5,000 hours console killer, still getting spun by survivors.

I don't play on console these days and haven't done for a few years, but I did start on console for a few years on and off and the difference between close FOV spins is quite significant between the 2 platforms.

Firstly its much harder to track a survivor that's really close to you on console and secondly I feel like theres a big frame drop when hitting someone mid spin which often results in the speed boost being much more effective. There was times after a hit on console I couldn't even see which way the survivor ran and they would practically vanish.

Feels like it's just a combination of harder tracking, poor performance and lower FPS that makes it significantly harder. Like it's almost a non issue on PC for me and only very occasionally will I get spun and even if I do I'm basically straight on them 2 seconds later.

Ah it pleases me to even have Nintendo Switch mentioned - thank you! I always feel we get left out of conversations and when people say console, they usually refer exclusively to PS and Xbox 😅

Though I’m just a Nintendo Switch survivor main, I always wonder how the experience is like for switch players as killers (*ﾟvﾟ*)

almost 8 years in now still not great settings for console makes me sick

There is the aim dressing shenanigans that steal your hits, but when it comes to getting spun my cheeky little way of handling it is to spin with the survivor lol

Waving your damage hitbox around a bit does seem to help paint the survivors hitbox I find.

Back in the spring of 2019 they set a goal to get all platforms running their game at a steady 60 fps, among other things promised. Years later they fessed up that they just couldn't do it, saying there's coding resource bottleneck problems that apparently is unsurmountable. Our PC cousins will notice this as well, as DBD is an unusually super voracious gobbler of resources.

I just always predict where survivor is going to spin I can hit them maybe 9/10 of times but that one miss can cost at worst the whole game. I have gotten better with experience on it. Sometimes I wait it out on open but not always you can do that. Killer is just harder for us console players so I feel you pain.

It's not terrible

Tell me about it. When people who play killer and have thousands of hours, such as ourselves, are facing this issue repeatedly, the skill questioning needs to stop and a solution must be pursued. If you ask me? Survivors turn too fast. I really don't care if it screws up moonwalking, fov "techs" (exploits), etc. New animations, or a simple turn rate cap (which would also solve questionable fast vaults), would fix this. Not only is bullying against new players resulting from kicking this can down the road (killers getting farmed for YT content as they're spun 3+ times), but it's even causing experienced killers to lose matches. It's a hit which the killer entirely deserves, and it's getting aim dressed, or auto-aimed to an obstacle, which the OP rightly points out is causing the entire chase to be reset. Bigger hitboxes on killer attacks could also be an easy fix. Killers like Hillbilly, Oni, Blight, Wesker, and even Nurse, are dead in the water on console vs teams who abuse this stuff. They go from A and S tier to mid tier at best, because the survivors know they can just twitch or spin, and the killer's hit will be denied. I will ask again as I have before, how hard is it to make a decent sized hitbox which will hit survivors standing in front of the killer's attack?

I acknowledge that some killer's hitboxes can questionable, especially during bad connection matches, like Huntress's hatchets, but seeing the puny hitboxes of Hillbilly, Deathslinger, Nemesis, Blight, Wesker, miss again and again forces people to stop playing these killers. What needs to be understood is that yes, in spite of their enormous flaws, an experienced player has a chance to beat most mid level teams with them, but swap out the mid teams with the high level SWFs, and their chance of winning is basically non-existent. That, or the killer would have to use their power so sparingly as to never use it outside of a guaranteed hit, and always use their M1 at the perfect time as well, which is asking the player to play out a robotically perfect match. So it's not just the M1s, although that is the more universal issue since not all killers have M2 attacks. It's the hitboxes of all attacks which needs to be looked at. It honestly feels easier to hit a no-scope on Call Of Duty than it is to MELEE survivors in this game. Stop letting twitches and spins be the deciding factor of an all-powerful killer getting a 4k or no kills at all, because believe me it is that bad.

And that never should have been a thing. The blind box for the killer should have remained as it was, because survivors were already blinding you from off screen. Not every killer buff has to be accompanied by a nerf, but hey, that's how we balance on this game.

This is the reason the only killers I can play are the ones where you can effectively attack around corners (Pinhead, Pyramidhead, the Clown, etc.). I get spun too hard and with my optic neuritis, I struggle to see where people go. Especially when they spin to the left (it's my left optic nerve that's damaged)