My Take On Upcoming Changes

I haven’t looked at the updates tbh. Been too busy working and taking care of private matters.

ive said this before - deadhard should be a one time use perk like decisive strike not an exhaustion perk. If you use it and you’re hit then you become injured and broken, but not downed. If you don’t get hit then you can use it again. Basically an alternative to mettle of man. Or whatever. Yes it would destroy the perk, but people hate it as it is so it doesn’t matter.

now… if dbd matches became slower and more tactical then that’s another story. But with how fast games are and how many get out of jail free cards a good team can have there needs to be a limiter.

the rest idk. I’ll have to look into what they’re changing.

Too many players are slaves to the meta, on both sides.

Survivors entirely reliant on Dead Hard and CoH, who can't function without them, and killers entirely reliant on meta slowdown perks and can't function without them. This patch should be a wake up call to all of them.

Okay. I’ve had a chance to read it finally.

my thoughts are:

Blood web - I’ll have to see. Sounds mostly good.

heartbeat - it’s the thing from mobile. If it works its works. Whatever. Now we just need to make it so blind player can play. Hellen kellar would be proud. I’m getting older and my arthritis and hearing/vision will eventually cripple me to not being able to play these types of games without assistances… in fact it’s already happened to some degree. makes me nervous.

healing - might be a good way to make the game last longer, but will need way wayyy more overhauling to other mechanics. I’m actually hoping it does what they say it will to some degree. Though… when the game has a perk called no mither and players still escape…

Autohaven maps - honestly… i worry about how generic it might start to feel if they dont really make the “main building” pop. Because it’s getting to where maps have 2 unique buildings at most and the rest is just wall and window maze tile segments. What makes each map different from the other for me is: gas station, bus carcass, lodge, wall of cars, bulldozer, and… I think that’s it. Mounds are on multiple maps. Maze tiles are a staple for every map. Killer shack is a generic common piece. And… yeah that’s everything.

• side note: corn, combine, hay bales, barn, and the 2 main buildings (cowshed and house) on cornfields.
• Haddonfield: the houses on both sides. Very iconic and unique
• red forest: trees. The 2 story gym cabin, the purgation temple, the ranger cabin, and… i think that’s it for me. The new killer map is whatever. Haven’t played it enough.
• dead dog saloon is iconic and very unique. along with dredge’s, artist’s, resident evil’s, pig’s, freddy’s, ormond, leiry’s, and probably another i’m forgetting.
• the macmillan estate ones are forgettable. I think they have the giant water plant, the mine shaft basement, and… idk the giant building that is like a huge manor? Can’t remember it at all.
• swamp has a boat, a dock, a pier, and… reeds. And that weird trapdoor room and the other maze basement thing for the main building. Pretty unique, but a lot of the stuff in it is annoying to deal with.
• i liked the stranger things map for what it’s worth. Also anything else is either slipping my mind or it is so small it escapes my perception.

killer changes - i’ll have to see. Most of the stuff they changed seems to be pointless as it doesn’t fix the issues with the overall character. Freddy is the biggest clown of the entire patch note list from what i saw. Blindness doesn’t do anything. It never has. It never will. Of all the debuffs it is the least oppressive. At least mend makes you panic heal. If they’re going to change the numvers they should just make it grant undetectable to freddy or something.

perk changes are… debatable. They’re apparently nerfing the speed of gen decay in relation to the speed of heals. Which in theory should slow matches down and punish bait players that play tag rather than hide and seek.

They don't at all. If you've been paying attention, these are the biggest targets for complaints against 3 genning, and frankly they should not be able to stack the way they do, it's a fault in the design of two very similar perks. They do the same thing, they stack, they can't be balanced independently and together at the same time. They're simply too oppressive when used together.

Pain Res I get the issues with, however this is arguably the strongest gen regression perk in the game right now, and in the spirit of nerfing both healing and regression (both sides of the same coin and a necessary change for game health) then it obviously has to be nerfed to some degree. I don't necessarily agree that it's the best way to nerf it, but the way it'll work now will actively encourage spreading hooks among survivors, aka, not tunnelling. That's not a bad thing.

Corrupt Intervention is probably the healthiest slowdown perk in the game (next to Ruin but no one uses that), and shouldn't see any further changes. Jolt and Pentimento however should arguably be next, as they can both be very oppressive in the right hands. If the nerfs to healing speed end up being more impactful than the nerfs to regression, then tackling the new meta regression perks wouldn't be out of the question. I've always been a big fan of Jolt, it's the main regression perk I use, and I never understood why it lost it's cooldown in 6.1. (you can bet I capitalised on it, but I never needed that kind of buff) THAT seemed like it was just to "change the meta" change for the sake of change, along with the Ruin and Pop changes. But these changes now, do not at all.

While this is true, it's also a nonsequitur.

Why would anyone expect Red Herring to see an uptake from a Dead Hard nerf?

Instead, you'll see an uptake in Sprint Burst, Lithe, Balanced Landing, maybe even Overcome. Plus Dead Hard isn't going to be completely dead like some people are exaggerating. Five for the price of one, is a benefit.

Likewise, Circle of Healing will see much less use, but instead, we'll get more Inner Healing, more We'll Make It, more Botany Knowledge, etc. Maybe even some Autodidact! All good things. But you certainly wouldn't expect to see more Object of Obsession instead.

It's not an either or, the top performing perks should be nerfed for these reasons. But likewise, the lowest performing perks like Red Herring should be buffed. Unfortunately the latter isn't the highest priority.