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How to have fun as killer

Yep...I'm burnt out, any ideas to help me with this?

Comments

  • Hunkulese
    Hunkulese Member Posts: 432

    Maybe the game just isn't for you. Playing killer is infinitely more fun than survivor. You probably just don't understand the role.

  • ShinobuSK
    ShinobuSK Member Posts: 5,279

    Try out new builds and new killers? Make a win condition that doest involve sweating for 4K or any number of kills for that matter.

    Best thing to do is focusing on getting better with certain killer power, better at mindgames, better at reading survivors and so on.

    But its all on you to make your own fun in the end.

  • Zachcjjj
    Zachcjjj Member Posts: 531

    flick billy, shred only demo, tentacle only neme and mad grit, agi, iron grasp booba

  • DangerScouse
    DangerScouse Member Posts: 989

    Play something else. Devs have made the game a total joke for killers now.

  • ShinobuSK
    ShinobuSK Member Posts: 5,279

    Thats the nature of core mechanics in this game. We can accept it as it is or not.

    It wont change the fact that fun is something players themselves need to create

  • Bwsted
    Bwsted Member Posts: 3,452

    Define fun first, then we'll take it from there.

  • Shroompy
    Shroompy Member Posts: 6,810

    damn guess I'm a weirdo for enjoying killer then

    Ill be on my merry way

  • Thusly_Boned
    Thusly_Boned Member Posts: 2,992

    Stop using a 4K as you fun/win condition (which seems to be common). I prefer to 4K, but I don't need to 4K. I absolutely could 4K a lot, but it would require me to play in a way I don't enjoy.

  • Clevite
    Clevite Member Posts: 4,335

    Gotta switch it up and keep it fresh .

    I like killer in that I get to decide how the game goes and don't have to rely on teammates.

    And as others have stated, if you only play for 4ks, you are bound to be disappointed.

    I usually do 2 solo games, then a killer game as the killer I last versed using their build. That works for me, as opposed to a continuous grind of one role.

  • Veinslay
    Veinslay Member Posts: 1,959
    edited January 2022

    Besides the maps and Dead Hard, this game would be so much better if ######### boons didn't exist. They have ruined this game. Killer is so boring now, have to tunnel and camp not to get completely stomped as killer. Hit a guy and he's healed in 4 seconds if you try to spread pressure. So dumb

  • Starrseed
    Starrseed Member Posts: 1,774

    I just today decided to make my own game with Ghostface I won't chase those pesky survivors anymore a want to get better at the whole stealth stalk and strike thing and if they see me befor I can fully aproche them and stalk i will just leave them running there are others to stalk. (maybe that's how gf is supposed to be played all along I don't know)

  • Gigante
    Gigante Member Posts: 134

    Imagine have fun as Killer in 2022


    Behaviour don't want you to have fun playing as killer.

  • katoptris
    katoptris Member Posts: 3,211

    Do different build that haven't been done before. I did run dark devotion on doc and it was fun for me. As survivor I run autodidact with empathy just to see how many I can get healed.

  • Advorsus
    Advorsus Member Posts: 1,033

    This one is easy. Put on insidious, go to the corner of the map and face the wall and look up at the sky. Go play civilization until the end of the match. Read the hate mail survivors send for not allowing them to bully you and being forced to do nothing but gens. Laugh at their messages, go back to playing Civilization.

  • Tiller
    Tiller Member Posts: 31

    Don't get good and stay a noob. Killers at low level are fun. High level killers is just a target of abused by survivors and SWF, with the exception of Nurse/Blight

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,903

    Ha, good one.

    You cannot "win", not at high skill level thanks to the oh so wise decision to balance for lower skills. Throwing games is just not valuing your time. I've left a while ago myself. (Only here to remember why this game is still bad.)


    What you could do is play a different game in the game. Forget the gens : simply tunnel some guy out and see how many you can get before they all escape. Also, try to completely ignore the ones obviously trying to get their attention. Focus on the other ones instead, that usually rile them up. (Once I've purposefully ignored a guy called "Tunnel me" all game, killing his friends and finishing him last. Being a Nurse main helped of course) You could also count DCs as bonus points.

    Don't forget to score the game as "no fun" in the after-game screen. (Many people seem to ignore the feature exists.)


    Bar that, there are now alternatives that are actually pretty fun IMHO.


    Well, one is still in closed beta but is very fun for both sides. It's hard though. People used to have is easy as survivors here will not enjoy it one bit.)

  • GannTM
    GannTM Member Posts: 10,894

    Take a break. If you’re burnt out, then taking a break and clearing your mind from the game will make you appreciate it more when you come back.

  • playhard
    playhard Member Posts: 279

    i quit this game and play RDR2 only for enjoy the view..

  • pseudechis
    pseudechis Member Posts: 3,904

    Custom game bots, take all the negative social element out of this game, which lets face it is the source of 90% of the lackluster play experience.

  • Junylar
    Junylar Member Posts: 2,005

    Tunnel one guy out of the game early, eat every DS and avoid BT's. Read the end-game chat. Alternatively you may use Bubba and facecamp the first hook.

  • ThiccBudhha
    ThiccBudhha Member Posts: 6,987
  • meatisadelicacy
    meatisadelicacy Member Posts: 1,920

    I don't know how to have fun as a solo survivor. My teammates don't do gens, killers get 4ks in more than 85% of my games (I've kept track). If the game isn't fun, don't play. I take months long breaks from this game because it's just not fun. I keep checking back in and it's still not fun.

  • espooked
    espooked Member Posts: 465

    uh stop playing to win, it makes the game funner and messing around with survivors (or mess with them). I try doing every killer in rotation to challenge myself and to keep the game interesting

  • JawsIsTheNextKiller
    JawsIsTheNextKiller Member Posts: 3,367

    Killers 4K most of the time in my games too. Once you fall through the MMR event horizon, it is very difficult to claw your way out as a solo survivor.

  • Dino7281
    Dino7281 Member Posts: 3,294

    Problem is that with how game is balanced, you kinda have to give up on that. Game basically guarantees escapes.

  • Dino7281
    Dino7281 Member Posts: 3,294

    Only way I could have fun was playing Pig and collecting Boop the snoot.

    But sometimes you just get unlucky with SWF that wants to go on next game in 4 minutes, I guess they like waiting in queues.