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Is killer getting more and more boring to play?
It seems like every patch the devs keep nerfing certain killer play styles thus taking away everything that’s “fun” about playing killer
- Hit and run play style? Dead because of CoH
- snowball/ slugging? Dead with a combination of Unbreakable, fast heals with CoH and the new Boon: Exponential” AKA “Boon: unlimited Unbreakable”
- looping/ mind games/ 200IQ plays? dead with the already prevalent holding forward and the nail in the coffin ‘Overcome’, which is essentially “hold forward: the perk”
to play a killer effectively now you pretty much have to tunnel and camp every single game, which gets old fast
sure you can just “forget about kills” and go for fun meme builds to have fun, but sooner or later you’re going to get sick of the 4 man escapes every game followed by teabagging at the exit gates and messages saying “EZ baby killer”
playing killers should make you feel powerful, not powerless against good teams. Survivors should be running scared doing everything in their power to try and maybe, hopefully escape, but right now it’s the other way around, with the killer sweating it out trying desperately to secure at least one kill before the final generator pops, which is getting harder and harder every patch unless you do resort to camping and tunnelling
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According to the queue times during daytime - nope, playing as killer is still popular, much more popular than playing as survivor.
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Yes. Most of my matches are boring as killer. Still, it's very satisfying when they DC for stupid reasons.
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no.
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Pretty balanced on my end. daytime go play survivor. At night go play killer.
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nobody said they were less popular. OP asked if it was getting boring and implied unfun.
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The game in general is getting stale and boring
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If they were boring, less people would play as killer. But the reality says otherwise: as much as killer mains like to cry about "playing killer is boring" and "survivors are OP", they still only play killers because they know soloQ is hell they want nothing to do with.
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not inherently. People will continue to play killer despite it being boring because there's no better alternative.
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"there's no better alternative" because playing survivor is even worse, that's correct.
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yeah my survivor queue times have been fast too. day and night.
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Boring? No. Annoying? Yes.
The power role is most definitely not the killer anymore, especially if you're playing against a coordinated SWF. There's simply no perk nor power that can adequately match survivors being fed that much information. And the continued nerf to killers is definitely irritating. Perfect example: Spirit. They changed it to where survivors can always hear where she's at when she's phasing, not to mention BHVR is still contemplating including a visual dust cue on the ground. As if that wasn't bad enough, they gave a buff to Iron Will if she's using Stridor. So survivors will always be able to hear her, but she can no longer hear them in any way. I'm not even a guy who plays Spirit, and even I think that's ridiculous.
Honestly between the nerfs and the SWF, I've accepted the fact that I'm lucky if I get one kill.
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My experience is that around 10pm est survivor q starts to take around 4-6 minutes and I switch to killer as that time for instant queues.
Last month or so the survivor queues have been getting very slow at 7-8pm instead. It sucks cuz that's when I play with my friends.
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Gameplay itself isn't very fun. And here I'm not going to talk about balance. For example if i compare Lol where i spent thousands of thousands hours, I can't imagine I'm going to reach 1k in Dbd in a year. Gameplay itself isn't very entertaining to push me play over and over. Time to time with big breaks yes, but not every day and not very often.
It's not like something changes in survivors. It's always same perks, different faces.
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Not necessarily boring, but some games are definitely annoying for me. I either have to stress myself to do well or play in a way I don't typically like to play so it can be tough.
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Very.
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Wraith and Spirit are dead right now. That's 2 Killers I used to mess around with. Not any more.
I loaded in today got my 250k for Survivor 100K for Killer leveled up my Plague how I need her. Then Played 3 Survivor rounds made 140k more and just turned off my xbox. I played a round with Sluzzy from these forums probably too! 4Escape win! Nice seeing forum stars in my game but Survivor is too easy and boring at the moment. The problem right now is a KILLER has to SWEAT and a SURVIVOR just jogs around doing boring stuff. Make some distractions, do some gen, Open gates.
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well, it got boring enough for me to quit.
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