Why do so many people find killer so stressful to play?

Could just be a lack of enjoyment in the role? Maybe they tried one killer, didn't enjoy it, and assume it will be the same for all killers? Or they hold too high expectations on themselves - the prospect of having to set the tone of the match for 4 other people can be daunting for some.

I also experience zero stress when I play killer, which is actually really funny to me as i have GAD lol. Sometimes I might make a stupid mistake and briefly get frustrated at myself, but going into the match I'm pretty chill. Everyone in my match will forget about me once they've loaded into their next one, and the outcome of the match has zero impact on my actual life. So, no need to stress.

No clue, killer is so handheld and babied at this point in the game if you are scared of playing it you probably shouldn't be playing the game in the first place.

The average killrate is over 60%, SWFs are a minority in the game and barely happen, killer is so disgustingly easy that people can go on thousand game winstreaks on it. This isn't hard to understand.

I have shown my stats in another thread and will not do it again, I have proven I have nearly an 80% kill rate on every killer I play or at the bare minimum on the killers I was farming the event with, 8 hook nearly every single match, and I don't play with sound. Spotify or a youtube video is always playing.

It's a solo role, that's why. Personally, I don't really get anxious at all, I'm too experienced now. But I used to.

I feel like a lot of people just have this fear of playing killer and I find it very interesting hearing why they feel that way.

This is one of my favorite topics and it comes up every month or two.

It boils down to: people are different.

Personally, I've never found Killer very fulfilling (win or lose). That's very different from being stressed in the role as I've never thought the things you have to manage in the game are that difficult or anywhere on the level of having to guess at what the other survivors are doing.

Some do sure but I deeply don't care about that. They can act like idiots all they want. It really doesn't matter.

Every time a survivor escapes?

I feel constantly pressured as killer as you really have no down time, as survivor I can piss around, zone out on a gen and have some fun chases (depending on the killer) and the pressure isn't on me constantly.

Even if I win against the sweatiest most toxic survivors, it just doesn't leave me feeling good for some reason. The second I go ready as killer I get anxiety even though like most people who play killer, I win most of my matches.

It's why I rarely play killer and I didn't buy the last 2 at all since I know I will probably never play them.

It definitely gives you the sense that nothing will ever be good enough, doesn't it? lmao

Yeh, no… As a 2016 player, having lived through all of the miserable times on both sides… Overall and to this day I can still say survivor is A LOT more relaxing to play than killer ever was. The only time I would not stress at all on killer is when I play nurse, cause that killer is just pure ez mode. I actually avoid playing her, she shouldn't be in the game in her current state. That plus Nurse is the reason every half decent killer perk gets nerfed.

Its gotten really bad. Killer being as blanketly strong as it is against the vast majority of survivors has made them babied, whenever any sort of pushback from solo queue players is seen they flip out and demand nerfs to swfs, when 99% of the time they are not playing against a stack, or even that sweaty players. There is so much demand over killers being able to always get the 4k that there isn't even a thought for them about how survivors (the majority of players) even feel in the games.

Those queue times are a menace, dawg

I think it really depends on how you play killer. If you run meta perks hard tunnel, and camp playing efficiently as possible then yes that one match where all survivors are equally efficient and understand the assignment is going to seem like a slog. I get more mad at bugs than the actual role. I primarily play perkless huntress and hitting blatant hatchets back to back and them getting dedicated during egc drives me mad but as far as the role I love killer . I think people's view of both sides gets skewed when the matches contain equally skilled players where they're normal methods of winning falter. I love the super competitive matches I may talk trash but it's all in good spirit.

To piggyback off of this, I think the game overall feels bad to play. We all want our optimal matches and when they don't go that way, they feel a lot worse than they would if the game didn't feel so bleh. For instance, I'm sure a lot of Survivors escape more than they think. It's how they escaped (Killer giving it to them, event mechanics carrying them, etc. vs. earning it for themselves—low vs. high autonomy) as well as how bad the average trial feels. The reward feels pointless. Likewise I'm sure many Killers are genuine when they claim the game is awful for Killer right now, but it's because they're not getting the trials they want as easily even if they're winning most if not all of them like you said.

So the game I just played is a good example.

It was against a Ghoul (a killer I am not fond of playing against). I am death hook with 2 gens left. The Ghoul sees me with Barbecue.

I am now going to die, which in itself is really frustrating since I know that there's nothing I can do to stop that against a killer like Ghoul. But not only am I guaranteed to lose the match, I need to run this last chase really well or else the other three survivors will also lose.

It's a bad, frustrating, stressful feeling that I just don't get on killer.

On killer it's more like "Oh they escaped, but at least I got 8 hooks." or "Well two escaped, but I killed two others. Not bad."

There's so many degrees of success and failure as a killer compared to survivor. As survivor the best you can hope for when you die is that you bought enough time for your allies to win, even though you lost.

"Hello, fellow killers. I'm here to tell you that the game is much more fun if you just let the survivors win all the time. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk."

Oh, wow. You took the completely wrong lesson from those toddler years and little league games.

Sportsmanship isn't "playing in a manner that makes sure that everyone has a good time." Sportsmanship is "an understanding of and commitment to fair play, ethical behavior and integrity, and general goodwill toward an opponent." It means not cheating, not breaking the rules, and not being a jerk about the end result. I can have goodwill towards an opponent while actively trying to crush them in-game. Sportsmanship is about fair play, respect and grace in both victory and defeat. The competition, in and of itself, is supposed to be the "good time." If you can't have fun while competing, maybe competitive multiplayer games aren't for you.

The point of sayings like, "Winning isn't everything," is to teach kids that it's better to play fair and lose than to cheat and win.

What's ironic is that I see far more survivors utilizing poor sportsmanship than killers. It's quite common for survivors to gloat when they win and spout the most vitriolic stuff in the end game chat when they lose. Especially if they lose because the killer didn't follow some imaginary rule that they made up in their head.