What's actually unbalanced about the game?

add-ons and offerings

Map rng is the most unbalanced aspect of the game. In a few words the same map can be survivor sided one round and the next totally killer sided based on how certain windows or pallets appear in the game and how certain tiles connect each other. I dont mind the rng but the way pallets, vaults and tiles works right now is not perfect and can sometimes bring some really bad "unique" tile chains that are not balanced at all, giving a massive advantage to one side each time.

Some people will say that some perks are overpowered and such, I personally disagree a bit with that, some perks are useless and others are very solid, in my opinion we dont have game breaking perks right now.

Players/People...

The random aspect. You could get 4 flashlight warriors all running power perks that slam gens, or you could get a killer that nails cross map hatchets consistently. I personally think people should just throw their hands up and say - random isn't balanced - and be done with it but people want consistency and competitive play.

Not sure where I stand honestly. Give me fast queues and a sprinkle of action every minute or so in a match and I'm gold.

I sidetracked a little on my comment there ^

but the point is, the game is pretty balanced. People just like to complain about "problems" that they create with their own play styles

Biggest issue is something people usually don’t mention do I’ll say it.

Time before the match ends is the biggest issue with Dead By Daylight. No not generator speeds.

For certain killers they have a harder time pressuring survivors, making the match for them require everything to go exactly how they want it to go, trapper is the best possible example of this as his power requires the survivors to step in his traps, if a survivor never steps near his traps for them to even give him any help then he has no power helping him and nothing stopping gens from bring completed, hence why you would almost 100% of the time see a trapper use old ruin, just because he has nothing stopping generators being completed outside of him going close to it.

So in order for dead by daylight to be fair for every killer on every map without using a perk that prevents generators from being completed (perks like Ruin and Corrupt Intervention), the game needs something that slows down the progress for survivors straight off the bat while giving killers breathing room and helping killers like Demogorgon and Trapper to set up at the start of the match without losing generators immediately.

Without having something like I mentioned, either games will go on for too long or are too fast, with a change that is kinda a “start-game collapse” (I believe this is actually in the works, stated by a dev themselves if I am correct) making the need for killer perks like PGTW and Corrupt not always needed but can help with setting up longer and gain more breathing room.

This “start-game collapse” system can help balance out some maps without the need for the map to be reworked, I might work on an idea for this later but this is all I can come up with

Survivor: 99ing resilience you get a 9% speed boost to everything and you can just keep your self at a 1 tap with a medkit, pair it with spine chill and it is a no risk high reward build

Killer: Infectious Fright, it was buffed to be on all attacks instead of just m1's. I am 98.7% sure this is why billy was "reworked" (read nerfed) billy base kit wasn't the problem, infectious fright snowball was, I personally think Oni will be next if they don't do something about infectious.

Fixes for both?

Make it so if you aren't fully healed you start regressing the heal

Infectious (I don't want to say cool down but) perhaps make it so you see Auras instead of sound notifications for 6 seconds but then give it a cool down until you have hooked someone (or a timed cool down)

Or

Or just make it not work on instadowns.

I think the RNG is really silly sometimes. When i'm a killer the survivors sometimes get insane RNG loops where it's nearly impossible to catch them without costing the game. For instance a long wall jungle gym where the window is directly facing another loop, which leads directly to the shack window. A good survivor can keep normal m1 killer busy in location like this the entire game if the killer commits to the chase, so what ends up happening is that you need to drop the chase EVERY time a survivor runs to this loop mess.

I also never understood how RNG build in the game. When i'm survivor i often get only short wall window jungle gyms, which are significantly weaker than the window which has long window.

