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@WolfyWood said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3927313#Comment_3927313
If you're able to be looped you're actively playing the game and there's no reason for abandon to be at play.
A four-slug is not the same at all. And like I said earlier, if we are going to add Abandon clauses for anything that feels bad where does it end?
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3927296#Comment_3927296
Even if you somehow lose all four survivors at the end of the match, you are still able to look and search for them, and it is reliable because towards the end they will funnel to the only two spots they can escape from.
It isn't guaranteed but it's a significant enough of a chance to where Abandoning is not warranted.

Mandy’s argument was “the killer can do a lot to force survivors out of the match”, which just isn’t true if the survivors are purposely hiding in random parts of the map, to force the killer to wait the entire EGC.

Patrolling THE ENTIRE MAP is not “can do a lot”, because it’s not reliable at all. What often happens is the killer spends the entire ECG failing to find any survivors, then the survivors escape right at the end of the ECG, at which point the killer failed to force the survivors out of the match.

in Killers should be able to abandon when the gates are powered Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@Mandy said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3927290#Comment_3927290
the difference in this case, is that survivors can do nothing about the being in dying state, however the killer can do a lot to force survivors out of the match.

What can killers do if the survivors are purposely hiding somewhere random on the map, and are purposely waiting until the EGC is almost over before going to the exit gates?

Are killers expected to be able to reliably find survivors that could be hiding anywhere on the map?

in Killers should be able to abandon when the gates are powered Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@UndeddJester said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3927194#Comment_3927194
Ah, so not exposed effects in general.
Hmmm... seems a nerf for this power to me personally, and I'm not convinced it needs a nerf. If you can remove the claw trap and remove the exposed effect that means the survivor isn't injured, thus you must commit to that Survivor, because if you don't, your successful hit on a drone is meaningless...
Whereas before you at least got an injury to perhaps capitalise on later (even as an m1 killer with a regular hit), now you have nothing to show for it at all if you don't get the down. In all other scenarios there is no difference, but in the scenario you don't want to or can't afford to commit to the claw trapped survivor, your trap hit is rendered obsolete... and currently I'm more worried her power will be too weak rather than too strong.
It's also unnecessarily confusing, cause this configuration would be contradictory to the usual application of exposed. Exposed is exclusively used for basic attacks... in this setup we're making a strange exception for SMs attack drone that muddies the definition of exposed... we could hand wave it as an either or situation/double damage power... but I don't really see the value of doing so compared to just applying an injury as it does now.

Skull Merchant being able to injure survivors from across the map, was easily in the top 3 complaints that survivors had. BHVR would likely need to fix that, or have the drone time heavily limited, so the killer can’t spam drones.

And if the semantics is confusing, then the drone dart can just say it detonates claw traps, which places survivors in the dying state, unless they have endurance.

And there probably needs to be something to prevent killers from camping a hooked survivor with a drone.

Remember this entire rework is revolving around survivors, and whether or not survivors think the killer is fair. It’s a much lower priority to have the killer actually fun to play as.

in Design Preview | The Skull Merchant Part 2 Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@UndeddJester said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3927182#Comment_3927182
Interesting... bound to the claw trap? Or just exposed in general? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

The EMP dart, since it only works on survivors with a claw trap, would be able to trigger the exposed status that the claw trap would give.

in Design Preview | The Skull Merchant Part 2 Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@UndeddJester said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926234#Comment_3926234
That wouldn't make sense with her attack drone being in toe though.
One of the big issues of this new design is unless SM hits a drone, she is an M1 killer with no power... the drones can't down, and her attack drone can't down (or injure) either until someone is claw trapped... the big question is, how hard is it to hit a survivor with a drone?
So currently survivors have no real incentive to heal, and even if they do, either way for Skull Merchant it's basically hit drone or bust... (a problem that doesn't go away and in fact gets worse if you make claw traps expose only, since she's basically Ghost Face with extra steps).
If the claw traps were permanent until healed or downed/hooked (debates for either)... that might be something... having permanent visuals on someone fits the surveillance direction of the killer and gives a good reason to heal against her, since she can play the macro game extremely well while survivors remained claw trapped.

