How do we feel about current adrenaline?

MoZo · March 10

We’re coming up on 1 year since the nerf done to adrenaline last year and I was curious on what others thoughts on it are. I still hate the nerf that took away the “adrenaline off hook” since it made the perk way more swf friendly rather than a balance between all roles. I understand why it had to go because it put killers in a lose lose situation. The speed nerf and Freddy interaction with it was completely fine and an understandable nerf. I wish they would bring back adrenaline being on hold if you’re disabled because it feels horrible when you go down right before the last gen pops or if you’re solo q on hook and your teammate pops the last gen before you get unhooked.

Reinami · March 10

How do we feel about current adrenaline?

MoZo

Mar 10, 2025

We’re coming up on 1 year since the nerf done to adrenaline last year and I was curious on what others thoughts on it are. I still hate the nerf that took away the “adrenaline off hook” since it made the perk way more swf friendly rather than a balance between all roles. I understand why it had to go because it put killers in a lose lose situation. The speed nerf and Freddy interaction with it was completely fine and an understandable nerf. I wish they would bring back adrenaline being on hold if you’re disabled because it feels horrible when you go down right before the last gen pops or if you’re solo q on hook and your teammate pops the last gen before you get unhooked.

It being on hold made it literally a free escape in endgame.

LockerLurk · March 10

It's fair now. End of discussion.

NODD3RS · March 10

It’s just okay I guess. It was op before . But now it has too many restraints to make it worth it. It’s value is reliant on you being chased, injured, and in endgame. i feel like there are other perks that give more of the benefit with less of -

a caveat, like dh. I feel like its speed didnt deserve a nerf

MechWarrior3 · March 10

Its a great perk. Better than "okay". I feel like its in a good spot.

iloveandhatethisgame · March 10

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/439970/how-do-we-feel-about-current-adrenaline

it’s great in swf it’s very risky in solo que. Because you can’t see your teammates perks, you can literally make it to the endgame and have that perk not activate because you were on the hook. Hope doesn’t get this punishment so thank god for that

Aven_Fallen · March 10

I dont think it is worth running anymore. It is fine, but there are better Perks to run, personally I prefer Hope over Adrenaline, if I want to play with 3 Perks for the biggest part of the game, I would rather have a Perk which gives me constant value. Adrenaline just does not fit with that. Even before the Nerfs you could get 0 value out of Adrenaline, even when reaching the Endgame, because often enough I was that guy on a Gen, fully healed and would only get a Speedboost, which was not really significant.

Sure, the situations where you were injured and in chase felt great, but IMO it was so rare. Personally either Adrenaline being active after unhooked or the 5 second Speedboost should be brought back, 3 Nerfs were just too much for a Perk which was considered fine by most people to begin with.

Pirscher · March 10

In SWF it is good, you can co-ordinate unhook/last gen completion but solo queue.. RIP solo queue adrenalin.

But its fine as it is I guess (there are better perks)

AmpersandUnderscore · March 10

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3894229#Comment_3894229

This.

Adrenaline pre nerf was considered balanced for a long long time, mainly because it provides zero benefit until end game. And now it has the potential of providing zero benefit entirely if the killer... checks notes does basically nothing different. Killer having the survivor on hook is literally their objective.

Something like noed at least gains value by wasting time cleansing even if the hex doesn't trigger at end game, but that one change is the equivalent of noed not exposing survivors who were working on a gen when the gates powered. They did their objective, shouldn't the end game perk do nothing?

(For the record, I think noed is fine as is, but this is an example of why adrenaline was over nerfed)

The speed nerf is whatever, but there shouldn't be a perk that can get zero value when the opponent literally has to do nothing different to counter it. That's ridiculous imo.

Linkdouken · March 10

Never really used it myself. Always found there were more useful perks than a 1 time endgame perk

jesterkind · March 10

Adrenaline's still one of the top three perks in the game, the nerfs didn't really move the needle on its core strengths. It did lose the stupidly unfair "heal on hook" possibility, and that was a bit of a knock overall, but the core strengths of Adrenaline have always been the instant heal and speed boost which are both preserved.

It's in a pretty good spot now. Still one of the best survivor perks there is in the game, but no part of it is really unfair anymore.

iloveandhatethisgame · March 10

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3894251#Comment_3894251

yeah no thanks

Jadelysta · March 10

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3894251#Comment_3894251

No.

Nun_So_Vile · March 10

Tried it a few times post nerf and then took it off every build. Still haven't used it since, if that tells you anything.

tricks5776 · March 10

it’s good with swfs but significantly weaker in solo queue. I ran it for a week and tried to bait last chase. Was able to get it 4 times. Ended up on the hook 3 times right before teammates finished last gen. Teammates couldve finished it while I was in chase had they started gens earlier. I think if you run it in solo, you it encourages you to be the one starting the last gen or working on it injured to get value. Fine perk but much stronger in swf than solo now.

ReverseVelocity · March 10

Still a good perk with a high use rate.

sizzlingmario4 · March 10

It's still very good, just more situational.

H2H · March 10

I think it’s still a great perk and one I run most of the time if I’m not using the perk slot to get an archive challenge done.

Nathan13 · March 10

I think adrenaline is fine I personally don’t use it though.

danielmaster87 · March 10

Pretty much a SWF "win more" perk. Solos, they don't know what they're doing. You're not getting Adrenaline consistently, let alone 4 gens. But with SWF and their gen efficiency, basically getting a guaranteed health state and sprint burst is pretty strong. You're not beating them if more than 1 survivor gets it off. It's unfortunate we've got to make these distinctions, but people keep bashing killer instead of looking into matchmaking.

danielmaster87 · March 10

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3894251#Comment_3894251

That's always been my complaint, but now I'm not so sure. They could propose it not working if you're already exhausted, because right now you can Sprint Burst, DH, or whatever, be exhausted, last gen done, and then get the heal/sprint burst anyway even though it's an exhaustion perk itself and you're exhausted.

WolfePhD · March 10

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/439970/how-do-we-feel-about-current-adrenaline

The perk functions as intended as I feel adrenaline when I meet the conditions on the perk. I think people tend to assume success in Dead by Daylight, when most of my games end before 3 generators in solo queue. It can be hard to justify a perk slot for it, so it makes sense that it has an effect that might come into play later on.

Langweilig · March 10

Adrenaline is not worth running since the nerf. It is literally unplayable in soloq. Why would anyone play a perk you might at best get 2 uses out of 10 matches? More often than not it also gives you a disadvantage by making you exhausted while you aren’t injured or in chase!

AshFayd · March 10

I rarely see anyone run it anymore

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