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Why does playing killer have to be so stressful?
I can't even be happy or feel stress relief after getting 4k or 3k because of the amount of ######### this game throws at me, auto aim, loops you can't mind game, god loops, gen times etc etc
I had to play a red mori game just to make myself feel better
They are killers for god sakes, not a test dummy for survivors
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If playing red mori makes you feel good no change in the game can help you. Dbd is a horror game and horror games are meant to be stressful. Am I wrong?
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There are times when matches can be very frustrating, but honestly it's up to you to shrug it off and move on to the next game. If you can't do that you might wanna take more breaks :p
Using red moris on innocents is pretty mean (even though I get it), gotta remember you're always facing completely different people. Not their fault you had a bad game.
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Yes, the killer in the horror game is meant to be a stressful experience, and the survivors are the ones who are supposed to have freedom and free reign. /s
@MrsPiggyIsSoSneaky Killer in this game is really stressful as you rank up due to the amount of sweat required in a lot of your games to pip, or even have fun.
Alot of killer players, including me have stopped playing because it’s simply boring as ######### to only play 2-3 killers who stand a chance in red ranks and they are taking their time to address the weaker killers, who desperately need love.
Trapper is outdated and needs an overhaul, and he needs the bag addons to be base kit. 0 map pressure unless he gets good maps.
Wraith could use a few tweaks to be viable such as maybe boneclapper base bell.
Doctor is very outdated as well and I hope they give him the rework he deserves. 0 map pressure at the moment.
Leatherface is a joke (I’m saying this as a Bubba main) this character was rushed as ######### and needs a complete rework to be viable. As he stands, against half decent survivors he just gets looped. 0 map pressure.
Clown needs his bottles to be a little stronger, he is completely add on reliant to be good at counter looping but still has 0 map pressure.
Legion is currently the new Freddy, replacing him as basically the worst killer in the game. Nothing to help him in chases, he got nerfed to the floor recently. 0 map pressure.
Oni is arguably among one of the weakest killers at the moment because of the heavy flick nerfs, if survivors play it smart and safe he’s never going to snowball. PURE m1 killer without power. 0 map pressure without his power.
There are a ton of other killer issues at the moment as to why killer is stressful to play right now, but those are off the top of my head. The main culprit of killer being unfun to play is the gen speeds, but it’s how it’s going to be unless the devs overhaul survivor objectives which is currently in serious need of reworking, seriously where is the fun in holding m1?
Anyways yeah sorry if it’s a little long but I wanted to answer your question as best as possible being a semi killer main.
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Never once have I heard of a stressful horror game were you play as the bad guy
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Honestly it just sounds like you need to learn how to run loops effectively. Unless there is a huge skill gap between the survivor and killer, no loop is safe forever, you should eventually catch up to them. If you don't, then frankly you're just bad. I've accepted this myself and am trying to get better, you should too.
And gen times are fine, run ruin/thanat and gen regression perks, and patrol them, or get a good 3 gen going.
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Playing killer isn't fun, and I get the feeling the devs don't WANT it to be fun. I mean you always see Peanits talking about how important it is for survivors to have fun so that's why killers are always nerfed. So why doesn't that same logic apply to killer?
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Because there are more survivor mains than killer mains, which has to be the case. I think that is their logic. What they don't seem to grasp is if killer mains leave the game survivors simply won't have games.
I find playing killer quite stressful, mostly because of toxic survivors. I don't mind if they are respectful, but when they go out of their way to bully you, that is quite bothersome. They have plenty of opportunities too. There comes a certain point where they know you cannot possibly win and make sure to rub it in.
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Get better at the game. The fact you just admitted you had to rely on a mori for entertainment is saying a lot.
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Matchmaker is really unfair, ignore the folks like the one right above.
That being said, stop caring, that is what I did, and the game got SO much more fun. Play stuff for fun not to win, set different objectives for what you consider a win.
I play ghostface only crouching, if I get one or two kills awesome, if i get none which happens a lot, also great. I use his speedy crouch add ons and play peek a boo with survivors if they will let me. IT's a TON of fun.
You stress because you feel like you can't do anything, but the truth is you can do SO much if you change your mindset a bit.
