Archvile

MFT is simply a repeat of old Dead Hard, getting extra loops in chase for free, simply because you're hurt. It's proof that the designers either don't really understand why DH used to be busted, or they do understand but they are ok with reintroducing the same issue as long as it's on a new, shiny perk that can entice players. At least DH had the excuse of making Nurse more bearable to face, MFT just exists to make M1 killers even weaker.

@Pulsar said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3458624#Comment_3458624
I see, it was just worded weird, my apologies.
Almost every Exhaustion perk gives you 150% movement speed for 3 seconds. In those 3 seconds, you move 18m. Normally, you'd move 12m, so you get 6 extra meters of movement, not bad. MFT gives you a 3% Haste effect. In order for that to be equivalent, you'd need to be in chase for FIFTY seconds while injured. You are better off running SB or Lithe to delay the first hit.
Made For This is a "win harder" perk. It's not going to save you from someone the same skill as you or better than you. It's only going to let you dunk on people worse than you.

You don't really have to make a choice, though, you can run MFT and also Lithe. Judicious use of Sprint Burst is probably better on the whole, but that's better than most things, even deep wound Dead Hard when you could activate it whenever. Before it got nerfed people were loudly exclaiming that it would lead to a rise of ravenous Sprint Burst equipped gangs of survivors that would NEVER let you get an initial hit. That didn't materialize for the obvious reason that Sprint Burst is hard to use and is privy to some inherent limitations. What materialized instead is between 2-4 survivors most games running MFT because, sure, it may not be as good, but when all you have to do to get value out of it is press W and pre-drop pallets, why wouldn't you?

in Carefully attempting to counter arguments for "Made for This" being fine Comment by Archvile June 19, 2023

It's a godsend for solo not only because it helps prevent monster 3-gens, but it helps even when the 3-gen itself doesn't materialize. Too many times it happens that on 1 gen left nobody has any idea where the last of the three gens is, so the killer can essentially defend a two-gen.

in Deja vu Comment by Archvile June 17, 2023

I'll make my own preface by saying that I think 24 second heals are too long.

Having said that, I think healing-based slowdowns are inherently healthier than regression based slowdowns simply because they're more interactive. Sloppy butcher only slows you if you make the decision to heal, but of course staying hurt incurs more risks. Survivors will now have to do the risk-reward routine they do with Plague with every killer. Since they also gutted all the regression-over-time perks, the main risk of healing is now the killer possibly finding you mid-heal, rather than all your generators losing 50% of your progress while you group up with the Killer refusing to leave a 10-meter radius away from their 3-gen.

This is another difference between healing-based slowdowns and gen regression slowdowns: healing-based slowdowns don't do too much by themselves. In the kick-meta, the killer does not need to approach because any progress undone on generators must be remade with great effort. You must go to them. In the injury meta, it doesn't matter if all four survivors are hurt if the killer is not actively hunting them. They have to come to you.

Of course this means that Nurse and Blight will be even more problematic, but that's because those two killers are inherently problematic. The only way to solve that is to fix them, nothing else.

in The Dev Update: Flawed attempt at "meta mix up"; only a "meta shift" Comment by Archvile March 25, 2023

@GrimoireWeiss said:
The devs know that Hex perks suck, hence why the latest Hex perks (Plaything, Pentimento, Face the Darkness) all work differently from traditional Hexes. With almost every match having one or two Boon users, I think it's time to give killers a way to activate their Hexes again. Maybe after 4 hooks the killer gets the option to light a dull totem?

Yeah, BHVR have figured out that having hexes spawn at the start of the game is a horrible idea, so I expect all future hex perks to follow the "Pig Trap" philosophy (temporary impairment that is applied on a survivor and can be removed by wasting some time). If - and that's a big if - they decide to rework old hexes, I find it's far more likely they'll be changed to follow this new design strategy rather than BHVR completely changing the mechanics of totems as they currently work.

