Does anyone like the 8.3.0 PTB? I think it's the worst PTB ever
I dislike it completely. Skull Merchant changes sucks. The new mori sucks. This patch is so boring other than some perk changes that I like but everything else is just gimmicky or adding more aura perks to the pile of aura perks.
This nerf to skull merchant is quite possibly the worst killer nerf in the history of dbd.
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Well, from positives: I like the perk changes. I'm thinking about changing windows to inner focus and off the record to blood rush, I'm feeling we're gonna see more sprint burst users in future
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Nah, we had way worse PTBs in the past.
The nerf to Skull Merchant is definitely bad but I think what they did with Freddy is overall worse. Just barely though.
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I'm not crazy about the way Skull Merchant is being handled, but other than that, it's a pretty milquetoast patch. It's safe. Nothing that is going to change the gameplay or address core issues player have regarding things like tunneling or the solo queue experience.
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just a boring Nerf everything patch
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I hope you're right but i'm worried that the distortion nerf combined with even more aura reading perks is going to make kill rates go up and the giving up problem skyrocket even more, and I don't even use distortion.
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The whole patch is rotten. Maybe the worst since the Twins rework PTB.
Half of the changes should not go live, more are questionable, and only a small few kernels are positive - mostly perk updates and the fact we have a Finisher Mori/points on Moris at all. The rest should be tossed out.
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No. That's overly dramatic. The patch itself has a bunch of good changes, there's just a few problematic ones.
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I honestly think what they did to Freddy is better—Not good, god no—but that wasn't a decision made out of spite to allow survivors to keep running around without eyes in their head. The Freddy rework was a mistake, but it had some good ideas, and didn't come from a place of malice. The Skerchant rework is genuinely pretty insulting, though, and I think it's shown BHVR's hand—between this and the massive Knight nerfs—that they don't really care for making killers more fun to verse, just worse. In that sense, Freddy is also better. He was an outlier, whereas Skull Merchant is revealing what might become a really bad trend, of soft deleting killers because they weren't Dash Killer #39 and required survivors to pay attention too often.
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Skull merchant nerf plus hyper focus and corrective action make it close to the worst
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Has more bad than good imho
I like some of the perk changes but some of them are seriously overpowered or problematic
If it's going live as is, i just hope the halloween event is good.1 -
Don't forget gutting Moris for no reason because "well Killers just 4k slug anyway - let's reward them for it!" when mid round Moris are much healthier!
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I'm scared it won't be. What if they are bringing back those horribly Survivor sided void portals? If they do it will suck bad. I really hope the Devs aren't gonna rehash the same event… give us something new and interesting please!
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The results are the same. Not to mention Freddy was kicked a bunch of times when he was already down. I mean they gradually shadow nerfed his dream pallets about a year ago. I have no idea why and it doesn't make sense to me but they did. On top of that pretty much all perks that used to be good on him were nerfed. So that's a few more passive nerfs.
I agree though that their strategy with Skull Merchant is probably the worst we've ever seen.
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I mean the perk changes are good, some just need minor tweaks to not be busted (like Zanshin getting a duration reduction, Corrective Action not charging perks like Hyperfocus etc). The only thing that might be conceptually flawed out of the perk changes is, like, Dead Man's Switch.
Finisher Mori will be fine as long as they leave the actual offering Moris alone. The killer tweaks are the weakest part of the patch, but they're fixable.
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8.3.0 is not good
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I like a fair bit more than I dislike about this patch. I think they gave some good things to both sides and took away some as well. It's definitely a bit of a shakeup.
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