Why Continue Playing Killer?

Same here. I stay between rank 20 and 10, and it keeps being fun.

I stopped playing for awhile as I had played for the chase but got sick of the chase devolving into a game of "ring around the rosy".

With pallet vacuum gone now, I've gotten some of my joy in the game back. I only play to stream it now though. If I'm not streaming, I'm not playing this thing... not till more things get changed.

I find what helps me is if I approach it the experiencing KNOWING I'm at a disadvantage and embrace that. That makes those moments where I come out on top seem absurd which amuses me to no end.

@DasMurich said:
Also, I am struggling to understand why killers perks and addons seem to come at the cost of something else. Why are killers constantly penalized when they use any of these. Especially with addons and Hex perks. 

Gain X but tremendously increase time to Y. 

Do survivors perks and addons come with risk, or at an expense? I've looked at addons and I don't see it.

they do but they're so minor that it doesn't really matter

Personally I just enjoy killer, even if I lose as long as I don't get continuously abused I usually dont tilt.

@DasMurich said:
We have to grind through a desperately unenjoyable experience to try and eventually reach a point where it's enjoyable. I fear it won't be enjoyable even then, only less frustrating.

Yes i totally agree. Good killer perks are a must if you don't want to get abused by survivors, even with the top tier killers. Most "Powers" that killer have aren't very powerful in comparison to the advantages survivors have, and because of that we need the best perks we can get. And still you can get frustrated.

When it happens to me I get back to my nurse and when you realize that the only viable killers is the nurse and a few others you can tell that there is something wrong in the game. I can imagine how of a nightmare can be for new players wanting to play killer, not having a single needed perk, when us who have hundreds and thousand of hours get frustrated with the perks.

I can recall some main survivors saying "killers have powers and perks they don't need buffs" but we only have that, when survivors have perks, pallets, windows, second chances perks, the advantage of a 4v1 game and the blessed SWF... They need to think about that twice when saying things like that.

Most killers Need buffs, and there is still room for many changes that can be done to balance things a bit more and make the game more killer friendly. Like nerfing DS for example which is insanely op and it's needed asap.

@DasMurich said:
So this is my solid 40 hours in perspective and I suppose this question is for the more seasoned killers -

I am struggling, really struggling, to find a reason to want to keep playing as a killer. One thing this game holds high over Friday the 13th is that if I want to play as the killer then I absolutely will get to play as the killer, every single time. As far as I can tell this game is also dependant on players wanting to subject themselves to absurdity of survivors. If we don't them there's no game. 

But I am pretty quickly burning out on what I see as absolute nonsense. This game is not a horror game and the only power killers hold is what survivors allow them. 

The killers are not a threat.

When wounded survivors routinely hang out at the exit, tea-bagging, knowing that if you show up and strike them down they'll still escape, it's a sign of severe imbalance. Why on earth can a survivor escape crawling through the exit when 3/4 of their body hasn't crossed the magic line? Have we never seen, in a horror movie, a character believe they've escaped the clutches of a psychopath only to be grabbed by the ankle and dragged back in to the darkness?

There's more, everyone knows the irritations. Multiple generators being repaired just a minute in to the trial. Groups of body-blockers. Easily negated and ineffectual killer perks. Looping, excessive pallets, constantly being slowed, survivors running at Mach 5. 

It's pretty much madness as far as I'm concerned. 

Is this ever going to be addressed? Has this conversation been going on ad nauseam since the release? Is there any reason to think eventually a killer main, any killer, can even get to the point where trials are not so stressful?

Playing killer high rank is cancer and as you may not want to hear it or keep playing killer you should know that unless you want to take on the hardest thing in this game regularly and subject yourself to the frustrations that come with the imbalance's of the game you shouldn't play killer. Every single killer game i go in at rank 1 I know i could have a very hard time. B/c of the map, b/c of flashlights, BNP's, Decisive strike, too many pallets generating near good loops, Your ruin breaking 15 seconds into the game. Then comes to straight up toxicity on the survivors part. Nobody likes being teabagged or have flashlights clicked at them. The reason why you play killer high rank is the reward from it.
When you get dstriked 4 times in the game and still get 4 kills.
When you outplay some survivor and they walk right into you to get face planted into the ground.
When you get that cross map chainsaw b/c you knew where they were going.
When survivors juke right back into your thrown hatchet from 20 meters away.
LUL, When you tombstone that last ######### sitting and teabagging at the gate, or that kid that's been trying for flashlight saves all game.
The challenge is well rewarded when you do well by how you feel.

OR you could just play nurse and win. Once you learn how to use her you don't need to be good, she takes very little skill and you'll get kills no matter what as long as your at least a little competent in learning basic survivor juking techniques.
People will argue this and say Nurse takes skill to play, They are wrong, Nurse has a high skill-cap to learn, once you have that muscle memory then you don't need anything else and games become easy.

I play Billy, Huntress, Micheal and Pig high rank. Yes it's cancer and "madness" like you said but the reward feels good when you do well with the odds stacked against you.

Nurse.

Personally I play at rank one every season now. Rank 12-8 are a major pain in the ass but people at rank one are normally chill. Some maps upset me when I load into them like Disturbed ward and Haddonfield but I can generally manage. The only thing that really tilts me is that I run full stall perks and the game still gets done in less than 5 minutes if the survivors know how to play. I just take a break after that for a few minutes, play a few rounds of pig and keep on killing with Clown and Trapper after that.

I just find it satisfying to whack people. I'm a simple guy.