Playing a normal m1 killer is not possible these days.

From BHVR's perspective, the reality is that the average survivor spends insane amounts of time doing literally nothing every game. And there's no pallet in the game that can be considered safe for many players.

It's hard to reconcile the skill gap between the bottom-average-top end of the playerbase and make a map that works for all levels of play.

Newer or less skilled players escape via stealth. Making maps smaller makes things even more difficult for them.

Average players need a lot of safer tiles because they're going to get hit at half of them.

And then that all becomes a mess at the very top end. This is before we even get into killer considerations. It's hard.

Only consideration would be new player experience. It's already brutal as it is.

We see some pretty unsafe pallets on the map reworks, and the caveat there is that a pallet is usually safe or a free hit with very little in-between.

I still think there's opportunity to slice it both ways. Coal Tower is the gold standard in my mind. It has just enough safe resources (barring RNG) that survivors at least have to be cognizant of resource management. The map size isn't prohibitive for any killer. And the gen layout usually demands some strategy

But I'm playing Pig and Ghostface relaxed

Not exactly. it would hurt casual survivors more, in other words they would go from winning sometimes to winning never where as more skilled survivors would lose more often but would still win every now again.

demographically speaking, in most games, there is like top 10% of players that are outstanding and really good. I would say about 20% are like semi-competitive while the rest are casual. Not to be rude or anything, but most of m1 killers were never truly in a good spot. they were always lackluster. Its just that you as killer were typically facing the less good survivors in most matches. Its whole question whether you balance around 30% goodish players or 70%.

A recent post that I have been seeing lately is how steam charts are negative and how MMR is hurting the game. I'd say a lot of m1 killers not being viable might be hurting the game. MMR just exposes the bad balance for killers.

What I meaning to say is that the game becomes more killer-sided overall leading to lower escape rate. Strong players use same loops as weaker players. Its just that weaker players use the loops less effectively. so what was once weaker survivors escaping sometimes out of survivor bias map design now survivors seldomly escaping.

You see this a lot of weaker survivor maps, for example recently, the dev posted that midwich elementary school is deadliest killer map. A vast majority of pallet loops on that map are very fair for killer. they're unsafe enough that most killers can win chases at the pallets. Newish survivors probably get lost finding generators on that map and using the pallets to waste the killers time is difficult. Does that mean that nobody ever escapes midwich elementary school? Of course not.

Imagine every map being as unsafe pallet-wise as Midwich elementary school. for casual players, you would have much lower escape rate for survivor. This kinda what your aiming for in your statement.

Here's controversial statement about killer. base movement speed for killer is meaningless statistic in current iteration of the game. The better loopers and efficient objective players are able to use the maps so well that it renders the base killers ineffective. A lot of stronger killers are well... non-standard m/s killers. Even the ones that were strong as 115% m/s e.g old billy or current blight have highly exaggerated movement speed. Its always about their killer power. Killers express their skill through killer powers, not their movement speed.

yeah well welcome to killer life. Its like wow, your good at killer, well too bad. you have to lose half your matches. you never really get completely used to it as killer but I think it grows on you over-time as killer. it is terrible for competitive mindset players.

One thing would be to make secondary objectives for survivors to slow down games but then make ds and bt stronger cause tunneling would only be even better stragedy or make gen speed faster the less there are survivors alive. But nurse would need nerf and blight probably too as well then. I think nurse should be changed like oni she has to start as m1 killer.

If they could get games, absolutely. Or the option to do bot matches.