January - March Roadmap (What To Potentially Expect)...

Wouldn’t surprise me if shadowborn is reworked into a brightness perk

Then we’ll have to wait till 2029 for brightness options

Either Grim Embrace needs to give a stronger reward or the prerequisites for it to activate needs to be made easier. If devs want to make a perk that encourages hooking everyone useful, the current iteration needs to be better

For the 3-Gen solution they mentioned they were "Implementing a system that detected if a killer is actively playing for the 3-gen." To me this sounds similar to the AFC that detects if a killer is "too close" to a hooked survivor but takes into account other survivors near by, if they're in chase, downed, or being carried. So I wouldn't be surprised if their solution would be similar in nature, i.e. looks at how long the killer is within a specific radius of a gen/gens, nearby survivors and gens completed. As for what the effects would be if the game detects a 3-gen play style, I'm not sure. It could be something as simple as survivors get a repair speed bonus.

I've seen several people throw out the idea that completed and uncompleted gens could "switch places" to force gen spread however I think this still leaves too much up to RNG and on some maps SO MANY gens spawn SOOOOO close together it might randomly replace the 3 gen with another. For example: Disturbed Ward had the worst gen spawns I've ever seen, just to give an idea of what we dealt with: (Map itself courtesy of dbdmaps.com) Each red circle shows about where a gen was and the blue ovals is a random outlier gen that I don't remember the exact spawn for just that it spawned in one of the double gyms.

If you think you're looking at probably the nastiest 6 gen you've ever seen in your life, you're absolutely right.

1 gen behind the 2 rows of benches by the Greenhouse, 1 in the Hedge Garden thing right outside one of the entrances to Main, 1 in a low wall pallet gym on the back side of Main by the breakable wall, 1 right off the stairs to the other Main entrance, 1 on the Second Floor and 1 in the Solarium in Main. We were blessed by RNJesus with this map against Nurse of all killers. Lucky the nurse had a fun quirk where she liked to watch the sparks fly off a gen she kicked :). In the case of this map/spawn shown if the 3 gen was to "move" in an attempt to spread out the gens, well it would probably look more like a game of musical chairs as the gens would never stop moving around.

You would think this map would have a great gen spread every time considering its 172sqT (OG Mothers Dwelling is 188sqT for reference), but we got this, and it isn't the only time I've seen a fowl gen spread on this map or other large maps. So all in all, in my meager opinion, the best course of action the devs could ever take is to NUKE their current spawn logic and rebuild it from the ground up to enforce a minimum spawn distance between gens, and promote even locker placements, and GOOD totem spawns, and a nice hook spread and further more an even scourge hook spread. And so on and so forth.

BUT as much as I would love to see a large scale map spawn logic evaluation and rework, considering the devs have been doing map reworks for the last few updates that mostly focus on pallet and clutter spawns and this change could launch as soon as January, it doesn't make any sense to me that they would be doing a massive spawn logic overhaul as it would mean they need to revisit all the maps they just "completed" and start over as all of that would change again. Looking at the meager evidence and past Dev actions and responses to community outcry I'm expecting a "Band-Aid" fix like I mentioned in the beginning.

As for the Onryo rework, I don't think its a "Revert Onryo" because they did specify the rework was necessary, it just didn't hit the mark they were hoping for and they also specifically said they wanted to tackle the "Forced Condemned" play style. I had a few thoughts of some tweaks they could make, all base kit changes and obviously add-ons would more than likely need to change to but I didn't want to spend that long thinking about it. And I don't mean I want to see all of them, these are just a couple of ideas I had that might make the condemned play style less viable or oppressive in the right hands while still encouraging survivor interaction that wont completely shut her down.

Increase the amount of condemned removed when placing a tape. (Currently -3 stacks)

Increase the cool down on her teleports to reduce spamming but reduce the cool down of survivor turned off tvs. ( her tp cool down is 10s provided a tv is available to tp, and a tv turned off by a survivor is off for 70s.)

Revert the map wide condemned gain (for survivors without a tape) when teleporting to the original effect of survivors within x meters of the tv ( I think it would be alright if they increased the range of effect from 16m to maybe 24. And if this change would nerf her slowdown too much they could change survivors with tapes still gain condemned if inside her teleport range but at a reduced rate.)

Either

A. Reduce the condemned gained when hitting a survivor with a tape and the tape still breaks. ( kinda meh about this)

B. Survivors no longer gain condemned when hit while carrying a tape, BUT the tape still breaks. ( Potentially add the effect that the next tv that survivor turns off has its timer reduced or a random tv turns back on (but not the one turned off). Not sure if either of these would end up being overpowered but I thought completely removing the survivors risk of holding onto the tapes might be too much of a nerf. )

C. Survivors still gain condemned when hit while carrying a tape but the tape no longer breaks. (The best options I could think of for this is keep the +2 but only if the survivor is healthy (prevent a new method of forcing condemned by playing in a hit and run style), reduce the gain to +1 when the survivor is put into the injured or dying states.)