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Easy fix to make killer the power role again
Killer has 3rd person camera.
Survivor has 1st person camera.
It’d be a true survival horror game!
GG EZ NOOB BABY SURVIVORS 😅
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A power role dosent and shouldn't exist
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enjoy you're third person view as huntress,deathslinger.
E tier bait though. try harder.
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Although I acknowledge that a 3rd person view for killer wouldn't work in relation to Survivor gameplay, it's a shame we can't enjoy our various killer skins in their entirety.
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Would be cool if there was a perk or something for survivors that let you play first person but you gain 100% more bloodpoints.
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So why are you playing an asymmetrical game?
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To compete against the opposing side, not to have a built-in advantage. The game is supposed to be balanced, not to handicap one side over the other.
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That's not what any of this means.
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Then go ahead and enlighten us. Thanks.
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The killer (power role) is supposed to only be matched by the survivors as a whole (numbers role). That's what it means to have an asymmetrical game. By design, killers are supposed to have an inherent advantage when going 1v1.
If you don't agree with this, then you don't agree with the whole idea of an asymmetrical game.
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You should have the advantage in a 1v1, yes. That's what I wrote. You seem confused about what I wrote, since you're behaving as if I said the killer should have an advantage over all survivors combined.
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Power role means, he can win as a single person, while survivors need to be 4 people. It doesn't mean the killer should always 4k.
Humans...
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Bugs, exploits, and other unintended behaviors aren't advantages, they're things that need to be patched out and shouldn't be taken into account when it comes to balancing a game.
With that out of the way, the question isn't "Does the killer have advantages over individual survivors?", it's "Does the killer have enough of an advantage over individual survivors?". OP thinks the answer is "No" and proposed a way to fix that.
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But that's not what I'm questioning. I don't dispute the notion you have described. I dispute the way that 'power role' is commonly used on this forum, which is with a very different meaning, i.e. to justify requests for nerfs of anything that could make a 4k more difficult because the killer is supposed to have 'power' over the survivors, as if the survivors should be powerless in return.
Also, just for the record, you're not the keeper of the 'idea of asymmetrical game'. People are perfectly free to disagree with your opinions. That's what forums are for.
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I myself proposed this idea a while back, and I'm a survivor main. At the very least, I think certain interactions should lock the survivors' FOV and maybe even POV, to prevent them from looking around 360º while they're supposed to be focused on generators or whatever.
That's its definition. If people disagree, that's not my problem.
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Latency can't be fixed, no, but hits are not going to be checked on the killer side for much longer.
Indeed, they should, but they don't.
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I've never seen anyone use "power role" to mean "Should always 4k".
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'power over the survivors' would be misinterpreted if someone says killer side over survivor side. Just killer over each individual survivor.
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I roll my eyes anytime someone uses "power role" unironically.
Make Killers Scary Again!!!
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Crosshairs
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You're playing an Asymmetrical game....thats literally what its about...
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Both sides have handicaps vs. the other side, but the handicaps are drastically different for each role. That is what makes it asymmetrical.
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The killer is the power role because there is 1 killer against 4 survivors. 1 individual survivor shouldn't be more powerful than the killer, but all 4 survivors should over power the killer. This is why swf are so powerful. When you get 4 solo players that have to work smarter than the killer.
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That means, when killers and survivors are of equal skill, the killer should have no advantage in a 1v1, but has to play against 4?
Do you think that sounds like a concept that can function in any way? Of do you define "good killer" in any way?
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Because even if they are of equal skill, it's still an asymmetrical 4v1 game. You're not supposed to be able to 1v1 the killer unless he's a total noob who constantly makes mistakes and you're someone with hundreds or thousands of hours. It should require four survivors of equal skill to the killer for a tie. Not one, four.
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You know how gta camera works right? Whey would most certainly get a crosshair.
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That's how asymmetrical games work. Why did you buy an asymmetrical game if you're not interested in the asymmetrical gameplay?
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Those two terms are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I can't remember a single asymmetrical game that didn't also have PvP.
You can tell it's asymmetrical by the fact that it's a 4v1 game, as opposed to 4v4 or 1v1 or any other combination that would make it symmetrical. If gamers don't know what asymmetrical means, they just need to retake middle school math.
If memory serves, killer queues only go up shortly after a new killer is released, but they're never actually long.
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Im just throwin this out there... but havin a 3rd person view for the killer or 1st person view for the survivors wouldnt be the craziest of ideas...
Wouldnt be the first asymetrical game to do it...
If anything, would be interesting to give it a try.
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You bought the game without knowing the basics of it's gameplay?
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As a killer main, I have to agree with @Orion! Not because I'm a killer main, but simply because there's 4 survivor's. If you've play in a SWF you'll get what I'm throwing at you.
Let's say it's you, Dwight, David, and Kate. Dwight will be on his second hook next hook, David is on his last hook and being tunneled, and Kate has only been hooked once, and you haven't been hooked yet. David is being tunneled and all of you are nearby to keep David alive. Dwight takes a hit to protect David, which slows the killer down, it's now up to you and Kate to block the killer and take a hit to protect daddy and David. One of y'all take the hit and the other takes a hit. After everybody took a hit David is long gone and everybody has scattered and trying to heal and the the killer is chasing the 4th person that got hit.
This is the best I can do on why I believe the killer should be the power role, and why all 4 survivor's working together should either be on par or make the killer struggle in a 4v1
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It's in the description though. It's a 4v1 so it being asymmetrical is kind of a given. You can't expect one of the four survivors to be as strong as the killer or what would be the point of a 4v1?
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I'm sorry I don't want to derail but the typo of Dwight to Daddy is hilarious. Jokes aside, yeah, that is the point of a 1v4 game.
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Again? Killer has never been the power role.
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It should be expected though, since it's a 4v1. And there are specific strengths that should fall to each roll. The killer gets more because they have to deal with four opponents. Think of it like a scale. If you put a four pound weight on one side and four one-pound weights on the other, it's balanced. That's the same idea the devs are trying to go for for DBD. An individual survivor is only one fourth of the killer, but working together, they are able to hold their own.
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Ive never seen killers say they should always 4k, the only people that say that are survivors creating strawmen
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Because its a 4v1. If each individual survivor is of equal skill to the 1 killer and theres no handicap then the killer is ALWAYS outmatched.
Thats like taking 5 of the best cod players in the world, putting 4 of them against 1, and when the 1 complains saying "jUsT pReSsUrE GeNs BrUh!"
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Its LITERALLY an Assymetrical game. Are you high? Its 4v1. What the hell is going on in this thread 😂
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Asymmetrical doesn't mean you are fighting some kind of grand endgame OP boss.
Friday the 13th is Asymmetrical and yet you can still fight Jason with weapons, as a 1v1.
Last Year is Asymmetrical and yet again, doesn't always rely on 4 ganging up on 1.
Asymmetrical simply means there are 2 sides that do not match. One side kills the other survives. There is no "power role". You have different options that provide different advantages and disadvantages in a match.
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Ah yes, the victim role where you're powerless to stop anything while four people bully you.
That's what you were going for right? Because construed in any other form would be the stupidest ######### thing I've heard all day.
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*turns on megaphone*
KILLER IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A POWER ROLE.
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What is the the killers role supposed to be then?
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Party clown, point piñata, abuse dump... Take your pick.
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