This is the best time to be playing Dead By Daylight (in my opinion)

Xeno morph was terrible chucky was mid cage was whatever and this patch is also mid. As a killer its a little better but playing survivor is super boring now, if you are trying to escape. That's why I just go for saves and chases now. Id rather have fun then have to do gens for 20 min just to escape less then 50% of the time while the killer runs full slowdowns tunnels and just plays super sweaty. There's survivors that do this also but bhvr is trying to mitigate those problems but isn't doing anything to mitigate the survivors misery for like the last year. While I understand not every patch can be survivor sided or vice versa or 50/50 I haven't seen anything worth while for survivor in like a year that has stayed in the game.

2019 DBD before Freddy's rework was THE PEAK.

I think immediately prior to 5.2 or 5.3 was the best time. 5.3 Introduced the boring hatch we have now, and more importantly Boon Meg, both of which were terrible changes/additions. To be fair, the brief time where CoH was killswitched was good, but still had the negative hatch change. 5.2 Introduced MMR to replace Ranks, which still to this day makes the game worse. When you had to balance your gameplay to rank up, it meant you were actually playing the game instead of cheesing the game. Now that we are forced into the kill/escape binary, which means "it doesn't matter how you got there", and thus skill-expression is ignored, something that didn't happen (to remotely the same degree) under ranks.

Alternatively, immediately prior to 6.1. We had fair perks needlessly gutted, and many of them are now buffed to arguably better states. At the same time, perks that were fair got needlessly gutted or nerfed (Self-Care, DS, Calm Spirit, Hex: Ruin, Thanatophobia). Now to be fair, Conspicuous Actions and Basekit BT were good changes, but anti-tunnel Endurance should still work while Deep Wounded, and (anti-tunnel Endurance) shouldn't even apply Deep Wound to begin with. Pop and PR are now better than they were before. I can get 6 hooks with all PR procs and a kill (1/1/1/4) with MORE regression (6*15=90%, 4*25=100%) than before, and Pop gives more regression as long as the 4th piston is active, so basically on the only gens you should bother kicking anyways. Also it introduced Call of Brine+Overcharge+Eruption 'monkey with a keyboard can win as Killer' gameplay.

Right now we still have busted Blight/Nurse, no anti-tunnel in the game unless you want to count Buckle Up+For the People (which sometimes is a problem on its own when not used for anti-tunnel), no ranked game mode features when we only have ranked and customs (because MMR isn't optional, ranked is the only public play game mode), and more. They also just introduced No Mither 2 Electric Boogaloo aka "lemme spend 2 minutes in the basement to apply No Mither and at most 50s of usable gen progress". Soloq is probably the worst it has ever been right now, but casual Killer isn't bad.

Dbd will peak when the devs pull their heads from their butts and properly balance their game like the 4v1 it is.

They really did luck out, if this game were to be released today with what the base game had it would've crashed and burned like VHS.

They nerf killer tactics but do nothing about the abused survivor tactics. And people claim the devs aren't biased in favor of survivors. It's laughable. But this'll get discarded into the void and I'll be banned because the devs want an echo chamber filled with "game hard for survivord, killers bad, nerf killers now!" They've got their whales hooked and that's all that matters at this point.