OhTofu's opinion on the Mid Chapter Update (BHVR is killing the game)

I do not face 4 man swfs all the time saying that would be foolish,but I manage to get 4ks often,however I do know its not due to my skill nor the killer I play, but because most of my opponents have no idea what is going on, if you let an addonless slinger without slowdown get a 4k you are objectively horrible at dbd.

Still you yourself said it, he manages to get a 90% killrate while reading chat and I do watch his stream from time to time enough to see that the moment he faces people who are not throwing he gets absolutelly clapped, nothing wrong with it, if you face good players without a good killer that is to be expected.

But you haven't still refuted the other arguments aside from just stating they are not valid without explaining, for one he trully believes new pain res is a good perk, new pain res is literally non-existant and if you argue its good it shows a lack of comprenhention on how slowdown works in dbd.

Timestamp: 15:27, " pain res was way too OP" sorry but if thats his opinion on pain res, and based on his opinion on slinger I cannot take his sugestions regarding balance seriously.

The same ######### happens all the time to killers, where they nerf some killer thing or buff some survivor thing without doing the other half. Like for example decisive strike. DS used to be 3 seconds, but enduring affected it, so they buffed it to 5. Then eventually they made enduring not affect DS anymore, but didn't revert DS.

Or how about the changes to the mori system while not changing hatch/keys until much later even though mori was how you countered keys?

At the same time though, look at more recent patches. It is obvious they are starting to be more rapid with changing things. I bet you they'll do PTB, make some tweaks, then a week after launch they'll do something for survivors.

They are trying to fix the very things survivors all hate, it is clear from the changes they have made. But they can't "fix 3 genning and tunneling" without making spreading pressure actually viable and giving killers more ways to keep survivors off of gens other than just 3 genning.

Because if the killer is investing a perk to reduce healing you either need to pay for it by taking longer to heal or bring a healing perk of your own to mitigate/reduce the effect of the killers perk.

2 things.

1st, Self healing is in fact more efficient than altruistic healing, by miles away. Self healing at base, takes 16 seconds of total survivor time. Altruistic healing takes at least 32 seconds (2 survivors spending 16 seconds) plus the time it takes to find them. So they are definitely different. I suspect that what they'll do is nerf self-healing alot but either not nerf or only slightly nerf altruistic healing.

2nd, just because nobody complained about it regularly doesn't mean it isn't a problem. It is obvious that the devs are trying to discourage this massive "gen defense" meta from killers. They have basically killed the last good gen defense perks. The only reliable good one left, is basically deadlock, and even that one is mostly to counter gen rushing. They want to make it such that kills no longer feel like they have to bring all that gen defense, and instead buff their basekit pressure. And the most interesting way to do that, is to nerf healing. That way, kills are more encouraged to focus multiple different survivors to spread pressure. They won't be able to massively defend gens while tunneling someone anymore with pain res + DMS + deadlock. They now will be forced to spread pressure in order to do so.

However, you can't just nerf all the gen defense and expect killers to "pressure multiple survivors" if there isn't actually a reward for doing that. The reality is, they are trying to make spreading pressure actually worth it for a killer. The only real "problem" here is that the S tier killers like nurse blight and spirit are gonna get buffed from this and be stronger. But what difference does that make? They already are insanely powerful against average survivors.

Why not, buff basekit killer pressure spreading, and then NERF the problematic killers? Bring the top tier kills more in line with the rest of the killers, then buff killers as a whole. Similar to their philosophy around SWF and solo queue, but just a bit opposite. I.E. Buff solo queue survivors in a way that gives them access to some of the same information that SWF have, then we can nerf survivors as a whole and....oh wait, they are literally doing that.

It wasn't though.

It's an on demand shield/parry/dodge that with successful timing prevents the loss of a health state in a situation that otherwise would've resulted in the survivor going down. Better?

The issue with this line of thinking is that DbD is not a counterpick game in public matches. You have a useless build as often as you successfully counterpick the opponent. It's just not an effective way to play the game. This is all anecdotal of course, but I don't see many of the best players running niche builds that counter specific things. The best builds are all general guaranteed value.

Yes, if we're getting way out into the weeds for tournament play, you can counterpick to a degree. But that shouldn't be a balance consideration for the devs because that's a totally different game.

-"I can't get over the fact that he thinks light-burn is a good thing."

Torches messing up a Nurse or Artist's power is fine but Wraith is not exactly a B tier killer much less an A or S tier killer.

The ability to scratch out Hag traps is what is known as : fair play. Needing an item that she could knock out of your hand was an incredibly stupid design.

So you might want to think about the fact that for 6 years we have asked for a second objective. Totems overall were a failure and I think the devs realized this too.

Healing is the new "secondary objective". Without perks or items two people healing each other will take 48 seconds. That's an eternity if one player is sitting on a hook.

-"Yes, if you run adrenaline, resilience, and bring a BNP you can rush gens and heal with adrenaline."

It's even more simple than that. Everyone brings We'll make it so that every heal after an unhook is very fast.

-"people will pre drop every pallet to avoid taking damage."

This will improve the health of the game so that they don't loop that tile and the connected tile for 40 seconds before even needing to use the pallet.

"And survivors will burn Borgo, The Game, or Garden to make sure they have as much time to pre drop as possible."

Many killers already have their game crash When people use Borgo or Garden offerings - Mine does. But strangely enough when I play Nemesis my game does not crash and I crush people who picked The Game.

-"24 seconds base heals are a complete waste of time, botany or no. "

The meta is going to likely encourage slugging. You hook 1 player three times and in the meanwhile slug anyone else. If you have some time you hook but otherwise you tunnel.

Tofu is just "some guy" at the end of the day. I consider many of his opinions to be wrong - for example I think the old super bloodlust was healthier for the game than current bloodlust. Old super bloodlust meant that when you got chased you were getting hit. It should be noted that the hit was likely to be very soon after the chase started.

Since the devs refuse to balance "stacked" tiles they could give us back old bloodlust that didn't go away when you broke a pallet. It's not like M1 killers are really any better off now than they were before. Killers either have antiloop or they get pallet comp dropped.

Hmm let's hope this one doesn't 🤞