There was absolutely NOTHING mentioned for killer gameplay or accessibility improvements!

1. The survivor HUD is made to help SoloQ with regards to communication. It doesn't really do anything for swf and helps a communication aspect that was sadly lacking from SoloQ, without giving away too much (where on the map they are, for example). This made sense overall as quality of life.

2. Visual Terror Radius helps hard of hearing and, from trying it as survivor, adds barely any extra help for people who do not need it. It's an aid for hearing.

3. Anti-facecamping is an absolute must and punishes the low-effort killer players who aren't that good. A kid could face-camp and get kills. The team also said this meter they're introducing will slow dramatically if survivors swarm it and once the gayes are powered the meter is cancelled entirely, so the one and only time face-camping can be a reasonable play is not affected. Really, you have to be an inadequate player to rely on this. Most players who are even half-decent as killer don't need to fall on this dumb issue. So glad they fixed this.

4. As a killer, I HATE survivors who dc early because they have a hissy fit. The game just feels like a chore to get to a more competitive game. The bots give the other sirvivors a bit more of a chance and makes the game involving for killer. A bot is not likely to be a god-tier player, so whilst it helps survivors out, likewise it's not like the killer now has to face a ninja.

As for what killers have had: 10 seconds extra to gens, quicker recovery on hits and breaking items, nerfs to perks like Dead Hard. Others as well which I may not have to mind currently. Also, the road map can have changes at anu point and in relation to what is happening in-game.

Basically, killers and survivors get buffs and nerfs to their playstyle all the time. It's been proven time and time and time again that the devs are not any-sided and BHVR often reacts to trends. Tunnelling got bad? They introduced BT. Dead Hard way too overused? Nerfed. Gens going too fast? Added time to it.

Whilst I understand it may frustrating to not hear anything about killer changes, maybe it's because currently there isn't a reason to and future game-play changes will react to what is happening at the time. I'm certain if something becomes too abused from the survivor side, it too will change. The game constantly evolves. Players need to evolve with it.

Sure, they could've, but them not saying that isn't somehow an insult or a slight. There's a thousand things, even great things that the game desperately needs, they could have said. It's also worth mentioning that they tend to get given flak for saying "soon(tm)" so I don't blame them for only sharing when they have something concrete to talk about.

The visual terror radius is the one accessibility change they made, the other stuff is just... gameplay improvements, and it's not like killers have been lacking in that. 6.1 had a ton of killer gameplay improvements, and specific killers have gotten noticeable improvements too since then. Add in perk balance changes and map changes, and killers are far from left in the dust.

These are good changes but I understand where you are coming from. Nothing in this patch addresses issues faced by killer players, and just destroys some strategies used by killers to gain pressure.

Those reworks are most likely gonna be like red forest reworks tho, they'll just update it visually, add some more random stuff to the map, add some more safe pallets and loops and call it a day.

There's no amount, it'll never be a slight. At worst it'll be neglectful, not an active slight.

As for the roadmap, the visual terror radius wasn't on the previous roadmap. Things do get added if they make changes on the fly and don't have it concrete enough to share at that point in time, that's just how it works.

There's nothing wrong with advocating for good changes like an FOV slider, but it's a mistake to get so wrapped up in it that you start decrying other good changes because they aren't the one specific thing you've made your biggest concern. Again, killer players haven't been abandoned, there's been plenty of good changes for both sides recently, it's just accessibility specifically that survivors got one thing for and killers didn't.

You need to take this with a grain of salt because when they reworked Gas Heaven it only became stronger for expert level survivors.

Blood Lodge is however more fair than it was before so there is that.

I feel like the first thing they are going to do with Abattoir is make it bigger. Someone will be like why is this survivor sided map so small? Let's make it bigger and even more unfair for the killer!

Read my comment above. Killer is the easiest it's ever been. I'm a killer main for over 2 years now. With my main Pig, I usually can get 3 kills the majority of my games without camping or tunneling. It's not needed. And it's not fun for the survivors.

I liked everything about the steam including the presentation.

I was disappointed to not hear anything about killers being reworked or their addons.

Can only hope…

I want nothing more than updated kill rates and statistics right now.

I feel like BHVR is metrics driven, and will generally only change something if the data agrees.

I'm still convinced that them expediting the Eruption nerf up by at least 6 weeks was a break glass event. Like kill rates north of 65% or so.

I know seeing kill rates won't quell the complaining, but it would be nice to know. I feel like a lot of people are expecting killer buffs when BHVR's data is saying killers are doing 'better than fine' overall.

Killers will probably eventually get buffs, but things are going to get bad before then.

1. Survivors will eventually realize that DH was given a placebo nerf and start running it again (it's still annoying as hell when you do see it; the only thing the "nerf" did was make sure most people don't run it anymore), which will be doubly effective since killers don't check for it or try to bait it out anymore.
2. Survivors are focusing less on healing and more on gens, use of perks like Resilience are up, and there's no reliable way to regress gens anymore, so I'm already seeing my games become much shorter on average. (Still winnable, but it means playing nasty and aggressive and going for snowballs as much as possible.) This will only get worse with time.
3. And then bots will probably measurably decrease kill rates as well, even if DC'd survivors don't count towards official kill rate statistics. (I still think this is a good change in general.)
4. Survivors are getting good at ignoring the healing changes by running multiple healing perks (my most successful build on solo at preset is Botany/Desperate/Overcome/Self-Care - I have gotten 5-6 game winstreaks with this); if one or more survivor runs such a build, it can largely or completely negate the so-called anti-heal meta, and the more survivors figure this out, the lower kill rates will plummet.
5. If current trends continue, tunneling will be nerfed, Deadlock will be nerfed to ten seconds, and they'll rework PR.

At some point, all this will come to a head, and kill rates will start dropping. At that point, we'll probably get another 6.1.0.

How do bots work? I'm not familiar, but if they hit every skillcheck every time, can perform perfect flashlight saves, and actually (unlike most solo queue survivors) focus on gens, it seems like that'll affect game balance and kill rates.

I have no idea how much he is exaggerating, but.

Can someone explain this to me, please?

It's kinda an even trade.

Bots do gens. That's more than a DC'd teammate will do.

They also, theoretically, allow Killers to get achievements and BP when people DC.

They are also very bad in chase.

Ok so.... some of these big updates sound better then getting nothing

Bot Survivors when someone DC's is really good

Planning on changing Coldwind Farm is really good but the sooner the better (IMO)

So what about Killer what good thing do they get...

Bot Survivors when Survivors DC... so it doesn't turn into either farming or getting an easy 3K and little to no points

Seems that maps have made their way it's still up in the air... it depends on what they do to them

but alas it seems like it matters how they word everything... it's kinda sad to say the least

I would never tell if I lose to bots, because it would be so embarrassed.

Remember we're not talking about me.

I'm talking about games I have seen on the streams of killer mains like : Otz, Truetalent and CoconutRTS to name a few.

When we have extreme veteran professional players losing the gens in 3 minutes it's a pretty clear sign that something is wrong with game balance.

Tbf mothers dwelling change went from good for survivors to amazing for survivors, so I personally do not trust them with maps, I disagree with OP as I as a killer player disagree with that sentiment but asuming bhvr understands how to fix a map shows either incredibly good faith on them or a lack of memory on their past misdeeds.