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THE GAME IS WAY TOO KILLER LEVERAGED

There are far too many things the killers can do that are just far from cool. I can't remember once when I thought that an ability that a killer had was impressive.

Killers have the ability to counter everything that a survivor has access to, and that is blatantly unfair. Killers can even see survivor items before the match and will know exactly what to bring to counter it. The survivor has a flashlight bring Lightborn, they have a med kit, bring one of the Pig's Coulrophobia perks to make it hard to heal, or the Doctor's Overwhelming Presence perks to consume the item faster, or one of the Nurse's Nurse's Calling.

The point is Killers have an obvious advantage. There is no counter to The Legion's power. Even if a survivor is using distortion, Legion will still get a mark of where the survivor is. All the survivors get lumped together. If one gets hit they ALL get revealed to the Legion. The fact is, if I myself had come up with the idea of the Legion and posted it here, I would have been met with overwhelming replies of how OP he/she is and that I don't know anything about DBD. Then I would have been asked "...but what if another player is hiding? How is that fair to them that they get spotted regardless of how stealthy they are?"

Then there's Ghostface. The killer with a spider sense somehow knows when he's being looked at regardless of how stealthy a survivor is. These are very advantageous powers that are very lopsided, on top of all of them being extremely fast as hell without any way to impede their speed without sacrificing yourself.

I've grown tired of games, movies, etc that don't function or make sense unless the protagonist is dumb, or somehow has a proverbial one-arm tied behind their back disadvantage.

There is a thrill of "will I get caught?" to the game, and that remains enjoyable and gives a very brief dopamine rush, but when all the elements are thrown into the mix, it just becomes a victim's game of unfair leverage pitted against the survivors without anything to represent a HELPFUL attempt at survival. Heck, I can't remember the last time we got a new emote (because we NEVER had one), that would help in communication with players that can't mic up. In these past years, you're telling me the development team hasn't seen fit to add ONE new emote that would contribute to the playability of the game? No, emote in the store to earn? Nothing? Just 'go there' and 'come here'?

If the survivor can see auras the killer can cancel it out with fearmonger among other killer perks.

I'm not sure why other players haven't figured out by now that the matches are chosen by the perks that are in the survivor's and killer's loadout. If you a survivor have the most abilities that are in sharp contrast to a killer's perk loadout, then they become the obsession. I went into a match with the Head-On perk and they put up against the Dredge, the "Locker King". You'll know this too because if you try and fool the game by changing your loadout before the match starts, it will kick you out.

Another realization is that the majority of survivor perks are very underwhelming and most are actually useless. Who comes up with these things? Seriously, who on the creative team really thinks this is some good stuff and draws it up without a second thought? Then when they realize it wasn't well thought out they want to put up surveys to figure out why people no longer have the desire to play and end up leaving for months to years on end.

The development team needs to start acknowledging that WE THE PLAYERS are making this game better, by giving honorable mentions to the people dedicated to the longevity of DBD, and stating who they are. Stop hearing their ideas and acting like you guys came up with them yourselves. That is NOT cool. If you were influenced in the slightest let it be known and respect the time players take to make your game better for everyone still trying to find fun in it whereas often lately there is none.

Thanks for reading. No offense to anyone.

Comments

  • Disney_xo
    Disney_xo Member Posts: 4

    I have to second a few things here. The killers should not be able to see the items survivors are coming in with. Emotes would be cool, more than just point and suggest "come here." Also, alot of survivor perks are useless and I wonder why they are even perks .. they should all be made somewhat equal. It migut be best to use your stats software to see the perks people aren't using and either drop them, modify them, or get new perks.

  • Starrseed
    Starrseed Member Posts: 1,774

    Why are survivor perks often not as strong as killer perks? Simple you don't face four killers you face one. The killers perks are meant to be strong cause they can't be stacked. Survivor can stack perks its not a fight you fight alone just imagen if your load out would be strong so you can 1v2 the killer what happens when you gang up on the killer?

    Some powers do what they do and there is no reason to argue about that. Sure legion finds you no matter how good you hide because otherwise the power would be useless. That gf knows that you look at him is simple a byproduct of the way how you cancel his power and that he logically has a way to fight you canceling him.

    Killers can see what items survivors bring is because of balance right know the killer can decide to counter the four toolboxes or not. If he does and it's simple brown toolboxes he might lose cause he spend slots to counter something that doesn't needed to be. But when he decides to not counter them and they bring strong boxes with strong addons it could go down hillmsame applies to medkits. You could nerf them to the ground then there is no point in giving the killer that info

  • Batusalen
    Batusalen Member Posts: 1,323

    Tell me you don't play as killer without telling me you don't play as killer.

  • YOURFRIEND
    YOURFRIEND Member Posts: 3,389

    Funniest thread I've read in ages. This entire post reads like New Player Complaints 101. Ghost face? Really?

  • TeabaggingGhostface
    TeabaggingGhostface Member Posts: 3,108

    Quick and quiet completely counters I'm all ears

  • TeabaggingGhostface
    TeabaggingGhostface Member Posts: 3,108

    Killers seeing items being brought is one of the few advantages they have

  • Stabby_Widdershins
    Stabby_Widdershins Member Posts: 485

    But don't you know? Killers are not supposed to have advantages! Survivors are the real power role! 😂

  • DEMONANCE
    DEMONANCE Member Posts: 800

    bro what the #### am i reading.

  • Stabby_Widdershins
    Stabby_Widdershins Member Posts: 485

    It's 1/3rd 'Killers are too OP' (Because why should the power role be scary, right?), 1/3rd 'We should have more emotes' (Why?), and 1/3rd 'Stop stealing ideas.' (With no proof)

  • Archael
    Archael Member Posts: 838

    If You consider killer vs survivor, then yes, game is totally killer sided.

    But there is four survivors, not one. And yes, at the end of a match, there is fight between survivors and gamę turns from 1v4 into 1v(1v1v1v1), especially i someone is chased/hooked. Something with this should be done.

    Tho. Game should be killer sided, otherwise there should be 4 killers.

    As for legion power. Just spread out. If You guys are far from eachother, and dont waste time on healing, just mending and do gens, then Legion either turn into regular M1 killer, or loose game entirely trying to use their power.