Houndmaster is super fun but she has her problems for sure. Dark lord is good too but like I alluded to, you might want to avoid him until after the next bug fix. The best 2024 addition is without question The Unknown so I recommend giving them a try before anything else. Either way welcome back!

😂 Such a good spot, despite have less in every area than before! That makes total sense!

Survivors have an overabundance of endurance and offhook/unhook perks. Maps are also a point of contention, although that's not exactly new.

If you are the type of players to slug the 3rd Survivor for 4 minutes in order to guarantee the 4k, well you're in luck.

BHVR decided it was a great idea to reward this by giving a free Mori on the last Survivor (yellow Mori essentially became basekit).

If you were very dependant on gen slowdown...well that took a serious hit since essentially every slowdown perks were nerfed (most are now basically worthless on their own and a couple are still decent although still a shadow of their previous version) and there's a limit of 8 kicks (or gen explosion from perks) per gen (which means that a gen affected by both Eruption and Surge, for example, will lose 2 "kicks" in one go plus one for the initial kick).

If you like aura-reading then you're in luck since Distortion was gutted, shot, burned, and had it's tattered remains thrown into the Shadow Realm. Especially for Killers with little chase time (usually the top-tiers/insta-down like Nurse & Billy or ranged Killers like Huntress that don't need to even start a chase to down someone) this was an indirect buff as the perk is now reliant on chase time.

Hook timer was made 10 seconds longer, mostly irrelevant unless you are camping and facing Survivors that will actually use those 10 seconds effectively.

Many bug fixes, bugs created, and Freddy revival recently. Apparently there will soon be a way to freely try Killers so you will be able to test the ones you don't have and decide if you want to buy them (props BHVR, good and respectable decision despite it being a financial risk since people might not impulsively buy things they end up never using/not liking). BP is easier to earn.

Overall, could be worse.

Lightborn, agitation, pain res and bamboozle for chill games.

A ######### ton of perks and killers got reworked and released, try the old content that changed(New Myers for example)

Look out for Shoulder the Burden, it invalidates tunnelling but it doesnt remove normal preassure, it will be a challenge against swf if you rely on tunnelling

This is like asking if you should take up smoking crack after kicking it.

Pretty much this. And since this is the design difficulty scale BHVR chooses for DBD, everything is working as intended with oil and polish galore*!

I mean, yeah the core gameplay will always be the same. New perks and new killers and new maps that you will have to adapt to as any player in either role, but the core of killer and the core of survivor won’t change. Otherwise it wouldn’t even be DBD anymore.

In any case, many people find it easier to have fun when they win more than they lose. So, that’s why I said statistically speaking killer is fine, and still worth it, because you will win more.

Ehhh that was a strange reply "No thats a bad idea" then posts your own idea that includes what i said

It was perks like Ace in the Hole and No One Left Behind that got buffed. You know, the really broken OP abusable stuff

Worst than ever before. Only worth playing the event modes as they are not as terrible. Other than that, enjoy your vacation and don't bother thinking about coming back in the next 3 years, it probably won't get better until then.

killer is in a better spot today than it was last year, you will have rough games of course but depending on your killer I recommend coming back.

Flashbang absolutely is a strong perk. It is a million times harder to avoid than a flashbang save. Decisive Strike absolutely wasn't over nerfed. Even at 3 seconds it was a pretty powerful perk. They actually had to go a bit back (but not fully) back on the buff because they overbuffed it.

I forgot about Flashbang, that's fair enough. I feel like your other examples are a little misleading, though.

For one, Shoulder the Burden and Finesse haven't been buffed, they just didn't exist a year ago. That's a very different situation to the best perks in the game a year ago being better now than they were then.

For two, Iron Will and DS technically got buffs, but what they meaningfully got were "un-nerfs". Neither perk is as good now as they were prior to the more substantial nerfs that happened more than a year ago now— and for the record that's a good thing, both were pretty unhealthy prior to those changes. It's just worth pointing out that the buffed state is still weaker than where they were before and weren't the best perks in the game prior to their most recent buffs.

They're also, y'know, balanced. Both perks are pretty balanced now. I don't much like Iron Will at 100% but I don't think it's unbalanced, just kind of not great for overall perk design. They're not really perks to "warn" returning players about.