Fool me once BHVR

What they are saying to everyone is that you better not buy any DLC with money because, as good as it might seem, they can nerf it in a few weeks. So yeah, i'm 100% achivements and have all DLC but that's it. If you can't test a perk before launching it, you are telling what kind of work you are doing. It's highly unprofessional to do that on a daily basis.

Purely speculation, but Mettle of Man was really shifty.

1. It came in without any PTB testing. It's the first perk for years that hasn't been OFFICIALLY announced until it's already in the game, and they made no comment on it, or player concerns about it, when it was leaked.
2. It came at a point where they had a SERIOUS drop in consistent players. They'd been testing horrible matchmaking trials that killed off a lot of player enthusiasm, and even when the Plague patch came out those numbers did not recover because the game was in a horrible state for lots of the players. They needed something to draw people back.

In my opinion, I think they knew it was going to be broken and OP, but they pushed it anyway as alongside a licensed character it increased the value of coming back to the game at that time for the survivor side.

Since the matchmaking issues have settled and players are picking back up into regular trends (rather than the big dip we had around that time) I think they feel it's safe to actually fix the broken garbage that is MoM.

All that said, I 100% prefer devs that try something one way or the other and put in effort to change it for better or worse, over those that just stubbornly leave broken stuff broken. Never buy things in a competitive game if you expect balance patches to not touch anything you like just because it's strong.

I bought the DLC for Ash not his perk

I bought this for Ash and Ash alone. I dont run his perks. MoM needs to be looked at, and they have not offically announced how it would be reworked/nerfed/buffed/designed on a etch-a-sketch. Before we go all insane, why not wait until they actually tell us what they will do with it.

he's barley in video games and is actually a film and tv characters

i purchased trAsh for that , never heard about "ash vs evil dead " before.. and i don't really care about it :))) MoM was a nice perk and i wanted it before it coming to shrine

WoW is more about guilds and community, DBD doesn't even have built in chat - Not saying I want killer/survivor communication in matches. But it's a false equivocation. CoD lol, Very minor balancing, not similiar at all, MUCH more variables in DBD. One reason I stopped playing Everquest was because of all the constant nerfing and "balancing".

@HURRI_KAIN

All things being equal balanced games are better than unbalanced games with the more unbalanced a game is the less fun it is to play in the long run. The reason why games tend to be unbalanced in the first place is because:

A: Balance is hard when the game is not perfectly symetric. No I'm not just talking about Killers vs Survivors. But also things like 2 different characters in smash or something.

B: While Balance is important, there are other factors you need to make work first such as the core gameplay loop of any given element.

However neither of those things invalidate the fact that a balanced game is a goal to strive for and that updates that improve balance help.

You mention variety, however an unbalanced game means that even if the options are technically diverse, you will still see the same things used each and every time.

Small game is good against trapper, but trapper sucks so no one runs small game for that. Instead people run perks like Dead hard and Sprint burst to deal with Killers like Hillbilly and Nurse. And all of the uniqueness behind the doctors kit is moot if he is unviable once you get good. remember the skill level of the average player in a game will go up over time, which is why it is more important for a game to be balanced as time goes on.

Imagine if no balance changes had been made since D1 and the only additions were the new content. Everyone would run Sprint Burst, We'll make it, Mettle of Man and Decisive Strike and a medkit while all the Killers would run Ruin, BBQ, Unrelenting and Save the best for last.

BTW that's 150% MS every 20 seconds mid chase for survivors, 6 second self heals after unhooks and when you finally down them they hop off, effectively instaheal (from MoM) and you have to chase them all over again.

Meanwhile the Killer's would have almost no cooldown on hit with no build up required.

BHVR didn't "bait" you say all these things under the idea of maliciousness on their part but in reality the likely story is that they reality they made it and thought it was fine but when they released they realized they ######### up and now their fixing that and thats not even to say that we don't know what their doing to it and it may not even be a Nerf but a rework

Every single online multiplayer game that has ever been released has had updates. Stuff has been buffed and nerfed all over the place, sometimes reworked into something different, and sometimes even removed altogether. If you think this is a ######### business practice, then you should stick with singleplayer titles.

Balancing Op perks and characters isn't ripping you off. Many dlcs from other games go through this. For example: in Warframe there was a character called Limbo, The Legion of the game. Limbo was changed and now is pretty good and not as annoying as he was back in the day. Or Call of Duty when a dlc gun comes out and they nerf it. BHVR is just fixing their crap and dlcs are only 8 bucks so you aren't losing much.

Also if something comes out op then you should expect this. Ghostface will obviously be changed after release, we just don't know how badly.