I Just Can't Take It Anymore (Obligatory Killer Main 'I'm Done' Post).
So, it's come to this.
As much as I like this game, it has started to become just...too much.
For every 2 good games I have (win or lose) it feels like every third game is against either a team of newbies, a team of people way better than me or TTV stompcomp with 5-10x the hours I have that just rolls me and BMs me the entire time.
You know what I mean. Those folks that will 99% the final gen and spend half an hour meming with sabos, bodyblocks, flashlights and just being schmucks and who'll then threaten to report you for non-participation in postgame when you AFK in disgust. And I'm about the nicest, least campy killer you are likely to come across.
Not to mention the bizarre influx that the Epic Games thing has caused, meaning that half my matches have either a complete newbie or someone with 2 yellow perks that is almost certainly using some sort of hack (gens/heals popping at light speed, perfect map awareness and is able to kobe first time every time) in it.
I'll be back for sure (let's face it, nobody quits this habit for good), once I've forgotten how much the ingame community can suck...but, to stop this being a standard 'QQ toxic survivors' rant, I thought I'd challenge myself (it being Christmastime) - and do it in limerick form!
This...may have been a bad idea. But here we go.
'I Quit': A Christmas Limerick
For three hundred hours I've stuck with it
With the rest of the strays and the misfits
It's a really great game
Just a crying shame
That it's filled with BMers and gits
Promotions on the Epic Store
Brought hackers and switchers galore
'Just report them!' you say
Well I do, but okay
It's unlikely that anyone saw
Half the killers and addons are whack
And the matchmaking system's on crack
Just what is the reason
At least three times an evening
That I'm thrown to the wolves as a snack?
You'd think that enduring this pain
Means your MMR won't stay the same
But a stomp from these thumpers
Won't decrease those numbers
So it happens again and again (and again)
CoH and DS are the perks
That you'll see on these teabagging jerks
That draw entertainment
From stalling the game out
And making me sing 'It Just Works!'
To play as fair and as chill as you can
Then eat crap from some woman or man:
The game starts to grate
And your fun turns to hate
Wishing you had a button marked 'ban'
'Surely StarLost, you're just too thin skinned
To play a game where you can't always win
Just ignore the teenagers
They want you to rage or
Break down - so just don't give in!'
Well, there's only so much to ignore
Before it starts feeling like you're at war
All your efforts undone:
It's about as much fun
As slamming your hand in a drawer
As I'm sure you're about to type 'nope'
'Aren't there nice groups that give you some hope?'
And I'd have to answer
That the rest of the bastards
Have got me at the end of my rope
Just play a few games every night
And you might come to see the plight
Of frustrated killers
Becoming black-pillers
Grinding match after match out of spite
If the players don't stop acting dirty
And forgetting that words can be hurty...
Cause enough agitation
Then we lose motivation
And your queues go from seven to thirty
'But why keep on stubbornly playing?'
I can almost imagine you saying
'If you aren't having fun
Why not go get some sun?
Nothing's forcing you to shut up and stay in'
Well...
I suppose that I find satisfaction
In the gains of mild skill and some traction
But photosensitive brains
Can't quite handle the pain
Of those damn flashlight macros in action
Many will tell you their tale
Of how to avoid the same fail
'Just play Blighty or Nurse
Or your games will be worse'
As they realize the meta's gone stale
Perhaps among gamers there's some
Who can wait for a good match to come
Shrug off the abuse
And the endless refuse
I suspect that they've sadly gone numb
But myself, I'm just not in the group
Who can stand being 'bagged at each loop
That toxic thought slime
Wears you out over time
And I'm right up to here with this poop
So, please in this bright Christmas season
Take a second to think of a reason
To be nice to a foe
Who's a human like you
And it might just stop others from leaving!
As for me, it's just not in the cards
To endure fifty million dead hards
Because there's just no enjoying
When a game's as annoying
As a limerick that doesn't end properly.
Comments
Honestly, the limericks are impressive, even if some of them don't fit the rhythm properly.
Lol, it was just a quicky. Most of them have the correct flow, if you futz with the intonation slightly.
All of the stuff going on was enough to get me back into Fortnite. Just wow...
I've gone for racing games, myself.
The scary thought is that due to dbd being on epic games, there may be dbd skins which I'll unfortunately succumb to buying since I still have a burning passion for all things dbd.
I've got...so many games on my backlist now.
Guardians
Stardew Valley (promised the wife I'd try it)
The Riftbreaker (my GOTY thus far)
The Mass Effect remastered stuff
Satisfactory
The new Mechwarrior 5 expansion
That should comfortably take me up until Lost Ark get's it's western release next year.
Kudos good sir, for I know that was no easy task. Like you I find it hard to continue going on. Playing killer is just not fun anymore. Between the constant nerfs, SBMM, hacking, and the toxic behavior, it's a tall order for anyone to endear. Having a carefree attitude can only take you so far. If this game should ever one day be fortunate enough to have its own bot mode, then I'll be perfectly happy never playing against real people ever again.
Oh yeah, MW5 got an expansion, right? This is the one that gives a non-story campaign so you can just go around being a merc band?
Though I really want a Clan expansion as always; what's the point of a MW game if you don't have at least Clan stuff, if not absurd stuff like the Long Tom (I know mods add them but eeeh)
... nobody's really gone to other horror games, huh?
Yeah everyone wants Clans.
