Fix DbD In 3 Changes: Go!

I'd make it be a functional system, for one. Skill-based matchmaking should track skill, not escapes or kills.

Have a map weight system. Total loops and strength of tiles/number of pallets or windows factor in to the total weight. If you lose as Killer on a highly Survivor-weighted map, you lose less points than if you'd have lost on a different map. If you win, you gain more as to reward you for overcoming a challenge stacked against you. If you win as Survivor on a map like Shelter Woods, you should gain more as you were clearly more skilled than your opponent, despite obviously being at a disadvantage. Map offerings should immediately flip the switch towards whoever used them. If you bring an offering for Aazarov's as Survivor, it doesn't matter what map it is, the game would still act like you were on a heavy Survivor-weighted map. Same with Killer's bringing map offerings.

Give bonus points for high hook stages. Getting 10 hooks and 2 Kills shouldn't be weighted the same as getting 4 Hooks and 2 Kills. Reward fresh hooks as well, every fresh hook gives bonus points for being more skillful but going after the same Survivor doesn't detract points.

Record chase times for Survivor (or times where a Killer is within X meters). Give points per X seconds of chase. Give points per X seconds of gen progress. Points for sabotage plays within X meters of a Killer carrying a Survivor. Reward individual power counterplay, ie, taking a hit for a Survivor speared by Deathslinger, solving Pinhead's Box, etc etc. Reward altruistic actions, saviors shouldn't be punished by being put in lower MMR tiers.

This is just stuff off of the top of my head.

1: less loops, includes windows and pallets

2: make killers better. Let em be strong.

3: I'm not sure on a third so I'll add in change the egc

Technically making 1 (survivors become weaker) means you already do the 2 (killers become stronger)

1. Add a button to the bloodweb so you can spend all your BPs at once in one character. I can't fathom why this isn't a think already after so many years of the game running live. Where's the freaking fun about spending 30 min pressing and holding M1 to progress through the damn web? Everytime I reach above 1 Million BPs I honestly don't feel like playing anymore.
2. Change tunneling in either one of two ways: if a survivor was the last one hooked, he can't be downed or grabbed again, he loses collision and can't sabo hooks, use items, or throw pallets when in the terror radius. Or, whenever a survivor is tunneled, he gets 25% of that killer's bps.
3. Rework the pipping system so it's waaaay easier. I've gotten 10k on 3 categories on survivor and 8.2k on the other, escaping, and got 0 pips. That's just outrageous. An escape should be a minimum of +1.

1: SoloQ information. If it is something SWF could communicate with just a couple words ("I'm on a gen") then it should be displayed next to the character portrait. Probably a radial dial as well with a 15 second limit per message + easy mute option.

2: Rework addons. Games should not be decided by who brings the best stuff. By rework I mean basically trash the current system, especially for killers. Replace it to a system more like perks - get rid of the idea that addons will be lost, iridescent addons should not have unique effects, but be slightly stronger versions of lower tiers. This way you go in knowing that a killer will have two mods, the question is which two, instead of trying to guess at how sweaty they are. For survivors, nerf the iri addons.

3: Create in game rewards/penalties for killer camping/tunneling (ie not blood points). If a survivor's hook count exceeds the rest of the team, that survivor gets a permanent haste effect. If killer camps a hook too long killer aura gets shown and survivor gets hit with reassurance. In return give the killer benefits beyond just blood points for spreading out the hits: a weaker no hex version of devour hope probably.

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Basically: the best strategies to win this game are boring. Instead of asking players not to play that way on both sides, make those strategies less effective.

1. Gen and Hook RNG. Make it so 3 gens aren't a thing by spreading gens out better, also add a gen so there's 4 gens available when 1 gen is left to complete. Make it so there aren't hook dead zones, hooks broken by sacrifice return after 3 minutes so there aren't permanent dead zones but killer still needs to be aware of where they're killing someone to avoid temporary dead zone.

2. Caps to healing speeds/debuffs, gen speeds/slow downs/regression. Put exhaustion like effect on perks like Jolt, Eruption, and Pain Resonance where a gen can't get hit by multiple gen regression perks in short time. Gens shouldn't fly by but also shouldn't take forever to complete.

