Elan

Overall feedback on killer perks, will skip small numeric changes. Post PTB.

Fire Up - nice buff, but again might be a bit higher. 10 % would feel more responsible and serve as light game QOL to action speeds.
Game afoot - small but nice buff. We have perks to not chase obsession while lack of perks to chase obsession and GA isn't that reliable in that as it's based of max chase speed. Can use rework to work on every last basic attack to make more viable builds with other obsession perks.
Spies From Shadows - decent change, guaranteed infor perk. Nice.
Unbound - solid change. This will give you long rapid brutality upon vaulting. I like that change.
Help wanted + machine learning - compromised perks being good? My favourite perks got nice buffs, Defienetly not a meme anymore.
Dark Arrogance - very nice tool to end up chases quickly especially when paired with STBFL, however my issue is that those perks make unhooking impossible and should be restricted when in certain m around hook untill endgame. If we want to make options to deny unhooking and proxycamping as rewarding it will cause problems and I see it being common once people realize it.
Dead Man's Switch - same as Hyperfocus no more cheesing with surge, pain res, eruption, yamori mask, friends etc. You want the value, you have to earn it. Will still be massive stall tool. Good change.
Dissolution + Blood Favor - This will giganerf Krasue who's unable to deal with pallets while still keep it good on Lich who uses it the most.
Distressing - slight penalty buff would be cool to help diminished, 10 % seems like a sweet spot.
Dominance - crazy buff, defienetly a meta in hex builds.
Nothing But Misery might be buffed to 10 %, it's Hex and should worth it. The hit reduction feels fine but hindred is still very low.
Thrill Of The Hunt - makes old issue the same. Will make top tier killers with hexes even harder to beat while low tiers with hexes unable to defend totems other than once with dominance.
Insidious - undetectable od demand seems pretty handy. Duration can be buffed to 10s and activation stay at 1s.
Knockout - sounds crazy but isn't. Will make two killers to insanely frustrating to go against while having no use to others. Would like it to have it's pallet break limitation removed and being lowered to 7-10 % hindred. If it goes live with 20 %, well killers who have almost no counterplay other than predropping pallets will make you wanna go next.
Ravenous - nice buff still wish it has effect of short exposed on every token.
Monstrous Shrine - will be insanely inconsistent but defienetly better than Hangman's Trick or old Monstrous Shrine.
Shattered Hope - this buff will make already mediocre boons non-existing. I don't know whether their effects worth the insta position revealed once they are placed.
Superior Anatomy - great buff.
Undone - meta? Hell yes.
Unrelenting - nice buff for beginner perk, not worth out of it. Maybe for fast lock break on Dredge or fast turret break on Alien.
Whispers - literally my idea for new perk was to give killers 15 % haste of of chase. This works a bit similiar but 5 % haste is too little even ex nice extra step. 24m range feels more reliable but haste can be increased to 15 %. It won't do little to survivors splitting up while giving insane value against grouped up survivors.

in Killer Perk Changes Feedback Comment by Elan September 21, 2026

@BruceCampbell said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4117726#Comment_4117726
I gave up on this forums, but came back exactly to point this.
BHVR made Hyperfocus more of a menace with the buff to This Is Not Happening.

Hyperfocus with TINH won't give you more than intended value, so overall progress you gain per max skill check is about 2 % less. I kinda disagree, while TINH makes greats slightly easier to hit it won't be baindaid for those who can't hit them normally making Hyperfocus skill based perk again and TINH more appealing to make greats slightly easier while not abusing them.

in Survivor Perk Changes Feedback Comment by Elan September 21, 2026

@cogsturning said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4119298#Comment_4119298
Yeah but you know some of these killers face them every single match, or so they say. Those players' KRs always seem really high though. But hey, they might lose one in twenty matches and that's just not acceptable.

Losing as killer casues saddness and that's why killer talk about killer anxiety so much. That they just try to win but survivor are toxic, rush gens, bring sabo builds, flashlights and unhealthy perks such as dead hard, decisive strike or lithe.

in Survivor Perk Changes Feedback Comment by Elan September 21, 2026

Here is my overall feedback on the survivor perks. I will skip the numeric changes in tiers.

Better Than New - sizeable buff, might make the perk usable but won't reach the meta.

Empathic Connection - sizeable buff, might replace botany knowledge for those who want altrustic builds with extra info.

Flow State - max 75, still a buff. There are just so many better perks that are more consistent without requirement of endgame.

Friendly Competition - Spreading on gens is the play, I think this will incentivize people to rush gens together rather than splittting progress across multiple gens which in the end will result in less smart strategy from survivors. Duration nerf isn't worth the 10 % repair speed as there are more perks that do better and we should make that equally as good rather than something limited for not the same value.

Blood Pact - Swf perk, no change for solo q. This require right pathing and knowledge to get use of.

Boon: Illumination - sadly increased bless relocating speed isn't solving the issue with boons being mediocre and now when shattered hope is buffed, you will be punished just by bringing boons making full boon build turn into no perk.

Borrowed Time - awfull perk rework. Hope it will get some changes before going live.

Calm Spirit - much needed change, sadly stealth isn't valid playstyle anymore.

Dark Sense - minimap reveal 5x per game is decent, not sure whether worth overall but decent starter info perk.

Sole Survivor - not sure how to feel about it. The hatch part won't be usefull out of engame or absolute late game. If you team dies at 5 gens it won't do anything. 3 tokens are a bit too many, 2 might seem more reasonable.

