If current dbd had old dbd pallet amounts and jungle gyms the game would be unplayable

I have to commend the long term survivors who just dealt with these changes and adapted. Any time there's a killer nerf you'd think its the end of the world on these forums but the majority of survivors nerfs are just met with a bit of complaining before they just adapt.

Though I think in part thats due to the fact that many long term survivors knew full well that the game was absolutely broken when the survivor knew when to loop, when to do gens, when to go for unhooks.

Remember the healing speed nerf? Survivors just stopped healing. Pallet amounts have been reduced pretty significantly, maps have been shrunk and killer animations massively sped up but unless you have a meghead dropping all your pallets first loop early in the game a good team can still have a ton left over at endgame.

This isn't me talking trash about either side, just thinking out loud.

I wish killers (talking about the actual killers not killer players) could adapt in the same way but the problem is that outside of higher tier killer like Nurse, Blight, (Old) Billy, Huntress and a few others they're massively limited by the constraints of their power. Like Wraith, not much you can do with him to increase his viability outside of hit and run slowing down builds. His windstorm doesnt really have that much utility outside of short loops.

i look back to those days and wonder how the hell i did so well as a killer and remember back then it was ridiculously easy to reach red ranks as killer so only 3 months in and i was in red/purple ranks. I can still remember all the complaints on steam forums about how BS it was that the killer could hit you and you stun them after vacuums where removed and how unfair it was that survivors couldn't fast vault as easily to abuse loops like cow tree and shack.

There isn't much we can do to adapt as killers since we have been playing at our best to deal with the how survivor sided this game is. in other words we have always been doing what we can and after every survivor nerf it just eased up on what we could try and get away with but the optimal thing to do has never truly changed.

As for your wish it has slowly been getting granted in the form of reworks and buffs. clown is the best example right now as he is getting buffed/reworked and killers will have to adjust their play style to utilize the change. Leatherface was also outdated and weak and they went full death in the open on him and his power is useable in a lot of loops to force the pallet down. some other killers like billy and nurse(unfair changes if you ask me mainly their addons) simply got a limitation and an addon rework as they were already good enough and were just outdated.

it’s beyond me how any killer who knows how to play can complain about it being difficult. It’s literally always a guaranteed win. I literally never lose a killer game in red ranks. Unless I ######### around and want to.

Not totally unplayable. Killers still won. The dead survivors were prizes and hard earned. Today they are expected.

As much as I see survivors dying constantly, twitch showing killers winning over and over and over, it needs to at least go back in time a little bit. I think maps have been a little overdone, but most importantly, killer perks are way too oppressive.