Fellow Gamers, Do You Play Both Sides? If Not, Is There a Specific Reason?

I have nearly 3000 hours so yes. I am above average at survivor and proficient on most killers. It's probably 50/50. Maybe slightly favoring killer. You can really tell who is a troll/only plays one side when you browse the forums. Some people on here are absolutely ridiculous when it comes to discussing balance. I've played A LOT of survivor since the killer buffs and I definitely understand how hard solo is for an average team.

Playing more Killer than Survivor lately because survivor has become a chore

When I was new I played killer for months before trying survivor. I dabbled back and forth and then leaned into killer more a few years in. I then cycled back and leaned hard into survivor after the prestige patch. Now I just go where the blood points are.

I play both sides, but mainly survivor. I just find it more chill. Plus I usually game while on my treadmill, and it's just easier (and safer to be frank) to play survivor than killer. Easy to treadmill game while I'm on a gen, chest, or totem. Not as easy chasing and swinging at survivors.

75% Survivor / 25% Killer

Reasons for Survivor:

• It feels like I'm playing in a horror movie and I try to avoid mistakes a dumb actor or extra would that costs them their lives in the movie.
• Feels like it has comradery when playing with others
• It's a challenge that forces you to improve your ability to remain calm and collected which improves your skills, and your ability to manage your emotion - which yields better decision making.

Reasons for Killer:

• To understand from their perspective the challenges they have when facing off against survivors. Allows me to understand each killers weakness by playing in their shoes - which I can use against them when I play survivor.
• Sometimes to replicate a horror movie or to get a SCARE out of someone e.g. Michael Meyers or Ghost Face (I enjoy scaring people)
• To meet complete a challenge for bloodpoints when I get bored with survivor
• To mentally argue a point with myself and what I read on forums on why something is imbalanced.

Both sides. I think you should play both to understand both sides properly and not get biased. I lean more to survivor only due to being able to play with my bf , but im not biased towards it and i do love my spirit girlie. I do play all the killers, but main is spirit.

From my experience there is a very big chunk of the player base that only plays survivors or "just tried killers a couple of times and I didn`t like it", because you can play it with friends and the stress is divided. This are so survivor mains.

On the other side are the players who love to play killer and consider themselves killer mains, but I have not found one who exclusively plays killer. For one, the survivor part of the game is fun too, and for another it improves your killer gameplay by knowing how survivors see the game, and maybe learn a coupld of tricks or where to hide etc. As a bonus point you get first hand experience of how aweful tunneling off the hook feels, so it might (might!) increase your empathy with certain tactics. Killer mains seem to be closer to 50/50 on both roles with a maximum of 70/30 in the killer roles favor.

I myself fall in the latter category, I consider myself a killer main and really like most of the experience and challenges, but I also got a group of friends who I SWF with and thats sometimes so much fun that I wouldn't wanna miss it. Also my killer experience often comes in very helpful when we encounter some strange build and everyone goes "how is that possible?".

I play both roles !

Though I am both a bit better and enjoying myself more as killer, I play mostly survivor.

That's because I made quite a few friends by playing the game (most of them I met as killer, ironically !), and if we want to play together, our option is most often gonna be survivor as duos, sometimes trios. (Without comms for a bunch of them, as we don't all speak english well)

I was mainly killer until 6.1 where the cheater wave came, and i had cheaters in like every 2 games a played. Now i barely touch killers anymore, but play survivor where i rarely see cheaters.

I have more hours in survivor but I do play both sides, though recently at the hours I play they give 100% bonus for survivor and killer queues are generally pretty bad. Which makes a change from a year ago when survivor games took forever to find...

Lately I actually don't feel like playing killer much anyway and have been enjoying survivor, so the matchmaking bonus works out well

I massively prefer playing killer but queue times means I'm playing a lot of survivor and not much killer.

Which is unfortunate, because survivor gameplay is as stale as a 3 month old rich tea.

I guess i'm a survivor main, i play survivor 90% and killer 10%.

For survivor i enjoy that it's based on team work and that you need to work together to escape. I also like the element of surprise, you never know which killer you will face. I also think the matches can be really intense and fun, especially if it's a crazy situation. I once had a match with 2 other friends and one random survivor against a Freddy. The random player dc'ed on the first hook when we were still at 5 gens. Our small team was constantly switching gens and we somehow managed to do 4 gens that only one gen was left. My two friends died and I was lucky and found the hatch. It's one of those crazy games I'll always remember and it shows it matters not to give up, even if someone disconnected.

As for killer, I like it too but I don't enjoy it as much as survivor. Or maybe I need to play killer more to change my mind. That could also be it. :D

I used to play both sides, but right Now I play More killer than surv, mainly because I Don't like soloq and the people I used to play with Don't get in anymore.

I play killer for fun, I like killing.

I play survivor just for the challenges for BP. Survivor is incredibly boring and 90% of the times is not challenging. They have the game so extremely easy in so many ways, that I feel no joy playing it.

Killer main. I bought the game for Trickster and I love Trickster. I play survivor for tomes and dailies. Maybe if a friend wants to join we can swf. I like 2 man swf, I dont like going beyond. Unless we're all chill and not sweating to win.

80-20 as I play Killer more (because killer gameplay is more interesting and killers are not 1 dimensional skins). Mostly Trickster and Legion. I dont want to try anyone else because when I did, I got mocked by overconfident survivors who only won because I dont understand a killer. Like 1 time I try Blight, I get Garden of Joy. Didnt touch Blight ever since. That was like a bit after Dredge. So I cant wait for bots to train safely and not be ridiculed.

Although I am playing survivor a wee bit more atm. Im playing mostly for tome and daily, just so i have a goal when i play dbd. But also because last month I tried to get the achievement for getting iri 1. And it was the most stressful sht I have ever seen. Also way more DC's as soon as I hook the first person. And despite all the stress, I failed to get the achievement 1 pip away. My last match before rank reset was against a ttv survivor 4 man swf on comms. Safely to say it did break me a bit. So playing survivor to de-stress. Im a bad survivor tho xD

Again, my main survivor goals are tomes, challenges, but also fun. So Im more than happy to see Legion and Trickster because I love my mains. And I dread Huntresses because they're all toxic. At least in my lobbies and MMR.

Depends on where the incentive is and what dailies I have. Now with that being said, I'll go more survivor to do archives than killer. Survivor is more fun and not as stressful I suppose.

I wish people would play both sides equally so that way there would be more perspective and understanding towards the other side..

Almost 50/50. This game is blight for me, but playing with my survivor main friend when he is on is fun. Though before 6.1.0. I didn't play any survivor, kinda had a mental block due to how I felt about survivor's at the time.