Killer Feedback Q&A on Why Killers Uninstall the game

i personally would only uninstall because of toxicity because i do really like this game :3

I haven't uninstalled; I just stopped playing killer. I play The Unknown mainly and everyone has said he needs a buff. When I'm not playing unknown, I am struggling with all my matches as other killers. I occasionally have to throw several matches in order to lower my MMR so I can actually enjoy playing killer but now I've just stopped altogether. My main issue is that there are too many advantages as a survivor, and I say this as a survivor player. 2 gen pop every match after first hook, constantly stunned or blinded, body blocking, DS, I get hit with almost all of it in every match. You could say I have a skill issue, but if I have to intentionally lower my MMR to get a win that's saying something in itself. If I played Nurse or Blight, I'd probably have a better time but I'm on console, so the heightens the difficulty playing them quite a bit.

• Entitled survivors toxic as hell.
  • Doesn't matter what you do or how you play they can and will complain over anything and everything you can think of.
  • Too many i see refuse to try to improve instead they just give up and complain.
    • I'll gladly be tunneled myself every game as it WILL improve my looping and running skills. If i die? Don't care next game.
• Too many pallets making the weaker M1 killer roster feel horrible
• Gens fly and sometimes there's nothing i can do to prevent it.
  • Giving all these hand holding buffs for survivors when killer want to rush their objective for a kill, but killers get nothing to help them out when survivors are rushing their objective.
• Some killers are left bugged for so long making them feel miserable to play as.
• I have to put in far more effort as killer than what survivors have to. Making the killer role a lot more stressful since they put up with a lot more pressure.
  • Playing survivor is way more chill than killer.
• Skull Merchant being butchered and intentionally left in a horrible state for almost a year only because of the mass bitching from survivors instead of improving when she was in a healthier state. (2.0)

I did dabble in competitive DBD, not sure if there's any surviving footage, but I was there lol.

I mean, if you only liked a character because they were strong, or problematic, that's on you. I enjoyed playing OG Legion, I wasn't upset when he got changed. I was upset he was dumpstered for 3 years, but I understood that he was massively problematic and needed to get changed drastically.

DBD is supposedly an "Asymmetrical Horror Game" as we know. It's supposed to be power-sided towards the killer. Not a lot, like 60% to 40% This is the genre DBD belongs to. Remember other games in the same genre that got nerfed into oblivion for the killer aspects, such as Killer Clowns, for example? Evil Dead? Dead and gone games, and why? The devs catered to the non-killer side and made the "killers" in their case a joke and unplayable. There are videos online I saw on YT that show a Clowns match where the clown players were getting what could basically be called a digital swirly by the non-killer players.

DBD is following the same path towards it's own demise. Devs that say themselves they are survivor mains and some that don't even play DBD.

Some of you guys may remember years back when a BHVR dev was being interviewed by a Korean gaming outlet and was challenged to a match by 4 guys who played as a regular SWF team. This was when the flashlights had the "insta-blind" with the iridescent bulb addons that when used would instantly blind the killer, and all 4 players had it. They bullied the dev playing the killer so badly that when he left, they fully retuned and nerfed the flashlight setup almost immediately. The worst part about this was it wasn't like the community at that time had been quiet about this problem, quite the opposite, but it went largely unheard until it happened to a BHVR dev.

Sadly, it seems the devs still haven't learned and are still following the "blind-eye" mentality. If it continues along this path, DBD will join Evil Dead and KC from OS.

I still like this game a lot but i will point it out what make me want to play less:

Very stale killer meta: if i want to play to win, i need to use some form of antigen, specially on weaker killers. I really wish we could use more diverse build without the feeling that antigen perks must be on my build.

Hooks mean nothing, deaths mean everything: i feel i get punished for not hooking the same person in sequence. I really would like to have some incentive to go for chases instead of just hooking one or two survivors until the match is over.

"""""Abusable"""""" survivor perks: some survivor perks and items are super strong in coordinated teams and some of them punishes the killer for the survivor mistakes. For example Shoulder the Burden: This perk is very strong in a coordinated team and can be used against a killer who are not tunneling, making the match much harder than it should be if he was tunneling.

Toolboxes and gen perks: these items and perks require no skill and can reduce gen times by amusing amounts of time. Its ironic that their direct counter is tunneling, camping and Slugging, which everyone seems to hate.

Killer queue times: Somedays i can only play early in the morning when killer queue times are 7min+ (Much higher when 2v8 is around). I wish the play while you wait feature was added to 1v4 too.

Not properly working MMR: i have a quite high killrate according to dbd stats but i don't consider myself on the most skilled end of the MMR. Either way, I'm constantly facing winstreaks from people with 8k+ hours or some of the sweatiest teams out there. Also, i shouldn't face baby players, what happens sometimes. We should have ways to know which mmr "bracket" we are and the "bracket" of our opponents, to give better feedback on matchmaking.

Toxicity in postgame chat: althought is our choice to see the postgame chat as we can close it and don't read anything, feels bad knowing someone will trash talk for almost no reason (even though this can happen in any online game). Maybe the post chat should be removed and reworked into a props system.

I didn't uninstall the game but I have three general frustrations with the killer role. Killers can be over stimulating, or very high risk low reward. The recent pallet density changes made this very clear. Some of them have visual or gameplay bugs that haven't been fixed until this day.

Toxicity in general. Even if you disable endgame chat or leave immidiatly, they'll still try to contact you anyway to talk crap about your performance, I had to private my steam profile to stop getting hate comments after most matches.

