Was Killer really that hard back in the day?

Mettle of man wasn't a thing yet , imagine two windows at shack, double pallet jungle gyms, recovering exhaustion while running, no entity blocked on windows, when you Sabo a hook it was gone, when you Sabo trappers traps they were gone for the game making him powerless and if they Sabo all hooks the basement was all you had, vacuum pallets were a thing , Ds could be used immediately when going down and the stun was 8 seconds, insta blind flashlights, brand new parts were basically insta generators and if everyone brought one 4 gens popped in 8 seconds lol etc.... I could go on

True God Pallets: Double Pallets that can't be broken. They created impossible loops that made survivors immortal if they could get to one, and some maps had as many as 3 of those things.

First release of DS was extremely bugged and didn't work at all. We hooked non-obsession normally and dribbeled the obsession or evaded them.

Also the stun was shorter and enduring countered it. It was very strong when it worked but there were far more ways to evade it.

On release there was a few things that were getting in the killer's way

• The maze tiles (jungle gyms) were denser and thus had more walls. Additionally, some could have more than 1 pallet active at anytime.
• What we call loops now were also denser making the loops longer, sometimes pallets would spawn literally less than 4 meters from each other
• Survivors could fast vault from any angle even from a standstill by just holding shift. There was no such things as window blockers or bloodlust either, and many windows that are blocked now would of been open. Imagine for a moment, a Wretched shop where all 4 windows were open ALL THE TIME.
• Hooks that were sabotauged would not respawn.... EVER. You think slugging is too much of a thing now? Slugging always happened back then as your hooks were always gone. Deerstalker was almost mandatory.
• Light offerings were a thing back then, and when stacked with fog could make it impossible for killers to see.

Just to name a few things. You can do some searches for darkness and fog offerigns as well as "infinites" and find lots of youtube examples

I agree with you most of the time but on this one I would have to say that saying "not by much" is a flat out lie lol nowadays it's a walk in the park compared to 2016

@Kebek did you seriously just say looping didn't exist? Lmao I'm sorry but what game were you playing ? I've been here since release also

I know right!! Lmao 🤣 people gave almo ######### for saying object is fine but what about Cote saying infinites were balanced and took skill?

It didn't exist in a sence that basically nobody did it. First month of DBD I rarely saw anyone looping at all. Survivors just run at a pallet, sat there waiting for you and got hit before even dropping a pallet and those were the better ones who knew they can throw down pallets. That happened a lot. There was an occasional looper who kind of knew what to do but even those were really bad compared to loopers we have today.

Besides, once you caught someone once, they almost always died on the first hook and then you killed of the rest with NOED if they managed to finish gens.

I'll admit I wasn't a god at the game or anything and I probably still am not but I started looping like 2 weeks into playing because I realized the weaknesses the killer side had fairly quickly like how long it took them to vault in a chase and how easy it was to stay in one area with like 3 times more pallets back then , but I'll agree with you on the part where if you got caught you were basically dead from a real facecamp where you couldnt unhook from the sides and BT or ds didn't exist yet so it was a bad situation for the survivor on hook

I don't know much about survivor experince from early DBD as I played only killer, started playing survivor at feb 2017 until then I never played almost any survivor games besides a few early matches to see how they see things.

But from what I remeber, I didn't have problems killing survivors as killers had a lot of broken ######### too, not as broken as the survivor ######### but quite nasty as well. Honestly, it's been so long that it's hard to recall properly but I feel like it was just played so differenlty from what we have today.

I totally agree this game had to be out on console for a year at least before exhaustion was nerfed

title

"WAS KILLER REALLY THAT HARD BACK IN THE DAY?"

seems like you already have your answer... :p

Nope, Billy wouldn't stand a chance. Nurse, depending on the survivors.

Vacuum pallets, any angle fast window vaults. Double pallet jungle gyms. Old jungle gyms. Actual infinites.

Nurse only has a chance if the survivors don't hold M1. Remember, no gen regression.

entirely depended on the survivors.

if they had any idea of what they were doing, yes. killer was unwinnable (unless you were nurse ofc, which at that point in time was even more busted than she is today).

there were literally windows where the survivors were entirely untouchable. the upstairs section of ironworks of misery was one of those - if the killer went around, the survivor jumped back through the window and if the killer vaulted the window the survivor just ran around and beat them to it again. there was no winning for Wraith or Hillbilly or a Trapper who didnt have a trap with him (which at the time were the only available killers, mind you)

but there were also a LOT of survivors who had no clue what they were doing, so killers still got kills.

Haddonfield with Balanced Landing

...Where the stun removal was PERMANENT

That's about all I have to say lol

Spirit didnt exist during the dark times

yes