yes this is good but then again then NEED to implement the point base system that would solve ALL the perk and addons issues and would let them add actually new and fun stuff that won't be busted on the top tier killers
Oh so we can't make blanket basegame changes for killer because there's the potential for imbalance but FOR SURVIVORS now that shits A OK, just give um basekit borrowed time, basekit haste on unhook AND give them basekit deliverance as well because thats definitely fucking balanced. Waiting for these retarded as devs to go through an add basekit unbreakable and off the record next.
@@davidcorodeanu4535absolutely not…that would make some perks be unable to be used with others or builds that are unusable on certain killers. This is pretty much the antithesis of what dead by daylight is, a game where anything can happen.
@@benlinton1696 Unfortunately, I can't claim credit for it. Someone else made the quote, I don't recall who. As a web developer and aspiring programmer, however, I understand your frustrations lol
I suggested something like this a few years back and got an onslaught "BHVR will never know how to tierlist the killers" comments. I still think it's the right direction to go in but I've expanded into believing that build allowances might actually be the best move for balancing all aspects of the game. Like a DBD version of pick 10 just less open so the devs don't lose their minds.
been playing since release; devs are definitely a lot more aware than they used to be as of late and with the upgrade to unreal 5 it might be an actual genuine possibility that we see a simple change like this come to the game; that being said they are still the slowest game devs i've seen lmao, if we see this change it will be 3 years from now
Yeah same, I've been playing him since I started playing dbd in 2020 but on the other hand, I lose a small part of my soul every time someone uses the words "Hillbilly" and "Overpowered" in the same sentence
@@Juanus14Unfortunately we get assiciated with Lopro using bots (not real Billy players), as it's an extremely problematic and overpowered addon for him
Now imagine if they answer that they can't make a base regression value per killer for some reason. Or that it would take for about 5 years to implement such a thing into the game.
I don't know if it's still like this but I remember behavior mentioning in the past that technically all killer powers are loaded on the map but just not in play or something. I would be willing to bet that thanks to that they would somehow find it difficult to implement this idea.
I thank the gods you play both sides Scott. Sometimes I’m on Reddit too long I read to most smooth brain takes from people who play specifically one side. I stg people who hardcore main one side ruin this game for everyone else
The dbd community also has lots of people who love to loudly share their opinions on the balance of the game, then turn out to have barely any experience and lack half the knowledge the game has to offer
@@ronjohnson2760 you trippin, he sees more balance than most. I play both sides too and I agree with a lot of what he says. Not everything but generally he’s trying to strike balance not discord
i think if we are allowed to ask the universe for accurate adjustments to their kick strength, i would rather just see them buff/nerf killers to where they are all relatively close and just do basekit gen regression plans instead
That's not really feasible or even something we actually want, for example take legion, pretty weak killer, pretty annoying to play against but with obvious weaknesses that counteract it's strengths, how do you buff legion without making them insufferable to play against ? Currently the strongest killers are also pretty hard to master with often either powers that are mechanically intensive or require massive amounts of knowledge but are ultimately strong by design because what they do is what you need to win a game of dbd as killer (down people fast) but also there mechanical aspect makes it so counterplay exists, a lot of the weaker killers have their power basically be a guaranteed hit with very little skill required but it takes a lot of time, to make them strong you would make that guaranteed hit happen faster
@@ScottJund I think it would be a pretty good band-aid fix WHILE they fix other killers, but implementing this would simply allow bhvr to make weak killers "strong" by buffing their wrath numbers and calling that a rework.
Theres plenty of killer powers that are always gonna be ahead or behind the pack without a complete total rework or a change that makes them completely obnoxious and unfun for one side.
The issue with Scott's suggested change is that it will make low-tier, noob-stomper killers even more noob-stomper-y and it will make high-tier, high-skill-floor killers even less accessible.
Pairing killer specific gen regression with a hard limit to how many gen slowdown perks a killer can run at once would make it much easier for them to balance slowdown and individual killers I think
@@NameIsDocI feel like the true problems are tookboxes and maybe maybe hyperfocus if the perfect scenario happens. Stuff like Deja vu is pretty harmless
@@D-Doc-C Deja has its part to play as well. Due to the spaghetti code of DBD. Whenever you stack certain types of perks together, they unknowingly stack off of each other, boosting each other strengths significantly. Theoretically you could get a boost up to 400% with the right combination of perks. This is the reason why thana and pentimento could extend Generators out to like three minutes when used in conjunction. as they were stacking in a weird way,. And that stacking is the reason why thanatophobia was Nerf into the ground instead of fixing that interaction. The initial idea as to why they didn’t fix that interaction and instead just Nerfed Thana into the ground was because it would mess up in the old engine and cause a cascade to failures. now that we have a new engine there is no reason for this spaghetti code nonsense. There is no reason why survivors should also get these kind of boost.
