What did you do to Wesker?

The problem I have with this is that most of these things were only possible on pc.

That is a myth. All the techs are also doable on console. Some of them are a bit harder while others are easier.

Mandy please make it so everything that was changed is possible to do on console as well!

My honest guess is that they intended to ignore it just to gut him but just like with Xeno the backlash got so severe they had to adjust.

I love playing as wesker, this update essentially would destroy him for me. Not just his techs but also his input buffer, it makes him feel so sluggish to use and frustrating. They are going WAY too hard on this restructure of his code. The dev team should ask themselves, is it worth the time and effort to destroy what keeps wesker players coming back to DBD in the first place if it causes a domino effect of erasing beloved techs? BHVR should take note of what players love. As one of the commenters above says, if they're going to take what matters from me, removing a big part of wesker's kit, then I'm going to take what matters from BHVR. My time and money. I'm glad to hear that it may become a proper part of his kit. I hope it is all retained. But this shouldn't be a "maybe".

It's just so sad, because, the DBD team is so quick to say "don't freak out, it's only the PTB!!!" when it is literally ONE MORE UPDATE, from going live. You wake up tomorrow, and it may be updated to live, bugs and all. There's nothing you can do until they get their next update slot. It feels like compared to the dbd community at large nobody knows about these incoming changes, and it scares me there will not be enough complaints until it goes live and ruins wesker's extremely fun kit. This isn't like minecraft snapshots, you can't just roll back versions. It's funny because it "fixes" wesker from a casual standpoint, a noobie isn't going to see the QOL wesker used to have, at first glance nothing is wrong, but they also won't be able to master him when that time comes beyond point dash A → B, and hope, it utterly destroys his depth and QOL.

The most hilarious part in all this is that on the same exact patch they're shadow nerfing wesker but shadow buffing ghoul all from "bug fixes", for "consistency", a killer literally everyone hates, like what!? BHVR, with all due respect, where are your priorities? you didn't even fix ghoul's other critical bug, the leapnel and animation bugs with it, you made it even more accessible to perform the animation bug at will at any time and removed Ghoul's only counterplay, it's like the damn pallet density "QOL" changes all over again. Like, why is it the dev team don't even know if vaulting back into the killer is intended counterplay? An administrator dev, community manager, said "maybe the counterplay is not clear enough for some survivors etc things like the revault" yet it's been patched out on ghoul, and you can still do the revault to wesker! utterly unfair!

It is bizarre to me how they don't consult with any wesker veterans or players who know about these techs and enjoy them who will tell you, this is a huge part of what makes wesker fun. Removing his techs is the equivalent of sanitizing his gameplay. It's like they don't want wesker to have nuance. It's upsetting, because I'm learning techs that are fun yet extremely hard to pull off and master, even with the stranger things update that made it easier, and all of that could essentially be removed in the coming update, and he will be left a shell of what he was for no reason. I am left in a limbo where my favorite killer could get gutted the next time I log on with only a "mmm, maybe we'll retain it if we can fit it in" Like I'm sorry dev team I'm sure you're trying your best but that kinda hurts. I love playing wesker…If you can't fit it in, then you should roll his commits back for another time. I am serious about this.

I feel like for making such massive changes, a chapter/update dedicated to fixing wesker's unwanted bugs with full *transparency*, and listening to what people want to stay in his kit would be more appropriate, than a quick and sloppy restructure of his current code from a chapter that isn't even his own, even if it technically makes throws more consistent. Lobotomizing his gameplay is not worth the trade off and introduces a ton of other bugs, such as survivors not getting boost from slams and slams becoming more buggy in general, so we're trading one thing for another anyway and ending up worse off. Missing a throw due to jank occasionally feels bad, but not being able to rebound and missing his triple buffer I will feel, every time. Wesker has never really been among players most disliked killers, so should be quite low priority. Changing a majority of his code for no other reason than it will register some throws slightly better even if it's into a state that players will like even less is not how dbd's team should be doing things.

I also find it hypocritical that other killers that are stronger than him get buffed, and survivor "techs" never get erased from the game, such as the "crouch tech", but a killer like wesker that is now B (or C?) tier is now getting massively shadow nerfed, again all in the name of "consistency". Being able to get the killer to slide off of you to avoid a chainsaw hit by simply being on lower elevation and crouching makes perfect sense. said "crouch tech" going 9 years strong btw. Same for managing bloodlust and being able to shift tech a window to make an infinite.

Please don't let these changes go to live, unless you worked out the current issues before. If you can't work that out in time, leave Wesker as he is. He is my favorite killer to play as and against and even if it is annoying to miss an occasional grab, having no input buffering completely ruins his gameplay and will affect me at every dash. It's so necessary to have this for his power to work properly.

Rebounding also is a fundamental mechanic on how he can be played in certain loops, every Wesker player needs this and learns this early on, without even touching his fancier techs.

Right now, Wesker feels like he had been given a lobotomy. If these changes make it to live even for a while without proper rework, people will drop the character, maybe even the game. For me, I will spend significantly less time and money on DBD if you destroy my main killer like that.

As people said before, no one requested drastic changes to Wesker, he is balanced and his techs are a really exciting form of skill expression for a whole community of Wesker players. Please don't take that from us!