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Uh huh. Lets see, ruin usually goes down in seconds due to broken survivor spawns. You run the loop until you catch up, then a pallet goes down and they run to the next loop, then the next one, then the next one, then the god loop. After that, you finally down them, and all of that work can be destroyed by an overpowered flashlight, but even if you get the hook off, it's one of 12 required and you're probably staring at 2 gens left. Then you're expected to leave the area and not camp, because that's "toxic" killer behavior.
Rinse and repeat for your second hook, but now the gates are powered, so you hook someone and try to guard them, but borrowed time allows them to escape, and even if you do manage to down them again, they probably have decisive as well.
You didn't even safety pip, and the survivors trash talk you for camping. When you point out how weak killer is, it's "welcome to killer":
Honestly at this point, I'm convinced that BHVR is the entity and they thrive on the suffering of their customers.
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You have to put your emotions aside as a killer or else you'll get sucked into chasing one survivor for 5 gens. You have to pick your battles in order to have a chance at winning the war.
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I only started to feel this way after my homegirl Nurse was nerfed.
Thank god there's a Survivor side for me to play
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Yeah, playing Nurse only since a few weeks really. No point playing anything else, because of the stress.
Nurse can be stressful too though, but thats mainly because of dedicated servers hating her to the bone.
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if Your feeling this stressed out maybe it’s time to take a short break and either play survivor or a different game until you feel better.
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Yo same here....rip Nurse.
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Killer will probably always be stressful, because they are always on a timelimit
They constantly need to move
Killer becomes chill if you clearly see you've won
That really shouldn't become the standert
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Don’t care about pipping, play to have fun. The stress is all in your own head. Only got 9k and didn’t get a down? Who cares? Got a 4K in 3 minutes? Who cares?
If the the only way to get enjoyment for you is to pip, or 4K then you probably will always stress yourself out. Otherwise play to have fun and don’t care about the result. Try different builds, strats, looping paths, mind games.
Take breaks as well, if you’re not enjoying yourself, why play a video game?
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Did you ever think that maybe you played bad? It's so easy to put to blame on the game.
Flashlights are not overpowered, they aren't hard to avoid. In fact, going against a team with 4 flashlights usually works in your favour if you know how to avoid them. They constantly chase you to get a flashlight save instead of doing gens and that usually costs them the game.
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A horror game but the killer is the one being scared and tortured lol.
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Oh god...........SURVIVORS
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Why shouldn't it be stressful? You are one person going against 4 people. Of course it will be stressful.
Don't expect relaxing games just because they are "killers".
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Honestly it is stressful but that's because it's 1v4, if they made it not stressful survivor would probably be nerfed into oblivion. Of course they can make some quality of life changes like a toggle for that Godforsaken autoaim (and don't tell me it does nothing, I've swung at people so many times only for it to turn my camera and hit a haybale, hit an odd rock, or just have a spasm and slap the air when I'm literally stuffing my knife down the dudes spine, if I could upload proof I would.) One more change would be to add a small secondary objective for the survivors to do like make totems add a small slowdown effect for each one active, it would reduce the need for Ruin and ease up the gen rushing a little.
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Seeing a squad of stupidly fancy looking Ace's all running items sends shivers down my spine lol. The harbingers of pain
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I’ve learned to not stress about games if I get a 4K awesome if all survivors get out ggs to them they played well I just move on to my next game I used to stress about it too but playing this game so much has made me patient, also I have over 700 hours as killer and about 150 hours as survivor I recently started playing a lot more survivor and taking turns one killer one survivor game and I’m having a ton of fun it also helps you because you experience both sides try it out if you haven’t.
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I'm very self reflective and competitive. If I play bad, I can admit it and say GG. When I am staring at a wall with no survivors in my view and STILL get blinded, that's an overpowered flaw. Look what they did to Oni because he could flick around a corner, yet they leave a light that can blind you without ever shining in your eyes.
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i take breaks from playing the game "the way its intended" , and just mess around , practing my looping, hiding my glow, keeping my hatchet aim sharp, / or just throw on a weird build and make up your own rules
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I want to play survivor, but the wait times are insane due to it being to easy to pip, and killers avoiding red ranks like the plague.
