If you were a developer for a day, what changes would you make?
If you were a developer for a day, and you could make any change to the game that you please (without breaking 5 other things), what changes would you make to the game?
Personally, I would revert the hatch spawn changes so that the hatch will only spawn for the last survivor after 3 gens have been completed, I would put a 30-60 second delay on the hatch spawning/opening if a survivor disconnects to give another survivor the hatch, and I would give Freddy Dream Pallets as his base power (I don't like the idea of having a power completely changed through add-ons), as well as giving him a terror radius in the Dream World.
Share your changes below.
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I'd add my scarecrow killer which would actually add more jumpscares to the game lol (imagine coming around a corner to what you think is an unoccupied body only to realize its the real deal using insidious its a double jump, one when you see him and one when he actually moves and hits you lol
I would add a text filter in the post game chat to prevent salt and toxicity to spread in the game.
I would probably buff Pig, she deserve it the most after her EGC nerf.
Hide survivors' names, appearance and items.
Buff Iron Maiden, screw everybody it needs a buff I don't care about your opinions on a ######### perk that benefits 2 Killers when everyone should be able to use it effectively.
Make it show Auras and increase the Exposed timer, the 15 seconds is ######### and cannot be capitalized on. The Location thing is cool and makes sense because they got ''injured'' but it isn't good enough to be a strong perk and don't say not all perks need to be strong well perks shouldn't be made to be weak on everyone but 2 Killers.
Or change the perk completely, I hate when we get perks named to be something and then not have the appropriate effect. ######### when you step into an Iron Maiden you get stabbed with Spikes yo, make it Break a Survivor for 15 seconds and then they can heal themselves, keep the Location and that's fine too. At least this way you have a perk named after something dangerous and actually have an effect that's dangerous.
I would buff / rework following perks:
I would nerf / changed following perk:
I would add Purple Guy from Five nights at freddy’s
I would make the perk grind excessively more reasonable and player-friendly, since that is the game's #1 problem.
i'd probably collaborate with the other developers into finding out a good way to balance m1 killers (adjusting speeds, lunges, powers, etc.) in hopes of accommodating some of the main issues.
I would make an option to remove the chasing music
I'd bring in a code review process, making the coding modular and removing spaghetti from the menu.
I would refactor the code base to be more stable and modular so I can add/fix features in the future without breaking code, that has apparently nothing to do with the fix.
It seems as the code of the game grew and the initial design does not hold for the complexity it has now...
i would revert the graphic changes
Bye bye moris
Lol then can we also say bye bye isnta's?
Only one wish, sorry
Pig pig pig pig PIIIIIIIIG.
I'd also probably do something about Moris, Keys, and insta-heals.
These are usually fun. Pinning this for a while.
Nerf Billy and nurse and bring back old ds
For 72 hours i would lock all perks, addons, offerings and have a 72 hour double bloodpoint event.
(1) Make WGLF give a stack for healing.
(2)Rework most of LF’s add ons
(3) Increase LF’s speed while chainsawing slightly
(4) Remove perk tiers.
Remove all unfun add-ons and offerings for both sides as I personally feel they ruin the game at times.
Add Regan MacNeil as a killer
Revert the pallet omega buffs introduced with the dreaded patch 1.1.1.
Mostly QOL stuff really.
I would change and buff Legion of course
For survivors:
Increase the pain noise reduction of No Mither to 100% when standing.
Change Mettle of Man to require 5 hits of any kind to become active.
Buff No One Left Behind to increase your altruistic action speed by 6% for each generator completed.
Increase the action speed increase of Resilience to 10% (why is it 9%??)
Buff Flip Flop to convert your recovery progress to wiggle progress at a 1:1 ratio instead of a 2:1 ratio. The max conversion is still 50%.
For killers:
Change Spirit's prayer beads addon to only reduce the radius survivors can hear the whooshing sound by 16m.
Buff Fire Up to also affect missed attack and successful attack cooldowns.
Increase the amount of traps the Trapper can carry by default to 2.
Increase the base distance of hag's teleport by 8m.
Increase the movement speed and action speeds of feral frenzy to the values before the rework.
Make the Wraith's uncommon windstorm addon baseline.
I would make sure there is at least one 2x BP weekend each month. Come on BHVR do it.
Remove moris and keys.
Add BT and Ruin to the surv/killer base kits.
love this daydream.
Remove all rare and ultra rare addons and offerings for both sides. No insta heals, no moris, none of it.
