Tamo

I know many will complain or just simply try to say there's not enough switch players to worry about it but the reality is they've still been playing & are still a part of the community. The updates to come scare me because although I don't play on switch I have friends that do, they will not only be likely unable to play anymore but they will be completely shunned out of the game entirely because no decision to make a switch 2 version or port has or seems to be happening & the update will make the game redundant on Switch.

This is happening with a lot of things not just DbD where if you want to play something you're basically being told to buy an entire other piece of hardware, with all the kit for it, then the game plus dlc. It's maddening.

It really does need addressing, I know these updates are supposed to be a bit of a ways off still yet but it needs saying that some platforms will now be unable to play & why. I personally think it needs to be taken into account that people will still play on switch 2 if the option was there. Please listen Bhvr

in Switch 2 version Comment by Tamo June 27, 2026

Matchmaking locked & derank from iri1 as well btw. Seriously what the hell!? It was literally a server outage. Not me, not anyone in the lobby.

in Server outage every game right now!? Comment by Tamo June 25, 2026

@Valuetown said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4084255#Comment_4084255
Most builds just feel terrible now because there's no concrete way to calculate on the fly what percentage increase or decrease a stat will apply, and the game does not show you until your build works in game.
I understand that this change was a way to mitigate stacking stats so that a new perk edition wouldn't facilitate having to rebalance other perks, but most of the time if you stack enough perks for something like healing for instance, you are lacking in other areas such as gen progression and are probably also lacking any second chance perks. This means a player has a clear strength, but also a clear weakness.
Ultimately, reverting the whole system feels like the right call. Only applying diminishing returns on some actions and not others feels bad in theory. Personally I want at least the recovery speed stacking to be reverted, I like to occasionally combo no mither + unbreakable + conviction + soul guard to attract the killer's attention for as long as possible. The diminishing returns makes it increasingly difficult to get off conviction, which already has a ticking timer on it.
I think at the end of the day, I think a lot of people would prefer the flat reversion of this system. The positives of the old system vastly outweigh the negatives.

I agree completely. This was nearly my whole point in the post, I feel survivors were affected greater than Killers due to the fact the most notable stacking affects killers use is just haste, whereas survivors focus gen speed, heal speed, haste also. Anyone focusing only one of these has a glaring flaw that being if they can't utilise it their perks are redundant, but that's the nature of crafting a build entirely around a sole purpose. It can be fun & can absolutely backfire.

What diminishing returns has done is made it painfully obvious 2 perks can stack but then the last two slots may as well be meta based perks because the rest of the stacks are near useless & likely by that point are so low percentages already that diminishing returns makes them redundant anyway. It makes for very boring samey builds, again more so on survivor side than killer. But the point stands though that even a killer focusing one stacking effect likely won't have anything to combat something else & if exploited could lose a game horribly. But why do that when those builds suck even more now. Just run the same meta all killers run & have at it.

Again I wouldn't hate a tweak to the diminishing returns system but it also feels like it'd just be easier to revert it. What should be a healthy idea for the game just hasn't been helped by the fact it has been done kind of poorly & has affected an entirely different issue making that worse instead, that being the fact niche perks are now even worse than before.

in So, Diminishing Returns Comment by Tamo June 5, 2026

@Drumbeat said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4084255#Comment_4084255
All low to mid pick rate perks you made niche builds worthless and only gave more reason to stick to meta only perks

This is literally my whole point. I appreciate that so many here actually understand what I mean.

The builds most affected are the ones that made use of the weaker perks in our line up which is something I assumed we were trying to encourage but here we are with diminishing returns only affecting those said perks. The usual strong perks or the basic meta is unaffected & therefore means games are getting boring just using the same stuff over & over because why run the fun stuff when it's not even fun because two of the perks are basically doing nothing for it now anyway.?

in So, Diminishing Returns Comment by Tamo June 5, 2026

@jesterkind said:
I promise, Diminishing Returns has had very little impact on build crafting.
Some of the more interesting and useful synergies don't involve stacking the same % effect, and the way the DR system works you can still very reasonably stack two in the same build if there's some reason you'd want to do that. I'm a big believer in build crafting, I think it's one of the most interesting and compelling parts of the game, and while some of my builds are affected on a strictly literal level absolutely none of them have been killed.
What kind of builds do you like, what's your playstyle? I'm more than willing to pitch some builds and synergies that still exist if you do really want to run something other than the meta.

I don't need build advice from someone who doesn't think that buildcrafting was affected by diminishing returns. Perks are made more viable or make for better use when they can be stacked with other similar perks. Weak perks will be weak but could be given some value or viability when paired with other perks. Many perks that stack though are never going to be used EVER because after the second perk the stack becomes practically redundant.

in So, Diminishing Returns Comment by Tamo June 2, 2026

I want to just say I did suggest a TIMED self uncage or the ability to move somehow, or better yet just have it be better programmed. I never said just let us unhook willy-nilly

in 2v8 suggestion. Comment by Tamo June 2, 2026

I just wanted to add I genuinely think Survivor got hit harder with diminishing returns. Gen regression isn't affected by diminishing returns as the meta is all different regression variations so it doesn't get hurt. Other than haste, what effects do killers stack consistently? Survivors are hit in the haste department too, gen speed, heal speed. So it overall is encouraging killers to basically play as they have been which I'm sure for them is still boring because the idea that they could relax & play something more silly buildcrafty was a possibility but instead survivors are now even those that otherwise would not are running the hard meta. DS + exhaustion on all of them, every game. Hyperfocus Stakeout Every game, because again it's unaffected by diminishing returns.

It limits what's worth using across the board yes but a lot more on survivor side which will then inevitably suck for killers going against the same meta builds on the whole team every single game. Which again I've already said but will make them play to combat all the time, because in some ways they HAVE TO.

in Diminishing Returns Sucks Comment by Tamo April 28, 2026

The immediate hit that came to my mind was a silly little self heal build.

