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Generator regression?

Date
Date Member Posts: 3
in Feedback and Suggestions

Greetings, I'm new around these parts!

I've recently joined the game and have been having fun overall, and I noticed something that seemed odd from a balance point of view, this is about generators.

I was playing a bit last night using the Pig and using the Surveillance perk, I thought there was a bug while playing the game because as I would try to find or chase a survivor, the generator would immediately turn yellow as they pass by.

I realized my mistake after I asked a friend to investigate how it works; the survivor (as they pass by) can simply click as they pass by and completely stop a generator's regressing state very quickly.

When playing as a survivor, I don't want the generator to regress obviously. As a killer, it's the opposite. However, it felt like there was a disparity between the two. A killer needs to commit to damage a generator (unless they are using a perk like surge) but a survivor simply to press M1 for less than a split second to stop regression.

So my question is the following: how come such disparity exist between the two?

Shouldn't damaging a generator forces me into it (can't cancel it) as a killer?

And shouldn't stopping a regression from happening force me to commit for at least as much time as the killer took to damage the generator?

Answers

  • Date
    Date Member Posts: 3

    Thank you for the replies in advance!

  • MottledElm
    MottledElm Member Posts: 85

    Yeah, I sometimes think about this as well and I think you're right.

    I think you should have to work on a Gen for at least a full second to stop the regression

    If you really hate it you can run overcharge, a doctor's perk, so when they interact with a Gen they immidiatly get the overcharge skill check and if they just tapped the Gen they will instantly fail it so it's like 15% regression for free every time they do it

  • Date
    Date Member Posts: 3

    Oh I made the mistake of posting this as a question. I definitely do wonder about this, it's just a very odd thing to have that one side has to commit and the other doesn't.

    I also was wondering in regards to kicking/breaking things (as a killer) because it's very odd that generators damaging animation can be cancelled but something like the palette doesn't.

  • GreentheNinja
    GreentheNinja Member Posts: 71
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1467372#Comment_1467372

    If survivors tap gens to fix them they still get the skill check even while running away.

  • Kind_Lemon
    Kind_Lemon Member Posts: 2,559

    why would I want to be locked into that animation as killer? Currently, if I see a hiding survivor while I'm kicking, I can immediately cancel to start a chase or get a down. In your world, that would not be possible, increasing the overall frustration present in the game.