Who here plays both survivors and killer?

I play fair a fair amount of both sides, but lately this year more of Killer. I don't look at one side and say it's op, but rather I study what can be done to improve the enjoyment for both sides. Like a recent suggestion about a Pig rework. It's kind of balanced, just wish there would finally be a stealth meta and not a pallet looping one.

@Tzeentchling9 said:
I play both, but I play more Survivor these days. It's much more relaxing, playing the power role.

IKR. Just go for a nice walk in the Fog, maybe fix a few generators, and stroll on out to the campfire with your BFFs.

I play both, but I prefer killer.

@apropos Looping is when you go to a tileset (preferably with a pallet) and walk in circles until the killer gets too near to you. Then you drop the pallet in his face (be careful of being too greedy) and walk to the next tileset with a pallet. It's kind of necessary against good killers.

Most high rank players have map awareness so they know where the pallets spawn, they can also loop good and might not fall into mindgame traps.

If you're good at looping you can waste a lot of time before the killer kills you and if the other 3 people are doing gens it's pretty much a lost game for the killer. Some people drop pallets too fast though and they do run out of them.

As a killer you can always change targets if you get looped too long and only one guy is there, and the lowest tier killers all have nothing efficient they can do against looping. (At least without Add-Ons)

SWF is short for Survive With Friends, the matchmaking mode where Survivors can play with their friends.
Many people criticize this mode because you can communicate via voice with your friends, and it kind of destroys some perks and other things like that. SWF groups are much harder to beat as a killer, and although the matchmaking mode is fun it is kind of too strong at the moment, sadly.
It always depends on how good and coordinated the teams in SWF are though.

The biggest problem rises when SWF groups win too much and get confident and bored, so they'll annoy the killer instead of progressing the game when they know they can win regardless.

I play both sides at rank 1.

Survivors run the show unless Nurse is involved.

Personally, I'd like to see chases become more skilled-based.

Same here to bad its hard for most people on the forums to comprehend playing both sides.

I am a survivor main and I prefer playing as a survivor since it is a lot more enjoyable.

I think that the survivor side is really powerful. Not because looping is unbeatable or the game is extremely difficult for the killers but because survivors are the ones who decide the direction of the game. There is not much that a killer can do if the survivors want to genrush and finish the game as soon as possible (Assuming the killer is not a nurse or a hillbilly).

Playing killer doesn't feel like playing a 'killer'. You need to manage the time which is boring and stressful.

I wish I loved playing the nurse and the hillbilly but both of them are the most boring killers for me.

I try to play both, but at least with survivor, I can find a lobby right away.

For a survivor, it ultimately boils down to cosmetics - which character do you like the most visually? Me? My mains would be David King and Kate, because I like the way they look, and have a back up if I ever want to switch it up (Adam and Nea). Once you have all of the teachable perks unlocked, no survivor is unique. The only difference is female characters are slightly more stealthy because they are smaller than the male survivors. They can all use the same perks, offerings, items, and add-ons.

For killer, it's all about which power you are the most comfortable using. Since I don't play killer too much, I haven't determined which killer I will like the most, but I am leaning towards Huntress, Doctor, or Wraith as my mains, in spite of the fact I've only ever played Trapper.

I used to play survivor but not anymore, it got too easy.

Play both - pretty much a 50/50 split. I prefer survivor (simply because a lot of playing a killer seems to be running around doing nothing) but once it gets past 20:30, it becomes really difficult to find survivor games on PS4... so I switch.

I think both sides are relatively well-balanced against each other. Individual characters/perks may need tweaking but, overall, I''m ok with it. I've noticed that in the mid-ranks, before you're fully perked, you really are rewarded for so-called "toxic" behaviour like camping though. Mostly because survivors make it worthwhile when they swarm the hook, but also because running off to find someone else gets really boring.

FYI Stop unhooking people directly in front of the killer (camping or not). Unless you run borrowed time. It's a gift when you do it and I'm playing killer, but annoying AF when I'm the poor sap on the hook that you decide to farm for rescue BP only to leave me to a certain death.

(both rank 1) I'm always watching a movie on my second screen when I play survivor because its a M1 simulator. So I'd say that survivor is more chill, especially when you play with friends. Killer is quite intense, full gen pressure + no teammates

@Hellrossa said:
Meg and Piggy mostly.

God, I bet you're popular! Good on you though.

Me! I love playing character classes in general so as long as I keep the perks mostly unique per each character I’ll play any of them

I play both, although I like killer more than survivor. Although survivor is way less stressful and easier than killer, I get annoyed or bored real fast. I play almost exclusively solo survivor and you either get matches were you have survivors that know what they are doing and the gens are done in 5 minutes even with ruin or you have survivors on your team that make you think: "How did they get past rank 19?"

Just had a P3 Dwight who starts the match by going in a locker and comes out when he notices that the huntress is chasing me (knew that because I use bond). Would be fine, a bit cowardly given how strong survivors are but fine. What was not fine is that he saw that I was looping the huntress around a pallet and instead of doing the smart thing of "I run away and do another gen" he runs to me and wants to run the loop with me. That of course gave me an unnecessary hit... Gladly the huntress prefered to hit the Dwight next and followed him instead of me. How is it possible to get to rank 4, prestige your character three times (hadn't looked for his perks, so no idea if he got any teachables) and still be sooo bad at this game?

With killer I have to concentrate and can't have any distractions because I have to hear moans and footsteps and such, which makes it less chill than survivor, with the only benefit being that these idiots aren't on my team anymore... Sadly they are mostly not in my killer games either.

@Mycroft said:

@Eight said:

Hahaha.

I did say "relatively"... but you may be right.

Play both pretty equally, (why would anyone only want to play half a game lol).

I don't really see either side as "OP". Solo Surv vs Killer is pretty balanced IMO. Even with looping, camping, DS, BBQ Billy, etc (all the stuff people whine to high heavens about).

Now SWF using discord/PS party vs Killer... that's where it tilts heavily towards the survivor side.
Since it wasn't originally part of the game it was never balanced around, and they really need to do something. Even if it's their plan of bringing solo up to SWF levels of info (AND BUFFING KILLERS ACCORDINGLY!). Just, anything to make it fun for both sides again. SWF rn is easymode survivor side, and hell from the killer side. I want a challenge even if I'm playing with friends, otherwise I feel like a jerk after when the killer gets demolished because of how easy it is.

...Although I'm sure it'll end up being along the lines of survivors getting those buffs and being happy, then going on entitled review bombs when they try to buff killers to be able to compete. Because well, look what happens anytime killers get any kind of buff lmao.

@Eight said:

@Hellrossa said:
Meg and Piggy mostly.

God, I bet you're popular! Good on you though.

Why that? :ohnoes: