Breaking down why people hate playing killer.

Keeping it simple of course. I could dive into it hard but for the sake of conversation I won't.

People feel the handicap as the killer much harder than they feel any handicaps as survivor.

Most killers struggle terribly trying to catch up to any survivor they see from a distance. It's a walking simulation. Bridging the gap is an atrocity for most.

You've been there a 100 times. You see a survivor, they see you, they run, and you attempt to catch up close enough for the chase to initiate. When it does, half the time they'll jump a window, or go around a loop, and you'll lose the chase music while still in chase, hell while still behind them sometimes. So bye bloodlust.

When you finally do get there, you smack em, and the rocket away and it starts over again. You feel sluggish, slow, and powerless.

When the match starts the killer is at his weakest. All pallets are up, all gens are up. Unfortunately this is the critical time in the game where you must apply proper pressure or you'll lose the game early.

If you go against 4 people, you need to get lucky and find the one who isn't that good at looping first in order to get them hooked and survivors off gens to save.

This is where luck comes into play and dictates the results of the game.

If the first person you find can loop, you'll waste to much time and lose the game. So you break the chase, and leave that area of the map to find someone else

If the second person also can loop then you're right back where you started, wasting time downing.

Alot of matches play out where you have 1,2, maybe 3 hooks by the time 3 almost 4 gens are done.

This is because you have a hard time downing the survivors you find early in the game. Luck has alot to do with it.

You are set up pretty early on to either snowball or throw depending on chase.

Unfortunately you have to run corrupt or gen perks to give you slightly better odds.

It just feels so clunky, and it can be such a chore breaking pallet after pallet trying to get a few people on hooks early.

I think it really intimidates, frustrates, and becomes unfun quickly. You kinda throw your hands up when 3 or 4 gens pop in under 5 minutes and you have so little hooks early on compared to how many gens they get early.

Seems that most kills or snowballs happen by Chance at the end of the game either by luck, or mistakes of the survivors and those kills don't feel rewarding. Killers enjoy the Chase. Unfortunately chasing costs gens faster.

So you end up stomped and feeling frustrated, or you capitalize on their mistakes, and the kills feel lackluster and unfun to get that way.

It's a Rollercoaster of emotion playing the killer role. And I think most just avoid it. Or they play some. Have a few bad matches, and swap over bc it's just not that fun how fast you get put into the situation where you are down to 1 or 2 gens and all 4 are still alive. Your odds are just massively against you and you can feel it.