Do No Harm - 4 % trigger skillcheck feel lackluster and not worth over better options. It's speed makes higher odds pointless.

Five Moves Ahead - probablby replacement for Windows Of Opportunity while keeping it active untill drop.

Pharmacy - since medkits got nerfed this perk is quite out of potential. Old emergency medkit allowed healing at 10s now there are way more consistent healings without side objective while chests being also limited.

Plunder's Instinct - Keys exist but might be handy in some chest build, for example with moment of glory, specialist. Wish Residual Manifest and Scavenger allow to trigger it's effect.

Premonition - nice change, but cooldown nerf isn't needed. It's now in most cases triggering so close that you already see the killer. Still counter to stealth which is it's main element.

Road Life - inititaly I thought the perk is too strong, but the fact that in average situations you can be healed by teammates, bring medkit and heal about 2-3x per game I feel it's on the acceptable edge.

Self Preservation - This change does nothing. If reason to nerf it's duration was to prevent stealth it's duration will be still long enough to counter most hook perks such as BBQ, Friends Till The End, Alien Instinct etc. I would like to have it reworked back to it's original version - if anyone within 24m gets damaged, you gain elusive for 15s. This would solve the "I have nowher to go" situations for killers while opening paths for the perk to be more versatile.

Shoulder The Burden - similiar to Self Preservation, this perk's nerf doesn't solve the issue which is negating pressure when the killer is not hard tunneling while giving you in obvious target situation when killer is hard tunneling. Dowside for the perk should not make unhooker pay for helping teammates, while negating option to distribute hooks, my propose changes.

→ Anytime survivor is hooked, your aura will be revealed to killer for 8s and you get a token. If you have more than 3 tokens the perk deactivates and can no longer be used. If you have less than 3 tokens, when standing next to hooked survivor press F to unhook them. They lose hook stage, you gain hook stage, scream and suffer exposed for 60s (note: now when vigil no longer cuts it, it's downside you can always get value from).

Slippery Meat - It's not bad, just haste is not enough to run it over better self-defence perks. But it's free and available for begginers, which is cool.

Small Game - decent change but the token mechanic should stay in as it's only perk giving you informations about cleansing from other teammates other than HUD.

Solidarity - nice change, this perk just suffer design to be either not very good, which even after buff it still won't be or massively op = if 100 % progress is transformed. Maybe killer aura reveal during heal might make the perk more viable out of meme builds. Buckle Up works on heals during dying state so this might work on heals from injuries to full health.

Spine Chill - nice change, making old days good again, but range is a bit too much leading the perk to trigger the effect when not needed. 24m would be more reasonable. Premonition would solve as knowledge perk and spine chill as vault perk.

Stake Out - very good change. I'm happy with Hyperfocus now being skillfull perk and hope it won't change as it's one of only perks that reward skill. Stake out offers decent chunk on gen when stacked but range is very limited. Perks like Bardic inspiration on Specialist might actually outclass this one. But it had to go with cheesing that many great skill check perks.

This Is Not Happening - cool change. People who can already hit great won't utilize it but people who struggle will have slightly higher chance in hitting them.

Wake Up - cool change. Might combat endgame builds and if you have max value you already won so it won't be that gamechanging.

Windows Of Opportunity - fine change, allows more interactive gameplay while providing maps better reason to be used.

in Survivor Perk Changes Feedback Comment by Elan September 21, 2026

@FoxGhoul said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4119087#Comment_4119087
Okay, i see that you didn't read the post that i made but lets be honest you are defending windows so i don't really expect much brain power or compression to begin with.

No reason to be rude. :) We discuss because we have different opinion, if we have same there is no room for it otherwise.

in Windows of opportunity Comment by Elan September 21, 2026

@PyramidFootLicker said:
With the amount of people celebrating the nerf to windows for example I do want to say that I do hope killer mains understand that more encounters with sweaty survivors will only get worse right? Like personally Windows is not my favourite perk or even all that appealing to me, and I understand changing perks because they might be outdated or work in ways that could be considered unfair like adrenaline healing someone who was already hooked but Windows was never OP and whoever started that trend was most likely doing it for engagement farming on tik tok or twitter. Perks that don't progress the game but still are viable or are "crutches" as people put it are still fine to exist as they are in my opinion, but it seems like everyone is convinced that this perk was autopilot mode when, like with distortion, the person playing like that would still play like that regardless of whether or not they ran the perk. Rats are always going to be rats, people pre-dropping are always going to do so etc.

More casual players are going to be funneled into playing META builds and only run set perks, more frequently than they do now and the onboarding for new players will just be to buy or pay for characters that have powerful perks. Even with net gen speeds getting nerfed years ago as well now killer mains feel gens fly by too fast and that's because with stealth gutted and aura reading being more frequent the game is more of a race against time and you'll keep saying "git gud" or "adapt" and when they do? Complaints about the next possible OP perk when it has existed for years with no issue. Then the cycle repeats itself.

Fair point is that with killers being much stronger you simply have to be efficient as possible. Back in a days you had average chase over minute. Gens fly isn't that true as most gen perks being nerfed, except for hyperfocus, which imo shouldn't be touched now when you can't stack it with stake out while it being one of the most skilled perk. Most of the time when the killer lose too many gens is because they don't know when to abandon chase. If you see someone running into shack at 5 gens and you are Trapper or Skull Merchant you should instaleave. Now when killer gets quick down it's mostly impossible to recover from because there will always be someone ignoring pain res dms or mindlessly stay injured at gen decreasing odds of winning.