you are a terrible person for camping / tunneling because you should get 12 hooks in 4-5 minutes with an M1 killer.
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oh, I'm playing on pc so that's probably why.
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I'm a level 12 killer and I'm constantly going up against purple and red rank survivors on PS4. It sucks. The developers said that the new MMR was supposed to go live in June, but considering just how many bugs are present with the new event, I wouldn't count on the new MMR anytime soon.
One of the things that makes playing killer so hard is having to compete with other players on a killer you've never played with before. I know that there are custom matches but you need other people to be online or in your party, and for those of us that don't have a big friends list from which the pull from, it would be nice if you could load up a custom match by yourself, or at least be able to turn on bots in a custom match. It would certainly encourage people to play more killers, and quite possibly shorten the wait time for survivors.
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Uhh I'm red rank on Xbox. I do pretty well. Well enough to stay between rank 1and 2 consistently. I'll even post streams to prove it to you.
It all comes down to your actual skill level and ability to not only think on your feet but adapt to what it is happening.
Sure you'll still lose games. Hell I had a few games yesterday where I took 1 kill it I was lucky but that will happen regardless.
Don't give up if you do bad. Don't feel disheartened. Just try again with a different killer or a different build.
You'll get there.
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Gen rush are just totally broken, i got games that ended in 5min when i always have someone in hook and one chase, like #########!!
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Don't call me nobody. 😪
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For me killer queue times are really slow while survivor queue times are as fast as lightning. Matchmaking system is broken and needs to be fixed. If there is more killers wanting to play than survivors why do low ranks get matched with high ranks and high ranks get matched with low rankes. They need a complete reshuffle and fix to the ranking and matchmaking system imo.
DBD devs really need to fix this or people will start leaving.
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I'm just a purple rank as killer (red as survivor tho) so maybe my opinion won't matter to y'all that much but imo the biggest problem is the lenght of games. Peeking thought Umbra's stream yesterday she played swf and finished a game in 3 minutes and 22 seconds i think, she wanted to prove how genrushing is busted. Of course she depipped but I think pips are the last of problems in the list.
Even if you are "gud" it's just disheartening and sad to have to literally wait more in queues than to play the actual match, the only time I get short qs are at night here in Europe on PC. Sure I have also great games otherwise I wouldn't be purple, but I also feel like I either stomp because they don't even loop a jungle gym once or I get 2 hooks and 5 gens pop, despite not giving too much time to chases, pressuring gens, trying to force a 3-gen, then one distraction or one ds from locker and ding, exit gates.
I understand having good and bad games, but sometimes I just want to not have to time my chases to literally 15 sec each...
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I have a HUGE list of perks that are crossed out and I do not find them (the perks) useful in this game when it comes to playing against Rank 1s. I get up to 6 and 8 before rank reset and it seams like there really isn't much that contributes to the match in perks. it becomes all about the actual playing and the perks on hand really aren't that powerful anymore.
I've always wished that BRUTAL STRENGTH was better again, as well as Thana. As a person reaches these ranks the killer goes from a 'big and scary monster" to a "mall cop chasing a shoplifter" kind of thing.
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I was unaware of my name change. I'm "Nobody" now? You could not pay me to switch back to survivor.
- Survivor bloodpoints are an absolute joke. If you get unlucky and get tunneled from the start of a match (which happens a lot), you can get as low as 4-6k or less bp. If the team really sucks, I've ran the killer for 2 gens, got hooked, was hit directly off the hook, re-hooked (because I don't run meta perks like DS) and struggled to death. Got 3k bp. Yikes
- Killer bloodpoints are more than twice as good as survivor. I have run this test several times over the years. Do one and two hour timeframes on off and peak time hours. How many bloodpoints were earned in that timeframe and how much bp worth of items (addons, offerings, etc) were lost? In every one of them the killer makes minimum two times the amount of bp than survivor gets.
