What Is Your DBD Hot Take?

The way they reworked sabo is extremely unfun to play against and I stand behind it

i don't think i have any crazy hot takes.

maybe that i think most of the killer cast in the game is fun to play and learn when a lot of people seem to be blind to that fact and only think wesker is fun.

Artist is the most fun killer to go against.

Knight is fun to play against when they play seek and destroy.

For that last point, I meant more their character concepts and story, not their mechanics. They're both much better inclusions into this horror hall of fame than people give them credit for; Trickster is pretty much the best horror story this game's come up with period, and Skull Merchant's core is interesting and novel enough to more than justify her place in the game.

Mechanically, they're both in trickier spots, SM more so. I do, obviously, stand by her being able to do more than 3-gen, still.

Knight is harder to master than Nurse.

Windows is the most overrated perk in the game and it's usage rate is far above what it deserves.

Exhaustion perks have been massively overtuned since their inception and even after their nerfs. If you would never not run an exhaustion perk if your intention was winning that tells you they’re a problem. No set of perks should always be auto lock ins.

You could hypothetically double the exhaustion timer and you would still see an exhaustion perk on every single survivor, that should tell you how overtuned they are. What perk gets it’s cooldown doubled and is still ran on every single player? That shows they were never close to the “balanced” line to begin with.

Pyramid Head is better than the Artist.

I wasn’t around during that time with release Legion, but it really seemed like no one will ever beat Legion in terms of how much the playerbase hated a killer.

Artist is a 3rd strongest killer in the game, sometimes even stronger than Blight.

But there are 4 and a half really good Artist players in the public matches, so I understand why many people will disagree with me.

I disagree that they are overtuned. They are in a good spot, even tho that most of them are actually too weak, which limits their variety (there is no point in bringing Balanced Landing over Lithe for example or Smash Hit (even with the Buff in the next patch) over anything else).

Your example with doubling the timer and being still viable is also pretty bad. Because the Exhaustion Timer does not matter that much unless it is super-low (like Fearmonger), then it MIGHT be possible to get rid of Exhaustion. But it is completely irrelevant if the timer is 40 seconds, 20 seconds or just infinite until hooked. Because in a regular Chase the Survivor will use their Exhaustion-Perk once and then they are exhausted for the duration of the chase since Exhaustion does not recover while running. This is also why Exhaustion Add Ons were and are still too strong and should not exist. Because regardless of the time, it will not go down in a chase.

Also, the Devs even introduced an Alternative to Exhaustion-Perks with Made for This. Which indeed was the reason why some players dropped their Exhaustion-Perks. However, Killer Mains are now thinking they lose because of Made for This (instead of their own mistakes), so they rally against it. So incentives for not using Exhaustion-Perks are not really popular among Killer Mains.

It's extremely overstated how hard she is to play. You can have a few hours on Nurse and beat SWFs with her that you can't beat on your main killer which you may have hundreds of hours on. Aura reading perks like BBQ, Lethal and especially Nowhere to hide make it much easier too.

People have always used the excuse that Nurse is fine because she's difficult to play. Even when she had a default of 3 blinks and no cooldown. She isn't!

Hot takes? Alright

Killer is not as difficult as people like to claim. I play damn near every killer, and use no slowdowns, refuse to tunnel or camp and I have to intentionally handicap myself to even come close to having survivors escape by the gate. Tracking and chase perks should be your bread and butter.

Exhaustion pekrs on survivor are overrated. I have not used them in years and do not need to to play well. Much like slowdowns on killer, people should stop relying on these types of crutches and get good without them.

In that vein, both exhaustion perks and gen regression perks should be removed entirely.

Map offerings should not exist, for anyone, ever. If you want to run a stealthy killer, pray for good RNG. If you want to have a lot of high vaults for BL, Boil Over, or challenges, pray to the RNG gods.

I like exclusive cosmetics. I like to have things other people can't have and want.

I dislike Wesker for a variety of reasons (the pickrate being the biggest) but people who say he has good chase music are just flat out wrong. It's grating and annoying, Clown's got the best music.

The only thing in this game that is BM is wasting people's time. This means bleeding people out without cause and hiding instead of doing gens. Teabagging in the exit gates is silly but you can push them out. hard camping from the start is stupid, and not fun, but not BM.

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Hot takes? I got some.

I think being out of the game fast (tunneled and camped) is way worse, than being bullied against an SWF. Atleast you can do something and play the game. If you are instantly dead, you cant.

I think the victim mentallity of killers is too much. Survivors have it worse. (Especially.... its the power role)

They really should shook the meta more often and change perks more often. Metas are boring.

To that, i think BHVR does not much in look of balancing.

BHVR is bad at communicating and is focused on money.

3 gens and hooks broken should be removed. Both are old mechanics.

The flashlight clicking wasn't as toxic, as people made it. Sometimes you want the killers attention or try to mess him up, it worked a lot.

Its unfair that killers get an advantaged when only 2 survivors are left, there should be basekit unbreakable.

The timer to open the hatch with a key, should be removed again. Its already lucky to find a key in the first place, so it should be possible to open it, in chase.

Since many things for survivors deactivate in endgame, so should killer powers.

NOED is still not a good perk and rewards with nothing to do.

Solo Q is ignored so many times and still is ignored.

The faster bloodweb was nice, but actually i think it was lame and they shouldnt keep the old system. (Also why should i skill up first my character to activate it? Let me level up new characters fast)

Soo that is a bunch

Survivors in game are not hating SM. The forum survivor mains are mostly complaining.