Unfun & depressing playing as Killer
It seems to have gotten so bad lately I just want to uninstall and never look back. I kept going against red ranks and getting mercilessly trashed with 0-1 kills, gens all being done and egc in an average of 6 minutes and sometimes getting less points than the survivors. Now I'm rank 15 and with the reset still going against pretty strong 5-8 ranks that were probably purple or reds. I stopped using ruin so I can get used to not having it, and never camp or tunnel. I have more fun as survivor but can only play survivor in the late mornings and then it becomes a 15 minute average wait. I play Trapper, Clown, and Wraith.
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I feel for you, but this is the reality of the state of Killer right now.
I hope you find time slot, and rank that allows you to play and have fun.
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I'd recommend uninstalling tbh, The devs have a history of not really caring about the killers until it starts to affect their bottom line, only thing keeping me remotely interested right now is unlocking Oni so I can shout "ZA WARUDO! ORE! ORE! ORE! ORE! ORE!" as I slap people with the big stick.
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You won't win by playing fairly in red ranks. Tunneling, even camping is sometimes necessary if game goes too fast.
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I really is.
Basically, if you are not really good at killer, BHVR does not want you to play that roll.
If you are lower rank or not that good, you will just get people way out of your skill range and lose like 20 games in a row with little to no chance of actually pulling a win off unless they start just messing around or people DC or whatever.
It's just something you kinda have to decide if it's worth it or not for you personally. If you manage to get really really good as killer, since you could have like 10,000 hours and you are always going to go against anyone who dares basically play the game regardless of rank- there is nothing to fear anymore. It's just 4Ks like 9/10 games from then on out.
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They forget killers actually are half the game. Without clear the ques take longer. Longer ques means less survivors want to play. It's a vicious cycle.a kler is 1/5th, but without a killer 4 people wait longer. So that 1/5th is literally a majority due to the fact the game needs a killer to run.
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Something something go play Civ. Feelsbad.
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A lot of people feel like you, that's why we don't have a lot of people playing killer atm.
You play weak killers without Ruin, you never camp & tunnel (even when it would be strategically necessary) - it's "normal" that you are getting stomped with how the game currently is.
If you cannot find fun in playing less generous (tunneling, using moris), then I suggest you do something else than playing killer. Playing a video game should not make you feel bad.
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Yeah and tbh člen is pure ######### now and worst killer, wraith without good perla and addons is a real pain and trapper still needs some buffs and you need some slowdown perks with them as Well.. But i love trapper hra good but needs some little love
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Killers are 3/4ths of a person here.
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It's not just the survivors it's also your choice in killers. If you play killers like clown and Wraith expect a much harder match.
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I agree with you on killers not being fun anymore. I'm tired of this crap matchmaking with getting placed against Red ranks, when I myself (After Reset), and in the 11-12 region. A rank 2 group is not fun to go against when you're at that rank. I like playing killer more than survivor because, as a solo survivor, you ALWAYS get those teammates that will take forever to unhook, despite the killer clearly being at the oppisite end of the map, or will bring the killer directly to you, and your dead. Playing killer is the only fun I did have at one point, and now that the game just seems to be going in a downward spiral for killers, I just keep feeling like I want to walk away from the game. I love this game, and I used to have so much fun playing, despite win or lose, but now, the fun is being sucked out of it from the way the game seems to be changing. I really pray BHVR realises this before it's too late
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The problem seems to be you play by their rules you won't win playing the game they want you slug , camp and tunnel survivors don't care about your fun so don't care about theirs
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This is the result of less people wanting to play killer. I tried to play survivor last night because i'm utterly sick to the pit of my stomach as killer and just quit the game after waiting 5 minutes.
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jUsT ApPlY PrEsSuRe
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Why they're doing this to us?? (killers)
They did that with Nurse.. she was already really hard to master.. and really stressfull to play as..
now she is even harder.. more stressfull and really frustrasting to play as.
I was learning well with her.. after a good time practicing i was doing well.. now i dont really want to learn her anymore.
Survivors needs to fear the killer.. not the oposite..
will they continue with that? just killing the killers ?
please devs.. lets make this game great.. listen more to all your players.. not only cryvivors..
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Nurse was easy back then. The change to her basekit was unnecessary but the add-ons werent.
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Im sorry you have such an experience, I've been there too, in this state I would recommend to play survivors, it's quite casual now to play as solo survivor
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Yep.
It's a tale as old as time.
I think once I get the sacred Wounded Healer trophy, I'm on a Dead By Detox.
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Honestly, I feel this completely. As a Nurse main (Yes, shun me as you will. She was my first play and after four days of playing her nonstop... I will continue to) I can indefinitely relate to the "unfun" part of this conversation. It's not so easy when you (meaning myself and other players who experience this) have such an amazing ability that can quite possibly send you from one end of the map to the other on occasion be so costly in a fight.
Now of course one can argue; "well your new so, practice your blink distances and remember how far you'll go" first off... I agree one hundred percent with that, practice makes perfect and no one is perfect therefore... I can only do so well. As for the skill required to swing at enemies? Well believe it or not, it's definitely hard to hit players as the Nurse ESPECIALLY when they are just dancing around corner after corner, baiting you and teabagging to rub salt in the wound. Now as for the swinging, yet again; practice will indefinitely aid me with that. As for teabagging? Pssh, they've been doing that since the first mutliplayer game that had crouching and I doubt anyone who does it will grow up soon.
So what else do I have to needlessly ramble on about besides me saying I suck and I hate that? The fact that my killer is a lot different than most others (from what I have played. I of course can't speak for anyone that isn't vanilla based unlocks (I haven't bought any new killers.) The blink doesn't work correctly for a chunk of the time, what is a chunk you ask? Well it's like a solid 25%-50% depending on the map.
I'm not entirely familiar with every map, but the one that looks like an Asian dynasty set in a dark forest with bamboo and little streams... Is an absolute joke when playing Nurse on. I can't tell you how many times I go to blink across the map to try and stop a generator from being fully repaired to just standing in place and having an LSD trip instead because one of the statues or a rock basically negated my action as if there was an invisible wall. This happens on other maps from time to time or even for example maps with several floors. You try to time your blink just right and BAM! You went from floor 1 to floor 3 with a 1-2 second hold on your ability.
The final thing I would like to say and close off this rant is the survivors vs. the killers. First of all, forget dead by Daylight... This is damned daycare simulator now. I can't tell you how many f****** times I have to quite literally chase down two people while two others work on generators. Is that a valid strategy? Yes, but for the sake of whatever God or manly presence oversees life and death... Have mercy on me lol. I get that "you can't always win every game" and that's perfectly fine with me... In fact I always keep this mentality, as long as I take at least one person with me in my loss OR I give the others a run for their money (even if they all escape) it's a good game. What I get most games is a group of two running around hooks and pallets, corners and stones, trees and hay bales constantly egging me on... I then think go myself, oh they are the distraction... And they are, but when I get to the generators that are being worked on, the two little birdies that have been stalking me as I chase the other and vice versa informed them and they have already backed off somewhere else I can't find them to camp until I leave.
Usually it goes like this; The two after me fend me off for the match while the other two work on generators. As said before if I go after the two on generators then they race off to camp off site (out of sight too) and wait until I damage them, step away, and then chase their teammates. Why not just look for them while they aren't working on the generators? First off, you didn't think to ask that and if you did... Really? What a dumb question to ask because what do you think will happen? The two who have been chasing me (The killer) will start repairs while I chase the others... Basically what my game play has come down to and believe me when I say this... I don't like it, is I have to camp those I actually can land my strikes on to quite literally force the other's to step off the generators and face me a bit. I get that camping is cheap and yes I know... Survivors hate when killers do it and killers hate when survivors do it.