@@NameIsDoc This isn't a 'nerf killer' thing, I think they can afford to make regression perks stronger and more reliable if killers are limited to two of them. Right now there's just too many variables to balance around, they can't make any perks too strong because of edge cases like four slowdown nurse or something vastly skewing the effectiveness on one side of the scale. Ensuring that there can only be two slowdown perks on a killer loadout covers about half of that, and killer specific gen regression speeds would address the other half pretty nicely.
@@HalcyonRemnant I understand what you’re saying however, I think that’s putting too much odious on the killer the core issue the reason why four regression or slow down exist because there are multiple chin, progression perks that exist that completely break the game that puts the killer on a timer that they cannot keep up with for the vast majority of killers. I don’t give a shit about the nurse. I’m tired of everything centering around the goddamn nurse, what I want is a consistent gameplay across all the killers and I don’t think that Ning killer further will help anything if the core issue is not addressed. If you’re going to restrict the amount of killer regression perks, then we have to do the same to survivors restrict their gen, progression perks.
yeah i've always thought that killers should have specific "classes" for gen kicking stuff. it would also probably help BHVR in the future when designing new killers because they have a general idea of what kinda kit to encourage. like is this killer a pursuit killer, a ruination killer, or whatever
I wish more games would do this, like I'm tired of certain game characters just being able to equip whatever they want and be able to still do a crap tonne of damage while using a tank or healing build. (Why yes, I used to play League of Legends.)
I like this idea, it's like the threat of the killer heightens the stress/fear thus the survivors gen speed is adjusted depending on the tier of map control and how powerful the killer is. I think this would be easier to adjust for bhvr since they like data so much for changes, that maybe they can gauge from average kill rate, ect.
@@ixand3ri311 I didn't put any thought into how they would chose the rates, I'm just saying they have data they like to use, and if the lowest kill rate is nurse as you would say that would obviously be taken into account. Let them figure that part out
This is a great idea Scott. Nice visual as well. I’m glad someone finally addressed that we need base slowdown BUT it can’t be the same for every killer due to the balance issues between killers
Legitimately great take. Would love this. This for killer and that Push Limits thing you recommended for Survivor are the two basekit changes I've heard recommended that this game could use most imo
its cool because I have seen people discuss this! in that reddit thread the top comment thread is also about these ideas, which is great because the more people that're talking about this the more the devs may consiter it in the future!
I don’t know if I want less slowdown perks😅. All slowdown perks do is perks that aren’t dedicated to anti-chase. Imagine a killer having modern slowdown with bamboozle, spirit fury, friends til the end, and starstruck. The current punishment for killers not doing that is reduction in gen slow down.
I had an exact idea like this a long time ago. it could also help with balance of perks a lot and give killer groups a more distinguished identity of what they want to do or can do, it also has the added benefit of being able to more directly target some killers strength and weaknesses outside of touching their powers
thing is, balancing this is INCREDIBLY complicated. Killers all around feel like base gen kicks NEED a buff, but at the same time survivors do not want the gen kick to do TOO much damage. A solution would be to incorporate PERSONAL kick regression to EACH killer like Scott said. HOWEVER, BHVR's history make it seem like they would never do this. When things get too complicated regarding mechanics or coding, they usually choose to ignore it. This would require nerfs/buffs to every killer regularly from then on and require X amount of more work than they are already doing. Not calling them lazy, but I doubt they will pursue something that requires more work for no extra money.
Ugh, I can already imagine the headache of trying to get the IP holders for certain killers to cooperate, since BHVR has to work with them to even get the slightest change to go through.
@@BrightWulph that's not true at all, only for cosmetics and extremely significant visual overhauls to them do they have to worry about licensing permissions. they've always been able to freely balance licensed killers as much as they'd like without any hassle. It is part of the negotation, always has been.
How about making the slowdown perks have a passive reduction to regression speed? Just so there isn't 4 risk-free slowdowns being run as the meta. I also like your killer-based regression speed idea too. There's definitely things to work with.
That hasn't been an issue for a bit though. Because good survivors focus more on reseting when gens are being stalled. It's mostly an issue of bad/solo survivors.
