Will dev's EVER fix the gen speed?

Why would you ever balance a casual game around the best players? Great players are very uncommon in this game. If you were to balance around the best of the best you'd throw the majority of your playerbase out the window to accommodate the small number that are very good. If you balance this way in a casual game, you lose most of your casual players, the ones who make up a massive chunk of your playerbase. This is a fantastic way to kill your game.

For the majority, the game is well balanced.

This is just so weird of a complaint. Watch any good killer's stream and they 3-4K 95% of their games. That indicates if you're having an issue you're just not as good as you think you are.

"Casual is when you hop on to a game to chill with a bunch of mates and just have an overall enjoyable experience. I think Competitive play comes in when you want to win your next game to “rank up” or improve your stats. The drive to improve and get better with every match you play."

This is the first thing that comes up when you type casual vs competitive. The majority of DBDs playerbase doesn't have a drive to improve in every match they play. Hence, why the majority of the playerbase is bad at the game. The game isn't as competitive as you'd like to think it is. Just because there are a few here and there who get salty at the game doesn't mean it's a competitive game.

Oh, this is also another good one.

"A casual gamer is a player who enjoys any video game without investing significant time to it, playing it spontaneously, irregularly, or infrequently. The term casual may also be used as a derogative noun, to describe a player who is not fully committed to playing a video game at a high level"

The majority AREN'T invested into playing this game at its highest level. Which is why many are bad at the game. They play it casually.

Many players could care less for rank. It means nothing. It proves and shows nothing. Rank 1 doesn't mean you're among the best because many there are very bad at the game.

So I've reached red ranks once again. And the thing I notice is that they'll get really good early gens done and die within 2-3 gens being completed.

Best way I can think of to fix the gen speeds is to make them go in regular speeds with the first 25-40% and then progressively slow it down more or have it the opposite, slow within the first 30-40% and then let it progressively speed up.

I've also seen killers complain about "gen rushing." Which, I don't really see as a such thing as gen rushing, just bad pressure. I think gen speeds are okay because killers need to learn when to leave chase to pressure gens. I had a game as survivor where we put in 3-4 gens before the killer got a single down. That's just bad pressure. Surprise surprise that he had NOED which only secured him a single kill.

I don't like that argument. In reality, the chases are dictated by the survivor depending on what killer you are playing. All you can do is run the strong loops in the correct direction to deny as many vaults as possible. There are some mindgames by hiding your red stain, but an attentive survivor won't fall for them often and they can harm you more than they can help you. Against good survivors, all you are doing is encouraging mistakes. It is only a handful of certain killers that ignore the loops and allow you make plays on your own.

If you go watch some of the best SWFs in the game play on twitch, you will see them 4 man out killers almost nonstop. It's not rare for them to only give up a 1k for 8+ hours in a row, and they don't use items. A 12 hook game isn't possible at all with the majority of the killer roster into teams like that. High ranking survivors will frequently run 3-4x second chance perks each, which makes tunneling/slugging/camping much less viable, even though those are basically the only strategies to snowball at high ranks. Snowballing is required, because as I mentioned earlier, there is no time to do 12 hooks in game that can last 4 minutes or less.

Agreed. I feel like I need PGTW in every single one of my loadouts as kicking a gen without it does nothing IMO.

You're never going to get any better at killer like that, though. :) Freddy is OP. Do it with Clown and we'll talk.

If survivors actually got decent bloodpoints for games and had something else to do other than gens and totems, they would probably not just jump on a gen. Unlike killer, who gets to play the whole match, survivors can get tunnelled or mori'd out of the game early and not get the opportunity to earn additional points. There need to be other things that gave more points that would incentivize those other actions.

I mean, event Otz had a hard time against a well coordinated SWF team...