Well one: I don't care if we all hate it, we've all done it at least once and most of us do it plenty enough that if it was indefinitely a bannable offense a majority wouldn't be playing this game anymore (Talking to all the survivors I've faced with in most games, I know there are killers who do it and all of us should face a justice.) The once hope for this game was to make something of a nightmare for four players, to be hunted by a sociopath or some evil spirit to scare the Hell out of us and give us a rush. But with how things are in this game... It's nothing like that, nothing more than one woman (My nurse, I don't play anyone else and I'm a ######### survivor lol) babysitting two kids full time and two more on the side. I'm sure some of you will read this long ass paragraph and have either similar or different ideals and feelings and that's fine. I just felt that maybe me being a player myself, can relate and share my experiences.
I love this game's idea and I LOVE my nurse, I used to play Overwatch and she is like a scary ass Tracer lol. I'd hate to have to keep playing dirty just to have anything on anyone and I'd hate to lose interest because if I play fair then I hardly ever win anything. I love my nurse and I'm hoping some day I can do much more with her than camping a damn hook or having strokes at stones.
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Funny thing, about that, killers who slug, camp, tunnel ruin the fun for survivors, so why should they care if you had fun? It's a vicious that killer has more control over than the survivors. That being said, they still need to fix match making as it is pure bull when a green killer is up against all red ranks.that needs to be addressed still. When your skill level matches you against those in the same skill range, games tend to go better.
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That was a good toilet time read. I can respect a good Nurse player, I remember it was the first killer I picked starting out because she looked like a creepy nurse from Silent Hill. Only problem was I didn't know how to use the blink power. I tried chasing a Claudette but I never caught up. Then there was a pallet she dropped and I ran around like 20 times trying to catch her. I tried using the blink several times but just tapped the button long enough for nurse to scream and then go into fatigue because I didn't I didn't know you had to charge it. I was like, this is it? This is her power? Is the scream supposed to scare them into quitting? Lol. Then I started playing Trapper because I liked his big menacing presence and he could run faster than nurse and set bear traps.
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It´s so sad, They did really good around The clown chapter and now they just killing their game.
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Speaking of Clown I finally got my Adept Clown trophy last night but I really had to sweat for it. I used the redheads pinky and was getting lucky hits with the bottles when I would catch a chase. Ended up hooking everyone 3 times and as a rank 13 now against rank 8s and a 14 it felt pretty satisfying. All the survivors except the rank 14 got high 20k blood points, and I actually got a compliment for once from one of the survivors. It's matches like that that keep me hanging on.
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thuth is that, against a pre made team and in certain maps, there is just nothing to do, actually the fact that 4 people can voice chat and coordinate makes you in a too weak position.
It's sad but it's how it goes
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This is how I felt after my few matches last night.
The majority of them had 3 gens done in 2 minutes with my normal non-ruin setup. I record all my matches and it was pretty ridiculous.
It really drained my will to play the game and as a tiny DbD content creator, I'm not sure what to do about it.
I'm not good enough to make Tarkov content lol
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I'm just happy I don't have my life invested in this game via content creation or I'd... not be a happy fellow. Unlucky. : (
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You should try Spirit ... after 3 (maybe 4) games, you will rekt these "purple" people !
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Take a break like I did
Haven't played for over a week
It's going to hurt a bit at the start but you'll see you'll become happier and less stressed
Hell I got more productive when I stopped playing dbd, I still love this game, and the effort the devs puts into art creation but as the game stands in terms of balance is impossible for me to have fun
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You're running Clown and Trapper, strike one.
You're playing by survivor rules while the devs cater to them, strike two.
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Playing as Hag in low ranks, I have to ease up frequently because the Survivors I'm playing against just aren't very good. This includes the multiple purples/reds that get thrown into the match with me. Happened while i was leveling Freddy, Demogorgon, and the Pig as well. The majority of Survivors I'm seeing there, even with the trash matchmaking, don't have the skills to compete against a decent Killer.
Within the first minute or two though, I can usually feel the SWF and go all out against them. Those matches I find fun though because it helps me get better at my own game, and I would like to hit Rank 1 this season if I can get enough playtime. You will never get better playing against potatoes though, so the 3/4 man groups I play against, getting rekt frequently, give me a chance to work on rusty skills and better my Killer game.
That being said, if you're having issues pipping, especially at low ranks, you need to work on the basics and get better at them. This is why I never use Ruin on any Killer, because it supports you heavily at low ranks and doesn't force you to get any better at the basic skills ALL Killers need to survive in the Reds.
This is something I think will happen frequently now when the nerf goes live. Killers who literally got supported by Ruin through the ranks will drop quickly back into the yellows/greens. Killers who only use it as a tweak to their gameplay will be mostly unaffected. Much the same way Adrenaline, DH, DS, etc etc can carry a Survivor to the red ranks with them learning nothing along the way, Ruin has falsely propped up the Killer side and made it easier to pip and/or get kills.
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youll get better over time. rank means nothing anymore. just focus on improving your game play rather be mad about it.
look at me. im consistently rank 1 so whenever i want to try a new killer or practice a killer im not good with i have a chance to go against really strong survivors who expect me to play well cause im also rank 1. you just gotta do it.
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I stopped playing. For a while i was losing rank on purpose as killer, but now i dont care anymore. I moved onto other games.
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I agree the basekit was too much that was honestly fine as is. Sad part is the addons that needed to be changed were alongside ones that were useless. Now most of her addons are worse as well with even less being useful.
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I played 3 rounds as killer last night and it wasn't fun at all. If I got a survivor they would DC because they were a poor sport. If I was about to exit through the gate they would DC because they got beat. The developers don't care anymore because they got your money. At least that's how I feel anymore.
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I feel you, killer just isn’t as fun anymore
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Play something else
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Her add-ons now I disagree with because some of them are just down right stupid
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That's pretty much what it means to be a killer buddy. Killer requires a lot of skill, and quick thinking. But sadly, we get frowned upon for doing what we are suppose to do by survivors, and the devs punish us by making killer more frustrating and stressful to play as. Right now the devs don't care about killer's. They are too focused on holding survivors hands and making the game easier for them and treating us like we are bots. Keep practicing buddy, you'll eventually get there buddy, just take a breather from killer every once in awhile
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A bit over 600 hours in this game atm, idk if I have more than 100 hours as a killer...It's frustrating to the point you're getting absolutely sick of it. I play killer only for rituals and rarely to see how bad I am destroyed.
If you want to play this game as a killer, I definitely do not recommend it, play survivor or leave, but don't play killer, you'll get bullied in the worst possible way. And with the Ruin nerf knocking on the door we may see killer playerbase drop hard, which would shake the entire game...
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I just started Sea of Thieves, the ultimate game pass was on sale and the game seemed tempting. I havent opened DBD is 12 days, so you can refresh your mind with other games
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Git Gud
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you aren't playing as a society you are playing as a role in a stupid game, if you don't like it quit and stop making a scene
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Truth is the devs DON'T care about killers, just quit now before you get addicted like me
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Nurse wasn't easy... when u face potato surv ok but against good ones it was pretty hard to catch them. specially for a new nurse.
and yeah her basekit was strong but not too strong.. the problem was the addons.
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Find a small game where you can pause at anytime.
Switch to survivor and start searching for a lobby.
Play the other game while you wait for a match.
Easy games from now on.