The drone dart would be considered eligible for exposed, for balance reasons.

in Design Preview | The Skull Merchant Part 2 Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@Rokku_Rorru said:
I don't see anti-slug having much of an effect on slugging as a strategy, it's slugging to get all 4 down what it's countering/the whole duration of slug.

Slugging to pressure a gen etc will still be effective, even if the survivor can recover, it's not going to be unbreakable speeds, you can just go hit the survivor going for the save/trying to do the gen and go back or commit to the new chase, get them down and the other survivor is still injured and needing to reset.

Anti Tunnel is fine, people still eat anti-tunnel perks to be able to tunnel, if any of those are made baseline killers will still do it if they need to, it just makes the experience more fair and have more agency on the one being singled out, so again it's a non-issue, can just spread pressure instead.

Killers base kick was buffed for gen regression, I've not needed to use Gen slowdown/regression for a while now since the gen speeds were slowed down and problematic gen perks nerfed. I don't think there is an instance I've ever gotten to the cap for gen regression UNLESS I was using gen regress perks.

The games meta is currently formed around snowballing matches, for the easiest win with little resistance and these changes are making it so players don't feel as helpess when said tactics are used.

Killer players will adapt, they always do, not to mention Killer QoL changes have been:
-Perma hook break on sacrifice removed
-6.1.0 base chase QoL buffs (not listing all of them as there was several)
-some of the most problematic maps have been fixed
-Hook Spawns have become more dense
-Gen speeds made slower
-Base Gen Kick was buffed
-End Game Collapse
-Mori finisher system

And we are about to get anti-stealth changes too, and probably buffs to weaker killers down the line too.

I wish BHVR had the same attitude for survivor buffs as they do for killer buffs.

Because if it’s fine to “just buff weaker killers” instead of helping all killers, then the upcoming quality of life changes should only go to the weaker killers (solo q), instead of helping all survivors (SWFs).

in Why do the Quality of Life Changes Feel so One-Sided? (Some Observations!) Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

It has now been TWO FULL YEARS since this bug report was made. Can BHVR please acknowledge this game bug?

in Killers are forbidden to lunge if they are too close to a survivor, which can steal hits. Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@JPLongstreet said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/445187/auto-aim-controller-feature-on-mouse-and-keyboard
They claim the game has no auto-aim feature, no matter what input device is used.
I imagine what you're talking about is the Aim Dressing messing with ya. They claim that it doesn't grant or take away hits you wouldn't have gotten anyway, just visually cleans up the animation so it looks more like a hit through the latency and for survs as well. Again, so they claim.
All I know is my beloved Piggly Wiggly has many a bent blade from survs doing something weird in front of me with short and long lunges seeming to register differently. Happens a lot in tight spaces for me.
I'll smack the wall, a tree, that chest over there, or even thin air, anything besides the surv when this happens. Imo the Aim Dressing gets confused at those spots.

The actual BHVR quote was something like “we’re not saying it can’t steal a hit”. I don’t think they ever said it can’t steal hits.

Because it absolutely does steal hits, because it alters the killer’s actions due to proximity checks, that happen before the actual hit validation check.

in Auto Aim (Controller feature) on mouse and keyboard Comment by Coffeecrashing May 14, 2025

@PatchNoir said:
Would recommend reading "why computers cant generate randomness", and try to adapt the game for something truly random like random.org that get numbers from atmospheric noise, just give perks numbers and pull the number from the generator for each perk.
The way it is right now players will notice not having dupe perks on the same trial or as people said, weave of spiders all games lol.
When we use the generate number, or the randomizer function from code they arent truly random on most languages sadly

A Stacked Deck algorithm would be better, where each perk would be in a “deck of cards”, and chaos shuffle will pick 4 perks from the “deck”.

And maybe the deck reshuffles after it’s half gone, so that it’s literally not just literally going through every perk in the game.

in is chaos shuffle a randomizer or no? Does it affect game stats for perks? Comment by Coffeecrashing May 13, 2025

@Kikikello said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926828#Comment_3926828
Isn't that restriction not the reason for why most perks are not being used by players in general?

