Camping with High Mobility Killers

The balance team allowed the game to get this way.

The killer player mindset is that every game is an SWF. Which, I mean, fair enough. The released player stats said that like 50 percent of survivors are solo, 50 percent some kind of SWF if I remember correctly. So the killer player, having experienced many difficult games, is going to go with the easiest and best strategy (which Unfortunately right now is loading up on gen slow perks and camping the first hook). Sucks that it takes no skill to do that, but it is definitely the best strategy when taking into account effort put in. You have to do far fewer chases, but still get rewarded with hits and downs if you just protect the first hook and immediately surrounding gens.

No skill, medium to high reward.

Constantly finding new chases and winning each one as killer? Requires much more skill, but super high risk, very low to high reward.

On the other hand, survivor game play these days is a joke (if you are solo). Every game has a killer playing the same way, described above. It feels like every game is a 1v1 between the killer and the first player hooked. If you can do gens fast enough, before the first player dies, you may have a chance of escape. If you don't, and one of the many gen slowing perks is still active, you die. That's every solo queue game recently. It is skilless and boring, but that is the meta the devs allowed to happen.

But of course, the super "complex" MMR system only rewards kills and deaths, so this is the meta.

I don't think the devs care much though, they seem to be doing well enough by just constantly selling new skins, but if they care even a little about game health/fun then they will buff chase rewards for killers, nerf camping rewards, buff solo queue, nerf SWF, buff low tier killers, nerf high tier killers, change the multiple maps that are bad for each side. But that's too much to do, so Let's make more skins!

It doesn't need to make sense. Strip all killer of their power and the only difference between them that remains is movement speed and height, of which none matter when camping.

The ONLY killer that are really different are one shot killer like bubba, Myers (with loaded stalk) or billy as they make any from of save unhooking impossible and the rest remains at a 50/50 for the hook grab working or not.

Killer powers make a difference for chasing or map pressure but hardly for camping. There killer nearly become like survivor, only a different skin (except for the mentioned above).

And how would you know beforehand that you need to camp?

Even if there would be any indicator in the lobby, it is impossible to switch character on the killerside anymore (despite individual MMR being a joke at this point). So "knowing that you probably going to need to camp" would be a psychic prediction before even readying up in respect to killer choice.

You pick what you want to play, not what you "expect to need" .

Well i personally have never understood the need to pip/rank up/rise in MMR. The only thing those bring you is harder matches. In a game with working matchmaking? Great, equal matches played on a razors edge with fun back and forth. In DBD, with its fabulous matchmaking thanks to imbalance queues? Yeah no, i don't need to increase my chance to get matched with the high MMR end of the stick more often.

Hence why i play like i do. Normal without sweating "aiming" (without trying too hard) for 8 hooks and then playing completely brainless casual.

After the motto "if i don't try hard then i can't be stomped hard". Takes frustration mostly out of the equation. I am satisfied if i manage to do my daily, get progress on my challenge and/or get my 4 bbq stacks. Everything else is bonus.

And when survivor want to rush the trail with max efficiency even with only 2 hooks having happened? Be my guest but don't expect much points and the next killer to be this chill. Enjoy a relaxed breather trial or don't, but don't complain that "ALL KILLER SWEAT".

They don't and maybe be a little grateful/respectful to the ones that don't instead of treating all of us like dirt. Sadly even as a chill killer that still provides the normal gameplay loop you get either 90% silence/the same toxicity or the 10% positive feedback but that also mostly only after they have stomped you aka "ggs" only after a 1hook/less than 10k BP round.

It's the choice of perks that is funnier. These guys with BBQ and Ruin are playing pitch a tent, when the entire point of those perks is to encourage chases.

Sometimes its just the right play, camping a survivor out vs letting them get unhooked for free, and healed for free in ~18 seconds from boon circle of healing, killers have a harder time pressuring survivors more than ever and sometimes its just the right call to camp someone out with any killer. Losing what used to be ~14 seconds on almost every heal from the survivor side really cripples killers action economy and they can't always keep up.

Okay, first of all i guess this comes from the limitation of the English language. The "you" i used wasn't aimed directly at you but at the general community i face.

And about taking ggs negative, that comes with the fact that they strictly only come from winners and then mostly when the win was a onesidedly stomp. Most of the rest of the time they don't show any form of courtesy even when i myself gave ggs every time (which i stopped) or alternative toxicity cokes back.

On of my favorite occurrences was a game were i got 0 or 1 hooks and less than 10k BP (iirc) and the survivors gave ggs and I answered with "not for me" as is in "it wasn't a good game for me. (I think it was even during a BP even with multiple offerings). Oh boy did i pooe the hornet's nest and they started to rip off with insults and toxicity.

Again my comment wasn't directed at you but detailing my experience.