This game promotes bad gameplay
The most effective tactics to win as killer is to proxy camp and tunnel.(which survivors flame and always badmouth you for it because its toxic which can be really disheartening when you play a video game and wanna have fun).
The most effective tactics to win as survivor is to rush gens and do nothing else which is boring.
I firmly believe that the reason there is such a big amount toxicity in Dead by Daylight community is the core gameplay of the game that promotes bad gameplay because the best tactics are considered toxic,unfun and boring which creates an insane amount of toxicity.
Its not the people that start to play this game that are toxic,its the game itself that makes you become toxic especially if you dont take extended breaks from the game.
Dead By Daylight is a great game with a great idea ,and focused on the worst parts that are the core gameplay loop
Dead by Daylight is a great game with great ideas on paper,but when it comes to gameplay,its like they took the worst gameplay mechanics,and just focused on them,instead of trying and fixing the issue.
I always get flamed if I tunnel,camp,even thought I know there are survivors nearby,and if I leave I just give them a free unhook and lose pressure.
Playing Dead by Daylight feels like making the right decisions to do better in a match is toxic and makes you feel bad.
Queuing as killer just to know the survivors will absolutely hate it just makes you not wanna play at all knowing you gonna deal with a high amount of toxicity.
Edit: 1 thing I want to add.
You can literally never go wrong with tunneling.
If you tunneling there are two outcomes.
1 . You get a survivor out of the game early that makes your game a lot easier and applies a lot of pressure on the remaining survivors.
2 . Survivors come and take hits for the tunneled survivor,which means it forces them to get off gens,take hits,heal,which is a lot of time from them not genrushing.
But here's the thing,most survivors wont do that because most survivors play in soloq and play for themselves.
Even to this day,I barely see any survivors that learned the best way to deal with a tunneler is come and take hits for them then go heal.
But survivors in soloq play greedy and for themselves.
Its almost poetic that they end up losing because they didn't wanna help their teammates and play as a team,as the game is intended when playing survivor.
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The game doesnt promote bad gameplay and survivors doing gens is not toxic (literally their only objective). You have a choice of how to play and choose to camp and tunnel.
Most killers will have to just break every pallet if you pre throw and w. It takes little skill and provides boring game play for both sides. Sound familiar?
Doesn't sound familiar at all. Just play the game and dont be a toxic killer or survivor :).
Camping and tunneling is usually boring for survivor, pre-throwing and holding w is boring for killer. 70% of killers in this game can do nothing but eat the pallets. That is what I meant.
Tunneling does suck but there's not much more they can add to combat it without just giving an unhooked survivor a shield until another survivor is hooked.
You get 10 seconds baskekit BT and 10% haste which is enough to get to a pallet, window or loop. If you're a bad looper then yeah you can more easily be tunneled but that's a skill issue really.
You also have OTR, DS (which does need a buff back to 5secs) and BT which can help, not to mention teammates bodyblocking, flashlight saving, pallet saving, saboing.