Survivors/Killers, what do you consider a win?

I'm very curious to hear people's perspectives on this!

As for myself, I haven't played more than one or two matches as a survivor per sitting. Honestly, I usually forgo playing as a survivor entirely and prefer to play as a killer instead. Since I haven't really played as a survivor to any considerable extent recently, I don't have as great of a perspective of what I personally count as a win while playing that role.

That being said, I do have a more formulated opinion on what I myself constitute as a win while playing as a killer. I don't really find the generalized terms of hooks or kills to summarize what I view as a win. If I play a game where the hooks are spread evenly throughout the survivors and all four escape with a total of eight hooks on my end, I consider that a game well played on my end. But it isn't really a certain number of hooks that I view as a victory, either. I've played games in the past where I've only gotten three or four hooks in the entire match, but I constantly interacted with survivors in the form of hitting and downing them. So while I did a conventionally poor job from a mentality of sacrificing survivors being the main objective, I and the survivors earned a lot of points in the meantime. Not as much as if I had gotten more hooks (and thusly, they got more unhooks) but it was a game where something was constantly happening.

One might suppose that I view the point system as more of a means of gauging a win or a loss, but honestly, that isn't the case, either. Though I will say that more bloodpoints earned generally equates to more interactions between survivors and the killer, and I believe it is this aspect that I personally use to define a win for myself.

Perhaps it would be easiest to describe what I view as a win if I got what I view as a loss out of the way. To me, a personal loss in Dead by Daylight when playing as the killer is when there isn't much interactivity between myself and the survivors. Whether this is due to stealthy playstyles on the survivors' part, or one survivor running me around the map while the others demolish generators, I view it as a loss on my part in games where I don't make my presence widespread throughout the map, though particularly at generators. This lack of presence can be due to poor choices on my part or survivors coordinating very well and shredding through those generators.

The result of these games that go by so quickly and, on the survivors' part, incredibly efficiently, typically manifest in a rather sad amount of points earned for not just myself, but the survivors, as well. In these games, the amount of times I hook or down a survivor is much less commonplace, which thusly leads to survivors not being able to get those points for unhooking and the like. Despite their lower scores compared to other games with more pressure from the killer, the survivors did extremely well in getting their objectives done and getting out. This sort of reinforces my mentality that points earned aren't necessarily an indicator of a win or loss, since a group of survivors all escaping with minimal trouble will generally earn fewer points despite having evaded the killer and completing their objectives well.

So what do I count as a win?

I suppose, in very simple terms, I consider a win to be a game where I as a killer apply pressure to the survivors in a manner that makes for constant interactivity. Not just between the killer and the survivors, but between different survivors, as well.

Honestly, the outcome of a trial (the number of hooks or kills secured) has little effect on what I perceive as a win. It's more so the journey than the destination that I regard when assessing whether a game was a win or a loss. Regardless of how many survivors end up escaping, I view it as a win to have regularly interacted with survivors, interrupted their objective progress, and kept them from their main objective of completing generators with other objectives like healing and saving from the hook.

If the survivors escape a match relatively seamlessly (which, in my mind, has more to do with completing their objectives without much resistance from me) I'm looking back on said match like, "Yeah, I did not do well that game."

Whereas if I at least possess a legitimate presence in my match - hitting survivors, downing them, hooking them; in essence, making them do things on top of their primary objective of fixing generators - I consider that a win regardless of how many survivors end up escaping or what the hook count was. These games with constant interactivity between the killer and the survivors not only tend to yield more points for players on both sides, they're also generally more fun in my mind.

In short, I view a win not as decimating the opponent, but making those interactions between survivors and killers something memorable, something you can look back on and think to yourself: regardless of the final result, the journey of those survivor/killer interactions and the plays by both sides made for an interesting and enjoyable match.

But enough rambling on my part. I'm very curious to hear your perspectives on what makes a match a win or a loss to you! :3