3. Trapper - add more ground cover to maps, make traps blend in better with different color maps, fix the trap collection to not require walking all around the map to collect them at start of match, any survivor that escapes a trap have deep wound so it hurts injured survibors too.

1. Rework all maps (Easy to just make 90% smaller at least)
2. Change gen spawns so that no insanely strong 3 gens can spawn so the killer doesn’t immediately just camp them
3. Remove map offerings completely (Good for both sides)

1. Add map & perk dynamic: Meaning maps adjust to the killer and perks that are brought in: Slow killers get slightly smaller version of maps (unless they bring massive gen pressure), fast killers get bigger maps (unless they have zero pressure)
2. Add direct punishment for bad behaviour, and rewards for good one: Talking camping, tunneling and slugging here, as well as griefing in general. There are mechanics in the game that can recognize this behavior, and could automatically punish it during the match and in term of BP received. Likewise good and skillful behaviour (including not abusing perks in an obnoxious manner (stbfl on slinger or MYC on knight)) can be recognized and rewarded. this also includes throwing a game to help each other out.
3. Better rewards and more to do. There should be ways to earn stuff, from BP over Cells to Cosmetics outside of the rift, like harder challenges, 'quest lines' etc. just something to break the routine.
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1. Give survivors information through UI icons and base kit Kindred (except killer aura)
2. Adress killer-specific problems (zombies AI, hitboxes, number of carried traps, etc) and buff them individually (as opposed to making general QoL buffs that affects all killers while ignoring their own struggles). This comes after the survivor info harmonization so that there's only one wave of evaluating killers' strength to do instead of two waves before/after survivor info buff, which would take more time.
3. Rework unused perks, rather than nerf most used ones.
4. (Bring back Sky Billy)

I'd be happy to have 6 months or more without a new chapter if those things were adressed first.

You know I thank McClean for making the best designed thing in the entirety of this game, but when he laughed at scott junds fake patch loop money system I lost respect. But then again he chuckled over more than half of that video without explaining his thoughts.

To be honest, tunneling and camping need to be fixed at the root. This incentive thing killer's spout won't actually work. People will always go to the most efficient way to win and I can't see tunneling being stopped without extensive balance changes to replace the lack of pressure from tunneling in a even environment in which both sides are even and semi competent at least for this games standards.

Ideally, yes.

It would suck, but this would actually force the Devs to do something about problematic mechanics that have been in the game for years.

Or I guess they could ignore it. But at least it would actually be a skill-based system. I'm also sort of betting big on people's ego's being massive, which in my experience, is completely true. That's why I'd have MMR be visible.

Eh, I got yelled at for saying that I didn't think incentivizing going for fresh hooks would work. I figured we could at least give it a shot, even if only to prove myself right lol

As preface to what I am about to say, of the three sins of killer slugging should most definitely not be removed. Personally I have never had more fun than an end game slug vs a good swf. Irrelevant to say but I felt like it.

While I do think tunneling and camping can give good killers more than just one option at a time, which is where I feel a few killers come from when they talk about this, It's really not skillful and should be removed. The thing is I do not trust bhvr to somehow remove tunneling and camping but also give killers either a flat buff or an advantage without breaking the game. A hard meta blight or nurse will get 3 manned out vs a equally skilled swf without the ability to tunnel. And you can't just say high level doesn't matter because in reality if all the streamers will start hating the game even if they continue to stream it for the revenue, more and more players will stop playing. This is the one thing I have no idea how they could change to not break the game, everything else is simple with maybe a few errors in numbers on my part.

1) give solo queue survivors advanced communication tools, including optional built in voice chat, status icons and on demand basic info relaying buttons.

2) remove all perks and tools that affect Gen repair speed. No Gen speed up, no Gen defense, at all, make it a constant.

3) buff killers and balance the rest of the game around the previous 2 changes.

1º Balance maps

2º Balance killers buffs and nerfs.

3º Balance a LOT of perks to get different builds.

Bonus, QoL changes for lobby surv and killer.

1. Fix the problems.
2. Fix the issues.
3. Solve the bad things.

Easy.

1) Balance Maps...

