Be Honest, Was Turning bloodlust off As Bad As You Thought?

1. No
2. Yes
3. Remove bloodlust giving a speed boost, and increase the speed of breaking pallets/vaulting so the killer still has to play the loops if he wants to catch you, but he doesn't just start running at you at super speeds.
4. Working. Thanksgiving week etc.

1. Better than I expected. I no longer have wait times.

2. Yes

3. Start of the match only with a breaking speed boost to remove walls and find survivors sooner

4. My week was great, thank you.

Counter Question: How was your week?

1. Yes and no, it made Survivor queue times significantly longer for me and playing Pallet Freddy on Disturbed Ward for a daily took twice as long as it should have for the 4k and all gens repaired.

2. Also yes and no, I think the mechanic could be changed but doesn't need to be.

3. My suggested change is just removing tier 2 and 3 and keep BL 1 and activate it slightly longer than 15 seconds, maybe 20-30sec. It really doesn't make a difference one way or another being as it was before, it aids killers that are learning and experienced killers usually get the hit before or as tier 1 procs.

4. My week was pretty good overall

1. Yes. Removing it did not increase the amount of time it took to down inexperienced survivors (they don't know the pathing to elongate a chase and typically don't have chase perks). It SEVERELY increased the amount of time it took to down survivors who clearly did know what they were doing, however. Survivors who know exactly where the palettes, loops, windows, and tricks are typically kept me running for long enough that 1 and a half generators were finished before I finally downed them.
2. It COULD be changed, sure. You'd have to do some severe map tweaking, even to the brand new maps that just got their make-overs.
3. If I could change it, I'd scale it to survivor skill levels. But since the MMR probably isn't that smart, how about making it always on when killers aren't in a chase? Or skip tiers 1 and 3 and go right to tier 2 at the 30 second mark. Or the killer gets 1 always-on rank of bloodlust per generator finished (but loses one rank for every 3+4 minutes of game time that passes).
4. It was okay. Everything I'd wanted to do got cancelled, but that's par for the course this year.

1. I was worried about killers not chasing at all. So far they haven't changed too much and any changes that have happened might just be cuz I'm making it too obvious I want to be chased. Although, I've been testing out the just hold w theory... It's actually working out pretty well against some killers, even the one Freddie I went against. I've also started playing much more riskier. I don't think either side has fully adapted to the changes though.

2. Not sure. Ppl haven't fully adapted yet.

3. I'm not sure how long they want chases to be for things to be balanced so I'm not sure what to change.

I only played survivor so far, but i noticed that games got incredible easy, even as solo survivor. A lot of killers just get kited around and never get a hit or down till the gens are done. I am not a runner, but if you got one in your team you basicly won, at least thats my impression.

1: Yeah. As expected it makes high rank games a nightmare. Bloodlust was a super rare mechanic designed in DBD to fix a problem at HIGH ranks, mainly how the killer hitbox makes them move effectively slower than the survivor by quite a wide margin when moving around corners.

2: No. I actually thought it might be possible for Bloodlust to go away if they severely nerfed chain windows, but its clear the killer hitbox still makes a lot of very normal map geometry infinite.

3: They would have to do something like count all windows within X meters of each other as 'one' window (which would be weird for multi floor buildings) for the purposes of anti-infinite blocking, increase killer vault speed, and shrink the killer hitbox to prevent stuff like the Elementary car infinite. These would be changes FAR more radical and anti-survivor than just 'killers can get a bit of extra movespeed to force you to throw that car pallet at a reasonable point in time.' Ultimately the 'advantage' BL1 (the only real relevant BL for this) on open ground chases is extremely minor, while losing the ability to force a killer to BL2 to deal with a back to back jungle gym spawn would be a much bigger 'freebie reward' to killers. If you are a dyed in the wool survivor main, you want Bloodlust over them nuking windows from orbit, if your doing a straightaway run vs a killer, bloodlust is giving the killer an extra 2 seconds maybe, compared to that double stacked jungle gym buying you well over a minute currently.

4: Pretty ok all things considered.

1) No. But then, I didn't think it would be game ending. I have felt it, though. A few times I knew I would have had a down with bloodlust that I didn't get. Then there were the times when they simply slammed DH and extended the chase a few more times. That was annoying.|

2) No, because the game hasn't changed enough to justify it's removal. You still have a map full of pallets, chainable loops, and heck, they brought back god loops.

3) I haven't really thought about removing bloodlust as it is, so this may not be thought out. But, off the top of my head, I'd give the entity blocker to pallets. Jump it three times, it breaks. Without bloodlust, more loops now become safe, simply because a dropped pallet increases it's length. Once it's dropped, if the danger of overusing it exists, it would force survivors to find another loop.

4) Exhausting. Picked up a new job, it's left me little time to actually do anything else. Have to reorganize my schedule.

As a survivor it felt blatantly broken and made tons of loops into borderline infinite and much much longer. It was extremely noticeable

1) I was playing with it turned off and never realised it had been turned off already so idk what that says. It was a few games each as nurse, billy, wraith and legion

2) It should probably be changed.

3) I still feel some killers in some circumstances might need bloodlust 1 (and some never do), so maybe it should be just be something for certain killers. Bloodlust 2 and 3 aren't necessary for anyone imo. But I don't want it to end up a nerf just for weaker killers and have everyone just switch to Freddy and spirit, I could do without seeing more of those two, especially the former.

4) Had a pretty chill week with uni stuff and my partner's getting back in a few hours after being away working for weeks so I'm excite

1. No but I never thought it would be bad, the FPS drops from it was worse
2. Just remove it
3. Change maps so no killer will miss it anyway
4. Good

1. It is not as bad as I thought, but I still think that pig, trapper or myers needs bloodlust.

2. Yes I think this mechanic should be changed.

3. I would remove bloodlust tier 2 & 3, and keep bloodlust tier 1.

4. My week has been pretty nice, I just bought blight and oh my god this killer is hard asf. Also I've started to main demo a bit. I'm on a 11 win streak and I try to use the shred as much as I can.

yes. It was exactly as I had thought it would feel; no different on killers such as Huntress and Hag.

Probably to gain undetectable after 15 seconds in a chase and resets upon hit/losing chase/breaking pallets, etc.

It shouldn't be difficult to re-code the trigger.

1) Back on topic, I noticed no difference playing as Pig, Legion, Bubba, Plague, Snoozeslinger and Doc.

I also played Blight and Billy, but they shouldn't be affected to begin with given the nature of their powers.

This was at rank 1, for reference.

2) I'll withold judgement until the end of the experiment, so what I say next is subject to change. I feel that for now it's safe to remove BL 2 and 3.

3) As I said, as a tentative change, I'd disable BL 2 & 3, maybe with the next chapter update. Then give it until mid-chapter to see how it goes if you want to take it further, revert, etc.

4) Everything was fine. I wish you the same.

Worse. they've done nothing to shut down god loops with no counterplay, and removing bloodlust makes it even more obvious they need to dump the "free sprint burst as a reward for failing to avoid a hit" BS.