- As killer, I might get SWF groups that are absolutely insane! I have choices. I can play toxic and tunnel until I get a kill or two. I can chill and just farm as much bp out of chases, gen kicks, pallet breaks, etc. Try to get some hooks and maybe a kill in. It is super easy to farm 20k bp plus out of a 4 escape SWF nightmare match. Why? Because the pinheads work to engage the killer. It's not like you don't get chase points, brutality points, etc. Or, I can give up and go afk. These types of matches used to be once out of 10 to 15 matches. Over the past year it has picked up to 1 out of 4 or 5 matches. I'm talking the most toxic groups. SWFs are common, but those hit squads are still not the norm.
- As survivor, if I get a hardcore camping/tunneling killer and I'm not on my looping game, or just got downed fast for some reason, I could easily be looking at a match with less than 3k bp. Furthermore, I have limited choices. I can "just do the gens and leave", in which I'll likely fall victim to NOED because with the avg tunnel/camp match the killer will get the 1st one down and be on the second by the time 5 gens are burned through. If you stop to do totems, it's almost an easy 3-4k for sure. Another choice is to just let him kill me and suck up the bp loss.
- If I camp/tunnel killer AND a crappy solo team, I'm really hosed. I have 2 choices, bore through the slogfest and get crap bp for doing gens and leaving, or die fast and get crappy bp and on to the next match.
Overall, I feel like I have more control over the game as killer. I can't control those 4 man SWF hit squads, but I can control how I approach those matches and at least make some good bp out of them. I can also "surrender" the match once the gens are done and open the doors. At least I get some good BP for putting up with the toxic crap. As survivor, I'm at the whim of both the killer and the survivor unless I'm in a full SWF. Survivor can't say "at least I get good bp for putting up with the toxicity" because they don't. They get hosed three times in a match; once by the killer tunneling them down, once by the crap team of survivors that farmed you in front of the killer and a third time by getting crap for bp.
I switched to killer almost 3 years ago because of the frustration of dealing with tunneling/camping and crap teammates combined with the massive bp disparity. I do not regret that switch and would recommend it to anyone playing. Killer role is still significantly more enjoyable and rewarding the survivor has ever been.
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Wow that's impressive. How did you get From the Void She Kills?! I swear I will never get that without farming :( maybe that's the answer lol
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I personally think killer isn't too bad. I think it's just matchmaking ruining everyone's enjoyment. Maybe gen times but overall I still have a lot of fun especially with PH.
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I'd even settle for the ability to join a KYF with no survivors in the lobby just so you can test out your power and learn the maps; bots would just be gravy. An empty map would still be good for practicing killers like Nurse and testing out add-ons.
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in high ranks you just need more game knowledge and most importantly good perks, if you have bad perks you already lost (not as survivor tho)
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I agree. Seeing as how custom matches aren't ranked, I don't understand why DBD can't let you load up a custom match by yourself. I mean if custom matches can give you access to perks you don't even have, then it should at least be able to give you access to the map.
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Killer is the fun part, solo survivor is the worst you can do.
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A lot of people want to play killer. That's why killer pc lobbies take so long.
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Used to main killer, but honestly it's just too stressful and I'm tired of stressing over the game. I'll play it occasionally and perhaps to complete a challenge, but I often regret it.
I main survivor now and it's so much less stressful. I often read through Reddit whilst repairing a generator! That's some wind down time you never get as killer. You're always thinking of your next move or getting frustrated for guessing wrong at a jungle gym. Make one mistake? If the survivors are good, you'll be punished harshly for that. Mind you, there are so many potatoes at red ranks, even survivor is a chore to play without friends.
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I don't mind playing killer, but I just get weary of all the judgment about every little thing.
It's like no one can just let you play the game, everything you do ends up being "toxic" or something. I really shouldn't even read the forums, honestly. 😂
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Cue times don't really bother me too much. Yeah I wish they were shorter but long wait times I can live with. What I can't. Is gen rushing and the lack of balancing. Swfs say what you like are a pain. Plain and simple. Unless you get a potatos or your just to goddamn good lol. But most swfs are too be honest completely broken and way too overpowered. Combine that with the sheer speed of gens and the stupid map designs that favour the survivors despite the fact the survivors are meant to be scared of the killer but let's be honest, what rank 1 survivor is genuinely scared when they have good loops, ds, dead hard, borrowed time, mettle of man, unbreakable. I play survivor in solo que and no matter how good I do whether or not I win is based on my teammates being also doing somewhat good or luck with the trapdoor. I think they should an option for killers to choose whether or not to match with swfs. Yes it could effect cue times but I don't think the devs are gonna nerf survivors any time soon unless they start listening to good community feedback. I know it sounds like I'm being negative but I just really want this game to become better.
