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You killed all my fun withj Dead Hard nerf, please read

Solva
Solva Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 7

You killed all my fun with the Dead Hard nerf and I'll explain why. I'm French so sorry for my bad English.

1750 hours of play, mainly as a survivor but also as a killer (1/3 of the time). Only in soloQ or with a friend.

I'm autistic and I really like Dead by Daylight. It reminds me of when I used to play hide and seek. It's fun and the serial killer theme is great. This game has really changed my life for the better since I started it in June 2021.

The problem is that all my fun has been butchered by your latest update.

I ragequit more and more, there's nothing I can do about tunneling and camping (which has been multiplied since the massive nerf of Decisive Strike, no question about it). The few brilliant moves you could do are now impossible - the days when you could tank hits with Borrowed Time, for example - Dead Hard was the last thing left.

For example, NOW, you can't tank a hit, sabotage a hook, Dead Hard immediately afterwards to save a survivor. It was already hard to do, it only rewarded the best players, it often failed, now it's unfair.

I want to stop playing and am seriously considering uninstalling for my own well-being.

I'm already down to two or three games a day instead of the 20+ I've been doing for the past two years.

Most killers are not fairplay.

They know now that it is in their best interest to tunnel to prevent the use of Dead Hard (in deep wound state), and they don't mind.

You promised, a few months ago, to give each survivor the possibility to get up after 1 minute, you never implemented it. However, I don't understand, this is my experience, for what it's worth, but slugging to secure 4 kills has become the rule. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case before.

Why do you do this?

Do you really think you're improving your game by making it more and more predictable, dull, insipid?

There's nothing the survivors can do anymore, the tunneling/camping has become ubiquitous, I feel it in every game, I'm sick of it.

I really don't want to give up Dead by Daylight, but I just don't like the game anymore. I feel bad every time I play it, and since it's my special interest, I do it sometimes even when I shouldn't. I never thought a game could get so much worse and worse and so much more frustrating.

So if it has any use at all, please undo your changes to Dead Hard.

It doesn't matter that it's a heavily used perk, it's still extremely hard to play, and it's not that hard to counter. I wasn't a fan of last summer's changes but I think they are beneficial to the game. This one is just the most frustrating I've ever seen.

Please don't turn a deaf ear to your community.

Comments

  • FFirebrandd
    FFirebrandd Member Posts: 2,446

    So... your overall point I agree with. The Devs should not be encouraging tunneling and camping but they are.

    I do however do not agree with your assertion that buffing DH is the solution. I'd much rather they buff up DS, OtR, whatever Camaraderie is called now, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Hex: Ruin. So they do a mix of making tunneling and camping harder and not doing that be more rewarding.

    As it stands right now, Dead Hard is too problematic a perk to be a solution for anything.

  • Solva
    Solva Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 7

    I agree that if interesting and original perks emerge to make up for the loss of Dead Hard, I would be fine with that too. Right now, the game is just too unbalanced and it disgusts me. I swear I'm camp/tunnel/slug every game (soloQ, 1700h). I've never seen this. It's suffocating.