Killer has become an unplayable role. Nonstop losses and no relief in sight.

Terminus is currently bugged to not work on Adrenaline. Another reason there is a spike in that perk usage.

This is why I decide to take a long break. Mostly when I play killer, I encounter very good SWF squads, but in my solo q games as a survivor I encounter like top tier killers. At least it feels like it.

Play other games, see your friends or start a new hobby. Do something else for a while. When fog is a bit clearer, it is good time to make comeback.

Take a break. The more you play the less your MMR will shift, as the limit for how much it can shift per match is lowered the more frequently you play. The more time you're away from the game, the more this limit will revert and the more your MMR can shift from losses. In the event that the developers have implemented core rebalances to mechanics at the detriment to a given role, you might as well want to let your MMR become more malleable before you dive back into the game again, assuming they for whatever reason haven't loosened MMR changes upon the release of the mechanic update.

Well of course, its always will be harder to play the one role, because you are going against 4 other human, and you are just alone. So you arent permitted any mistake, while survivors are sharing the work, so they have it easier.

Its not really something that you can change, because as far as I know dbd devs want to have casual audience, if you make the killer role too strong then survivor numbers will drop, and at the long run the game will decline because of it.

So far this HUD change, I have to say the queue still very fast for survivor, so that means, that killer numbers are still very very healthy.

IDK, maybe it's just my area or maybe because I don't play as often (and constantly switch up Killers) that my MMR dropped greatly but I've been having no issues murdering those meddling survivors.

Although at least reading this thread, I seem to be in the minority so...not sure what's up. I can't imagine my MMR has dropped that much since I do still play a match or two every day, even if that's a lot less than what I used to play. I don't run super sweaty builds (my builds vary based on the killer but I usually will run either Jolt or Oppression and Call of Brine for my slowdown perks and then various random other perks like Hysteria or Nurse's Calling or Blood Warden)

I imagine that would be rough. I don't run slowdowns, with the exception of jolt on some M1 killers - but my builds are heavily chase oriented. With fewer chases because shorter matches it has become harder, at least from my POV.

I wonder what the game would look like if they vetoed the top 20 used perks for a month?

They aren't going to revert anything, the devs decided this game needs to become more balanced and competitive so they're changing things accordingly. Solo q buffs came first now they're working on killer/perk rebalancing. If you can't handle this rough period while they fix things at a snails pace I suggest you stop playing killer.

What's a "normal" match

The more worrisome part of it all is - they’ve made balancing changes to the game for both sides over the past xx months. Now with this latest patch the efficiency of survivors has increased immensely to the point where every game for killer feels like you’re facing a SWF sweat squad.

I honestly don’t know how they’re gonna fix it. This isn’t a tweak gen speed, perks, or killer movement speed buff solution.

Thanks. Your perks seem to be more aggressive rather than destined to hold a 3 gen as well. I mostly run different aura builds. Let's give it a bit of time and see how BHVR react. We somehow managed before 6.1.0 as well.

I agree that the game should be balanced around one standard that is somewhere near the level of SWFs. However, I'm not sure that adding unlimited Bond and maybe even aura vision on the killer as long as one survivor has a line of sight is good idea. SWF have that information anyway, yes, but how exactly can you balance around this? Trapper will stay Trapper. He will never be Nurse. The same goes for other killers as well. Adding more and more power-creep in hope that it will somehow even out eventually is unlikely to work.

I also don't like the idea of everyone running around with what would had been 2 or 3 different builds a year ago simply because there is X amount of perks base kit. Maybe thats just me, though.

What sort of perks are you running?

What perks are they running?

How many Hooks did you get?

Interesting thing. If i play killer, i hardly notice the difference. Yes, the survivors get 1-2 more gens done, but a lot of games still end in a 3+k ( i dont slug for 4k, but race the survivor for the hatch, but thats why i count only 3+ as one result).

Killers are dredge and hag.

However, as solo survivor, matches got a little better for the most part, or at least feel better, because while you are in a chase, you can at least see that 2 others are working on gens, instead of just hoping they just don´t hide all.

Also, the games feels still ok if only 2 survivors are left, and you can see the other guy works on a gen just like you. Its ok to die if you tried, but if you see the other one is just hidding and keep away from gens, that changes a lot.

All in all i would say we just wait how it works out. If solo survivors escape rates are skyrocketing, devs will rebalance other aspects to restore the balance, which is simply easier, if you dont have to take care of a big gab between solo and swf.