This game has become so survivor biased it's killing the fun for me.

Those games are so incredibly rare that it's laughable. If they're that coordinated, then so be it. Guess what? You aren't supposed to win every game. If you have had a string of luck where your MMR goes to a point where you aren't skilled enough to handle these teams... well that's what being boosted means. Even with their new desired kill rate, you shouldn't be winning more than maybe two out of every 3 games you play, if you're facing balanced teams.

Edit: You must also be fairly new, because the game has nerfed survivors an absolute ton. You should go see some content from 5-6 years ago when there were genuine infinite loops, self care had no penalty, sprint burst could be used every 40 seconds even in chase, Decisive Strike pretty much meant the first time you tried to hook someone, you were going to get stunned unless you were very careful and they went down right by a hook.... Killer is easier than ever.

Eruption was unhealthy and only really worked against solo survs anyways. Please stop crying over that nerf. It was necessary.

while game balance still needs plenty of adjustments, no other asymmetric horror game came close to DbD in this regard and BHVR actually made it more balanced over the years generally (with plenty of missteps sure)

It's the meta because it's the only fun exhaustion perk.

It's also not very good and if you're getting outplayed by it, it's your own fault.

Like?

Killer is pretty damn good right now for me. It might be a bit too easy, but that's probably just me.

Likewise, I never said they shouldn't continue to address issues as they arise, but OP's opinion is simply wrong.

But that wasn't what was mentioned.

You said "while overpowered survivor meta perks that have been meta for six years like Dead Hard go unnerfed."

Dead Hard has been nerfed within the last year. It has not gone unnerfed.

Hope this helps!

So, DBD is an asymmetrical game, which has some consequences.

For one: Survivor perks =/= Killer perks. They're vastly different, and on the whole, killer perks are better than survivor perks. Survivor perks have a ton of 'chaff'. Perks that do not find much use in any match and thus fall by the wayside. IMO, last chapter added like five of that category.

This does mean that the rest of the perks are more likely to show up, meaning 'meta' perks are more likely to surface.

For another: While survivor = survivor, killer =/= killer.

With a variance of killer powers, perks change in usage rate between different killers. Starstruck is stronger on Nurse than it is on Sadako. Infectious Fright is stronger on Oni than it is on Trickster. Iron Maiden is stronger on Huntress than it is on Trapper.

For survivors, since all survivors are roughly identical, whatever is strong on one survivor is strong on all of them.

This means a survivor meta will be quickly recognisable, whereas with killers... Well, there should logically be tons of different metas. Hoarder, for example, might be meta on Pinhead and on basically no one else. That's normal.

However, when a perk rears up that is meta on ALL killers (And thus more likely to be recognised as an actual 'meta' perk), that does also mean it's more likely to be a problem, since it's overcoming different power sets and playstyles to be considered 'best in slot' even for killers that don't necessarily synergise with it. That is indicative of it being over power budget, so to speak. (That's not to say that they -always- are, just that they are -more likely- to be.)

Thirdly: As much as people want to deny it, in the vast majority of matches, the killer is the power role.

The only time survivors can be considered the power role is in multi-survivor chases. Bully squads circling a killer's down like vultures waiting to pull off a flashlight or sabo-save. But outside of those bully squads, the game is driven by the actions of the killer, to which the survivor responds.

This does mean that anything the killer does is -far- more likely to be oppressive.

That's why killer perks are more likely to be trimmed down, and quicker. That's not to say survivors didn't get slapped around, their entire meta got messed up in 6.1, with the exception of Dead Hard. After all, DS is gone, and it basically took Unbreakable with it. BT is gone too, and that foursome of perks were basically the core of the survivor pre-6.1 meta.

Well that's certainly a massive generalisation! For some killers like Nurse, Blight and maybe Spirit? Yes, it is.

For your average M1 killers it is not, and that's mostly because of the maps. When Borgo came out, it was an overly faulty map, the amount of clutter around and within loops was and sometimes still IS insane.

The fact that there are tiles with many pallets connecting to windows that connect to X amount of more pallets... those are the things that need some looking into. Map sizes should get looked at, new Eeyrie is so much more balanced. Don't get me started on the hit-validation on Garden of Pain, and the bushes... OP is right to some degree, the game needs more balancing, perhaps less butchering of certain perks and more MAPS 😁✌️

They've both already been nerfed heavily.

Are you okay?

you literally asked me exactly that before and I gave an answer? (Well maybe spam filter or something sent it again?)

and just to be clear, I do think they need further nerfing

Circle of Healing is way less of an issue than people give it credit.