Decrease bloodweb grind
Test out new game modes with a community stream where you all would get to watch the devs play these modes against one another.
I would add a small, but mandatory second objective before gens could be completed. Such as finding a gas can to fill them up. As in you can work on gens, fully repair them, but they won't power the doors until they have fuel. Probably make one can enough for all 5 gens. Something to slow down the game so it isn't 7 minutes long.
The only changes I'm not 100% sure about are Doctor buffs #6 and #7 because they're more than just a number change or making part of an add-on baseline. I'm not sure how long it would take to implement them (I'd prioritize changing the Order add-ons over fixing the illusions though).
Implement my Doctor buffs:
I'd also do some really short and probably easy number/status effect changes too. Most of the day would be for buffing Lord Herman though.
If i were a dev...
First, I would add bond as part of the survivor basekit and remove the ultra rare syringe addon. Next, I'd give killers the ability to rebuild totems and make thrill of the hunt a basekit ability. After that, I would remove Deep Wounds from Legion's kit entirely and transition them to an on hit effect killer. Then, I'd removed hooks from the game and replace it with a more dynamic gameplay mechanic and add secondary parts hunting objectives for survivors. I'd remove mori offerings and make the kills a natural part of the killer's gameplay.
I would introduce a game mode where survivors are able to respawn if killed and have to traverse a multisection map by doing a series of smaller objective. I'd also revert the changes to killer instinct. I find those offset to be unnecessary and misleading. I a firm believer in accurate information i.e. if the play is supposed to know something they should know it with proper accuracy. Offsetting the pulse is obfuscation for obfuscation sake and doesn't feel good to me in practice. Its like a nitpick change rather than something useful.
I'd also want to revisit a lot of neutral perks and give them buffs. Most neutral perks are very middling or down right useless relics. I'd also would think about adding more neutral perks and maybe a couple of perks that crossed the killer/survivor lines. I'd would also give killers the same hook swivel as survivors, but in exchange I would implement a system change to if a killer is hard camping a survivor will be ejected from the hook with Borrowed Time. Lore wise it could be explained as the Entity not approving of the killer not doing their job of keeping it entertained. Mechanically, this should put a stop to mid and early game hard camping scenarios. During the endgame phase i.e. all gens completed the hook ejection would cycle off as now the entity no longer wants to be entertained. It just wants to feed.
Make keys not spawn in chests.
Make moris base kit after 2 hooks.
Killers with instadowns not punished for using their powers.
Make a game mode where voice chat is ban worthy or could be heard by killer from a certain distance, (impossible i know but we're dreaming right?)
Make all 4man blendette groups auto lose on swamp and cornfields lol
Fix Bubba.
Make an add on for huntress that shows hatchet path like gears of wat grenades
I would bring all mid tier killers to billy level. Especially buff ghostface and legion.
So I just realized we’d only be a dev for one day so we’d have to do small changes. 😅
Id MaKe A BaTtLe RoYaLe GaMeMoDe!!
*Killer changes*
Make slight buffs to certain killers. Not so much that it's game breaking, but enough to feel as though it made a difference. For example I would remove the slowdown while doc is in treatment mode, but keep the slowdown when he goes for a shock.
Make ruin have more consistent skill checks, or make skill checks more consistent in general. Potentially make ruin base kit since it's pretty much needed. It would still be a totem, it just wouldn't take up a perk slot.
Change insidious so that the killer is unable to down someone for the next 10 seconds after "re-appearing" they're only able to injure survivors.
Give players the ability to toggle off auto lock.
Allow killer to place survivors on the hooks at any angle (hook swivel).
Give killers the ability to interact with a totem making it change locations with a dull totem. It would take at least 5-10 seconds to do so. It would show an animation where the entity's claws appear, grabs the totem and pulls it down, then the totem it was switched with slowly rises from the ground.
*General changes*
Work on some perks so player feel more inclined to use other perks so there aren't so many meta builds.
*Survivor changes*
Make it so no Mither gives bonus BP for chases. Almost no one leaves NM players on the floor, so the ability to self revive constantly is useless.
Make kindred base kit (sort of). Survivors can't see each other, but if a killer stays within 10m of the hook for 5-10 seconds all survivors can see their aura.
Make it so if a killer camps around a hook for 30+ seconds borrowed time becomes a base kit perk. Killers must leave the hook for 20-30 seconds to counter it to prevent killers from walking out of range just to walk back instantly. (Also counters killers who are able to hide their terror radius.)