That is how you know the perk is useless. If it actually allowed killers to get hits they normally wouldn’t have, then survivors would call it “another Scamper”, and demand for it to get nerfed.

in Unbound is finaly a decent perk now Comment by Coffeecrashing May 13, 2025

I just want MMR to have anti-manipulation stuff in it. Some players will spend almost the entire game outplaying the other side, then will purposely lose at the end of the game.

in The MMR system should not be changed Comment by Coffeecrashing May 13, 2025

Why would anyone want to play a killer that has a mediocre M2 power that the survivors can take away? That just sounds like VHS bully simulator, and we all know what happened to VHS.

in Xeno's changes didn't move Xeno pickrate (community stats) Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@Rokku_Rorru said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926320#Comment_3926320
I've never had that issue for Smoke Clouds so far, you probably just followed the survivor poorly, you can also wait for them to leave the cloud in open spaces, or just wait it out if you want to keep vision. Try and use 2v8 to come up with strategies to play around them rather than just going to the worst conclusion. You might find your own ways to cope

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926321#Comment_3926321
I'm still waiting for Claire to be made quiet and Rebecca to not moan for 10 years on hit before going to injury noises.

When survivors use this to ambush killers in areas with lots of line of sight breakers, there isn’t any “waiting it out”, because the survivor isn’t going back in your line of sight.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@Rokku_Rorru said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926307#Comment_3926307
Your audio setup musn't be very good quality then, it's literally just a small globe. You can also look at the ground if you are close enough to see legs. Chase music isn't that bad do we play the same game? LOL

Maybe you should take a break from playing killer if anything new makes you miserable at the thought of it.

Audio Occlusion was making flashbangs silent, during chase music with line of sight breakers, and the flashbang noise was way louder than breathing or footstep noises.

Survivor noises are just like the pre-buffed flashbang noise, where they can just get deleted by audio occlusion.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@Rokku_Rorru said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926270#Comment_3926270
I legit had 0 issues with smoke bombs, if you're using headphones you can hear footsteps and breathing and moans.

It's like a less extreme blind, and it also blinds survivors.

I personally want an aggressive item I can throw for a short stun (won't work on saving survs), would love to have throwing matches with Huntresses haha. Or a melee item that gives you head on to use, or a hammer to rebuild pallets for charge and time.

Asking killers to rely on footsteps and breathing noises, while chase music is happening, is 100% unacceptable considering how audio occlusion currently works with line of sight breakers.

@HeroLives said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926280#Comment_3926280
ah I remember that, I didn’t know that’s why it got removed. Okay not like fog, and not disorienting. What about like the lightest mist paralysis that doesn’t disorient and you can absolutely see but that has a slow effect(I’m just going to bounce ideas off you, I hope that’s okay) like chem trap, doesn’t have to be long, just like a tiny window like 1-2 seconds of slow, SMALL AOE.

That would just end up being a “Dead Hard for distance” projectile, that could be used even if the survivor isn’t being tunneled.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@HeroLives said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926270#Comment_3926270
maybe like a hazed effect then where you can still see but it’s like a little disoriented? Similar to lightborn if you’re looking dead at the flashlight? Or do you think that would still be too much? Idk I’m an optimist so I think we can probably figure out some kind of middle ground.
While I’m at it hopping in a locker should be considered a conspicuous action for ds.

Clown’s smoke bombs used to have a disorienting effect, but it got completely removed for accessibility reasons. So I don’t think we can have the disorienting feature in this game.

And there really isn’t a middle ground. Just look at what happened to the flashbang usage, where it went way down after the bugs were fixed. It turns out many people only liked flashbangs because of the audio and collision bugs, that made flashbangs way more powerful than it should have been.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@HeroLives said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926255#Comment_3926255
yeah I think it would be miserable for killers too. I feel like it would get nerfed so much over time it ends up just being like tenacity. Also if they’re trying to clean up slugging and tunneling more I would rather them not introduce another mechanic like built in unbreakable in an item. I can see it just killing any tactful pressure that’s already a tense situation on both sides. There’s alleviating pain points, and then there’s over doing it. Like this would have to be so restricted so it’s not heavily abused by any player just looking to grief.

