Why are killers so much faster than survivor?
ppo8820
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I get they need to be faster to end chases but do they need to be as fast as they are? 4.6 with a huge lunge seems very unfair. Survivors should be 4.2 and killers 4.5. Thoughts?
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Lmao the #########?
No offense but this sounds like pure rank 20 talk
Can I hear from some survivors and not the bored killer mains with no life who stalk this forum? Thanks in advance.
Oh yeah! Sure! You know they should make the killers able to help repair gens too while they're at it.
I'm definitely a killer main 😂
Lmao no life for commenting on ignorance? You want a freebie. We get it.
Um.... No offense.... But what in the Sam Hill have you been smokin' lately, my friend?
Whenever I play survivor killers feel too fast and whenever I play killer I feel too slow. So, if I'm unhappy both ways, I guess that means it's balanced.
I disagree. The killer needs to be faster to be able to end chases and catch up to survivors. This change would prolong chases for quite a bit not to mention how unbalanced most maps are.
Sure, let's make it 4.2. The game will die even faster
That’s true. I feel slow as killer too. As survivor they feel so fast it’s brutal.
Don't know what you're smoking...but at least share some
Found the rank 20
I think part of my problem is that when I play survivor, I don't have any exhaustion perks. Having something like Sprint Burst or Lithe or BL really helps to put some distance between you and the killer, but since I don't use those the killer is basically immediately on my ass. As killer, almost every survivor I face runs an exhaustion perk, and with how crunched for time I am as killer it feels like it takes forever to make up that distance, if I even bother.
Killers are most definitely not too fast. As you said an average killer speed of 115% which is 4.6m/s allows the killer to close 0.6 meters of distance per second. That's enough for survivors to reach a pallet or window in most cases allowing them to either keep their distance or even build distance if they play said pallet or window correctly resulting in what we call a "chase".
If you are a strong survivor and the Entity is generous with the rng then you will often have a chance to loop the killer for more than 1 full minute - sometimes even 2+ minutes if it's a killer with a big ego. If you manage to distract a killer for that long then you've done everything right. At that point it's up to your teammates to do the other half of the job (gens).
Now if the devs were to increase the movement speed of survivors to 4.2m/s (105%) while decreasing the movement speed of average-speed killers to 4.5m/s (112.5%) even the worst survivor would be able to run a killer for around 50 seconds by simply using the hit-boost to run away in a straight line.
That's not what anyone should ask for in a PVP game that revolves around chases. Chases are supposed to be exciting and a measure of reaction times, mindgames, looping and juking skills, dodging hits etc.
If survivors were only 0.3m/s slower than killers then most survivors would never learn or even have to learn how to do any of the things I named above. Anyone would just run away in a straight line regardless of ranks and experience since the hit-boost combined with an exhaustion perk would make it so the killer would need to spend ages just to close the "first distance".
LONG STORY SHORT: Movement speeds are fine.
Man give me a faster hag and everyone dc's every match. Red ranks already hardly know how to deal with a hag, but a hag thats fast and can trap. Waterlogged shoe is a fun addon when playing collision hag for memes, and no one expects it.
why are you posting bait the whole day man? it's not funny just really dumb. you're not tricking anyone.
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Killers have to be fast to catch up to Survivors or the chase lasts for too long. It is okay for them to be faster :) Especially, how some maps are so big. Not now.
Just make DbD a PvE game and be done with it.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 you and clicky are some of the biggest baiters and trollers on the forums
Okay, I play them both. It is a terrible idea. With the speed as it is right now you can loop the killer multiple times if you know what you're doing. If you get hit and again know what you're doing that should carry you close enough to another loop. On top of that you got exhaustion perks, pallets and vaults. These all extend the chase unless you screw it up, get outplayed or server latency screws you. Survivor tends to get screwed far more by latency than killer.
Killer speeds are fine as is. The only way they can get faster is by getting bloodlust stacks which are broken anyways by interactions. There are numerous things that should be addressed with killers that they benefit from. This is not one of them. Just learn from your mistakes and get better at chases.
As obvious bait as that is, I'll still respond.
No. Movement speeds are fine. As for your 4.2 and 4.5 idea...
Huntress's base speed is 4.4 meters per second, .4 meters faster than survivors. If the speeds were changed to Survivor 4.2 and killer 4.5, that would make every killer slower than huntress.
...yeah I just realised what those two are now doing and feel stupid for responding to them lmao. They genuinely got me and I applaud them for that.
Are you serious? There is a reason why killers are faster. We have more ground that we need to cover faster, so naturally we are going to need to be faster than survivors, who mind you, do have the ability to sprint. As well as having a peek to aid them in sprinting faster (sprint burst). Once you give a valid reason why survivors need to be sped up and killers need to be slowed down, then say something.
Also, how do you know some of the people responding to this forum aren't both survivor and killer mains? 👁👄👁
We're not much faster, if you run in a straigh line it actually takes killer a pretty long time to catch up, you lose distance by running left or right to cover. If anything killers should be a little faster. Also fun fact survivors move roughly 6 mph and killer about 7. Legion in frenzy is booking like 13
May I ask. How many minutes have you played this game by now?