The Judgment release is completely unplayable / Worst Killer launch to date
Dear Behaviour Interactive team,
I am writing to express my immense frustration with the release of the new Killer, The Judgment. Plainly speaking, this is hands down the worst and most unbalanced Killer launch in the entire history of Dead by Daylight.
The design choices for this Killer make zero sense from a balancing perspective:
- Instant Damage + Passive Debuff: Giving a Killer a mechanic that inflicts immediate damage and instantly imposes a repair penalty is completely overtuned. If a Killer can apply a repair debuff on hit, they should strictly require at least two hits to down or damage a Survivor.
- Zero Skill Ceiling Global Attack: A global ranged attack that deals area-of-effect (AoE) damage with single-hit lethality—and requires virtually no mechanical effort or skill from the Killer side—completely breaks the core game loop.
- Survivor Retention Impact: The current state of the game is miserable. In almost every single match against The Judgment, all three teammates disconnect immediately, leaving remaining players stranded in a doomed match against an unbeatable kit.
Releasing a Killer with global AoE lethality and heavy progression slowdown without proper counterplay makes it feel like the goal is to drive players to uninstall the game.
This Killer urgently requires a hotfix redesign: remove the instant damage on the global attack or rework the repair penalty mechanics to require setup and proper hit registration. The current state is completely ruining the live game experience.
Comments
aint no way bro take two steps to the left
Bro thinks basic WASD fixes flawed game design. Just admit you need a free win machine and move on.
I'm an 80/20 survivor player bro Judgement just isnt that good when they're being played from an uninteractive standpoint, you can dodge the beams pretty easily when they're throwing them at gens and it takes much more skill than someone like Vecna (The First) to land their ranged ability against actively moving survivors…
I dunno skull merchant release will hold the crown for awhile for me.
Close second being ghoul simulator survivors had to endure for months after he came out.
meanwhile im hardly versing Judgment not even a week after she launched