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Playing killer isn't fun anymore because it's too easy to win

sinkra
sinkra Member Posts: 423

I main Twins and almost every game is an easy 4k (I blind them with Third Seal and slug all 4). The devs should understand that games are fun when they're challenging. some killers may have complained before 6.1 about any kind of survivor counterplay but listening to the loudest complainers is not a way to run your game. I would be happy if they introduced another game mode with stronger survivors for killers who want the game to be challenging again (for example shorter gen times in this hard mode).

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  • sinkra
    sinkra Member Posts: 423

    That's the thing, I shouldn't have to handicap myself to give the other side a chance. I want to be able to go all out with max effort trying to win each game and it still be challenging, just like every other pvp game.

  • NekoGamerX
    NekoGamerX Member Posts: 5,292

    people still play this like? like DBD is like street fighter/fighting game or FPS esports game with money on the like.

    people got to remember this game so random and full of bugs it can never be a true esports game,also if your going to use the most broken add on or perks or best killer in the game you shouldn't complaining the side they play on to easy.

    like swf group saying survivors to easy but the fact the they using voice chat and best items and add on or perks.

    most play for the fun if we can.

  • Saiph
    Saiph Member Posts: 358

    Well if you keep playing and slaughtering survivors, your MMR will eventually raise to the point where you'll get challenged.

    The problem is, it takes an absurd amount of games to do so. From experience I'd say around ~100 games are needed, which, if you play rarely like me, can take literal years to reach.

    The first time I played Nurse, I won 46 games in a row, all 4Ks, and despite me being pretty new. Now after about 2 years, I'm facing tryhard SWFs from time to time who send me to a map and make me lose, this didn't happen before. I still feel like the majority of games are slaughterfests and boring overall, but there are actually good SWFs who will give you a challenge.

  • Gmoore23
    Gmoore23 Member Posts: 193

    Holy crap I really can't tell if you're joking or not now.

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 20,784

    Can confirm, that's also not true.

    Source: Completely anecdotal evidence of me never finding people both equal to my skill and equal to my mindset. I'm not gonna go all out and slaughter people just memeing.

    I used to get one good match a week when I was playing a lot.

  • Saiph
    Saiph Member Posts: 358

    How many games did you play on killer? I'm not joking, you really need to play in the order of hundreds. And that's for each killer (the MMR is not shared). It might be than even somebody like you hasn't played for long enough to reach it (maybe spend a bit less time posting on this forum /s )

    If what's datamined is correct, one starts at 800 and gains +20 for a 4K, so to reach 2000 one would need 4K for 60 games in a row. But then, there's also a multiplier if the game is too short, and presumably one too if survivors DC, so 60 matches is really optimistic.

    And finally, even if you reach top MMR you still might not realize you are because at most hours the matchmaking is unable to find enough high-MMR survivor SWFs, and panics when you sit in the queue for more than 10 sec

  • Yatol
    Yatol Member Posts: 1,960

    i can easily see op's tactic, stomping on solo q and duos

    TBF its an issue with the gaming community at large where players will optimize the fun out of the game but with this community you get players rely on meta and cheese tactics and then turn around and complain about only facing other players who rely on meta and cheese tactics.

  • VomitMommy
    VomitMommy Member Posts: 2,257

    If you go all out on winning you are going to win most of your games.

    Thing is that's true for both sides, but you need 4 players with same mindset on survivor side for this to be true.

    DBD was always about what side wants to win more (use more resources) is more likely to win. There are things you simply can't overcome with skill.

    If I bring tombstone piece into every game, then I am going to demolish most survivors group. You are going to need competitive level team to beat it. SoloQ or average SWF are not going to win against it.

    The game is as difficult as you make it, if you don't want it easy, then don't make it...

  • Huge_Bush
    Huge_Bush Member Posts: 5,410

    Could you upload some of your Twins gameplay videos to YouTube and link it here? I’d like to see how well you perform and the Survivors in action.

  • danielmaster87
    danielmaster87 Member Posts: 9,440

    Yeah, killer is so easy I had to take breaks in-between Hag matches to de-stress. I had to do that because I was winning too much. s/

  • Unknown2765
    Unknown2765 Member Posts: 2,478
    edited July 16

    First :

    To be fair, when i use Hex: The Third Seal, it gets destroyed really fast, faster then i can even think of getting 3 downs.

