Whats with the drop in killer mains?
Im a killer main and i havent played much recently. Ive noticed a lot of other killer mains are falling off the map. Im curious why. I left because the new coldwind has much safer pallets and theyre impossible to loop around as killer. That and strong pallets are too close together meaning every time i kick a pallet the survivor has time to get to the next ultra safe pallet. What are your reasons as a killer main for leaving.
(As an aside and something i want to point out, the survivors get more pull in the community than killers. Thats why moris have been nerfed but keys havent yet. Making things more difficult on the killer is how the game will die. There will be no killers left to play. I hope the devs fix the coldwind map along with fixing gideon meat plant as both are obnoxious to move around without getting a pallet in your face at a super strong loop)
Comments
-
Survivors don’t get more pull. The devs balance the game as they see fit which is why killer has got many buffs and multiple killers have been reworked to be better
9 -
Well, I am usually more inclined towards killers, but I haven't left the game and never will. If I had to take a wild guess, I would say that they've left because of the current state of the game.
And I am not saying this just because I am currently unhappy with it, but because I doubt anyone genuinely wants to deal with survivors holding W and pre-dropping every single pallet.
6 -
More Killers leave, faster queues for me I guess. I still get my average Survivors most of the time.
But I totally understand why people prefer Survivor. Killer can be to much sometimes, I personally like the Challenge. It's about being more strategic and aware. As Survivor you can listen to music, barely concentrate and still win.
7 -
If you play long enough as a killer, you eventually get tired of SWFs. Then you either learn to play Nurse/Spirit and sweat for 3000 hours, turn into a facecamping Bubba and mine the salt, letting them taste their own medicine, or give up completely and just go on with your life. I guess a lot of killers were hanging by their sole hope about devs doing at least something with SWF, which has always been the core problem of the game, and when they started realizing the devs don't care and will never change it, they just gave up.
6 -
because the game is severely unbalanced, unless you have streamer levels of time to perfect your gameplay as a Killer, and you're not playing 1 of 2 S-tier killers, you're always going to have a stressful time playing this game seriously at a high level
Just got a game on Haddonfield and 3 gens popped before I even finished a chase. Sure I could have probably pressured those gens, but I think 2 of them still would have popped.
Now I'm just playing Blight with joke perks and I'm slugging people and not hooking.
4 -
What do you mean by drop in killer mains? As in people who post on the forum saying they are a killer main have stated they are no longer playing killer?
3 -
Honestly, I respect you for pointing it out but I don't expect much to come of it.
It's so wierd how people fixate on what happens to one side and ignores the other. Undying and DS got massively nerfed in the span of 2 months, both are still good perks, and people still fixate on one or the other.
5 -
People always love acting like their main side is the victim despite the fact that both sides have been getting good changes
4 -
Honestly probably just boredom. I mean for the past six Months the only truly new stuff killers got were the twins who are so unfun I genuinely can’t play them late at night because I start falling asleep. And the trickster who while being a lot more fun than twins is also a lot weaker. Combine that with the fact we haven’t gotten a truly new map in a long time and it’s no surprise. Honestly they’ll probably all be back once 5.0.0 goes live
1 -
I got tired of the constant stream of vitriolic hate I was receiving just because I beat someone in a computer game.
I now play only a couple of games every now and then as this community is tiresome to play with.
AI solo mode plz plz plz.
12 -
Most are probably playing nemmisis on the ptb
1 -
For me i will never play in the evening too many swf for my taste unless im on the ptb.
The game is unbalance too not just the perk or killer power but map are heavily survivor side in my opinion this does not help. Sometime i get haddonfield and im like well im out so i dc and i say gg wp and swich game
2 -
Re work for the better like the twins that saw no play and still got Nerfed to hell
1 -
to be honest, ive been off playing a lot of Minecraft lately.
Its great because its so much less stressfull than DbD is.
and when i do play DbD its usually with friends trying to get some Tome challenges done, which means im playing Survivor (A because there is no multiplayer for Killer and B because i already completed all the Killer Tome challenges)
so yeah, thats where i have been lately xD
1 -
I don't mind it. SWFs deserve 20 minute queues. 8)
7 -
The thing is ptb queue times for killer are less than 5 minutes meaning there arent many killers there either
3 -
The queue inbalance just fluctuates. I doubt there’s a massive wave of quitters. Especially with a new chapter release.
1 -
Just because they aren’t played doesn’t mean they are bad. Twins are still quite a strong killer tbh
0 -
Theyre a strong killer but nobody plays them. Thats the thing. Now even less people are going to play them. The twins are heavily perk reliant. Slowdown perks are a must. Sloppy butcher is a must. And they are easily countered by staying in groups of two and constantly healing and kicking the ######### outta victor. The twins are so easy to counter its not even funny and theyre still nerfing him.
4 -
Sloppy isn’t a must it’s just a great perk and it’s up to the twins player to try to snake the survivors split up.
