Killers, don't let Survivor Stigma bully you.

Both Survivors and Killers in this game are extremely toxic, both sides do stupid things and say stupid things. Just the way DBD is meant to be played causes a lot of toxicity in the game due to certain play styles that cause extreme frustration on both sides. Then you have people who only main only one role act like the other side is constantly coddled by the developers and are insanely overpowered. Moral of the story is don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do in DBD, there are no rules saying you can't tunnel, camp, slug, tbag, flashlight click, etc.

A lot of the "friendly BP farming exchanges" that you see come from the Rift mechanic. Sometimes when Killers are struggling with certain challenges they'll invite the Survivors into an unusual gameplay so that they can get their challenge done. In exchange they help Survivors farm some BP.

If you're playing Killer and you don't like that then just continue with your normal playstyle and you'll set the tone of the game.

If you're playing Survivor and you see that then focus on gens and leave through the exit gate. Without any interference from Killer (if they are off farming BP with the other Survivors) you can finish the gen in about a 1.5 minutes so finishing up the last few and leaving shouldn't take too terribly long.

As I said it ebbs and flows as all forums do. I remember a time last year during the doctor buff where it was very Killer sided and a time shortly after where it was all Survivors. I've just personally noticed (which is far from being definitive!) that the forums seem to be Killer sided while Reddit seems to be more Survivor sided.

Neither of which is a bad thing necessarily. I personally love the forums because I like to interact with Killers outside of matches! 😊

Edit: Fixed a missing word!

So, you're right on the merits here. I feel a lot of survivors miss the point, especially in purple and red ranks, that killers will resort into measures that may not be appealing to their liking. However, they must remember the criteria required to safety, pip, and double pip gets tighter as the ranks increase. I try to give survivors a fun and fair game most of the time, but this tends to go out the window. All because people wants to generator rush and give survivors no real incentive to bother with other objectives.

To be fair, I would like to see more survivors bantering, not take the game as too serious, and not require me to run a cookie-cutter build to somewhat counter their cookie-cutter builds. I would also like to see more survivors run more perk variety than the same ten perks every game, because their favorite content creator did it. (Ex. Decisive Strike, Unbreakable, Sprint Burst, Lithe, Balanced Landing, Resilience, Spine Chill, Tenacity, Borrowed Time, and We'll Make it.) This made me quit about two years ago, because the game's meta was too stale and boring. That meta has hardly switched up since then, despite the amount of content creators being introduced.

I play solo - I don't have any friends to play with. I join matches with SWFs and matches where everyone is solo. I play matches with people who are good and people who are bad. I play this game to have fun and that means trying my best and staying humble and not raining down insults on others. It doesn't matter to me if I lose constantly as long as I have fun and didn't ruin someone else's fun. You can have fun and win and you can have fun and lose.

I disagree with the content creator's part, because a lot of the old meta was developed by content creators (like Tru3) who crafted builds that stuck around for the longevity of this game. Builds like Sprint Burst, Adrenaline, Self-Care, and Quick-and-Quiet. Ever since 2018~2019, the meta has only switched up the killer's end and the strongest perks for survivor hasn't really shaken up. Newer creators are trying to bring interesting and creative builds, but it only goes so far with the current iron wall of the stagnant meta we currently have.

Unfortunately, when you get into high ranks, the gameplay is forced into this disgusting mentality of "you must play these specific builds/killers, play absolutely scummy, and/or you're going to get demolished." Why? Survivors literally slam the gas on the generators. As much some survivor mains whine to me about their perks being nerfed, I've been in situations where all the generators were completed and the exit doors 99%'d in under five minutes. This is NOT a fun gameplay experience.

I've seen killers run those perks, but they're usually on killer requests for Twitch streams or they just don't have any other perks to use. Yet, you and I do agree on this particular issue. Developers are afraid to nerf some of the current S-Tier perks, buff or rework some of the lower-tier or mid-tier perks, and cause a major shake-up in the meta overall.

I've been seeing a lot of Tenacity lately in my games and they've been paired up with Unbreakable. Don't know if it's pure coincidence or not, but I've been seeing quite a bit of people using that perk in the past two months since I came back from my hiatus.