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Slugging

I know BHVR caters to killer mains but can we do something about slugging, it's really getting out of hand especially lately.

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  • bleep275
    bleep275 Member Posts: 645

    there is supposed to be a quality of life update to help address the slugging and tunneling issue.

  • Coffee2Go
    Coffee2Go Member Posts: 771

    I made a post that would add a system that can potentially fix all core problems of boring behavior in game.

    Dynamic balancing system powered by Machine Learning.

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,276

    Healing meta is back thats a fact maybe not that strong as before but it still hurts the most the weakest killer because hit and run is their playstyle killers like wrait,ghostface,pig are the ones that can feel that most I think.

    There is some rumors that in the chaos shuffle that will be here soon, survivors will have very strong combo unbreakable+tenacity so slugging will be much harder. People who play this game for some years can know how strong and imactfull can be unbreakable when killer is trying to slug, from 4 people downed one unbreakable and whole team can be on their feet in no time this wont effect someone like blight,billy who can slug whole team with little effort, even some strong killers will be much weaker like twins and oni their power is build on slugging, they need to do as much damage as possible if this will go live as antislugging feature than oni and twins will fall from a-tier to low b-tier maybe even lower, this doent looks like big fall but trust me its huge. Its like chucky nerf when he was above spirit and fell to c-tier so noone played him and devs rewerted his last nerf. This antislug chage with new healing meta can make some killers agains certain survivor teams extremely hard and people will tend to play stronger and more reiable killers like blight,dracula,ghoul to have normal fluid game and chance to win. So no matter what will antislug feature will be I hope devs will take in mind this that some killer powers are around slugging and slughing is still neaded agains sabo squads ( without slugging there are very few killers that can counter sabo/flash squads without slugging like pyramidhead), but from whst I hve seen from devs trough years of dbd they sometimes just send some big changes and then it takes them months,years to fix problems these changes made ( not so impactfull but very practical situations fixing three gening, nerf the killer that was best with it to the ground then genkicking perks like och,cob and last giving gens maximum count they can be damaged but forgetting to revert genkicking meta back because now they fixed problem but killed many fresh perks that were viable and still no change to skullmerchant to be playable, reason for skull merchant nerf wasnt just three gening but it was one of the reasons).

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,276
  • SpringMyTrap
    SpringMyTrap Member Posts: 752

    pretty much

    killers barely have viable playstyles because survivors have stupidly oppressive counters to them and one of the few that still can work out is slugging.

  • I_Cant_Loop
    I_Cant_Loop Member Posts: 2,276

    Please explain this “caters to killer mains” comment. Are you basing this on anything, or are you just another survivor-only player who likes to come here to stir up “us vs them” toxicity?

  • Orvarihusklumpen
    Orvarihusklumpen Member Posts: 285

    New Chaos Shuffle gives you basekit Tenacity and Unbreakable which might be a testing ground for BHVR tom implement it basekit Unbreakable

  • NightWolfsFury
    NightWolfsFury Member Posts: 276
    edited July 2025

    No matter what version of the game, I have never not had issues with slugging more than 2 players in many, many of my matches across my DbD career.

    Players on both sides always have and always will play scummy. It has nothing to do with the state of the character or how strong/weak they are. Some people are willing to win by any means necessary, even if nobody likes it.

  • ElodieSimp
    ElodieSimp Member Posts: 398

    Unfortunately your aggressive way of thinking is what is toxic, anyone that has played the game can understand. Please stop trolling my thread.

  • ElodieSimp
    ElodieSimp Member Posts: 398

    Hopefully they can come up with something to appease both sides instead of focusing on just one side like they have been doing for a while.

  • I_Cant_Loop
    I_Cant_Loop Member Posts: 2,276

    All I did was ask you to explain what you mean by “BHVR caters to killer mains.” It was just an unnecessary cheap shot at killer players. It had nothing to do with your topic about slugging - you just threw it out there to stir up “us vs them” divisiveness. It’s this kind of stuff that is by far the biggest source of toxicity on the forum. So yeah, I’m going to call people out when I see stuff like that. Why not just say something like “slugging is out of control - what is BHVR going to do about it?” And leave it at that? Why make it an issue about “killer mains”?