9.3.0 | Mid-Chapter

Your dev team is incompetent and biased. Please engage in some self-reflection as a group and do better. Solo queue is the worst experience I've ever had in an online title, and it's treated as an afterthought when it comes to managing this game. To scrap the tunneling changes and slugging changes, when they're practically in every other game, and then nerf the tiles to a worse state than they previously were, is beyond acceptable. It's laughable that S-tier killers can rack up win after win with even less resistance now, and yet you, as a dev team, continue to leave these killers who can reach kill streaks in the thousands unchanged. For a year focused on the health of your game, it's baffling how poorly the job has been handled, and the lack of a backbone to stand up to the loud minority with Twitch streamers who cater exclusively to a single side.

I have uninstalled for now. There's a survey that is prompted upon install and tunnelling/slugging was one of the options iirc (might have been a sub-selection under toxic killer behaviour).

not only did you kill off the medkits addons,
especially the septic is useless.

fog-vials have yet to be fixed.
kaneki is still running rampant as an top 5 killers,

conviction got nerfed, the only thing we even got from twd chapter that was good.

you also reversed the pallet density to be all fillers that any killer can outplay and hit survivors over or around.

its actually insane how little incentive you gave survivors to play this year, even the events have just been for killers, all we got was bloodmoon and that was halfway ruined by kaneki. the rest was just bp grind filler that most people at a later point dont care about anymore since bloodmoon and anniversry exists.

i know you guys said halloween wont get much of an adjustment, but you guys lied, it got nerfed even MORE,
not only do you have handicap survivors by being exhausted and broken, the killer is STILL undetectable and the void world itself got nerfed with less pallets and ghosts trying to slow ONLY survivors down.

if you ask why no survivor bothered to play the event, because the void world handicapped survivors to the point that any killer with mobility can easily capitalise and easily win matches.
which lead to killers not caring because if they played the event, they lost due to genrushing, which was FORCED BY THE GAME.

I'm not sure that this will matter to anyone, but I figured some actual data (even if it's kind of anecdotal) might be helpful in terms of how the last few months of changes have impacted survivor players. I keep a spreadsheet, like an absolute lunatic, because I'm curious about this sort of thing. I track which killers I get when I'm playing as survivor, both in normal games and in 2v8. Which also obviously doubles as telling me how many matches I play as survivor. Keeping in mind that at least a solid 60-70% of the time, I would play with friends, so this is pretty indicative of a larger group of players.

1v4

August: 154
September: 135
October: 118
November: 33

2v8

August-September Event: 143
November Event: 70

This doesn't include my killer games in either mode. But I feel like providing some actual numbers for how much playing survivor has dropped off for me might be indicative of how a lot of survivor mains have been feeling in recent months.

There was a sharp downturn in my own survivor play time and that of everyone I know (several of which have been DBD players for MANY YEARS longer than myself) right around when the devs completely walked back on the anti-slugging, anti-tunnelling changes after a handful of days in the PTB. This wasn't inherently just because of the devs decision, it was also about the reaction of a good number of killer players in game. By which I mean, almost overnight, the amount of tunnelling, slugging and camping I saw daily in games shot up violently. The problem wasn't great before, but after that PTB (which, I might add, absolutely none of the 'punishing changes for killers' were added to the game, only the nerfs to several survivor anti-tunnelling perks), it was horrific.

It was pretty common for some combination of my friend group to be playing survivor games basically every night of the week, now it's maybe once a week if that? No one I know wants to play anymore because it's just punishing. Even when I do manage to convince friends to play occasionally, where we previously would play dozens of games in one sitting, we're lucky to do more than three now before tapping out.