In the end the problem with hexes is that survivors can just find them before their time. Even if you don't spawn directly onto it, just moving around to find a gen to work on or escaping during a chase lets you explore enough of the map to find most totem spots. Making it so hexes only spawn once they have a chance to do something seems the best way to go, as any other choice relies on map rng and no type of rng is something you can rely upon.

in Hex Perks are rare nowadays, and it's easy to see why Comment by Archvile December 5, 2022

I'm fairly positive you can just hold down the left mouse button and it will fire the first available moment.

in Is scripting for the demo and nemesis power allowed? Comment by Archvile December 5, 2022

@ShamelessPigMain said:
Sadako's normal M1 attack shoots out a ring that translates to "curse" in Kanji. Her "Rotten Remains" outfit has a different weapon, though. In Hanja, it translates to "hatred," but I have no clue if it's the same in Kanji. Can anybody confirm what it says?
https://us.v-cdn.net/6030815/uploads/WHOAMG109U52/screen-shot-2022-12-04-at-7-51-02-pm.png

https://jisho.org/search/%E6%81%A8%20%23kanji

in Translating the Kanji on Sadako's weapon Comment by Archvile December 5, 2022

@Pulsar said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3286743#Comment_3286743
Yes, the Knight stops moving completely.
The Jailer and The Carnifex move at 4.1 m/s, iirc. Survivors move at 4.0 m/s and standard Killers move at 4.6 m/s. The Assassin moves at 4.4 m/s.
The Carnifex chases for 24 seconds, The Jailer and The Assassin chase for 12 seconds.
Likewise, there is now about a half second delay from when the Knight goes into his power before he can place Guards.

That's weird, literally every time I've tried leaving the loop against a Knight I've gotten hit instantly, whereas with the Artist at least it takes a few seconds for her to catch up, although she merely gets slowed down by her birds.

in What strategies have you found against Knight? Comment by Archvile December 4, 2022

@Pulsar said:
Knight does lose major distance for sending a Guard out. He completely freezes. Artist slows down, sure, but she doesn't stop moving entirely.
The Guards are all slow. If you start running as soon as you get spotted by them, they cannot catch up.
Hold W, run as soon as you're spotted by a Guard and never 3-gen against him.

Are you sure that's the case? I've never managed to run away from a loop without getting hit even if I started running the moment I saw the kneeling animation starting.

in What strategies have you found against Knight? Comment by Archvile December 4, 2022

The Dwight was probably standing behind you, blocking the hook spot, and he had dropped the flashbang in advance. Unless you're blocked in animation you can always prevent Flashbangs from working by simply looking up.

in Near the hook, can Flashbang+Body-Blocking guarantee a save? Comment by Archvile December 3, 2022

@Sally_S_gay_son said:
I honestly do not understand what's going on, but games like Fortnite literally have item rotation and it changes 24 hours and some items may never appear again and like no one has a meltdown about it, it really is not a big deal at all

Yeah, Fortnite! The game that has, for sure, never been criticized for being designed by a cadre of psychologists to siphon money off impressionable children. What a paragon of ethical business!

in Please stop. Comment by Archvile December 3, 2022

@Devil_hit11 said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3270690#Comment_3270690
Still waiting for them to remove nemesis's infection 3 hit mechanic. a mechanic that has zero advantage for killer and only helps the survivor. I like playing nemesis, but I dislike having long chases because of dumb drawbacks.

I really love Nemesis' tentacle, but every single other part of his power is so badly designed. Even ignoring the zombies, the infection mechanic exists as a middle finger towards big trashbag man.

Compare it to Wesker's and the problems are obvious. Both Wesker's and Nemesis' power can be split in two pieces:

Nemesis' power can be used to damage or to break pallets.
Wesker's power can be used to damage or to move around the map.

However, while Wesker's power starts out at 100% power, Nemesis' starts at 50% power. Wesker does not begin the trial with reduced bound range or unable to slam survivors into walls until he's infected enough survivors. He just has his power. Nemesis' tentacle strike instead doesn't begin breaking pallets until he's infected at least two people (or hit the same person three times).

You can counterplay Nemesis in the same way you can counterplay Oni, by predopping pallets and trying to keep your distance as much as you want. However, while Oni's reward for eventually hurting somebody is immense mobility and instadown capability, Nemesis' reward is... getting to hit the same survivor two more times!

Now the pallet-breaking capabilities of the tentacle strike are pretty amazing, but while Wesker's power may be less directly useful in chases (although it's not like it isn't very good for entirely different reasons) the fact that it also lets him apply pressure all over the map for little cost makes it leagues better. Nemesis, for contrast, falls into the camp of very good chase, zero pressure killers just like Deathslinger or Trickster.