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But this one horror game is only stressful for killers coz survivors are becoming semi-gods with every killer sided nerfs every patch. Totaly survivor sided game without any doubts.
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Feeling better with ebony mori ... then for all the players sake, play something else, cause youre just not suited for this game. As survivor I play nearly every game against something out off ebony, ultra-rare OP Addon, tunneler or camper. THATS stressful. I only feel relived if the killer decides to be not such a tryhard and just wants to have some nice game.
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Survivor needs to be made more stressful IMO. It's telling that streamers always play survivor when they want to interact with chat in any way. The whole idea of the horror genre, not just video games, is the SURVIVORS are supposed to be terrified/stressed, not the killer. It is really backward that this game works the opposite way. Killers have to be wary of survivors because of the amount of power they hold, especially with strong items.
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Should be stressful for the weaker side NOT the KILLER in a traditional sense but DBD has the roles switched so killers suffer.
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He isn't saying that he needs a mori to win, where did you come up with that conclusion?? He's saying that he shouldn't have to be stressed playing as the "power role" killer vs weak human survivors. The roles should be reversed as Killers should be stronger than 1 survivor.
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Have my upvote @SpookyJeff
Killers should NOT be the stressful role, I firmly believe that. This game is inspired by horror movies and literally the only killer I can think of who was mildly stressed out was poor Leatherface who just wanted to protect his home from invaders and provide for his family! Every other killer though is having a blast because they’re well aware they have the power and control. It’s the survivors who are stressed out and crapping their pants and it’s ONLY through team work, determination, willpower, and crafty thinking that any survivors STAY alive.
That’s how it should be.
But instead playing killer in dbd is incredibly stressful. You NEED to have a prepared load out and any mistakes you make can cost you the game. This is not even going into the horrendously unfair pip system for killer THAT IS ENTIRELY IN SURVIVOR HANDS. One dc or one suicide and good luck trying to please the Entity.
You can literally play survivor with no perks at all, let alone any combination of perks, and you can STILL survive (and quite easily get adept). The ONLY mildly stressful thing about survivor is if you have the unfortunate luck to be hooked in the beginning, and you risk leaving the match with less than 5000 bp, or worse yet - OTHER survivors try to ruin the experience.
It says something when I choose to play survivor because it’s genuinely less stressful than killer. I want to be scared as survivor. I want to earn my survival - surviving the trial is quite literally a bonus for survivors - it truly does not matter if you live or die beyond your personal goals. Killers aren’t afforded that luxury by the game.
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Dude, you get it. Now that I play more survivor than killer, I want survivors nerfed even more. It's way too easy to escape, even playing solo and running a half-strength build so I can loot chests. I shoot up to high purple/red ranks with almost no effort on survivor, and I still don't even know how to loop or do anything but move to the right spots to get gens done/unhooks/totems. I have a full skillset on killer and depending on my luck, I either end up hardstuck in purple or sweating my ass off to get into low reds by reset. I feel like in my mind I'm a much better killer than survivor, but the rankings don't lie. So I can either assume I'm way off on my skills in my head, or survivor is WAY easier than killer. Make me scared to play survivor again devs :P
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Exactly! I play both sides and survivors really do have too much power (at least in comparison to killer.) People often go “killer main!” when I advocate for more power for killers and it’s like no...I play both sides and I feel like I have a clearer understanding of what’s going on because I do, and killers are just so unnecessarily stressful.
I don’t feel like my skill difference between killer and survivor is all that different, and yet I rise much more quickly through the ranks as survivor.
Also let’s be honest - the fact that we can see our cool fancy outfits as survivor while playing killer leaves us only our weapon to admire in game should mean survivor should be more difficult than killer :P
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That's why you play hag or doctor so you can see your own ugly mug most of the match when your body doubles pop up 😀
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I feel no stress if there is no SWF.
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No need to stress dude, it's just a game
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I wish I could play it like it was just a game, like I want to, but I want to have fun as well, not sweat my ass off trying to have fun. A game just doesn't feel like a game if it doesn't look like you're accomplishing anything.
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It sucks when you play meme games and people try hard too. Like I've wasted add ons trying to do something fun for survivors, only to get gen rushed in like under 5 minutes and then get trashed on in the post game lobby.
It's like they hate fun.
