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Is it easier to pip as killer now or just me?

DæmonicVisions
DæmonicVisions Member Posts: 9
in General Discussions

Getting this out first. I am not a pro, nor will I intend to make myself seem that way. I am decent if at that.

Now, this is my problem, I guess since the DLC came out I've noticed a change on how killers pip at not only makes me not happy, but I view it unfair for newer killers who come into the game. I mainly play like a haunted house killer/tormentor. I normally just milk my survivors and pretty much let them leave so I just black pip so I can try different builds or use up what a killer has before I prestige them. I cannot do this the further I rank up because survivors are more into doing the gens and getting out and are more looping me around while other do gens, I get that, that's what they are suppose to do but that reduces my killers and playstyle the higher I go, so I just prevented this by hooking for BBQ stacks and letting them go, but something seems to have changed now...

I can hook once and max everything else out (cept when I play Pig, damn she is hard to max deviousness) Then let the survivors go on their way, but now I am pipping because of this when before I was just black pipping. Before the DLC I still gave survivors a scare, but didn't go all out because I like testing things out without being stressed over needing to play hard, but now I am pipping in every game no matter what I do and I see a problem with that. It seems like the only way for me to black pip or even depip is to do nothing at all, you really want me to do that more now? because I don't want to hit rank 10 and above, it's just unfun for me and not a challenge to the survivors when some of my killers only have 1 baby perk (when doing dailies) or builds not built to 4K (meta perks)

Another problem I see is for newer killers, if they just hook once and able to max chase and hits, get a few deviousness and all survivors escape, they pip, why are you giving newer killers an easier time to pip where when they get to rank 10 and above, they get meta build survivors and mainly SWFs? You are giving newer killers a harder time for hardly being good and moving them up the ranks.

To me I believe if you want to pip, you HAVE to least kill 1 survivor, if you just max chase and hits and hook 4 times, you shouldn't be pipping, as a newer killer you are just going to get a headache when you are now always being pitted against full perked survivors that most likely going to tear that killer to shreds and make fun of them.

High ranked survivors want a challenge and it seems the system we have for killers just doesn't provide that, I only play maybe 2 days for 2-3 hours (while drinking) and I'm climbing the ranks faster than I have before and I am not even killing anybody! That's just mental to me. If it's this easy to pip, I feel sorry for the newer killers that are learning and being forced into harder games, it's probably why you get so many threads about how OP survivors are from killers with under 1000 hours, it's like your giving them pips for participation and not really being skillful in what they do. I know in my situation I could be higher than where I am, but as I said, I like experimenting and it's harder to do when higher survivors expect a different playstyle.

I know this is lengthy, so I'll cut it here, but seriously, I did like the old must kill to pip better than this one that we have now, it's making where I just waste my time and others just getting a few points and hardly doing anything so I derank if I pip too much, and you're going to get more and more threads about "killers just dcing all the time" because they are pipping easier now too and they are not ready yet for higher challenges.

TLDR: pipping is ez for killers when some are not ready to climb the hill, you shouldn't pip for participation when you haven't pleased the Entity.

Comments

  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,616

    I always found it kinda easy.

  • DemonDaddy
    DemonDaddy Member Posts: 4,167
    I like to mess around with wraith and builds as well. Now I'm pipping without hooks and minimal effort in chase. Don't really care about pips or rank, but this could be a problem for new players that are being pushed to higher rank before they are ready. This wouldn't matter so much if rank didn't lock you in, but thank you depipers. 
  • Dragonredking
    Dragonredking Member Posts: 874

    You only see it now?
    Since the emblem as been introduced killer have been able to pip without killing a single survivor.
    This is old news

  • DemonDaddy
    DemonDaddy Member Posts: 4,167
    Never noticed until recently. I've been playing survivor while waiting for reworks to killers.