Badham Preschool needs to be reworked, it’s awful
Ok, I know a BHVR employee isn’t going to read this and just magically decide they need to fix Badham Preschool, but please if you see this at least read it.
Why is this map still the way it is? Eyrie got changed a year or two after release, and that map was just as bad as Badham. I’m genuinely curious why no one has looked into adjusting this maps balance, it’s awful.
I play a decent amount of killer, I’m not expert but I’m not a novice either, but Badham is just so busted. It’s too safe and too huge. It’s basically impossible to pressure without Pain Resonance, it just doesn’t feel very fair, and I’m not one to say something is or isn’t fair. All is fair in love and war yknow.
But in all seriousness it’s the only map in the game that’s this EASY to play as well. I have about 2000 hours on DBD and about 1500 of those are survivor hours. As someone who plays a LOT of survivor, this map is just way too easy to play.
To go into some detail, even vaguely, the gen spread to map size ratio is ludicrous. The map feels massive, had what feels like a million pallets, and has 3 buildings at any given time that can be ran with basically zero effort that are almost entirely safe. The way that survivors can string together the loops on this map is just silly, there’s no other map quite like it, and that’s not a compliment. I’m just saying that maybe, if a map has 3 safe buildings, one having 2 pallets and the other having a god window, I just think that maybe, MAYBE, it should be considered for a change of SOME kind.
To sum it up, TLDR style, Badham Preschool (all variants, but specifically 1) are far too large, safe and easy to play for even half decent survivors. I’m not asking for the map to be made tiny and impossible to play or anything, but please consider taking a look at its numbers and think about adjusting it to make it more fair for both sides.
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Don't hold out hope for map changes. They'll never come.
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I can also make a counter-argument about Forgotten Ruins, being on the polar opposite side of the spectrum.
But yes, maps do need some tweaks. I might refer to the post I made, ranking the maps on general balance:1 -
tbh maps have too many variables atm a simple map can already be a loss for a side. This (imo) shoudnt even be a thing atp
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Exactly. Maps definitely needs to be balanced properly, before you can draw conclusions about balancing killers/survivors.
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At least they left the best version for killer and removed the other variants.
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some maps as an example:
Survivor sided: badham, gideon, lerys (imo), disturbed ward, swamp (if using dark clothing), toba landing to name a few
Killer sided, midwich, forgotten ruins, haddonfield (they should just make the road less wide).
This shoudnt be a thing maps should be the playing field not the desiding factor of who wins that should be up the the survivors cohesion and the killers skill and strategic insight0