I mean look at flashbang and ds, instead of considering another perk, they chose to locker hop and blind the killer 4 times after stunning them with ds, imagine like 2-3 more survivors swarming but throw unbreakable on them as an item. They’ll do it. Now I’m annoyed because they’re not touching gens, you’re annoyed because you can lose pivotal pressure from their misplay when they’re coordinated, and amateur/intermediate killers are getting griefed bc they’ll walk right into the trap, and the only people having fun are trolls.
So as much as I appreciate the thought, I think there’s other ways to give survivors fun without griefing killers to the moon and back. This is of course just my opinion and I don’t speak for everyone.
Like I saw smoke bomb, I think it can be less impactful and less used to grief, but strong enough to consider, the addons can make it do different things like maybe affect killer aura reading for a small amount of time and it consumes it, an add on that lets you create a stacked fog effect for escape and consumes it(of course hinders your sight too), an addon that covers everyone’s aura in x vicinity for x amount of seconds when using it(can even consume it). Fun, nothing too crazy, can be tweaked. What do you think?

I missed the void event, what did the smoke bomb do?

The smoke bomb made an area effect on the ground for a few seconds, where players can’t see through it, and it completely blocked the vision of anyone in the actual smoke. It was basically free escapes for coordinated SWFs, where a teammate would ambush the killer with it in an area with lots of line of sight blockers.

And I honestly don’t think a new survivor item would be popular, unless it did something that is powerful enough to make the killer feel miserable. There just isn’t anything that’s actually “fun for both sides”, that would be popular with survivors.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@HeroLives said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926243#Comment_3926243
is that something you would be okay with?

I think it would be miserable for killers, but I also think survivor stuff needs to be sort of overpowered/broken, or survivors won’t care about it.

Keys can give a 32 meter on-demand killer aura reading for 22.5 seconds, or a 60 meter on-demand survivor aura reading for 30 seconds, and survivors just don’t care about them enough to use them. I see a lot of BNPs, syringes, and gel dressings, so I know survivors are using iri stuff… but they just don’t care about keys to use them, because keys “don’t do enough”.

The alternative is something like the smoke bombs survivors had during the void event, that were so miserable for killer that I stopped playing killer for the entire event.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

Maybe survivors will get a consumable “jumper cables” item, that works as a one-time Unbreakable.

And maybe it doesn’t count as a held item, which means the killer can’t see it, Franklin’s doesn’t work on it, and the survivor can still use other items while it is equipped.

in Survivor Items Update and New one Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

I’m still wondering if the drone dash will be changed so that it gives a claw trap that inflicts exposed (and doesn’t directly injure the survivor), so the killer is forced to commit to chasing the survivor.

That would stop the killer from injuring survivors from across the map.

in Design Preview | The Skull Merchant Part 2 Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

@SoGo said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3926095#Comment_3926095
While yes, rat plays are awful, that's not the main problem here.
The problem is that that particular milestone requires 55 escapes to be completed. With the average escape rate being 40%, that's approximately 138 survivor games. With Hatch out of the equation, this number will be even higher.
I think that the number should be lowered a bit, maybe to 40 Escapes or lower.

I think it's completely acceptable for the number of escapes to be lowered.

My real issue is people that are completely fine with challenges like "break 5 totems" or "complete a bunch of green glyphs", where survivors sandbag their entire team by wasting large amounts of time with stuff that doesn't help survivors win games…

…but a challenge to actually win games is considered toxic. It's like people would rather sandbag their teammates than actually try to play the game for reals, because sandbagging their teammates is much easier to do.

in Escape milestone quest is lame. Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

BHVR could just change the quest to “Escape the trial after all 5 generators have been repaired”.

