People are overreacting to this update
Coming from a 4k hour survivor main
1. "The games gonna die" thats what everyone says every update, but yet it's gaining more player base by the day.
2. "Survivor is terrible now" maybe get some skill at looping and stop relying on gen rush and dead hard. But I do have to say it's not exactly many people's fault that they can't loop cause dh and gen times where just the easier option and it was kinda a handicap.
3. "Tunneling is easier now" I see some people saying this and they must be on some type of crack I wish I was on what ever they where on.
4. "Meta is bigger than ever now" took the same drugs the person above did. The meta has been successfully balanced pretty well I've already been against a crazy amount of perk variety.
5. "Solo survivor is worse than ever" I've never seen the problem with solo survivor imo, but clearly other people are disgusted with it. The only thing that would make solo survivor worse this patch was gen times. And yes lately people haven't been doing gens cause everyone wants to test out new stuff which makes solo seem bad but soon enough gen rushing will come back and everything will be back to normal. I really don't see the problem with solo q. Many people say nerfing the second chance perks dh and ds nerf solo q but that's the reason the devs nerfed it, cause everyone relied on the perks to carry them (people with no skill can just rely on those perks and get good results).
6. "Gen speeds are OP for killer now" like I said above people r messing around rn, the idea of doing a longer gen is unappealing to people and they would rather do other stuff like take hits, use there perk, totems or search chests. Rn it's just in people's head that's gen times are bad rn, but in a month or 2 gen rushing will be back and killers will start complaining. And in about 2 years gen times will be increased to 100 seconds default.
That's all I got. Add on if I missed anything
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I agree, played survivor all night tonight to see what was up and if it was really as bad as people made it out to be and it's really not.
Things I learned tonight:
- Sprint Burst, Lithe, Overcome are all great and people should stop trying to run Dead Hard.
- Off the Record is overrated a lot of people I saw running it died pretty fast and if you get hit while running form the hook it doesn't do anything it wasn't already doing prepatch.
- Lightweight seems good? Like really good. A lot of killers didn't seem too interested in chasing me while I was running it and my chases were noticeable longer with it compared to without it.
- Prove Thyself is even more valuable than it was before. Makes increased gen time not noticeable.
- You NEED a healing perk. It doesn't matter which one you just need one, with no dead hard you don't get a free 3rd health state making getting hit that much more costly and chases the much shorter so heal tf up. Medkits are also invaluable and by far the best item you can bring.
- Hold W throw pallet is still effective also don't greed pallets.
- Do the gd gens, you will get punished so much more for walking around doing nothing. You do not have time to walk around saving your SB or whatever if you're healthy and have nothing else to do get on a gd gen or you will lose.
- DS is pathetic now yes but still almost still worth running to extend chases, that's how important buying time is now.
Honestly it's not bad you just have to be smart and all the people that were getting carried by DH are feeling it I have to think. I escaped probably 50% tonight which is what it was before the patch I just have to work harder and pray I had good teammates cuz if you do you can escape no problem if your team is bad good luck getting more than a single gen done. Survivor isn't bad just unforgiving which if any survivors mains think that's the worst thing ever well now you know how killers felt for the longest time. I still think BHVR could do some things to make make the soloQ experience feel better but overall we're on our way to DBD being in a good place.
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We need more people like you in these forums. Very factual, proffesional, and respectful. I enjoyed reading your posts and it's very insightful. Thank you.
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Finally some reasonable post. And remember that if you're not comfortable in chase yet, that's perfectly fine. Doing gens and stealthing is a completely valid strategy. Distortion now replenishes tokens, Lucky Break got a big buff so if you get caught, you might be able to shake the killer without going down, even multiple times in one game. Prove Thyself can help with genspeeds.
You have many viable ways to play! Try them out. If you die a lot, you'll only face wesker killers. Also weaker survs but still.
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