Why are farm maps still heavily survivor-sided?

You can make arguments for why a given map is survivor or killer sided, but this is ultimately conjecture. Do you have evidence the maps are favouring one side too much? That evidence would be kill rates. A map that was truly survivor sided would have a significantly lower kill rate than the average, and vice versa. BHVR have this and have acted on them before when they reworked Eyrie of Crows. Unless you have kill rates to indicate a significant bias one way or the other, this is ultimately just "I don't like this map". You could say BHVR have a very loose margin for what is deemed 'significant' so as not to be constantly reworking maps all the time, but again, conjecture. I'm sure if one map being so survivor sided that it required a rework didn't result in it being killswitched before, then no current map in the roster is so imbalanced that it should be killswitched.

For example, most think Midwich is killer sided. The arguments for why that is are sound. However there's also the issue of hook placement, exit gate positions, and strong loops that require breaking down doors. There aren't really any 'weak' pallets either, besides the two in the chemistry lab and the library. These all serve to balance the fact that Midwich is a small map on two levels, but many may not recognise this due to confirmation bias. People are more likely to recognise unfavourable conditions (this map is too killer sided because I always die) than favourable ones (I survived on this map, must be an anomaly because it's killer sided), this is called confirmation bias.

This is also largely why I don't believe map offerings are a problem. Maybe they are at super high comp level play, but I don't believe the kill rates are actually that varied for the general playerbase. Most maps are generally fairly balanced, with different aspects favouring one side like strong loops or larger map sizes for survivors, balanced by different aspects favouring the other like potential 3 gens or close hook placements, not to mention that fact that different killers have different map affinities, ultimately resolving in relatively even kill rates.

Anecdotally (because after all that's all each of us have), I have died and escaped on every map, and I have scored 0 kills and 4 kills on every map. All maps are viable, which means the balance issues, which I'm sure exist, probably aren't that significant.

Technically it is though. The Coldwind maps are ALL bugged right now. If that isn't what the killswitch is for; temporarily removing something that doesn't work properly until they get to fixing it, I don't know what is.

Most killers struggle due to the size. Fractured Cowshed is infamous because of it's ridiculous setups.

As for the Op's question, the maps aren't bugged. If we're just banning things people don't like I'd like to submit my list.

Oh, I’ve seen that but I thought they already fixed it. Well yea that needs to be addressed then.

Nah just fake them out, then jump across the little gap as they vault, if you time it right, you can hit them just as they finish the vault. Is it easy? No. But that doesn't mean the harvester is bugged.

Thompson House and Torment creek are pretty tolerable for killer infact I think those 2 variations of coldwind are more killer sided imo.

Almost every map is surv-sided with good survs, except nurse. There're a few "special builds" for each killer who are using certain map offerings, but that's pretty much it. Killswitches are supposed for exploits and bugs. If anything, get rid of map offerings on both sides.

Kill rates don't mean #########. You can camp people to death in this game. The farm map and cowshed in particular are survivor sided because it would take an experienced killer playing any m1 killer 5 minutes to down a good survivor 1 v 1 on that map. Almost every loop is ridiculously safe with long walls on each side and the killer can't see anything over half of the haystack loops.

Not all of the farm maps are survivor sieded. Yes they are really big, but some doesnt have very good structures too loop. Thomsen House and Rotten Fields for example are maps you can have a great time.

It's pretty Killer-sided.

Pretty much every pallet is either unsafe or a death trap. The map is indoors, there's limited LoS and few windows.

What if I told you there are several Killer-sided maps? 🤯

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