How Do YOU Feel About The Midchapter Update?

Might be one of the best updates we’ve gotten

I think it's a stellar patch. Much less handholding which makes the game more enjoyable.

both sides been crying so u know the update good

I'm not sure, I need to give it time to settle before I formulate an opinion.

I've seen a heavy increase in Legion players, and hemorrhage/mangled builds. This coupled with the inability to heal yourself in a reasonable amount of time has led to excruciatingly long games, more killer abuse than I've ever seen in the last year, and many more losses.

I agree with every word.

The saddest part is that I feel that I have to tunnel a lot more on weak killers, because there is nothing left to hold genrush.

Weak players, obviously, give up every game without even trying to play (I would like to give them a ban for a month), and good survivor players, as I feel so far, feel only better with this patch. Or at least the same as before.

CoH still broken af

My survivor games are almost the same as they were, there is more need for coordination to be healed, which is good, but I'm not one of those survivors who is afraid to run injured, so I don't suffer much from it.

But it's hard to judge yet, because every game some clown from my lobby comes into the game to give up in the first chase. BHVR needs to start punishing suicide on the hook MUCH more. Same with dc.

I wish there were more perk buffs, and Pharmacy being left in a terrible state is disappointing.

The bloodweb changes are nice though.

I might start using Wesker more, just for the sake of variety.

Nurse and Spirit just feel awful to play, because of Nurse’s super loud repetitive chase music that causes survivors to be become instantly silent when they break lines of sight, and because of Spirit’s new 100% crystal clear directional audio. And every map update makes Huntress less fun to play, since the new maps and update keep adding more line of sight breakers, where she can’t easily just throw a hatchet over the objects.

So I can play Blight and Wesker, and too bad so sad for the rest of the roster?

Games go too fast now. Survivors heal less which means chases are shorter. Gens are going faster so killers need to tunnel more. The only good gen perks anymore are Deadlock, Corrupt, Jolt and Pain Res which makes choosing perks even easier... they were trying to achieve the opposite no?

Circle of Healing is worse in solo queue, better in SWF.

Dead Hard has the same frustrations but it just happens less.

The reworked autohaven maps have serious 3 gen problem.

To make things even worse we have a skull merchant tome.

Game feels hollow to me at the moment and i feel like it's getting worse. Unless the anniversary stream is the biggest one they've done yet i think i will lose interest in this game.

Fantastic

The survivor games I played with my very below average swf were relatively easy. Update is good but I'm sure solo queue did get worse just because of the players in this game and self-healing being only med-kits now. Have not played killer yet.

I like the Bloodweb update. I rarely used any of the nerfed perks and I only ever ran brown medkits so pretty much nothing has changed for me other than fewer teammates running Circle of Healing. As killer, not having to worry about Dead Hard at the start of the match has been a welcome relief.

Overall, I'm feeling fine.

In my Solo que matches today I think maybe 7 we destroyed the Killers. Dont know what you mean.

Being able to just swing feels so right. Still loads of things to improve but I'd say this was objectively a good patch for the game.

we dont need them meta makes the game no longer fun -killer main

Overall I'm not particularly fazed by it, it didn't end up changing a whole lot about the game because they went back on the base healing changes. Nothing in it is really bad, but it's also nothing really exciting, there's not a lot actually changing and most of the things that did are really rather uninspired.

Contrary to what I'd expected, I'm actually enjoying the Autohaven changes a fair bit. Blood Lodge is weird, I think they could have done better with its layout, but other than that all of the Autohavens now play pretty well, they have less deadzones. Resting Place is still Resting Place, but the "edge map" fillers help improve how that map plays.

They've seemingly also messed with the spawn patterns on other maps however, and I've had some particularly barren Mac Millans.

While some of these I'd agree with, nerfing flashlights (and firecrackers/flashbangs) is the last thing they should be doing. They are arguably the weakest item in the game because they encourage survivors to go for risky plays rather than sit on gens, and they are also the most skillful, interactive and fun. Taking away gameplay interactions is lame, there should if anything be more, and particularly when it comes to items the game's just been stale for years and years. That they even went and removed the flashlight interactions for Nurse is pretty crazy. Another case of the game getting to be less interesting " for consistency's sake".

Inconsequential for the most part.

I don't think Pain Resonance needed nerfing, nor Call Of Brine. Overcharge could have been reworked to actually have a difficult skill check rather than passively increase regression rate. 3-genning is the issue, not COB and OC, they should address 3-gen spawns and some of the killers that excel at defending them instead. If they wanted to make Pain Res a perk that rewards "fair play" more, they should have made it so it causes 20% regression on every fresh hook, but that going down to 10% as soon as anyone is hooked for the second time. Either way, now that none of these perks are worth using anymore, everyone's just gonna be on Corrupt and Deadlock.

The Dead Hard nerf is welcome, I'm glad to see more perk diversity due to people venturing out to use other Exhaustion perks and exploring their synergies. But I do feel like now that it is a two-time use perk (at most), its duration could be increased to 1 second again. I also think unhook Endurance should become unhook invincibility, because Deep Wound overwrites a variety of effects (DH, BT, OTR, Renewal, Resurgence, and more), such that it actually encourages the killer to immediately go after the unhooked survivor. As long as they remove collision during those 10 seconds of invincibility, it would be a tremendous improvement.

The Circle nerf is unfortunate. It is not worth using anymore, and due to that, neither are the other Boon perks, since they had almost exclusively been used alongside Circle. They're just not impactful enough on their own to warrant spending time finding and blessing totems for, and they should be buffed. Circle was also overnerfed. Making it so a self-heal in it takes 32 seconds would have already been more than sufficient. That its speed boost now doesn't even apply to self-healing interactions is just the nail in its coffin. I do think a meta shift from regression more toward something centered around healing can be interesting, but it encourages some pretty boring strategies, such as hit-and-running and 3-genning, while also collaterally making camping and tunnelling easier, so personally I'd prefer if they were to rework perks to create a meta that rewards "fair play", such as with my Pain Res suggestion, or buffing Grim Embrace, BBQ, just anything to create top-tier perks that promote going for fresh hooks right off the bat.

The Gearhead and Overzealous changes are whatever. Still very mediocre (at best) perks among a mountain of other such perks.

While med-kit nerfs had been needed, these are very lazy and uninspired. That it took them this long only to come out with something this not-thought-through is disappointing. All med-kits are now virtually identical (the only difference between a brown and purple med-kit is now ~1 second in altruistic healing time), most add-ons are painfully negligible in their impact. Again, items had already been lacking in interesting design that yields exciting gameplay, now both flashlights and med-kits have been made more boring. This also makes the "grind" worse, adding to the amount of useless "filler" stuff in bloodwebs.

And people are still not gonna be using med-kits to heal others except for edge-case scenarios, the couple of seconds saved on that are not at all worth it over the ability to heal yourself. The very least they could have done if their plan was for med-kits to revolve more around altruistic healing is to increase the speed on that many-fold.

...are great. But ideally they'd also remove the lengthy level-up animations between every web.

Gens are flying even faster. Saw that on both sides.