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Please improve your wording of perks

For some perks, the wording is inconsistent or unclear. Some examples:

Hubris: "Whenever you are stunned by a Survivor (…)" does trigger on Deathslinger chain break.

Hex: Two can Play: "Anytime you are stunned or blinded by any Survivor (…) Survivors who stun or blind you (…)" does not trigger Deathslinger chain break.

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Spirit Fury: "After you break 2 pallets (…)" does trigger on breaking a pallet with your power.

THWACK!!!: "When breaking a pallet or breakable wall (…)" does trigger on breaking a pallet with your power.

Game Afoot: "Damaging generators and breaking walls or pallets (…)" does not trigger on breaking a pallet with your power.

Comments

  • Wezqu
    Wezqu Member Posts: 878

    Maybe those are bugs that might need to be reported not just wording mistakes.

  • dbd900bach
    dbd900bach Member Posts: 939

    Technically the game does tell you pretty clearly what works and doesn't. Basic attack is used in a lot of these perk definitions which means a regular basic attack. Then there is special attacks which are attacks that deal damage with your power. Deathslinger doesn't do damage with his shot, only the basic attack after. Most perks say basic attack if its part of the conditions.

  • Wezqu
    Wezqu Member Posts: 878

    Well you are partly correct but Deathslinger also does damage when the chain breaks as it causes health state loss and deep wound for survivor and stuns Deathslinger. Only time it does not cause any damage is when Deathslinger misses the hit he does when trying to hit survivor that was on the chain as the chain breaks without damage when Deathslinger m1's.

  • dirizio23
    dirizio23 Member Posts: 31

     "Anytime you are stunned or blinded by any Survivor (…) Survivors who stun or blind you (…)" does not trigger Deathslinger chain break. I think deathlinger chain break like bubba bumping his saw against a wall or nurse after the blinks are not treated like a stun, its not the survivor stunning them, its just them having a resting moment as part of their power. (might be mistaken with something here not an expert)

    i dont have my game on but game afoot in google says: performing the Break or Damage action which is clearly an action seperate from any killer power.

  • Wezqu
    Wezqu Member Posts: 878
    edited December 2025

    Google most likely took that from the DBD wiki. They some reason there write the descriptions how they want them to be written. That one is not written like its in the game itself.

    In the game its written like this:

    "While you are chasing the Obsession, this perk activates.

    Damaging generators and breaking walls or pallets gives you a 7% Haste Status for 10 seconds.

    Whenever you hit the Survivor with the total most time in chase with basic attack, they become the obsession."

    I don't trust the wiki on anything that is writen in the game itself as they always write it again how they see it to be clearer. Its fine that they do that but its a wiki it should also have the original text as most of the time I would want to see how its writen in the game but then I have to check it in the game because the wiki is so heavily edited to be more clearer. Like its the game wiki that should have info of the game itself but does not have the direct info that the game itself gives just the edited info that the people who upkeep the wiki wants it to have.

    Like I am not lying here if a perk is bugged they will write it how it works in its bugged state to the wiki not caring that its bugged and should not be like that. I once tried to fix one to say how it should work and was told that they take the info from the code itself so its how it is. No info bar or anything to state that the perk was listed in its bugged state because thats how the code makes it work. Made me really not see the site as totally valid information.

  • VibranToucan
    VibranToucan Member Posts: 674
    edited December 2025

    Then why does chain break work for stun tome challenges and Hubris?

  • Orthane
    Orthane Member Posts: 620

    Imo the Hubris one has to be bugged. That definitely does not seem like it should work that way since you're being stunned by a Killer power (your own) not a Survivor.

    As for the Pallet Breaking yeah I agree it would be nice to make sure the wording says "Break a pallet" as in any pallet anyway or "Perform the Break Pallet action" for non-power related perks.