The real issue with the game is not the HUD-Buff, but the Killer-Pool

The game can’t ever have actual normalized killer performance, because the skill caps on the killers are too different. A few killers are allowed to be really strong, because their skill caps are so high that most people can’t overperform while playing them. It’s important for there to be a good distribution of killers across the MMR levels, and if the low skill cap killers are buffed too much, then there would be too many people over performing with them.

The only way BHVR can fairly normalize killer performance is via MMR, by normalizing the kill rate percentage across the various killers, which they already do.

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what is wrong with lower skill-cap character being effective? lower skill-cap killer already over-perform because their opponent is playing the game poorly. Do note that there will always be hierarchy in video games in term of prefer characters because some character are always going to be that 1% better. There is always going to be that meta-killer so to speak but generally the idea of balance is revolves around making killer as close as possible to each other. You always look to shorten gaps but not necessary entirely remove them. I do not know how to explain this topic.

In higher level play, You can’t expect to win as Myers, Pig, Clown, Trapper, Wraith for eg and the reason why is because most m1 killers if not all of them take little to no skill to play you’re just tapping and hold buttons in such a braindead way to get hits/ downs on survivors.

Blight, Hillbilly,Nurse and Huntress for example require developed mechanical skill to outplay good Swfs in such a unique way that you’ll often come out on top compared to the majority of killer arsenal when you get over that skill gap.

I don't think so. you can master billy and he will not be good. tier list generally are meant to express the player opinion(or community opinion) on higher possible ceiling for that character vs highest possible ceiling. The reason for example that otz put billy at C-tier is because billy played at highest possible skill-ceiling is in fact a C-tier killer. It is not arbitrary listing. Its figuratively what otz believes and you can choose agree or disagree with his opinion.

difficulty in games is subjective. it depends what you mean by difficult because there two types of difficulties. You could say that getting 3 kills as Sadako is more difficult then getting 3 kills on Blight. Is that because sadako is more difficult to play then blight or is it because she is weak? In respect to this context, this is refer to as artificial difficulty. Artificial difficulty is numerical difficulty. Its like playing a dungeon crawler game and if enemy has 50 hp on low difficulty but if you turn the difficult up, the enemy has 100 hp and therefore is harder to kill. Yes its technically harder to beat the game but how you would beat the game at lowest is no different would be similar to how you beat the game on hardest difficulty. The other type of difficult is called mechanical difficulty. mechanical difficulty is your ability to perform a sequence of planned actions in the game. For example, in the context of blight, if you need to do 4 consecutive bounces in particular order to get a hit on survivor, some player might find this too difficult. As a result, players might label Blight as more difficult character then Sadako. They are not referencing how hard it is to 4k with blight vs Sadako, They are referencing the mechanical skill-ceiling to perform well vs blight compare to Sadako.

I think most killers in the game are not mechanically too difficult, but they are artificially too difficult. they are ineffective at doing what they are suppose to excel at. They are too easy to outplay. I think the reason why this is the case is that for more casual survivors, the survivor game is too artificially difficult for them. It is too difficult for them to coordinate 1-2 decent chases and complete 5 generators simultaneously while the killer applies kill pressure. To match survivor's competency at playing vs killers, the dev in my opinion make the killers artificially weaker so that they are easier to escape on average. The changes they are doing in regards to Icons is lower the artificial skill-cap of working together to defeat killers in soloq. In other words, you will need less game-sense to play survivor. You should naturally play better as a team because it is easier to do so.

With all artificial difficulty being lowered for survivor, Killer is artificial difficulty in playing killer can be lowered. The killer power can be a little stronger and more engaging to use because survivor can concentrate more on doing well in the micro chase and focus less on macro play.