Why don’t Killers like looping anymore?

It is the game. Maybe take a break when feeling like that. Losing really badly because you just don’t participate in basics and ignore fundamentals is not going to relax you as killer.

This is highly incorrect. This might work out against some Tournament Squads (but I know, every Forum-Killer goes against them all of the time), but not in regular DBD-Games, even with SWF-included. Dropping Pallets immediatly and not killing the team by doing so would work at max on Ormond.

Most Maps dont have many Pallets, even tho they are safe, which creates some bad situations (and honestly, there should be way more Pallets, but less safe ones) where god Survivors can run around Killers who need to break the Pallets and bad Survivors throw the few Pallets on the Map so that their team does not have any ressources left.

Like, I regularly have games where Shack Pallet is gone at 5 Gens. Like, just thrown, who needs it anyway. So saying that Survivors can just play safe and win is not correct at all. This only works if your team is actually doing stuff AND you have the right Map for that, but I can assure you that at least the first point is not given that often.

But a solution for that would be that instead of having 8-12 safe Pallets, every Map has like 20+ Pallets where like 2 or 3 are safe and the rest is quite unsafe. But sadly something like that would not work out since Bloodlust exists.

Anymore ? When did they ever like looping :D

Because the game fundamentally incentivizes finding one or more bad Survivors on the the team ASAP and taking advantage of those weak links, and a loop is probably the best way to determine who the weak players are. A good Survivor will eat up a lot of the Killer's time on loops whereas a bad Survivor is likely to eat up not as much time. You'd rather have a good Survivor holding down M1 on a gen (since in most cases, they won't be that much faster on the gen than a bad Survivor) and a bad one trying to keep you occupied.

I like chasing and looping, it’s the most fun part of the game, even though I’m definitely not the strongest player at it. (Red rank survivors can definitely be hard to catch sometimes, but that’s mainly me being bad at knowing optimal paths on specific tiles.)

But as far as strategy goes breaking off a chase when a good runner gets to a strong position makes sense. Even if you can ultimately catch them it could add 15-30 seconds to your chase time if they have a really good loop available. I at least typically try and get a pallet drop in that case to make the loop weaker for next time, but if the loop isn’t anywhere near any gens then chasing a survivor that long without exerting pressure on anybody else is probably a game losing move. It’s better to take the pallet drop and switch targets to pressure someone else then just tunnel vision the one survivor running that super safe loop that will take a while to resolve.

I have never enjoy looping in general. Only with the old Legion, but that was mainly because you could with the old Legion do more in this time, as just running behind someone.

You could also stab them and even if other killers could do more like 1 shots - it still had make fun.

But besides that it is for me just a illogical and cheap game mechanic.

Illogicial because many killers would not need to loop. They would either kick the barrels (as example) by side, jump over it, or "phase" through it (if the killer is a ghost).

Cheap because I have the strong opinion that looping is only so much important to that game because there is outside of it not much to do.

Ok, the survivors can still repair gens and killers can still facecamp if they dislike moving, but that is not much. This game has no other game modes, like searching for tools, making new map-areas avaible to finally flee like in other games and so on.

I wish dbd would have more game modes after all. That said, besides other things, like that the devs would not always come with "we look what is necessary to win a match". I a am player, not a esl-pro gamer and as player I like to have fun in the first place.

Hargh, yet I have nevertheless rant in the last line. I didn't want to :|.

Killers need to be willing to drop a chase at the drop of a hat:

• We are not playing a 1v1 game, a Killer has to consider what the other 3 are doing while they are chasing.
• A killer needs to assess the total amount of pressure they are doing on all team members, if as a killer commits to strong to a single chase and the survivor is doing well, they simply lose the game.
• A good looper can occupy to much of your time till you even get the first hit in and so many survivors play it safe, it is better to drop and try again when you catch them slightly out of position.
• Killers with anti-loop will try and learn to use their powers. They might be very good at it or not, but not trying means you are not learning to use them. It is more beneficial to the player to try and fail than not try at all. They are not playing a M1 killer, so they shouldn't approach it as one either.

Survivors shout all the time: Just get good! Well, practice is what makes you good and learning when to drop chase is what makes you good. Why complain about them trying to get good? Simply put, if you are playing good in a loop as a survivor... a good killer will drop chase. It has nothing to do with confidence it has to do with the fact that they are facing 4 people and not one. Killers shouldn't try and play on the survivors terms, who to chase is a crucial choice for a killer and might just determine the outcome of the game.

Because it gets really draining from time to time.

You actually have answered your question yourself.

Killers will leave good loopers. Seems logical, right?

Ever played killer in red ranks? You should. It will change your perspective of the game.

I think you touched on one of the biggest frustrations with dead by daylight. As anyone who plays this game knows, it has horrible matchmaking, and as such it's incredibly punishing for newer and casual players. For years the community has asked for a training mode like what the mobile counterpart has, but BHVR keeps saying that it's not a priority.

The fact that newer players have to turn to streamers to teach them how to play the game and be better at the game is one of dead by daylights biggest failings. The game should come with the tools necessary to teach anyone to play, but it doesn't. Sure you can create a custom game provided you have the friends necessary and available to do so, otherwise your SOL.

If by "looping", you mean running around a barrier for 2 or 3 laps before a pallet is dropped in your face, then killers don't like looping because it's basically losing the game.