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@OneNineTwoNine said:
So after gen times have been increased multiple times, and we have 4 gen slowdown almost every match, people are still saying to just "do the gens" when the killer proxy-camps or tunnels, and my question to that is, how?
You have barely any time to knock out gens considering the fact that hooks are still the same duration as they have been, and no changes have been made to balance the gen times around that.
I'm not sure why they wouldn't increase hook stage durations, considering that it discourages camping by giving survivors more of an edge when the killer decides to play this way, and surely the ideal match is one where nobody is sitting twidling their thumbs waiting for the person to die?
It's anecdotal evidence of course, but in my experience every time the team tries to push out gens while the killer proxy-camps or tunnels, there just isn't enough time because you die on the hook so quickly. Am I the only one who thinks this?
Somethings gotta change, survivor is just miserable right now.

"You have barely any time to knock out gens considering the fact that hooks are still the same duration as they have been, and no changes have been made to balance the gen times around that."

I just have to quickly point out that this statement is completely false. Hooks used to be only 60 total seconds to complete a sacrifice back then way in the past and was increased up to 120 total seconds which is more time than what it takes to complete a gen which is 90 seconds. If you're all cranking gens when someone starts getting camped like that you can get 3/5 gens done before they get sacrificed and you'll typically already have some gen progress done before the first survivor even got hooked.

Also another thing that a lot of you seem to forget is about perks that go by a percentage-based system such as Monstrous Shrine. It's not a set number reduction, but actually a percentage reduction of 20% and, for anyone who doesn't know how percentages work, they have a greater effect on larger numbers so increasing the time on hook stages is just gonna indirectly buff Monstrous Shrine alone and BHVR would more than likely buff the perk directly as well to compensate for the longer hook state duration. It's the same problem with DS where BHVR stated in the past that if DS were to be buffed past a 3 second stun time again they would be making Enduring work against it again so right now it has a 3 second stun time and if it was buffed to 4 seconds than Enduring would bring that down to 2 seconds and with 5 seconds Enduring will bring it down to 2.5 seconds which means that just simply buffing the stun duration would make the situation worse than what it currently is.

The point that I'm trying to make here is don't blindly ask for something without thinking things through because that's how you make things worse for everyone.

in Hooks Comment by Azulra March 14, 2024

@D0NN1ED4RK0 said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3669838#Comment_3669838
That basekit change could be worth experimenting with on a PTB (altho could sound like a lot of work and might require a few tweaks with his basekit)
I already love the idea of having the sirens noises as a nod to the silent hill franchise be a thing in the game
And maybe we can make the 3% hinder the yellow aura reading addon? Although I won’t deny the trails do slightly slow down survivors from my experience

I just find it as being a fair way to help him with getting more Torment afflicted to survivors without it being as powerful as his last PTB experiment because the survivors can actually avoid it by not touching anything during that time which would kinda serve as a bit of slowdown as well, but the survivor could also just blatantly ignore it if they choose to since the only actual punishment for making that decision is getting Tormented and potentially sent to a cage later. That's what I call "decision-making gameplay" unlike what they're trying to do with Mangled. Also, just to balance it out, it could easily be made to where getting Tormented during that time doesn't trigger Killer Instinct since it'd be much easier to get Tormented during that time.

The purpose of the sirens blaring is for that reason, but it's also serving as a warning to all the survivors that everything is about to get covered in barbed wire as well so they can have time to quickly react by letting go of whatever they were currently touching if they don't want to get Tormented.

Also, no, the trails don't cause any kind of Hindered nor slowdown in general. You can check the wiki yourself-

Another potential change idea to his base-kit that would honestly be easier to implement into the game is that his hooks are always covered in barbed wire or something and whenever he hooks a survivor normally they get inflicted with Torment so that the next time they go down into the dying state they can be caged. It's a simpler idea, but it's not as cool as the first idea I showed.

in Pyramid head (The Executioner) addon pass concept Comment by Azulra March 8, 2024

@D0NN1ED4RK0 said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3668861#Comment_3668861
maybe a slight toning down to the lingering effect could be made but we’re not even sure how haste works with rites of judgment cause we don’t have addons that do this ability but maybe the lingering haste could only be 3% when leaving rites of judgment and only linger for 1 second
And to top it I’m actually switching functionalities with this addon and spearhead since spearhead is abit strong for a yellow rarity
lost memories is a purple addon so I also don’t see a problem with having current obsidian goblet as an extra functionality to the addon cause stealth is pretty fun
and for scarlet egg I made this addon with the idea that burning man painting gets buffed to 2.5 meters rather than 1.5 so you can combo both addons and instantly regress 25% off a gen while being far away from it
oh and I also use the perk tinkerer and pyramid head cause tinkerer + deadlock is often a fun combo to run
It’s a fact that leopard fabric will always be a trash tier addon and the worst part of this addon is that it’s pretty much not worth using considering you can run BBQ and chili + iri tape and you can get twice the value this addon gives without further instructions of tormenting survivors and then caging other survivors
and hey glad you liked most of the addons :D
edit: forgot to mention regarding the sloppy butcher addons I think the duration should be 120 seconds long and this addon will be amazing

