Playing as Killer is almost impossible against teams

Can I ask about how long have you played for ? I started in June and I can agree that new killers are in a tough spot rn cause of how many bully/good killers there are that have thousands of hours of experience .

Just know your post won't get much positive feedback because surv have lost a few meta perks in the last update , and killers got buffs in the pallet break time , cool down time etc .

It takes about 700 hours to start to be able to understand their tactics and have a chance at countering them. You can also watch instructional videos on youtube but probably not for this new version of DBD.

Just do your best and try to learn from your mistakes. Hide your red light. Break pallets to save yourself wasting time trying to mind game. Carefully pick perks that will enhance how you want to play. * Read survivor perk descriptions.

Lean into either gen slowdown, end game perks, anti healing, or chase focused. Multiple perks of the same type will enhance your chances.

There is a catch-up mechanic named Bloodlust, I highly recommend learning the rules on it. Also when survivors jump the same window in chase 3 times, it becomes blocked. Furthermore I would learn how to shut down loops. There are a lot of great videos on YouTube that will help you with this.

Good luck and don't give up!

The game is designed to frustrate. It is a mind game. You have to go into matches without any expectation of victory.

Just go with the flow and earn blood points to get the perks you want. Losing means nothing in this game. Just have fun.

Well it's not like huge difference what some say but the survivor speed nerf after hit is noticeable especially if nemesis hit you with tentacle you barely get any speed boost. But other than that it feels smoother to play but not game changing. Gens speed are noticeable rarely survivors can gen rus now as before.

For sure being on comms helps survivors, although I’m a little confused on what that has to do with not catching them at loops? Aside from occasional bodyblocks being in a swf won’t help you much midchase, it more helps the survivors who aren’t in chase know where the chase is happening so they can do gens or know where to go for a rescue.

As far as beating survivors in loops, one of my own weaknesses is still not knowing for sure the best routes on certain tiles (e.g. do I want to run the loop clockwise or counterclockwise?) There are some guides to looping on Youtube which are ok but every tile is a bit different so really it’s just a matter of playing a ton and thinking about what went wrong. But in general the goal in a loop is to do it so that the survivor can’t automatically get a fast vault on each pass, so you want to have them approaching the vault from either a short side or a shallow angle. Either that or, like in the killer shack, you want to be able to possibly mindgame them by moonwalking just before the vault so they vault right back into you.

Mostly though I think just as important as doing well in a given chase is knowing when to switch targets and go after someone else. Getting the intuition of when to start a chase or break off a chase is huge because if you chase one survivor too long it leaves up to three survivors free to do the gens. If a survivor is clearly running into a remote area with a strong tile and no gens in that area for instance consider chasing someone else since that one clearly isn’t working on anything at the moment anyway and you can deliver a lot more immediate pressure on the group as a whole by taking a couple extra seconds to go after an alternate player who is on a generator and maybe in a weaker area where pallets are already broken, etc. Learning to say “Nah, I’ll go after somebody else” can really help you keep the survivors off the gens more often and give you more opportunities to find survivors who are easier hits and downs.

Also one last thing is don’t be afraid to slug for pressure. If you literally hook immediately after every single down you’re probably giving up too much time carrying the survivors over and over without actually getting the three hooks in a row on any one of them. It’s perfectly fine to hook one or two survivors and slug the others so that you can focus more of your time on chasing and downing the ones who are closer to elimination. Basically you trade a hook state you don’t need immediately for 10 extra seconds or so to get into a brand new chase on a more valuable target. So while you don’t want to overdo slugging either, since losing too many hooks to revivals is also bad, slugging when you’ve downed someone who hasn’t been hooked yet and there’s another good target to go after is something to keep in mind.

Do you play on your son account? So that means your going agains't survivors who are more experienced than you. I would recomed watching some killers from youtube Otzdarva is very good and he has lot of videos to help. You can just also watch how he plays mindgames etc. What killer you play some are weaker and some stronger. But stronger ones are usually more difficult to use.

Yeah, I’ve heard that rule of thumb. 👍 I know for sure counterclockwise is the direction you usually want to run shack for instance.

That’s actually not true. Someone on the ground does still put pressure on the other survivors to come rescue them, that pressure isn’t “lost” if you don’t get a hook out of it. It’s a matter of trading a hook state for faster chases. Not every hook state is equally valuable to a killer, it’s a lot more valuable to hook someone who has already been hooked than someone who hasn’t, to the point that if you are confident that by slugging someone who has no hooks the extra 10 seconds can help you secure a down on someone else who has been hooked then slugging is the way to go.

I’m not saying you should never hook after a down obviously, but if you are always hooking after every down you’re not playing efficiently.

There's also the soft tunnel which not nearly enough killers utilize. One or two gens left, and you have some survivors on death hook, but you just downed a player that isn't on death hook. There's no point in picking them up. You're going to lose half a gen at least for a non-death hook late game. Slug them and patrol. Find the players on death hook while your slug builds pressure.

That is not reflected by queue times. You know there is a reason why killer queue times are longer than survivor queue times, no matter the time of day?

I will say though, matchmaking might be screwing you over. Sadly, the matchmaking in this game is not very good at all. But you surely can win even against really good survivor teams, your skill just needs to be at the same level. The killer buffs of the last patch really helped with making that more fair.

Of coruse, if you are playing an M1 killers like Sadako on a map like Cowshed, that's a different story. And those survivors sided maps, and low tier killers, still need to be addressed. But you can't balance the entire game around them, for obvious reasons. They just need to be addressed themselves.

But that should only happen once BHVR actually does something against camping and tunneling. Then, when the queue times have hopefully evened out again, they can continue to try and improve the game, but they need to do it for both sides. Or queue times will simply become imbalanced again.

Beginner killer is mostly okay. I got consistent 3-4Ks after the update without playing scummy.

The survivor shortage right now might be screwing the matchmaking a bit, but believe me it's a matchmaking problem, not a balance one. Beginner survivors are extremely easy to kill as a beginner killer, especially if you're playing a beginner-friendly killer like Legion or Wraith.

If you're a new killer starting out with a hard killer like Hag or Nurse, or any killer that's slow movement, your problem is killer-specific and not simply "killer is too weak / survivors loop too well", or even teams really.

How are we saying killers are worse after patch rn

I 4ked a bully squad with Deaths linger last night and it was so satisfying. However I played out of my mind and don't think I missed more then 2 shots with my gun. I consistently nailed them even when they were 15-20 meters away from me. Killing these teams basically requires perfect killer gameplay. If you make 1 or 2 mistakes the games basically over. My build was also perfect for the game, I had Agitation which countered them trying to body block hooks over and over and pain res which stopped them from completing the last gen like 4 or 5 times. Without those 2 perks I would have lost and probably 3 or 4 man escape even with my damn near perfect play with the redeemer shots.

To clarify the rule of thumb I've seen is most of the common tiles the correct direction to loop it is counterclockwise. I can't verify whether or not that's actually true aside from I think shack and the strong stone fence on Coldwind Farm are usually that direction.

You have to still be smart about where/when you chase and what gens you want to protect; while also running a semi-decent build and being decent enough in chase you can actually down people. Most people don't want to do that, and would rather pretend every group they're going against is a hyper coordinated bully squad.

The people that think killer is weaker after the patch are people that just relied entirely on Ruin Undying Tinkerer every match, getting towed to every single gen as soon at it hits 70%.