Not even two days and I feel I need to change tactics.

Literally EVERYTHING the devs do that isn't hard-buffing killers 'will lead to unbridled tunnelling/camping', because it's the killers' beatstick. It's their answer to literally everything.

Like what does this even mean? Does this person think that people hit better skillchecks now because of this gen progress indicator? What the F are these 'accurate timings' supposed to be?

But no, this minute change is enough to go 'tunnel and camp' some more.

Because literally every change is.

You really need to be stripped of your toys if you're just going to ruin the game for everyone else the second anything happens that you don't like.

This post is a pretty accurate look at the average killer main attitude. Tunneling is a lazy, boring tactic and most killers who play hard to win use it regularly.

So they see high mmr. All of a sudden they are struggling harder as a 50-200 hour killer against survs with 2,000 hours plus. They lean harder & harder into their crutch mechanic. Which makes for very boring games. I had this myself when I first started playing killer. It was incredibly easy to 4k games early on and suddenly I hit an mmr wall filled with bully squads. Took me a while to improve enough to push through that and now I can compete with them fairly evenly.

As someone who plays surv and killer roughly equally, I find survivor much harder to play. It doesn't take many mistakes to lose a game for survs. As killer if you know what you're doing most games are fairly easy.

Which is why I've switched up my killer playstyle. I aim for fun now and don't care about my rankings. And it's great fun. Sure I'll indulge in a little tunneling or facecamping every now and then if I'm against a sweaty team. But as long as survs don't BM I'll usually let one or two go. If I do well I take the game to a point where I know I've won, usually 2 survs alive without gens being finished and then I'll step back, let them finish gens and leave. If survs outplay me then I'll play normally right up to the end. Maybe facecamp one out in the EGC just to secure a kill (often ends up in trading a lot of hooks so plenty of BP) occasionally after trading a few hook states I'll step back from the hook and nod to let the unlucky hookee's team mates to take them off and escape.

I rarely ever tunnel, never in the early game. And tbh I've been loving it. I still get the challenge, it slows my mmr rise so I don't get too many mlg seal team 6s. And it's just a lot of fun, I have a lot of positive interactions with other xbox players (since I can't dm PC or PS players) and it makes the experience more positive.

I even had an oni game where the first surv to die messaged me just after I sacrificed them and I thought "here we go, here comes the tunneling accusation" but they'd sent me a gg WP. And we had a decent chat after. Probably because I didn't tunnel anyone early or facecamp any of them.

Tldr: killer mains need to chill a bit, if you sweat 4ks every game, you'll get sweaty survivors. If you tunnel, you can't complain if survs gen rush.

I never played an hour of WoW in my life, but I remember that my hardcore WoW friends have complained about one thing constantly over the years: that all the skill have been taken out of the game, that nowadays most mechanics are toned down to much, that even total casuals who somehow end up in the game can compete on the non-mythic levels, because the game nowadays basically play itself.

With DBD I is now me who sees the same thing happening. Of course, every basekit change feels cool, because it is essentially giving you free stuff, thus freeing perk slots that can be used for more effective or flashier toys, instead of boring perks like BT etc. The killer in me would welcome a basekit corrupt intervention, because why shouldn't he? Yes, why shouldn't he? Well, if I want corrupt that badly because I think its needed in the early game, there is a very easy fix to that: just equip the damn perk, its right there in every if my killers loadout selection.

All this asking for basekit fixes from everyone is just doing one thing: watering the game down and holding everyones hand, if they want it or not. How often have you seen survivors running BT in the last couple month? I dont know, maybe two times? That was probably a returning player who just didnt know yet. 10s is enough in the vast majority of situations and 20s if BT is seldom needed. The basekit is so strong that the perk is not needed anymore, thus giving everyone +1 perk slot. And while every basekit perk feels cool and exciting if it is for your favorite role, it dumbs and waters down the game a lot.

Some may say that basekit BT was needed, because of the tunneling epidemic, and this might be true to a certain extent, but its also killing variety and is the lazy patch to a much more complicated problem. Its like dealing out medicine aleviate the symptomes while leaving the decease unchecked.

I have said this more then once on this forums, but one of the most healthy perks for the game was the old BBQ. Every killer had is equipped for the blood point bonus, and many killers indeed based their fun and goal of the game around getting a full set of hooking every survivor at least once instead of kills, but each of these killers were shown opportunities and a lot took them, thus peeling them off the gens.

Decoupling the bloodpoints from the BBQ perk was a somewhat healthy choice, as I rejoyced the new build freedom and not having one perk slot constantly be dedicated to BBQ or shooting myself in the foot via BP gains, but the mechanic should have stayed. If I ever advocate for a killer basekit ability, then it would be BBQ: show the killer one random survivors aura that is at least 24m away and give them a sizable speed boost as long as they move in that direction and arent in chase, making the speed boost disappear once they are within 16m or something of that survivor. This way even slowpoke M1 killers could traverse the map and don't feel that leaving the hook would just be to their detriment.

As a second wave I would give every killer the old BBQ mechanic with a new score event. Call it "Entitys Nibble" or "Finger Food", but basically the killer gets something like +7k BP if they hook every survivor once if everyone is still alive. Maaaaaybe do something like grim embrace, too, ie blocking all gens for a short time and maybe even regressing them, when the 4th survivor is hooked while everyone is still alive. This way the killer might want to actually not tunnel one survivor out of the game asap? Tunnelers gonna tunnel, but some killers might actually adapt to a more healthy playstyle this way.

But don't make something basekit "just because" and as a lazy fix, have some plan behind it and do it with a bit of panache.