Tbh I think they should give Executioner a special mechanic that is similar to Dredge's Nightfall(or even Freddy's dream realm) where after a set amount of time sirens start blaring and all interactables got covered with a bunch of barbed wire(sorta like as if the map was getting corrupted like in the movies/games) for a semi-short duration where touching any of those interactables(including gens, vaults/windows, pallets, etc) during that time instantly applied Torment to you. After the duration expires the clock starts back up counting down to when it'll happen again(just like with Dredge's Nightfall).

I think that if he were to receive this mechanic then it'd actually help with him getting survivors Tormented more often and thus making his aura-reading addon effect actually useful. This would also give him a tiny amount of base-kit slowdown, but the survivors could easily ignore it since the only punishment of ignoring it is that they could potentially get sent to a cage due to their negligence getting them Tormented which would actually help with him needing an easier way of applying Torment to the survivors.

Also I still think that either at base-kit or at least through one of his addons running through his trails causes the survivors to get 3% Hindered since they are running through barbed wire after all.

in Pyramid head (The Executioner) addon pass concept Comment by Azulra March 7, 2024

@Gplays2000 said:
Not hating I'm just genuinely curious as to what the counterplay to her/her power is? When I walk into a drone it already gives me 1/3 ticks before I can disarm it? Then another time and then I am just in deep wound xD? I truly do not understand how she works and just want to improve my gameplay against her :) Thanks in advance for all the answers if there even is counterplay to her :3

The first thing you should be doing when trying to disarm her drones that you may not even be noticing is that you have to pay attention to which way the drone you're wanting to disarm is facing.

Her drones have two modes they can be in which are Stealth Mode and Scout Mode(I believe that's the name of the active/triggered mode at least) where in Scout Mode her drones rotate at full speed and you can actively see the scan lines(the moving beams) coming from the drone and when it's in Stealth Mode the drone rotates a lot slower, has its scan lines hidden, and is quieter than in Scout Mode and getting scanned will always trigger them to enter Scout Mode.

The way her drones work with scanning is that they go off of Line of Sight(LoS) which is what the scan lines are indicating and they will only detect moving survivors so all you have to do is simply stop moving whenever the drone is about to scan over you. Or you can just simply crouch walk up to the drone because, for whatever reason, crouching in general = no movement to the drones hence why that still confuses a lot of players which is a slower method to reaching the drone, but is a much safer method. Also if you're wondering how you're supposed to know which way the drones are facing when they don't even have visible scan lines in Stealth Mode all you have to do is look for the two bright lights coming off of either side of the drones. Those lights indicate which way the drone is facing because those are what projects the scan lines.

in How tf do you counter skull merchant? Comment by Azulra March 7, 2024

Tablet of the Oppressor probably shouldn't have the lingering effect for 3 seconds since that would make him have even stronger Haste than Skull Merchant's that is even more free than hers since he can control when he gets it by simply tapping the ground with his blade, but other than that the addon would be fun to combo with Lost Memories Book so you can quickly get around the map while having stealth.

On the topic of Lost Memories Book, I think this addon should be like it is, but I think that, since the effect concept clearly derives from the current version of Obsidian Goblet and with the trail duration addons getting a huge buff, this addon should also have the effect of current Obsidian Goblet where walking over a trail also grants the Undetectable status effect. That's the only change I think it should get.

Crimson Ceremony Book I'd personally find to be pointless if the Mangled changes manage to, somehow, do go through to live servers and Hemorrhage that isn't permanent already isn't that great if I'm gonna be honest.

Scarlet Egg is essentially the one purple addon that Ghostface has, but I think it'd probably be less effective than his mostly because of his limited range and the fact that survivors already rarely greed gens against him as is to even begin with.

Leopard Fabric Print's effect is always gonna be a bad effect no matter what rarity you make it regardless until BHVR can find a way to make it easier to apply Torment to the survivors.

All the other changes I like and personally think are fine/reasonable and the changes I listed above are the main ones that stand out the most to me in different ways.

in Pyramid head (The Executioner) addon pass concept Comment by Azulra March 6, 2024

@MechWarrior3 said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3666148#Comment_3666148
Oooooooooo I like this! Yes agreed in addition to hindered getting toned down a bit.

