Avoiding stress as killer this weekend

On the other hand, you know what is coming up this weekend. You know that if you use BL1 to finish of a chase, those chases will take longer. As such, you can mentally prepare yourself and be willing to shrug off losses. With that said, you can otherwise play as normal and your performance will factor into the data. That data will hopefully be used to understand the state of Killers more and benefit them in the long run. By not playing, you are denying them that data, which gives them less to work with when trying to figure out the general balance, as well as targeted measures to perhaps strengthen your favorite Killer.

As for what everyone else says, let's be real. Most of this community will trash talk you regardless of the circumstances. If someone says you're a trash Killer for one reason, they'd say it for another. You are you, they are them, and their opinion means NOTHING about you. They're just a voice on the internet with no power or influence over you. They probably whine a lot and want free wins anyways. They're aggressive because they're bad. You aren't. I love you <3 Go get em, tiger.

You can also play as killers who don't really benefit from Bloodlust life the Doctor, who loses Bloodlust whenever he uses Shock Therapy.

I'm not saying anyone should force themselves to play. Nobody should feel forced to play a game, eat food they don't like, anything they would rather not do. What I AM saying is that if they want to play, and feel that they can tough out more possible losses, it could be beneficial in the long run.

If someone absolutely can't stand the idea of playing with Bloodlust, they should totally not play. If they are having a bad day and DBD seems too stressful, they should do something else, regardless of what is going on in the game. If they WANT to play DBD like it's a normal day where they can enjoy it, however, they should totally give it a go. Just know that things might be different, but they can totally survive it.

And when they do, I'll be waiting there on Monday. With smooches.

They should have just disabled Bloodlust and not said anything about it. Call it a bug Sunday morning and have it "fixed" by monday after they've collected their data. Announcing it is just going to result in a dramatic change in the player base and play styles where they probably won't be able to determine all that much accurately.

This.

The smart thing to have done would have been to disable BL completely, as you said -- except they could have done it for even longer, maybe an entire week. Bloodlust is one of those mechanisms that, when I play killer, I couldn't tell you how many times I actually have had it come into play. I honestly wouldn't have noticed if it had vanished for a day, a week, or longer, and I suspect most players wouldn't have noticed either.

Much like their MMR debacle, they could have tracked whatever numbers they're using behind the scenes and come to conclusions afterwards knowing that, largely, said experiment would have been untainted by any outside factors (some people refusing to play killer, certain killers avoided altogether, potential map offerings, abuse of certain tiles, etc.). Instead, by announcing it ahead of time, to some extent the "data" has already been compromised in some fashion -- how that affects the end result, we'll have to see.

FWIW, I played a half dozen killer rounds this morning with The Pig, who in theory, might be a killer that would benefit from BL. I had a couple of 4k's (one on Haddonfield that was a complete slaughter), a 3K, and 2-3 matches that were either 0-1 K's. I'm a Rank 5, and by and large, I played against ranks at my level of better (Red), at least a few of those matches against SWF teams of some number (I'm pretty sure none was against a 4-man).

I only had one instance where I felt like BL would have helped me -- in the 3K on a Badham map, a Rank 3 Jake who was REALLY good at looping kept trying to get my attention for me to loop him at the shack. I'm still relatively new to the game (started in March), and my skills at chases still need work. It took only a loop or two around the shack to know that I wasn't catching the Jake easily, so I abandoned the chase entirely and went after weaker members of the team. I did down the Jake later in the match, after two of the other survivors were already dead and most of the pallet defenses were gone. Consciously knowing that BL was disabled definitely played a part in me leaving chases with him, though it probably left his teammates feeling like they were being targeted unfairly. Would I have kept the chases with Jake going if I DIDN'T know BL had been disabled? Possibly, or I might have still abandoned the better player to pressure gens/survivors in other places. But knowing that is definitely HAD been disabled definitely made my decision an easier one to make. That's a perfect example of why annoucing the move instead of doing it covertly WILL influence the data, and it potentially makes this experiment compromised already.

That sounds like normal.

So like i said: Go and see, maybe even thoroughly test it in a custom game.

Dude the open window variant hasn't been touched in years.

Nothing has changed that would make it not an infinite as the main change the tile ever had was the closed window variant.

I mean that tile was one of the main reasons BL and the window blocker were added to the game as its a tile that appears on nearly all maps of auto haven and is insanely easy to spot and loop to.

I don't need to touch a red hot oven twice to make sure it still gives me 2nd degree burns.

I know your trying to give the benefit of the doubt and I agree with trying it on all the altered map tiles but the open bus isn't one of them.

perfect time to blow my iri heads

Okay, but then why stop completely?

When did I ever say that?

I just know this change will be bad and will result in infinite loops but I never said I wasn't going to try.

I personally would like to test to see if the "House of Pain"(Aka garage house) is now an infinite for nearly everyone instead of just an infinite against DS/Huntress(Yes some killers still have infinites against them even with BL).

What rapport is there to ruin if the public doesn't know about it? If you think this doesn't actually happen in games (or really any software), you're mistaken. Patch notes notes are intentionally left vague for a variety of reasons. Companies wanting to test new features (or a removal of features in this case) that they know the public might b*tch and moan about merely end up as "Patch x.y.z - bug fixes and stability improvements" - uh huh.

Besides, the goal here is to improve the game, and to do that, they'll need accurate data, which, by telling the public, they've guaranteed will not be as valuable. It's only a few days, and would have gone unnoticed by most anyway imo. There are much worse things to lie about (see: Bungie w/Destiny)

I've already played Pig and Legion. I felt literally zero difference so far. I sense a knee-jerk reaction in all these threads.

just came off a 4 hour stream (Rank 1 killer) played all my weaker killers , trapper , hag , Wraith and a few more , went against some very solid teams and didnt lose a single game, in all honesty? i didnt even notice the bloodlust being removed as i never relied on it much , i would say bloodlust is more of a ''training wheel mechanic '' rather then a required , i agree with what most others say - in the best instance leave bloodlust 1 in remove level 2 and 3 as the mechanic as a whole is not really required even in some bad RNG layouts.

Just my 2 cents really , i do understand not everyone plays at those kind of levels such as Otz etc where you never need the mechanic at all, but i wouldnt really worry if they went and removed it altogether next mid chapter patch tbh.