A few thoughts as a first time DBD player, 22.7 hours so far.

Lightborn is your lord and savior against boosted flashlight users. I highly recommend it.

Myers doesn't suck, you just need to get better at playing him. I mean, if you really like him, you make make a decent go of it with him. You are new to the game and his stalk mechanic takes some getting used to, and some finesse. Having his power at rank 1 is fun for jump scares, but it is not powerful. Ant tier 3, though, you can insta-down people, and is much faster. Probably not the most newbie friendly, however. You might want to cut your teeth on some more straight forward killers for a while.

Not all characters have good perks. Not a fan of any of the obsession perks, myself. You may want to rank up some killers with good perks until they are teachable, and use those on Myers.

You don't get stunned by flashlights, that is a Wraith problem (flashlight save exception to that). You get blinded, but can still move, break pallets, swing your weapon, etc... Don't flail around wildly, but if you think you can hit someone, take the shot. More importantly, if there are people with flashlights around, don't pick up the downed player. Go after the players with the flashlights. Injure them and make them run off. They only have a brief window in order to get a flashlight save. Try to angle yourself during the pickup, to avoid giving them a good shot, and not when they are close. Pick up the Franklin's Demise perk when you get the chance, that will make them drop their items when you hit them.

Honestly, you shouldn't have to face an organized group like that at your skill level, but the DBD MM system sucks.

Ignore the NOED comments. It is just engrained in to the psyche of some survivors to always complain about it. NOED only helps you at the very end of the match, which you likely aren't getting much use out of anyway. It won't stop some people from complaining, anyway. It's OK for more experienced players. Not a good newbie perk, though.

Keep plugging away. If you need to, disable post game chat. Meyers is a decent killer, so don't give up on him. Not the best, but not the worst either. Some players are really good with him, but he does take some dedication to get good with him. Maybe watch some youtube videos of people playing him. You will need better perks, as well as items and addons to make the most out of him, but don't waste them until you feel more confident playing him.

Also, check the Shrine of Secrets in the ingame store. Two killer and two survivor perks go on sale there each week. They can be purchased with in-game currency. Don't waste the shards on crap perks, though. Research them before buying any. It is a way to get some decent perks earlier.

Hey, welcome to DBD!

Echoing what others say in Myers being a brave choice - he was one of the best killers in the game back in his heyday, but that was... a very long time ago, and he's severely outdated and power creep'd now. Definitely due for an update. He does have some fun addons, though - Tombstone Piece is busted unlike anything else still in the game (Judith's Tombstone, the red one, is actually harder to use, though necessary for an achievement), but you can also use the ones that prevent him from tiering up past Tier 1 for a purely jumpscare playstyles, where you intercept survivors who have no idea where you are, stab them, and meld back into the shadows. For standard play, ignore his stalk movement speed addons and go for the ones that extend Evil Within duration or the ones that increase the speed at which he gains Evil Within from stalking. Dead Rabbit makes you extra sneaky in Tier 2, which can be very strong, though it increases the TR in T3 as a result.

A useful tactic is to '99' your power; stalk a survivor until the bar is almost at Evil Within 3, then stop. You want to activate your power when you can down multiple survivors with it - a good time to use it is when you know where several people are, preferably when you are right behind someone and can stab them within a few seconds of activating your power. The worst time you can activate it is when you're chasing an injured person or if you're chasing somebody who still has a lot of resources in the area and is far enough away to make it to them - pallets and strong window loops.

Are you on PC or console? I ask because the default killers that are available to you will be different. Save the Best For Last is a really good perk, especially maxed out where you don't even have to avoid the obsession and you'll still gradually build stacks (just much slower than you would otherwise), but his other two perks are niche. I'd strongly recommend pouring some bloodpoints into Hillbilly, even if you never play him - all three of his teachable perks have their uses. Tinkerer is a meta perk like STBFL; Myers isn't its best user, but it's great for interrupting gens before they finish and getting surprise hits on survivors, and Lightborn will solve all your flashlight woes (though a tip, you're probably not getting blinded from behind, but rather from the side. There are some tricky angles survivors can pull off. When there are flashlights in the lobby, make sure to check your surroundings before picking a survivor up, and if at all possible, turn to face a wall while you're doing it.) However, if you have Hag and Doctor, they both have perks that are really, really good on Myers. Hag's Devour Hope and Ruin are just generally amazing killer perks, and Doctor has Monitor and Abuse, which reduces your Terror Radius by 8 when you're not in chase - this makes it so that survivors won't hear your TR in tier 2 until you're practically on top of them, enabling a lot more surprise hits.

If not, you can always buy these perks in the shrine when they rotate in, or purchase the characters that have them with shards (while that's a more expensive investment, it's more useful in the long run.) NOED is a pretty powerful perk, though be warned that more experienced players know how to deal with it and the value you'll get out of it falls off as you rise in rank. Also, yeah, survivors hate it; it's easily the most complained about perk in the game.

Meyers is kinda in a not great position and is fairly outdated, and likely won't get you very far. You can play him well, and have good matches, but compared to what you can do with other killers, he's very low on the tier list.

The biggest reason you get ######### for running NOED on him is that he already has an insta down mechanic, so NOED is sort of redundant and almost a waste of a perk slot. If you do want to keep playing meyers though, I would strongly recommend getting the perk Bamboozle from clown dlc, or the shrine, as it synergizes incredibly well with meyers. Also maybe check out some guides on youtube, they can be very helpful. If you want a suggestion of who to watch specifically, Otzdarva or Nototzdarza is a very amazingly well rounded killer main and he has a TON of helpful guides and tips for every killer in the game, as well as in depth explanations on perk builds.

