how in hell do people find this game so horribly unbalanced?

The maps are significantly unbalanced. That’s probably the most blatant imbalance in the game.

Unbalanced maps, perks, killers, items....

Tbf an asymmetrical game is inherently unbalanced with none actually being able to strike it perfectly. That being said dbd isn’t too unbalanced with the only major outlier being maps

It's loosely balanced, rather than finely balanced. In the sense that, it's just as likely to get a 4K as a 0K, but you're not getting regular 2Ks. This is mostly down to RNG factors, and snowball effects.

I could name a million things. A favorite of mine to point out is hatch. But this time I'll settle for Pop. I thought 60-second Pop taking off 25% of a gen was fine. Then it was 45 seconds. Now it's still 45 seconds, except now it's 20% off of what's been done of the gen, not the whole gen. I can't see why this was needed, or who asked for it. It's literally a perk that rewards the killer for hooking as many people as he can, as opposed to camping or tunneling. "But it promoted camping and tunneling!" No... no.... What it did do in its prime was slow the game enough so that killers could go for chases. Now that it's essentially gone, alleged 90% of killers camp and tunnel. Who could have seen it coming?

I personally don't think there's a general unbalance like "Survivors/Killers are OP!" though I do think there are some unbalanced situations where your hands are tied. Some perks are also debatable.

Like what do I do here? LMAO. Do I have an option to do anything?

Also why can't other killers just do this and get away with it? That's also an aspect to look at unbalance. The unbalance among the killers.

Like... Okay... Traps.

Then we have this LOL. She doesn't need to collect and setup sh*t just blink and kill all survivors.

No offense but how can you be this clueless? Just map rng itself can completely kill a match...

I don't think as a whole DBD is wildly crazy unbalanced. I think there are certain aspects of the game are unbalanced and when you put these together it can seem like it's very unbalanced.

Obviously maps and map RNG can be unbalanced at face value. Especially when you take into certain killers. Certain maps are heavily favored to one side of neutral based upon how it spawns. There's some Maps where certain killers can do well even if other killers don't, and then there's some that no killer is really that great on.

The fact that map RNG can have such a massive outcome of a match yet you have very little control over it can make the game unbalanced. Yes you can technically win with any killer/survivor on any map, but the chances can decrease a tremendous amount just by spawning in on a certain map.

Then add in the fact that killers/survivors know which maps to choose to give themselves an advantage. So the ability for survivors to pick say the Game map while you're trapper or clown already makes your chance of completely your object go down by a lot, which you can't control outside of burning an offering, which you can't do every match. Just like if it's a nut m scratched mirror Myers. Where do you think he's going to have a better chance at, Midwich? Or Eerie of Crows?

So that's a major point that goes to making it feel unbalanced.

You also have killer disparity. There's a lot of killers in this game now, and the gap between the best ones and worst ones is massive. Yes you can 4k with every killer with or without perks and add-ons. However the chances of doing well and doing well consistently goes up or down drastically depending on the killer.

When you put together all the little things the game can seem very unbalanced.

Let's say you decide to play sadako who you're okay with, not the best but still good, with some mid tier perks and some of her good addon's, not her best ones, but still decent. You load into a map and it's red forest and because matchmaking is what it is you're matched against a really good swf all running the best perks and items.

You're probably gonna get stomped and it's going to feel bad.

Now reverse the situation, you're sadako but you have her best addon's with a full slowdown build, and you choose Midwich for your offering. You're probably going to stomp that match.

So it looks like it's balanced because in some matches you stomp the other team, others you get stomped. But in actuality there's a bunch of unbalanced things that occur each match that makes it more unbalanced for one side or the other.

There's very few times where everything is balanced on both sides, where both sides have equal advantage and it solely comes down to skill. Why do you think there's so many rules and banned maps and perks and items in tournaments? Because there's so many things that are unbalanced that it's hard to gauge skill when you include those things.

wait until you get into the higher levels and see the flaws. (Usually takes 5-10 hours)

It gets a lot trickier when all the 5 pound weights have four weights hanging on to them ranging from 1-10 pounds each and some of the 5 pounds weights can be removed halfway, the 20 pound weight is actually 15-30 pounds with four weight hanging to them ranging from 1-10 where sometimes some drop off and you're using a scale that will randomly add pounds to either side

But that brings my point across really well, the above one is also way more interresting, there isn't much you can do with four 5 pounds and one 20 pounds and will get stale really fast

So you think perks like solidarity are solid balanced perks that don't get outperformed by other actually useful perks at our disposal?

Okay...

Also that wasn't what I demonstrated to you at all. I was pointing out the unbalance among the perks in the game may it be too powerful or outright useless...

I mean, 500+ win streaks shouldn't exist on both sides if game was balanced no matter how good you are. At some point you should run into someone better than you, but people don't because mmr does almost nothing. You kill all survivors at 5 gens 100 time in a row and next game you can still get baby megs for some reason.