Eight Months Later, New Year - No Decisive Strike Rework Progress Update. Talk to us, BHVR.
Sorry for kicking off the 2019 New Year with a Decisive Strike thread. I know, there's so many of these threads out there but it is widely accepted among both Killers and Survivors alike that the perk is overpowered, right?
It's been eight entire months since the developers said they were planning on changing Decisive Strike, and six months since they had the idea about making it stun-only.
As far as I know there have been no more progress updates regarding it.
Approx. 8 Months Ago - May 4, 2018 - The original proposed idea, to make DS activate on a button press but apply Broken to a Survivor for the rest of the trial.
Video here;
https://clips.twitch.tv/SoftFitStinkbugDuDudu
This idea was a damn good one by the developers, but it was binned because it "didn't go through", whatever that meant. Maybe BHVR believed it was too punishing that a Survivor would be unable to heal themselves for the rest of the game after using the perk? Perhaps it was the outcry of the less desirable side of the DBD community? Or perhaps it was bias. I don't care what the reasoning was, in all fairness.
If this came to the live build, Survivors would have had to be smarter in using their DS on the Killer. Use it too early, you're gonna have a bad time, but if you used it at the right time - say, if the gates were open - you would have played well enough to be able to escape.
However this still makes Decisive Strike remain exactly how it is - a 'get out of jail free' card. This would have still allowed a Survivor to get out for free, but even more so than before as a Survivor could use it to get straight out of the gate when they're powered and opened, rendering the Broken status effect worthless in the cases where its use would become the majority.
Approx 6 Months Ago - June 21, 2018 - The most recently proposed idea, where DS only stuns but doesn't drop.
This was a terrible idea, but it's the most recent change BHVR showed to the community regarding potential changes to Decisive Strike. Are they still working on adding this, literally six months later? Or have they scrapped it?
I don't think this should ever have been thought of, it's that bad of an idea. What this would have done was totally neuter solo players but made it almost no different for SWF players.
Essentially what Decisive Strike would have done, was stun the Killer in place for a few seconds after the Survivor succeeds the Skill Check. The Survivor could still wiggle and progress the bar while the Killer was stunned, but the stun also would have make the Killer vulnerable to a flashlight blind or a pallet drop with less stress on the time constraint. A solo Survivor would have no other Survivors around to do either of those when Decisive Strike is used.
But a Survive With Friends group would be co-ordinated enough to do it - if a Killer manages to dodge a flashlight blind on pickup, a blind after the DS stun would have the Survivor they carried be dropped. It would have essentially become a SWF-only perk.
There was talk about making it so only the Obsession could break free immediately, while non-Obsession Survivors only applied the temporary stun, but the same problem as normal would have persisted as it'd make no different for a Survive With Friends group.
Today - It's now the 1st of January 2019 (in most of the world), and there has been no word since June 21 as far as I know about changes to Decisive Strike. The only other thing we knew about the June 21 stream idea, was that it was 'Not Included in Mid-Chapter patch'.
It is now two or three entire chapters later and there still has been nothing regarding Decisive Strike.
Can we get an official word about this from BHVR themselves, or by anyone who knows what's going on regarding the perk's rework? All of us want to know, Killers and Survivors alike.
It has been eight months since the devstream, six months since the stun-only idea, and nothing else has been mentioned since.
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Yeah those are annoying but hopefully once they get the new mods in action it won't be such a big issue. I just wish they'd do what League did and allow a right click report option without opening the thread. That way the threads get flagged without getting the views they're after.
I saw another discussion about having to complete a Captcha to be able to post a new topic on the forums as well. I think that should be done as well, as an extra layer of anti-spam.
Edit: Speak of the god damn devil, they literally just now started spamming above me as soon as I made this comment lmao
Yeah it starts just after 5pm PST because they know that's when most people are off work so time to start flagging spam posts again.