As killer, what made you stop playing the game (or playing less killer) ?

Dead hard is saving more noobs than DS ...

I've seen so many mistakes corrected by DH.

boons, dead hard, MMR not working, toxic sweat squads every match, etc the game is not balanced and even the winter event is for survivors no the killer

i quit the game and personally dont plan on coming back until they fix all this one sided nonsense

The destruction of hit n run tactics and continuous reduction of consequences for survivor failure.

When devs mentioned that the game is 1v1 & repeat and not a 1v4, I knew killers were about to head further in a displeasing direction ( I mean that for both sides).

Kind of just everything hahaha.

I use to play 50/50 but killer has become too difficult while survivor has become very easy. My escape rate is pretty much 80% and I'm solo.

Killer on the other hand it feels like if its not one thing its another, you know? Like I get my first down after the first 2 gens pop. By the time the person is unhooked and I'm in my next chase the 3rd gen goes. Pile in all the second chace, exhaustion, and Boons and its like whaaaaat can I do about this? I play Hag and Trapper so I know I am not playing 'the best' killers but they are who I have fun with :< well use to have fun with.

I was also super excited about scourge hook builds but even that is pretty blah. The hook spawns are kinda weird. I wish we could get +1 scourge hook for each addition scourge perk we run ;_;

Survivors get fun new things while killers get mediocre things that aren't even worth running half the time.

So I guess to sum it up: I stopped playing killer because Survivor is much more easy and fun.

For me, it's the balance team.

the incredible amounts of stress you gotta endure.

i used to just shrug that off with the excuse "eh, you dont see sweat squads a lot so its okay", but when the Devs introduced MMR they made it very clear that they intended that system to give you a team that, if you played perfectly, you would only manage to get a 2k from - and that every game.

with other words, the stress level would be at its peak every game, while i would merely be able to get a meager reward from it (i know thats not how the system works currently, but thats the whole idea behind it, so they will keep improving it until this end goal is reached, which i do not support).

it was when they finally released that system (end of August) that i quit DbD.

and their most recent decisions have done nothing but drive me away further from it.

they ended up nerfing Spirit (one of the very few actually playable Killers in high MMR, meaning they had no intentions of balancing around that level) and thank god they didnt go through will all their nerf suggestions!

the Deathslinger nerf robbed me off of my main Killer, even though he was easily one of the mose balanced additions to this game and absolutely did not need any form of nerfs. he was also on a very delicate line in terms of balance where a single nerf / buff could easily tip him over to be either way too good or way too bad - which they apparently didnt see cause they gutted him and then put a little band aid over the huge fleshwould they left behind. they robbed him off his strength, uniqueness and fun all in a single patch - they really did a pretty good job so far with that.

the addition of Boons (or rather the way they ended up functioning) just further buffed the already annoyingly strong survivor meta of high MMR (exactly what we needed) and especially CoH promotes a very boring and rather unhealthy playstyle for Survivors where they just hold W to a "dead" part of the map and put the Killer into a lose-lose scenario where they either have to commit to the chase and lose all pressure on gens, or drop the chase to find someone else (who'd do the exact same thing) while the first person heals up in pretty much no time. Boons ironically also buffed SWFs who can properly communicate and coordinate their perk builds to one another, so only one person has to drop a single perk slot for everyone to get a huge effect.

and finally the DDOS issue is enough to keep me away at least until it has been resolved.

there are some good news though:

VHS is looking like its gonna be a really good game and i am very much looking forward to playing it in the future.

and maybe the competition is gonna get DbD back to a level where i can find enjoyment in it again.

PS:

i didnt fully quit DbD yet. i still got it installed and am open to playing it, if some of my friends wish to play SWF with me. Outside of that though, i am not touching the game anymore.

and considering that most of my friends quit the game a long time ago, that isnt a very common scenario to happen either.

Bhvr's questionable balance.

Takes them forever to address issues that affect killers and will give unnecessary berfs to killers. It's just like why would I want to subject myself to a frustrating role?

Not to mention having to deal with toxic survivors basically every game. Really wears you out.

The parade of killer nerfs that made them objectively less fun to play. I liked Freddy and whoops, now he moves slower to put down traps and has fewer of them. I hated Wraith and they buffed him so I gave him a try and he was actually okay. Then whoops, nerfed his post-stealth attack so survivors just get away every time. I had JUST bought Deathslinger when whoops, now he's slow, impossible to aim, AND gives ample advanced warning he's near.

I mean heck, I BOUGHT the game in the first place just for Pyramid Head and he got more nerfs in such a short span of time than any killer to date!

The "we nerfed Pinhead's chain hunt addons without improving his controlled chain" thing was the straw that broke the camel's back. It's too much. I didn't even bother getting Artist because it's a foregone conclusion she'll be nerfed (and, in fact, she already got nerfed from the PTB with the Idle Crows change). Like, the game has no consistency, and in almost every case, the killer experience trends downward to make the game easier for survivors. Why should I play a role that is designed to be hard to control, unresponsive, extremely punishing, and then have to just accept one nerf after another because a mass of survivors "didn't like playing against them."

I don't like playing against people who teabag and flashlight click and bomb-dive hooks with a loadout full of second chances to make up for their terrible gameplay, but I guess that doesn't matter. Gotta keep making killers feel worse and worse to play!

Wish the killer was the power role. The survivors shouldn't want to be anywhere near the killer or be able to toy with them unless they wanna get wrecked.

For me, Dead Hard and Dead Hard Hit Validation. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a 30ms ping, and everyone and their brother didn't run Dead Hard. I remember when Ruin was nerfed because it punished survivors who were doing what they were supposed to (hitting skillchecks). Yet Dead Hard punishes killers who are doing what they are supposed to (hitting survivors) and nobody blinks an eye.

Toxic SWFs