Is dbd survivour sided

youre saying that as if randoms are good teammates

While it is not as extreme as many players make it out to be - and likewise, not as minor as others do - the game is skewed in favor of Survivors - particularly SWF groups, which in turn makes Survivor in general the easier and less stressful of the two roles most of the time.

BHVR has a history of striking nerf after nerf to killers when Survivors view them as too unfun to play against - whether they are balanced or not - and that in turn creates a snowball effect that just compounds upon itself. For killers to actually get meaningful buffs, it takes a year or more before they can release a "Rework" for a killer - and then usually even then the results aren't that spectacular (Clown) or ruin the killer's original gameplay because the Survivors found it unfun to begin with (Freddy - invisibility) instead of building off of it.. On the other hand, many calls for nerfs to Survivor perks and map design go unanswered for years before they get address (as the Decisive Strike change did).

Some will tell you it is balanced because of that. My working theory is that even if something is healthy for the game, if the developer playtesters do not enjoy something then it does not get implemented. Vice versa, if the developer playtesters think the game needs something then it gets adjusted whether it really needed it or not. This also skews things towards the Survivor-side - and BHVR is actively scared to make too many changes to balance Survivors to 50-60% escape rate against every killer (as it is supposed to be, not just outliers) because they're afraid their dwindling numbers will drop even more because Survivors will all quit if they can't "have fun and troll the killer" like they can in the majority of cases now.

In their effort to balance the game towards tihis 50% kill rate (which is effectively closer to like a 60% rate than anything), they often forget that the killer role is supposed to be the power role and Survivors - even solo queue - are meant to rely on teamwork. In the current state of the game, however, it often times more beneficial to run away from your teammates. This is especially bad when SWF are involved, because you have split Survivors utilizing communications to relay Killer position and movement to one another - which disrupts the balance of the game even further into the Survivor-side's favor.

So you have a tiny handful of killers that actively perform well enough to be considered a power role; one or two outlier killers that need to be nerfed down but get looked over for the illusion of non-bias (ie. Spirit); killers that need to be majorly buffed/reworked but doing so means they would become 'unfun' for Survivors (ie. Trickster); and a plethora of Survivor perks that need to be tune and brought into line to provide less safety nets and second chances, but aren't because of fear of backlash (ie. Adrenaline, Dead Hard, Unbreakable, etc.).

It is very killer sided. Undying was far from balanced, it was actually a free win. It still is with Ruin or Devour Hope. Killers have hardly been nerfed, all of the buffs outweigh the small insignificant killer nerfs. Overall, killer perks have been overwhelmingly buffed or new strong ones released where survivor perks have been nerfed. And maps are now very killer sided. And finally, hitboxes and pallets are in killer's favor. Survivors at all ranks go down too fast and killers snowball too easy with unfair slowdown perks. Killers crutch their wins with Ruin and POP and tinkerer.

Killers win too much.

Even with SWF, its only SWF sided if they decide to split up and do 3 gens at the same time from the beginning. Otherwise killers tend to be able to deal with it.

Yet you still have people saying base genregression is fine because Ruin and Pop exist. Which is technically true, but that's like saying slugging is fine because Unbreakable and WGLF exist. It's not. Being forced to rely on very specific perks to fix a vanilla mechanic is terrible design.