After 2 years not playing the game...

-- Way to much fog. I know, Horror game and so, but i personally and probably most others wont get scared by that game anyway, besides beeing in an intense chase.

I don't know what you mean by this. Maps seem pretty clear unless offerings are brought.

-- Something is wrong with fast vaults. Is this a bug or intentional?

They "fixed" fast vaults to make the animations more in line with what was supposed to be happening and for a short while fast vaults actually felt fast (maybe about a month ago). However, that created a bug were male characters vaults were getting superior distance. Thus they reverted the fix so they could try and fix the new issue, but that created even more of a break were now fast vaults aren't working.

That's my understanding, bug.

Overall, it feels like the devs are aiming for a 70% killrate for whatever reason. Stats show that 60% rate is already reality and those were apparently before some majore survivor nerfs. Why?

The goal is supposed to be a 60% kill rate, though for many survivors it feels like a 40% escape rate is a great day. Their logic, which in my opinion is pretty solid on this, is to achieve a 50/50 split, the data needs to actually be 60% for killers, because with four survivors there is a much greater chance of one of them throwing the match (example: afk) then there are matches thrown by the killer.

I will abandon survivor for a bit and see how killer is going but so far i feel i will also jump on TCM hype train and see how this plays.

I haven't played TCM, doesn't seem for me, and have no idea on the game's merits, but right now the steam player counts have TCM just short of 6,000 players, while DbD is a little under 42,000; though maybe gamepass is really helping out TCM.

This might be a bit early to judge, but some new killers like the alien can do everything at once. Teleport, ignoring pallets/windows, beeing stealthy and still 115%? Seriously who came up with that?

I don't think a meta has developed yet on how to play against alien. Some survs think the turrets are a waste of time, others that keeping alien knocked out of his power makes him incredibly weak.

For example, the killer is the only role who can determine, how the game goes. So if he stays afk, its 4 escapes. If he decides to farm, it is a 4 escape.

The thing is if one survivor AFKs, sacrifices, etc. the chance of a 4k goes way up. So if every player in the game (survivor and the killer) has an equal chance of AFKing, that's actually four times as many games resulting in a 4e then a 4k.

I also think survivors have a much higher likelihood of rage quitting then killers do before the game is actually decided, but that's just my perception on the issue.

On top of that, he can give hatch for free or let the last 1 or 2 players escape through the gate, which happens commonly.

I generally let survivors go as well, but I'll say I notice this much less frequently in survivor games lately. Might be an MMR thing.

I hope i understand you correctly, since i dont know any of the issue the game had recently. It seems to me that fastvaulting does not give you that much of a distance then it used to be back in 2020/21

I only started a year ago, but here's my understanding.

Fast vaults are supposed to be quicker (naturally) but also push the survivor farther away from the window. They 'fixed' this in August (Otz video / comparison video here about twenty seconds in), but male survivor were vaulting farther (video). So they reverted the fix, with many feeling that fast and medium vaults were now equal, though still kept the bug about male survivors jumping farther (another Otz video).

Hopefully they fix it soon.

That makes sense, since you have 3 killers hunting survivors instead of just 1.

Because it's a new release of a good game in the same genre. Few are playing instead of DBD, most are playing alongside - which is healthy for both titles, as competition always is.

I actually have been arguing that the fog is entirely irrelevant to gameplay. Lots of players play with very high brightness making the offerings to thicken or weaken the fog worthless at worst and 100% not purple rarity offerings at best.

To my knowledge the only major map reworks we got were RCPD (which if you werent playing 2 years ago you wouldn't have experienced regardless), Red Forest getting a visual overhaul and minor changes to Coldwind Farm. In my experience most tiles are still as they were then and you can run them the same.

The Xenomorph's power has a windup sound that you can use to avoid it, and that's if you choose to take no preventative action whatsoever . They're not that stealthy thanks to Flame Turrets basically having their own unremovable heartbeat, and their power can be entirely mitigated by proper Flame Turret placement, making them a basic 115 M1 killer with no power. The killer is strong, yes, but ultimately their power is balanced if survivors play the game properly.

It's a bug that was fixed on the latest PTB, so it'll be fixed in the next few weeks.

60% seems to be BHVR's aim, and our best look at statistics show that most killers fall within the 50-60% range, showing the necessity of Survivor nerfs. I also saw your arguments about the true kill rate being artificially heightened thanks to Hatch, etc and I'd like to propose the counter also being true - survivors give up. A lot. They either DC and are replaced by bots that are programmed to miss skill checks so they end up sandbagging you or they let go on hook and leave you an entire player down, which in DBD often dooms the rest of the team to oblivion.

These two factors would possibly balance out but as a survivor main I'd say the kill rates might actually trend high if you discount games that are lost because your teammate didnt get their Deliverance or got grabbed on a gen or something like that.