And finally, the way the devs that handle the balance of this game often say very unprofessional things in most of their streams. I won't list names or go into details, but it has been very bad to see this game this terribly mismanaged and given multiple empty promises.

I've stopped playing killer due to multiple reasons.

• Most of the killers i normally play are always bugged somehow, and behaviour takes too long to fix killer bugs.
• Pallet density. I tried playing killer after the new pallet density, and it was miserable. Now multiple maps give me the same feeling as badham always gives me due to knowing how many strong tiles there is that you can join together.
• Survivor toxicity. Getting bagged, bullied and called names in endgame chat ,no matter how well or poorly you did. I know i can close the endgame chat and not see whatever is being said, but that already shows how bad the game is if you have to do that to have fun.
• Survivors getting basekit perks, while killers get 15 seconds of bloodlust and minor brutal strenght which i personally never even noticed.
• Having to use the same 4-6 perks, just to keep the game going long enough to get few kills. Can't use fun perks or have interesting builds because you know its highly likely that gens will go too fast if you don't have pain res, pop, dead man switch ..you know the deal.
• Even while having gen defense perks the gens are going by too fast.
• Sounds in game. I enjoy playing spirit, but the game has way too loud chase music, too many notification sounds that are loud and survivors love spamming them. When you sacrifice a survivor the part where entity takes them away is so loud and so long lasting i can't hear my own thoughts.
• You have to play spirit on lower fps to hear properly and even then the sounds are inconsistent.
• Playing killers like ghoul and krasue gets you insulted.
• Windows of Opportunity being in every game. This perk alone extends chases and now with the new pallet density all most survivors do is run from yellow to yellow. Chases feel boring and same all the time, and most of the time even bad survivor can extend a chase with that perk alone by finding a strong pallet.
• Killers are getting punished of playing certain ways, but instead of teaching newer or less skillful survivors and killers basics of the game or making a mode where lets say under 100 hour players can play together and learn the game, you restrict killers from doing something that can help them win the game. (I'm not talking about 5 gen tunneling btw).

There is so many reasons i stopped enjoying playing killer, but these are the main reasons for me.

edit: fixed one line.

You could say the exact same for Survivors.

The strongest strategies to play Survivor are prerunning (optimal with Sprintburst) and predropping pallets.

Both sides have really boring strategies which are way to powerful on how easy they are to pull off.

Sorry for that…

I don´t like to play Killer anymore, because my mains , Chucky, Myers and Clown have been butcherd though Nerfs, Changes or beeing hated by anyone.

My reasons for uninstalling aren't exclusive to the killer role but I think this thread is definitely worth keeping relevant.

Matchmaking is terrible. Most games I end up getting stomped by people way better than me, then eventually after 4-5 games of misery, the game decides to throw what I can only assume are brand new players at me. I slaughter them, presumably my MMR goes up just enough to then give me sweaty games again. Most games for me are either 0K or very rarely a 1K because a survivor is giving me a pity kill with a 3K w/ hatch or a 4K sprinkled in the middle. Stats wise, it puts me right where BHVR want me on kill rates but the experience is exhausting.

Usually I'm pro SBMM but DbD is the only game I've played where I actively feel like matches are rigged from the start in order for the result to fit a spreadsheet.

Frustration and boredom.

Game often feels like just a pallett stand off Simulator. Most players rarely mindgame cause just running from pallett to pallett is way more efficient. So many chases especially with m1 killers always feel the same. Also everything (builds, looping etc.) is super optimised on most survivors which adds to the feeling that it's always the same.

But also frustration. I really want to play every killer but I feel like with many killers I just have to be prepared to get absolutely rolled. Not talking about winning but the feeling that you stand absolutely 0 chance in this match just cause of ur killer pick and cause ur not playing optimised af

I have not uninstalled yet, but I'd still like to give my two cents on what is slowly making me consider it.

I feel as if the low tier killers are more stressful to play due to recent changes and the upcoming changes. I love playing Sadako, even the current one, but the sheer amount of pallets and her power being very easy to deal with combine into a tedium that even I can't keep up with. And now, I play more powerful killers just to have an enjoyable time.

And this is coming from someone who does play as fair as I can. Spreading hooks, not spamming my power, not using the meta, and not tunneling/camping unless there's 1 gen left or it's endgame. And yet, despite all that, I'll still get insults and accused of doing things I wasn't anyway to the point where I just keep my steam profile comments locked to friends only because I just don't want to deal with the community's toxicity when DBD is only one game out of many I play.

And BHVR doesn't really seem to care about these core issues? For years I've advocated for better tutorials and even a comprehensive guide to the deeper mechanics, perk and buff/debuff explanations and so on with an in-game compendium that other games have done successfully. Imagine if you went against something you had no idea how it worked, and then your compendium auto-updates with the perks/addons/items etc that you faced with an alert so you can read it, learn about it, and formulate how to go against it later instead of waiting for the end of the match for the killer's stuff to appear or to try and find it in the shop via the info tab on each character.

But, I digress, I still haven't uninstalled but it's feeling more tempting as each new disappointing patch rolls in.

Edit: Oh and the sheer amount of perks that are pointless to run, that doesn't help. I like running weird builds, but only when there's value in running them. Not in an auto-win or make it easier argument, I mean in a way we can use combination for fun without breaking the game or feeling like it's underwhelming. This goes for survivor too.