Current DH is one of the most balanced perks in the game

Dude the animation is hilarious I hope it doesn't change I love seeing it.

You know that, in order to adequately judge if something is balanced, or "braindead", you have to play it from both sides, right?

For example, a few weeks ago, I claimed that camping was too strong, so I proved it by playing killer and showing video of me getting absurd success with it. I didn't make an effortless post "Hey guys I'm a survivor main who think camping is broken pls nerf" like you guys do.

Here all I see is a bunch of very obvious killer mains congratulating themselves for the nerfs, with only vague arguments like "more skilled", "my friends are able to get good value" (so you aren't then?). Clearly 90% of you haven't tried the perk from survivor perspective.

So, since you all seem to be so knowledgeable about skill and Dead Hard, especially you Dead_Harder, why not show us your gameplay? Please show me a few clips where you use the perk and mindgame the killer with it, because I definitely cannot, even after playing a good 20 hours with the new DH, the only use I can make of it is to try to spin in front of the killer then dead hard and pray that he's a console player who has no choice but to attack right away.

With a 240 Hz monitor and 160 ms reaction time on humanbenchmark.org, I can still not get the "precise timing" you guys are talking about, and I don't see any streamer use this perk anymore (apart from meme players like Sweh). So please can you show us your own skilled gameplay so we can learn from you guys?

Hey buddy. It's possible to use dead hard against legion. There are strategies to guarantee they can't frenzy you and will force them to m1 you.

It still prevents killers from lunging, which is game breaking, just not being able to use 1 of your 2 methods of attack.

Yes! I wouldn't have believed you if you told me so before the rework, but BHVR pulled off the unimaginable: they broke DHs strangelhold on the game, nerfed it and yet didn't "nuke it from orbit" or "nerfed it into oblivion", but indeed trransformed it into a fair and fun perk.

It still is the only exhaustion perk with on-demand activation and it can get you out of the pickle should you be caught out in the open and out of position, but now its not a "fire and forget" type of activation, but needs skill, knowledge and, yes, a bit of luck. Perfect.

Dead hard is growing in popularity again, at least on my end. Not as much as before but I'm starting to see games with 3 dead hards again. You might not be able to use it but that doesn't make it bad. Some can't get flashlight saves, that doesn't mean flashlights don't so anything.

Anytime I see someone use Dead Hard effectively, I honestly cant help but compliment them. DH can be tricky to use, but when used right, it's really strong. It's a nice balance between skill, reward, and strength.

Had a 4-Man Flip Flop + Power Struggle go against my Twins the other day actually, was a very painful experience, but at least they made use of a build you dont really see often, I can admire that.

Dead hard isn't useless, it is more balanced now than it was, and imo its still stronger than the other exhaustion perks when used right.

And before you freak out, I'm a survivor main.

It's because they obviously don't use the perk themselves.

Do you honestly think they would be complimenting it if they themselves were actually successful at using it?

That's like saying "THE NEW THANA IS GREAT!" just for the sake of leading someone to believe it's actually great. When even people like me who play survivor also, does not believe it is. It is still bad on Legion/Plague but on the rest of the killer roster it sucks.

But it's not due to expert timing most of the time, is it? They get a free DH the first time, and then we wait it out the next time they use it, unless they option select at a pallet/window. I'll bet auto-Dead Hard still works with it. The point is that you still can't lunge as killer, because this perk is common enough to where you can't, and survivors get free Dead Hard mind games by spinning into you or you being forced to wait for the same reason: the perk exists. And now that they get Endurance instead of just making the killer miss, they can do it in a dead zone as the killer is swinging and use their sprint burst to get somewhere safe. It is used for distance, and it might be stronger than before.

If they do change the animation, I kinda hope they make it look like the survivor is bracing for impact

They found a way before and they will again. There's a hack that lets a survivor complete 5 gens and blink out the exit instantly. You think an auto-Dead Hard is too complex for them?

I wanted dh nerfed, and i play both sides. But that doesnt make him any wrong. I play this game for over 4 years, the only thing i disagree with is that it takes 2 years until complains about it start again. As soon as enough survivors "got good" and adepted to the new dead hard, complains will rise up again.

Yes guys we get it, old dead hard is was fine and new dead hard is terrible. But for real if you are looping with a pallet still up or against most top tier killers DH still functions just as well. You just might have to think at all to get it to work.