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Playing as killer sucks and you know it
I was done playing survivor for a while so i wanted to play as killer but its worse because all you have to do is patrol gens i simply dont have enough time to make it to a gen that is being repaired because it will already be fixed by the time i get there then another gen pops i head towards it then the gen is repaired i was literally in a match where the survivors got gens working and escaped in under 5 minutes.
Im going back to playing as survivor to be honest its not fun playing as killer.
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Yes, Killer is by far more of a challenge, because it requires a lot of management and skill, from chasing survivors, to monitoring gen progression, to making sure too much time isn't wasted in a chase or searching, etc. One thing that helps is equipping Corrupt Intervention and determining a three gen to help you prep for the end game.
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Not gonna lie, playing Killer starts off fine but you pretty quickly hit one heck of a difficulty spike. But if you can get past that, Killer is, in my opinion, the best part of the game. I honestly can't get enough of scaring people with Tier 1 Myers.
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Your point on not being able to get to a gen before it pops is literally Mother's Dwelling in a nutshell lol. The "power role" is at a huge disadvantage like 85% of the time.
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High Five
It's true that the insane game in difficulty you'll face as a killer from the moment you switch from total noob that are so scare they will spend the game crouched behind a rock as soon as they hear the terror radius to just an half decent team that know how to do some basic loops and isn't scared shitless for no reason can be pretty jaring as a killer, but its also the point where you will actively start to improve.
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I have the opposite experience. I find it far more frustrating and unfun to play survivor. Mostly this has to due with bad team mates but I'd much rather play killer most of the time.
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Word of advice yes playing killer can suck at times. Only thing keeping me going is just the fun matches I do get. Not every game is easy and not every game is hard. If ur just playing for enjoyment like me you'll stay happy. When I do rage I just take breaks.
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This is why there are no killers left these days. I made a thread earlier, the fast gens are actually the least of this games problems, its all the other buggy, laggy problems which drain the fun out of playing killer. Perks don't work, powers don't work, grabs don't work, you just get cucked over and over and over again and then add in all the second chance perks and get cucked some more.
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It’s fine, it’s just like 80% of the killer caste is reliant on corrupt intervention to have games that last more than 5 minutes. If you have that it’s a fun experience IMO.
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To be fair - playing Killer IS easy. I know that you Killers like to have a Thread were you can talk about how HARD and SKILLFULL this game is as Killer, but the reality is that playing both sides is easy in this game because DBD is not difficult at all.
It is a complete casual game on both sides. Killer is harder than Survivor, but thats about it.
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Not a killer. I main survivor who dabbles in killer maybe once a month. Best not to generalize.
Also, just because you find the role easy doesn't mean the majority does. Not everyone is an elite at video games like you are.
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I am pretty bad at most videogames to be honest. I also make tons of mistakes as Killer, still I get a decent amount of results.
Which means, that either I am less whiny than other players, or the Killer players who complain about the game nonstop are even worse than me.
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First off, not all killers are good at gen patrol. If you are playing a slow M1 killer, gen patrol is not much option.
What you can do, is try to secure a three gen set up that you can control.
Often killers that dont have the mobility to patrol gens must play another style, slugging, trapping, stalking for auto downs, ect.
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If both sides are easy, then surely this is impossible? How could winning as a Survivor be easy, but winning as a Killer is also easy at the same time? You probably just think both sides are easy because you've got 6000 hours in the game, and typically you play people with less hours than you.
Surely you can see that both roles cannot be objectively easy at the same time?
If you come against good survivors, as a Killer, it might be a difficult game, and you need use skill to overcome it.
If you come against a good Killer, as a team of survivors, it might be a difficult game, and you need to use skill to overcome it.
Both of them cannot be easy at the same time, it's literally impossible.
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For most people there is a food chain thing going on in that killer is really fun against solos and/or average players but miserable against a decent SWF. Thankfully the majority of games seem to be filled with the former rather than the latter. If most games were the latter I doubt anyone would play killer.
Though when I play killer it's less the losing that gets to me as much as it is the toxic things that people do when it does happen. Because a decent amount of survivors can't just leave and take the win gracefully.
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I find killer quite enjoyable when I'm able to find matches :)
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killer is def harder to swap to if you main surv, but its just way more fun for me. At the higher tiers of play, and if you know what you are expecting, its really rare i lose an encounter in a way that wasnt my fault
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Maybe it's because I didn't find my "main" yet, and I'm constantly flicking between new killers (got Blight yesterday), yes I find it quite difficult to play Killer, although only beyond purple ranks. I stomped through yellow/green ranks barely dropping a 4K, but things change bigtime around purple and red ranks, when you consistently get survivors who know how to play (or who know how to form a SWF).
The thing that makes it frustrating for me is the amount of people who elect to t-bag and BM. I wouldn't mind losing, as I always learn something in a game I lose, it's just annoying when players on the much easier side seem to want to play just to frustrate and demean their opponent. Honestly I get the impression lots of them play DBD only because it's so unbalanced, and they like the feeling of winning. These are the same people you see DCing or suiciding on hook early, as soon as they realise the game is not going their way.
Drop pallet? Tbag. Flashlight blind? Tbag. Oh you guessed the mindgame correctly at the unsafe pallet? Tbag. Oh you have DS? Tbag. It's tedious and annoying, and these players deserve long queue times.
