March 2024 Dev Update

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Would you be able to clarify some of the wording. When it says you can recall Victor at "any time", does that include while attached to someone on the ground?

It should also be mentioned, that if Victor is planning on hitting a survivor twice, the survivor can make so much distance that they could just jump into a locker before the second hit, and be far away enough from Charlotte and she won’t be able to reach the locker in 10 seconds, even with the haste buff. This means the survivor will leave the locker, Victor will get recalled, and Twins just wasted a lot of time.

A 10 second locker hold for Victor, is no longer good enough. Victor should pull survivors out of lockers and latch onto them. Or the locker hold needs to be greatly extended, to give Charlotte a fair chance to grab the survivor out of the locker.

We're reading all the feedback around the Dev Update, and will continue to do so once these changes are testable on the PTB, so if you can, please do test it out and let us know what you think.

Back to more slowdown/chase perks I guess no point running aura perks when 2/4 survs per lobby are running distortion

I don't understand why nothing was done to address the survivors that weaponized DS against killers that weren't tunneling, because the survivors "didn't want to waste their DS"? Recently unhooked survivors were getting full healed, and then would try as hard as possible to bodyblock the killer, to bait them into eating their DS.

The counterplay back then was to make it a point to tunnel survivors off the hook, to stop them from offensively using a full DS combo, and it still applies now. If killers don't want to eat a weaponized OTR+DS (+possible DH) combo, then killers really should hardcore proxy camp, and make it a point to tunnel a survivor off a hook, just in case they might try to weaponize a full DS combo against them.

And BHVR spent years to figure out how to nerf Twins slugging…. then BHVR boosts DS even though that perk encouraged a lot of killers to slug survivors? I don't understand, does BHVR want to discourage or encourage slugging? And because of flip-flop, if a killer decides to slug someone to wait out their DS timer, they might be forced to let the survivor bleed to death, because the survivor might use that extra time to crawl somewhere where boil over can prevent the killer from getting them to a hook.

OTR doesn't give you an endurance hit once you're healed. So you'd be injuring, then downing that survivor like you'd do a regular non-OTR gamer once they're healed. Then they can get their DS.

Don't forget that it reveals auras of those within the terror radius, most of which average (iirc) about 32m. So they're within easy catch up distance of the killer. 15s would be understandable if they were on the other side of the map, though even Lethal Pursuer gives less than that when survivors and killers start on opposite sides and it's usually enough time for the killer to latch onto a survivor. 3s is fine when so close to each other.

"Nerf the Ultimate Weapon" itself is welcome. This perk has been too strong until now. However, there are roughly divided into three doubts.

1. Is it really a good thing to change to a perk that makes survivors' auras visible instead of making them scream?
   A unique feature of this park was that it detected survivors by making them scream rather than revealing their auras. Survivors may adopt Calm Spirit to counter UW, and UW also has aspects that increase the value of Calm Spirit, which was often neglected by people. I don't think it's a good thing if UW loses its originality and becomes a park similar to Darkness Revealed, as it will reduce "the variety of parks and game development" for both the killer and survivor sides.
   In addition, survivors will also be able to perceive when they suddenly become Blindness state, even if they don't scream, that they are affected by this perk. There are cases in which a survivor may not notice that they have been affected by this perk, but only "if they do not pay attention to their status HUD" or "if there is a possibility that they will be in Blindness state under other ways".
   Therefore, I don't think there is any much benefit in not make the survivors scream. It is doubtful whether that advantage outweighs the disadvantage of being countered by one Distortion.
2. Cooldown of 60 seconds is too long.
   Why is the cooldown of UW so different at 60 seconds while the similar perk Darkness Revealed has a cooldown of 30 seconds?
3. Will Distortion not be nerfed?
   There are many doubts regarding the Distortion specifications, so I would like you to consider not only changing the UW, but also changing the Distortion.

• Isn't the maximum number of tokens 3 and initial value 3 too safe?
• There are other ways to prevent Scratch Marks from being seen by killer, such as walking and various perks, so I don't think it's okay to remove "effect that allows you to run without leaving Scratch Marks" on the Distortion.
• Isn't it strange that when the survivor is within the Terror Radius, the "token recharge speed" is the same whether the survivor is 3m or 30m away from the killer? If the survivors want to recharge their tokens quickly, shouldn't they take correspondingly greater risk, such as more getting closer to the killer?
• On the other hand, I think that Distortion doesn't have to be the only perk for survivors to counter aura detection, and there should be multiple other options.

7.5 out of 10 pretty good changes but DS just gonna become a problem again. I'm all for tunneling getting nerf but how will this be any different from the last time DS was meta. Strong players will use it offensively again.

At first glance it looks nice overall.

Also, depip being removed is a breath of fresh air.

I always felt compelled to play harder and harder to reach rank 1.

Now I will be able to relax a bit and be nice even when in the red ranks.

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Thank you for doing these.

As for the update itself? I’m excited for the new shop!

Glad to see the store get updated after all these years. Adding the Collections tab will help make finding things much easier and I am guessing if say the Iron Maiden Collection got more skins, they will also go under the Iron Maiden tab along with the skins already released. Good update overall.