Controversial opinion time : enter your controversial opinions below!

Im not to sure about preformance issues as i have a above average pc, but i can attest to alot of players feeling a very locked in and hard to navigate vibe. lots of people don't think its poorly designed though, just hard to navigate with long walls. mind elaborating on the safe window part? haven't tried huntress on it so can't attest to that, but seems wondeful for deathslinger, if a big again difficult to cross in some places.

i don't believe many people are utilizing the torment/cage effect to its full potential though. imo/my experience, i usually get them all tormented and leave that effect on them until their second hook, or when there on death hook to save on travel time through the instant mori/denying perks like DS and unbreakable. its more a counter to playstyles then an objective tool. i personally find him more rewarding due to his difficulty and feel that he could become amazing with stealth builds (a le tinkerer) and getting really good with getting behind walls shots. he has a lot of area denial in his kit too which pleases me, as theres not a lot of that outside of trap based killers, like plague has a lil bit with her infection, but most people remain infected for the most part so that quickly becomes irrelevant when there already infected.

oh i think thats just an undeniable fact, but you could say that about a lot of killers. billy just has more potential then most due to his high mobility and instant down, and combined with his high skill cap and techniques like curving, he can be a monster in the right hands which is why a lot of people give him the credit he's due. in an average players hands though he becomes very easy to dodge, akin to a huntress.

agreed on saloon. its by far my fav map, and i send myself there frequently as survivor despite it being a lil killer sided. (i love its overall asthetic, it has some good loops, and is generally very fun! plus its legit the most fun oni map, because i can charge around like the hulk and break stuff) i think both frenzy's had their ups and downs. still needs steps to be better tho

yeah i get what your saying. green offerings are ironically rarer due to bloat of a lot of green type things for example. vs purple/pink raritys which are usually what you want.

I understand this but im ngl chief im always going to attempt to save against the insidious bubba no matter if it kills me. no one deserves that fate

I understand this is a controversial opinions thread... and to an extent i agree. to an extent. unwarranted and purely throw away unneccessities are absolutely not ok, expecially if your throwing in sexuality purely for the sake of bonus points, inclusion, or to bring in a wider fanbase from the lgbtq fanbase. but at the same time inclusivity is incredibly important and people want things they can identifiy with in every type of media and its important to show these kinds of things in all forms. does that mean we need an entire archive devoted to david having homoerotic tendencies? Absolutely not, but opening up these barriers and including lore and creating stories around blank slates is the entire purpose of the archives. if it makes sense and is loyal to what we already know of charecters im all for it. expecially if it allows someone out there in the fanbase something greater to identify with and feel included and noticed. if its thrown in without thought? creates a bad story for the purpose of just being so? im not for that.

Sexuality is neccessary for all forms of media. should it be in dbd? arguable. archives? well its lore around charecters. if the storys good, i'll enjoy and support it is the main thing. and if it makes someone out there whose on the lgbtq spectrum happier? im all for it. gotta make sense and be purposeful though, because even me as a straight white boy from ol nz, can enjoy a nice gay story about two people coming out. or heck just people being gay in general yada yada yada. im babbling at this point but whilst i see your point i think its something that should probably be neglected, for the fact that greater inclusivity allows for greater story telling, and more love from all sides.

and i bring you = Iri hatchet! and Iri tombstone/tuft of hair! i see your point tho. a lot of them are very transformitive in nature and not always just a straight buff. honestly though, i'd prefer if every single addon in the game changed how a charecter functioned slightly/without just being a buff. i like the creativity and applyability for different builds. if every addon was like a trait from f:nv, or every addon acted like things such as scratched mirror, or prayer beads, or like bone clapper etc i would be very happy. green addons usually just add straight percentages or buffs to killers which arguably make them better by a long shot.

Honestly im not even going to lie you've convinced me and remained incredibly positive and descriptive throughout! <3 personally i would prefer it being aura reading, or at the least personal cooldowns for each survivor. but now im genuinely considering trying spies again! i've always prefered whispers for as you said, seeking, along with its endgame and start of game potential - but with how you described its use in a chase (which i thought it deactivated in a certain radius for whatever reason) i might have to try it again! that being said calm spirit is slowly becoming more and more of a meta perk, due to infectious fright, so im not to sure if it would work too to well expecially in the future haha. nor on the killers i mostly play such as oni, doctor, freddy and trapper, but i'll deffinately see about experimenting with it and trying it out! might be something else i might recommend to newer friends trying to play killer haha.

