this has been a reoccurring pattern ive been witnessing between not only my friends but also big creators, and i can tell you exactly why it happened. The death of nuance in the gameplay loop of Dead By Daylight. DBD used to be an incredibly in depth and rewarding game when you knew all of the specifics and techs that existed, you were rewarded for it. Dropdown tech, flashlight and flashbang timing, lightburning killers and it's timing, hug tech on blight, and so much more. BHVR decided one day that they wanted to dumb this game down to the barebones to make it as "beginner friendly" as possible, because they expect high turnover rates from veteran players. So to achieve that, they made flightlight save timing brainless, they took away all of the sick killer techs (except wesker, for some reason?) removed ALL of the nuance, gutted every popular perk people loved, and worst of all: make looping pallets and playing tiles a brainless pre-dropping nightmare. Almost every tile sucks now, they're almost all 50/50s, and just because theres 200 of them doesnt make up for the fact that they are not fun to play. You used to have to learn how to play tiles, they used to be balanced around the strength of them. There used to be really interesting killer and survivor interaction between the players where the more knowledgeable and mechanically skilled player came out on top. That doesn't happen anymore. Even now people don't even need to improve anymore. Why would you learn how to loop tiles when you can pre-drop with five moves ahead? Why would you learn killer gamesense when you can just run full aura? Why learn how to manage time when you can compensate with extremely strong regression or hex perks? Why learn how to position for flashlight saves when you can run hyperfocus and a toolbox? all of these things get you the win. the win. the win. the win. that's all people care about anymore. And because BHVR wanted to abandon their veterans in favor of new players that buy a ton of DLC, they've turned the game into a shell of what it used to be, before update 6.1.0. And some of those updates were good! some things since have been great changes, but the general gameplay loop philosophy has strayed so far from what the game used to be (during what I consider to be the peak of Dead By Daylight, 2021) Don't get me wrong the game is still fun, but it's not the same. Almost everyone i know who used to play 12 hours a day now maybe opens it once every two weeks, if at all. Hell, even I have moved on more to other games, even though i do still play some. It genuinely breaks my heart, and I miss old DBD every day. I hope BHVR understands what happened one day and goes back on some of this stuff, and brings nuance back into DBD, but i doubt it will happen. long ass rant over LOL