I used to play killer a lot more...

Hello folks. I am reposting this from the steam forums, as per a request I got on that very thread. This is mostly in regards to killers, although if survivors are curious about an opinion from someone who plays both sides, read on.

So, in the wake of people complaining about queue times as survivor and not fully grasping why people don't enjoy killer nearly as much, I thought I'd post my story as to why I stopped playing killer a lot, and the game entirely.

Whenever I play, I play the side with the shortest queue. I'm impatient. This is almost always the killer side, sometimes survivor, but this isn't about survivors (Even though solo experience is a PITA)

To be perfectly clear, I still play now and then, it's not really a rant as "OMG this side is totally unfair VS the other side." It's more... "I don't play killer as much as I used to. Maybe this is why others don't as well."

Let's get a myth out of the way.

Not playing as much has NOTHING to do with Ruin. At least for me. Ruin felt needed because of killers having poor map pressure in large maps, but it was a worthless perk often cleansed within the first minute of the game.

So...a few reasons I don't play that much anymore, especially as killer:

1: The community.

Now, I try to be a nice killer. I've seen both sides of the fence. I know what it's like to be camped and tunneled and hook farmed.

It's a shame not a single survivor gives a flying ♥♥♥♥ if you're a fair killer.

Despite how nice I try to be, despite how I only camp during EGC because that's the only way I can still kind of keep on playing the game and not give up, I get told the worst things.

I quit playing for a month or so, came back, the VERY FIRST game I used a mori with blood warden and NOED.

TLDR: I have to kill survivors during EGC. I had 0 intention of using the mori before EGC, and I didn't use it before then.

People told me the worst things. It was disheartening. Here I am not tunneling, not camping, yes I use NOED and a mori for an archive, I told them that in chat, but no, I get told things I can't repeat on the forums.

Yes you can ignore the community, but you have to admit how sad this is. Playing fairly, being nice, and you still get trashed on. Why the hell would I want to play against people like these? It's not always my feelings getting hurt. It's "Why would I want to play with you guys in the first place? I know how bad you are."

2: The matchmaking.

You see this now and then. Rank 16s VS rank 1s and 2s. I have endless screenshots. Now, I'm actually a decent killer so I can kill these rank 1s and 2s somewhat consistently, but it's not really enjoyable. There's a third point which kind of relates to this too, but there's also another problem with this: Out of every killer I have, only 1 killer has meta perks to kill red ranks. The others do not. So if I wanted to play Wraith, I don't have good Wraith perks. If I get put up against red ranks, I'm shooting myself in the foot because I've handicapped myself with subpar perks as a subpar killer.

Can I kill most survivors if I put in thousands of hours? Most likely yes. Is it worth it? Oh, hell no. Not for free. I don't want to dedicate my life to DBD to become better than most survivors. I have better things to do. Call it laziness, I call it "A life."

3: Difficulty curve.

This is one of the biggest issues I see as a killer.

My nights consist of 4k, 4k, 0k, 0k, 4k, 0k, along that pattern. Some games I get 4ks so effortlessly that I feel bad. 0 generators get done. I get all my hooks. Game's over.

The very next game that very night I'll get 0k as I struggle so hard and just get taunted to.

Now, name one person, just one person, that enjoys difficulty curves of this degree.

If you're a new killer, you're going to get more 0ks than not. Once the 4ks start coming in, you'll see yourself likely in a similar pattern. The most fair matches I get as a killer are semi competent, not godlike, SWF teams.

I'm not complaining about SWF teams. I've met some friendly ones out there. However, some of them are the biggest tryhards I'll ever see. Maybe because some killers play the same. It's not very fun to go up against though.

4: Simply put, repetitive and boring.

The game has little difference from previous games. Unlike playing survivor where you have the option to play SWF, killer games are usually the same from one game to the next. There is no different strategy. There is no different method. It's just...I have to try to kill survivors.

Is there an obsession and I have 0 obsession perks? That means one of them has DS.

Set up traps around pallets as trapper, or chase someone and predict the way they're going to run because I know they're going to want to lure me away from the generators and 9/10 times I'm right and I get a very easy down because of this...there's little variety in gameplay.

Maybe someone has a different experience as to why killers have become a bit more dull to them, but these were mine. Like I said, it had nothing to do with Ruin. It has to do with a lot of other factors, and these factors weigh heavily on a player over a long period of time.

Survivors have a lot of issues too, mostly solos, so I cannot blame a survivor joining a SWF team. However, the community isn't 'quite' as bad as a survivor. Yeah you get a camper/tunneler on occasion as a survivor, but almost never you'll see toxic talk directed towards you.