Killer is getting hilariously unfair and unfun
I'm posting this again, so we can all discuss it while trying to keep this post alive.
Greetings:
I have been playing Dead by Daylight for aprox three years now. I fell in love, made a latin america community, helped new players and old alike and continously support it. However, I cannot deny that the current changes and old flags are getting annoyignly unfair, making the game not fun at all. I will try to list what I think down bellow.
1) Pip system simply does not work properly for killers
Countless games I have been penalized because one or two survivors decided to rage quit by giving me the "brutal killer" score screen, giving me silver and gold emblems because, through the current system, I didn't get to hook them one final time, so that counts as me not having a "proper" game.
Same goes with playing efficiently. Last night, I played The Oni. Killed everyone in less than 3 minutes. THEY messed up, didn't unhook other survivors and chases ended quickly. Still, I got bronze and silver emblems, because I notice the system seems to work for survivors; as a killer, YOU are the responsible for making their game fun. If you are efficient in doing the whole purpouse of the game, well, you get penalized, again.
Now, I understand that this responds to the very design of the game. Before, you had to get at least 3 kills to get a decent ammount of bp and pip. This produced tunneling, slugging, etc. However, this does not justify what I've specified above. Playing killer is getting annoying, hilariously unfair in rewarding you for playing "well".
2) Changes aimed to new players, ignoring veterans
Yes, I'm talking about the recent nerfs. Changes like the one you did with The Spirit are great, because those are generalized issues that the vast majority of players have been discussing. However, the Ruin change is totally survivor biased. While I can understand that you are focusing on improoving the game for new players, you just can't ignore the ones that are in lower ranks, playing between people who KNOW the game.
Many experienced killers will know that Ruin IS for early game. If you were lucky, survivors wouldn't find it in the first minute, so it gave you an advantage to hook one or two survivors before that happen and avoiding getting 2 or 3 gens done within your first chase.
It's not a coincidence that streamers and experienced players alike find this change ridiculous. Th new Ruin works in theory, yes, but it has no point for lower ranks, as survivors won't stop doing the first gens (not going deeper in survivor behavior. If you are in a chase, three others are working on one already) Like many have stated, this will encourage to use area control killers: Billy, Nurse, Freddy with other perks and other killers will slowly get totally unplayed, unless you are a masochist.
Yes, I've played without Ruin and if you don't get a SWF group, you can have excelent games. However, the problem resides exactly there; SWF tends to be the issue, always. There are alternatives that work pretty fine: Dying Light. Sloppy Butcher, etc, but again, it's more likely to get genrushed if you are playing against and experienced SWF group and the game limits you to take advantage of survivor's mistakes rather than rewarding you for being efficient, again.
3) At the long term, this will affect both sides alike
As I mentioned above, the old issues will come back. Less killers playing, and those who will play, will use tactics to compensate those points. You will probably see more camping and tunneling until the point that killers are going to be nerfed so they work alongside survivors and finally hook themselves. Survivors will likely encounter the same killer over and over, because other characters (like Wraith) are just non-viable in higher ranks.
So, what is it going to be like? I don't know. Behaviour has not dissapointed me in these three years. I have not always agreed with his opinions and changes? Of course, but these ones are getting annoying for me, and I know, for many others. I just hope you just don't ignore older players and don't just dedicate every effort to make the game more "fun" to newer ones through making it unfair to the killers, because there's currently nothing to keep you playing in red ranks. It's better to de-rank on purpouse and play with more unexperienced survivors so you can really enjoy the game without the annoyingly issues I've mentioned.
I hope that you get to read this and consider it as feedback instead of a ranting. Please, don't try to convince me otherwise because I know these things are facts. If you believe otherwise, please, I encourage you to read and watch other players's arguments and concerns about this topic. I'm just writing my personal views on this, as I know I'm not alone having this issues. It IS a problem and I hope it doesn't get ignored. I love the game, and I really want to invite new players to it. Hope this year it's a great one for us all.
Have a nice day and thank you in advance.