No, it's another DLC, sort of a mini campaign within the open world and a ton of new mech variants.
I'm guessing the modding scene has also worked wonders since I last played it (Battletech fans tend to meticulously add everything from the lore that a base game lacks even if they have to hack it in somehow).
When I played (before any DLC came out), they'd meticulously added everything that should be present in the IS up until after the Clan invasion, complete with Clan variants of everything. Oh, and they'd totally rejigged the mechlab to have proper slots for things, and endoskeletons etc and every damn 'mech variant they could. So, if that's been updated, yeah, you can get your full "I will make the most perfect lance full of nigh impossible tech" fix. Still... missing all the Clan 'mechs and that sucks.
Though, this does make me want a robot killer in DBD now. Probably not a scifi giant robot style one, maybe a bit more clockpunkish. But definitely insane robot murderer lol.
I’m just done playing against hackers who just vanish as soon as they’re behind a Wall. So many people have started to cheat in this game, it’s crazy.
Taking a break from this game always helped me to enjoy it again when I come back to it.
Yeah I'm sure I'll be back (I do really love this game, while also hating it at times)...just need to get some distance for a bit. Too many nasty groups right now and too much MMR weirdness making it worse.
Come back when there's a new licensed killer or when Epic game store ends. Either way go play a different game. Hollow Knight great and I just want to shill it.
The missus loves it and Ori, but my old eyes aren't really up to difficult platformers anymore :).
Understandable. You can always play survivor (also not perfect but less stressful to me at least) or play unconventional killer builds.
I rarely have a bad time with tp+jmm myers for example. I am not going for 4ks unless I encounter toxic teams. I usually let 2 people go to keep my mmr in check. It kinda feels good when bm'ing survivors just feed my power and someone dies because of it lul.
I am completely burned out of playing killer normally. Too much work because I love playing the weaker ones like pig and legion for example. And I am somewhat of a survivor main anyway even tho I played both. More hours on survivor.
Just don't force yourself to like the game if you don't.
Hollow knight and Ori too? She's a legend.
Yes, yes she is. We are both consumate gamers, but we also enjoy very different genres.
I'm an RPG/shooter/PvP/RTS/Tower Defense man.
She likes platformers, farming games and survival games. But we've played a lot of stuff together too - Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3, Titan Quest, Don't Starve Together and Overcooked.
DbD is like cigarettes. You put down the pack, swear it's over, then the next day you find yourself striking up without even realizing it. By the time you've finished your last smoke of the day, you put down the pack...ad infinitum.
A short break works wonders. I would not be able to play this game for over a year without other games in between.
Have a good rest and come back anytime
Take a break and when you come back, play to improve, not to win.
Forza 5 is poppin off pretty hard right now.
Yeah, I played some NFS stuff first, but I moved onto Forza Horizon 5 the other day.
Did make playing a few rounds in DBD super weird, everything felt so slow.
Understanding and fun read.
Whenever you come back, try survivor. It's much more enjoyable of a role I find. Especially when you run builds like Bond, Mettle of Man, Boon: Circle of Healing, and We're Gonna Live Forever. You'll be raking in 40-60k BP per game easily without even needing to survive.
Just don't solo gens. Instead, run around and body block the killer, take a hit, run back to your boon to heal and repeat. I only learned recently that you can proc Mettle of Man multiple times per game, which is hilarious when you pull it off.
The best part is you don't even need good solo queue team mates for this.
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Renounce the art of murder, and join me on the dark side as a current survivor main.
Great read, we’ll from a poetry perspective not a game quitting perspective.
take care eh.
I've tried playing survivor, but I just find the role...boring?
It's so static and doesn't really change game to game or even with different perk combinations - at least not much.
That's fair.
It is quite boring if you do gens, my main suggestion was to have a build and play-style that just has you bullying killers by running around them constantly and preventing them from downing people.
It's surprisingly fun and lucrative to bully (no teabags though).
Honestly, it comes down to perks and variety.
Every killer is like playing a different game, and killer perks (at least the non-crap ones) are well designed - they make you play differently, take risks, choose to do or not do certain things and have counterplay.
A game on Hag with Surge+PR+STBFL+Devour Hope will be entirely different than a game on Hag with Sloppy+Nurse's+Ruin+Monitor.
Survivor perks on the other hand...aside from a handful mostly amount to 'I have a third health state', 'I do gens faster', 'I can stun the killer once', 'I can see auras', 'I heal faster'. There's not much decision making, risk or counterplay and there are also a few that are so powerful that not using them feels like you are playing the game wrong.
I play the odd survivor game, and it's definitely more relaxing - but quickly becomes tedious. As a killer, I have to think about 8 different things at once. Do I chase? What tiles are nearby? Where are the other survivors? Do I hook here or try for a better position? Do I force the pallet here or try to mindgame? Defend Ruin or disrupt the gen? Do I focus on killing this survivor or do I break off and try to get more people injured? Do I pop this gen or let it get finished and try to force a 3gen? Break the pallet or trap it?
As a survivor it's - do I greed, do I hide or do I run?
It's night and day.
Alright I had to screenshot this build this sounds fun as hell. I definitely want to give this a try It sounds like it's good for messing around and having fun but I also having a lot of blood points and no matter what side I play I usually care about getting blood points a lot xD so wglf and bbq are in alot of my builds.
I know this post isn't more about quitting killer or whatever but you have any fun killer builds or are you mostly done with killer too