"This Game Genuinely Makes Me Feel Miserable"

Agreed 👍 this post isn't a discussion... it is a ragebait post.

Why do you think this just applies to Killer players? I'm a Survivor main and I'm more or less totally burned out on the role by this point. Killer mains are burned out because that's the side they're most invested in and the side they've played the most. It's less a comment on the current state of the game and more a reflection of their own personal headspace right now.

I didn't watch all the videos, but I did watch the CovoCava video because it does reference a recent video from Otz that I have watched. And I do actually agree with Otz, the game is in a much, much better state than it was (I first started playing about 3 years ago). Regardless of how I might personally feel about DBD, it's objectively true that big improvements have been made in the last few years.

In their video, CovoCava conveniently ignores the "BS" that Survivor players typically have to face, so here's a big ol' list of things in the game that I no longer have the patience for anymore:

• Being forced to play out games that have been lost in the first 4 minutes because the Killer went for an easy tunnel out.
• Killers slugging the entire team.
• Slugging for the 4K to deny hatch.
• Every new Killer having 2 or more powers, as well as being way too strong for the average SoloQ team to handle.
• Survivor perks being hobbled on release or nerfed because SWFs / more experienced Survivors can get too much value out of them.
• The only new Survivor item for years nerfed into uselessness a week after it was released.
• None of the changes from the 2 PTBs meant to address Survivor pain points being added to live servers (so no carrot, yet we still got the stick part of the equation with harsher DC penalties and go next prevention).

See, I can do it too. But I know these things don't bother everyone.

When I first started playing, I struggled through some of the worst Survivor games imaginable. I would put up with anything because I was still learning, the game felt fresh and fun to me and playing Survivor felt scary and thrilling. But that was a long time ago and I've run out of patience to deal with the stuff I personally find annoying. Nowadays I jump on a couple hours a week to play some casual Killer games and I only play Survivor during events. It helps that I'm less invested in my Killer games and I feel like I have more agency (so I get less irritated). I can still find some enjoyment from playing Killer but Survivor… Not so much.

Tl;DR - Some of us have played way too much DBD and we don't realise when we need to take a break sometimes. It's just player burnout. It's really as simple as that, imo.

Killer burnout? Yeah. It's not fun being forced to stack slowdown just to get a game that lasts more than 5 minutes against survivors with a brain. So many killers are outdated and can't keep up with the base kit buffs survivors got over the years. And running a higher tier constantly isn't the most fun for me either. As well as the general survivor just not being good at the game but because perks play a MAJOR part in the game you can be bad but still get decent results in terms of time wasted. Just a shame no matter how much time you waste you can see your teammates… just not be on gens and cleansing totems/opening chests multiples times when its not a good time to do so.

You can tell its getting bad when queue times start climbing for survivor even on a friday night at least in my region.

Your three Overlaps you mentioned also do apply to Survivor. Not only to Killer. MMR, Pallets and Maps are also frustrating points there. E.g. you can assume that the number of Survivor players who are happy to play on Dead Sands or Fallen Refugee goes towards 0.

I also always find the term "Killer Anxiety" pretty stupid. Because what the people who popularize this term want is basically a Killing Simulator, because the people who claim that Killer Anxiety exists also ignore that since the beginning way more Buffs happened to Killer and way more Nerfs happened to Survivor (which is fine, because Survivors were busted for the first years). But since several years now you cannot really say that the game is survivor-sided.

Personally, I dont really have strong feelings when playing Killer. In fact, I think it is more relaxing than playing Survivor. I have almost 11k hours, so I am way over the point where I get annoyed by losing in a videogame, especially because I know that the game sometimes decides to give you the finger and if it starts doing that, it will continue to try to piss you off. And if I start to get annoyed by the game by any means, I just quit for the day, because my mood is more important than the game.

But as I said, Killer is more relaxing for me, because as Killer I only have to rely on one person, which is me. And if I lose, it means that the others were simply better. But I dont have that as Survivor, obviously I can also lose, because the Killer is better. But sometimes I lose because other Survivors dont do Gens. And I get annoyed if other Survivors are following me to help me, ideally even throwing Pallets I could have used longer or just being irritating because you dont want to sandbag each other. And likewise, if I make a dumb mistake, the whole team might die because of it. This does not happen as Killer, if I make a mistake as Killer (which indeed happens, I am still overcommitting into Chases sometimes, which makes me lose the game), I am the only person who has the damage because of it and I am fine with that.

The only time I really got burned out by playing Killer was when Krasue released. But this was mainly because I really dont like her at all, since she is so insanely boring to play. I still have not brought her to P9 or did her Achievements (something I do with every new Killer), because I cannot stomach that. That Krasue was the Killer added before BHVR decided to push back content did not help either.