My biggest issue with the gameplay of current DbD

Nice AI post.

People are downvoting because some people here downvote anything that isn’t “all killers are broken and OP and gen speeds are still too slow.” They don’t play killer and so they don’t know and don’t care how difficult it can be to play against good survivors with lower tier killers.

Really now?
It's not impossible to do well as M1 killers if you just put your mind to it.
You just need to think outside the box, and not run the universal meta all the time.

When I first started playing the game properly (which was only at the start of this year, I might add) I was mostly matched with other babies. During this time, the game pace was a lot slower. They spent time actually finding generators, meanwhile I spent time finding them. I could down them quickly, sure, but then it took me a while to get into the next chase, during which some gen progress may have occurred.

The lack of overall player knowledge in these lobbies made the game feel entirely different. I could be a lot more methodical, trying to think ahead about where I might be most likely to find someone to chase. When I did find someone, usually I was catching them a little off guard and the resulting panic made the game feel like an actual horror asym, instead of a game of competitive tag. I think, ultimately, this is the experience the devs build for, despite it not being the experience of 90%+ of the modern playerbase.

While I prefer the faster pace on the survivor side, as it challenges me to be efficient, and every extra second I buy in chase feels like a victory on its own, hitting a decent enough MMR on killer that I'm matching into good players has made me play killer less. It's not because I want easy games overall, it's just because killer is higher stress, requiring more mental energy that I don't have most days after work. While hyper efficiency is a fun challenge on survivor, it's just stressful on killer. Every second I spend doing anything other than 2-tapping someone feels like a loss, and one bad call could cost me the game.

I still enjoy killer and the game overall, but I miss having a second to think about what I'm doing.

It has changed the feel of the game for the worse. When I play killer I feel very hard up against it, can't miss a beat because it costs me time I don't have and I lose gens very quick and as surv (who is distinctly mid at chase) I need every member of the team to be on point or killer snowballs.

Overall game speed is up and it makes the games a little too high pressure for my liking. Would prefer it to feel a little more tactical. Plus it prevents a lot of older slower killers i.e. trapper, ghostface and after her nerfing skull merchant from being relevent anymore.

So many dashslop killers being release (ghoul, krasue, looking at you) because slower killers just aren't viable anymore.

I miss the days when I mostly played against huntress, she is so fun to play against. I want more killers like that

I think I agree that Blight had a pandora's box effect on the game, though really the concepts existed so long as nurse has been in the game.

I just can't agree the matchmaker has never in it's existence ever been grand. But it's only within this last few years that we've gotten to this point. And in killer subs/killer heavy forums, It's an endless scream fest of Survivors must be MIT level engineer good at the game and it's not killer's responsibility if they don't have fun. End result is this, we have survivors who won't even take a chance on fun because killers have made it perfectly clear even if the game folds in on itself because of their actions they are gonna continue to do so. We now only have a playerbase when 2v8 is up because it's the only time survivors can breathe and devs will ensure it's not a complete stomp or 40 minute long heal simulator.

We are the only game I've ever played Asym or not where one role is allowed to dictate this hard while never actually improving themselves. And that's the main issue most killer players have NEVER touched survivor, never learned what gen is priority. Never learned proper rotation on walls. Will run builds only because some streamer says best for that killer without knowing what their personal weaknesses are. Meanwhile survivors have to know perfect timing on every single interaction with killer. Factor in ping difference since BHVR will never apparently remove bluetooth hits. Know exact rotation on walls, have to have the top build etc etc. Killer skill ceiling is in the toilet and Survivor is a skyscrapper and it's not good balance whatsoever. I don't even agree nurse is hard. She's literally just blink management like Tracer, and the easiest to abuse the auto lock aim killers have to get hits she shouldn't. She was my first adept and I wasn't apart of the community at the time and truly felt she was easier than every other killer because I could ignore the main function of killer so easily on her.

Disagree, it's such an issue killer side that one of the main listed reasons on uninstall is "excessive tunneling and camping." And nothing in what you said addresses the core issues I brought up. Survivors HAVE to know exact rotations or snowball they aren't allowed fun builds they've been optimized out of existence. The devs even nerfed steagull for no reason other than 'annoyance' not because of gameplay whatsoever. I can still run a full hex build which isn't optimal on my killers and 3k-4k with minimal lose. But if I try a boon build on survivor I have 4 dead perks and a wasted time on my teammates. The only solution would be a change in queue where it's you want one side but it's not guaranteed We should of never had mains.

Don't need to provide video proof for anything.
I am just going to put out that chase oriented builds works wonders. The faster you can close the distance, the better it is.
Action/vault speed is really good on M1's, as it can catch people off guard a lot.
No one expects to see a Trapper with Bamboozle, right?

if everybody on NA servers agrees to play only Trapper, sorry but Trappers meta. that's how meta works, it means after.

I do love that you bring up that stat because everyone likes to either ignore it or say its not true stats.

We finally have proof that SWF are not winning as much as people like to say

It's honestly wild cause you can even tell in the most highly edited streamer games they spliced like 3 good games out of 30. Swfs on average aren't going "He's at grid 12 kicking gen, rotating to grid 3 now." They're just that survive with friends, once I played enough survivor and had iri on all I was really struck by how utterly miserable it is. Even worse if you're a streamer who wants to be casual. Friend hides their name now and said it was night and day to when they have ttv on. We desperately need to hide names fully survivor side from killer to allow the matches to play out.