*I'll probably edit this later on because my mind went blank while making this. There was a lot more I wanted to add for survivors the I seemed to have forgotten*
I would force mori users to wear a dunce cap for the next 5 games.
Remove the ability to DC from matches, it serves literally no purpose outside of sometimes being funny.
Remove Hex: Devour Hope's 2-Token bonus.
Replace it with the mechanic to not have the Hex be applied to a Dull Totem until you get 1/2/3 Tokens.
Hex Totems don't make loud fire noises that make you think an entire tree is on fire.
Survivors affected by Blindness can't see the Red Stain (mindgames ahoy) and Hex Totems will look like Dull Totems.
Change Wraith's "All Seeing" - Spirit Add-on to be Very Rare. (And change its name to avoid confusion with the already-existing "All Seeing" - Blood.)
In turn, change "Shadow Dance" - Blood to be Rare.
In turn, change "Shadow Dance" - White to be Uncommon.
In turn, change Bone Clapper to be Common.
In turn, make "The Hound" - Soot part of his base kit.
Make a new Ultra Rare that makes him completely invisible at all times while cloaked.
Increase Wraith's movement speed from 126.5% to 150% while cloaked.
The amount of Player Level Experience you get from Emblems will no longer be a set amount, and will instead multiply the Player Level Experience gained from that match by specific amounts depending on your earned Emblems, with the multiplier's maximum being x2.
Full outfits will NEVER be more expensive than actual characters.
You can now buy exact amounts of Auric Cells, but only whole Auric Cells, so no 500.24 Auric Cells for example.
Getting Devotion allows you to either unlock a cosmetic item for free (no combinations nor whole outfits allowed), or your Bloodpoint count gains 1,000,000 * Devotion.
You can select what you want, though if you SOMEHOW have all cosmetic items, it'll give you BP automatically.
Oh, and of course the added BP will bypass the usual BP cap.
Uhh, i guess that's it for now.
Revert the Momentum change they made to the vaults so I can't get hit through the window. :)
Clown base reload time= yellow add-on.
Extra bottles increase reload time.
Flask Of Bleach baseline.
Tattoo's Middle Finger= direct bottle hits invert survivor controls.
Clown can inhale his gas and gain speed equal to 2 PWF stacks on a 30 second cooldown.
I would want to take a look at hexes and totems. First I'd try to implement better hiding locations for totems, and make it so they can't spawn within a certain distance of generators. I'd give a slight rework to Huntress's Lullaby so survivors don't get notified to it's existence until the effects actually become active. Might consider making it so totems don't even become lit up until their effects become active (like Third Seal, Devour Hope), but I'm not too sure about that one.
Role queue
Legion doesn't have to be reworked, legion must be buffed. How? Make the frenzie longer, faster, and make the ment longer
Work to get this killer, survivor and perks added to the game:
Make Mori's un-cancel-able, add much needed Gore to mori animations for regions that can support/handle it (this is an M rated Horror game after all), and create alternative mori animation packs that can be sold as DLC or for Auric Cells. That way Killer players can pick and choose which mori animation they will be using in game or choose to have the game pick a mori they have for a character at random just to add a little variety.
Add 5 Perk load-out slots for killers and survivors in the load-out UI to save their favorite builds to so that changing builds is just a button click away.
Add this Shared Offering to the game:
Tarnished Trophy (VR)
Gain a 10% bonus in Blood Points for every rank you've achieved.
Bonus blood points awarded at the end of the trial.
Personal.
"They're the best in their field. Simple as that! That's why they get to live the good life." - Meg Thomas
(Note: not sure if its clear enough the way I Wrote it, but basically at the end of the trial it calculates how many points you earned in the trial and then applies a 10% bonus x whatever Rank you are. So the maximum it can give you is 10%x 20 ranks = 200% if you have reached rank 1, 150% at rank 5, and 100% bonus at rank 10 etc. So its an offering that makes rank matter by potentially rewarding more BP than any other BP offering does, but only at ranks higher than 10, otherwise its about the same as the others.)
Finally, Either make it so killers instantly regress generators by 10% each time they kick them to start regression, or have it so that a survivor has to work against the regression on a generator for 5 seconds before it'll stop regressing. This is to discourage the tap and run tactics this game has had ever since the introduction of the generator regressing mechanic. Survivors have all kinds of perks, items and add-on's that make repairing generators faster while rendering regression moot, and even if the killer brings in a perk or add-on specifically to counter these, they will always be fighting a losing battle against "Tap and run" survivors which doesn't feel balanced.