Is it normal...

The_Horde

To consistently get your teeth kicked in? I have about 100 hours into the game, and mostly play killer but I've been getting tilted lately, and I'm lucky to get a draw. I came back to play last week so my rank is low, but I still can't keep up.

Is it normal to have a 1 kill multi-game spree? As much as I joke around I genuinely don't like lobby dodging, but I played a multi-prestige 4 man with three flashlights and got absolutely destroyed.

I_CAME

100 hours is nothing. The matchmaking in this game is awful so you need to keep in mind that you're going to routinely get matched with survivors who have THOUSANDS of hours. It's a mismatch from the beginning. The same thing happens to unprepared solo teams when they get matched with 5000 hour alch ring blights.

tippy2k2

I have 3024 (last time I checked at least) hours

I still routinely get my teeth kicked in as a killer

I can't speak for everyone but I find that most games as the killer go REALLY well or REALLY poorly and there doesn't seem to be a lot of games with middle ground. I suppose part of it is on me as I don't like playing as the two big dawgs (Nurse and Blight) but yeah, getting beat up happens even at a vets level.

Pulsar

The game has a very very steep learning curve.

So yeah, it's fairly normal.

Nazzzak

100 hours is very little playtime. Just keep it up, with time and experience you'll get better. There are people with thousands of hours who still struggle.

MrPeanutbutter

Keep sticking with it. You’ll get better. These have been my key learnings in my experience playing killer:

1. The matchmaking system does not work. It might as well not exist. every match I get is completely random in terms of skill level and play time of the other players that load in.
2. The game is heavily, heavily balanced in favor of 3/4-man SWF squads. Everyone knows this, and those who say otherwise are not being honest. It just takes simple math to understand this. A coordinated team on comms who have halfway-competent loopers will get all the gens done by around your third hook +/- a hook unless they make huge mistakes or purposely screw around. In those types of matches, you will need to camp and tunnel to at least some extent to have chance. But due to survivor whining, BHVR are slowly eliminating your ability to use these tactics in matches that require it.
3. You’ll have much more fun against solo q. The game feels much more balanced and I enjoy almost all my matches against solo q. I’m fine getting beat by a team that has some really good loopers as long as I know the deck wasn’t stacked against me because the team can constantly call out my location to each other or tell each other who should work on gens and who should go for body blocks/flashlight saves/hook rescues. Just try to dodge 3/4-man SWF if you can
4. Play however you want to play. Don’t feel bad about camping or tunneling if the survivors are clearly going to sweat as hard as they can and give you a really tough match. You have just as much right to try hard to win as they do.
5. Killer is by far the more difficult role unless you’re playing against potatoes. You’ll see a lot of complaining on the forums from survivors about how hard playing survivor is, but they rarely or never play killer. Sure, solo queue can be bad, but when I play solo queue with a halfway decent team I usually see 3 or 4 escapes. 3K or 4K matches only happen if survivors make a lot of mistakes or are just not good at looping and making chases last for more than 20 seconds

NekoGamerX

@tippy2k2 said:

I have 3024 (last time I checked at least) hours

I still routinely get my teeth kicked in as a killer

I can't speak for everyone but I find that most games as the killer go REALLY well or REALLY poorly and there doesn't seem to be a lot of games with middle ground. I suppose part of it is on me as I don't like playing as the two big dawgs (Nurse and Blight) but yeah, getting beat up happens even at a vets level.

I got over 5k hours and still killer is hard and survivor still kickback easy

buffcoyote

@MrPeanutbutter said:

Keep sticking with it. You’ll get better. These have been my key learnings in my experience playing killer:

1. The matchmaking system does not work. It might as well not exist. every match I get is completely random in terms of skill level and play time of the other players that load in.
2. The game is heavily, heavily balanced in favor of 3/4-man SWF squads. Everyone knows this, and those who say otherwise are not being honest. It just takes simple math to understand this. A coordinated team on comms who have halfway-competent loopers will get all the gens done by around your third hook +/- a hook unless they make huge mistakes or purposely screw around. In those types of matches, you will need to camp and tunnel to at least some extent to have chance. But due to survivor whining, BHVR are slowly eliminating your ability to use these tactics in matches that require it.
3. You’ll have much more fun against solo q. The game feels much more balanced and I enjoy almost all my matches against solo q. I’m fine getting beat by a team that has some really good loopers as long as I know the deck wasn’t stacked against me because the team can constantly call out my location to each other or tell each other who should work on gens and who should go for body blocks/flashlight saves/hook rescues. Just try to dodge 3/4-man SWF if you can
4. Play however you want to play. Don’t feel bad about camping or tunneling if the survivors are clearly going to sweat as hard as they can and give you a really tough match. You have just as much right to try hard to win as they do.

This is setting you up for failure. Camping is about to get heavily nerfed. It will be even harder to use this tactic to win, unless it's at endgame. Do not camp and tunnel for pressure. The more wins you secure, the more your ranking will go up and you will lose against even more sweatier opponents. Play normally, take Ls and learn where you can improve. If you're a Trickster, try getting some sick trickshots with those knives or hone your Huntress hatchet throw skills. Get better at forcing Survivors into a position where they will get hit with your whip as Nemesis, etc etc. Don't coddle yourself.

[Deleted User]

It's normal at that experience level. It still happens to me every now and then at 4500. The best advice I can give is to embrace the technique and learning side of it. The results will come eventually if you do that.