Are generators speed a problem?

It already IS boring.

Killer gameplay is go go go. Always doing SOMETHING.

Survivors have times where they get to do nothing.

~Gens

~On hook

~Slugged (Crawl I suppose, so can omit this i guess.)

Not to mention, if tunneled, the survivor just doesn't get to play anymore lol.

Killers are using gen kick perks because there really isnt a better option. Like at all. If they do, they'll likely lose.

Blight and company are obviously not in this. They can come in perkless and destroy.

No, generators are not too fast.

There's a combination of factors at play when killers feel like they are going too fast, though, and some of them do actually warrant attention. For instance, when a team of good survivors spawn on separate generators with good toolboxes and they don't mess around doing anything else before they start repairing, pretty much any killer is going to lose three generators in time for their first hook, and that's a huge detriment to overcome at the start of the match. Toolboxes and survivor spawns are absolutely worth addressing for this and other reasons.

On the other hand, we have situations where generators fly because killers aren't applying any pressure; they're focused trying to tunnel out one guy who isn't going down super quickly, or they're only ever occupying two survivors at once because they're very focused on reacting to unhooks, or they're running all four slowdowns and struggling elsewhere because most slowdowns in the game require action to use these days. In these scenarios, it's a case of the player needing to learn what they're doing wrong, and I do empathise with how difficult that can be in the moment without any direction. Still, it's not the game's fault, when these situations do occur.

To answer the last question, killers run all four slowdowns because it's easier than the alternatives-- or at least, the perception is that it's easier. At this point in the game I'm honestly not sure if you're shooting yourself in the foot by running four slowdowns even when you know what you're doing, I feel like you really would get more results from a better balanced build in all scenarios.

Almost every game BNP, Prove thyself, Hyper focus, Resilience, Deja vu.

I wonder why killers have to bring so much slowdown...

Yes and no.

Yes because playing without slowdown is a pretty much guaranteed loss against halfway decent survivors. Even with slowdown perks the killer is still too slow to progress the game anywhere near as fast as the survivors can, which leads to tunneling being a more necessary and attractive play style.

No because survivors can't do much else. Outlasting the killer doesn't work, spam healing doesn't work but gen efficiency does work. Regression perks are also still quite strong and can force survivors to effectively repair more than 6 gens to power the gates, which makes tunneling an even more dangerous play style because a killer can buy themself a lot of time to tunnel one person out and then kill the remaining 3 easily because they couldn't progress fast enough.

This. I play both sides but mostly survivor. I honestly wish BHVR would just stop with anything touching movement speed and gen speed. These are literally the two things, as a killer, that messes things up and creates angst.

If these two things were reigned in, they could stop with the gen slow-down perks and people might actually have fun in the game. Maybe

Survivors have nothing to do except gens. Survivors are way too overnerfed and every possible alternative playstyle/activity was removed as well.

always has been

mainly due to bigger maps / BS spawns for survivors and the lack of a early game mechanic for killers.

It is a problem from a mathematical point of view. A killer will never be able to chase several survivors simultaneously and completing a generator usually takes about the same amount of time as a simple chase. This is what causes the first chase to cost one-two generators or in the worst case up to three generators. It is also the reason why a bad start for either side usually marks the outcome of the match.

And yes, repairing is boring and all, it's one of the reasons why I'm playing less and less the survivor role. But it should also be added that when a killer is looped for five gens, the rest of the survivors don't seem to have a problem with having done nothing but repair. I have never seen them ask to have more interaction with the killer.

I say that the problem isn't the progression speeds, but rather the regression speeds instead. 4 seconds just to regress 1 second of survivor progress at basekit is baffling to me- If they buffed up the basekit regression speed to be double of what it currently is then that would fix the issue imo because that would make it feel like you'd have to rely a little less on gen defense/regression perks as killer and it would indirectly buff Call Of Brine and Overcharge which are two perks that need some buffs since they're completely garbage now post-nerf.

Nope, gens are not too fast. The issue is that most of the cast does not have any outplay potential to end chases quick enough once survivors reach above average level and don't make noob mistakes.

As nurse, blight, spirit, survivors have some tools to lengthen chase, but ultimately mindgames and your skill as well as who makes a mistake determines chase time.

As other killers, it is a "mistake" to try and chase someone in certain parts of some maps.

That is what needs fixing, not gens, but people aren't ready to hear that.

Imo gen speeds aren't the problem. I think the problem now is survivor's lacking a objective prior to gens. Right now survivors rely on killer's for a secondary optoinal objective weather it's downed/hooked teammate or Hex's that pose a threat.

Granted this is a core game issue but the only way imo they can address it, (which they've been doing) is making killer powers more interactive such as Sadako's Condemn or Temporal Slipstream. These are side(optional) objectives and don't nessesarily have to be done.