What prevents you from playing killer?

No time on my hands

"For me it would have to be that at least 2 gens pop, usually around the first chase and I always seem to go against “good survivors.” It’s funny to me because when I play survivor (Solo) I always get the potatoes."

Well, this most likely means that you are not as good as Killer as you think you are. If you are at the same Rank on both Killer and Survivor, on average, you should get the same players (skill-wise). It is basically impossible to always go against good Survivors and always get Potatoes as teammates. But you will remember those more than the respective other side, if you win a Killer game really easy because the Survivovrs are bad or you win as Survivor because your teammates were good, those games dont stay in your mind for long.

"Also, this might sound weird but, How come most killers don’t feel threatening/scary?"

Two things - first of all, time played. If someone plays a few dozen hours of DBD, the game is not scary anymore. This is normal, if you play a scary videogame like Outlast or whatever a few times, you will not get scared. Second, a Survivor is not going against a "Killer", it is just another human playing a Killer. Why should anyone be scared at this point?

" I really do think they need to give killers something to slow down the game by basekit. Maybe, after hooking every survivor once, all gens cannot be worked on for a certain amount of time, idk, something like that or give survivors an extra objective."

Slowdown by basekit - Devs are working on something like that, but IMO it is not really needed.

Gens blocked after hooking - you already have your Map Pressure once you hook a Survivor. Another survivor needs to go to the rescue, this is Map Pressure - forcing Survivors into altruistic actions.

Extra Objective - depends, I am always for second Objectives, but they need to be balanced. It should not be like "Ok, the Survivors need to gather parts, this will take them a minute and then they work on a Gen for 80 seconds". This would not be balanced at all. Speaking of adding a second Objective is easier than actually implementing it.

So if the Devs ever add a second Objective, you can be sure that the time spent on a Gen will decrease.

"They should also look into the exit gates. I usually accept my loss after the 5th Gen gets done, I try my best to not play scummy but if I haven’t gotten a kill by the last gen, you bet your sweet ass I am going to camp the next person I hook. I noticed for you to at least to decently well as killer, you have to play sorta scummy. Slugging is a big one that killers have to do to slow the game down, this is another reason why I don’t usually play killer, what is yours?"

Exit Gates - IMO Killers should not get a camping penalty when all Gens are done and they camp, because there is not really anything a Killer can do at this point. It does not make sense that it hurts the Killers Emblem if they want to secure a Kill in Endgame.

When it comes to slugging - slugging is totally fine and a great tool to generate Map Pressure. If you slug someone and see someone else you might be able to down fast (e.g. injured and/or in a Deadzone), go for it. There is nothing scummy about that. Slugging is not really needed if you are in a good position anyway. And as long as you dont slug all 4 people at 5 Gens just to one-hook everyone at least the more reasonable Survivors wont complain about slugging.

I avoid killer if the killer queue is long (rare now-a-days), I have survivor challenges, or if my friends really want me to play with them. Otherwise, I’m playing killer.

If I'd rather play survivor at that moment I guess that prevents me from playing killer. But wanting to play killer prevents me from playing survivor just as often 😄

I don't have the best perks. I've only played killer twice in my time on DBD. I got lucky getting a 4k an hour into my first time playing killer, but it was thanks to my friend for helping understand the movement and predict perfect times to attack when in a pallet loop.

Last time, I played killer I had a SWF team twice. One person playing as Jake was literally running around in circles on me, like literally he was circling my body closely and not even leaving. I didn't know such toxicity until that guy, plus it also didn't help that my perks weren't working. It's odd, when I play as survivor gens are slow progress but as killer I notice gens going off fast. Sabotage as Jake when I'm survivor also seems to take longer. I don't know if its my internet network or the servers.

I'm more adapted to playing survivor and just try to familiarize myself with the area so I know where to go to when I have the killer chasing me.

The next time i played killer, it was against a possible SWF and a survivor that is a massive face camping leatherface. Someone just stood in the front of my screen and i kept losing the survivors because of it. So I don't play killer because of those reasons and also I don't like dealing with toxic survivors also, I don't stick around waiting to taunt the killer at the end either.

Yes, you survived so leave. I think this community would be better for everyone if people had self-respect and integrity as gamers.

I understand you completely. I also get nervous and stressed about playing as Killer. In my opinion, its a bit more difficult playing as killer than survivor since you have a small visual perspective of the area and its hard to turn sometimes. I'm hoping the rumored single player mode will help us understand and train ourselves to be killers, its good practice even though the survivors will be bots and probably make potato mistakes.

Just this looming, and often far too correct notion that even though I let my rank drop taking a break, I'm going to run into bad matchmaking throwing my casual, non-meta butt in to a match vs smurfs, SWF, red ranks, and people I generally have no business going against.

I'm not great at the game. I refuse to believe it. I should be pitted against people who aren't great at the game. If I'm better then I'll hold back, or feel bad I didn't, usually. Good luck getting that sort of mercy from survivors.

It's not entirely that they will likely stomp me because I'm not interested in investing to "get gud" when I don't want to play that advanced, it's also the simple fact that I will end up with crap for blood points. I usually like running thrill of the hunt, and Beast of Prey (I don't have BBQ. Thanks to the sale I just got bubba to invest points into) in order to get bonus points.

You know, then stuff I need to get the perks people think I should have so I can be competitive. Really annoying people recommend perks I don't have.

I gotta feel like I'm making progress, and not wasting my time in 5 minute matches. That's fun. Progress.

Being able to recognize those mistakes and punish them is an important part of your skill.

Don't downplay that.Not everybody is able to do that.

I'm just not in the mood to play killer and my survivor waits are not bad - I just played 5 matches in a row that I was in a lobby pretty much instantly and matched with people in my rank. Probably helps I have crossplay off and most console players turn crossplay off when they play killer. 😂

right now would be because i'd rather finish my Tour of Duty in hopes of getting an aussie drop.

usually i pretty much only play killer though, unless friends want to play with me / i gotta do some tome challenges.

Being colorblind, and having an anxiety disorder.

Reasons I do play killer: Every single daily ever is for killers since I made the mistake of unlocking them.

Just that when I play killer there are really good survivors that do like2 gens when I get my first hook and they always seem to be a SWF and they would constantly do everything they can to save each other, like saving instantly, dropping every pallet in existence onto my head, being amazing at looping (even though when I play survivor they play like acoustic uneducated cabbages) gen rushing, you get the gist.

Because life is already miserable and stressful enough by itself and I don't need any more of it while playing videogames.

But goddamn if playing only survivor gets boring after a while. Guess I'll follow a tip that was given to killers a while ago and go play some civilization.

It feels like there's no even matches.

3k hours mostly on clown, most games I steamroll the survivors fast because of a playtime gap (50 hour survivors are at rank 1 pretty commonly tbh), that gets boring quickly.

If I lose the game 9/10 times I know I'm gonna lose within the first 3 minutes because of how snowball focused the game is, so the remaining time in the match is stressful and unfun even if I manage to turn it around.

There's no way of knowing when you'll be getting a squad with meta builds compared to squads that don't, so I either have to run full meta myself and say "wow that was boring" when I stomp people that are running off meta. Or I run off meta and try to have actual fun as killer and say "wow that was frustrating" when I lose to a full meta squad.

Bad wifi/ queue times