Scott I had the same idea but for pallet stuns. I thought that there could be an extra stat for how “fragile” a killer is. Figured we could have killers like Blight or Nurse get stunned slightly longer while weaker killers stay the same
How would it be if killer perks started getting sorted into categories such as chase, gen regression, slowdown, aura reading e.t.c, and after that you're only allowed max 2 perks per category or maybe just the gen/slowdown ones. Then you could maybe look into starting to buff base regression
MOBAs have solved this issue already. Add unique keywords to regression perks to make them not stack then re-evaluate their balance once players are limited. It doesn't need to be as broad as all regression, maybe just something for enhanced regression (overcharge, call of brine), active regression (pop, pain res), and passive regression (ruin, surge, eruption). Sure it limits build variety, but the build variety is the problem here. The game will be much easier to balance if these strong options are limited
Like League with Mytic iteems did you can only use one gen reg so you don't need to nerf gen regression you can even make pain 30% or 35% because you have only 1 gen perk.
Why are survivor mains talking about regression perks being 'problematic' or something of the sort when said regression perks JUST got nerfed hard? Are we living in different realities?
@@cinatiropel I'm about 65% killer/35% survivor friend. Having regression perks in general isn't bad, it's like one of 5 interesting perk interactions in the game that bhvr can think of, but the power disparity between taking full regression perks and taking one or none is insane (is this a hot take now?). This also makes the game impossible to balance, and down right ridiculous whenever a new regression perk is created because the number of perks it could synergise with grows exponentially.
They're going to have to do something about this gen regression soon, I've already seen a lot of forum posts and Twitter posts complaining about killers slugging more. Like sure, slugging at five-gens is cringe. But when lower-teir killers or even killers who don't have good gen pressure but good chase power (like you said) loose two-three gens before they can get their first hook, it is incredibly worrisome. Like what else is the killer supposed to do? Even with a good chase power like Legion, Wraith, Clown they can't be in four places at once. It's even more worrisome when survivors equip themselves with saboteur, hyperfocus, WoO, Lythe, DS, Unbreakable, OTR, Weaving Spiders, Boon:Exponetial, Boon:Discord etc paired with Comodius+brand new part+hacksaw. Like sure, SoloQ will be slightly more disorganised, but if they play smart and have the right builds, they can cause a problem for a lower-teir killer or slower skilled killer players. We seem to be heading towards a Meta where it'll be easy to bully the killer, which will lead to killers slugging and bleeding out more because of their frustrations with the game, which in turn will make survivor games miserable and then BHVR will step in and make basekit unbreakable, wich will make strategic slugging useless. Thus the cycle continues.
Actually, this seems pretty similar to mine idea of perfect balancing: 1. Bhvr makes official tier lists of killers (not by killrate stats obviously), killer addons, survivor items and addons, maps. 2. Before the match starts all this tiers are taking into a formula, which defines base time to repair one gen. So, for example, if it is survivor-sided map then +5 sec to repair a gen, but the killer brought strong addons so it is -5, if it is nurse its like -10 to repair, if strong items then +10 etc. I don’t know if perks should be considered, bc on every killer each perks is different, or make tier list of perks on every killer individually and with every addon combination(which is a lot of work, so it is easier to not consider perks)
The major problem with this that I see is that the 'strength' of a killer is situational, especially when it comes to gen defense or being territorial in general. Trapper, for example, can completely lock down areas, especially on maps like RPD where there are limited ways in/out of areas/gens, but Haddonfield and Gideon can also have 3-gens where one of them is literally inaccessible without going through a one-way area past another gen. If he has a particularly good 3 gen, then the lack of mobility doesn't matter. Even the regression limit might not matter if survivors literally physically cannot reach 1-2 gens without passing through multiple traps. So in those situations, buffing their base regression will make them even more horrendous to deal with. Obviously, fixing map generation would be the core solution, but LOL BHVR. I personally think it'd be healthier for the game to scrap regression as a mechanic entirely and just have a hard set time limit. Say, 10 minutes, and then a 5 minute Endgame begins. Survivors get bonuses in EG depending on gens done, or perhaps add other mechanics (totems, close glyphs, etc). Killer gets bonuses depending on hooks/hook spread, or other 'appease the entity' stuff. Plenty of time for both sides to play the game and engage in the mechanics, and nip being able to hold things hostage in the bud. Could even more aggressively go after camping/tunneling in that kind of framework as well.
exactly, the problem is the killers who strength relies on a list of checkboxes vs killers who are generally strong. these killers should be weak and should be losing when survivors are playing correctly and not giving the win condition away. we need less win condition killers because for the most part once the condition is fulfilled the killer comes online and there's little to be done about them. even killers like wraith can sometimes excel, the only killer that i can think of being universally weak is freddy.
