Winning as killer is the easiest it has ever been hot take or nah?

Maybe I have been winning like 20 games a row recently. Many games has been close still. Only few were one sided. But feels easy now when im just winning all my games and does not matter if I play bad. Well probably soon I end up in losing streak so have to be careful what I say...

Pretty much ever since DH got nerfed and is no longer in every single survivors arsenal killer has become much easier which is kinda insane, because just by the devs nerfing that perk alone made killer ALOT more less stressful to play.

Pretty sure the easiest was when Mori didn't required you to be on Death Hook and the Hatch only spawned if a certain number of gens were done.

Just my 2 cent.

Yea..I gotta say, you're close to the mark but Eruption/Brine/Overcharge was the easiest it had ever been.

Don't get me wrong, its still very easy to win as killer.

It is definitely much easier than it was in the past. The hardest period for me was when every game had 4X old dead hard. I was going full no life and playing killer six hours per day at that point. I can say with 100% certainty that the game today is not even remotely as difficult as it was then. Most teams will completely collapse if you play dirty, bring strong perks, and generally know what you're doing.

"The leniency to mess around at different points in the match has been greatly reduced that you can REALLY notice survivors throwing the match by doing random BS be it cleansing totem, looting chest"

I've said a few times, that the game is at a point where time is so valuable that doing something as mundane as cleansing a totem or opening a chest can be throwing the game. It even angers your team mates at times. When your resources (pallets) are steadily depleting, dead zones are becoming more apparent (some reworked maps have deadzones from the start of the game) then it's not in your best interest to spend time doing things like that.

Easiest was most certainly the Eruption + COB meta. It's still easy now but nothing tops how many wins killers were getting during that meta.

Yeah, but a killer spends half the match goofing off, they'll lose, too. The game shouldn't be balanced around giving one side or the other leeway to waste time doing huge amounts of non-objectives and still giving them a chance to win.

Depends on the killer. Wins are handed out like candy for blights and nurses, but being an M1 killer is becoming increasingly frustrating. It's like BHVR is wanting to shift all killers to only playing the S tier killers. Not sure why. Playing m1 killers is absolutely awful right now - especially the ones with no innate gen management or poor in chase. MFT is absolutely gutting a few of them.

No. I don't think killer in general is the easiest it has ever been.

(ruin undying, gen kick meta cough cough)

Weaker killers have a hard time still. I main pig and have games, where my first 3 gens pop within 2 minutes. This happens unpleasantly often.

Mid range killers have it ok most of the time.

Stronger killers yes, killers like Wesker, Blight, Nurse and Spirit have it easier that the others if played right. However, this has always been the case.

Does not only depend on the killer chosen though. Addons and Perks do a lot of heavy lifting. Sometimes more that the killer or even the player themselves.

Killer can be easy or hard. Depends on you and the opponents load out, skill, the map and of course : the mmr not going off the wall.

Eruption meta was the easiest.

I wouldn’t even say this is the second easiest as Ruin/Undying meta and the period between Dead Hard’s latest nerf and Made for This release/Buckle Up buff/vault buff were easier.

I think killer is in a pretty good spot, but I don’t think it’s the easiest it’s ever been.

I absolutely disagree.

Killer was significantly easier when basekit borrowed time didn't exist. When you could mori after first hook. When NOED had no aura. When Pop Goes the Weasel regressed by a base 25 instead of scaling. When Pain Res worked on every hook not just the first. When Ruin slowed gen repair.

Any saying Killer is easier now than then isn't remembering clearly.

So not playing according to the survivors rule book is absolutely diabolical?

Maybe, just maybe you simply got a bit rusty after the 2 years break. No problem in that. But it doesn´t reflect the current game balance.

If you're back from years off, wouldn't your MMR be super bad? You're probably just getting meh survivors.

Personally my difficulty as killer depends on the killer I use. I main Clown and I always seem to get sweaty gen rushers with meta builds, and I might get a 4k sometimes but it's usually a 2-3k, or a loss sometimes. But I use other killers and it's like I am playing against bots sometimes.

Also maybe you're just using high meta killers.

I don't think it's any easier to win as killer than before, especially now with the endurance meta that survivors are using. I had a Bubba match a week or so ago where I swear I had survivors tank at least ten hits and run off throughout the match, it's insane.

The answer is no.

I am going to say yes and no.

It can at least feel like it but from what I can tell DBD is actively working on removing the boring/least fun parts of gameplay that are used to win. For killers this would be, Tunnelling, Camping and Slugging and Survivors it would be completing the objective too quickly. Because the fun part for DBD is not pressing M1 on a gen or sitting/guarding a hook, but the chases and outplays. The issue is a lot of high level killers rely on these tactics against the best teams, its optimal strategy most of the time. And DBD doesn't want to make any big changes that would greatly swing the kill rates. So they have been gradually buffing killer and then removing things that accommodate these tactics.

Tunnelling was the first when they made the big killer buff by adding base kit endurance and haste off hook. This came with less basic attack CD, less survivor speed boost and more time on gens. Since they have nerfed self healing in both med kits and COH to try and force survivors off gens and heal each other more, or be faster downs. Then they removed hook grabs, an anti camping measure, and they even have an additional anti camping measure in the works. They also did the PTB testing if there was a good way to do anti-slugging/insta-mori which I would like to see again but I think they scrapped the idea because of negative feedback from both sides.

So the reason I say yes and no is because overall, no, its not really stronger if your only goal was to win as killer. But DBD has this weird morality where people often see tunnelling, camping and slugging as "mean" things to do. So a lot of killers didn't/don't use these tactics. So those killers essentially got a buff without losing anything, making it easier for them, meanwhile killers that rely/relied on these tactics are either in the same spot or worse because its harder to quickly get things changed to a 3v1.

So do I think that its actually easier to win for killers, probably not, does it feel like it, most definitely.