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Will there ever be another big weak addon buffing thing again?

JustWhimsical
JustWhimsical Member Posts: 590
in General Discussions

There are quite a few killers with add-ons that are simply fillers as it seems, that serve no purpose even to help you because their effects are either so minuscule that they hurt you or so awful that they completely negatively affect the killer.

I think that all killers should be similar to blight, where he has nearly all his addons do meaningful things, but one or two meme addons.

A lot of killers are just left with addons that barely do anything, while I understand that making all the killers addons do different things is not exactly easy to do, I don't think that they should just be given addons that will never see the light of day like there has to be something to make these addons better or even just useful in general.

I was a little disappointed like I was hoping that they really meant most of the addons on the selected killers would be changed, I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but they really implied that it was going to be a lot of nerfs and buffs. For more than half of the killers selected it was merely a few changes here and there while the pig, hillbilly, and Myers I believe saw the most changes.

I'm not very hopeful that they will go back to killers that were listed in all honesty, if they saw these addons and didn't do anything for them, that likely means that they believe they are in a good place and changes will not be done soon if ever.

Comments

  • landromat
    landromat Member Posts: 2,193

    Big balance patch like this should happen every mid chapter

  • JustWhimsical
    JustWhimsical Member Posts: 590
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2535641#Comment_2535641

    I wish that were the case, but I kind of doubt they will do it again for quite some time I hope I'm proven wrong. :c

  • Brokenbones
    Brokenbones Member Posts: 5,169

    Hopefully the positive feedback this mid-chapter got is a big signal that we want more of this going forward!

  • ClumsyTrapper
    ClumsyTrapper Member Posts: 544

    This upcoming patch is what everyone has wanted for yrs I hope we get more just like it going forward. Bhvr has made good changed since this game started, they've just come soooo slow and they've sprinkled them in little by little for some reason. Big balance like this are the way to go

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 2,039

    In this patch they changed some of the add-ons that were underused/underpowered and some that were overpowered/overused. Basically, ones that stood out to the designers that caused a killer to become really bad or too good, not necessarily add ons that had very minor effects. So these "filler" add-ons that you are talking probably didn't catch the attention of the designers because they aren't making enough impact to the data to warrant changes. I think those kind of changes would only happen if the killer got a full-add on pass, because add-ons that don't do anything are problems with the core design of a killer and require a lot more work to go back and change.

  • JustWhimsical
    JustWhimsical Member Posts: 590
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2535664#Comment_2535664

    I guess I did get my hopes too high, but ever since the addon pass thing the devs have been consistently making loads of add-ons that aren't useful, with a few that work, like for example more than half of nurses addons are not helpful, as well as hillbilly's addon pass as another example, the flashlight addon cooling, was so situational that it wasn't useful in the slightest.

    I don't want to be rude, but I feel like the devs aren't being as good in creating usable addons in the addon passes, instead of making useful addons they make super situational bad addons that hurt you more than they help you or just addons that are kind of pointless to use.