My latest experience with Dead by Daylight

I agree with most of what you say here. I also have made a topic suggesting a training tool or practice mode.

You aren't the only one having problems with matchmaking, its been an issue for a while. They said they were doing something to fix it, but i can't tell if that fix was supposedly already released, and did nothing, or if they are still working on it.

When i queue as a killer it seems like a 50/50 chance whether i will get put up against players around my rank or all the way up to rank 1s. I have started to get so frustrated with it that i will launch the game now, and right before i press Ready i realize im actually just not in the mood to get stomped on by tryhard SWFs and then i usually just close the game and go watch youtube instead. I bought Freddy a few days ago because i figured he would at least stand a chance in the higher ranks, but i haven't played him even once yet, because i can't get motivated enough to grind the BPs to level him up first.

I think the main reason lower ranked killers are getting put up against red ranks is 100% because not many people are queueing up for killer lately. Ever since they nerfed Ruin the game has been extremely frustrating to play as a killer. So a bunch of red rank survivors queue up, and since the game cant find a properly ranked killer after 5 minutes, it just starts pairing them with lower ranked ones to get them in a game. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE in a ranked game. They claim that if you go up against opponents who are a much higher rank than you, that you will be compensated by not de-ranking as easily, and vice versa. But i have not been able to notice any difference. If i go up against four rank 2 players and they all brought toolboxes with Brand New Parts and insta heal medkits, and i don't even manage to get one hook, i'm still losing rank. Which is going to be the outcome every time. There is no room for 'compensation'.

I mean, imagine playing league of legends and queuing up as a silver or gold player and then get put up against challenger players and then lose your promotion game. It's like a joke.

The only thing i would disagree with is being able to buy bloodpoints. Once people get the perks they want, bloodpoints are solely used to unlock addons and offerings. Once you open the door to buying bloodpoints, then next it will be "Buy our VIP pass and get 2x bloodpoints, 2x iridescent shards". It will end up being a game where you either go up against rank 1s who have bought enough bloodpoints to run purple toolboxes and brand new parts, or killers running only pink addons and moris.

You should have to earn your addons and offerings by playing the game, buying these things would destroy this games competitive structure.

However, i would not be against letting people just buy perk unlocks, so that they don't have to buy an entire killer or survivor to get the meta perks. But what would be even better than making them purchasable with money is just to increase how many perks are available in the shrine now. The shrine has existed for years, and 4 perks at a time back then was fine because there were half as many perks as there are now. Now that there are so many more perks, the chances of the perks you want showing up are much lower.

But GL getting any devs to hear your voice, or care at all about what you say if they do manage to read this. They actually think Legion is in a good spot right now. Just proves how little they understand about the competitive state of their own game.

If you took a look at the survey they put out a week ago, 90% questions were basically about monetized aspects of the game. "Do you like these products? Would you prefer these products over these products? Which of these products are you most likely to buy? Are you happy with the selection of purchasable ######### in store? Would you be more likely to buy these products if we did this and this?" Kinda tells you all you need to know about the only kind of feedback they want from you.

Playing as killer is just not fun anymore as the game has become a total bully simulator and killers have become a plaything for survivors. What do the devs do about it? Keep buffing survivors cause they are the only people the devs listen to for some reason. The new killer, deathslinger, is absolute garbage and not viable at all in the high ranks and the devs refuse to buff him. It actually astounds me that they decided to nerf one of his perks and buff one of zarinas perks. I have no clue why ruin was nerfed either. The devs have no idea what they are doing and after this latest update I refuse to spend anymore money on this game just to show them that they are the ones slowly killing their game. I’m just about ready to stop playing all together. The devs obviously have never heard of “balance” and now I’m convinced they just don’t care. Thanks behaviour for ruining what was once one of my favourite games.

Imo deathslinger is better than huntress he can stop loops that huntress simply can't. Plus his instant shooting is really good. Combine that with his low terror radius without a hum and he is a really strong killer if you play him right. Especially with stbfl and M&A. He also reduces the amount of distance survivors get after being hit if he reels them in fully. Imo his only cons are his 110ms and limited range. Other than that he is a pretty solid killer. Gen-rush is the problem.

