Slugging at 5 gens is unnecessary.

Both sides should play to win and not guilt the other side into going easy on them.

I feel like part of why it's so frustrating to play against killers that speedrun the match during this event is because it's so much easier for killers to get cakes than survivors. Killers always have 2-4 cakes per bloodweb, where a survivor can go several bloodwebs without seeing one. This means that when you get booted out of a match near-immediately because the killer was playing comp or your teammates gave up, you're losing cake with your piddly 30k while the killer proceeds to blaze through ten more bloodwebs full of them with their 200k. It's… unpleasant.

Meanwhile, if I play killer and do Actually Nothing, I still walk out of the match with dosh. Like. I've had games where the survivors signaled at the start that they wanted to be friendly, I obliged them, and then they were rude and never let me hook them and I didn't press the issue, so I had 0 hooks and like… two or three hits. And I'd still score 15k with the event, and that'd multiply to a nice 80k. And then I'm 4x as likely to get cake as a survivor is. So even the most wasted game as killer pays dividends compared to survivor, where you individually have much less control over what happens in the game.

Though ultimately this does come down to value system dissonance. Some people's idea of fun is very incompatible with other people's idea of fun, and nothing you say or do is going to convince those people to behave otherwise. They're not even really wrong for enjoying a game in a way that's counter to how you enjoy it, as much as I agree with you. Best you can do is try to make your games pleasant for others when you have the winning hand and hope karma pays that back to you.

You have tools to deal with that situation. Aggressive knockdown is the only real way to stop the gen rush and some killer kits are so weak at this point that they can't do much else against an organized team.

Says who? I've had four cakes in a single killer bloodweb multiple times this year. Survivors have four possible event items (toolbox, medkit, flashlight, cake) and therefore are not guaranteed a cake on their bloodweb, and can go multiple webs in a row getting other anniversary items but not cakes.

I dunno about you, but for like 50% of my Masquerade Games, I get suicidal lemming Survivors.

Just yesterday I had a game where 3 people facecamped me. The killer. They facecamped me and 2 of them always tried to blind me out of every pickup.
So I did what Killers do.
I downed one, hurt the others, hooked, downed the next, hooked and started a cycle that ended with 3Ks at 3 Gens, just to be told in post chat that I was toxic for not letting them do whatever they wanted to do.

And, sorry for generalizing, but I feel that's a lot of survivors.
Anything I can do to stop them from being toxic they consider toxic and I am evil for doing it.

Another game I had a Nancy that kept ignoring my Terror Radius so everytime I saw her I got like guaranteed hits.
When she was at 2 Hook states, I felt bad, only downed and hoped her mates would go and heal her, but she left not even 10 seconds after the down, which obviously was enough for the other 2 survivors to start t-bagging and trying to bait me into chases every single time.

So. What is there to do. What courtesy am I supposed to give people, when they repay it with being little shits?

Nah, I think we should fully shame anyone who treats the event named "Bag of Tryx" (tricks) event with the seriousness of a DBDLeague scrim. It's an embarrassing attitude to have in a game mode where everything from its mechanics to its name screams whimsy, and people who hypersweat in it deserve to feel that embarassment

By all means, play your scrims as sweaty as possible. I'll even grudgingly concede try harding in normal DBD is fine, particularly for this event. But if you're seriously going into the anniversary event with the mindset "according to my calculations, slugging here will boost my win probability from 98.8% to 99.4%" then that's just clownish and I will treat you as such

As someone else said, the killer is the driver of the gameplay.

But also, killers absolutely do this as well, it's just with different wording: 'This is unhealthy for gameplay', 'X is broken', 'this map is too strong'.

The devs have spent the past two years systematically changing the game, and a huge number of those changes appear to be by demand. Perks like dead hard, MfT, prove thyself, circle of healing, medkits and BNP completely reworked, corn maps, haddonfield (twice), reworking map logic and weakening pallets across the board, and there's a ton that I'm not listing to keep the list short.

All of that was changed after incessant complaining by the community. So yes, killers absolutely lose their minds and demand change as well. Unfortunately, they've been getting what they want enough that there's a huge trend of reinforcement to complain about anything in the game that's even perceived as a minor inconvenience at this point. And that trend is backed up by kill rate stats going steadily upward for those two years as well.

I remember reading funny comment regarding new haddonfield rework that is balanced around 50 hour baby trapper having good chance winning with using only m1. Some of the maps seem that way now with all the unsafe pallets. Now the situation is somewhat in control but if more and more maps get to changed to having only 5 unsafe pallets survivor becomes unplayable.

Some maps are now still survivor sided but I think it's fine killers have so many good maps as well. I just played in map (crotus prenn asylum) on killer which had window vault right besided shack window it was disgusting well I still outplayed survivors there with m1 killer. Best situation would be that most maps are evenly balanced.

Most normal killers, react to how survs are playing, if you're sabo and flashlighting then the killer is more likely to slug.

They may not have intended that when joining a game, but if you're trying to prevent hooks then isn't it the killer reacting?

If they're "gen rushing" the first surv is likely to get tunnelled, so other survs come to peel.

The game is about creating pressure, when one "side" is reacting to the other's pressure, then you're technically winning.