2023 is looking really good so far!
Damn, this dev update blog was amazing. I think I have nothing to complain or debate about if it is a good change or not.
Solo Q buffs, yes! Nurse nerfs, hell yea, finaly! She will still be the best killer in the game but not so broken anymore. Knight buffs are nice since they promote different playstyle and let you finaly hide the orb. Interesting to try them out.
Map rework sounds good and many QoL stuff sounds great as well!
Overall, super healthy and great patch devs! Good job.
Comments
I'm hoping there's more that hasn't been discussed in the blog, like perk changes (namely Eruption), but I'm optimistic.
She'll still be the best killer is a very big issue. Her ability is still putting every other killer in the dust bin by a very large margin.
Killer POWER DISPARITY (aka Killer vs Killer) is just as Important as Survivor vs Killer. Will you still play Trapper if you're in Tournament? No! And why? Because Trapper's chances of winning are slim compared to Nurse's and you want to win so yeah you'll still play Nurse.
Nurse needs to not exist so every other killer can be improved upon. Nurse needs to not exist so BHVR can see how SWF's and good survivors outside of SWF's are trashing every other imaginable killer.
The more and more killers we get the more the gap increases between killers. Instead of there being 4 or 5 killers between Trapper and Nurse now there's 20 something and the reality is Nurse is stil the best and Trapper is still the worst with 2 very big things in between tho which is Trapper is now worse than 20 more other killers and Nurse is better than 20 more other killers.
Regarding the new survivor hud icons they can be a good change if people learn how to use them, that's the issue. Giving free information and call it a solution is wrong because it depends on how people use it.
Real world example, The Internet exists and provides access to virtually everything yet there's so manny uneducated and ignorant people. Same thing will happen regarding Hud Icons for Survivors UNLESS THEY ARE TAUGHT HOW TO USE THEM.
And rather than watching Youtube and Streams to learn that, THE GAME ITSELF NEEDS TO BE THE FIRST PLACE TO TEACH IT'S PLAYERS HOW TO PLAY. That's something BHVR has not done for a very long time and what has happened? You have players who literally follow tubers and streamers religiously and only play whatever way those guys play, which is why you have the META that you have today. This gen rush/gen slowdown META exists because people follow those streamers and youtubers because BHVR FAILED AND TEACHING THEIR PLAYERSWHT IS IMPORTANT and because BHVR made very bad decision in designing the game and then implemented systems like MMR and SWF which are very GRESSIVE system for the core game they started out with.
I don't wanna rain on your parade but be thoughtful and careful about your enthusiasm for these changes. I very much doubt it change anything at all. The skill required to play is the same low level therefore you're only attracting low skill players and thus the SoloQ troubles will continue cause people will not know how to use the tools they were given. Killer disparity will remain the same and the Meta isn't going anywhere, so pretty much 99.9% of the game is staying as is in my eyes.