I find the two ideas to be both reasonable and tolerable which could be fair for both sides. Also it'd justify the 45 second cooldown for hacked drones since that would give survivors a decent amount of chances to lower their stacks if needed.

in I have the perfect solution for Skull Merchant - devs should read this Comment by Azulra March 3, 2024

@MechWarrior3 said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3666113#Comment_3666113
Agreed. They’re might be ways to improve the experience for survivors and the killer to maintain a healthy balance but a nerf isn’t always the answer.
I wish I knew what the solution is but I am not a skull merchant main. I would be curious to know their thoughts on what they think would be a good idea if anything.

I'm a Skull Merchant main and the main nerf that I think would be a bit more reasonable/tolerable for me is either the Hindered being reduced all the way down to like 3% (which isn't very much at all, but is still ok with the 3% Haste she gets) instead of the current like 10-15% it is rn or just have it removed entirely. From my personal experience it's one thing to get the injure with the drones, but the Hindered effect can sometimes be more work than what it's worth and the Haste effect is more useful than the Hindered effect. Also I made a comment right before yours stating a potential solution idea for survivors removing Lock-On stacks.

in I have the perfect solution for Skull Merchant - devs should read this Comment by Azulra March 3, 2024

@skylustv said:
And it's a very simple solution:
Increase the cooldown from hacked drones for 2 minutes, with this cooldown, Skull Merchant players will have to stop that boring gameplay of sitting gens and use drones on loops/chases
The whole problem about this killer is that a hacked drone just have a small 45 seconds cooldown actually, and because if this is very easy to abuse of spamming drones to protect gens, and we have to keep in mind that she has 6 drones now after the ''rework'' and her drones received a massive buff
Increase the cooldown of hacked drones, and this will force players to use drones in chase, not to defend gens for almost 1 hour

"Increase the cooldown of hacked drones, and this will force players to use drones in chase, not to defend gens for almost 1 hour"

You do realize that this isn't exactly true anymore, right? The new gen system pretty much makes it to where unless she gets the best 3-gen spawn possible through RNG while also running Overcharge + Oppression she can't really stall games out for very long anymore. Now she can only stall out a match for a max of roughly like 20-30 minutes at most if she's playing right and a typical DBD match is usually like 10-15 minutes.

@Gabe_Soma said:
The easiest solution would be finding a way to remove stacks.
Getting injured for free mid-chase is probably one of the most frustrating and inexplicable things that leads people to increase their hatred towards this already terrible abomination.

I think that I have a bit of a solution for that problem that I think would be fairly reasonable/tolerable for both sides which is that successfully hacking a drone removes a Lock-On stack much like how failing at hacking a drone adds a Lock-On stack. This kind of change would actually be like with Onryo's mechanics and I think that this change would not only make it a little more fair when it comes to removing a Lock-On stack(since it's not currently possible at the moment) while also giving a little more interactivity to her power for the survivors since it'd make it to where there's a reason to hack the drones.

in I have the perfect solution for Skull Merchant - devs should read this Comment by Azulra March 3, 2024

@mees said:
I main xeno, overal i have good matches but sometimes i get a random game where survivors immediatly give up cause they dont like playing against xeno, because her antiloop is to strong or someting. To me xeno seems incredible fun to play against cause even though she's quite strong you do have counter play with the turrets wich can be pretty strong when used smartly. Maybe some people just wanna face m1 killers so they have easier chases?
Also is xeno a killer you commenly face?

I've always felt that the main problem is that survivors are still holding onto the belief that his tail is too powerful still just because of how it was on release. A lot of people fail to realize that they severely nerfed Xeno to a point that many people just don't enjoy playing as him anymore and the fact that most of his addons are just bad through either being under-valued with their numbers or just being completely pointless(such as Ripley's Watch) just amplifies that even more.

Also, just to clear up the confusion, default Xenomorph is a male not a female because the default, prestige, Grid, and Blighted skins are all male Xenomorphes while the Xenomorph Clone and Queen are both females. A lot of people just seem to forget about this little piece of info from what I've noticed-

in Do survivors like playing against xeno? Comment by Azulra March 2, 2024

@n2njauwu said:
I ask that because i try searching for xeno mains but i cant find anyone to watch lol. not sure why this killer playrate is low,

The main trick really is just the same type of drag tech as Nemesis- He used to be a lot better to play as back then, but when BHVR over-nerfed him in multiple ways and with how bad a lot of his addons are the two problems stacked up onto him which made the killer not really fun to play as anymore for a lot of players. That's not even a joke either because before his nerfs his pickrate was roughly 30-40% and as soon as the nerfs dropped his pickrate dropped down to roughly 10-15% after that day ended showing just how much people didn't like it.

