I don't know how to play as killers anymore.

I mean in many ways optimising your first chase is the most important part of the game. Wesker isn't a weak chase killer and many good Weskers can get downs on loops even if pallets get dropped (although it's difficult) so it's just a case of improving/un-rusting. Make sure the pressure and pallets are useful to you. Injuring people with medkits early isn't going to do much for you early so focus on people with flashlights and toolboxes, if the survivor is dropping a lot of pallets make sure it's an area you focus later so survivors are forced to play in an area with few resources or force survivors towards windows if you're more confident to get hits there. You can't decide where survivors go but you can force their hand, with your positioning, towards areas you like more.

Finally for build, if you want to win more early game run less late game perks. Blood warden is inconsistent but fun and with NOED is cute, but if you're running multiple late game perks you will fall behind earlier and your matches may be stressful as a result as you're relying on a few plays to carry you. Deadlock is a good safety measure but a more early game focused could help. Corrupt is good if your first chases go slowly or lethal if you struggle to find people early, if you don't have these whisphers is the best free option although it's a bit worse on Wesker than other killers. I'm personally not sold on Superior Anatomy on Wesker but if you feel like it works on you go ahead, I find brutal a nice chase perk on him and I've seen others use I'm all ears as well.

Losing 2-3 gens is pretty normal on first chase and should realistically happen every game just like the killer on average gets 5-7 hooks per game

Best you can do is play the 5 gens that you’re left with and focus on creating dead zones to lead survivors into especially if they predrop pallets

This game works as follows (Edit: I am a main killer with 6200 hrs)

As a killer you start the game, look for a survivor and start a chase, if that survivor is bad you will catch him on average in 20-45 seconds depending on how strong the map is and ur killer ofc, if he is a good survivor and knows how to play, it will cost you a little more, probably about 50 seconds approx, so 3 survivors should be doing gens, as a general rule if in your PERKS you don't have the corrupt INTERVENTION perk, forget about 2 gens at the beginning of the game, that's all I can I mean, on the other hand, even if it seems unfair, if you want to look for hooks, you should go for the bad survivors, although... good players are not going to sit idly by, so good luck.

Well… that’s a terrible build for one.

noed is worthless if the gates are open. Blood warden is worthless if you can’t hook a survivor between the gates opening and the people running out. I have no clue what headlock is. If you mean deadlock then that’s a terrible perk on its own. And superior anatomy is worthless because you’re still giving up your chase advantage by using it unless you stack it with more vaulting speed - which you’ll never be able to vault pallets and you’re already defeating the purpose of the perk by opening walls.

Everyone focuses on "I lost gens before a down." Usually the fastest gens are on the outside of the edge of the map when a survivor spawns right on top of it. Losing a fast outlier gen shrinks the map, which will work in your favor.

Thank god someone understands.

I don't know where the mentality comes from, but somehow people act like the killer lost the game if it's a 4k, but 3 gens got done.

Maybe it's just a skill issue. Maybe it's a build issue. Maybe you're doing just fine and have been conditioned by streamers with thousands of hours to think that you're not good enough if you can't get a 4k every match.

Given you're running Blood Warden, gonna give a pro tip. Others have said you should probably stop using the perk, and yeah maybe it's hurting your kills, but I also like using the perk because it's fun, and fun matters more than winning. But instead of running NOED, I really recommend trying Terminus. It has a similar effect, particularly if survivors did the last generator while injured, it counters Adrenaline the same as NOED, and while it overall isn't as good at its job as NOED, its greatest selling point is forcing survivors to open the exit gates instead of 99%ing them, and that's absolutely what you want as a Blood Warden enjoyer.

Best part is, since you play Wesker, nobody assumes you're running Terminus/Blood Warden. People are more likely to think you're running Terminus just because it's a Wesker perk and you haven't unlocked all the other perks yet, or maybe you're going for Adept.

Yes.

Yes.

Only if the killer still has a defensible gen setup.

Less to defend, again, only if the remaining gen setup is actually defensible. Yes, enough pallets can be broken to create dead zones, but only if gens aren't done too soon for it to matter. Healing isn't that risky, it can be fast without a dedicated build.

Again, only if the remaining gen setup is actually defensible. You could have 2 gens on either side of the map in which case you are screwed over unless you possess mobility.

Just like survivors virtually already win if the last 3 gens are split up? Or again, if it's a killer with no mobility and 2 gens are on either side of the map? Not to say that it doesn't happen, because it does sometimes, but killers cannot reliably spread hooks betwixt just two particular survivors every match, only by happenstance.

My friend, in the specific case of DbD, it seems I very much can line them up and still be in the right. A game like 'Depth' on the other hand, you'd be correct.

That just unfortunately what happens when you play agains't good survivors. Tunneling is only way to win or even get one kill if you play weaker killers.

Depending on how fast you're getting your first down maybe swap out something with Corrupt Intervention. It'll slow down the early gen completion down while you work on your first chases/downs. If you reach a point where you can get your first downs quick you can probably swap to Lethal Pursuer.

One early game tip that has served me well: Survivors never spawn within a 3-tile radius of you. Combine this with some map knowledge, maybe utilize Lethal or Corrupt to quickly identify locations outside of that radius, and it's possible to find someone very quickly depending on the map.

