Blight Has Existed Longer Than Old Dead Hard
According to Google, David released July 27, 2017, and patch 6.1 that changed old dead hard released July 19, 2022, for a total of 1818 days.
Blight released September 8, 2020 and has existed in his busted state for 1997 days and counting.
Just kind of wild to think about.
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Oh, this shold be good! 3 more days and its 2000! THEN we can talk. Sub 2000 days isn't anything to write home about. /s
But why does he need to be changed? If this is what is being prompted.
edit: Actually, disregard the question. I just want to see what others have to say. :)
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If you actually played dbd when blight came out he wasn’t busted at all lmao he was a garbage killer for a long time with his bugged camera and his add ons being useless
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What revisionist history is this? Ruin Undying Tinkerer Blights were a menace as soon as people figured out his power. Plus original speed add ons, ALCH RING, and very strong iri add ons.
The camera placement wasn't a bug, it was intentionally lower as originally designed, to help aim at where you were going to bump into objects if i remember correctly. Raising it was effectively a significant buff though.
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people always point to old dh or take the "modern high road" by pointing to mft and buckle up.
but then they forgot to see that kaneki got to be bugged with kidnap tech (6 months)
bigger vault hitbox (1 month) and biting people through the wall (9 months) without a killswitch or nerfing him to the ground until his rebuff (like they did for dnd vecna or chucky)4 -
No I do remember him having a much lower camera at one point as a result of the devs uploading an earlier build by accident to live lol. Thing is it was only an issue for a couple months and was fixed years ago so it doesn't really matter to get upset about now, but it was definitely not intentional haha
But yeah on the overall point Blight has always been a terror, he's like Nurse in that despite a having a few significant changes over the years the core of his design has always put him in the upper echelon of the cast.
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S tier means broken tier, and should not even exist, i dont understand why some killers are holding the S tier at 2026, and now with the ghoul buff(bugfix) he will get back to his comfortable S tier place as well, do u really think is healthy to have S tier killers? cause i dont.
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Blight is fine. I can count on one hand the number of god-level Blights I’ve ever gone up against. Most of my matches against Blights have been quite fun. He’s not that difficult to counter. I’d take a Blight over Skull Merchant or Legion (boring), Ghoul (still busted OP), Singularity or Pinhead (OP against solo queue) any day.
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Pointing out something being blatantly overpowered for 6 months longer than THE most notoriously hated survivor perk in the game's history isn't rage bait. Its putting into perspective a severe error in balancing. But I appreciate your vast knowledge of forum posts with your….1 comment.
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At least he is not licensed and takes some skill to learn, unlike the recently released licensed killers which are just ez wins out of the box.
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I don't really mind playing against Blights. At least I can respect the time player put into the killer.
He have limitations I know to play around. I will take him over Ghoul any day.I would rework one of his speed addons and make him lose 2 tokens on manual pallet break. Then he is fine imo
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You can fire yourself as a projectile that curves multiple times, with a generous hitbox, and can reload while moving at 4.6 speed. I don't get it.
At least reload the syringe in a locker.
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If I remember right (it was a while ago and soon after I started playing in general) Blight was noticeably weaker on release because of the lower camera, so probably it's more fair to start counting after that update for this comparison?
Either way, it is kind of interesting to think about.
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wasn't playable on console
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- Look, like everyone else, I don't know my MMR. I have 5k in the game... I just know that Blight's minimum skill is decent/good, but often divine. So now my strategy with my SWF is to maximize the hook statuses of all survivors and work the generators like crazy (without healing ourselves). This is the only way we can sometimes escape.🤣
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He was only garbage on the PTB, because this was an old version of Blight.
On Live he was a beast. Even with the old, very low FoV he was an S-Tier Killer. The Add Ons were not garbage either. Even if they nerfed Compound 21 pretty quickly and Adrenaline Vial was his worst Add Ons back then, he had a bunch of really good Add Ons to pick.
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Momo is on his third nearly 2000 game winstreak with Blight. (I was a part of four of those wins!) Maybe he will finally get nerfed when the streak actually reaches 2000 wins in a row. Anything less and he clearly isn't too strong!
but in all seriousness… Can you imagine this sort of absurdity lasting for more than a few weeks in any other game?
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Old blight was still EXTREMELY good. We can't just call blight bad because his collisions were a little stickier than they are now (current collision is just slightly better than release collision). We had old double speed, old Compound 33, old Iri tag, old Alchemist ring and old Compound 21. Sure it was the rarer of the addons but double speed was enough. Even old rat was enough.
PTB blight was bad but still somewhat playable but wasn't his live release.5 -
WASNT PLAYABLE AT ALL THEY DONT KNOW 😭
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Not sure, old DH in 2017 also wasn't the same on release either. It's dodge mechanic was quite wonky and often let to cases were people just were exhausted on the ground back then. That only was fixed in 2021. It also took quite some time until DH for distance was a thing. Most DH for distance discussion really came out in late 2018/2019, if I remember correctly. Only a couple of month after they gave the perk it's own animation.
I would really say that was the time it really became a meta perk. Before that you only saw it ocassionaly and only used by people as intended. To be exhausted on the ground after trying to dodge with it….2 -
It blows my mind that Blight has never ever had a movement speed of 4.4. Everyone and their mother has probably said this already, but it has to be mentioned every time this topic comes up.
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Blight is fine. His kit is extremely well‑designed, and he’s a great example of what a strong, skill based killer should look like.
Every survivor has the potential to be effective at all MMR brackets, but it takes time and practice. The same is true for Blight—if you invest the time and develop the skill, he performs very well at higher levels.The average Blight isn’t that strong, just like the average survivor. Both Blight and the survivor role have high skill ceilings. As survivor skill increases, a skilled Blight player can keep up. That’s how killers should function.
S‑tier killers aren’t “broken”; they’re simply capable of keeping up with top‑tier survivor gameplay. Some players dislike that, but it doesn’t make the killers unbalanced.
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I agree
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Multiple near 2000 winstreaks is more than "keeping up"
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Would it not take 4 world class survivors to beat a world class killer on blight? Aren't these players like the best amongst the best?
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