SWF is the biggest issue, because you can´t balance killers against swf with communication and solo survivors without in one game mode.

it all depends on who you are, what you burn, and where you play as each person will have different thoughts on what is/isnt unbalanced. (disclaimer: this is what ive personally seen while on forums and personal experience. im not a god at the game, so some points may be just me or something that gets better over time.)

starting with who, we see a divide between killers and survivors. in a general blanket of said survivors, high ranked killers such as freddy, nurse, spirit, hag are commonplace among killers that need nerfs according to survivorfolk, along with any number of others depending on the person. also, perks like NOED (no one escapes death) is a touchy subject to some, along with perks that stop or at least hinder their preferred playstyle, or stop the higher ranked builds being so powerful. on the killers side, we see more a case of perks seen as unbalanced less than the actual survivors, but a blendette (a claudette wearing dark clothing to 'blend' with the dismal environment) is an issue seen among killers. i am in this camp of players, as a killer main. general consensus is that some perk combonations, like Decisive Strike (DS) unbreakable, and borrowed time are seen as a lose lose situation for the killer. pick them up? get stunned. leave them on the floot? they get back up. others, like dead hard, sprint burst etc. are seen a problems but can be dealt with by offerings like the solvent jug, an offering for the clown to directly stop these perks, but that is too specific. again, it comes down to the person in terms of what they hate. personally, for me its the perk combos and cockiness / toxicity of survivors that is the most off putting of this game.

now onto what. the what section for survivors is simple: what to killers hate survivors bringing into a match in terms of burns / items. this is usually a toolbox with brand new part for example, or a flashlight used to click spam, or the most controversial is a key, because from the killers perspective it means that if someone brings a key and finds the hatch, off they go along with anyone else with them. in terms of burning offerings, the only ones that ive seen killers hate are when people burn certain map tokens (more on this later). for what survivors hate, again it varies. the main one is Mori, which the ebony one allows killers to completely kill a survivor after being on a hook once. i personally never used one, but i can see why they get annoyed at this. other than that, its varied: usually addons that hinder the perks they bring, or a map offering that suits the killer (say, a killer who wants a small map, burning a map token for a small map).

finally, we have the where. maps are mainly complained about by both sides, either for being far too big for some killers, or far too small, or being built for a handful of killers. take the deathsliger map, and the saloon. the generator on the top of the saloon, where the deathslinger can get a clear shot, nurse can blink up, clown can throw a bottle, huntress can throw an axe, etc.other killers instead need to do the long walk up the saloon to get to the generator, only being able to shave off a couple of seconds by the breakable door. for survivors, smaller maps have seen to be more of a complaint because its, well, smaller, meaning the killer can spend less time going between generators. however, there is the farm maps (and to an extent, the yamaoka estate): killers hate people who burn these maps because of the low visibility (damn you corn!), the sizes of the map, any annoying loops etc. not to say that killers cant play these maps, its just hard as ever to follow someone through the corn without looking directly at the ground for the scratchmarks.

OoO is definitely gamebreaking if you're playing Trapper or Hag.

The size of some maps. And the dead zones you can get are the main balance issues in my mind.

You are correct. Everything I said was true though so.....your point?

Oh wait, you don't actually have one, you just like to do the whole "us v them" thing for the sake of being contrary

SWF

-Game wasn't originally balanced with communication between the survivors in mind. Hence why we have perks to see auras and #########. The devs never rebalanced the game for SWF when they added it.

Maps

-Sizes. Some maps are just unfeasible for some killers to walk across and find a survivor without a gen or two going off.

-Tile placements. Some maps, like Ormond and Haddonfield, can have absolutely terrible placement of tiles that makes it incredibly hard to catch survivors.

-######### corn.

Perks

-Some perks are too strong. It's been a stale meta for years and the devs are scared of altering it too much(except for destroying Ruin).

-90% of the perks are absolutely terrible with no reason to use. The devs have said they're looking at some perks to change but that was a long time ago.

Killer viability.

-Some killers are way stronger than the rest. Others, way weaker than the rest. This creates an inbalance where you're seeing the same killers over and over again, especially as you climb in ranks.

Keys and Moris

-Everybody hates them