That would stop survivors from excessively hiding all match, and hoping for get hatch as the last survivor.

in Escape milestone quest is lame. Comment by Coffeecrashing May 12, 2025

We don't know how bad the killer queues will be yet. If the survivors get a giant "fight back" mechanic, then this might be another Xenomorph situation, where it's a huge licensed franchise, but killers ignore the killer because they don't want to get bullied by the fight back mechanic.

in Why improving things for survivors means so much right now Comment by Coffeecrashing May 11, 2025

BHVR could change the milestone to “Escape after all 5 generators have been repaired”. That would get rid of the loophole where survivors can excessively hide, and wait for their teammates to die.

in Why Would You Add An "Escape Trial(s)" Milestone? Comment by Coffeecrashing May 11, 2025

BHVR's strategy is that survivors get to have lots of attention for quality of life features…. and killers get a 60% kill rate.

That's it.

in ok, where is anti-4 man swf? or anti-genrush? or anti-busted loops? or anti-endurance? Comment by Coffeecrashing May 9, 2025

The game was so disappointing. The dev’s previous game, The Quarry, has SO MANY different plot branches, and the characters often split apart and had their own plot lines. Streamers were playing the game multiple times, to see the different plot branches.

Frank Stone had none of that. Streamers mostly just played it once, and then just completely abandoned the game.

in Making the "The Casting of Frank Stone" just a skin is a HUGE mistake. Comment by Coffeecrashing May 9, 2025

@Mandy said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923834#Comment_3923834
again, no plans for a ranked mode either

Thank you for the answer.

in Can DBD ever have a Competitive Mode? | Question For The Devs/Player Opinions Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@Mandy said:
There's no plans to create a competitive mode in the game, such as you've described.
The great thing about Comp DbD is that they have their own balancing rules and it all takes place in Custom Matches, we fully support our growing Comp Scene, but that makes no difference on how we balance the game, as we do not balance for the Comp scene, they do a fantastic job of the individual match balancing themselves.

Are there any plans to create a ranked mode, which has the exact same rules as normal DBD, but has things like stricter matchmaking, or other things that aren't really changing the actual gameplay?

This is completely different from asking for Comp DBD, which has such a huge list of custom rules and regulations, that it doesn't resemble normal DBD at all.

in Can DBD ever have a Competitive Mode? | Question For The Devs/Player Opinions Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@jesterkind said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923773#Comment_3923773
Well, at that point, we have to ask why.
Totem challenges only have a higher chance of harming the team (if they even do, ftr, I wouldn't personally peg those ones as the problem- chest opening is much worse) because people don't broadly value the perks that'd help. There's nothing actually wrong with the challenge, so maybe the solution is instead to encourage the use of those perks somehow.
Glyph challenges, sure, that's just a timesink. It's not necessarily harmful but you could easily see someone wasting too much time on them.
"Hiding near the killer", though, is a challenge with a weird perception in the community, not least because there's two versions. Assuming we're talking about the ones that actually have a distance listed, honestly, yeah, I'm on board with them not coming back, they're just kind of annoying— but people act like "be in the killer's terror radius" is the same way, and it isn't, those challenges are fine.
At a certain point if we want any halfway interesting challenges we need to take some steps somewhere to encourage good play within those challenges. I don't know how you'd do that, though. Maybe flavour text when the challenge is hovered over or something?
It's all well and good to say "if it has a higher chance of harming the team, it shouldn't come back", but it's equally bad for the game to not have any interesting challenges left afterwards. If all we're able to have is "finish trials" and "do gens", we may as well not have challenges at all.

Totem challenges have a higher chance of harming the team, because survivors breaking dull totems, often brings zero value to the other survivors. It has absolutely nothing to do with perks.

Acceptable daily challenges involve activities that actually have a decent chance of helping the other survivors. Like anything involving repairing, or altruism, or chases. Ideally, daily challenges shouldn't involve hatch escapes, or anything else that is much easier to achieve if the survivor excessively hides and purposely waits for their teammates to die.

Acceptable weekly challenges can also include activities that can be reasonably done without rushing at all. For example, "hide within the killer's terror radius for a total of 60 seconds" is completely fine as a weekly challenge.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@jesterkind said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923747#Comment_3923747
I see the difference, but it's a slight difference of scale, not a difference of kind.
If a survivor rushes a break totem challenge, they COULD be spending large amounts of time breaking dull totems for no effect, or they COULD bring perks like Inner Strength of Overzealous to capitalise on the opportunity.
Similarly, if they're rushing a chase challenge, they COULD bring chase perks to help them last longer so other survivors have time to do gens and reset… or they COULD just be running at the killer regardless of context and getting themselves killed.
There's no functional difference save for chases being more common without challenges, both are susceptible to people throwing to do them. You'd see it more frequently with totem challenges, potentially, but the principle applies to both.