But wait! You could make the argument that Nemesis, just like Wesker, does have a little of map pressure in the form of vaccines. I think this is the most insulting part of his kit, really. If it were for everything else, Nemesis would be a firmly mid-tier killer. But the vaccines just make him infinitely worse than he should be, because... they're free survivor pressure. Unlike Wesker, there's no imminent existential threat caused by the infection. Even if Nemmy catches you with your pants down, you still go down in two hits like any other killer. This means that you don't really need to vaccinate unless the position of the vaccine is convenient. Which means... well, you don't actually waste much time by vaccinating. And even if you do, you get your time refunded because the next time Nemesis wants to chase you, he'll have to hit you three times all over again.

The infection mechanic ends up working more for the survivors than the killer most of the time. Especially considering that, for some reasons, infections caused by your zombies don't count towards your leveling up, which means survivors can strategically choose to get infected by zombies during chase to gain a free sprint boost. And if they do that while you're in Tier 1, f**k you, not only they've gained huge amounts of distance, but they've also denied your power further!

Nemmy doesn't need much. He doesn't need to be an S tier. But he does need his power to work for him and not against him. I'm not going to go as far as to say that his tentacle shouldn't give any sort of speedbost, but that should be reduced. Hits by zombies should help him tier up and should not give survivors a speedboost when infecting. The number of vaccine cases should be reduced and/or it should take a much longer time to vaccinate (at the very least it should take as much time to use the vaccine as it would take for Nemmy to catch up when running at you in a straight line after he's given you a speedboost).

in Can we stop letting Survivors benefit from Killer powers? Comment by Archvile November 21, 2022

The simple matter of fact is that DbD does not try at all to be a competitive game.

in If DbD tries to be competitive game how come there is no killer and map ban option? Comment by Archvile November 8, 2022

I feel such seething hatred for the reworked Haddonfield. The double-window house(s) are stupid.

in Not trying anymore on certain maps. Comment by Archvile November 7, 2022

@dugman said:
Some general things I do
Don’t worry so much if you lose two or three gens early on, the first gens are the hardest to defend since all four survivors are active and the gens are the most spread out. Most of the action really takes place on the last two gens when you have someone on a hook and someone else being chased and maybe a third person downed, etc.
Rather than try and defend the entire map the whole game, take a moment early on to identify four gens that are more or less in the same half of the map and focus mainly on defending those. You’ll have a much better time in the midgame if you have established a smaller zone of control than if you have gens split across the map.
To that end, in the beginning don’t overcommit to your first chases. If you can get a hit or down quickly, great! If they get to a pallet just force the pallet drop, break it (unless it’s a really weak pallet maybe) and consider switching targets to someone else who is actively working on a gen. Getting rid of pallets in your anticipated zone of control early establishes dead areas near the gens you patrol ghat you can take advantage of later in the midgame.
After a down, take a moment to consider if there is someone or something else nearby worth chasing or breaking before picking them up for a hook. The downed survivor isn’t getting up right away so you have a little time to extend your pressure to get another hit or even another down if there’s another survivor you can get to. Especially if the survivor you down is only on their first hook, and you know there are other survivors who would be on second or third hook, keeping that first hook survivor slugged can give you about 10 extra seconds or so to reach a more valuable target and chase them off a gen or down them. Obviously you don’t want to skip hooking all the time, but sometimes slugging to extend your immediate pressure is worth losing that first hook state that you don’t need right away.
Finally a general rule of thumb is, if a survivor wants you to do something, then your best bet is do something else. For example, do you have a survivor who is obviously trying to get you to chase them? Ignore them since they’re trying to distract you from someone else and go after that other target. Is a survivor obviously trying for a bodyblock? If you can efficiently get around them ignore the bodyblocker and hit the survivor they’re trying to protect. Did the survivors leave the Exit near you at 99%? If you’re not in a chase open that gate yourself, you’ll get the 500 bloodpoints for it and also start the timer they were hoping would remain stalled. Basically whatever the survivors actually want you to do is probably the opposite of what you should do.

I greatly disagree on the ninetynined gates bit. Survivors usually leave the gates ninetynined to prevent blood warden, not because of the timer, so I would be wary of opening gates for no reason.

in How to win as Killer now? Comment by Archvile September 2, 2022

Tunneling will exist as long as the choice is between "Hook three distinct people for no benefit" and "Hook the same person thrice and instantly vaporize 25% of the enemy workforce".

in they are adding new measures for countering camping and tunneling... Comment by Archvile September 1, 2022

@danielmaster87 said:
You're still cutting out a significant portion of the station. I think it was a cool idea.
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3161307#Comment_3161307
New maps are always confusing until you learn them. And Deja Vu getting more use sounds good to me.

