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• Community Match Data Is Raising Questions About DBD Matchmaking

  SvarturSteinn in Ask the Community May 20, 2026

  Lately it feels like both sides of matchmaking in Dead by Daylight are being pushed toward “stat normalization” instead of genuinely balanced games. From the Killer side, I’m sitting around 375 played killer hours, and 115 survivor hours since the launch of stat tracking which gives me a relative ratio idea of my total 1,100~ hours and regularly getting chains of matches against extremely experi

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• How have the most recent updates affected how you feel about the game?

  SvarturSteinn in Polls September 15, 2025

  Of the following, which is your closest opinion of the development cycle based on survivor and killer balancing;
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• Clarification of an ambiguous answer.

  SvarturSteinn in Ask the Community June 25, 2025

  I've been wondering this for a little while and there was a previous Dev stream about MMR in the past and while generally the community tends to answer these things rater well I was curious what the answer meant when it was implied it's context based; Getting 1 kill in a match might result in a slight increase in MMR Getting 2 kills in a match might result in a slight decrease in MMR
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• Ideas for lowering the grind;

  SvarturSteinn in Feedback and Suggestions January 14, 2022

  So over time I was thinking about things that would lower the blood point grind of the game. Some have probably been mentioned plenty of times before, but three that I've kept in mind are; Perks don't need to have 3 tiers; I think this one is very straight forward because removing the need to churn through three levels of every single perk would dramatically drop the overall costs it would take.
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• Positive changes that happened in 2021!

  SvarturSteinn in General Discussions January 2, 2022

  I decided to compile a list of positive changes to each side that happened in 2021, first the killers; Quality of Life Killers see a new widget which displays how many hooks they've earned during the match out of the possible total hooks. Mangled status effect always lasts until fully healed Decisive Strike - Now deactivates when performing certain actions that are not part of evading the K
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• Exalt Your Favorite Killer Perk

  SvarturSteinn in General Discussions January 1, 2022

  Back in September I made a thread asking people what is your personal favorite killer perk that is as popular to you as Survivor will run Dead Hard. Back then I generally always would include BBQ and Chili on a killer I didn't have all my perks unlocked on yet but now that we are passed that and new perks have dropped since then I decided to update my all time favorite perk of 2021; No Way Out
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• I don't blame the killer for leaving, I probably would too.

  SvarturSteinn in General Discussions December 30, 2021

  Yeah I know, I was running a pretty generic build with DH, BT, DS, and unbreakable.
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• Tell me you're a survivor main without telling me you're a survivor main.

  SvarturSteinn in General Discussions December 29, 2021

  I'll give you a few easy examples to get started; Dead Hard is a perfectly balanced perk. CoH takes too long to bless a totem. NOED is unfair because it rewards no skill.
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• Today has been my worst day playing killer.

  SvarturSteinn in Feedback and Suggestions October 20, 2021

  When I first started playing DBD I had a lot of things I enjoyed, but over time this enjoyment has ben slowly over time been shaven away, just little bit by little bit. At first I felt it was some killers were just not being looked at and updated (legion is still IMHO in the worst position still) The meta has been stale for over a year now, survivors will only run the exact same builds after a
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• What is your version of Dead Hard as a killer?

  SvarturSteinn in General Discussions September 17, 2021

  Which perk can you never live without because not taking it feels like you're severely at a disadvantage? Personally I think it's BBQ because the grind to get anything as a killer leveling up is awful. Once I'm done grinding out a killer though it probably has to be at minimum Pop or Ruin because not having any slowdown ability against survivors makes matches end too fast to even let the s
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• I'm really sorry if this is said too often, but match making is making me very sad~

  SvarturSteinn in Feedback and Suggestions June 5, 2021

  I understand that I can do fairly well in the game, I've really enjoyed my as of current time 600 hours in it. I main killer and I have enjoyed leveling a few up to 50 so far, finding what works best for me and while I find the grind tedious it does allow me some leisure to learn a killer that's not a problem. My hardest and biggest gripe now is that I don't know what's been going on since Wedn
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• Everyone has a perk they hate!

  SvarturSteinn in General Discussions October 14, 2020

  So, as all best ideas tend to happen, I was taking a moment, sitting on my porcelain throne and thinking about what would be the best way to compensate for the fact everyone has a perk they hate, killers, survivors, everyone has a perk they despise seeing every single game, how do you adjust this so you don't see groups running it game after game after game. Nerfs always feel bad, no one i
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