Why are killers queues so long?

[satyr]

I genuinely don't understand

[CleanCup]

Honestly?
Ratio.
There are more killers queuing than survivors. (Or just a lack of Survivors)

[Branchu]

Two reasons:

1. Time of day. They usually are longer around this time.
2. Recent patch made killer a bit less stressful, so people actually want to play killer now.

[Silent Sword]

latest update was killer sided and more ppl like ti play killer now even some survivor players are now killer mains simple. before the update killer que was instant for me but now it is 3-10 mins i almost gave up and only play survivor now xD

[[DC] Drewbie]

Originally posted by Branchu:

Two reasons:

1. Time of day. They usually are longer around this time.
2. Recent patch made killer a bit less stressful, so people actually want to play killer now.

2. I think its rather that the buff were so strong to killers many survivors are struggling. And solo queues sucks when so many people just die because they cannot play without old DS/DH. Therefor to get more points some of us play killer.

[ParZ]

SoloQ hasn't changed. It can go oh-so-very-right or oh-god-I-can't-believe-this-is-happening-what-did-I-just-witness. This has always been the case. However you also don't see a lot of "Patch broke game, survivor unplayable now" because the survivors that said this did, indeed, learn it was very playable.
Unfortunately the byproduct of allowing killers to achieve the dev's stated goal of not having an under 50% win rate (we don't actually know yet if this patch even accomplished that yet) does incentivize more people to buck up some courage and play some Killer. When the next patch releases, they'll reinstate the reward system to better encourage people to play the side that needs players. I don't even know if that'll work THAT well tbh, but it's something. It's an Asymmetrical game, someone's going to feel some semblance of unbalance somewhere while playing.

[limierr]

What do you call long ? Around this hour my waiting time is around 2 min

[satyr]

Originally posted by Limierr:

What do you call long ? Around this hour my waiting time is around 2 min

I waited for around 5 mins then gave up, I,m too used of the 30 seconds surv queue i think

[Mary]

Because bein' the killer is the coolest thing. :D

[satyr]

Originally posted by Mary:

Because bein' the killer is the coolest thing. :D

I really enjoy playing Survivor lmao

[feral]

Originally posted by exenoii:

Why are killers queues so long?

a series of unfair decisions led here.
since the latest killer pleasing patch nobody wants to play survivor anymore, and masses are leaving. most of the playerbase is solo queue survivor, who are simply left in the dark without any help or defense against the overflowing killer toxicity.
even tho the kill stats clearly showed 1 year ago that every single killer has more than 50% killrate (closer to 60% except nurse and trickster who are at 49%)
devs only said they want the killrates a little bit higher, so the goal is not even 50% anymore i guess.
it is what it is, survivors had it enough and leaving the game.

because of the long killer queues, killers who never touched survivor flooded the survivor queues, and this resulted in decreasing quality of teammates, and at the same time provides an explanation why there are so many sandbagging survivors who works with the killer suddenly..
add to the formula the couple of hours newbies and the nonexisting MMR and you will understand why nobody wants to play survivor anymore.

[ParZ]

Originally posted by feral:

Originally posted by exenoii:

Why are killers queues so long?

a series of unfair decisions led here.
since the latest killer pleasing patch nobody wants to play survivor anymore, and masses are leaving. most of the playerbase is solo queue survivor, who are simply left in the dark without any help or defense against the overflowing killer toxicity.
even tho the kill stats clearly showed 1 year ago that every single killer has more than 50% killrate (closer to 60% except nurse and trickster who are at 49%)
devs only said they want the killrates a little bit higher, so the goal is not even 50% anymore i guess.
it is what it is, survivors had it enough and leaving the game.

because of the long killer queues, killers who never touched survivor flooded the survivor queues, and this resulted in decreasing quality of teammates, and at the same time provides an explanation why there are so many sandbagging survivors who works with the killer suddenly..
add to the formula the couple of hours newbies and the nonexisting MMR and you will understand why nobody wants to play survivor anymore.

Amazing. Every word in those sentences were false. The count has remained above 40k except for the slowest evening hours. Their inside data led them to make that statement about only getting >50% winrates and thus pushing this new patch. This is the first Killer favored patch in DbD's history, and still provided nerfs to them. Remember, we started in 2016 with infinite loops, infinite sprint burst, and infinite fast vaulting double shack windows. This was "perfectly balanced" at the time. As survivors [and the Cote himself] told Killers back then, "not having fun? Play Civ6 or something else instead." Except the whining survivors are not playing Civ 6, a majority are still playing survivor and winning most of their games. It's people like you that spread this utter baffling BS that gets others to repeat the same untrue thing. If anything, they've gained a consistent 5-10k more players from this patch. Why say things so blatantly incorrect?

[Vinnie Huxhold]

Because everyone wants to play killer since its so easy.

Playing survivor has become miserable as years have passed.

[satyr]

Please don't argue in my comments section

[ParZ]

Originally posted by exenoii:

Please don't argue in my comments section

I know you mean well but if you don't call out liars for what they are, what they say will spread and fester. This community has enough problems without people trying to create new ones.

[Charles Patenaude]

Originally posted by LookMomAnotherTTV!™:

Originally posted by exenoii:

Please don't argue in my comments section

I know you mean well but if you don't call out liars for what they are, what they say will spread and fester. This community has enough problems without people trying to create new ones.

You can correct people all you want. This community has a big "Us VS Them" mentality. Even if proven wrong, the person will just repeat what they said on the next thread as if nothing happened.