Suggestions to Enhance DBD’s Core Gameplay Balance

I would like to clarify a number of misunderstandings you have about this patch.

1. Survivor items were not broadly buffed — they were nerfed.

More specifically: med-kits and toolboxes were nerfed, flashlights remained unchanged, and maps/keys/fog vials were buffed.

Self-healing is one of the most important mechanics for survivors.
Killers who aim for a late-game strategy generally try to completely shut down the survivors’ ability to heal so that they cannot meaningfully participate in the match.

As a result, reliable self-heal is practically mandatory for survivors.
Unfortunately, they have only two ways to obtain stable self-healing:

1. Run Self-Care + Botany Knowledge (or Desperate Measures)
2. Bring a med-kit

Using two perk slots just to heal takes away the freedom to run other fun perks, so naturally most survivors choose med-kits.

2. About toolboxes — the current version is far stronger than you think.

Current toolboxes, especially the “blue toolbox” setup, synergize extremely well with skill-check perks because the skill-check frequency skyrockets from 8% to 40%. This allows survivors to end the game before the killer can even apply meaningful strategy, just like strong med-kit setups.

In the current meta, it is fair to say that 4 out of 4 survivors bring either med-kits or toolboxes.
Maps are simply substitutes for Windows of Opportunity, and keys are substitutes for BOND—none of them remotely compete with med-kits or toolboxes in actual gameplay value.

3. Comparing current med-kits vs. the nerfed med-kits I proposed

Current meta med-kit builds use:

• +16 charges
• +15% great skill check bonus

This allows survivors to self-heal twice in about 20 seconds each.

Under the proposed nerfs:

• The max charge cap prevents more than two heals
• Healing takes ~30 seconds for two self-heals
  → This is a clear nerf compared to live servers.

Strong purple/red add-ons are also nerfed with charge penalties, often restricting survivors to a single heal.

4. Comparing current toolboxes vs. the nerfed toolboxes

Current toolbox meta uses:

• +12 charges
• +30% repair speed
  → Repairs a 90-second generator in ~70 seconds, plus
  → +32%/s increased skill-check rate = ~7+ extra skill checks
  → Final effective repair time: ~63 seconds

Under my nerfs:

• Total charges increased
• Repair speed reduced to +25%
  → “Raw” repair time is ~72 seconds (similar to now)
• Skill-check rate nerfed from +32%/s → +8%/s
  → Only about 5 extra skill checks
  → Strong synergy with HYPERFOCUS (and other SC-based perks) is significantly reduced
  → Average effective repair time becomes ~67 seconds

This is unquestionably a nerf, not a buff.

5. The Destruction Token system does not incentivize tunneling — it discourages it.

This patch weakens camping/tunneling in three ways:

1. Survivor hook stage timer increased from 70 → 75 seconds
2. Speed boost after unhook extended to 30 seconds
3. Every time a survivor dies, remaining survivors gain global action speed increases

All of these significantly reduce the reward killers get for tunneling or camping.

On the killer side, this patch finally rewards roaming.
The first perk that ever encouraged killers to leave the hook was POP GOES THE WEASEL.
When this perk was meta, did killers camp?
No — they left the hook to apply pressure.
This is why I believe POP GOES THE WEASEL’s effect should be incorporated into the basekit.

If a killer hooks survivors eight times, they can regress generators by a total of 120%, which is strong and healthy gen control without tunneling.

6. Regarding the most controversial part: survivor action speed when teammates die

Survivor action speed increases by +20% / +50% / +100% depending on deaths.
Because of this, I adjusted gate opening times accordingly:

• With 4 survivors alive → Gate opening is now 30 seconds instead of 20
• Last survivor alone → Gate opening becomes 15 seconds

You also mentioned gates lighting up too fast.
This is why I changed the indicator thresholds from 25/50/75% → 1/33/66%.

Originally, killers had ~15 seconds to notice the first light.
Under my change, this timing remains identical — killers still have ~15 seconds to react.

7. What about generator repair speed increases after deaths?

+100% only applies when one survivor remains, so let’s ignore that for realistic matches.
The meaningful effects are:

• 3 survivors alive → ~75-second gens
• 2 survivors alive → ~60-second gens

Would killers tunnel early to remove someone right away?
No.
Because killers want to fully benefit from the basekit POP GOES THE WEASEL system, they will spread hooks instead.
Realistically, a survivor will die after about 7–8 hooks, at which point 1–2 generators will remain.

Let’s compare:

Is it faster for 4 survivors to repair five gens,
or for 4 survivors to repair 6.2–6.5 gens, then speed up only at the very end?

They are roughly equal.

This means the patch reduces 3-gen stalling, a major issue in the current game.
With this system, even the 8-regression limit could realistically be removed.

8. The Bamboozle “nerf” is not a nerf

Because the base window vault speed was buffed from 1.7 → 1.6 seconds,
Bamboozle going from +15% → +10% still results in:

• Previously: 1.47s vault
• Now: 1.45s vault

So the perk is not weakened in practice.

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