Survivor can exhaust kicks on any map. this is non-factor. there is no reason that regression is 0.25 after nerfing 3 gens. At this point, it is just BVHR incompetent balancing in play.
Giving Trapper a buff like this where he gets 200% regression speed would just lead to a meta where every Trapper runs Ruin/Thrill and Iri Stone for permanent regression state.
That's actually not bad at all, it wouldn't make a gigantic impact on the game, but it would even the playing field a bit more for the low tier vs high tier killers
My biggest concern is the fact there are killers that aren't even balanced within their own addons. Somehow Myers is both top tier and D- thanks to tombstone piece. They'll have to install suicide nets for the balancing team
@@maxschroder6873 the tomb stone add-ons are really gimmicky which is why no one normally runs it you can't balance an entire character over 2 add-ons that make the ability a gimmick. Yes they're strong add-ons but the problem is that they're rarely used
@@Scyclo You say that but almost every myers game i play is either tuft , tombstone or the tombstone shard . And of course people just feed the beast . If it isnt that its scratched mirror of vanity with them burning lerys 90 percent of the time .
Honestly the stat for the killer could literally be called "Map Control" and range from low to medium to high and the bonus regression being given based on that. I love your idea Scott, this would really give the low tier killers more range and wouldn't affect the higher ones as much.
what about organizing every perk into certain categories and you could only have a certain number of perks in that category at the same time? like you could only run two slow down perks at a time and two chase perks at at time? i dunno how good of an idea that is, but i thought i’d just throw it out as i thought of it
I think while not a bad idea it’s not full proof as the devs could use this as a bandaid fix to not actually adress balance issues among the killers. For example they might leave dredge in a weird awkward place with locker spawns locked lockers etc because they gave him higher viscuousness and they can point to that as a “fixing” him. Same can be applied to many other killers in the game.
I feel like this would have to come with some kind of max % loss change to gens too, a three gen trapper or hag with -8% on every kick with 2% regression would be my thirteenth reason as a solo q player lmao. Someone can correct me if the gen kick blocking thing would be enough to counter that playstyle, I haven't played the game very much since that released.
I was thinking the same thing when you were explaining that how regression perks can't be buffed or nerfed cuz of the power differences between the killers. Why not kick dmg and regression speed be different for each killer. This is a great idea, and hope can be implemented. I was also thinking for tunneling and camping problem, instead of having 3 hook stages, maybe each player could bring 3 survivors to the trial. Whenever you hook, you die, no struggle or anything. Then your 2nd survivor enters the game. Maybe a little cinematic kind of way, you see your survivor gets hooked, and camera moves to a far away location, and stops in front of a locker, where your 2nd survivor emerges. Even tho, killers can still tunnel you out if you only have 3 survivors to use, so maybe you could use one of the existing players survivor after you use all of yours. This also effects the endgame screen. As a killer, you don't have to kill every survivor in the trial to win. Let's say you killed 8 survivors out of 12, you've won the game. And for the survivor, it counts individual. If you've used 1-2 survivors and escape, you did a good job. But if you've used 3-4 and more, you've done a bad job at surviving. This might also increase the skin sales, which benefits the game. You don't have to bring 3 different survivors to the match, but let's say other players did, you might like the skins when you're playing as their survivor and decide to buy it for yourself. For unhooking skills such as "we'll make it" or "deliverance" they might have a different condition to activate. Let's say for deliverance, if you've been in the chase for certain amount of time, you can unhook yourself from the first hook, but that survivor stays broken trough the trial. (Not the new ones you bring) We'll make it could be used by the player who just lost one of his survivors, maybe after you get out of the locker, you go to your teammates, and heal them fast for a certain amount of time. This is kind of a big difference so I don't know if they'd code would allow such a thing, but if I was making an an asymmetric game that is similar to DBD, after seeing games current state, I'd definetly make it that way.