Only indoors map ever cause problem for the playerbase as far as navigability is concerned, because outdoors map are designed in a way where "naive pathfinding" (just going around obstacles while still moving in the general direction of your target) is always possible. RPD was especially horrible at this which is unsurprising since it's literally designed to be labyrinthine and hard to navigate (otherwise you wouldn't get a map in RE).

in What's the point of splitting RPD in two? Comment by Archvile August 31, 2022

Maybe you encountered a bug? The cap is still definitely two millions.

in Why BP's cap is now 1M? Comment by Archvile August 25, 2022

I can't play this game without Windows.

I really enjoy new dead hard too.

in Favorite Survivor Perk? Comment by Archvile August 16, 2022

The simple and obvious answer to this is that there's 16 survivor perks and only 4 killer perks in a game. Killer perks need to be qualitatively better, while survivor perks make do with quantity instead of quality.

in Survivor perks come with downsides/restrictions while Killer perks do multiple positive things Comment by Archvile August 15, 2022

I suppose it's the same reason some survivors flail their camera around when hitting a window or dropping a pallet. Just to look flashy.

in Can anyone explain this strange Nurse behavior? Comment by Archvile August 15, 2022

All the truly despicable stuff on Killer is tied to add-ons, but if I really had to choose out of the perk pool, I'd pick Bamboozle or Blood Favor as they are a slight annoyance.

in When playing as survivor, which killer perks annoy you the most? Comment by Archvile August 12, 2022

@Tsulan said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3122242#Comment_3122242
I highly recommend that you watch those videos. Especially the second one is very revealing on the mindset of some people.

Exactly. The statement "I don't want to have to sweat every game" is almost always followed by an unsaid but implied "but I still want to win.". Lose enough games by playing like a memelord and you'll start getting matched with 20 hour trappers instead of omegablink nurse, it's as simple as that. But the fact that some people expect to be able to have a soirée and still win more than they lose is entirely baffling.

in State of the game as killer Comment by Archvile August 9, 2022

Nurse is broken. That isn't news.

in SupaAlf streamer wins 300 times in a row with Nurse Comment by Archvile July 25, 2022

I think everybody runs Thana right now simply because people are complaining about it when it comes to Legion and Plague, so they make the assumption "everybody complains about this => it must be strong". But outside of those two specific killers, Thana isn't good.

in Thana won't be staying like this long, sadly Comment by Archvile July 24, 2022

I don't think it's as much a matter of brigthness as it is a matter of aesthetic depth. The game's graphics have gotten simplified, I'm assuming, to work well on consoles. I personally love the new Coldwind Farm, it's very Texas Chainsaw Massacre-y in ambience. However, it doesn't have much flair. The fog is ok (and of course it's still in the game, unlike mists, because fog raises fps instead of lowering them), but I'd love it if it had a visual effect were distant objects twinkle and tremble because of the heat.

in I feel the game has lost something very important Comment by Archvile July 24, 2022

I’m having a good time as survivor, haven’t tried killer yet. The escape rate is overall much lower than before, but the actual matches are nicer. The game feels more tactical because it’s way easier to get punished for mistakes. Luckily I’ve met a very small amount of tunneling and camping.

in Am I the only survivor who likes this patch? Comment by Archvile July 23, 2022

@Adjatha said:
I mean, it'd be nice if at least you got an offering from the thing. Prestige Cake or something.
But whatcha gonna do

A Prestige Cake is such a cute idea, I genuinely hope they add something like that.

in Devs. WHY??? Comment by Archvile July 23, 2022

@Seraphor said:
There's no such thing as an anti-tunnel perk for survivors. That's the falacy both players and BHVR need to get over.
A killer who gets hit with DS isn't suddenly going to stop tunneling. Due to the sunk cost falacy they now have to catch that survivor.
Actual anti-tunnel perks are Killer perks, like Devour Hope, Make Your Choice and BBQ when it made you hook unique survivors.