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Or perhaps you're better than you think, and perhaps the killer players complaints are legitimate. I mean, the devs did improve the game in order to be more attractive for killers, such as removing infinites, nerfing exhaustion perks and the planned nerf to DS.
I don't see killer players complaining (much) about trivial things as much as survivors do, such as BBQ+Chili and the easily avoidable NOED. Nor do I see them complaining non-stop. How many threads do we get every week about tunneling, slugging, slugging for the 4k, NOED, nerf Freddy-Spirit-Death Slinger and camping? I would think that the survivor mains complain non-stop.
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The difficulty in this case depends on your opponent. Of course it's easy to run behind someone and press M1, as it's easy to hold W and press Space at a pallet. But like everything in life you can master even an easy task to incredible levels. It doesn't matter how easy your goal is, if your opponent is really good you need to squeeze out every skill you have. And if survivors play very good it's necessary to make good decision in quick succession. This makes killer very exhausting, you don't need rocket science but you need to be tough and persistent.
tl;dr the difficulty depends solely on your opponent
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I mean, both sides being easy does not mean that they are equally strong/weak. This would be a little bit too trivial. And I even said that Killer is harder than Survivor, and it should also be more difficult. Otherwise, there would be 0 reason to play Survivor (at least when you dont want to play with friends), because then Killer would be the side with:
- more variety
- higher BP-gain
- faster queue times
when both would be equally easy. Especially the BP-gain would be a thing, because many people defend Killer getting so much more BPs, because it is more difficult. And it is quite logical that the side with the 1 is harder than 4, but that does not make the side with 1 player really hard to play.
And me having a lot of hours does not mean that much IMO. I lose against players on both sides with far less hours. I think after a certain amount of time played the hours dont mean that much anymore, DBD is mostly about knowledge and at some point, you cannot have more knowledge than what the game can provide. (Also I know players with almost 10k hours who are not good at the game)
Could be possible, but like I said, I doubt it.
And well, you see Killers complain about various Perks all the time, complaining about Gen Speeds (which are not too fast), especially focussed on the early game ("Two Gens done in 2 minutes!!!11" *wins game with 2 Gens left*), complaining about SWF. Even tho, I dont say that all Survivor complaints are really justified, e.g. players who simply complain about BBQ or NOED without any reasoning should not be taken serious. But that goes for both sides, even tho the most tiresome are the SWF-complaints, because it always boils down to people thinking that playing with friends activates a god mode.
Yeah, this is basically the point in every PvP-game. But, this does not mean that own mistakes dont matter. Like, I got farmed by some dude against a Pyramid Head while being tormented, I got downed with Punishment of the Damned and caged. That guy called the PH a tunneler, despite him being so dumb to get me. Same with Killers saying that they got "genrushed", after comitting to a chase for far too long and ignoring others working on Gens right next to them. Both are mistakes, but they try to blame the other side.
So while it is important what the other side does (because, like you said, it requires how much the player itself has to do), the player playing is the only constant variable in every game. And I feel some people dont really think about that and try to blame their own mistakes on the game/the other side.
And trust me, on both sides players make TONS of mistakes. But it is always easier to say that you lost because the others were probably in an SWF or because that Killer tunneled or whatever you wanna come up with.
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Regardless of one being more easy than the other, you said they were both easy, which is not really possible. It doesn't matter how simple something appears, if it's a competitive situation between two people, how easy it is depends on the other person always.
Also, if you know people who have 10k hours, and are still not even "good", this further invalidates your point that either side is easy.
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A game does not have to be difficult for people being bad at it.
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Typically, saying someone is bad at something is the same as saying they are not skilled at it, which implies a skill difficulty.
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Don't worry, leaks clearly reveled a while ago devs are actively coding AI controlled killers/survivors.
In about a year or so there will not even be a need for real humans to play as killers. Can't wait to T-bag and bully an AI killer into oblivion.
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Killer is harder, it's a 4v1 and you're put at disadvantages but it can be fun and kinda balanced with bad players, its abit stupid how really bad survivors can do all the gens because you didn't slug and went for 12 hooks but yano devs want survivors to escape
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I’m doing fine thanks.
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If all survivors were good at the game, the game would be unplayable.
Fortunately, there are not many good survivors.
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Dude playing killer is the worst Gen get done so fast that there is no point to even play.. period. I brought every good perk you can think of all survivors just hid did gens and escaped. I'm so let down I wish I never started playing this game is a waste of energy completely
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I wish the DBD team would do something to make it better and more fun to play as killer but they won't they just ad boon healing totems and make all killer perks that are of any use hex perks that can be taken out, and always do get taken out literally every single match. Even with undying they take it out in less then 2 min.. I'm just dumb founded like why did I purchase killers and cosmetics just to be 150% let down. Every killer sucks except blight and he's insanely hard to use.. Hey DBD why don't you introduce a killer that new people can actually use and maybe have a fighting chance with????
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This man is very wise. First time I have seen someone else who shared this extremely rare common sense sentiment with me.
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It doesn’t suck, it’s just tedious and repetitive like almost every other aspect of DBD.
There is enough fun to get me into about 3 -4 games a week these days.
All the threat is largely gone.
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What a coincidence, playing as survivor sucks too!
Guess we've come full circle.
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🙄🙄🙄
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Holy Necro, Batman!
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So, you tasted a little bit of the other side of the coin and can't stand it, eh?
Perhaps this might change how you perceive your opponent in the future?
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