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Because we're on a time crunch, and the teabagging survivor knows it.
Though if you needed the mori, this might not be the game for ya.
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I don't need a mori, I said I used a mori just for stress relief. Also if someone uses a mori why does that automatically makes them not ready for the game? If they have moris for killers to use?
I haven't use a mori ever since I knew that it never helped me gain skills or get better. But now I did used one for stress relief
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It's because higher rank survivors have a lot of power. Killers often have to cope with unbalanced maps.
Sucks, but I usually just move on.
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There's really no nice way of saying this: get good.
What are these "god loops" you're on about lmao. You need to learn the map tiles and how to run common loops. Painreliever has some good videos showing how to run some of them, and killer specific guides. Monto and Ortzdarva are really good educational streamers to learn from, watching them has improved my killer play a ton.
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It's actually the least stressful aspect of this game to me. I just finished saying the same thing in my killer games I streamed. I never felt stressed throughout any of those game. There were times I felt pressured, but never stressed or tilted.
I get WAY more stressed and tilted when I play survivor and have crappy teammates, killers that play like dicks, crappy maps, and lots of other things.
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mmmmmmmm killer salt
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Either side can be stressful providing the circumstances.
Also, feeling stressed doesn't mean "I'm not having fun", there are legitimate times when the game puts stress because it is a challenging situation. If you are personally not having fun, then that's on you not the game. The game didn't force you to feel "stressed".
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Killers are basically expected to be the Dungeon Masters in this game but aren't given the tools or the instructions for doing so, leaving many frustrated. Which is why I imagine my killer queues are near instant while my survivor queues keep getting longer: fewer people are playing killer.
Killing survivors doesn't even feel that rewarding. It's so much more fun to go into Dying Light and smash heads, cut off limbs, set enemies on fire. Sticking every survivor on a hook is pretty meh. You stab them, there's a bit of blood and maybe they scream. The moris are more interesting, but some of the old ones are pretty suck and every killer only has the one animation, so even that gets repetitive.
I meme around a lot because taking the game seriously often doesn't feel rewarding. There's a lot of imbalance in this game, and part of it is what DbD gives back in return for the amount of effort put in. It's a problem on both sides. The rewards for the Tome challenges don't scale with the increasing difficulty. For the amount of misery survivors get from being camped and tunneled, the game gives them almost no BP and a depip. Killers can put in a lot of effort and still get "Entity Displeased," along with uninteresting death animations and a lot of toxic accusations from survivors. Killers get better at the game, put in all that time and effort into learning tiles and mind gaming, and they pip up into the hell that is red ranks, their only reward a burning desire to depip back to the ranks where they had fun.
In other words, it rarely feels worth it to put effort into the game. I can often have just as much if not more fun teabagging as Ghost Face, never even stabbing anyone, than 4king, and it takes waaaay less effort. Bonus points if there's an OoO so we can have a teabag-off from opposite ends of the map.
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Yeah, right, BHVR hates killers. They are definitely the unloved child of dbd. You sound like someone who has played less than 2 months and thinks that he knows the game. I bet you have never faced double pallets, pallet vacuum, old superlong loops, pallet heaven, old selfcare, old flashlights, no bloodlust, no windowblocker, old windows vaulting(both bs survivors fast vaults and superlong killer vaulting), being unable to kick a gen, instant gen with BNP, sabotage meta, ruin not being a thing, BL and sprint burst abuse(due to exhaustion not being a thing as well as ruin) and many more bs things survivors had. You must be thankful to the devs, but instead you are whining here.
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Pro tip to save sanity
Stop trying so hard and have fun. Find a killer you like, and dont play to win, play to enjoy the killers mechanics. Be silly, try new builds, let people win, just have fun.
Sometimes I follow a survivor without the intention of hitting them... just to watch them try to juke and loop, and 360 for no reason lmao
Also try this. Throw games. Try to depip without leaving. It becomes a lot more fun when it's not a matter of life and death.
"I have to get a fast free hit. I gotta loop this perfectly. if he makes it to the pallet I lose right here. I have to slug this guy, chase this guy, and make this dude go for hook save. I need to get 2 hooks before the first gen pops or I'm in danger of falling behind". Screw all that.
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