It's true that his killspeed potential is lower than huntress but that is only in that one scenario where they are attempting to down multiple enemies one after another. He has other advantages that huntress does not. He can sneak up on people way way way way easier. He can shoot through tiny tiny holes in almost every wall to hit an enemy. He never has to end a chase to go get hatchets if he runs out.

Huntress hatchets are way more lethal, but they are harder to aim, and its basically like trying to throw beach ball sized shots, they require way way more precision to not accidentally hit an object. It's only natural that someone would be rewarded more for landing her shots over his. If they did buff his lethality to be equal to huntress, then huntress would instantly become a useless killer because he would simply be better at all things with no downsides.

Yes, he has a lot of downsides, but you can't just complain about them and ignore the fact that he has plenty of upsides as well. You cannot underestimate his ability to be stealthy. Unlike huntress, he can walk around a corner and instant-shoot you, he doesn't have to give away a sound queue that he is readying a shot. The survivors have WAY less reaction time to counterplay him. Sure, he can't hurt someone who is on the other side of a pallet.... but guess who else can't do that? Almost every other killer. If he could, he would be the only killer anyone would ever play because it would be so easy and so unstoppable. You can't play him like a huntress, because he isn't huntress. His strength comes in stealth, rendering windows unusable, and having the potential to down someone before they can reach a loop in the first place if you are skilled with him. Huntress has some of the same strengths, but different weaknesses. In exchange for her having lethal hatchets, they are harder to use, she has zero stealth, and they give survivors a warning that you are aiming a shot.

The problem is, if they buff deathslinger much, he will quickly become more than just okay, he will be straight up broken. Since his gun is so so easy to aim and shoot quickly (you can literally quickshot it, no need to prep a hit like huntress) any little buff will be amplified by anyone who is good at twitch muscle gaming, and i don't want DBD to become that. He basically makes every window in the game completely useless already, and a lot of the longer loops, like shack, are also useless against him.

If you want a killer who has range, speed, and full lethality, we already have nurse. And there is a reason she is so insanely difficult to use. Any easier and she would just dominate every game without any skill needed. The same applies with Deathslinger, just in the opposite direction. Instead of being super difficult, ranged and lethal, he is super simple, ranged and less lethal. There is a balance to be kept. If you make something easy to use, it has to be weak to compensate. And if you make something very strong, it has to be super hard to compensate. It is only when this formula is not followed that imbalance is created. Freddy and Spirit, for example might be a little too strong in comparison for how easy they are to use. They TRIED to make spirit hard to use, by making her unable to see survivors, but it seems that does not make her as difficult as they thought it would.

I don't disagree that he has difficulty pressuring gens enough to keep up with the games speed. But that is not a Deathslinger problem, its a general game problem. Pretty much every killer that can't teleport or dash across the map is having that same problem, which is why i think when they do fix the game speed problem, deathslinger will be just fine. Otzdarva has played quite a lot of him, and even though he misses at least half of his shots, he generally has been winning games more than losing, regardless of rank.

I feel like deathslinger is directly a mid-tier killer, which isn't that bad when you consider how much worse some others are doing. Because he is half ranged half melee, he has amazing perk synergies. Pretty much every perk that is good on huntress is better on him, and he gets the benefit of still being able to get the best out of M1 oriented perks like STBFL/Devour Hope/NOED/Make your Choice.

There are maybe some tweaks they can do with him to make things a little more clean and less frustrating, but i doubt you will see any blatant huge buffs for him like movespeed increase, or allowing him to kill you with his gun from range. He did only just come out, so maybe you might see changes with reeling speed or chain durability. But i don't think he only relies on survivors making mistakes as you say. If you are good enough at predicting survivors movement and knowing where its a good idea and a bad idea to attempt a shot, there are a lot of plays you can make, regardless of if the survivor makes a mistake or not.

And while i agree, no killer should be addon dependant, i don't think it is possible to make the killers non perk dependant. Unless they nerf every perk to have a much smaller impact on the game, there will always be killers who just have too much synergy with a perk to not use it. For example, if they buffed Deathslinger to recover faster after landing a shot/reel in, so that he isn't dependant on STBFL, he then could STILL run STBFL and just be extra strong instead. So their only choice is to leave deathslinger and STBFL how it is, or buff deathslinger and nerf STBFL so that he isn't OP with it, which would hurt a lot of other killers instead.