We really need to care a lot more about probabilities.

If we really want to be extreme, let’s talk about green glyph challenges, that literally have a 0% chance of helping the other survivors escape. These challenges literally encourages survivors to do an anti-teamwork activity.

The challenges need to be reviewed, to determine if the challenge action has a higher probability to hurt or help the rest of the team.

Challenges like breaking totems, or hiding near the killer, or green glyph challenges, have a way higher probability of hurting the team when rushed, so they should never happen in the future.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@jesterkind said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923694#Comment_3923694
To be fair, at that point you can't have any even remotely interesting challenges.
Anything other than just playing matches would be susceptible to survivors throwing to complete them— even regular engagement challenges like "be chased" are susceptible to survivors throwing, by running at the killer to try and force chase when they should be doing literally anything else.
So, if your challenges are anything other than "complete trials" and "do generators", you've got the same problem.
I don't actually have a solution here, but it's not as simple as just not having challenges that survivors could throw to try and rush, because that's basically any challenge in the game.

@Rulebreaker said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923694#Comment_3923694
Seeing the problem isn't the same as fixing it regardless, but pretty much what Jesterkind said above sums up our general thoughts in a nicer way.
What couldn't count as "toxic"? At this rate it would be things like "escape as X survivor"...which are not remotely interesting.

Do you super honestly not see any difference in “break totems” challenges and “be chased by the killer” challenges?

When a survivor rushes a break totem challenge, they are often spending large amounts of time breaking dull totems, which ends up not helping the other survivors at all.

But when survivors rush chase challenges, they can bring chase perks to help them last longer in chases, and when they are being chased by the killer it helps the other survivors because it’s occupying the killer’s time, and taking pressure off of the other survivors.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@danielmaster87 said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3922135#Comment_3922135
You're still thinking in terms of preventing the initial injure, which is meant to be easy? My gosh. It's so hard to talk about balance with y'all because you're so far behind.
If that attack didn't have the auto-aim or the range, nobody would ever land that attack except for the top 0.1% of PC players. I want to play killers with functional powers, which I have control over more than the survivors do. Nobody wants to play a killer whose power is unable disabled all match, especially after basic interactions like breaking pallets.

The token removal on pallet breaks is specially there for counterplay to the grab attack. It’s not there “just because Ghoul is a dash killer”.

It’s fine if you want to complain that it makes the killer feel bad to play, but it’s still the reason why it was added to the game.

in 8.7.0 | Steady Pulse Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@Rulebreaker said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923547#Comment_3923547
Yet if people didn't act like their lives were on the line to complete those challenges, there'd be less harm. Those like use no mither actively challenge people to use the perk "DBD hardmode" instead of one of their usual, and likely meta, perks. Hatch escapes can be done with 5 gens and open doors. Even the rescues one is likely an eventuality due to the nature of the game, but people want it done now.
Blame what you want, but we see it as a people problem.

Seeing it as a people problem doesn’t actually help fix the problem.

Yeah, there are a lot of people that are going to rush the challenges. So the solution is to stop having challenges that are toxic when survivors try to rush them.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 8, 2025

@Rulebreaker said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923249#Comment_3923249
We both know that won't stop anything, but this is neither time nor place for that discussion.
Blaming people for being dumb about doing their challenges seems the appropriate response. Besides, the only real toxic ones (which are opinions mind) are the blind ones.

Blaming people doesn't accomplish anything. But removing the toxic challenge does accomplish things.

