The future balance of DBD

So for whatever reason, shortly after the Ruin nerf was announced, the talk about a nerf to Hillbilly really picked up on these forums. I get that this has always been brought up at occasions, but at the moment I see a lot more posts regarding this topic.

And I'm personally a bit confused about this. Ruin has just been nerfed, which was arguably the only effective way to slow down the early game. And many people have been pretty upset about these changes. I personally don't mind the nerf that much, but I can understand those that are unhappy with this nerf.

So it just seems like a weird timing to now demand a nerf to Hillbilly. Many killers are already unhappy, why would you want to nerf another killer now? This will only increase the likelihood of people not wanting to play killer anymore. And we definitely don't need survivor queue times to increase more.

Also, I would recommend everyone to wait and see how Billy is without Ruin. I could definitely see how Billy was overpowered with Ruin, but without it, I personally think he's one of the most balanced killers in the game.

I'm not even totally against a nerf to Billy. I could see a small nerf being reasonable. But not now, not after Ruin has been nerfed. I might be a killer main, but I do enjoy playing survivor as well and I don't want to have to spend ages in queues before finally finding a match.

What I believe this game now needs, are buffs to weaker killers, and map reworks. In my opinion, all killers should at least have a similar power level to Hillbilly or Freddy. As long as gens can be repaired as fast as they currently can. Of course the exact power level a killer should have depends on how balanced the reworked maps become. Because once, or if maps are properly reworked, having their size reduced and having many more mindgameable pallets and many less safe pallets, then I think the most powerful killers like Hillbilly or Freddy will need some small nerfs. Nothing big, but some small nerfs to bring them in line with the reworked maps.

I think for me, the perfect balance for maps would be something in between the balance level of Badham maps and the balance level of Hawkins. Probably a bit closer to the balance level of Badham maps.

Personally, I would also love to see some maps keeping the size they have, and instead receiving a small second objective. Balancing the maps in different ways would add more variety to the game. Which I think would definitely be good.

So to recap, what I think devs need to do now is to rework maps and buff weaker killers before nerfing the next killer. And during that process, they could then also nerf the really strong killers like Hillbilly in some patches just a bit as well. The amount of buffs weaker killers need will be dependent on how balanced the reworked maps become. The better the maps become for killer, the less buffs weaker killers will need. So it's important to find the sweet spot between killer buffs and map balance. But I do think this needs to be the main focus for the devs now, and while they are at it, depending on how balanced maps become, the devs can then nerf the most powerful killers in this game accordingly to the map balance. Of course though, this wouldn't be easy, and no one should expect every change in this scenario to work out perfectly. But balancing this game simply isn't easy, never has been.