Buff Brutal Strength?

35% seems like a fair enough buff

default pallet breaking is 2.34 seconds. 2.5 seconds gives survivors 10 meters. 2.34 is roughly 9 meters. Brutal strength reduces pallet break time by 20%. a reduction 20% would amount to 1.88 break time. this is roughly 7.5 meters. a 35% increase brutal strength would be 1.54 break time. This is roughly 6 meters of distance gained.

For a killer to cover 9 meters of distance, killer that move at 115% m/s move 0.6 m/s faster than survivor. It means to cover 9 meters of ground, you will spend 5.4 seconds to catch-up to the survivor. in 5.4 seconds, you will cover a total of 25 meters of distance. . This is why 10% brutal strength had very little impact to killer's base-kit. there is nearly always a pallet 25 meters away from next pallet broken. You could argue killer also argue that killer have a 6 meter lunge reducing total distance to 19 meters... but you also have to remember that survivor are rarely right next to the pallet as it is being broken. they are often further away then pointblank near the pallet. As a result the lunge distance can often be disregarded by the distance that survivor is away from pallet.

I am going fastforward this explanation about brutal strength. it takes 4.5 second to catch-up the survivor and this amounts to 20.4 meters of distance. Between 25 meters and 20 meters, 5 meter difference is unlikely to help. there is just always a pallet within 20 meters of each other.

At brutal strength valued at 35%, it takes 3.6 seconds to catch-up and total distance you get is 16.5. This is starting to get closer to a value where breaking pallet results in the survivor not getting to next loop. I still think that on Gideon's, 16.5 meters is plenty of distance to get next pallet. I think in order for m1 killer to benefit from pallet breaking, they need to break pallets in like 1.25 second which is roughly 50% total pallet breaking for pallet breaking anti-loop to be relevant. I personally dislike pallet breaking as concept in dbd because it encourages pallet zoning. Zoning gameplay is not as interesting as winning mindgames. In my opinion, I do not think pallet zoning should be the default way to play killer. If anything pallet breaking is suppose to be unrewarding because the killer is actively *giving up* on the loop.

Ideally the pallets should not be completely safe. They should instead be unsafe and be used more as a way to induce mindgames where the survivor has opportunity to avoid the hit and the killer has opportunity to get a hit. I would like it more that survivor is more about looping dropped pallets and the killer is more about guessing the pallet slide. The problem with dbd pallet loops is that the pallet is either worthless for survivor that the killer is near guaranteed to get the hit or completely safe to the point that killer has to break the pallet to proceed the chase. Due to these extremes, many of pallet are designed to safely in mind that leads the killer to fall under the pallet-break simulator mentality. This is why Windows with mindgames are a lot more interesting because windows cannot be broken so your forced to try to mindgame them as killer.

I remember seeing 2 pallets on Ormond that were 5 meters away from each other. You could drop one, run less than 10 steps, and drop another. These maps are busted.

I mean making an almost useless perk useful is fine. At this point there is just about always a better perk for the slot, I think this applies even in this kick gen, 3 gen meta (I don't play it that often so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Brutal is now the best for boring game play styles). Ofc other things would have to be addressed at the same time before just buffing more kicking stuff. You mentioned one or two of those things in the quote....

Also who in there right mind asked the devs to balance the maps around Nurse and Blight? It's a rhetorical question. I don't actually want to know because it doesn't matter. Anyone saying that rubbish should be insta ignored. Anyone listening to that rubbish shouldn't be developing the game (no offense).

Which is why you force more pallets out of Survivors while defending gens, no?

I remember a video where Legion's gen-kick speed got so high that the animation seemed to break and they barely moved to kick the gen at all before it was done. It was hilarious. Don't know if it's still possible, I think it was Frank's Mixtape plus Brutal Strength plus Fired Up, and maybe something else that might not exist anymore.