Slowpeach

Yup. Dead hard is still going to be busted and really unfun game design and still be a third health state. Surprise. It's fractionally worse but the major thing of getting a third health state on demand in scenarios where you should otherwise go down is still going to be there. I mean it could be just a band aid fix until they come up with a way to deal with Nurse because she is still a massive balance issue and Dead Hard is a good answer to her but it also punishes almost every other killer as much or more so.

Honestly I was really really hoping they'd absolutely dumpster it or better still change what it does entirely. Like going through breakable walls once per trial because seeing that animation used for that would be hilarious (not a serious suggestion, although I'd rather that then the current or 'nerfed' version). Every metric tells you it is so overwhelmingly overused and people are really done with it's nonsense and yet the show goes on.

Already made a prediction thread that it will still be the most used exhaustion perk and I will necro it when the time comes with a big 'TOLD YOU SO!'. I really hope I don't have to do that though, I'd rather the game work.

in Does the Dead Hard change effect using it around pallets? Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

All they need to do is make it so that if a survivor is on hook and the killer is within 20 meters (maybe more) and not in chase with someone else the hook progress is slowed by 100%. The entity doesn't like it when you are watching them savour their food. Further after 10 seconds of being on the hook, Kindreds 'see the killer near the hook' is base kit and insidious no longer works against it. Numbers can be changed but the general anti camp sentiment is there.

This means if someone is camping, the counterplay (despite how unenjoyable it is for survivors involved) it is of doing generators is even more effective. The killer will get one person but that's all they'll get. There's really nothing you can do to eliminate camping entirely unless you change the game to make the killer have to hook survivors as a team a set number of times but that creates other problems of targeting weaker players to more easily reduce the value of experienced ones.

in Camping is even stronger now? Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

Honestly I still think DH will be the exhaustion perk of choice. It can still be used for distance. 1 second is a very long time and often makes the difference over whether you make a pallet or window. It also still can be activated whenever the user desires.

I dunno I really wish they just changed what it did entirely. Sniffing the survivors butt just sucks.

in I'm worried that the Dead Hard rework won't change its core issues Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

Interesting thing is auto dead hard definitely got stronger lol, cheaters rejoice?? I think it’s a nerf outside of that scenario but if it isn’t we will know very quickly.

Admittedly i was hoping they’d change what it does entirely. Sniffing a survivors butt and ‘waiting’ isn’t engaging gameplay, plus 1 second still means if they use it within 1 second reach of a safety they can still use it with zero counter play but alas, at least it’s not ‘as’ asinine and they still get deep wounds.

Honestly having thought about it, Dead Hard will still be the go to exhaustion perk. 1 second of invincibility is a long time in a chase and easily makes the difference between making or not making a pallet or window.

in Am i dumb or they actually buffed DH ? Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

I hear you. I really dislike how flashlights work in this game. People are drawn to them to play hero in a dramatic way but the less dramatic ways are far more effective. Ironically similar to real life.

I mean using them after a pallet stun is fair enough but using them for saves is just not intuitive at all. It has to be at EXACTLY the right time, too early and you blind them but don't get the save and too late and they dodge it easily. It's also really unintuitive facing it as killer, the angles that do and don't work are really silly. Wish they'd get overhauled somehow so they are more used to make distance or distract the killer or something rather then try and torment them.

in Stop going for flash light saves please 😭 Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

The honest truth though is matchmaking is broken :D. You don't need some arbitrary number to prove it. Just watching the massive variance in how players at your supposed skill level is pretty much proof of that. Especially noticeable on killer.

It'll just be a scapegoat for a problem that already exists. In other words, it doesn't matter.

in There is one problem with the new prestige system (prediction) Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

@Thusly_Boned said:
Also, I think this event has marked the first time in my 3 years of DBD where my killer queue times were consistently longer than my surv times. Very strange.

This. Survivor times are near instant, killer times are as long as survivor times used to be. I do both but generally prefer to be on killer so I can give people a chase but ultimately not kill anyone. That said if more people want to play killer, I'll play survivor to speed things along.

@Babadook83 said:
i have almost no problems during the event. maybe because i'm in europe and people aren't even close to the toxic levels as in North America.

For what it's worth here in Australia, normally there have been off games but I encountered my first basement Insidious Bubba during this event. Played against Corrupt Intervention+Hex: Ruin, Hag and Nurse more times in the event then I have in the entire game I've played the game (2 and a bit months) and I've had some frustrating games but I think that's true regardless on solo survivor. Overall I'd definitely say toxicity levels on both sides is 'slightly' higher but not excessively.

in What is going on?!?!?! Comment by Slowpeach June 22, 2022

@Babadook83 said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3013349#Comment_3013349
strange cause there seem to be a lot of players that love to play legion as killer.

I am one of them. For me it's think their design on an artistic level draws me. They are after all 4 individuals which you can choose one of them (in my case Joey where's my forum icon damnit). Also the fact they are fairly easy to play plus the fact they stomp on weaker players means weaker killer players can get returns more easily. Which in turn creates 'I hate Legion'.

That doesn't make anything I said less valid. I like Legion because of who they are, not because of how they play. Hell most of the time I don't even use their power but I don't play to win.