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Like both sides equally i just like killing things hence playing killer more often
This comes with the nature of Survivor being a team-based role. It's not really a Dead by Daylight thing, just a team-based dynamic in general. It's much better to focus on whether you could have done something better or understand that you did all you could, and accept that some losses are inevitable because you can't control the actions of your team. I still prefer killer since things are more often the consequences of my own actions, but when I do play Survivor this mindset does make the role much more enjoyable for me.
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The reason I don't enjoy survivor is mostly twofold; generators are just really boring as an objective, and dealing with weak teammates is frustrating, especially because skill expression is relatively low compared to other "competitive" games. If I want a team experience, I'd prefer something like DOTA or CS:GO where there is just more you can do to influence a match.
Killer is more stressful when first starting out, especially in particularly oppressive metas like the DH + Decisive Strike + Borrowed Time + Unbreakable that was standard when I really started playing. But it's much more satisfying. It's something that you can steadily improve at. And, while it's still possible to get screwed based on map RNG or busted loadouts, the actual mistakes I make in the match are mine, and they're something I can get better at.
Solo queue, every match is essentially a dice roll. Your individual skill matters, but it won't often decide the entire outcome of a match – nor should it. So don't worry too much about the results screen and instead try to recognize gameplay you CAN improve at.
I like survivor it’s more challenging IMO dealing with the killer and their tactics and bad teammates it makes escaping much sweeter when you have so many odds stacked against you.
I'm in the camp of enjoying Killer the most. I'll still play Survivor especially with people i know well and we're on comms.
Me I also personally prefer killer is that I don't have to worry about annoying solo queue teammates and I'm not learning a whole lot as survivor but as killer I get to learn all these cool concepts of killers and learn the cool tricks and I'm a one man army and I don't need to worry about any other players to do my job for me or I have to be responsible for anyone else's mistakes
I prefer killer for many reasons. First is just that I think the idea of playing the monster/slasher villain is more fun.
Second is that I feel pressure to perform when in a team environment, where when I'm solo and my actions only have consequences for myself I don't care anymore. So I can run goofy builds and low tier killers and nobody pays for it except me. I feel more restricted to only use good builds on survivor because I don't want to let my allies down.
Third is I hate being CCed. Survivor mistakes lead to you being unable to play the game until you get rescued. Killers never have control taken away from them by survivors, except for extremely brief stuns from pallets and maybe a Head On or Decisive Strike. I get to play the entire match out every time as killer.
And fourth is the killer pipping system actually makes sense, survivor pipping is unbelievably frustrating.
Edit: Oh one more that just occurred to me: control over the match. I have total control over the match as killer. Survivors can genrush me if they want, but it's my choice on how to respond. I can tunnel or I can continue to play chill and just take the L. I can choose not to chase someone who's having a rough game, I can tunnel out people who are trolling their allies, I can initiate a farm. Hell if I wanted to I could just stare at a wall and go AFK and there's nothing survivors can do to make me engage with them again.
Yeah…. I used to be pretty much 50/50
Ever since 7.5.0 I play way less Killer, especially Killers below A-tier, because of how stressful it became to play Killers that can't demolish the other side with barely any aid from perks.
I'm really sad about it, but I hardly even play SoloQ now (I almost only duo at least) because not only are most games a mix of Grim Embrace, Pain Res, DMS and something else but I've never lived through so much tunnelling in all the years I've been playing this game and I CAN'T EVEN TRULY BLAME THEM because the anti-3-gen system effectively limits slowdown and deletes most slowdown perks, forcing them to compensate by deleting a Survivor asap.
I like both survivor has more down time and killer has more variety (full roster player)
Oh you hit on the point that made me close dbd yesterday to avoid rage queuing. When teammates don’t know that if they have no hooks, they need to go for saves. I’m surprised by how many survivors JUST DONT KNOW WHO NEEDS TO SAVE. It really does piss me off because one person dies because the right person was hiding instead of saving.
I mostly prefer killer, it feels more chill to just load in and work on your skill with powers and not care about much else.
For survivor I am mostly soloq, I have come to live with the uncertain intentions and skill of my team. It doesn't mind me too much if my team is being dumb or messing around, as long as I get a good chase or two, I find it to be an enjoyable & successful match. Perhaps my survivor experience might differ from yours, but I consider survivor to be mostly stress free.
Killer is still more enjoyable, but survivor is a very very close second.
I prefer killer because the killer is the one who controls the experience at the end of the day. I'm also much better and more comfortable with killer than I am with survivor. You're the survivor and the killer wants to tunnel you? You're getting tunneled. You want to get chased? You're the obsession and they have STBFL. Bring an anti-tunneling build? Killer doesn't tunnel (haha, tunnels someone else I mean). Just playing normally? 5 gen 4x slug. Not only are survivor queue times longer, but there are sssooo many things outside of your control.
This exists in all games to some extent, but DBD is pretty unique in how wasteful matches can feel. I pretty much always feel like I'm learning and getting better on the killer side. There is a significant minority of my survivor games I finish without learning anything, having any interesting chases, or winning. That's a bummer.
Good points. I get upset when SoloQ teammates play sub-optimally, but I also get frustrated when I sandbag my teammates. Both directions are frustrating.
Fair XD haha I can understand that both roles have madness but if your handling business as killer then it normally works out while survivor can be spiraling madness.
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My personal reason is that when I’m playing survivor I’m gambling on getting a killer i like to face, and also half the matches i just have to sit on gens and open the gate. Meanwhile on killer i get to pick my favourite character, i get to do chases (the fun part of dbd), and i am able to make the game fun for the survivors (I always try my best to just make both sides have a good match since I don’t care about winning or 4k’s). Killer has so much more depth then survivor while survivor requires a lot of coordination which is hard to do when there is no voice chat (and even then i’m from europe so i wouldn’t even be able to communicate half the time)
Normaly im Surv main but in the last time enjoying Killer more, xeno highlighted as my main Killer, like his power with tunnels.
To the question why im still prefer Surv im a support role player (Battlefield, Overwatch, RB6, League)
Saw many teammates who fail/troll in those games glad im though enough to ignore that.
I’m growing to like playing killer more thanks to the higher FOV, which makes it easier. But I don’t find killer very appealing because wins don’t feel good (you’re sort of expected to win with that 60% kill rate standard and being the “power role”), and losses feel really bad. At least with survivor an escape feels like a genuine feat.