Why Continue Playing Killer?

I face that every day. What has kept me going is learning to play nurse, and wanting to prestige my killers so they can be covered in blood. Nurse is a good counter, and the only counter, to pallet looping and if played right, the only nonsense survivors can give you is their hate comments after the match, which 9.999/10 times is hilarious. As for grinding for levels, it keeps me occupied, and as long as I keep my ultimate objective just gaining bloodpoints, I don't get as frustrated if I don't get many kills, or any at all. As long as I got a good chunk of bloodpoints, I'm good. But wanting to just stop playing due to not having a good time is a feeling you'll get in this game no matter who you're playing, whether it's survivor due to it being easy, just running in a circle over and over, or as killer.

@DasMurich said:
Also, I am struggling to understand why killers perks and addons seem to come at the cost of something else. Why are killers constantly penalized when they use any of these. Especially with addons and Hex perks. 

Gain X but tremendously increase time to Y. 

Do survivors perks and addons come with risk, or at an expense? I've looked at addons and I don't see it.

Look up No Mither actually. That perk gives 3 perks at the expense of always being a 1 hit down.

And all insta-heal addins drastically reduce the number of charges medkits give you.

And I seem to remember there's a bulb that increases energy consumption

My drive? Making as much of their effort as worthless as possible. Doesn't matter if it's a failed flashlight save or a failed body block, those kinds of things are what I play this game for. Nothing feels better than seeing a cocky survivor and knowing that they're not making it out of here, and you're the reason why. I want it to be frustrating for them.

Personally I just enjoy killer, even if I lose as long as I don't get continuously abused I usually dont tilt.

@DasMurich said:
We have to grind through a desperately unenjoyable experience to try and eventually reach a point where it's enjoyable. I fear it won't be enjoyable even then, only less frustrating.

Yes i totally agree. Good killer perks are a must if you don't want to get abused by survivors, even with the top tier killers. Most "Powers" that killer have aren't very powerful in comparison to the advantages survivors have, and because of that we need the best perks we can get. And still you can get frustrated.

When it happens to me I get back to my nurse and when you realize that the only viable killers is the nurse and a few others you can tell that there is something wrong in the game. I can imagine how of a nightmare can be for new players wanting to play killer, not having a single needed perk, when us who have hundreds and thousand of hours get frustrated with the perks.

I can recall some main survivors saying "killers have powers and perks they don't need buffs" but we only have that, when survivors have perks, pallets, windows, second chances perks, the advantage of a 4v1 game and the blessed SWF... They need to think about that twice when saying things like that.

Most killers Need buffs, and there is still room for many changes that can be done to balance things a bit more and make the game more killer friendly. Like nerfing DS for example which is insanely op and it's needed asap.

@DasMurich said:
So this is my solid 40 hours in perspective and I suppose this question is for the more seasoned killers -

I am struggling, really struggling, to find a reason to want to keep playing as a killer. One thing this game holds high over Friday the 13th is that if I want to play as the killer then I absolutely will get to play as the killer, every single time. As far as I can tell this game is also dependant on players wanting to subject themselves to absurdity of survivors. If we don't them there's no game. 

But I am pretty quickly burning out on what I see as absolute nonsense. This game is not a horror game and the only power killers hold is what survivors allow them. 

The killers are not a threat.

When wounded survivors routinely hang out at the exit, tea-bagging, knowing that if you show up and strike them down they'll still escape, it's a sign of severe imbalance. Why on earth can a survivor escape crawling through the exit when 3/4 of their body hasn't crossed the magic line? Have we never seen, in a horror movie, a character believe they've escaped the clutches of a psychopath only to be grabbed by the ankle and dragged back in to the darkness?

There's more, everyone knows the irritations. Multiple generators being repaired just a minute in to the trial. Groups of body-blockers. Easily negated and ineffectual killer perks. Looping, excessive pallets, constantly being slowed, survivors running at Mach 5. 

It's pretty much madness as far as I'm concerned. 

Is this ever going to be addressed? Has this conversation been going on ad nauseam since the release? Is there any reason to think eventually a killer main, any killer, can even get to the point where trials are not so stressful?

