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Did Anti-Slugging also needed to be postponed?

Astel
Astel Member Posts: 763
in General Discussions

I think Anti-Slugging was much less problematic or exploitable compared to Anti-tunneling update. And even if it needed extra polishing, I think it would be possible to change it before PTB goes live, as it was mostly fine imo.

Comments

  • AbsolutGrndZer0
    AbsolutGrndZer0 Member Posts: 1,981

    Yea, I kind of agree, but I do see where they put it all as one idea and want to just wait to sort through the feedback of all of it and determine the best way to bring us the next version. Which WILL happen, have no doubt.

  • Crowman
    Crowman Member Posts: 10,211

    I feel like it's important for both systems to be designed with each other in mind and pushing forward the current iteration of anti-slugging without factoring what the future anti-tunneling will be could end up making it much harder to find a better middle ground.

    I do hope they push the auto-recovery as that's largely a QoL change that shouldn't impact game balance.

  • Alice_pbg
    Alice_pbg Member Posts: 6,722

    I had almost no issue with the anti slugging thing.

    one was the free… tenacity?… I think you should chose between healing and crawling. it's more interesting.

    another was the "you get downed 3 times, you can abandon" thing… don't think it's justified.

    last was, 90 seconds total feels like too short of a time… but I don't play the ptb, maybe it was fine.

    I think it would be ok to ship it with these changes.

  • StalkingYou
    StalkingYou Member Posts: 394
    edited September 2025

    Anti-everything should be postponed. It's an obnoxious term and gameplay ideology. The killer should feel like the power role and shouldn't have several different "anti-x" or "anti-y" they have to worry about throughout a match. You should be able to give up if you've been slugged for too long, though. I'm not saying Survivors should be forced to lay on the ground forever. I've been on the receiving end of that and it is as boring as people say. But these things BHVR has been doing are not the way. Almo made a good Reddit post about this. When you play killer you should feel like a slaughtering maniac, not someone who needs to worry about how you're killing the survivors. It's called Dead by Daylight, not Kill the Survivors in a Certain Way or you Get Punished by Daylight.

  • OmegaXII
    OmegaXII Member Posts: 2,438

    Anti-slug should not have tenacity basekit though. It makes killers much harder to patrol and prevent saves, because they can just climb under pallets.