Has it gotten worse for anyone else?

I haven't noticed any difference. Just the occasional death threat and mountains of insults for not following survivor rule book or for doing gens too fast. When did you stop playing? I feel like it hasn't changed a bit at least for months.

The problem is Bhvr is more and more encouraging 'competitive' playstyles (as if dbd would be game in any way made for 'serious' competitive play) and a lot of changes to addons and perks encourages scummy behaviour.

It attracts people who will throw a tantrum if they are not given an iWin button, and it's pathetic and sad.

How would you say they're encouraging that? IMO, a lot of games end up going competitive. Some of my friends are insanely competitive about MARIO PARTY MINIGAMES lmao

I think that's just the nature of games- the point of playing a game, to most people, and in most game designs, is to win. And then a large amount of people push that even further (like my Mario Party example).

BHVR receives huge amounts of criticism for anything that doesn't feel "fair". So with that in mind, I do not view them as the ones pushing for it to go more competitive- I actually fully believe that it has been the community who pushed for that. Killers want BS survivor perks nerfed, team compositions (swf, ranking, etc) changed, and survivors also want killers/killer perks nerfed at times. DBD has a BIG element of randomness (which SHOULD be part of the anti-competitive nature of the game) and even that gets complained about ("I got a crappy map! "You got lucky with the spawns on this map!", etc.).

At this point, I think if BHVR did anything to try and curb the competitive nature of this game, the community would be extremely angry. The only way I can think of that they COULD turn it less competitive is by basically taking more control away from the player (something that is thankfully unlikely), perhaps by way of forcing random perks or locked perks every now and then. Just more elements of randomness. But solo queue, arguably the most random experience you can have in the game (no idea what skill level of teammates you'll have, no way to communicate, no way to know what perks they have, etc.), is highly considered to be the most miserable experience in the game, too.

DBD is just in a tough spot because unlike a game like, say, Fortnite, you're not equals depending on if you pick killer or survivor. You might feel like you deserved to win more due to what idea you might have about your chosen role (some killers think they deserve the power role and have the chance to 4k regardless, and some SWFs think they deserve to 4 man escape or have the killer play a certain way) rather than realizing that your opponent most likely was at least a little bit more skilled than you or at least made better decisions, as it might be in a truly equal opportunity 1v1.

DBD, like many games not intended to be competitive, was always destined to go down the competitive path due to the "me against you" nature of the game (regardless of its asymmetry), and in my opinion, devs have been forced to take the direction down that path or face the ire of the community who would have undoubtedly been upset over imbalances.

Anyways, thanks for coming to my TED talk LOL

That's probably a good way of getting your reports ignored.

I don't know how players can just open up and talk about how they only lose because such and such they are just making excuses and doing nothing to improve for next time. It's pretty embarrassing. There literally is a perk for the 20 different things plaguing the game I don't see how they could possibly continue to blame each other when the problems are clearly: Welcome to dbd learn to avoid those issues your having or move on the player your blaming has their own problems to deal with.

I suggest just not responding to it and no, for me at rank one as killer the amount of salt I get hasn't changed. Still a daily thing, but not every game for me.

There's people competetive about Animal Crossing, because humans are weird.

But to answer the question:

There's a number of perks and abilities that encourage scummy behaviour due to how people play the game competitively:

In general the goal seems to be get gens done/kill all survivors as quickly as possible. Without losing a pip seems optional to some players.

This reflects in what people declare to be broken killers without counterplay:

Killers that have means to cut chases short/require stealth instead of trying to engage them in a chase are deemed broken, to the points that some people call for their removal if not harass those that main them.

Latter is known to bhvr, and they ought to put their foot down. instead they are making jokes about things that come across as mocking if not encouraging (If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating, let me welcome you to a different reality than the one you went to bed in)

The second bit of this is killers like Bubba where the ability outright rewards camping. It's odd to see that this stuff doesn't happen as frequently with billy, who should technically have the same ability as bubba.

So, how can it be that you could bet your pet/vital organs/first born on a bubba playing scummy and WIN, but not billy?

Because of the slight difference in how their abilities function.

Similar with perks like the notorious DS which are less used against tunneling and more for toxic trolling.

Latter, by the by, seems to be a requirement to some people to declare a match successful. Like, no matter how the game goes, if the other side isn't getting angry at them, they'll throw a hissy fit like you stole their pet (winning it fair and square in a bet about killer behaviour not withstanding). It's as if they can't be happy unless they make others miserable, and with how perks etc get altered, how and what the devs 'joke' about, etc, this kind of approach is encouraged.

Turn messages off believe me it's worth it if you play killer.

It is getting worse. I took a break too, and the toxicity has increased.

Moris are nerfed, but survivors are getting more toxic and salty. Funny isn’t it?