Will BHVR ever make the game less stressful for killers?

Even if the game was perfectly balanced vs 4 SWF, the killer would be still much more stressful. You are going against 4 players alone.

There is no way around it, you will be the one to pressured, I never played a game in this genre where killer wasnt the more stressful role, you cant waste a second, its not a role for casuals, arguably dbd is the worst case, where if you are going against full of SWF you are gonna have a really bad time, doesnt matter though, its the nature of this genre

in short 4 vs 1.

The 1 always more stressful role, even if balanced towards the 1

That's a weird mentality to have. It's a multiplayer game. Neither side should be stomping the other ideally.

That's fair, but I kinda doubt the game would be as successful as it is if the Survivors were all just helpless. In a sense though, Survivors are still weaker then the killer, at least individually. DBD is probably the only asymmetrical horror game where Survivors can't fight back, at least not directly. They can delay the Killer via pallets and perks, but can never actually stop the Killer. Lore wise, the Killer still is the power role and on the 1v1 level, that remains true in-game. It only becomes less like that when you account for the 4v1, but again, if the Killer was too powerful in the 4v1 and 1v1 then the game probably wouldn't have had the longevity it currently has.

Yeah you are right.

Very strong killers = less playerbase.

Weaker killers = huge playerbase (dbd)

Now with recent survivors nerfs the game losing popularity, if killers getting more buffs, the game will even more players, luckily dbd has licenses and also killers in this game still not that strong, but they are getting there.

Power Creep, most of the new killers are antiloop(except sadako), and new killer perks are very strong metas usually, not to mention that maps getting reworked to be killer favored, reworking killers to be stronger, but worst will be the severe healing nerf. Also the key and hatch nerf, you are now on killer mercy when comes to escaping.

Survivors receiving nothing, CoH was good but getting gutted, for solo already was close to worthless.

If you make solo very hard to play most of the playerbase will be lost.

Just watch out for the new update.

But thats the thing, stronger killers meaning you are more dependent on your teammates, and ultimately more skill needed for survivors, that means less of playerbase. Always happens in this genre, so devs should be careful, I foresee even bigger loss of playerbase.

Maybe. Survivors still have plenty of tools to combat this though so it's mostly fine I'd say.

They have multiple times before, so there's no reason to assume they won't do again.

Killer is always going to be more stressful than survivor, though, so that stress can't be fully eliminated. They'll just continue to make balance changes to give killers a slightly easier time.

I'd be cool with 2 Killers, 6 Survivors, and 10 Generators. Maps would need to be expanded though.

The killer is always going to have to micromanage more stuff. They are playing for themselves, the survivors are a team of 4 who can coordinate and work together.

That said, there is a difference between that kind of "natural stress" for killers that is inherent with the game's design and extra stress created by things in the game which aren't balanced, and that is absolutely something that can be cut down.

Finally someone who actually knew not to attempt to free themselves from the trap.

99% of the time when I go against a trapper with that addon, someone else gets trapped and downs themselves because they either don't notice the icon at the bottom, or don't know what it means.

I look at it like the Entity has all of us in an arena and wants a good show. Give the entity a good show and stop worrying about the outcome.

I believe it was was meant is that the survivors are supposed to fear the killer, not the other way around.

And yet Killers still got Kills back then. And probably complained less than nowadays.

Is DBD this horrific for people? Damn I'd love to see how some people playing dbd handle regular life things, I've played for a very long time and I can't fathom being so distraught about the game that you have to talk about mental health issues. Really feels like a personal problem more than a dbd problem

They can’t even make the hook spawns fair on Midwich. That alone should tell you what they think of the killer experience.

Maybe because killer back then we're also more brokenly strong in some parts and more importantly survivor weren't even half as efficient as they are today over such a broad part of the community?

Also i find it always funny when people (and the devs) say, killer is supposed to be more stressful. If killer is more stressful and doesn't have the privilege of playing together with friends as motivation AND many killer feel not powerful without immense effort, what incentive remains to play the role beside being able to play some iconic killer only to find out it feels like being helpless without insane amount of experience after a certain point?

It's like other team pvp games. I personally only play games like lol, r6s or overwatch with friends because it can feel awful to play those solo and getting creamed by premade groups.

In asymmetrical pvp games, the 1 never has that incentive so the gameplay has to feel engaging and rewarding enough to volunteer for that side and with increasing survivor efficiency and some directions the game took over the years that hasn't gotten better.

A group of people here, some of them even present in this thread, advocate that survivor have gotten nothing but nerfs (a false exaggeration) and yes survivor power level have been brought lower/closer to killer (at the same experience level) and why? Because the efficiency and experience of the survivor population as a whole has risen over the years like in every game.