I remember I think in a otz video where he had an idea to rework toolboxes (back when they were overpowered) to have them produce a sort of shield overlay so that instead of increasing repair speed they would add a delay before generators started losing charges from regression. I think it would be interesting if both survivor and killer perks revolved around the idea of building and damaging generator shields instead of direct regression, a perk like pop would only be super effective against a team that's bringing toolboxes but would be able to strip the shield completely of a gen. Perhaps then killers can have buffed base regression and in turn survivors get some sort of base generator shield building. The idea is that survivors items/perks are less about speeding up repairs and more about creating a defence against gen regression and killer perks become focused on tearing down this defence and allowing generators to regress at a normal pace, you would only need one anti-gen perk to help with destroying shields, taking 4 anti-gen perks would essentially be like taking 4 anti-heal perks, sure they would stack but it wouldn't be a versatile build. Most perks would have their function remain almost the exact same just targeting generator shields as opposed to gens themselves.
Honestly at the very least the new regression stat would at the very least be a temporarily solution for killers that are in a weaker state like trapper until they got around to fixing them. To make a comparison, this is like the HUD update that gave solo queue more info but nothing really for SWF so it effectively bridged the gap between the two. This is basically the same thing for killer...it somewhat bridges the gap. Will it bridge the gap completely? No not even close, but it will help a lot if done right.
This... Is actually a really good idea though. That would also make sense thematically, like how Trapper has the perk to break things easier he could have insane regression by default.
Honestly this game could *really* use more adjustable values for the individual killers in general, even stuff like breaking/vaulting/recovery speeds, could help balance things more easily - of course, with the pretense that Behavior actually would do that, but in a perfect world it should help accomplish that.
If the problem is killers running 4 slowdown perks. What about adding a cooldown to gen regression perks? So e.g. a killer can only trigger pop/pain res/surge once every minute. Kind of just like the exhausted effect survivors have.
I mean, I'd argue some killers need that. Like, yeah, 4 slowdown blight is fucking obnoxious. But if you see a Trapper with Corrupt, Pop, Pain Res and Grim Embrace, can you really blame him?
Flipside to this would be a modifier to charges per generator for each killer. Would artificially increase the amount of gens need to be done for the weaker killers but also could decrease the ones needed for stronger killers. Also, it would not require killers to need to kick gens
Since consultants announced everyone has an idea. With that said I think Scott is a consultant. Idgaf if he is because low-key he's been one for years without the title and I think he's good at it. And if he's not one he should be because I know some killer mains that would love an open field with not pallets, windows or nothing but 360's and gens would require a jump start from all 4 including the killer to even get them started (that's the tru3th about some killer mains) and then surv mains wanting 4 exhaustion perks with base kit second chance perks. Scott has a good middle ground.
No solution is fool proof, but in your example even with the different slow downs based on the individual killer, nothing stops those same killers from still bringing 4 slowdowns. Here's my idea, make base kit gen regression be tied to the perks you bring. Allow me to explain, for each perk slot that does not include a gen regression/slowdown perk (this includes perks like deadlock, corrupt, tremors, etc.) you gain a 5% buff to gen kick damage and 1% of base regression. This by the way includes a change where the current base kick regression is removed meaning if you run 4 slowdowns, kicking a generator will literally do nothing unless you have pop or something. Having all 4 perk slots not include a gen regression or slowdown perk activates a feature where kicking a generator now does 30% damage to gens, base regression is now 5% per second, and by default all generators now take an additional 10 seconds to complete. These numbers are subject to change, but this is a much better change imo because it will literally punish you for bringing 4 slowdowns, and massively buff killers for bringing none, and allow you to feel more freedom in your perk selection without feeling like those perks are mandatory. One last thing I've always suggested is adding a base kit thana to the game. It's much easier to implement, although it doesn't really solve the major issues with much larger changes.
Yeah I kinda like this. I think there even might be other factors where a better balance in DBD would be taking some general actions and tweak them in a case by case (killer by killer or survivor by survivor) manner.