BHVR's biggest focus should be on making solo q feel more like a team. And it shouldn't be via survivor buffs, because BHVR has been doing enough of that. This should be done by discouraging or removing the reasons why solo q survivors aren't team players. Which is usually 1 of 3 things…

Survivors that are rage quitting early. This can be greatly helped by removing the exploits that allow survivors to easily bypass the DC penalties. This is part of the "Go Next" Prevention that is on the current roadmap.
Survivors that excessively hide and wait for their teammates to die. This can be greatly helped by the Hiding Prevention that is on the current roadmap.
Survivors that aren't even trying to help their team escape, because they are wasting enormous amounts of time on tome challenges, and are essentially sandbagging their entire team. This can be greatly helped by the New Quest System that is on the current roadmap.

Those are the important things in the Phase 1 roadmap. The things that help solo q feel more like a team.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

@Rulebreaker said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3923225#Comment_3923225
Then there's the reasonable players who want an extra challenge/win condition/something different.
Don't blame the mechanic, blame the people.

BHVR needs to make a ranked mode before that, so we can have a casual queue where survivors can be as anti-team player as they want, and they can ruin as many games as they want for the other survivors.

Blaming the people doesn’t help the solo q games that get ruined because of tome challenges. The real solution is to phase out the toxic challenges, unless there is a separate casual queue where people can do whatever they want.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

The tome challenges were toxic to solo q survivors.

It’s impossible for solo q to feel like a team, when one of the survivors is sandbagging their entire team to complete a tome challenge.

If we want to bridge the gap between solo q and SWF, then we need to get rid of the stuff that encourages survivors to be selfish anti-team individuals.

in Please don't fully remove Tomes! Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

Oni should have a button combination to 180, so console and PC players can equally do them.

Then Oni wouldn’t need the turbo boosted turning sensitivity.

in The lack of a turn-limit on Oni feels very hard to control. Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

@Lexilogo said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3922813#Comment_3922813
I'm sure it's true that some Tome challenges went too far, but I think players sometimes coming into Trials with agendas that aren't 100% aligned with the most optimal strategy is overall healthy for the game.

The problem was that “aren’t 100% aligned” often meant “100% selfishly focusing on their personal tome challenges”.

Pretty much anything that is considered an “interesting” tome challenge, is something that takes so much time to do, that it’s often ruining the entire match for the other survivors.

One of the worst tome challenges were the green glyph challenges, where people would tour the entire map after every generator is repaired, and the survivors were basically competing with each other to get the glyph first. The result would be each survivor ruining multiple games, just for one challenge.

in New Challenges/Quests Eliminate Playing for a Goal/Reason Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

@Kaethela said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3922504#Comment_3922504
If you don't play every single day you're losing out on the daily challenges. Also, if you've finished out the dailies for a given day there's no incentive to keep playing if you want to grind the rift. Before this every single match made some progress toward the rift even if I didn't advance a challenge.

After you finish the dailies, you still have milestone quests that can be completed.

in You are now forced to login every day to complete a rift Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

@toxik_survivor said:
The old archives allowed you to pick one challenge and complete that challenge only. It made me play the game in a play style to specifically fulfill the challenge requirements. For example, repair 2 gens in a single match, I would put on stake out and hyper focus and do a Gen build. Old archives allowed me to play with a goal and purpose.
These new challenges and replacements of archives are too passive. They require absolutely no user interaction. You literally complete them by just playing the game since you can complete multiple in one match. I really like the concept and the effort put into the new system, however I just don't see why the original archives were replaced. There was no need for that as I believe the original system was interactive, and purposeful towards gameplay.
Overall I'm not a huge fan of major change when it comes to DBD. Dbd has gotten more and more corporate over the years and now we are changing the one of a kind, unique to dbd archive/tome system into a basic quest system.
What do we think about the new system.

The tome challenges were often toxic, because survivors would sandbag their entire team to compete challenges like “break 5 totems”, or “hide near the killer for way too long”.

How is solo q supposed to feel like a team, when one of the survivors thinks their personal tome challenges are more important than the survivors escaping the match?

in New Challenges/Quests Eliminate Playing for a Goal/Reason Comment by Coffeecrashing May 7, 2025

As an update, I haven't seen any Rapid Response combos yet….

…But I absolutely have seen a whole lot of survivors that are trying to use Duty of Care multiple times in the same chase. Mostly medkits, and sometimes syringes, and sometimes SWFs stacking healing speed perks (even Circle of Healing).