Survivor Side is too strong and tunneling is the only solution.

It seems like this game has become more frustrating over time with all the heavy nerfs and changes that incentivize boring gameplay. I will list everything wrong with DBD and my proposed solution, in order of importance.

1) The map design is frankly awful and probably the worst thing about DBD overall. Some of them all but guarantee a killer win while most are full of god pallets/loops that cannot be anything other than a pallet breaking simulator from the killers POV. It seems the original maps are the most balanced, and the newer ones are straight up terrible.

The solution is to remove long-hall/elevated areas with CLEAR LINE OF SIGHT that just take too long for the killer to apprehend a survivor. Like RPD, the 2 story area in grave of glenvale main building, ormund 2nd floor of main building, garden of joy window vaults (remove all of them from the houses or make them connect far closer to an exit from the house), etc.

Unfortunately the one map that did multiple floors very well was the old Demogorgon map, because you had no line of sight to where the killer was coming from, or if he was coming at all before he catches up to you. DBD devs, you really have to remove line of sight if you make difficult to access areas, otherwise its just a scooby doo chasing simulator.

2) Generator and healing speeds - You cannot keep making perks that boost these speeds, because they are already too fast as is.

Prove thyself is like a reverse hex-pentimento with no other condition except you are next to someone. It needs a massive nerf because it is frankly busted whether you believe it or not. It should grant a 5% (down from 15%) speed boost to each person.

Boon COH and medkits need to be changed entirely. Both medkits and COH should no longer allow self-healing in any form. They should only increase the speed of healing others, while COH can grant the 50% speed boost and broadcast your aura to every other survivor so they can come and heal you.

Commodius toolbox should be toned down a bit in its long-term efficiency. Just by the numbers change along with prove thyself will help quite a bit.

3) Killer Nerfs/Killer Design - This is maybe not the worst decision you have made regarding DBD balance, but it IS the most unfun one, and really made the game overall lame and miserable to play. You keep doing nerfs to killers/addons that completely limit creative expression in the killer roster. Deathslinger can't insta-fire, Hillbilly cant use saw to mindgame, etc.

And pretty much every new killer you have designed since Artist has zero skill ceiling whatsoever. She is probably your best designed killer by far, because she has an even balance of counterplay and skillful plays. The matches against or as her, are pretty much always fair. The new killers you design are so incredibly lame and rely entirely on survivor ignorance to capitalize on anything. Even Wesker, as fun as he is, is so badly designed that when good survivors refuse to get hit by his easily dodgeable M2, they have the game all but won.

And lets not even talk about the Knight or the new killer coming up. You just keep designing killers that have zero power in and of themselves; too reliant on survivors being birdbrains. You really need to refer to the Artist in designing killer powers, because you did really nail it with her.

All of this is the reason that turning the match into a 3v1 early on is the only way for a killer to win against a good team if he isnt the right killer pick. Address these issues and the game will improve itself as tunneling is just symptomatic of imbalanced design.