Why are there no unwritten rules for survivor?

There are douzens of things both sides are not "allowed" to do, if we go by some very entitled players.

For killers it's things like camping, tunneling, slugging, using meta perks and addons as well as map offerings, using the killer's power in an efficient way and even mindgaming.

For survivors it's things like gen rushing, teabagging, pre dropping, using meta perks and items as well as map offerings, looping (according to some people that's also toxic), playing in a SWF and hiding in any way.

Play in a way you wouldn't mind others to play against you, if the roles were reversed and follow the rules. If people still don't like that, then that's their problem.

trying to tell someone else how to play their game is the equivalent of going to the movies and talking loudly and disturbing everyone else. You just don’t like it when the other people in the movie theater (killers) tell you to be quiet.

There aren’t ‘degenerate’ strategies for survivors to use anymore. They’ve been patched out or heavily nerfed. Even genrushing (focusing on gens over all else, which means letting teammates die on hook, not healing, etc) still comes with a lot of risk as usually at least one survivor will die from it. I guess maybe teabagging? Not sure. The rest (looping, predropping, hiding) are kind of necessary things survivors must do to avoid throwing games.

Exactly, people do it anyway. And yes, I'm sure that people who cheat or humiliate or treat other people in order to feel better about themselves, on a regular basis of course, have some serious problems in RL.

This kind of thing shouldn't normally be encouraged in any game but should be punished more severely. DBD, on the other hand, is very tolerant here and doesn't want to lose such people, as many of them also spend good money.

I love the "rulebook" thing... It baffles me when people cry about my play style. I follow BHVR rules, not random players rules. I expect others to do the same. If people don't like it then cry to BHVR not the players that are simply playing the game. "But your playstyle makes it unfun for us"... Um ok I thought I was playing the game for my entertainment, my enjoyment. I wasn't aware I had sole responsibility of everyone else's fun even if it's at the expense of my own fun.

They have proven to fight against cheaters, its just that its an endless battle. The devs build a higher wall, cheaters get a taller ladder. Its an endless battle, and this goes for literally any game out there. Id also argue the cheater situation in this game is VERY tame compared to other games nowadays. (I wouldnt of said the same thing during the cheater epidemic tho)

Going to open this up with a disclaimer saying, yes, of course, play however you want. Just don't go out of your way to make others miserable.

But there actually is a reason why killers get more criticism than survivors beyond just, survivors being whiny and there being 4 survivors for every 1 killer in a lobby.

Killers can actually progress their win condition without camping or tunneling. You have multiple targets you can chase and put on the hook. It might be sub-optimal to chase the Dwight with 0 hook states over the injured, freshly unhooked Claudette on death hook, but catching Dwight does still put you closer to winning the match.

Most sane players understand that once you're down to 1-2 gens, you gotta get someone out of the match. The reason camping and tunneling is annoying is when the MMR messes up and puts you against survivors who aren't very efficient and tunnel someone out at like 5 generators. This is basically a guaranteed loss for the survivors, making the match boring or frustrating depending on your level of detachment.

Survivors don't really have a lot of options for easing up the pressure on a killer who is struggling like killer does against survivors who aren't playing that well.

You can:

• Work on generators
• Set up for a flashlight save
• Heal/rescue allies
• Open a chest
• Do a dull totem

Working on generators progresses the game's primary objective for survivors across the entire team.

Flashlight saves are actually sub-optimal over working on gens, due to them being a massive time loss if you fail to pull it off, but killers hate being flashlight saved against and often deride survivors who are good at them as being "sweaty" in the same way as survivors do for camping/tunneling killers.

You could rescue and heal, but can't if everyone is healthy, which is likely if the killer is getting rolled.

There is literally no reason to do dull totems unless you have a perk like Inner Strength, and even then you might be giving the killer Pentimento. You could do all 5 to avert NOED, but if the killer actually brought NOED and this happens they probably won't be happy about it.

So that just leaves… what, opening chests?

Unfortunately, I'm afraid this is a topic you really don't understand. It's nice to write a few things about cheat protection here(wall and ladder), but none useful simply exists in the game. But it's not that bad, there are a lot of people like you here who don't have that much idea.

There is no server validation in Dead by daylight yet. This means that the client has all possible options for various value inputs. The server accepts this without validation and says fine (go for 300% movement for the next 16 seconds).

This also means that there is still no automatic cheat protection, which means that a support ticket has to be opened manually and a ban can be obtained with the help of clear evidence (video or screenshot). This process takes on average 20 minutes. Also a few little facts and also good learning.

I think the problem is that survivor-mains are just frustrated that the developers have left them behind. We all knew that when they gutted healing, there would be an even greater chance of the three-genning problem. They keep nerfing survivors into oblivion. Telling people to 'just watch YouTube and learn how to loop,' then releasing heavy anti-looping killers, creates a never-ending cycle. If the developers were fairer and didn’t encourage toxic gameplay, there would be fewer unwritten rules. Survivors still have unwritten rules, like leaving your item if the killer lets you go or not teabagging.

So then enlighten us on what survivor strategies are there that have the exact same effects as those on killer?

That's not a good comparison. Being a disturbance in a movie theater is probably against their rules, and they can rightly kick you out for it. DbD also has rules that if you break you can get banned. People should be allowed to do as they please within the rules whether it's an online game, a movie theater, or anywhere else.

No, realistically both sides are just as annoying and entitled as the other and anybody biased towards one side misses on 50% of the game. At one point you realize it and role bias in this game get obnoxious and lack understanding of what this game is meant for.

Dbd but let’s not do it an Us vs Them challenge: impossible.

Its not an argument, its a question.