    But most inportant :

    Play to have fun, even if it means using perks that aren't meta for you. I enjoy experimenting with fun builds on various killers, even though I don't play killer as much anymore. I have had so much fun with survivors while using these builds, and I have even had a couple of ladies flirt with me in the chat after one of the games (all in good fun, of course).

    Some of the most enjoyable games I have had as a killer involve these silly builds, as most survivors are in on the fun. We play games to have fun, right?

    I will suggest dropping the "I don't want to give myself a handicap" attitude and focusing on making the game fun first and foremost.

  • Neaxolotl
    Neaxolotl Member Posts: 1,477
    edited July 16

    You are specializing literally every aspect of your builds to soloq stomping, what did you expect

    don't go for someone who seems to be new, solo, duo, and only pick the at least triple SWFs I guess

  • ratcoffee
    ratcoffee Member Posts: 1,475

    We're getting the standard "if you win a lot as killer it must be because you're bad at the game & have low mmr" that you see whenever a killer says they have an easy time of playing the game; but I do find it interesting that we're also seeing of the same people who regularly say "god forbid killers try to win" when survivors complain about annoying strategies, now trying to invalidate OP's point because he uses a strategy survivors might consider annoying.

  • Unknown2765
    Unknown2765 Member Posts: 2,478

    I did not voice it before, but i do think they are low mmr, why? - because in my games (as i said before)  Hex: The Third Seal, it gets destroyed really fast, when i use it. (most of my killer games are swfs)

  • KatsuhxP
    KatsuhxP Member Posts: 890

    What exactly do you expect if you go into a game blinding everyone so they can't really pick up each other and then slug them?

    I literally 4 hooked games with pig just by using knock out, you with twins and third seal are so much worse to face, of course they lose xD

  • I_Cant_Loop
    I_Cant_Loop Member Posts: 608
    edited July 16

    If this person is really a super amazing killer player who never loses, 1) why don't you post some video of maybe 10 or so consecutive games and show us how it's done?; and 2) you could make some money as a comp DbD player/streamer, so why not do it?

  • ColdCobalt
    ColdCobalt Member Posts: 50

    This is why running fun builds and not caring about winning is the key 😃

  • crogers271
    crogers271 Member Posts: 1,821

    Max effort is fine, but the game is designed with difficulty sliders for both sides (which makes it very different than other games). If you want more of a challenge take weaker builds. You'll still have quite an advantage, but giving yourself an ideal build as killer will give you a massive edge.

  • hermitkermit
    hermitkermit Member Posts: 427

    I don't know people are so surprised slugging with twins is still popular? I literally played against a ttv yesterday who was playing twins, slugged the whole team at 5 gens. When I asked if they were doing a kill streak or something they said, "No this is just how you play twins!" It's not as if this is uncommon?

    Truth of it is, certain playstyles especially paired with certain killers or perks can make the game much much easier to win. If the playstyles weren't sucessfull then they wouldn't be playstyles at all, and certain perks designed to completely negate those playstyles, and build in mechanics in the game wouldn't have been added if it wasn't such a big problem.

  • Ricardo170373
    Ricardo170373 Member Posts: 708

    So. Im a Trickster Main and i play after midnight and i HUGELY DISAGREE with you. i suffer i lot almost all matches.

  • Prometheus1092
    Prometheus1092 Member Posts: 398

    I agree slugging is pretty boring but TBF when survivors body block hooks and constantly flashlight when picking someone up then the survivors force the hand of the killer to slug. And these same survivors complain about the slugging at the end when they lose. So it's not always possible to just not slug depending on the tactics used by the survivors

    Most of the time these "scummy" ways to play or boring ways to play are the result of countering the opposition. That's just the game.

  • ExcelSword
    ExcelSword Member Posts: 512
    edited July 17

    I gotta say, as a Twins main, it is very difficult to avoid slugging. If survivors are not good enough to reset, meaning they just continue to heal each other in the same spot without relocating, then of course Victor is going to go for 2 attacks if you don't kick him.

