Freddy DEV-Update

KaTo1337 · January 2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1ibawtk/developer_update_january_2025_ptb/

Releasing a Dream Projection now cancels a teleport
Cancelling a Dream Projection incurs the full cooldown
While charging Dream Projection, movement speed is reduced to 3.86 m/s

Fake-Teleports are back, but: Why is there a need to reduce the speed under survivor-speed (3,86 v 4,00m/s)?
I dont understand this. You want Freddy to lose Distance to a survivor in a chase if you use what you already can use? Like why?

Higher Cooldown is enough penalty for keeping the fake-teleports in my opinion. You cannot spam fakes like before, DMS cannot get used like before. So… WHY?

typervader · January 2025

To give survivors a more fair mind game. Dream protection is still twice as fast as before so it's alot stronger for that alone

danielmaster87 · January 2025

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3876930#Comment_3876930

No, it was a fair mindgame for killer, and now it's blatantly survivor favoring. You lose distance on the person you were chasing, you incur the entire cooldown so you have to wait all that time to fake again/actually tp, all for a mere threat of tp'ing to a gen, which the survivors will clearly get to a safe spot anyway before you hit them anyway.

It's hard to explain these things sometimes, but I think the pushback against this stuff shows how low a level people think about this game. I argued that Freddy could fake his teleport with no cooldown, and he'd still only be decent, although it would be a nice tool against stronger survivors. But we can't even play around with fun ideas like that, because it's being argued that killers need slowdown AND long cooldowns for using their powers. It's an impasse.