Also, FYI for flashlights, always turn to face a wall if you can while picking someone up. It makes it much harder for them to blind you while you pick them up when you are looking at a wall or large rock or whatever. (I hardly ever get blinded when I look at a wall when I pick someone up.)

You can’t avoid getting blinded while breaking a pallet, but that’s not too big a deal since you were stationary during the breaking animation anyway. And you can still hear the survivors while blinded so you still probably get a sense of where they ran just from that, on top of the scratch marks and so forth.

Welcome to the fog. other people are already giving great advice, so I won't dilute the pool.

although, seriousl, you should check out NotOtzdarva on youtube.

I felt the same way at first.

I reccommend getting them (since you'll probably have to) and then staying with yellow addons.

keep in mind a good game, bloodpoint wise, will more than recoup the addon costs.

oh, sweet, maybe you can hold your breath!

I wanted to suggest something based on you saying that you really enjoy the stealth aspect of EW1.

Myers has a yellow rarity addon called Dead Rabbit which lowers the range of the heartbeat that the survivors hear; and you can couple this with the Doctor perk Monitor and Abuse to further lower your heartbeat range when you aren't chasing someone - this gives him a really similar feel to EW1 but you don't get the negatives like slower movement speed and reduced lunge that come with EW1.

I like to pair it either with an addon that makes stalking increase faster so you can use the EW3 power more often, or the Mirror\Glass addons that show survivor auras when you stalk them for at least 1 second using EW2, which makes them easier to see what they are doing.

When it comes to chasing, a good rule of thumb I heard was to try and get either a hit or a pallet drop within say 30 seconds of starting the chase, and if not try and find someone else who is out of position and an easier target.

If a survivor drops a pallet and runs far away or to a really strong area then just break the pallet and look for someone else - later when you are chasing someone and come back through the area, the pallet will be gone and they will not make it to another without you getting a chance to hit them.

Please forgive me if you already know this, but there are right and wrong paths to take when chasing around buildings and window vaults etc which can make the difference between a survivor being able to use the same path multiple times or not. There are directions to herd the survivor that can create opportunities for you to get a hit, such as forcing them to vault a window from an angle which can give a slower vault animation than if they run head on at it; and the slower animation has a sort of lingering hit box that you can still hit when they are the other side of the window stuck in the animation.

A really useful advanced technique to learn for Myers is how to use the red light that survivors can see to tell where the killer is looking, to confuse the survivor and hopefully make them make a mistake. There are many many great content creators on YouTube who do a good job of showing and explaining these strategies.

I wont link anything here and let you find your own preference, but search 'Red Glow Mindgame' and 'Killer Tile Guide' to get started, theres a lot of little tricks and techniques you can learn that really increase the effectiveness of 'normal' killers like Myers who have a very basic walk and hit playstyle and power.

I hope some of this is helpful and hope I haven't explained things you already knew <3

Yeah there's a lot more pressure on killer players than survivor players. Since there's no ranking or any reason to climb there's no need to try to play sweaty and try to enjoy it like a casual game not a competitive game. Even though it feels mostly like a competitive game it's not. If gens are going a bit too fast to your liking try running 1 or 2 gen slow down perks Whatever you find to your liking. Hex: Ruin/Undying are the strongest pair but can be destroyed.

For the suggestion about hatch appearing at start of game that can't ever work because keys exist in the game. As for Jason.... really IDK let's say he was coming to DBD what would his power even be? The Trapper is the most similar killer we got to Jason if anything a legendary Jason skin for Trapper could work.

I see perks as goals and less as grinding.

honestly, if I get one solid jumpscare or I pull off a clever play, that's a win for me. the whole hooks vs. kills thing doesn't matter much to me as long as I'm having fun.

I think DBD is at it's best as shared storytelling, and not as an esport.

You don't actually need to grind. Personally what I do is before each game I do one bloodweb. Then I use whatever I have available for my add-ons and offerings. Between the bloodpoints I get from the match, plus the daily mission and the Rift challenges, that's more than enough to do one or two bloodwebs per match with points left over. I look at the add-ons as just the ammo or loadout for the match. And the offering is usually just a bonus category for more bloodpoints or some small benefit.

You definitely don't need to grind though. I think the game assume you'll use at least a couple of brown or yellow add-ons per match, but like I said that's trivial to get those if you do one web per match. The only thing grinding gets you is more green and purple and red add-ons, but frankly you can do just fine with the browns and yellows.

Yes, and Otz did a 50 wins challenge with every killer, using no addons, including Meyers, who he doesn't even play that much, normally. Do you think he is regularly facing potato survivors? Tru3ta1ent and other youtubers play Meyers much more frequently, so are probably even better with him. Most people put pig at bottom tier, but Dowsey disagrees and considers her B tier, A tier when learned to play well. Is he wrong? Is everyone else wrong? Maybe he thinks she is better than others think she is because he plays her a lot and has learned to do well with her....the same as skilled Meyers players feel about him.

I don't understand the point of your last paragraph. Tier lists are only good for high MMR, but if you are good enough you will hit high MMR eventually? What does that have to do with anything? The OP is nowhere near high MMR, and most people will never hit high MMR. The majority of the player base are not competitive players, so they can do well with any killer, and there are far worse killers than Meyers. You are using logical fallacies to try and make your point. Introducing the idea that I am talking about youtubers with only 100 hours is disingenuous, at best. It is a fabrication to try and dismiss what I said. Why would I watch youtubers that only have a hundred hours of gameplay? If I am better than they are, they aren't worth watching.