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Crouch "Tech" against Billy

Metagamer
Metagamer Member Posts: 123
in General Discussions

Since the patchnote that stated "Fixed an issue that caused multiple killer powers to miss if a survivor crouched" I have found that Blight and Demogorgon mostly no longer have huge issues with survivors crouching during power use, even on elevation differences.

Billy however I have noticed legitimately no difference in the effectiveness of crouch teching and on some maps the game becomes miserable. I seriously want to get into maining Billy and have wanted to for a while but it becomes really unfun the moment I go against survivors who know how to use it (much more common lately). It doesn't even require a steep incline, you can just crouch and your hitbox instantly shrinks by like 60%.

The main reason crouch teching bothers me is I really like to play for flashy curves over backrevving. Crouching tech isn't a problem if you're just dashing in straight lines or focusing only on zoning, but when you're making a prediction and curving 120 degrees at 14.4m/s? That's hard enough as it is without crouch tech involved. Overall I feel like crouch teching only severely effects the fun aspect of Billy, without really hurting his more optimal playstyle (Break and zone/m1 if injured) making me just not enjoy the killer as much.

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  • jmwjmw27
    jmwjmw27 Member Posts: 823

    Since the patchnote that stated "Fixed an issue that caused multiple killer powers to miss if a survivor crouched" I have found that Blight and Demogorgon mostly no longer have huge issues with survivors crouching during power use, even on elevation differences.

    Crouch tech on same elevation still works to dodge demogorgon shreds that would have hit you from the side.

  • krazy_ivan
    krazy_ivan Member Posts: 158
    edited June 13

    Some will dismiss these posts saying "it's already been fixed there's nothing wrong" so I'm glad there are people willing to post these issues because they are definitely still occurring. I can vouch personally crouch tech works against blight as well and have witnessed others using crouch tech successfully against demo and Billy recently.

  • CLHL
    CLHL Member Posts: 429

    It has been "fixed" in the same way that the flashbangs were "fixed" many times until they were "actually fixed"… I you know what I mean.

    From day one it was proven that the "Crouch Tech” is still there, but now its executed in a different way.

  • Metagamer
    Metagamer Member Posts: 123
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3941883#Comment_3941883

    I don't play Demo as much so thanks for the insight, I guess sometimes I'm just getting lucky or something? people try and it works much less against him compared to before.

    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3941918#Comment_3941918

    Blight was 100% improved compared to before, it works FAR less often than it used to. I main Blight and speak from experience. Elevated surfaces now seem to let you hit them from the side if you're angled towards their side going down and you don't randomly slip off when they crouch on level terrain (most of the time).

    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3941927#Comment_3941927

    "Fixed Flashbang audio not playing correctly"

    "Fixed Flashbang audio not playing correctly"

    "Fixed Flashbang audio not playing correctly"

    I swear I was going insane during that short while of Flashbang usage absolutely going through the roof because people would just drop them around corners (something mysteriously no one ever did before it became widespread after the UE5 update that messed with audio in general really bad).