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• @Carth said:

  Because the game is a constant arms race/power creep.

  Start of DBD(low amount of second chance perks) -> exhaustion perks and stronger perks added to the pool -> killers complain M1 killers are too weak and chases take too long, powers are too weak and do nothing to counter the new perks added -> new killers come out that can absolutely deal with second chance perks -> survivors complain about the killer powers taking away any interaction. There's a very good reason why we haven't gotten a standard M1 killer with some garbage meme power. Trickster was their attempt to have a killer who has an 'interesting power' that isn't too oppressive and most people consider him an abject failure and since his changes he is now in the oppressive 1v1 category.

  Additionally the game is not 4 1v1s that happen in sequential order. As much as some people want to pretend it is, it isn't. At this point in time just plain old M1 killers are extremely weak, the only way they can deal with the above problems is by having extreme mobility on a low cooldown, and in that regard there's only so many times we can re-release 'killer who runs in a straight line very fast with limited curve/flick' or 'runs really fast but cant attack until coming out of that mode'. There is no such thing as a good 1v4 killer in this game. There are absolutely zero killers(outside of trap based killers and nemesis AI zombies) who can pressure multiple survivors at once, sure you can rapidly target swap but that it is all you can do insofar as 'pressuring multiple survivors at once'. You cannot chase two survivors at the same time unless they are running side by side which is a fault in their playing.

  All of the above rambling to basically say short of nerfing many things on both survivor and killer side it is too late to go back to killers who have no chase power and are just the standard loopable + mind games at loops. Games go too fast and perks are too powerful(assuming 4 good survivors and a good killer all running meta perks).

  Youre right, the game isnt 4 1v1s, but i still believe the 1v1 should be an interactive part of the game. this isnt a discussion about how overall strong a killer should be, more how fun they are to go against, and your chase skill as killer and survivor matters to who comes out on top of the chase, which i feel like isnt the case with a lot of recent killers. I believe there a good 1v4 killers in this game, and that as you mentioned often comes down to mobility, but not always: I think Billy, Nurse, Blight, Freddy, Pig and Hag all have great 1v4 potential. they can pressure multiple survivors at once while still providing fun gameplay to the other side.

  in The best part about DBD is the 1v1 of killer and survivor Comment by buzzaman July 29, 2021

• yeah its very boring. you can beat every trickster by being quick on gens, but its no fun versing him

  in Trickster Buff… Comment by buzzaman July 29, 2021