How do we Feel About the Upcoming Balance Changes?

Do all those killers have mangled add ons? Maybe they cha ge change those lol

But seriously, after recent reworks I am more wary than excited about any announced changed, especially to the killers which imo dont need any.

And the fact that singularity was removed from the roadmap is still pissing me off, ngl

Pig and Clown have one, and Huntress has two. The others don't.

I wasn't aware it was ever a timed status effect, was this before the Onryo release?

That sounds reasonable tbh, was it changed before to combat healing speeds at the time?

It was changed in the mid-chapter following the Twins release.

Prior to that, certain addons had timed Mangled effects. Sloppy Butcher was never on a timer though.

Until they changed it, Vigil also affected Mangled but they removed it since there was no use for it anymore. There is one timed Mangled effect in the game right now (Dredge's Tilling Blade addon) which Vigil does not affect.

I've been in this game for a few years now and it amazes me when I'm still learning niche things like this. Thanks for the info!

Difficult to say without actually seeing the changes.

It's mildly annoying to see Mangled/Sloppy nerfed for no reason when they're very easy to counter, but cest la vie. Things change, hopefully it won't be too bad.

As for the killers- I'm holding out for some specific changes, personally.

Doctor getting partial Discipline addon basekit, and Clown getting partial Smelly Inner Soles basekit. Those two could benefit a lot from changes like that.

For Pig, ideally we'd see some buffs to her stealth and a slight change to her boxes to prevent screams resetting progress. I don't think anything about the traps themselves needs changing at this point, she's in a pretty good spot there.

No clue for the others, though.

Demogorgon and doctor have no mangled addon's have any kind of mangled addon, so they're definitely getting something else. Hopefully buffs for at least doctor.

It's funny to see Mangled with Sloppy on a roadmap and don't see Botany, WWMI, Desperate Measures and CoH on a list. I run Botany in 80% of my games and i don't even notice that Sloppy exists. Absolutely mind blowing decision for me touching this status effect. Especially with such an awful decision as timer.

Killer's perk variety like ten times less than survivor's, but let's send another few perks and bunch of addons in the trash.

There is so many things could be changed and became useful instead, but seems like devs hate when killer brings something except 4 gen slowdowns in the match.

We pretty much have confirmation that Mangled will return to its original iteration of being tied to timers, rather than lasting until the survivor is fully healed.

"There is so many things could be changed and became useful instead, but seems like devs hate when killer brings something except 4 slowdowns in the match."

Mangled not Slowdown confirmed.

Corrected it for you

Mangled nerf is stupid, but the rest is good/fine.

I personally doubt all of these are happening next patch though since it's a new chapter release, most of these will probably occur in the next midchapter in April.

Even if they intend to nerf mangled, do you believe that it will end up that way?

They said during the anniversary that this upcoming chapter is both killer and survivor

Just a reminder that the overheat mechanic was announced/hinted at as minor tweaks.

I'm sure im not the only one with bleak expectations forse the adjustments.

I think in your scenario Self Care is the bigger Stalling Tool.

When they have self care and botany knowledge on more than half of survivors, the only perk that reliably slows healing is Sloppy Butcher.

Of course, I'm guessing the nerf comes because their stats show that nobody uses junk perks like whatever rubbish Skull Merchant had that slows healing by basically nothing for almost no time at all until you've reached like 10 hooks.

From my understanding they're adding a timer to either Sloppy Butcher or just the Mangled status effect in general which I can say would be reasonable if they were to at least make some sort of compensation for this because they've been lacking in that department lately I've noticed.

As for Huntress they likely aren't gonna be trying to change/rework the hitboxes of her hatchets since they tried that back in 2018 and immediately had to undo the hitbox changes only a month later due to the abysmal reception the change got from it causing the mass majority of hits to be impossible to land and they've stayed that way since. Also be careful of what you ask for because smaller hitboxes on projectiles in games like DBD results in the projectiles being able to hit you over and through more objects which can remove potential counterplays.

All these killer reworks this year will be buffs and that's awesome.

Let's not pretend it's otherwise.

That's Haemorrhage, not Mangled.

Haemorrhage would actually make sense to be on this roadmap, but for some reason they're looking at Mangled instead.

I suspect it’s because it is a very good Solo Q stomper, also might be because no one seems to run healing perks.