Of course, if you eat the DS, you may as well just keep hunting the same survivor down. But the whole point is to make the Killer consider not eating it. DS's value comes not from actually proc'ing, but from discouraging the Killer from tunneling in the first place. Since DS has been nerfed, not everybody runs it consistently, so it's safer for Killers to gamble. However, the nerf was so harsh that even if the Killer does lose the gamble, it's possible for them to not be properly punished at all.

While I do think DS was overnerfed, at the same time I think it would be good for it to stay like this for a while. I have the intuition that, once you learn to play with new DS, you can still get some good value out of it. It's just that the value isn't automatic. If even after people have had the chance to practice using it stiill feels like garbage, it should be buffed to 4 seconds.

in BHVR, please fix Decisive Strike Comment by Archvile July 23, 2022

It definitely takes way less to unlock all perks on a new character now. Not only you get tier ones for free, the small bloodwebs after a prestige let you get a bunch of perk tiers for very cheap. Today I banged out 25 perk tiers for half a million bloodpoints, for example.

If you play a single character and all you care about is getting rare add-ons, then that's definitely gotten worse.

in It's very clear that they did not reduced the grind at this point, right? By a very big margin. Comment by Archvile July 22, 2022

I do think DS was overnerfed, but this gif does nothing but show that people are not used to the new stun duration and not that the new stun duration is inherently too short. If you go frame by frame you can see that Kate is pretty much in the center of the Shack by the time Oni appears in the door frame. She was probably aiming for the door in order to do a long loop around shack or possibly attempt to get to a different tile. Then she notices that the Oni is way closer than she thought he'd be, so she course corrects towards the window, but by that point she's taking the curve way too wide.

in You guys wanna hear a Survivor Joke? Comment by Archvile July 22, 2022

@drakolyr said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3079769#Comment_3079769
True. I'm sorry it was late.
Thana with other perks push it on 164 secs. Thanatophobia and pentimento for example.
I know i repeat it, because i have seen it nearly every game.

Assuming you have full stack Thanatophobia and one stack of Pentimento, that's a 55% slowdown which should result in 139.5 seconds per gen. What's the third perk that lets you get to 164?

in Solo Queue Is Perfectly Fine Comment by Archvile July 22, 2022

New DH is at its best when countering lunges, but it's more of a matter that not every single person in the lobby will always be running it. If you lunge and they have it, you're still getting punished, but the chances of that happening are way slimmer.

in Dang post deadhard i have no fear when lunging Comment by Archvile July 22, 2022

@Sumnox said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3081361#Comment_3081361
I never expected any perk to particularly replace Deadhard, but that still doesn't answer my complaint. The point is there's absolutely nothing that comes near in terms of usability and power to what we had before, and things that didn't need any nerf got a nerf (Iron will) and things that got buffed are still dumpster worthy (Lightweight, Pharmacy)

Of course nothing comes close to the previous power level of Dead Hard. That's why it was nerfed, because it was way too good. Imagine if they nerfed Nurse tomorrow, but then they went and "Oh by the way now Wraith has a purple addon that lets him attack while cloaked"... that would be senseless. If something is too powerful you don't nerf it just to replace it with something equally as powerful, you just nerf it and let the power level go down.

in Is there even a survivor meta anymore? Comment by Archvile July 22, 2022

Before the update, the killer had to essentially chase Survivors twice (at the very least, with dead hard being a third chase extender), but since survivors don't gain nearly as much distance on hit as they did before, I think the new meta will revolve around denying the killer the first hit. Sprint Burst and Windows were always good for that and, even though I haven't had the chance to try it yet, I think new Lightweight shows some promise, although I expect it to still be niche.

in Is there even a survivor meta anymore? Comment by Archvile July 22, 2022

Currency-based punishments are ineffective because they're either too small or too large. If the bloodpoint/shard penalty doesn't grow quickly enough, then you're effectively not being punished for throwing the game. If it grows too quickly, you could potentially be punished so much it'd discourage you from playing completely. Imagine being multiple million bloodpoints in the red knowing you'll have to grind for hours just for a chance to get back to actually progressing. Or, if you don't care about progression for one reason or another, you could simply make your bloodpoint/shard debt grow indefinitely without really being impeded from ruining other people's games whenever you want.

The truth is that, when it comes to playing a game, wanting to play the game is the only assumption you can really make about the player (and even then, knowing DbD players, that wouldn't be correct a lot of the time), thus preventing them from playing when they want to play is the only real punishment you can dish out.