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Well on the contrary Survivor que is INSTANT on PC and I am faced with 15-30min Killer wait times on PC every time just to get a lobby =/
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I do. So your argument is already invalid. It's fun if you can learn to leave your ego and just aim for fun regardless of what happens.
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I'm getting a headache looking at all that DS...
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That's a stark raving lie. SWFs with builds will crush no matter what. There's only so many ways to beat certain loops. Some of them you just have to muscle through no matter what, but it's punishing to do so.
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This guy gets it. Killer can be frustrating but your always in the action. Survivor, you're holding M1 most of the game. If you play with friends you get an advantage, but also when you get killed early you get no bp and then wait 5 or so more minutes for the match to end. The. Wait another 10 minutes at least for a lobby. I've had nights where I play 2 or 3 matches in the span of an hour and a half. Boring.
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I've been playing daily since 2016, and I haven't switch from Killer to Survivor. Survivor is too boring. Killer is definately more stressful and the flaws of the game are made obvious more as a Killer. But I will always prefer to play Killer over Survivor.
Also, the devs don't play live at rank 1. Hence why the balance is still a thin line.
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I'm also a rank 12 Killer and I get get put against Red Ranks almost every match, I am so sick and tired of getting bullied by them.
I love a good challenge but this matchmaking is straight up unfair.
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Honestly? Why are new players, heck even more casual players expected to perform at the highest level of play? I know killer takes practice but killer shouldnt be a role exclusive to otz or other top tiers, everyone should be able to play and have a reasonable expectation not to get trashed by people 12 ranks above them.
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Want a tip? Don't bother playing Killer if you don't like it or it is not fun for you, leave it to the archives ONLY.
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It happens. When I was rank 12 Killer, I too used to meet red rank survivors.
But you learn more when you go against good survivors. It will be a tough time for a while. I learned how to cut loops, pressure gens, etc. As a result:
Yes I did change my name to 'Behind you' after I started playing myers xD(you can check my old name in my steam profile)
And recently I have reached rank 1 Killer:
Yea the matchmaking in green-purple rank is pretty tough but will be a meaningful experience
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That why I camp them as bubba
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I'm an xbox player, and while I want to play more killer (I bought ghostface, oni and myers recently) the long wait times generally put me off it. I wait around 15 minutes either to get matched with 4 rank 20s, or 4 rank 1s. (Green ranks btw).
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Will do a post on that why that isn't the case.
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No. That's patently ridiculous.
You shouldn't have to sink hundreds of hours into a game before it's possible to have fun
No developer in the world would plan a game like that
Is there a skill curve? Sure. Are some killers eat harder than others, but with a higher payoff? Sure.
But to say that anyone playing killer is going to suffer, get bullied, play against a toxic community that far, far outranks them for hundreds of hours because matchmaking isn't a thing in this game? Ridiculous.
This is a problem that the devs need to address. Players shouldn't wait 30 minutes in queue because the matchmaking is so awful and the player base so toxic that nobody wants to play one side if the game.
The fact that this is the state of the game right now highlights a dire failure of the devs.
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I always feel like the odd one out in these conversations. I honestly find killer less stressful than Survivor. When I play survivor I get sweaty campers and/or tunnelers and anytime I want to use something like Bloody Party Steamers or seems like the killer goes out of their way to end things as quickly as possible.
When I'm the Killer the only one who determines how sweaty the Killer is is me. I mostly play for points so once I have my barbecue stacks I can mostly just mess around to max out my non-Sacrifice scores.
Outside of the occasional ROFLstomp or difficulty using a new or particular Killer, I typically find it more fun.
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For me it's the reverse: killer lobbies are almost instantaneous and survivor lobbies are a roughly 5+ minute wait time each.
What platform do you play on? I do PS4.
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Interesting because I find my queues are nearly instant as survivor but it takes ages to get a game as killer.
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