Doctor changes to make him ready for 2026 and the Future

HermanTheDoctor

Hello my Patients and Devs,

first of all I don't want to be greedy. Because Doctor got 2 buffs the past year and I'm really happy about this. I also understand that Doctor changes are probably not really high on the priority list. Dead by Daylight has changes a lot over the Years. But the last big changes to Doctor happened in 2020. To Modernize the Doctor a bit into the year 2025 and the Future, i have some suggestions:

Basekit Madness Changes:

• Illusionary Doctor appears now for Survivors in Madness 1 for 0.5 Seconds
• Madness 2: Illusionary Doctor appears occasionally for 6 Seconds (replaces current Restraint Add-on Effect)
  Reason: Many people still have problems to find survivors. This should help them and they don't have to equip an extra add-on for it.

Add-on Changes:

Order Add-on changes

• When a Survivor walks through a Illusionary Pallet, the Madness increases for 1/4 of a Madness Tier
  Reason: Fake Pallets feel a little bit underwhelming atm. Just adding a little detail to maybe increase the usage of the Add-on a bit.

Restraint Add-on Changes:

• Illusionary Doctors get AI and follow the Survivor for the duration of it's appearance. Doctor Illusions are swinging at Survivors. When Survivors get in contact with these Illusionary Doctors, they increase 1/2 of Madness Tier (only available with Iri King and Restraint Add-on)
  Reason: I know that this consumes the most resources. Most used add-ons are still Discipline, to apply more pressure on Survivors, the new Illusionary Doctor can be a not only scary for newer players it also helps to gain a few more seconds in the game. Time that Doctor needs while chasing Survivors. I mean even the Snow Man from the 2024 Christmas Event had an AI. Why not using this for Doctor?

Scrapped Tape:

• Make Scrapped Tape a Brown Add-on, adds +100% Bonus Blood Points to the Deviousness Category
  Reason: Honestly Scrapped Tape is close to be never used and far away from being somewhat useful. Let's keep it's status as a meme add-on and make it like Padded Jaws or Placebo Tablet.

Maple Knight:

• Delete Maple Knight
  Reason: As much as i love to have the Maple Knight Add-on as a Tattoo on my Arm. It's probably the least used Add-on. It's not even very helpful at all.

New Add-on:

• Obedience
• Increases the duration of "Snap Out of it for" +2 Seconds
• Survivors with Madness III suffer from the Blindness Status Effect.
  Reason: Obedience was used many years ago as an add-on. Because Maple Knight gets removed and Scrapped Tape turns into a Uncommon Add-on we have a Slot left. We can also move the Interview Tape one Rarity lower (because of the same reason we do with Scrapped Tape) so we can put obedience into the Rare Category. We can keep the 2 Second Snap out of it increase. Instead of the Exhaustion effect we could switch it to Blindness when Survivors reach Tier 3 of Madness. Because the Exhaustion effect would counter too many Perks like: Dead Hard, Lithe, Iron Will….
  
  

That's it for so far. I hope i gave you some nice inspiration :D

Best regards,
Herman 😁

AdamZ

As much as i like these, im pretty sure bhvr wouldnt use ai just for an addon, so what i think would be neat is if the illusionary doctors would have a terror radious, but only the survivor with madness be affected by it/hear it AND it would apply tr perks too.

the rest are neat, good job :)

champzaza007

As for the Basekit Madness Changes, I agree. And I think it's quite interesting.