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How do you all feel about pre-dropping pallets?

Witchubtet
Witchubtet Member Posts: 642
in General Discussions

Personally I find it to be the most annoying thing in DBD right now due to how some loops trap me inside. I wouldn’t mind a perk that does something akin to Spirit Fury but on predrops. I know for some killers it’s needed like Michael or perhaps Bubba, but since the devs seem to think a whole factory’s worth of pallets is okay on some of these maps I’m just wondering how everyone feels about them.

Comments

  • Sava18
    Sava18 Member Posts: 2,514

    If they are all mostly safe pallets than it's just as boring as being camped for most killers.

  • Witchubtet
    Witchubtet Member Posts: 642
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3344523#Comment_3344523

    I think that’s the issue. Most loops have safe pallets. If we had more unsafe ones it could feel much better to be chased or to chase.

  • HugTechLover
    HugTechLover Member Posts: 2,482

    I don’t mind it. Especially if it’s a mindless survivor that just runs from pallet to pallet and continues to drop them without trying to loop. Easiest way to create massive deadzones and end chase extremely quick later on.

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 7,846

    I think it’s boring and I generally won’t do it as survivor if there isn’t a good reason to. Sometimes you have to though.

  • Snowflake_Syndrome
    Snowflake_Syndrome Member Posts: 239

    I love pre dropping I won't lie.

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 14,459

    It illustrates the issue with the abundance of overly safe loops once the pallet in thrown. If most loop were a 50/50 mind game people wouldn't care about pre dropping, however right now most are forced breaks.

  • Wexton
    Wexton Member Posts: 496

    I play a lot of pallet shredder wraith so I'm cool with it

  • versacefeng
    versacefeng Member Posts: 1,227

    It's very boring, but I blame the devs for making most of the killer roster's only counter w-keying.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,719
    edited February 2023

    There's not a huge reason to not do it. It can be a sign of a really good survivor or a really bad one. You kind of have to test them and see. A less confident player is going to pre-drop but path poorly after or panic vault. A really good survivor is going to pre-drop and chain it to something else or force you to burn 20 seconds trying to land a hit on a vault mind-game.

    People hate on pre-dropping, but the worst possible thing you can do on survivor is take a hit at a tile with the pallet up or go down without dropping any pallets. Just...why? You are never going to run out of pallets, and a good killer is going to win at least 50% of those loops if you aren't safe. Taking hits and being greedy doesn't make someone a good survivor.

    The odds of winning go up exponentially the longer you deny a killer their first hook relative to gens completed. I'm chucking half the pallets on the map in the first chase.

  • brokedownpalace
    brokedownpalace Member Posts: 8,823

    I love it. If I can "waste" a pallet to avoid a hit, I'll do it. A lot of the time the killer will get discouraged and go pressure gens. But if they don't, I will run them around for as long as I can so my teammates (hopefully) can make as much progress on gens as possible.