I feel like BHVR really doesn't understand Macro-play in DBD

You can't really pressure 4 people at once as single Killer. Unless you're completely dominating all the chase, there'll always be someone on gen.

I mean, you certainly can. And they've made chase so much simpler over the years that it's not even as hard as it used to be. I will readily admit that it's not easy, and requires you to be efficient at all aspects of killer: not just chase, but game sense, game knowledge, situational awareness, information, and effective use of your kit.

You're entirely correct with 1 in chase, 1 on hook, 1 going for rescue/recovery, and 1 on a gen. That's what effective map pressure looks like.

But compare that to hard camping and tunneling: one on hook, 2 on gens and 1 who can likely greed gen progress before going for rescue. So until you get that first person out, you're leaving the rest of the team largely to their own devices and they can do whatever they want.

If they are efficient, playing with experience, and even remotely coordinated (which doesn't necessarily mean SWF), they will use their time to "gen rush".

Which is why we see so many "gens fly" complaints. Because instead of having map pressure (and utilizing a wide variety of skills) and only 1 person on gens, people take a risk of using RNG and chase skill only to race 2-3 survivors. If you got lucky and found the weak link, and can get 3 hooks before the survivors finish about 4 gens, then you win. It's a simple formula, but doesn't rely on nearly as much mastery of the killer role.

To bring this back to what I said before: gens aren't the goal, and it's a resource the killer can spend. If you are just allowing the survivors to do whatever they want, then your only method of slowing down the game is things like slowdown perks or base kit abilities.

But map pressure by itself is already a huge amount of slowdown. Instead of 2-3 on gens, you have at most 1. maybe 0 if you can get a quick enough down to have 2 on hook, where the game is forced to stop for recovery.

That's at least 50% slowdown, maybe 67-100% depending on what circumstance we're comparing.

And even with the power of tunneling, if you aren't efficient at the chase part, you can still lose, and you basically have nothing to fall back on except screaming at the devs to buff you.

Honestly it just sounds like you aren't very good at the game judging by your complaints

Isn't Arinad also the player that made a 200-page guide for Clown and wins like 98% of his matches but instantly calls survivors OP and busted when they win?

Not having too much to say about the changes as i'm not in the loop right now, but just wanting to say your list doesn't really work for me.

Wraith: Definitely not just micro, a good Wraith doesn't commit to chase unless he wants to lose the game. You have to keep an eye on their injured states, find good ways to approach to get a hit without having to run through pallet city. Its not just braindead cloak-find surv-uncloak-hit-repeat. He is a very versatile killer but i would put him in micro-leaning at least

Spirit: In order to win with her you need to play territorial. Find a good 3 gen and hook people there. She is really dependent on that because she has low mobility (you need your power to chase, otherwise they mess around with you). Besides that, you need to recognize stealth perks and remember the survs with them, also some survs are quieter then others. You can't just turn your brain off and chase like some people think. Could still be micro heavy, but i would say micro leaning, because her power is chase-based in the end.

Ghostface: definitely macro leaning or macro heavy. You have to manage your stalks, stalk people for later and leave them, try to stay in power etc., not a micro killer! You don't want to chase with this killer, but approach from behind.

Plague: She is definitely macro. Not only do you have to infect gens, pallets, vaults etc., but you have to manage your fountains which can make or break your match. You also have to decide if you want to chase or just infect someone. Many decisions to make.

On the other side - Dredge, Artist and Freddy are not macro heavy (or at least not more macro heavy than others). Looking out for nightfall or blocked lockers isn't really that much of a task and happens on the fly. Artist? She can send birds far away to gens or hooks but what is macro about that? She doesn't need to manage much and 90% of her power is pure anti-loop. I dunno much about new Freddy, only played against him so far but i wouldn't say he doesn't require that much macro either, as his powers are chase/stealth/stalling focused and mostly passive.

This thread came to mind when thinking about the Streetwise bug and how it hasn't been killswitched. Apparently gens being done twice as fast due to infinite/near infinite toolboxes doesn't completely screw with the game at a macro level enough. Or maybe the OP was right.