It was a terrible idea to change base killer mechanics in the same patch that hit 2nd chance perks
This isn't a matter of whether the game is balanced now or not, just a simple opinion.
It was a bad idea to make fundmental buffs to all killers in terms of pallet break speed, attack recovery time, etc in the same patch that also made most second chance perks far less guaranteed.
It's basically impossible to have any meaningful discussion on balance at the moment. Are killers doing better because their interactions are faster? Are survivors performing worse because their 15 safety nets got pulled out from under them?
It also means it's basically impossible to tell what's problematic for future balancing if the kill rates skyrocket, and after giving everyone base kit mini-stbfl and brutal, it'll feel significantly worse if they have to take those away or reduce them later and the game feels sluggish after that.
It would have been a much cleaner decision to overhaul the perks, touch up a few mechanics to compensate where perks were nerfed, and see if more changes were needed later.
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i don't think giving killers a tier1 brutal strength and 2 stacks of stbfl baseline while reworking perks is going to stifle the ability of devs to make balance choices
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The biggest problem is they blanket buffed killer, so also blight and nurse which don't need it, and didn't really do anything against camping/tunneling.
What is happening right now is that survivor have to reconfigure their gameplay and bhvr has to show killer that a playstyle without camping/tunneling CAN now work.
Killer won't change their strategies when they got pseudo buffed by the changes and survivor have been sitting on their meta and the same base mechanics for so long that they have forgotten to adapt like in the beginning of the game.
In the first days killer were at the advantage when nobody new how to play efficient. Then survivor learned to use their potential and killer too. That's when broken stuff was nerfed over time.
Now the devs have used the sledgehammer and changed the meta without considering everything and we are in a pseudo release state. Killer are at the advantage until survivor find back to the most efficient strategies and then we will se how the new mechanics balance out.
But all of this needs more time than 48 hours but we as gamer and people have become impatient over the last 2-3 decades.
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i think your last sentence is the most true thing i have heard in a while.
every big meta change needs the players to take there time to adapt and learn what works best now but the people dont want this all they see is that they used the same tactics and perks for two or three years and where succesfull and now suddenly the same stuff isnt working so bhvr bad
edit: the worst thing is that you can see people complaining that the had so much fun before the update and they where destroying every killer except nurse and now they struggel and they want it turned back but they dont give half a frik about how the other side felt
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