I mean i just think iri head should be distance based like death slingers addon. any shot outside of 20m-25m radius is an instant down. requires skill, and has counterplay. then take away the lack of hatchets portion. boom decent addon, thats powerful, yet not absurd.

i mean, putting all survivors into torment is reasonably easy if they decide to loop an area. they can't avoid it forever. take shack as an example, just placing a small amount of goop at the shack pallet/window makes it really gosh darn hard to loop it without getting tormented. plus a lot of survivors straight up will ignore it and loop as normal + dodging/faking against your ranged attack, specially if their confident.

you gotta keep in mind if they just touch a milimeter of your goop there now tormented for the rest of the match unless you cage them, (or i believe they release someone from a cage?) ie their tormented forever, and can thusly be mori'ed on final hook, or if they try to DS, just down them and send them to a cage. being instant saved from a cage, whilst it may be a loss of pressure in terms of area/chase, its a HUGE time save for killer, even more so then just simply not hooking them. instant save, means they have no perks activated from it and have lost a single hook state within 5s. plus you know where they are. not always useful, but it completely denies ds users/unbreakables and puts them on their final hook.

he herds sort of like trapper and clown in that way. you make them go towards your torment, either pre placed or placed in a chase.

Paths i can agree but windows? the reason they are limited is because they are an unkickable pallet which can be chained into other loops. its very hard to design anything with a lot of windows that can't be infinited. hell people can do so off of a single window, let alone multiple, so if every loop/path ended in a window i could see that ending poorly.

what i want to see is less powerful pallets, that can be mindgamed or played incredibly differently depending on the way a survivor paths towards it/killer corrals a player towards it. being less powerful from one side, more powerful from another and equally mindgameable if you just ran straight towards it kind of thing. kind of like 1 or 2 of the many pallets on hawkins, where the pallet if run around one side of a wall can be powerful, but if ran straight to without chaining it loses any kind of power due to the short sides. obvs in a better fashion of course.

but.. they can close it now? before a survivor even gets to it? which is so much better then just standing on it with a healthy survivor and no insta down for 2 hrs because you want the 4k but can't grab the survivor without them going into it first and having stand off scenarios? having no hatch would be just as bad leaving no exit scenario for the final survivor other then doing up to a total of 400s worth of gen time (if no gens get done)?

deffinately a controversial opinion atleast haha. appreciate it, but kindly have to disagree.

you can look down/up directly after the pick up animation stops locking your charecter camera, and unless the blind time is perfect you won't drop the survivor. looking in the opposite direction after baiting a survivor to try and come for the save and driving them temporarily off is usually enough to grant you those extra seconds and prevent a blind. also lightborn is a perk if you tend to be struggling a lot with flashlights, as it completely ruins the blind timer for survivors. just run it if you see 3-4 in a lobby. otherwise it should be a non issue most of the time.

infectious fright is also another good counter by giving you awareness they're there.

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thats hard though, as its really really easy in a lot of cases to just fake a un-natural disconnect. they could punish pressing the button harder, but then that will cause people to just task manager the game away. they could try to detect cut outs, but anyone can just disable wifi on windows 10 or pull their ethernet cord. i wish to god it was more lenient as sometimes i have the worst internet. but i also know that its incredibly incredibly diffcult to do so.

i mean i agree with the timer part, more so if they've been previously known to dc (ie if a player maybe disconnects every 1 hundred games, it should be less.) flagging dc'ers and matching them with others would only further them and their toxic attitudes though. i mean you might dc, but being paired with 4 other angry or toxic people who are likely to do so would completely kill the game for them. the best solution is to just lengthen the timer which you already said, in order to give them a chance to tone it down/calm down.

I'd say it depends on the killer and situation. why should i heal when theres one gen left, i've never been hooked and the killers busy? expecially when me and said survivor im with (because outside of bringing perks/items how else would i do so) i could likely pump that generator out in 50-60s or so. people that don't heal at all are horrible. people that know how to prioritize their time, utilize perks like adrenaline etc to do so for them are smart

Good fun match <- Bloodpoints <- escaping/4king to me. having a fun match but getting next to no bp (tho not likely) will always be better then just simply "winning"

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Fun and balance aren't inherently opposites though. nothing needs to be perfectly balanced. but very unfun things shouldn't exist (ie forever freddy 1.0, and how godawful that was to play against despite being verrrrry fun as killer. it wasn't op, or even insanely strong, it just made the game very lax and slow.)

I actually 100% agree. except when you manage to get a 3gen due to unintelligent play, or your playing a stealth killer.

I absolutely disagree and i feel like otzdarva would murder you on the spot for saying that haha.

there is a huge difference between a green addon trap being able to hide on land and regular tiles/next to objects, and a normal trap sticking out like a sore thumb. i equate it to oni's top knot in a way, that its in no way neccessary, but it brings up the things you can do with the killer and makes them easier to play.