Is the game really unbalanced?

“I confirmed this with the data team this morning, the 80% isn't exactly accurate. The stats are taking your rank after the match, not the rank you went in with. The data was also collected between April 1st and April 7th, when it was significantly harder for survivors to pip. As a result, those who died typically deranked back to rank 2 and their death would be counted as a rank 2 death. It was very rare for someone to die at rank 1 and remain rank 1, hence the incredibly high survival rate.

Basically most of the deaths were counting towards rank 2, not rank 1, so the escape rate was much higher than it should be.

I received a stat for the escape rate from the 11th and it was around a 43% escape rate.”

quoted from Peanits, @Blueberry.

That's something. It clears up one of our variables.

However as I've mentioned previously there are multiple other factors that skew those stats that are not being taken into account. Which is also why the devs themselves say the stats shouldn't be taken seriously in terms of using them for balance purposes.

I think the game is mostly balanced aside from the odd add ons, a few maps and death squads. Mori's and keys need adjusting and buff a few bad killers then boom it'd be perfect to me. I 3/4K about 85+% of the time as killer if I'm playing serious and warmed up. The game isn't as nearly as unbalanced as some love to think it is. You can use the vast majority of lower tier killers and do decent in red rank unless you're against a death squad.

At the higher skill levels, the game is heavily survivor favored. The only things keeping killers from being completely dominated at Rank 1 are Nurse and Spirit.

Survivors can overcome most killer setups.

Okay, so let me ask you another question. If they balanced the game to the point that the average survival rate at rank 1 is 50%, what do you think the average survival rate for the other 99% of survivors would be at? Do you think the average person would even want to play survivor? What do you think the wait time for killer lobbies would be at? Do you think new players would want to play a game they would die over and over and over again and after a few hundred hours of play time they might just get to the point where they can survive half the time?

SWF teams that choose to win and bully prove the game is unbalanced. Games can end in 2 minutes. That shows that the game is unbalanced. The reason the stats are like that is because

1. Noob killers have it harder than noob survivors typically which is why they camp.
2. Survivors dont like sitting on a gen for ages and leave gens often to start a chase for fun
3. Alot of survivors dont work through ruin and it turns into RNG.

Survivor mains, am I right that we leave gens every now and then for a chase because gens are boring?

The problem is the gens for being too short and too boring. But I have a solution I THINK

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/95676/generator-rework-concept#latest

Agreed. The devs should balance the game around the competitive players. The casuals are the ones who get on when a new licensed killer comes out, plays for a week then gets off til the next one. I watched a video that had said that 90,000 players played when the endgame collapse came out (pc) when average player count is 25,000. WELL MY THEORY IS those are all the players that left the game coming back because

1. its more balanced
2. A change to the base game for once.

SO ALL IM SAYING IS IT WOULD BE SMART TO REWORK GENS COMPLETELY around rank 1 and a crap ton of players would get on and stay. Like seriously, this game would be so much healthier if it were more competitive because if it were actually balanced then swf wouldnt be able to absolutely bully a killer of similar rank BUT INSTEAD have a very intense fun match.

Check this out if you want some inspiration or wanna support bc no one saw it ha

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/95676/generator-rework-concept#latest

I don't disagree, but I do think that it's a bit narrow minded to say that the only possible way to solve the time pressure issue is to make gens take longer.

If you are talking about the non-balance issues with gens then sure, but the gens aren't an issue in a vacuum. 80 seconds per gen would be far more than enough time for the Killer if his attacks instantly killed you outright with no build up required.

So somewhere between being looped for 2 minutes and instantly killing them is some Killer powerlevel which is balanced given 5 gens that take 80 seconds each. And I think we already have many Killers within that margin, for example Billy is fast enough when patrolling and can make up for chase time by getting in a few instant downs such that he can Kill everyone in the short amount of time he's given.

I'm not saying that gen rush isn't a problem, just that slowing down gens isn't the only solution. Speeding up Killers also solves the issue.

Yep, and it really isn't changing because Nurse is getting nerfed pretty bad, but survivors no longer have insta heals.

Agreed. They didn't even give her anything too compensate for the lack of blinks live MS or better recovery. "little changes too base" my butt.

You don't NEED to change gens at all. It's a possible solution but it's far from the only one.

We can solve the problem without making a single change to generator mechanics simply by giving Killers the tools to win faster, either through better map design, power changes or both.