Killer is fundamentally flawed

I question whether DBD should be considered a horror game, by that logic.

Certainly it has a horror aesthetic, but I wouldn't call its core gameplay all that horror-inspired. It's more of a cat-and-mouse game than a pure, strict horror experience where you actually feel fear or tension regarding its mechanics. Through that lens killer is much closer to where it should be- enough of a threat that you do run, but not so much of a threat that being close to the killer puts you in insurmountable danger, for the most part. You can't run the killer if the killer is too threatening, that'd end up with the game being a lot more hide-and-seek.

In friday 13th you can kill jason pretty easily and fight back even outrun him so is he more of threat than killer who is faster than you and unkillable?

In the early days of DbD, 2016, survivors feared the killers. They used "spine chill" and "premonition". No one was running around. The meta was to hide and not get caught. No one looped around structures or pallets. 

If by some lucky chance 5 generators could be fixed, most killers had "No one escapes death". You could take that literally. NOED was with no time limit and no totem. Endgame collaps was not invented. So a game could be endlessly. Even then, all survivors could still die. If they got the gate open, they stayed on the line in the exit and got hit once or twice more so the killer could get more points. 

Good comparison to F13th. I feel that if that game had MMR, the counselors would be the power role by far, assuming they were playing well. Like, they have more advantages over the Jason in that game than survivors have over killer in this game. For those of you who don't know, counselors can essentially find a DS in a drawer, just as a random item. The thing I noticed is that if you can prep the houses, like setting a beat trap and opening the windows, it takes a looong time for the Jason to get you. No entity blocker, so he has to manually smash the windows so your slowly but surely get injured by vaulting them, and he has to hit the door like 5-7 times to break it.

I was proud of the time I bought for my team by prepping those houses and then looping them, but unlike in DBD, you personally might not escape because you did that. I can waste as much of Jason's time as I can, but unless I slowly but surely make my way to the exits or a car, he's gonna get me. In that situation, it's like when y'all have to help a head-trapped teammate escape a tunneling Pig (do all gens, leave so they get hatch). I'm dependent on my team using the time waste efficiently, because if the Jason eventually drops chase, I still need objectives to have been done or else we're gonna run out of time before he kills us all.

Him gaining Rage Mode is kind of what I wish killer was like in DBD. You slowly build up rage, which can be accelerated by how many times the counselors have stunned you, and once in Rage Mode, you're unstunnable except with a shotgun, which there can only be 2-3 of in a match.

The Jason equivalent of tunneling, the "cheap tactic" is something I call "just swinging" and what others would call "slash spamming". Instead of grabbing someone, which gives their teammates a chance to interrupt you/save them from you performing a kill, and also gives them a chance to pocket knife (find-able DS), they would just basic attack. Do that 4-5 times, and the counselor is dead. End of story. That's where most of Jason's power comes from. If BHVR were the devs, that would be gone.

The game's got a lot of problems like no MMR, seemingly no DC penalty because there's a DC every single match, massive power differences between the types of Jasons you can pick, and quite a bit of RNG. But for the most part, it probably went in a better direction than DBD did in terms of making the 1 strong in the 1v4 (or 1v7-8 in this case) and in terms of giving the counselors things to do. If the shenanigans with the fight for the license hadn't happened, essentially stopping the devs from releasing future updates, the game would be a great competitor for DBD.