Where is the variety?

Because most games have a meta? Killers will run what is effective. Can't expect them to use bad perks and weak killers to lose games all the time. That said I get the frustration, I'm sick of seeing vecnas with aura read builds, friends forever builds, and wraiths using the busted tbtc and serpent add on combo.

Only thing I'm annoyed by is maps. I see a lot of different survivor builds with different purposes. I see a lot of different killers, and I play as a lot of different, non-S tier killers without any gen regress perks. If you don't like the meta then don't use it yourself.

Same survivors though? Like the same characters?

Variety died when BHVR decided to make this game a competitive scene.

Have you done the recent survey in the in game mail? It's your chance to at least talk about killer balance.

I had incredible variety of killers yesterday, only 1 repeat killer. It went like this-

Legion (Escaped)

The First (Escaped)

Legion (Escaped/K DCd)

Krause (Died)

Springtrap (Escaped)

Spirit (Died)

Oni (Died)

Clown (Died on purpose)

Blight (Escaped/K DCd)

Pig (Died)

Nurse (Escaped)

Doctor (Escaped)

It was refreshing to have such a variety

Players tend to use the meta.

This has always been the case but it has gotten worse over the last few years because behavior power crept the meta on both sides while leaving the already mediocre old content to rust (Massively buffing survivor perks and slightly buffing base-kit survivor combined with buffing killer perks that help primarily mobile Chase oriented killers and making all the strong new killers Chase + Mobile. Behavior also has nerfed several perks that only weak killers run like Sloppy Butcher, STBFL, etc.)

Let me tell you this way.

There is a variety of guns you can use, but there is an rpg you can use with no consequence.

It works as intended, a massive aoe oneshot weapon.

The others get easily overshadowed, pistols, smgs, shotguns, machine guns, snipers, ecr.

People will stick to the rpg because its easy and effective.

low tiers can't keep up in a heavy aura/cooldown heavy game now.

you guys go play Trapper against 11 and see how that goes. go play Oni against 4 Lara's and see how that goes. even my boy cenobite isn't any better.

The odds of getting the same swf multiple times in a row and multiple nights in a row is insanly low. Realisticly i cant see that happening unless your in a region with like 10 players.

Im on eu servers and i rarely get the same survivor and i maybe recognise a survivor in my lobby maybe once a month.

I dont wanna say your lieing but your making this out to be a huge issue with no proof and the examples your using seem very exagerated.

What i would do if you are seeing this truthfully is record it, put it on yourtube then report it because in that example of same swf time and time again shouldnt happen and could be thst either a bug or they

are forcing themself into your lobby

Survivors have a large number of options that can completely wreck most of the killer roster. The more experience the survivors, the better they utilize these tools. Eventually. The effectiveness of these options out-power killers to such a degree that only a select few killers are actually viable to play. That means youll start seeing killers like blight/nurse more and more often, because killers like ghostface and trapper simply dont have a toolkit to deal with effective looping and teamwork. Most of the perks that at the very least allowed them to stay somewhat viable continue to get nerfed due to strong killers being almost unbeatable with said perks. This means strong overperforming killers get slightly taken down a notch but still strong, but low tier killers barely holding on for dear life become completely invalidated. With all the gen regression nerfs, this only leaves a handful of killers left that realistically get picked. People demanded killers nerfs, and killers got nerfed globally. Every nerf, less and less killers are viable which push more and more killers to only playing s tier killers.

*This is a simple game that some people may get bored of in 3 minutes.

*The destination is a simple world.

Which killer, which survivor, what strategy, which perks, and on what map?

A lot of blanks for the reader to fill in that many could agree without having the same facts.

It would be like me saying every new poster says the same character is OP, the same perks are broken, and the same map is balanced towards the other side.

There will always be a meta. They tried addressing it back with update 6.1 and for a period onwards, but new metas always developed until I guess they just gave up. And some killers will always have a higher pick rate than others. If they change up too many older killers they risk the veteran players being unhappy with no guarantee that new players (the number of which have undoubtedly dropped since the peak pandemic years) will pick them up.

slowdown and exaustation perks have been staple

In the meta for almost 10 years . Don't think that will change unfortunetly.

MMR.

If you're actively trying to improve and "win", you're going to be steadily improving your MMR to pair you with opposing player(s) of similar skill to give both you and them a chance at decent back and forth. This has the knock-on effect of those who are continuously trying to improve, to subsequently min-max and streamline their actions because they want to "win", and to maintain that feeling of "winning" they continuously get shoehorned into more and more efficient metas.

I purposely let most survivors live and screw around (not that I don't give good chase initially, nor do I force survivors to stay in the match), and my MMR places me with new players every now and then, I can bring whatever I want.

I like jumpscares and spooking people. Don't have the time to do that if everyone is hyperfocused on gen-speed and hyper-vigilant. I do Hook people, I do make a sacrifice (usually the obsession in the end-game), so I'm still being a "loyal servant to the entity".

But I'm not playing in a comp. mode now are I?

experience doesn't matter if people like him are the reason new people stick around. too many sweaty killers leaving people on the ground for the 4k are why this game has such gargantuan turnover rates

Tunneling is one of the easiest things to do in the game as Killer, and most effective:

• Killer knows where they hooked the survivor
• Killer feels a sense of attachment/milestone with the hooked survivor
• If Killer roams and searches, and survivors hide (typical in lower MMR lobbies), the unhook notification gives an indication to them that there's a survivor over there
• A lot of newer players just heal under hook instead of running away initially (even then that leaves scratch marks, which are likely unsuppressed given a lack of perk availibility.
• You can proxy the hook and catch rescuers as Killer, giving you another route to patrol for finding survivors
• The Unhooked survivor typically is down a health state, and unless the other survivors bring hook/healing related perks, that can last a while
• You know where the unhook happened and where that now closer to death survivor is.
• Getting one person out opportunely shrinks the pool of available survivors for the Chased/Hooked/Rescuing/Repairing cycle, giving the Killer a lot of leverage.

Killers are more than likely going to start out tunneling at low MMR's. But it's also a strategy that persists in high MMR as one of the best strategies if you're not sacrificing gen pressure (hence the at a distance slowdown/regression meta of Pain res/DMS)

Am I prepairing them to get into that mindset/grindset for how to deal with tunneling? No, and that is something you can point out as a problem.

But this is a problem they are going to have to face anyway, because it's what all Killers will by trying to do, as efficiently as possible, with the current game mechanics. There is no reliable way to counter tunneling, you're either dealing with someone that doesn't need to tunnel, tunneling is going to be happening, or it's a SWF stomp. That's about what I've been experiencing that last few months in my SWF. And woe be those in non-SWF.