9.6.0 Patch Notes Preview

Hello people, of DBD community my name is SNIP

I’ve been playing Dead by Daylight since 2016, and honestly, I think these changes to Blight are terrible. He already had a strong identity and skill ceiling, and these updates feel like they make him less fun and less rewarding to play. Additionally Making Blight 4.4 would hurt his ability to keep up against 

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urvivor Teams. Killer balance should be based on how they perform against competitive survivors, not by weakening them in ways that make them less effective overall. This will also lower player skill expression of the character potentially lowering it pick rate and need learn more about instead of blight feeling fun use he will irritating to play and clucky. also to mention take a decent amount time to master blight and get to a good level unlike Ghoul I. we should be focus on closing gap between Lower killers and A tier killers by buffing the D tiers. I feel that this just another case of nerfing character base on video yt or Momo seven for example look at the Freddy Kruger. Freddy was nerfed before, and then the devs had to buff him back because he was too weak against good survivors and same thing happened with Billy where they introduce a overheat mechanic, it was Hevey nerf to power This undisputed made him became much weaker against good survivors. That why later he got the overcharge mechanic. When killers fall behind at higher levels, buff up so they can stay competitive. Lastly, I love this game, which is exactly why I’m speaking up. I just hope the devas listen to the community with a grain of salt. but seriously Don't do this nerf 

Also to mention that haft A tier killers aren't considered comp level killiers.

I think you and I are more old school gamers. To us, we grew up putting in the time, building the skill, then getting the pay off. I think modern gaming is more about instant gratification. People want it to be easier for themselves, and they struggle to understand that their opponents also want it easier so it's a constant tug of war in pvp.

Completely irrelevant to this discussion but what more do you ppl complaining about ghoul here want? the vault is gone, the exploits are gone, the autoaim is gone. I see you all complaining a lot but there's genuinely been a lot of good changes to this killer.

Unless BHVR buffs dozens of perks that will be left in the trash once they can no longer stack, this will actually kill build diversity further. Players will instead resort to only bring the best haste perk, the best healing perk, etc, and builds will become even more homogenized. Why would I ever use Batteries if it gives me a measly 2.5% haste? I'll just slap on Furtive Chase for the fat haste bonus, and then combine it with the best gen regression perk and the best gen blocking perk.

While it seems their intent is to discourage perk stacking rather than kill the practice altogether, it most likely will reduce the overall number of perks you see in your lobbies.

Those proposed systems would not have been good for the game as a whole. It's my understanding that it was cancelled due to knock on effects and not because of what it was trying to address in the first place. And i support trying to address tunnelling/camping/slugging, just not at the cost of what those systems had.

Fast track is an example of things i think they should focus on because things like this are what contribute to these strategies being optimal. Not the main reason, not even a big one but whilst it's relevant i would like to see it being nipped in the bud which is what seems to be happening. More should be done (to other things in the game) but this is what some are asking for for now.

I am here to discuss design, not reactions.

I am a little scared about the diminishing returns system. As it was prestented I feel like it's direct nerf to survivior side.
I feel like the only gen related perks that this will affect are CoB + Overchange combo, which isn't so strong anymore.

Healing builds are dead, gen jockey builds are dead (unless you bring all the skill-check perks), speed builds are dead.
Getting most value of speed build is hard on both sides.
This destroys build variety and doesn't change the meta at all.

Seeing teammates build is a big step into reducing the gap between SWF and solo queue, that is very important and good change and I love that.

I love the blight and nurse nerfs. I am really happy that those killers are finally getting some attention - we asked for it for a long time. I wish we could adress nurse more. I wish to see Ghoul changes too.

Changes to dredge, unknown, ghostface and demogorgon really make me happy! I love playing those killers.
Wesker changes are weird to me, he is in a good spot.
Tho I am sad that his "techs" are being deleted. This was the killer that had visible skill ceiling.

I noticed this too. It seems like the devs come up with some change that is objectively good, and then react to content creator noise like politicians would. And the loudest content creators are of course predominantly killer mains that go on massive win streaks while creating propaganda videos about how they're the victims of survivor sided game balancing.

It's not that they're killer issues, it's that killers are a minority but are louder, and the popular CCs are mostly killer mains, and that loud minority keeps gettig their way. You never see the same level of hyperbolic reactions when survivors get nerfs or killers get buffs. Complaints, yes, but not with the same intensity of screeching entitlement. If it was equal, and you saw videos with titles like "survivor is dead" and "why I'll quit survivor if this goes through" then at least the drama would be equally stupid. But it isn't, and the squeaky wheel keeps getting the oil. That is my problem with this company, and this playerbase.

Survivors get a lot of things that i think that you don't acknowledge because they aren't widely discussed or complained about. This is either because they are strong but not problematic or require advanced level play to get value from. And both of things mean any complaints about them won't gain traction

I'm not sure what strong thing survivors have that I don't have to here complaints about everyday. Exhaustion? Basekit BT? Gen perks? Healing perks? Chase perks? Holding W at a slower base speed than killers?

And why shouod things only be valuable for great players? And only for one side? Most players aren't 10k hour pros.

For him to be fun to play against, I want you to sit down and play multiple matches against him and tell me it's "Fun".

The hyper mobility is the issue paired with the stupid anti loop he has, none of these "Changes" affect those who are good at him, it only came after those who are bad at killer.

People have made plenty of good feedback posts/videos about these topics that you can find if you look for them

When do survivors get nerfed and killers get buffs at a basekit level? The last time that happened which was both at the same time was 6.1.0 and the community was flooded with the idea that killers were overbuffed then.

Aura customization? Please tell me I can change aura colors I will reinstall the game so fast, I've had to deal with eruption's aura reading being essentially useless for too long with gen and survivor colors both being red.

You can currently do that already. You can change killer, survivor, hooked/downed survivor, generators, hooks, pallets and window vaults auras currently they are in the options under "beta". They are adding more of them in the PTB.

DS is overrated, probably because it used to be better and a bunch of "comp" players with massive egos hyped it up. Going into a match you only have 25% chance of being the target of a hard tunnel. So thats already 75% of your matches where you probably won't even use it. Then even if you do, depending on the situation it is often not going to change the outcome. Better to run a perk that provides consistent value every single match.

And yes, most* killer mains have simply moved the goal posts for years now and deny objective data showing how killer-sided the game really is. Now I understand the devs want it this way, because after all its a "horror" game, but the gaslighting from killer mains is pretty obnoxious. That makes me think, if the devs want to aim for a killer-sided balance target for the sake of horror, why wouldn't they also keep the horror aspects of legacy Dead by Daylight, like darker maps and limited aura reading? Its become an X Ray vision game of tag on bright maps, that is balanced heavily in favor of the chaser.

Who are you even talking to, to tell you they have fun. Were you even watching the community stream? LOL yes a lot of people cling to ghoul like yourself, but lots despise them too, saying one side doesnt exist because of one person is ignorance.

You play against a dissolution or blood favor ghoul over and over, tell me its fun.