Highlights from today's dev Q&A 2020-09-10

Miss the "i watched this so you don't have to" by fibijean but this is definitely appreciated!

You realize it's insanely difficult to land every blink and if you miss one you're cucked for four seconds right?

Something about the DC system coming back either in the same or different form would be welcome.I've had 7 dcs in the last 3 matches alone!

Try my best? It happens quite rarely anyway. Notice how I mentioned we still complain about some unbalanced maps? That needs to be addressed. Doesn't mean bad killers need to be rewarded for their bad gameplay

I am in favor of removing Bloodlust when the maps are balanced enough that it is not needed anymore. I simply don't think we are at that point yet.

These changes sound kinda rough for me. Wanting to remove bloodlust, heck, the addition of a hatch spawning offering is insanely powerful with keys in their current state.

Its not instant, there's a decent hold time before you can fire, also if you want to tunnel someone you don't send them across the map to who knows where and giving up your pressure in the process in most cases. Coming from a PH player and survivor player, he's strong but I don't think a nerf is needed unless you're going to buff other areas :)

Maybe but instant is a stretch by far. I don't care if you're a mAiN, some of these these ideas are bad. You're not going to get them right after they been hooked unless they get saved right in front of you, which they should get punished for, or you were camping, in which case you lose the game if the survivors aren't potatoes because they will slam gens. This also assumes they have torment. You're also assuming that ruin is being used. This also assumes the survivors don't have BT. Saying "oh you get notified and they die" is ignorant. They'll be across the map, if they stay there after, again that's the survivors fault and they should be punished for it. Tunneling with cages is a horrible idea, you'll spend a lot of time looking for that 1 survivor when you could just hook them and know where they are the whole time. If you want to tunnel you hook, you don't cage.

Random locations would be horrible, the cage could appear right in front of you. The notification of where they get rescued is so you can plan around it the same way you do with hooks since sending them to a cage already loses you pressure in most cases, you don't need to be robbed of info that you'd normally get on top. Increasing the width of the POTD would make it borderline undodgeable with its current speed, let alone faster. The size is fine, its just too slow to hit and has way to long recovery.

The only things I could agree with is increasing the delay after he cancels his power to maybe huntress level, but reducing the recovery time substantially and allowing free movement while dragging, torment applying on hit, and making it hit faster. Players fake his power so much because using it is a huge risk, reducing the risk and increasing the delay for canceling would be fine. He's strong, but by no means Op or needing a nerf. The odds should always be in the killers favor when concerning any singular chase or singular player on the team, since there's 4 of them. We need more killers on a similar level but not all the way up to spirit and Freddy, not dragging them down.

Most people are fine with him the way he is, its a very vocal minority who don't like him from what we can tell as of this poll here:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/168855/pyramid-head-fun-to-verse-or-unfun-to-verse#latest

They're likely removing his exhaustion add-ons and giving him a nice, red bar around his power icon.

Unfortunately that's all we got. But a 60/30 ratio is pretty telling, especially because people are much more likely to speak out about what they are against and dislike rather than what they agree with and do like. As far as we can tell, most people are fine with him the way he is. It might be different, but it is much more likely that this will line up with the bigger playerbase.

This thread alone has way more people not wanting him to be nerfed than those that do.

there is no way you are a PH main, the torment is there to help around dstrike if they make these changes it would be useless cuz as a killer u really need to use pop, its true that the range addons need to be nerfed but how the torment and addon work is fine as is

What would you want them to change about PH?

As a PH main, I disagree with all but maybe the last one, and even that is like...maaaaybe a small change.

Torment is perfectly fine imo, especially because most survivors will just walk/crouch over it unless you're actively chasing them and at THAT point you can use it to zone them, unless they are so stubborn that they would rather take a hit over being tormented.

Either way, knowing how pyramid Head works makes him fairly fun to counter. Unless people just decided to complain about him without ever taking the time to learn how he plays first, which is just dumb.

Sounds like every Q/A to me lol. I dont even care to watch them anymore.

I didn't even know they had one yesterday

That takes a whole element of the game away I would be strongly against this. There are perks to shoe survivors where totems are...

Thank god they are working on cross progression I don't have to buy DLC twice anymore. There is a lot I don't have on PS4

I created a video recap of the Q&A. Am I allowed to share that here? New to the forums. Couldn't find the rules. I'll keep digging around.