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I played 11 games last night as a rank 10. All of them were against red ranks. I guess the pool of players is even smaller on ps4 or something. Because watching streamers you see red rank potatoes. I get none of those. I am playing against Survivor Team Six. I had a game last night with all gens done in 4:30. Quad escape. I want to play killer but unless I derank down to 15, I am still gonna get nothing but red rank SWF’s. My one game where I up-pipped last night was against an uncoordinated team of solos. At least on PC it seems there are still solo queue games and more potato-y survivors. On PS4, it feels like everyone is playing like their life depends on it. “I’m on t-walls. Get the gen done, I’m bringing him to you take chase. RED TEAM GO!! Now we sit at the exit to make sure he sees us bag. Mission success team. Well done!” Zero fun to play killer against survivors auditioning for the imaginary DBD pro-league.
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I do understand you. I feel the same. When I started this game on PS4 6 months ago, I really wanted to improve myself at being a decent killer over time. Step by step.
I watched a lot of streamers (I still do), tried to understand this game, played quite a lot and so on.
I've seen improvements. I was really enjoying this game. I've always been a fair player and played all killers, I never used a single mori the past 6 months or iridescent add-ons.
I was often frustrated oc but I managed to find fun in all this. I was a purple ranked killer. Now, for the past few weeks, my experience as killer is awful. I feel helpless so many times. I keep facing red ranks players (I'm rank 7-9) and almost every game is a mess. DS, BT, DH, adrenaline, keys, tea-bags.
This afternoon, I played again thinking "okay, matchmaking is broken. You won't be much of a threat to these survivors but at least, you will learn to be better". You know what? I had a dreadful afternoon and I decided to stop this game once and for all. I wasn't mad at the survivors, I was mad at this game. It took me 6 months to realize that this game (and particularly on console) is a complete mess. Things that should have been addressed earlier are here for way too long. I can't learn such a game.
Now they remove ruin. Good. Survivors will get used at escaping more often. More and more survivors will looked down on killers. No need to fear them. Just 360 your way out of here. Gen rush. BT and DS will do the rest. Is that a good point for this game? I don't think so. Ruin needed to be changed. But not now with all the flaws.
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That is if you can change the resolution or your font sizing so that when you play your mouse actually registers attacks. I can't tell you how many times I try to attack a fleeing target, and my character just contemplates life because my mouse is secretly clicking on stuff behind the game. It doesn't even play the game in a legitimate "full screen" yes one can argue that filling the border all the way is "full screen" but it's still a window, not a full screen game. When the game is your primary focus and the developers can't get that right, it's extremely infuriating on PC versus console.
Many of you (mostly PC players) are more than likely already thinking in the back of your mind; "Just go into the files like everyone else who looked this up on the internet and change them to fit your screen completely or whatever it is you have to do. Frankly for you and myself, I can't do that because the version I own is the Microsoft store version, not Steam. So I cannot get into the files because of how Microsoft doesn't want us all modifying our files (Usually I'm not against this kind of ethic, but in a time where developers can't even get the right specs for a full screen... It's kind of a drag that I can't modify the stuff to play better)
In conclusion to my argument... Your answer to his/hers was more so just another struggle they will have to deal with. And believe me I know this... I have been a Nurse main for a good fraction of my time and even though I have been practicing other killers (To my surprise I'm pretty damn good at a majority of them) it's just not enough if your damn mouse buttons don't register because the game's "Fix my fullscreen bulls***" setting isn't there"
As most of us do, I very much enjoy this game... But like a fine red wine, you can't sit back and enjoy it if the damn corkscrew doesn't work. Then your just left thirsty and wishing it was liquor lol, I hope the developers work on the many issues that they have. I'm sure they are and we need only be patient... But patience is a virtue that cannot be bought for too long and when you can't even do the very one thing a game is meant for half the basis (attacking of course) then what is the point of anything? (I would like to say that this is not me attacking anyone or the developers themselves, at least not directly lol. Everything has a flaw and as a community it's our job to voice them)
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Killers are meant to be frustrating, what kind of madman plays video games for fun? /s
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If I ever worked at BHVR I would probably get fired because I wouldn’t be able to resist to temptation to make and gift custom shirts and coffee mugs with Mathieu’s quotes.
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