Flashlights are nerfed

"A suggested middle ground to help people with disabilities and to stop macros was to remove the delay when turning on the flashlight and just put it after 3/4 clicks to activate the delay/cd."

my opinion.

The fact that it still works and the fact that it was nerfed are two opinions that can and should coexist.

Think of it that way : if for accessibility reasons, a killer was locked into using their power rather than being able to charge and cancel it (like Hillbilly for example), wouldn't it be a nerf ? That would be mindgames lost and time lost as well...Even if the power technically works.

Same with flashlights in this instance. You can still blind, but it's harder to time since you can't adjust it as you could before, plus I hear the starting position of the beam has been altered as well. Plus the batteries draining faster if you can't cancel a bad beam or if you're clicking to communicate.

You can disagree, of course, but I think the flashlights deserve some sort of compensation. Also, their addons are not that great and it would be nice if they were reworked.

You can move the beam off the killers face for a moment to readjust if you really need to.

There's nothing to compensate.

And you are not understanding... nor caring about what I've said... got it

If this mechanic was so bad, then I don't see why it matters that it is gone.

The changes to flashlight addresses bm and photosensitivity issues, so saying your fun is being removed says alot about you.

For sure, Killer can be toxic as well. I think both sides have the opportunity to be toxic to each other. Decisive strike at exit gate, flashlight clicking and tea bagging are common associated toxic behaviours. the dev are trying to remove these behaviour's in the game for survivor by brute force. generally I just tend to ignore these behaviours from survivor side because I generally have thick skin to not let these gameplay behaviours affect my gameplay. The only aspect that irritates me is flashlight noise as it hurts your ears. I would not mind if there was an option to mute it or something. I do not think flashlight need to be killed from gameplay standpoint.

I am not entirely sure what could be done on killer-side to reduce toxicity. Survivors have often requested the ability to kill themselves on the floor similar to kobing a hook. The request is to avoid toxicity for when the killer mindlessly slug in the end game on purpose to annoy the survivor. Holding the survivor hostage by bodyblocking, nodding+hitting the survivor on hook when facecamping are difficult problems to solve. its because they are organic gameplay elements that create sense of hostility between survivor and killer.

Bloodlust, not very well thought out mechanic. in 2016 and 2017 dbd, looping was considered a toxic because of no entity blocking windows with infinities everywhere that could make games last forever. The survivor could keep the killer in the game for like 1 hour+ due to their terrible gameplay balance. it was put as bandaid fix to the maps. really fixing the maps would be better. the mechanic has not aged too well.

I agree with the first point and I hope they will fix this. It doesn't really make sense to me why they would change that part. At least I don't see it.

The second is a bit different. It might be good that this is gone now. How often did it really work? How often do 360s in general work? It fails against any experienced killer and actually messes the survivor's movement up because they make even less distance. This is not even taking into regard that it was technically an exploit. It was not a big deal but since BHVR decided to do something about these things, that were even supported before, it should be removed. Otherwise what would be the point in removing some fun and equally strong killer exploits earlier this year?

The third point should be manageable, I believe. You can still blind the killer even after letting go of M2. But I would be indifferent about maybe adding an extra 2s to every flashlight. Much more than that and we're all gonna need lightborn and sacrificial wards every match just so we can deal with bully squads profitting of it. Believe me, I know exactly what this could be used for and it's a nightmare for every killer (especially those that don't play Nurse, Blight and Spirit with their best addons).

Yeah it's mainly the angle that ruins it.