Also with them removing his ability to see visual footsteps of survivors who are standing still while in the tunnels it makes him a bit of an accessibility problem for hard of hearing players since they physically have no way to know if they're under a survivor who's working on a gen or not without exiting the tunnels every single time they want to check because they physically can't hear the gen being worked on and they no longer have the ability to see the visual footsteps of the survivor if they're sitting on a gen.

in Are there any tricks to do as xenomorph with tail attack ? Comment by Azulra February 29, 2024

They're wanting to change Mangled because it's only a problem through indirect reasons. They're acting like Mangled is a direct reason of being a problem when it really isn't. Mangled is a part of Sloppy Butcher which is a universal perk for killers and, as we all already know, it's a pretty nice slowdown perk while being the ONLY universal perk that gives any kind of slowdown which automatically makes it more common to be used.

Now the reason for why it's an indirect problem is just simply due to the fact that there really isn't any other universal perks that can help newer-ish killers slow the game down(especially with Surge being back on Demo now) or just any good universal perks for killers besides NOED it just results in Sloppy Butcher getting used a lot which indirectly causes Mangled to get used a lot.

On top of that there are other anti-healing perks in the game for killers, but there aren't very many of them and the ones that do exist aren't very good because Coulrophobia is based on the killer's terror radius making it primarily only good on killers who have a bigger terror radius like Doctor with Calm addons or just simply Wesker which is what makes it a less valuable anti-healing perk and Leverage is something that triggers for 30 seconds after hooking a survivor which effectively makes the slowdown hardly affect anything due to the fact that most survivors heal under or close to a hook which means that by time the survivors start healing there's only gonna be like 5-10 seconds left of the perk or it's already over by time the survivors start healing. Those two perks don't use Mangled and they both suck due to how they work with their requirements and such whereas Sloppy/Mangled always works and the only requirement it has is hitting the survivors with a Basic Attack.

TL;DR is basically the problem isn't directly from Mangled, but is actually an indirect problem from multiple things.

in About Mangled Comment by Azulra February 21, 2024

As someone who plays Skull Merchant a lot and knows a lot about her I can confirm that this is true- Survivors now just refuse to learn how something new works anymore because all they want now are just easy to loop push-over M1 killers and if they don't get that they start to complain about the killers being overpowered or just try saying that they're intentionally making the game worse for survivors when, in fact, it's the survivors making the game worse for themselves then just pushing the blame off of themselves.

And, yes, some killers can be like this as well, but I primarily see this behavior happening from the survivor side way more often by a significant amount.

in The real reason SM has the highest kill rate Comment by Azulra February 20, 2024

@ExcelSword said:
I know not many people play hag, but a big reason why these add-ons are so good is because of a technique called camera swing.
When a survivor activates a trap, the game forces a survivor's camera to face the phantasm. This is a strong effect because if a survivor is holding W, it means that if you position your traps properly in loops, the camera swing forces survivors to run towards the phantasm, which can screw up their optimised pathing around a loop to get a hit 99% of the time.
You could even force survivors to run somewhere they had no intention of running, for example placing a phantasm in a doorway would make the camera swing pull them into the doorway, and now they have to continue through that path because trying to run back the way the wanted means they will run back into you.
However there is one crucial detail. This camera swing effect is extremely weak or nonexistent if the survivor runs dead center in in the direction of the trap since they are already facing the phantasm anyway. So you need to position them in a way that survivors will trigger the trap at the furthest possible range in a loop when they are facing as close to 90 degrees from the trap itself to get maximum camera swing. This is why the add-ons are so good, as they increase the camera swing effect and make it easier to position them.
Now that they provide the opposite effect, this strategy is completely gone, especially since they are reducing the base range as well of traps. The only benefit this addon will provide now is that they make it easier to punish survivors who are trying to trigger your traps on purpose, since they will be close enough you can just walk and hit them. But survivors can already wipe them clear anyway.
I am just really sad to see one of my favourite playstyles removed from a niche killer when the devs claim this is a buff, because that tells me that the devs don't even know that this is a playstyle that exists. Oh well, at least the PTB will have a new killer to go alongside this change.

Hag IS NOT designed to be a chase killer without Waterlogged Shoe- Every experienced player who's played enough Hag will tell you this as a fact. She is primarily designed as a hit & run killer in a better way and having the ability to shrink her trap trigger range is superior to expanding it since it makes getting hits easier. I'm sorry to say it, but if you're chasing survivors as Hag without Waterlogged Shoe you're sadly not playing Hag right at all.

in Is there any rationale for the reason on changing (i.e butchering) Hag's trigger range addons? Comment by Azulra February 19, 2024

@Snowbawlzzz said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3653097#Comment_3653097
Thank god they're good changes. Personally I'm fine with them just making antidote activate quicker, because it is pretty inconvenient to use at a lot of loops.
I was worried they were gonna pull a Freddy.

The only problem everyone has with the extra bottles right now is that Pinky Finger just removes 3 bottles and doesn't put a limit on the amount of bottles you can have so you can essentially have 5 Pinky Finger bottles again which is a bit of a problem.