3 J flicking blights today.

By counterplay do you really mean just standing behind a small object whenever he uses his power? Blight doesn't need a nerf like this, he even needs his flicks streamlined so they don't require you to play with really high DPI.

What's J Flicking? That thing where you increase your dpi to 16k to get questionable hits?

I didnt care much about stretch until it became more common and i saw some people using 1080x1080.

Ah yes normal res you cant see over the loop but stretched jesus.

Um that's literally all you need to do, you increase your DPI and fling your mouse while attacking. There's nothing else to it.

I don't see anyone defending stretch. Pretty sad to wish that in a video game.

Well, it only took them... *checks watch* ...7 months to fix Blight's FOV. I'll look forward to that hotfix in chapter 342.

I looked through the thread and didn't see it. In fact all I see are people complaining about stretch res. Should've read the thread more carefully.

Sounds like you never tried it then lol

Here's a spicy opinion. Techs are exploits that raise the skill ceiling. If you get very technical, that's how techs work in games other than DBD.

Can't wait to see them "fix this" and the Oni/Blight players become Spirit and Nurse players :D

As you already know, the devs clarified that the jflick with Blight is not intentional and that it was a deliberate design choice. Could the devs give him a buff where jflicking is official and part of his kit? Sure! And yes, there are many Blight players out there who can do just fine without jflicking, it's not just some random generalization/assumptions I'm making up. I've went against plenty of them as Survivor. That and many well known streamers do just fine. Did it ever occur to you that those Blight players that don't alter their mouse DPI actually more put more skill into their power BECAUSE they don't use an outside exploit?

But then again, you can argue every single Killer requires an arbitrary level of buffs so the survivors need to put more effort on countering their power (besides the obvious top contenders like Nurse and Spirit). As for the whole "Killers need to put more effort than Survivors". I mean, yes, it's pretty darn obvious Killers need to put more effort and quickly adapt and strategize than Survivors do. But that's the point right? Killers require more effort but that's also why it's so fun to play the role. The killer is alone against 4 survivors but you are playing for yourself, you don't need to rely on other players to help boost the advantage. That's the beauty of playing Killer, it's certainly more stressful but it all comes down to you challenging yourself, testing your reflexes and muscle memory.

That is not necessarily true at all. Blight necessitates you as a player predicting your opponent's plays. You also need to know when and where to use your power in specific tiles regardless of your ability to control and make use of a substantial flick. It's just how the character is played and the situations where the flick can be used are very specific, hence why it only increases the killer's versatility and allows him to counter survivors just walking around a corner like it's all they have to do.

I know how to use Blight, ive seen Scott's guide and other guides, other Blight players as well as played him endlessly at rank 1 since his release... His 90 degree flick is invaluable to his kit, and his turn over 90 degrees is literally only useful in very particular situations and you need to have control over what you're doing otherwise you'll overshoot or undershoot. There is so much clutter in DBD maps that it's essential with a killer like that to have the tools to navigate around them, otherwise it just puts all the hard work on the killer while a survivor only has to move a bit behind something.

I replied to someone about the unintended aspect of this in another thread so I'll just copy what i think verbatim: "Here's the thing. Looping at some point wasn't the intended way to play the game. But that's what the game became, because it's the way players gravitated towards when engaging with it, and the devs noticed and course corrected. I don't care if something is intended or not, and the devs shouldn't either. What I care about is if the tool that exists provides a fair situation where it requires effort and knowledge proportional to how much work it puts on another player and the type of benefits it provides to the player using it."

It's a high skill tool to use with Blight at certain situations. If you get hit by it, the Blight player outplayed you, or you failed to put yourself in an advantageous position and you failed to understand and consider the capabilities of the killer and player you were going against.

Blight is powerful and in a good spot, with pretty good individual and team counterplay. He doesn't need his kit neutered because some survivors have a hard time grasping how much he can actually do. I can't begin to tell you how many survivors, streamers included, have commented on me playing Blight without addons thinking I'm turning too much even without me doing flicks... they just don't know cuz they never bothered to play the damn killer... Maybe those survivors should play the killer, so they know what the killer is capable off and what it requires from the killer player to pull it off.

Ultimately tho, what the hell does it even matter... a dev already said it's unintended, they'll probably fix it regardless of what anyone who plays Blight well says and that will be that.

You know what fair enough... although there's something to be said about the mechanical skill in altering your dpi mid rush so you can do a flick.

I play with 3200 dpi just in general so to me I can pull off some over 90 degree flicks when i really need to, without changing my dpi, and it's still pretty risky cuz if you overshoot or undershoot it's extremely disorienting so i think think complexity of execution balances the benefit it can provide in certain situations.

And I agree with you when you say that if a dev says it's unintentional and it's a problem for them, ultimately they have the last say. If they just made it part of his kit officially it'd be ideal. I was just explaining how I think whether it's initially unintentional or not is not that great an argument for balancing purposes.

I agree with you that the difficulty in mechanical execution and other things are part of what makes the killer role appealing. It's why I like it more even though I try to play survivor so I can be as fair as I can with what I think and say. I just think that ultimately it is very unfair how the killer role is required to do more demanding things for longer stretches of time. I think it's not a healthy mentality to have for the game for several reasons, and I was simply using it as another point in my defense of what I consider to be a high skill tool in Blight's toolkit that makes him more versatile, the absence of which only serves to make his counterplay easier for survivors, which I just don't agree with.