DBD should adopt some VHS concepts

oh i absolutely ######### hope they do not.

i despise that game currently, and the only reason im even considering picking it back up when it hits early access is because it'll have matchmaking and i can play with my bf. i absolutely hope and pray that the two games stay very distinct from each other and fill up two different segments of the market.

I agree with this, the games do not need to be copies of each other. They should fill separate games in the same genre to stay competitive. Honestly, I just think DBD needs to have a healing cap, it is way too easy to get heals that are like 4 seconds right now. Boons aren't even a problem for me, just CoH stacking so much with medkits

And by "Boons" you mean just Circle of Healing. The other Boons aren't the problem, it's just that one perk. All they have to do is tone Circle of Healing down.

Boon: Exponential is not as strong as Boon: Circle of Healing. CoH is the problem, not Boons themselves.

With Exponential you have to be slugged in the Boon's aura so two problems there: 1) Slugging is very conditional and most Killers will pick up right away or maybe do an area check to make sure there is no one else around for a blind save or pallet save but this short check won't be enough to get you back on you feet most of the time if no one else is around to run interference and 2) because you're near the Boon the Killer can likely hear it and find it and snuff it out before you fully recover.

Our of the three Boons we have Exponential is the weakest, because it only punishes slugging Killers and only in a very limited area. So if you don't slug very often as Killer you may never know this Boon was even in play. I wouldn't say it needs to be buffed, but it is very conditional and is rarely ever helpful in Solo Q. (Because everything works better with a S.W.F. it goes without saying.) If you are having major problems with Exponential as Killer then you need to stop slugging so much and put people up on hooks instead. (I'm a Killer main, I very rarely ever slug anyone, even when I play Twins. I've had a few games with this Perk around but it never got value and is so rare I sometimes forget it's even a thing.)

Outside of meme Bully The Killer spots like the R.C.P.S. library or Badham School lower floor with no Basement the majority of the time Exponential won't really help if the Killer plays smart and doesn't slug.

Boon: Shadowstep is more powerful but not broken. It helps in chase and only in a limited area, so if set up somewhere without line-of-sight blockers or places to hide then it doesn't help much. The problem is that a lot of Totem spawns are in places with line-of-sight blockers and places to hide so if used in combination with things like Deception and Quick & Quiet you can easily juke the Killer and hide. Thing is hiding only goes so far and once the Killer recognizes they can't rely on scratch marks they'll be more careful looking at hiding spots so it doesn't work all the time.

Boon: Circle of Healing is outright over powered. Sure it is only in a limited area, when there is only one, but you can have up to four of these healing areas at a time. In these areas Survivors can heal for free, by themselves, at base healing speed. For one Perk and negligible set-up time. For the whole game. If they do so in an area where they've finished the gens and all of the pallets are still up the Killer has no reason to go there. Not even to snuff the Boon because it'll just be reapplied when they leave. So Survivors get hit, run to the other side of the map, heal alone and come back to work on gens.

All it would take is a simple change to make it balanced: remove the Self-Care line so you either need Self-Care, a med-kit or another Survivor to heal. Being able to heal by yourself at base healing speed is just so very broken.

So, no, I don't agree with you that any Boon other then CoH is broken. CoH is the problem. CoH is the meta. Out of my past fifty games, on either side and yes I have been counting, thirty-nine of them have had at least one Boon: Circle of Healing in them, often two and in once case three. Of those thirty-nine games I was one of the CoH bringers for five games, mostly because for three games I was Mika and she didn't have very good Perks, one I was Jonah and he got it really early and didn't have other good Perks and finally as Ace because I'm still trying to get the "Bless You" Achievement so I bring a Boon if I have it.

CoH is a top Meta Perk for Survivor now, alongside Dead Hard and Unbreakable. The fact that Boon: Infinite Unbreakable Exponential didn't replace Unbreakable shows you how weak it is and how strong CoH is. About the only time I ever saw Exponential being run was when someone was running all three Boons together and if it was by itself the person was normally going for Adept Jonah.

As for your other point I agree with the first half but not the second half, I don't think Hex's should be able to be reapplied. It wasn't ever intended they be reusable and they are not balanced accordingly, though some are really super weak anyways. But that was with Totem Cleansing in mind and not Blessing. Even so I don't think you should be able to reapply Hexs that have been overwritten. I agree with your first sentiment because the change I've always wanted to see was that when the Killer Snuffs out a boon the Totems is destroyed as if it has been Cleaned. That totem was found by a Survivor already who spent the time need to Cleanse it, or longer if it had been a Hex before, to apply their Boon. They already know where it is and can come right back to it to Cleanse it if it gets a Hew on it later, be it N.O.E.D. or Play Thing, so that Totem might as well already be broken. This way Boons would become a limited resource that you would need to be strategic about applying and not just throw down willy-nilly and as a side benefit would make Hex: Pentimento actually viable.

1. stop using boon totems as an excuse to add random stuff
2. "add stuff from from VHS" is way too vague and shows you don't even know what you want
3. they are adding ways for survivors to know what each other are doing to reduce the gap between killer and survivor, something they learned from VHS

Just as boom: Circle of Healing is a problem for stacking with medkits, killers that completely ignore a health state are unhealthy for the game.