    Bt using third Seal is just disgusting. It will never win a match against actual swf teams, it just massively stomps solo q players who can't tell the duo swf and other solo where they are.

    If you actually play this way, are you really winning? You probably don't get high hook devout emblems since you're just 4 hooking most of the time, third seal carries you when against solo survs, and you probably will lose to an actual swf that wants to win rather than mess around.

  • KaTo1337
    KaTo1337 Member Posts: 550

    Killer is easy? Well… you need to play 2v8 then. You will probably lose 5 generators for 1 hook, so have fun in the challenge of catching up the gen speed without any gen-perks.

  • Rick1998
    Rick1998 Member Posts: 274

    play perkless ?
    that's what i do to challenge myself or in other games like elden ring ill do a run with the starter weapon without leveling it up. You can always make the challenges yourself .

  • The_Krapper
    The_Krapper Member Posts: 3,259

    Because MMR is a placebo, truth is the range is so open once you get out of noob zone you're just thrown with everyone, I've beaten a 30k+ hr survivor squad just to turn around and get a lobby that consists of two veterans and two brand new players that don't know anything and don't even have a full loadout for that matter while using the same killer from the game before , alot of people are so comfortable with their main killers it's like second nature but if you don't switch it up often it can be easy to get rusty with some of these powers.

  • UndeddJester
    UndeddJester Member Posts: 3,361
    edited July 17

    I mean...

    Twins is bad example cause they got a whole slew of buffs that were not really needed after their rework got reverted, that pushed them into the territory of being completely overpowered. I reckon they're probably in the top 3 killers now because for anyone halfway competant, there is barely any counterplay. Just play to keep everyone injured by chasing off hooks and then slug everyone to death.

    Most people who understand Twins agree the buff to reduce Victor's stun when downing a survivor to 2.7s from 5s with literally no compensation was a bad idea...

    I've made a thread about it and necroed it once already trying to get more awareness up on just how busted it is and how to go aboit fixing it.

    However the issue doesn't get traction because most people don't really see Twins.

  • adsads123123123123
    adsads123123123123 Member Posts: 1,132

    Twins is one of my mains, and Twins takes almost no skill to play. Play another killer if you want a challenge.

  • For_The_People
    For_The_People Member Posts: 571

    Quick question for killers:

    I know BHVR have said that No Mither is intentionally a meme ‘hard mode’ perk for survivors, barring going perk less or just having a downright awful perk (of which exists on both sides) is there an equivalent perk for killers? Something which does have distinct benefits like no mither (less noise and can get up an unlimited amount - minus eventual bleedout lol)?

  • Brimp
    Brimp Member Posts: 2,997

    That's just called DBD syndrome. Most players just arent as good as they believe or that they're solo Q.

  • Nick
    Nick Member Posts: 1,237

    You should consider going comp? Go to DBDL discord and challenge some teams with your Twins. Curious to see your results

  • ratcoffee
    ratcoffee Member Posts: 1,475

    I have an excellent strategy to prevent losing 5 gens to get 1 hook in 2v8. Great strategy I just came up with all on my own

  • 100PercentBPMain
    100PercentBPMain Member Posts: 1,068

    Rapid Brutality, if you're the type who equips perks and then proceeds to ignore/forget them

  • Ikalx
    Ikalx Member Posts: 134

    Not gonna lie, I feel like if the game is based around Killers not using their strongest perks, while Survivors almost always using their strongest perks, there's an issue.

  • KolbyKolbyKolby
    KolbyKolbyKolby Member Posts: 623

    I have a very easy time as killer as well which is why I don't use any slowdown perks. Brutal Strength, Lethal Pursuer, BBQ, and then a 4th perk for fun every game. I do this so that there's more of a challenge, why would I make things easier to play?

    If you're having this issue and you're still playing in a way that makes it too easy, that is your fault. No one elses. The devs have to balance around average or lower skilled players or else the majority of players will leave. If that becomes a problem for you, change your playstyle or find something else to play.

  • MechWarrior3
    MechWarrior3 Member Posts: 2,528

    Too easy? lol….You should try my lobbies.