give me your DBD hot takes

No Mither is the best stealth and anti-tunneling perk in the game.

There should be modifications to each killer's power, similar to addons, but can be used without consuming addons. These "infinite addons" should have downsides, similar to how addons used to be before most downsides were completely removed across the board.

The perk Saboteur should have a 30 second cooldown, and should only go on cooldown upon completion of a sabotage action without a toolbox.

A fifth perk slot would be SO fun, especially with all the perks we've gotten over the years.

Survivors having unique, slight, passive buffs would be very fun and interesting to try and utilize, and it wouldn't cause great imbalance like it would have a couple years ago

got a few lol.

Demogorgon is overrated

Skull merchant is more fun than knight

Blight is fine and fun for both sides

Breakable walls were a mistake

But artist just blocks off loops with birds, huntress you can at least dodge...

You paint her as a 3-gen queen plain and simple.

She can be effective at loops and using info from afar. Granted, yes, she is really good at defending gens that are CLOSE to eachother because surv arent paying attention to what gens they are doing. Hence why Deja Vu got its lil buff.

You dislike blight, wesker and billy. I guess you hate fun killers, your only missing oni.

Most killers are actually fun to play against, it’s my teammates that make the game unfun.

Knight is fun to play against as long as they don’t just 3 gen.

Old Freddy was better than current Freddy.

Spies From the Shadows is underrated.

DS and DH are still good perks, they just aren’t meta anymore.

Never Sleep Legion is boring compared to regular Legion

Reassurance should have been a general perk and not behind a paywall

The last good Realm BHVR has put out was Dead Dawg Saloon. Midwich, every iteration of RPD, Eyrie, Garden of Joy, Borgo, Toba Landing and the reworked Red Forest all have some quirk (usually relating to an overabundance or complete lack of clutter) that makes them awful for at least one side.

And secondly, their licensed maps focus too heavily on being faithful to the original and not enough on being an actually fun map to play on - but that's likely entirely out of their hands (gotta put out something the license holders like, after all), so who knows.

I can't believe i'm saying this but Billy is still a pretty fun killer if you put time in him.

Despite the changes

Fair, but a good artist you just do the same gameplay loop, she blocks the loop you either get hit or run to the next one, repeat. Huntress you can try to dodge and predict which creates just a far better gameplay loop and you can use hatches out in the open when chasing, whethers artist you really cant use birds like that since a survivor who has a brain is just going to move out the way.

I understand that, but surv can also simply just push out the gens, if maybe 1 surv on each gen could help or everyone stack on one of the gens. Sorry if you dont get comprehensive teammates and you lose to a SM playing in that scummy way.

But again if you play into a 3 gen and the SM sees it and plays into your mistakes she deserves it.

Except a good Artist can very much use her birds during chase to her advantage since that comes down to strategy and prediction from the killer's side, while simultaneously from the Survivors side, it's about outsmarting her bird placement and not allow her to gain a foothold over the chase or at loops, for me that's alot more engaging in gameplay than that of Huntress.

Also same can be said for Huntress, a Survivor with a brain will just dodge a Huntress Hatchet without issues and render her hatchets useless at a loop because the hatchet hitbox is so thick it cannot be shot over the environment or the props you're looping around, i don't consider that a far better gameplay loop, especially not when you get those moments where a hatchet hits you even though the hatchet was way off from your Survivor model's hitbox.

The player's experience can vary wildly depending on MMR, platform, region, day and time, etc. Just because you experience one thing doesn't mean that it's the gospel truth for everyone.

Bigger maps would benefit the game's health, even if that came at the cost of increased movement speeds.

Under no circumstances you should see the walls of a map if you're sitting at the dead center of it. Checking several objectives at a glance just by standing on an elevated surface leads to terribly stale and unfun gameplay.

The game should promote actions that leave an opening for the opposing team to take advantage of, not playing it safe and still be able to cover all your important objectives at a glance, like 3 generators or gates and hatch.

As an example, Midwich, as small and statistically killer sided as it is, it's still probably one of the few maps where I feel I have a chance to at least make some progress even if we lack one player, but on the flip side, it comes at the cost of making the gates literally impossible to open without at least one player serving as a sacrifice because the gates are a short walk from each other and the gate's lights are easy to see without having to commit to fully check that side. From the center of the map, you can just walk two steps to each side and check if anyone's making any progress. It's less of an issue if all 4 survive until the end, but it's literally impossible to progress if at least 2 players have died.

Absolutely not. It's one of the things that makes Wesker intolerable. No chatty killers.

I've always wondered why the Clown didn't have any addons like "Joy Buzzer" and "Whoopy Cushion".

Agreed. The antidote is fine in concept, but the flow between switching vials isn't as smooth as it should be and the cooldown hangs sometimes so although you tried to switch and it looked like you did, you didn't, and now you're throwing the wrong vials. Changing up some of the addons was ok, but there was no reason to lean into the antidote as much. Although he may be technically "better" now, he's less fun to play. I'd rather not use the antidote vials at all now. Having the antidote affect the survivors, particularly at the same speed and with the same buff as the killer, is annoying as well. A chunk of the temp speed boost you get is used up to compensate for the length of time you had to stand in the cloud for it to take effect. The time to effect should be shorter or the length of the buff should be longer (or of higher value). And the effect survivors get from the antidote should be lessened or come with a consequence (such as hindered by 3% for a few seconds once the buff wears off).

Your breakdown of MFT vs ML, and MFT granting such a value for just taking a hit, is spot-on.

I strongly dislike the idea that certain maps have free gens. Dead Dawg Saloon's in particular, especially the one positioned right next to the window so the killer is forced to take the longest possible route to remain unseen, is really dumb.

Facecamping at 5 gens is the most BM thing you can do. Survivor or Killer.

Adrenaline is borderline OP, now that survivors can tell when it's going to proc. I'm fine with a heal, or a speed burst, but not both. I'd rather keep the heal, actually, since that makes it more unique. Maybe apply the speed when already healthy, and the heal when not?

As of right now, no killer perk is too strong.

Many people have become way too used to perks blatantly powercreeping others.

might add more

Camping/tunneling could be a dealt with to a point by making gen regression meaningful, Things like basekit Pop goes the weasel and insta stop regression by 0.1 sec of repairs.

and hook progression slowed by killer proximity. Depends on survs alive/gens.

Perks need to be placed into categories so that stacking of certain types of perks can't happen.

Item's and addons need to be prevented from being stacked especially in a swf environment.

Solo queue survs need a bigger field of view.