Playing killer high rank is cancer and as you may not want to hear it or keep playing killer you should know that unless you want to take on the hardest thing in this game regularly and subject yourself to the frustrations that come with the imbalance's of the game you shouldn't play killer. Every single killer game i go in at rank 1 I know i could have a very hard time. B/c of the map, b/c of flashlights, BNP's, Decisive strike, too many pallets generating near good loops, Your ruin breaking 15 seconds into the game. Then comes to straight up toxicity on the survivors part. Nobody likes being teabagged or have flashlights clicked at them. The reason why you play killer high rank is the reward from it.
When you get dstriked 4 times in the game and still get 4 kills.
When you outplay some survivor and they walk right into you to get face planted into the ground.
When you get that cross map chainsaw b/c you knew where they were going.
When survivors juke right back into your thrown hatchet from 20 meters away.
LUL, When you tombstone that last ######### sitting and teabagging at the gate, or that kid that's been trying for flashlight saves all game.
The challenge is well rewarded when you do well by how you feel.

OR you could just play nurse and win. Once you learn how to use her you don't need to be good, she takes very little skill and you'll get kills no matter what as long as your at least a little competent in learning basic survivor juking techniques.
People will argue this and say Nurse takes skill to play, They are wrong, Nurse has a high skill-cap to learn, once you have that muscle memory then you don't need anything else and games become easy.

I play Billy, Huntress, Micheal and Pig high rank. Yes it's cancer and "madness" like you said but the reward feels good when you do well with the odds stacked against you.

I was in the same boat as you just a few weeks ago. Getting absolutely raped by survivors in nearly every game I was playing. I was hovering at rank 10-11. I had such anxiety about playing Killer. I'm just gonna get teabagged and looped. They're just gonna unhook the SECOND I turn my back to kick that generator. Oh, I finally caught my obsession after chasing them around for a good three minutes! Ooops, Decisive Strike. Hahaha, try again, loser. It was maddening. Ridiculous. How is this a balanced game?

Then I realized, if you just expect to lose, expect to get bullied, you start to play with a different perspective. Yes, you're Michael Myers. Literally evil incarnate. Capable of crushing a man's head with his bare hands, surely these little survivors will be no match! But this is a very different world than the films, than what slasher movies are. This is an online video game and unfortunately, people are going to be toxic in every game you play. Try to have fun! At the end of the day, if it's not fun then don't play it. I suspect you keep with it because you do love the game and you really just want to be a bad ass serial killer that you know you should be. I feel the exact same way.

I really love this game. I'm only 100 hours in and honestly, I can't get the same satisfaction from any other game than when I mercilessly slaughter all my victims after they teabagged and pallet looped me the entire match. Hands shaking, adrenaline on full power, you won! God, it's so satisfying. Don't give it up. You can always get better. And a better you is a goddamn nightmare for them.

Most of my 380 hours have been spent playing Killer. I've made it to Rank 1, and will never go back there unless they add actual rewards for it. There is no fun to be had for me at the high ranks.

Around Rank 10 though is where the fun is really at. You get great games, with a minimum of toxicity. Most Survivors who play the meta will continue to Rank 1 to play against tryhard Killers and the ones so experienced they can play in their sleep. Deranked Survivors tend to cluster around 20-18 so they can have easy matches because they can't compete at the higher Ranks, or else they just feel so inadequate they have to beat up on new Killers.

Rank 10 though, you get a mix of everything, with a lot of Survivors who are also staying at those Ranks because of the fun gameplay. Rank reset time sucks, but I generally wait a couple days before playing Killer which works out nicely.

Once you can get above Rank 16/17, the games actually become a lot more fun. You lose most of the deranked bullies and inexperienced new players, and get good Survivors who want to have fun as well. Makes for quite enjoyable gameplay and a lot of fun all around.

If you don't take the game too seriously, and just play it for fun, it makes it a lot better. Getting bitter about RNG, toxicity and all the balance issues does nothing but turn the game into a chore. Relax, chill and just enjoy yourself instead and you'll find yourself coming back to the game constantly.

LRGamer said:

That’s why I stay on the low ranks. There is no reward for being on high ranks so why should I care

@TheTimeMachine said:
LRGamer said:

That’s why I stay on the low ranks. There is no reward for being on high ranks so why should I care

If you wouldn’t mind telling me; What’re the rewards YOU reap at low ranks? (I like to give low rank survivors a thrilling/scary experience WITHOUT “putting out” any one survivor)

Oh I actually meant Rank 20-10
I just don’t want all that Purple Flashlight,
Gen Rushing,
4 Decisive Strike,
Self Care,
Sprint Burst/Dead Hard, Ochido like
Experience

Killer is in this weird spot where it's just addictive enough to keep you playing, but also about equally frustrating. What you have in the end is a feeling akin to mild addiction - ie. when you get your fix you're happy initially, but when the effects start to wear off you remember how terrible it truly is.