Am I just bad at Killer, or are Survivors too strong right now?

Stop camping and tunneling for kills and you'll have fun matches.

The way you're playing is to win so you'll be playing against others that are also playing to win. But if that's how you want to play by all means go right ahead.

I didn't say be nice.

Again if you're playing to win (Camping and tunneling for the 3k 4k) then you should go against others (SWF) that are playing to win.

The chase to gen speed ratio is off and has been off for a while. But it was hidden due to the 3 gen meta that was going on previously. Now that it has been nerfed and there really aren't any good slowdown perks anymore that slow the game down enough against these good survivors it can be quite bad.

Also with toolboxes and things like hyperfocus having come into the meta, really good survivors can exploit those to really shave off time on a gen to be around 60 seconds, or even faster if they get good RNG.

My personal advice to you is to do what i do which results in me getting more fun games most of the time.

• On the 13th of the month, when the ranks reset, tryhard to get rank 1 as fast as possible
• After that, start playing a "game" within the game. Where you goal now becomes to 2 hook every survivor, and then kill the obsession once the gate has opened. It doesn't have to be the obsession, but for me i'm "roleplaying" a bit and try to go for the obsession. Also the obsession gets bonus points for dying as the obsession, so it makes up for them not escaping a bit.
• If you 2 hook every survivor and they aren't done with gens, start downing them with your power or hits, and chases to max out your bloodpoints.
• Once the gates are powered, try to get in a chase with the obsession and down them, then wait for the gate to open, or open the gate yourself, and hook the survivor.
• Bonus points if you want to run rancor and do this.
• Let the others escape.

This results in a few things:

• you only getting 1 kill, but still getting around 36k bloodpoints, nearly capping hook states while capping the other 3.
• 3 survivors escape, meaning the game thinks you "lost" so your MMR goes down.
• The survivors tend to have more fun and are less toxic in the endgame, often thanking you for a good time.
• The survivors get a ton of bloodpoints
• The killer gets a ton of bloodpoints.
• Because your MMR goes down, your next match, in theory is more chill.

If you do this for a while, you start to notice that you stop getting matched against top survivors and you can play more fun more chill matches. If the matches get a little too easy or boring for you, play a few games where you kill all the survivors as fast as possible to increase your MMR and get matched against better survivors until you get that sweet spot of fun but chill. Once i hit that sweet spot, which usually only takes a few days after i'm done tryharding for rank 1, i will often play a couple matches like this, then tryhard for a match, and repeat this every few games, keeping me in that sweet spot.

Pretty much exactly what one of the devs said

Or, more accurately, if you don't want to have to sweat to get a win don't sweat and the game will move you to a 60% win rate. Camping and tunneling isn't good in the long term for anyone. For survivors that's in the short term as the skill needed to counter camping and tunneling is much higher than the skill needed to camp and tunnel. For Killers it's in the long-term as Killers will eventually get matched against survivors they have no hope of beating in chase and very little chance of gaining chase skills since they're so used to camping and tunneling. And they'll still only have about a 60% win rate in the end just like the Killers who aren't camping and tunneling.

Take the pain (initial losses) for the long term gain (becoming a better Killer).

You're not losing because of the game balance, you're losing because you are being matched against 5000+ hour players.

The player count is at an all time low. You, as a casual player, expect the game to match you against other casual players, and it seems that's why other people advise to lower your MMR. But what you're all missing, is that there aren't any other casual players to match you against. Casual players are not playing DBD right now. There's no event, no tome, no grade, and DC merchant made the rare survivors who attempted soloQ probably regret their choice and play something else.

Try to play again in June, maybe it'll be better. But sadly, I think the game is probably on its final decline, and the matches will only get sweatier over time.

maybe all the survivors who constantly complain about solo queue should just stop trying so hard so their mmr will go down and they'll face easier killers

You're acting offended that people told you truth. The way MMR works is more wins/ harder opponents. That works for survivors AND killers.

This is just marvelous. I hope everyone gets a chance to read this. It is what Killers need to know. Camping and tunneling cripples you. It does not make you better at this game. If you want to be seen as a legend, you're going to have to struggle against more intelligent, knowledgeable survivors. This is not COD where you load up and mindlessly rack up kills and rank up. It gets harder and harder the more successful you are.

You're using a false equivalence though. What does a sweaty Killer look like? Most meta strategy possible alongside tunneling and camping.

What does a sweaty survivor look like? Most meta strategy possible, best items, 4 person SWF, voice call outs, coordinated perks etc.

Okay, now how does a solo queue survivor replicate that? The solo might have the most meta perks and items but do their teammates? No. Are perks synergistically coordinated? No. Are there voice call outs? No. Is there a chance 4 randoms who can't see each other's perks, items, and can't communicate are going to be as effective as that 4 person SWF? No.

Now, after playing with their 4 person SWF and crushing it for awhile what happens when a member of the SWF plays solo? They die. A lot. Or all their teammates die. When they play sweaty SWF, though, they get sweaty Killers. A Killer is just easier to be sweaty with since you don't have to coordinate with three other people.

It boils down to the same thing though. If you don't want sweaty matches don't play sweaty. If you do play sweaty don't complain about SWFs being strong or Killers being brutally efficient; you signed up for it by being sweaty.

Just stop playing Killer, you can come back after the Killer population declines again and Devs introduce new incentives/ buffs for the role.

The playing chill to get more chill games theory doesn’t even work from a long term perspective. Even if more people play chill, Matchmaking will still put them against better Survivors if no Killer is online to entertain said Survivors.

Survivors are definitely not in a strong spot rn everything they have keeps getting nerfed no more dh no more coh no more stupid medkits this is literally the best time to play killer as most frustrations from the Survivor side are no more.

so i really doubt it's that you go against strong Survivors and more like you're not playing killer well but can't be sure since you haven't posted gameplay.

I don't know what you're going on about or why you're referring me to section 1 paragraph 2 of the killer handbook, I don't need it or care to follow it. You can't get better if every one of your wins (all your kills) is by camping tunneling off hook. You are not learning anything. You're moving up higher MMR matches going against stronger teams.

Again for the forth time (OP) was talking about going against stronger teams that they couldn't deal with they got there because they camped and tunneled.

If you are playing for kills you are playing to win, you should go against others that are playing to win. If you can't deal with those type of matches then STOP CAMPING AND TUNNELING!!!