I’ll agree that the nerf was unnecessary but it’s not like they are that bad right now
0 -
Tired of getting trolled every match and getting red ranks at least 8 out of 10 I play...too tiresome and no reward...its just a game lets treat killers like trash
4 -
Swf makes them the most money 4 wallets vs 1 killer of course they will be catered to more...I mean look at the new perks designed to kill hex builds
4 -
"The devs balance the game as they see fit"
Honestly, this is very disheartening to read.
4 -
Part of it is the game, but a lot of it is just the devs backwards mindset. For example, the 5 year anniversary stream. They talked about how they want to deal with toxicity, but then proceeded to talk about dealing already nerfed moris because they're some how still toxic. Then they announced they're adding an autoban feature that will obviously affect killers the most. Yet not once did they mention a key rework or any of the ways they're going to deal with toxic bs from survivors.
1 -
Playing killer is 10x as stressful as playing survivor. Guess some people do not want "sweat" as killer when they can have fun playing survivor or just other games.
5 -
Worst part is the Memento Mori aren't even worth running half the time because more often than not it takes more time to Mori then it takes to take somebody to the hook
2 -
A lot of killers have become sick and tired of being treated like a punching bag by red ranks
I've talked about it before that this is almost an impossible thing for the game to fix unfortunately. At lower ranks, survivors need the speed of gens and other things to stay where they're at or they're going to get absolutely curb stomped and destroyed.
However, at high ranks where survivors know all the little tricks and ways to really game the system, a killer is going to lose against four equally skilled survivors. Add in that a lot of these red ranks (or at least enough of them) know this and do everything they can to make sure that they win AND they maliciously go out of their way to make the game as miserable as possible for the killer.
For some strange reason, this has disheartened a lot of killers and caused them to stop playing...
5 -
Well I thought about giving a break but found a new joy in the game and that salt mining all the negative msging, tbag with keys on hatch, baiting ds and swf made me into a toxic killer with a purpose to make streamer rage and fellow xbox player rage.
0 -
Just stick with it if you are a killer main.
Try not to be upset. Just look at each trial as practice, and you are constantly getting better. It works.
I've only been playing since February this year, and I have improved. Not an expert at DBD by any means but I'm much better than I was the first time I played as either survivor or killer.
Stay encouraged and play for fun👍🏾
0 -
But the devs are either survivor mains or not good killers, based on lots of their previous changes.
3 -
It's because you have to sweat and stress as killer to win. Even when you're winning, you have to assume that you're losing because it's so easy for survivors to gen rush their way out of a bad situation at any time. You can't play chill as killer.
3 -
I haven't ran into a reason for me to stop playing. I 3-4k more than I don't.
0 -
problem was is that A. Undying came out a lot later then DS and B.DS didn't get changed since it's old version for years while Undying was changed 2 months after it got released, so people assumed the devs were "showing their survivor bias" (i say that in quotes because it's pretty obviously nonsense but you get the idea)
1 -
The new autoban feature that was mentioned has a lot of killers worried, is why.
0 -
This is a healthy mindset. I totally agree with this poster.
The best question you can ask here is, "Am I having fun?"
When I have been matched with similarly skilled opponents, I feel that the killers games I have had have been very fun. Lots of good chases, lots of excitement and energy. It's the mismatched matches that make it tough to continue - because then I am definitely having far less fun than my opponents. Usually, if I have two bad mismatches, I will just log off and play something else less frustrating. Because it's just a game, and we're all supposed to be having fun here.
0 -
Imagine for a second, that you as survivor start the match, get downed, hooked and instantly enter the struggle phase and that the killer is ready to tunnel you off hook. Every single match.
Doesn't really sound appealing, does it?
That's exactly how killers feel when they lose 3 gens during the first chase.
Most killer mains switched to the relaxing role of survivor or play a different game, because it's simply not fun when survivors complete 60% of their objective while the killer just completed 8% of his.
15 -
That is how killer mains feeling. Ruin, Pop etc little helping but nothing stopping this gens. They are so fast.
Good survivors know game well and maps are survivorside. And they makes game stresfull for killers. I have to defend 2 gens because most of times 3 gens finishing so fast. And then people asking why there is not so much killer, why queques so long.
2 -
Killer is stressful and it takes a toll.
3 -
Imagine a killer would BM the camped and tunneled survivor after the match. Tell him how bad he was, that he should uninstall, or play tetris.
Something outrageous. The other survivors would complain what a terrible being the killer is, for BM the poor survivor. For ruining his fun...
But with the roles reversed, survivors BM the killer after he had a bad match and got maybe 3 or 4 hooks?
5 -
Firstly, there are no killer mains. There are just DBD players who can play survivor, and DBD players who like to win. You don't play killer if you like to win.
Secondly, it's more fun to play a boring game with friends than it is to play a stressful game on your own. Do the math.
3
