I'll be honest, I feel like DBD should be two seperate games.

So, howdy. Killer main here - quit in 2017 and came back this past week after a stream made me wonder how things have changed. Sadly, not much.

And this isn't gonna be so much a complaint about Survivor tendencies to bully in SWF or treat Killers as less threatening than a yappy dog (as much as that does sometime happen), and instead voice my chief complaint - DBD feels like 2 games trying to vie for a middle ground.

I've been open about the fact that when I play killer, I'm looking for scares. I play Jumpscare Myers, Omnidirectional Bell Wraith, Unlimited Tier 3 Myers where I most of my time chasing with no real attempt to down, hard turn Blight to try and catch survivors off guard out of corners. My entire goal, since I started playing, was wanting to be a horror GM, more or less - creating an experience.

And I think that's why my stints tend to be so short - I get a few matches where I accomplish that goal, then spend the majority of my time sweating for BP instead, and it just demoralizes me.

I almost feel like DBD should have a sister game, where your goal is similar, but rather than trying to kill you, the Killer should be marked as a winner for provoking legitimate reactions, whether confusion due to illusion-based mindgames, paranoia due to creating noises, adrenaline/panic by breaking down doors and chasing you, etc, and your goal as the survivor is to hide, finish tasks, and keep your nerve. Award points for bravery, cunning, etc on the survivor side, Dread, Tension, Unsettling, etc on killer side.

I dunno. I still play DBD with the same mindset, albeit fewer and farther between, but I still in some ways hope the kind of experience I envision becomes possible, maybe with VR/biometrics or something once they've moved beyond the realm of gimmicks.

Am I the only one who kind of wishes DBD had this kind of experience, or possibly introduced something like it?