The Dev philosophy and the PTB.

Since the PTB came out, I've been hitting it hard with my high ranked friends in KYF, with me as the red ranked killer, and them as 4 red ranked survivors. And this is what I've found. It will be long, sorry.

The Dev Philosophy: Killers shouldn't Kill

People are going to jump on me for this. Either cause they want to White Knight for the company they love, or because they're a survivor main with a biased opinion. But what I'm going to state here comes from playtesting with red rank survivor mains.

I should start with the pig, since that's where you can see this philosophy that killers shouldn't kill in action. When the EGC (End Game Collapse) was announced, buzz around the Pig Player Community was that our girl was finally going to be DECENT AT RANK 1. Not OP, by any strech, but she was going to have a strong endgame, something no other killer has without perks. Which would give our girl a unique playstyle, which would make her more fun. At no point did we think she was going to be OP. Why?

1: Once gates are open it becomes MUCH harder to put a survivor down and RBT them. Why? Because they can run out the gate if they are somewhat near it. And if they have people to body for them, escape is almost guaranteed, thanks to the auto aim.

2: RBT timers are long, but shorter then the current extended EGC timer of 4 mins. It also does not take long to get a RBT off. So they would have counter play.

But we didn't expect the Dev philosophy. Not only did they make her traps useless endgame (even more then they were, since the hatch was always a free escape for the trapped person so it made them kinda pointless endgame on the current live patch), they took the pressure off removing traps during the game. If they were just adjusting for the EGC they would have left out the TR extending the time, since that wouldn't help much during their EGC, which kills them if they stay to long.

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The Legion lost their leg.

I will state that I liked the legion before/ in the live patch. He wasn't my favorite (hag is) but I found him fun to play, and since I play him, I knew how to beat him as a survivor. Wasn't hard, bait into pallet, or bait feral frenzy into my Lithe perk. Free escape most of the time, and if he stayed on me, he was losing gens cause the Legion needs to spread dmg and flush gens, which is hard since most maps were to big for him.

Anyways, beside the point. The changes to Legion is pretty much what they did to Freddy. A killer was really good in lower ranks, but bad in higher ranks. People complained he wasn't fun to play against, and BHVR neutered them so people don't use them as much. His Cool Down build is the only really viable thing to run, which was kinda the case to begin with. So they took away all forms of tracking your target from his power, and even blind you when you come out of the power. Not that his CD build would have even been that strong with his current stats, his speed boost is still very loopable, and still super easy to punish if you understand the basics of pathing. Killers shouldn't Kill.

kewl Legion Idea cuz why not:

I mean, they could have allowed him to 'legion out' of his body, and reappear at a gen of his choice as a different member of the group, which would have given him a cool map pressure power that could be used kinda mindgamey. (Ok, he's behind me.. No #########, there was a gen in this loop and he cut me off)

There's a ton more I could go into, but this post is already to long. My playtesting group pretty much all agreed. DBD is back to survivors being the power role. They always were in a way. But now even more then before they dictate the flow of the game, and the points the Killer gets.