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Why is there so little killers at high ranks
hex_genrush
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Why? Just curious since apparently it’s so ez to pressure gens and pressure survivors lol
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It’s also kinda [BAD WORD] up that since there’s barely any high rank killers, low rank ones are dragged from their perspective matchmaking Pool and forced to go against rank 1s and others just to get bullied lmao
Try reading your own screen name and you might figure it out.
what? I thought gen rushing didn’t exist lol! I made that my name as sarcasm
When the game stop becoming fun and is more akin to actual sweaty work where you are not allowed to even make a single mistake then many will choose other games. Or switch roles. I switched roles and even that was becoming unfun being upranked so easily to the point where i was facing people far above my skill level. I dont have a problem losing. Its losing game after game after game that gets on my nerves.
So i put the game down. One less killer main now. I was a far better killer than i was surv. Far better killer. By at least ten ranks better. Purple killer. Fake purple survs who belongs in greens
lol
If you're looking for a serious answer, in regards to me personally, it's because I play Hillbilly and chainsaw hits only count as one chase, so I sometimes end games with bronze chaser or no emblem at all.
What is so funny about that?
Do you play killer?
Tonight is kinda a mess. Nobody's dying on hook. It's either bleed out, disconnect or pig head pop.
Nobody's playing the actual game lol
Yes, I do.
So this is just a pure troll thread?
In all fairness, when is anything on here not a troll thread?
The original reason was because most killers were already fed up with sweaty red ranks always carrying insta heals, keys, toolboxes, using SWF with comms and the simple fact that having experience in this game as a survivor you can 1v1 the killer and there is 4 survivors in the game.
This way most avoided getting ranks, deranked on purpose, or waited for deranks and never bothered to get back. Problem now is that killer ranks dont matter because you will get paired with red ranks even if you are rank 15, so that's the way BHVR circumvented the shortage of red rank killers.
I was one that would try to go back and forth and stay around mid ranks on purple at most, but since it makes no difference anymore now Im red rank killer as well.
Everyone with common sense and information knows survival rate on red ranks was always through the roof on this game which in turn made more killers avoid the frustration.
Reason why I quit playing killer
1. I don't wanna constantly play Nurse, Spirit, or Billy just to have a chance of having fun or even remotely winning.
2. With the ruin nerf matches go by too quick
3. I don't wanna play a game where I'm more stressed out than having fun
4. I don't wanna play a game as to weather making the right play still means losing
For me it's simply because the game as killer can be so incredibly sweaty at times that I don't have the energy to play enough games in a row with the intent of getting a merciless to rank up. Right now I'm lik rank 8/7.
But between me mostly being a silly bugger, not using optimal builds, not interested or having fun playing optimal loop-lets dance around the same thing 6 times in a roll- or gaming around them-I can loop..I legit just get so bored that I mentally give up on the third one if no other play is made- and randomly switching to killers I don't really play as or know how to use optimally for kicks. I'll probably be knocked back to greens eventually.
Now I'm constantly facing red ranks who come into the game together and while it can be fun some of them are so optimized and so hell bent on looping stuff constantly to milk time as possible for a sweaty win that I just don't have fun. So when I meet those teams consistently I'll honestly probably not play for a few weeks until my rank resets.
There are more red rank Survivors because the survivors who couldn't hit skillchecks can finally rank up due to the ruin change.
The worst feeling is when survivors 1v1 killer all game. Killer can drop chases, but all survivors can run to the same loop. They will point at killer, clickyclick, tbag and killer can do nothing about it, because killer can be harmless in this game. It can ruin any mood playing killer role.
I feel like I remember seeing you in a lobby alongside 3 other default nancys with flashlights, boy you know I left that lobby faster than a heartbeat
Well, with all the ease of playing survivor, not to mention all their second chances, but killers get beat down for using NOED... it's a big double standard.
That, and everyone makes playing most killers hell. Only Nurses, Spirits, Onis, and Billies at red.
Matchmaking's busted, people are starting to lean more into one-shots which hurt their emblems, more killers are relying on tunnelling and camping, so survivors are adapting to run perks and strategies that completely counter those aspects. Borrowed Time body-block comes to mind.
Survivors are also more likely to live if they complete their objective quickly. They REALLY don't like to have a drawn out game.
I don't know, I seem to be part of the minority who actually think getting to rank 1 as Killer is easier after the ruin nerf. Mainly I think this is because I've had to switch up my playstyle.
Previously against strong SWF teams, ruin would either be completely ignored or instantly cleansed, which more or less made it useless. Against weak teams, I would have killed everyone either way (and rather quickly), so the perk was still kind of pointless.
I don't know, after the recent changes I've just started playing a bit differently. More mind games, almost no 1v1, sometimes completely filtering out survivors I actually see on screen and instead focusing on gen status. It actually works out pretty well, and I usually end up with a 4k.
Side note: Yes, the game still suffers from, sometimes heavy, balance issues (matchmaking is terrible, for instance), but it's not nearly as bad as a lot of people in the community claims.
It really is quite bad right now. Gen times, map size, map strength, strength of perks, matchmaking, emblem system, and lack of game breaking bugs are all in survivor favor.
I think region plays a big part in the challenge of this game. Where I am, the survivors are just too good. Bhvr doesn't see a problem because they don't encounter these types on a daily basis.
Because Killer mains are tired of Devs catering to survivors and seeing survivors stroke their ego for making one decent play.
Yesterday I played 8 games and had 8 different killers FYI Rank 2 Survivor
What region are you in? I have no experience from any other region than mine (EU on PC), but from what I've gathered it seems to be about the same everywhere... I just don't see how it would differ that much.
Gens get done too fast, too many survivor perks you have to play around, dedi servers denying grabs, and frame rate and sensitivity issues on console.
if they fix these issues maybe playing killer will feel enjoyable again.
Because game is heavily survivor sided. Playing killer is hard and no fun meanwhile playing survivor is Eden garden. Why you should sweating your as* if you can play easy survivor.
Bc killer is stressful I still play but I dread it sometimes
Well it's very hard to pip when you face 6/8 SWF in a row armed with toolboxes, flashlights etc. I still get "brutal" even if i manage, somehow, to make 4k. I occasionally get "ruthless". I have no problems with solo queue, with Hillbilly. The problem is SWF.
Southern USA. I get a lot of players from Chile. 60 percent of my games have a team with over 10k combined hours. They know every loop, every distance, every safe zone, and run the strongest meta perks and items. It's frustrating to say the least.
I am rank 1 in both roles, killer is only fine when you accept that 50% of your games will be bad with sweaty teams.
Genrushing is very real on ps4, you get plenty of survivors scoring 15-17k BP escaping!
Ruin was a psychological deterrent, now all hell went loose.
That's why there are few killers left