2) Revert the Gen changes (80 charges per Gen)

3) Change some Killers (Nurse and Blight getting "nerfed" and Trapper, Freddie and Pig getting "buffed") and changing a lot of the perks and addons

1. Add Voice Communication for survivors as a built in feature. Not a perk, not proximity based, and not implemented over services like steam, epic, windows, or whatever, but just a part of the game that is on by default for the survivor players, but gives them the option to mute if certain players are being annoying/toxic over comms. BHVR have been doing everything they can to make perks and adjustments to the base kit for solo queue survivors that will bring them up to par with SWF, but lets be real, the only and fastest way to do that is to give them voice comms. The fact that BHVR have been trying to give them the advantages of voice comms via non-verbal communication through perks, add-ons, and in game mechanics is just frustrating for both solo queue and themselves at this point. After doing this, they'll have to adjust all the perks and mechanics that having voice comms eliminates the need for, and they'll have to buff killers to adjust for advantages of voice comms, but overall this will be the thing that finally puts solo q on equal footing with SWF.
2. Remove the "Training Wheels" of DbD after "x" many times encountering a perk or mechanic, but leave people the option to toggle it on or off in their settings. We have more than enough visual and audio queues built into the game via progress bar color, skillcheck windows, that noise and effect when exposed, status effect icons, etc... at some point having the perk icon, and name cluttering up out hud every time it's active against us just feels like condescending coddling. I know when ruin is active just by seeing the gen instantly start regression after I get off of it. I know Coulrophobia Is slowing down Healing progress by the red healing progress bar every time I try to heal in the TR, and I know the Killer is using Perks Like Huntress Lullaby or Dissolution the first time they start working against me. I don't need the perk icon popping up in the lower right, and I don't need the perk name notification cluttering up my screen, there's already more than enough info that's given through visuals and sound effects, or the very nature of the perk. For new players, encountering these for the first 200 or so times may need all that bloated coddling, but for myself, and many of the players who have well earned gamer instincts and can flush out when a killer is using BBQ&Chili without any of that crap telling us, it's insulting. This game is Mature rated for adults, and yet the devs insist on treating its player base like a throng of mentally challenged children. To be fair, with all the juvenile antics on these forums, and overall bratty, entitled, or toxic ways we lambast them over the smallest changes, we may deserve to be treated this way, but the least they could do is give us the option to turn off the training wheels in the settings as a courtesy, so we don't always have to feel like the devs regard us as complete idiots.
3. Incentivize going for Hooks over Kills, and Overall Team Performance Rating over Escapes. You want Killers to stop camping and tunneling? give them a reason not to. You want your solo queue teammates to stop Hook suiciding, DC'ing, and intentionally sandbagging you? Give them Motivation to be actual team players. Incentivizing hooks over Kills with an additional BP, XP and Emblem progress bonuses, may be all the motivation killer players need to go after multiple downs and hooks since going only for kills will make ranking and lvl'ing slower for them. Offering similar incentives for how well the team performs in order to maximize everyone's gains, may be all the solo queue survivors need to get their head in the game and cooperate towards the win together. Who knows really? All I know is that, it's at least worth a try.

I agree on 1. and 2. but am not sure on how 3 is gonna play out.

Survivor sure could do with ping tools or a messagewheel to give some basic info relay abilities, or even maybe real comms. But i dont think the game does need to spoonfeed free info via "just give permanent bond to all survs lul", unconditional aura is way more precise than comms ever be.

Your idea of actually customizing the info the survivor has actually shown to him. But remember, Killer basekit and indivual abilities ( more for lower tiers obviously) would need to be adjusted for such a huge change on survivors. And it'd be weird to not buff the killers just because some prosurvivors would turn 20% of the new features off.

1. Well we can all dream of that one day where Badham won't be a horrible map.

2. It won't make Swf any stronger and it will help SoloQ. My point still stands altho i like the idea of base CI (i would give only 80sec CI and then perk CI would extend the duration of blocked gens to 120sec so set up killers can still use this perk)

3. MDR makes Spirit busted (hens333 won with Spirit MDR without perks i believe on Mother's dwelling), so while using this add-on her power recharges slower and Spirit has no passive phasing so this add-on isn't as busted and survivors can know what they are up against.

I basicly main Wesker, yes, Iridescent Uroboros Vile is extremly strong if you know what you are doing.