Depending on how many hooks you're getting mid-game, No Way Out can also work as an alternative.

i do thoroughly enjoy how most of your counterarguments rely on either pretending that a defendable gen setup is something that accidentally happens instead of being consciously played into by the killer, and assuming the killer has no capacity to adapt their game plan to the builds they and the survivors bring, or to the survivor's playstyle. anything that happens in the killer's game is just luck, there's no conscious choice to continue committing to, for example, keep chasing a survivor in an area with a good 3 gen setup so you can make that dead zone and make the eventual 3 gen unwinnable for survivors; there's no ability to consciously choose to go on a couple losing chases that will nevertheless grant you a massive power spike later in the match; you can't look at your build and analyze why it isn't working out, even. DBD is apparently just a series of uncontrollable events that happens to the killer, not a game that the killer has any level of participation or choice in.

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this is also a great example of what i'm talking about. often you don't need to even worry about gens. i was able to get 5 bloodwarden kills across 2 games while intentionally "playing nice" (avoiding hooking the same survivor consecutively even if i accidentally found them healing) simply by prioritizing "get 2 hooks on everyone and make sure you're in chase when the last gen pops." am i saying i never get juiced and there are never games where i feel outplayed on every front? of course not. is it a tough process to learn how to keep up with stronger survivors while playing killer? absolutely. but pretending those don't exist or are out of your control as a killer player is a defeatist attitude

Thing is, that's not really sound when we consider what the balance goal is: a kill rate a bit over 50%.

On average, all gens should complete or be nearly complete, then.

But on average, if we also don't want a game dominated by tunnelling and facecamping, that should actually be a spread of like, 8+ hooks. 5-7 hooks would be a 0k, and obviously--no matter how snowbally the game--an average state of 'everybody gets out or it's a 4k' isn't the desired goal.

2-3 gens going first chase can, on the right map with the right gens, make it indefensible from the get go. And if you drop it to pressure those gens with the wrong Killer, that's 0 hooks before gens start popping, right?

But if we're trying to balance out a Killer's expected hooks, the gameplay we don't want every game, and how fast gens go, the game potentially being won after the first chase and games that regularly end after three hooks are both undesirable.

It should be expected for both sides to get at least some of their objectives done every game. You have to remember that gens get harder to repair the less there are left

This was one of the most complained about things with killer prior to the 6.1.0 "buff" that lengethed gen times by 10 seconds, nuked most of the meta regression perks into the ground(ruin, pop, CI unless you're a setup killer), and gave killers fractions of seconds off of actions that amount to deltas of sub 5 meter chase impacts. The buffs to regression perks that were given have mostly been made even worse than their pre-6.1.0 state(thana is worse than before, eruption is worse than before, overcharge actually gives you worse than .25 regression until 13 seconds in). Both ends of the spectrums are way too swingy/snowbally. Having 4 survivors alive at 3 gens left with 1-3 hooks is basically a death sentence, in a similar vein killing a survivor at 4-5 gens is basically a death sentence for the survivor team. I think in an ideal world, both situations should have the impacts lessened.

If you are trapper and 3 gens pop before you get your first hook or as you get your first hook, you are going to have an awful game, even if you win it is going to be extremely stressful and probably involve hard camping a 3 gen which even though people in this thread are saying it's a tactic that enables you to win, it is probably one of the most complained about things outside of camping and tunneling, "why can a killer sit in a 3 gen and auto-win or delay the game by x minutes".

This is why we're seeing a large increase in tunneling the first guy out asap.

Ouch, yeah being a ghostface main i can understand your points more clearly.

Imo that's more Ghostface desperatly needing some love then a overal game problem but fair.

Legion also is just a m1 killer but atleast they can say no to dead hard a lot of the time

You have 3 hooks already and still 3 gens left that is far from death sentence... That can mean 1 survivor on death hook and other one hooked once so just take that 1 survivor out if you need to. Death sentence is when you have 1 hook or none in that situation.

Most killers do not have full control over match even playing dirty does not quarantee anything. In the end you need survivors to make mistakes to get control if survivors play perfectly it's game over. It's very hard to try control match the way that you can pip or in bad match safety pip if survivor slam gens like they're actual life debends on it.

My survivor matches are lot more chill. It's lot easier to quarantee safety pip and that does not even matter as I play that side more so I get my pips eventually and can even get them while losing. I run prove thyself and coh to get me bp a lot usually. Well if killer decides to tunnel me then I just loop him as long as possible. Usually they give up or chase me all 5 gens. Ramdoms yeah sometimes throw the game and you can't control them but at least you know you did everything you could.

Please don't listen to these doomsayers that act like tunneling and camping are your only ways to win. I see so many Killers try to go straight to tunneling/camping right from the start...and what happens more often than not is that the Survivor team gets one good rescue mission and the strategy just flops entirely because the Killer still can't win chases consistently. So when what they were told was the best strategy to win fails, get even more confused and just blame the game instead of themselves.

Just practice your mind games and your abilities to get downs and you will get better over time. Test out new builds. Don't be afraid to camp or tunnel when need-be but try not to rely on that as your only strategy or you will never really improve. You will just be padding your win rate which will land you in higher MMR and match you with players you just aren't actually ready for, making it even harder to learn. It's okay to lose sometimes.

I know who you are. I watch your stream. I hope the game gets balanced better, I enjoy watching you play killer.

If you let your opponents tell you how to play then it should be no surprise if you end up losing