Botany, Flow State, Desperate Measures & Resilience + a MedKit. The idea was mainly to heal myself super fast of course only limited to a couple times at most with the MedKit. It's a little like yikes that injured player already healed themselves but again it only happens twice. Literally every perk after Botany now though is hit by diminishing returns which to some degree is fair because it brings the build in line a bit more, however what hurts the most is resilience in this current situation, it only adds 9% to this build. But not with diminishing returns. Again to a degree it's fair that it shouldn't be too broken, the problem is though it was just a silly self heal build. "Self heal go brrr kinda thing y'know LOL" it's now not a build I would run at all because after Botany & whatever would be affected next between Flow State or Desperate Measures the build is basically redundant. Which of course then just leads to playing more meta perks.

in Diminishing Returns Sucks Comment by Tamo April 28, 2026

@HoodedWildKard said:
Dbd is a really bad choice if you want to relax. It's a pretty high stress game. I usualy go with palia, wandering village or jurassic world evolution 3 if i want to wind down.
Obvs the game is fun but a lot of it is dependant on the people you play with/against. Especially as survivor. My survivor games today were remarkably bad. Killers were particularly toxic and sweaty today. Experienced a lot of tunneling, BMing and a weirdly high number of rando team mates who were either straight up useless or simply DCd less than 3 minutes in. Plus 2 killers who seemed friendly and up for farming them just killed everyone once they'd maxed their points.

I agree, absolutely better choices for "relaxing" but what I meant was I was hoping to just play rather casually & farm some blood points up, teams will be good, teams will be bad. Killers might sweat, some might not. Normally I'm fine with however the match goes so long as it felt worth loading into y'know. These games tonight were just back to back - LOAD IN, GET CHASED, DOWNED, PICKED, TUNNEL, REPEAT TILL DEAD. It's an awful scenario every time, again maybe not all but most players paid to play this game & playing hook struggle simulator is not what I paid to do. This game can be a chill farming session sometimes, but clearly not tonight.

in My session just now. Comment by Tamo April 10, 2026

Add another game to the list of tunneled tonight. A Trickster. The game for me has lasted less than 2minutes.

WHY!? Instantly chased, unfortunately downed, then proceeded to get tunneled TWICE!

in My session just now. Comment by Tamo April 9, 2026

Interesting to find out it's not just me, that's several people today who all seem to have been getting badham & nostromo A LOT recently.

in Please stop forcing me to play Nostromo and Badham. Comment by Tamo April 6, 2026

@OrangeBear said:
It's a bug.

Is it?

in Why? Comment by Tamo March 25, 2026

@Scrapinator said:
One of the best factors dbd has going for it is at risk with that spirit fury nerf. Please stop rewording perks to exclude powers, believe it or not that honestly makes perk design even MORE boring and harder having things not interact with powers at all. Let build variety EXIST. Or else killers are generally going to only run slow down and 1 or 2 perks that are only good for the killer they play.

I couldn't agree more. With how many perks became useless almost in the hands of certain killers, while it nerfed what could potentially be quite an oppressive combo for SPECIFIC Killers, it also ruined what I think is the best part about playing killer. The build crafting.

Making any killer majorly strong with a certain build is a huge part of the fun on that side I feel, by changing perks to no longer interact with killer powers makes them redundant & starts blending the meta into the only viable option. Which just sucks to be honest.

I am already so mad that map offerings are basically pointless because I feel as though it's part of a build in some unique cases for both sides (examples being Lery's or any indoor map really for jumpscare Myers, Open maps with plenty of free space for a Drift King Billy type thing, maps with loads of vaults for fast vault builds or maps with plenty of pallets for Spirit Fury hubris builds, the list goes on), if even more stuff gets changed there's basically no point trying to run anything unique on killers anymore, just pick the usual four perks & go get'em. Not a welcome change at all.

in Please stop removing perks working with powers. Comment by Tamo February 20, 2026

@BongoBoys said:
The Community Stream revealed this new condition Killers who break pallets with there power will no longer be able to use perks like Spirit Fury
https://us.v-cdn.net/6030815/uploads/7I9740R04HPY/20260219-184510.jpg

I genuinely don't like the new wordings on things, if anything it's almost more confusing I feel. Especially with such silly terms as "Special-break" etc.

It's going to cause certain perks potentially to be way less viable just because of a change in the description. Like this one here for example, I swear like others that spirit fury worked with some killer powers still but now just because some wording differs it'll be less viable. I'd hate to think other perks would just be made awful, or entirely deaded by slightly changing the copied homework. No one asked for this kind of change & while I understand the idea is to make perks easy to understand, I'd honestly love to know what's so hard to figure out already? We're all playing the same game right? We're managing at the moment, it's not that bothersome, am I wrong?

in New Special Pallet Break Condition Comment by Tamo February 20, 2026

Wait so VECNA still has the same no cooldown to the attack that literally makes it impossible to evade him in chase, he can still just spam it? You've changed the cancel but not given it a cooldown. That's insane! Am I reading it wrong? I know you want to make your money BHVR but people are gonna quit real quick if every game is just spam vines for 10seconds till dead. If you watched any footage his zoning is ridiculously OP

in 9.4.0 | Stranger Things Chapter 2 Comment by Tamo January 27, 2026

@ImWinston said:
I've finished the challenges (I'm mostly referring to "use a void crystal to repair a gen") and I'll never go into the void again, it's just another waste of time. On paper it seems like a super advantageous mechanic, but in reality it's so "long" that you'd be quicker to manually repair the generators.🤣

I like a few others in here have finished the challenges & yeah won't be playing this event until the next lot need doing.