it's just not fun any more.

I personally recommend not worrying about the dunks. If that is the only reason you are not having fun, it is an easy problem to solve. Well, I make it sound so simple, but really, you just need to not care. For all you know, they could be friendly bags because you let them go and they appreciate it? You never know.

Keep playing nice and building a tolerance for getting bullied. Ironically, playing killer makes you a better person if you let it.

The killer meta's already been nerfed.

Not really.

It's still gen regression and it will be until base game mechanics are changed.

this is more or less what killers are enduring right now generally speaking... you started with the best intentions for a fair and funny match, playing with non meta killers and perks, but as always certain people will literally bully you to death cause they KNOW that they cannot loose (unless they want it happen) aganist certain killers in certain maps (especially when in a full swf with 2nd chances perks stacked and broken stuff like styptic agents or brand new parts), forcing you to start playing with meta killers and meta builds or resorting to nasty tactics such as camping and tunneling and you'll get why this game is becoming a chore to play each passed day.

the problem is the lack of variety present in those games: the fact that in order to barely get points (or kills if you gave more importance than bloodpoints) aganist sweaty teams you have to play scummy and in an unfun way, with the best stuff available. this could be interesting sometimes, but it get old very fast (don't worry, it's the same thing when you play survivor: finding only blights and nurses with the best builds and addons could be a challenge, but in the long run it become annoying, boring and frustrating)... in all this remember that most of those people are EXTREMELY toxic without reasons and you don't have the tools to make them pay for this behavior (reports are useless since devs won't even consider reading tickects anymore) and you'll got a general picture of why people don't like those things

With these types of asymmetrical games, the more stressful role is the one that's outnumbered which in this game is the killer. Knowing this, I suggest you change your overall mentality when playing the killer role. Play how you want to play. If you play casually and use whacky builds, do it! Don't let the other survivors dampen your experience even if you get no kills. If you're going full try hard and enjoy getting your 4K's that's also valid IMO but know that this tends to bring tougher matches and more stress.

Since I play killer under my own terms of how I want to have fun, I rarely get frustrated while playing killer. I tend to pick the "worst" killers like Trapper, Clown, and Piggy yet I always have a blast playing them. Lately I've been having a blast playing as Sadako.

I do hope you can find a balance between playing casually and playing competitive. Trust me, once you do and play under your new terms to stop taking this game so seriously, you'll have fun regardless if you win or lose. Here's hoping!

I know it's still gen regression, but that doesn't change that it's been nerfed. Pop nerfed. Discordance nerfed. Undying nerfed (mostly used for Ruin). Even Surveillance nerfed.

Dont forget the huge amount of mismatches since everyone managed to get to red ranks skilled or not leading to a mix of hard and easy games on both sides. Only that the easy games for the one side where a horrible stomp on the other and people tend to forget this by a form of nostalgia effect or looking back through rose tinted glasses.

Not with Counterforce, which they should have just left as the anti-Undying, but no. Not only did they nerf Undying, they also introduced boons which is like a survivor Undying.

Make your own fun.

I've just adapted, all the tbagging, macro clicking, and locker spam has just turned me into more of a bad word.

Just treat all survivors the same, as sacrifices for the entity. Do your job, kill them all, no matter how.

Yeah, its all about fun.

We play games to have fun, any other reason is wrong.

BHVR needs to bring HUD indicators to thin the line between solo and SWFs. Then adjust the game through that.

I whole heartedly believe that all of this would change if perks were given makeovers.

Super strong perks get reworked to make them less ubiquitous and balance cost with viability.

Then, rework and buff all of the cruddy perks.

Suddenly, meta players will have a bunch of different, interesting builds.

It's better to balance the game blame SBMM and influencers.

The game's a circus rn in regards to balance, health, and fun.

The only ones I assume that are having a blast are those who use the best builds for their killer and 100000-hour survivor swat teams with the meta as well.

However, for the rest of us outside of that bubble, it's so bad. Heck, you may even run into people who literally act like they won the Olympics after using their unoriginal build and/or killers who may need some tuning.

If the game was plain vanilla and had zero perks, add-ons, or items, I'd assume the balance would be easier to deal with in exchange for no variety :p

No. It's not.

Especially with Sadako, as she has nothing internally going for her, the only thing to make her consistent is to use some of the more powerful perks. The problem is that this only punishes people who aren't SWF, which is unhelpful at high MMR. Every single game looks like the above for me. Every person running DH, at least one UB, at least one or two DS, usually 2 BT, and almost always one CoH.

She was way worse before I switched to hexes, but against SFW that understand what they are doing, even this stack gets erased to essentially running no perks within 2 or three minutes. Pentimento build, high risk-high reward. No pentimento build, CoH pops up all over the map every single game, and even with pentimento its a gamble (You have to rely on people without CoH to find your hexes so that you can pentimento them and prevent CoH. If CoH is used on your hex, then pentimento is useless for this purpose.). It's sad. Sadako's only arguable strength (teleport ability) is nothing because if you don't relentlessly chase a survivor despite knowing gens are being completed, then you win nothing. Your choice is: 1 down per gen pop; or damage, teleport to pressure a gen, hear thunder, watch the survivor portrait magically heal, and the generator you pressured is still at or above 60% complete. There's no winning. Almost every game has turned into 1k or less, survivors don't fear Sadako like they fear a good bubba or blight. And that's because Sadako, despite being good at her niche, is bad at dealing punishment. Bad at tunneling (because you're self denying her main ability). Bad at being anything other than average or less for looping.

The Ring is my favorite horror series, and I'll still continue to play Sadako, but at this rate my drive to play the game is seriously dwindling. I don't expect a 4k every game. I don't even expect a 3k every single game. I used to get those, but then I bought Sadako. Even a 2k would be ####### amazing every once and a while. It doesn't matter if I score more BP than the survivors on average. 9 out of 10 games, I have to wait for the survivors to quit BMing at the gates, artificially increasing the wait time for the next match. Psychologically, I've lost and that's not a good spot to be in. Idk.

Playing casually means you're just trying to have a good time and don't care about winning. If you really are playing casually all the time then your MMR should be sinking. Thing is, playing casually means you'll lose to sweats and that's fine. You can't play casually AND expect to win. That's just silly.

Ok, I can understand being upset by BM and all that. However, the fact that people use meta and play to win shouldn't be a problem. If you really are playing casually (Just in it to have fun, regardless of if you win or not) then losing shouldn't be a problem. Even if you nerf the current meta, a new one will form. Most games has a meta of some sort.