'Why Do Killers Play So Sweaty?' A Rant.

So, two things here:

First, the killer stun was 3s, but the animation for the survivor was about 1.4s. So even successfully using this perk only have you about 1.6s of distance, since you were also animation locked (stunned) yourself after activation.

I'll also add that their first swing at extending the stun back to 5s also increased the animation time, so the survivor was animation locked for about 2.2s instead. They made the perk objectively worse for everyone involved, then settled on 4s, simply because they only wanted survivors to get about 2 seconds of distance off this perk.

Second, with the endless "maps are bad" complaints, maps have been nerfed, tiles nerfed, pallets nerfed, and dead zones are everywhere. "Just get to a good place to use it" is insanely tone deaf in 2024 DbD. That might've worked fine in 2020 or earlier when there were actual resources to use. The only resource that's gotten better over time is hooks now respawn, so it's even easier for killers to hook in a dead zone.

First, the killer stun was 3s, but the animation for the survivor was about 1.4s. So even successfully using this perk only have you about 1.6s of distance, since you were also animation locked (stunned) yourself after activation.

there is literally a reason why you are supposed to force a down or grab at specific spots when having DS you know?

I'll also add that their first swing at extending the stun back to 5s also increased the animation time, so the survivor was animation locked for about 2.2s instead. They made the perk objectively worse for everyone involved, then settled on 4s, simply because they only wanted survivors to get about 2 seconds of distance off this perk.

they buffed it to 5s only because majority of playerbase that doesn't know how and where to use it (literally old DH no skill paradox). Then they realized they screwed up, but instead of doing something like disabling killer's power for like 2-3s on top of 3s stun to make this perk good against Nurse, Blight and Billy, they just went for 4s.

Second, with the endless "maps are bad" complaints, maps have been nerfed, tiles nerfed, pallets nerfed, and dead zones are everywhere. "Just get to a good place to use it" is insanely tone deaf in 2024 DbD. That might've worked fine in 2020 or earlier when there were actual resources to use. The only resource that's gotten better over time is hooks now respawn, so it's even easier for killers to hook in a dead zone.

literally only a few maps are really bad in terms of amount of deadzones lol

I 100 % agree but Knockout is solely used to beat on solo queue survivors because you don't have any way of communicating to each other.

If you don't enjoy snowball fights and making snowman plays, then there's still the regular queue for you. This is the reason why they split the queues and why a win or a loss doesn't impact your MMR, so that those of us who enjoy interacting with the event stuff can fully enjoy it and those who don't can just play the regular normal mode.

If I'm playing the Event, I honestly don't care if I win or lose (and I've been losing a lot). Sure, I mostly still play the game normally (unless the others want a snowball fight), but I also expect players who queue up to "waste time" throwing snowballs and hiding in snowmen because that's the whole point of it.

I will never understand the part of the DBD community that treats every event just like it's the regular game.

They'll never show us the number, because then people would realize how awful it really is.

So killers are fine to camp, tunnel, and slug, right?

Because it's easy. I can see the frustration from getting bad solo queue teammates, or being unlucky enough to be the tunneled one nearly every time, but otherwise what is there to complain about as survivor? If I get on a certain time of day, I'm getting good teammates a little more consistently. Maybe people just need to find that right time slot. And if the killer's running strong perks or using strong strategies, aren't there survivor perks that just negate that?

Are people "sweating" or do they just know what to do after thousands of hours? Hmmm

I only played the event as a survivor and only 4-5 games honestly felt like killer was a little sweatier than usual but also I kinda just want to have some fun with the snowballs and snowman but definitely didn't happen. So I gave up early on the event. Some people want to have fun and some don't I guess it's whatever. The last game I played in the event was fun. 2 people just playing for unhooks I guess leave the game pretty quickly so that left me a the person I was playing with with 2 gen's left and for some reason killer decided he wanted the 4k I was slugged and carried around for a very long time while my friend was cruising around in a snowman. The game took at least 45 minutes because the killer was carrying me around and not hooking me but if I wiggled he would just follow me and down me again and carry me around again. We finally messaged the killer and told him to stop holding the game hostage. It took another 5 minutes for him to do that. I didn't do anything toxic in game unless hitting the killer with a snowball triggered him or something.

Sidenote; do you know where someone could get perk icons like that? I miss the older look and the larger border around the icons.

Have you tried hitting something with a snowball, as killer? Did you know killer snowballs fly in random directions, so it’s near impossible to hit something with a killer snowball unless the killer is like super close?

How are killers expected to have fun with snowballs, when the killer snowballs are purposely made horrible?

Meanwhile, survivor snowballs are so accurate that I can hit a moving snowman, while I’m running, from a very decent range.

It is a custom icon pack called Nostalgia, my friend!

You can find it on NightLight.

Alright, Ill look into it. Tysm!

bad logic and game design, Making the majority of the playerbase suffer bad game design because of the minority that play with discord friends is absurd. The correct course of action is to balance swf/soloq. Allow some form of comms, maybe a comms wheel, honestly anything. Imagine making a pvp game that requires teamwork and coordination to win and not allowing said ability to coordinate. Only people who use discord with some friends are allowed a balanced game. no thats dumb. bad design, bad everything.