I wonder if applying a base regression on a killer by killer basis is an approach? so things like nurses don't get too buffed but trappers and freddys can appreciate the ability to control the map more with tailor made base regression buffs for them. edit: (literally stopped at 4:49 to give my two cents just for him to say it at 4:52 lmao! well at least we came up to the same solution lol)
Definitely! Like how killers have a speed based on their powers, their "kick power" should change how fast and strong they can break gens pallets and walls. They could also have bloodlust levels be different based on killers as well. Would definitely help balance killers easier
I get the impression the whole point of the regression nerfs was to take focus off of regression. The more survivors have to re-repair lost regression, the more boring the game is for them - even setting aside whether the game is a win or a loss. They may have an ideal for how long chases should take, and if a killer can achieve that, theoretically they should win. It's maybe also a guideline for how killers should set up side objectives to keep the game at least mildly interesting for survivors, rather than require them to hold M1 for longer. (I'll maintain, I think Xeno's fire turrets are an excellent example of this design, and many people don't appreciate it)
I had an idea a while ago that I'm not sure would work or able to be balanced (also behavior would never actually implement it cause it would be a ton of work) but it was basically a rework to the perk system where rather than having 4 perk slots, you would have a number of "perk points" to spend and each perk would be assigned a point value. you could then make it so the stronger killers have less points than the weaker ones, meaning they wouldn't be able to run as many perks, and the stronger perks would obviously cost more, adding to that (all survivors would have the same number of points). again I have no clue how balanced this would actually be but I thought it would at least be interesting
Totally random but normally I'd just slap on eruption and surge together and be happy with my gen regression, but the stupud anti 3 gen update only allows 8 regression events (even through perks/addons) to happen on a gen. And I've tested it with eruption and surge, fully blocked a gen with 3 kicks. What is supposed to be a backup measure for holding games hostage is instead a direct nerf to both surge and eruption, which both hinge off of downing anyway.
The way you were explaining the problem I actually came to the same solution before you said it. But I also thought of why not make generators more or less unique per each killer, just like the skillchecks on The Doctor. Since most low-tiers are usually gimmicky type of killers you can make gens apply or have gimmicky effects on them.
The only issue that I see with this is that it would kinda just encourage those weaker killers with greater regression to camp 3-gens. Yes, there's the anti-three-gen mechanic, but that doesn't prevent it entirely and can still allow for a match to be unnecessarily drawn out. Couple that with certain perks like Overcharge, Call of Brine, and Pop Goes the Weasel stacking with these regression effects, I feel like it would have the opposite effect on trying to balance out the disparity in chase times. Like you said (2:38), you can't rely on the sportsmanship of the community to not use the most effective tactics to win.
How about adding a tag to every perk that classifies the type of perk that it is, and for every duplicate tag y ou have equipped, the effects of the perks become weaker (maybe dropping in Tier)? It would encourage build variety without making the perks necessarily unviable while also properly nerfing boring broken builds. Maybe only have this apply to regression perks?
One thing that I was thinking would be weight classes, which still is kinda a blanket change but hear me out. Nurse would be the lightest class and have the current base gen kick regression and Clown for example would be apart of the heaviest weight class and have a slightly higher modifier to the kick damage (technically this should apply to pallets but I don’t wanna deal with that). IMO it wouldn’t fix everything because of some obvious outliers (Freddy being small and Oni being fat as fuck) but it could work. Very similar to Scott’s idea but could be fine like that
In addition to this almost every killer needs some small variable to their kit that affects map generation like Trapper increases the size and thickness of grass patches. Huntress gets fewer tree/large object clutter. Dredge spawns more lockers etc.
Could also maybe make a perk for that regression system. Something along the lines of forfeiting gen regression for movement speed or something idk. The higher your x%/x% is then the higher speed you get or something. That way nurse can't use this very well.
You could make it so that for each gen regression perk you lose a percent of the whole group. This would make it so the more slow down perks doesn't equal more actual slow down depending on the killer. Along with your idea of course
This may be a bad idea, but what if regression increased its speed by a specific percentage of the killer remains in a close proximity to a gen. That way it becomes a trade off of regression vs map control.
While this is very much true, I’m still not entirely certain it’d fix the over reliance on regression perks. I still think some sort of additional base kit regression for all killers would be useful, potentially something which rewards not tunneling (for instance, dealing minor damage to all generators each time you hook a unique survivor before any survivor has died) would go a long way to rebalance regression and make perkless killer less miserable. The amount could even be determined by the stat just like the base regression. Just a thought overall.
Honestly it is a good idea because, if necessary, you could go the extra step and tie generator regression perks' effects to this statistic. Then it's self balancing because weaker killers who need it get stronger benefits from those perks whereas stronger killers who don't get lesser benefits. Pretty good suggestion I think. Only problem is that it adds another level of complexity to an already fairly complex game. Take a new player who has no idea what any of these things means and try to explain to them what it is and, well... Yeah. Gonna be 90% of the work just trying to find an elegant way to present the information.
I had an idea on how to balance the perk usage, which will never gonna happen, but I'll give it anyway. I was thinking about adding something like rune, or glyph system to the perks. Each perk would have one or a few runes attached to them, and you couldn't use perks with these runes outside of a perk slot that would have a same symbol. With that all slowdown perks would have one type of runes, chase perks another, information another etc. Thing is that not every killer would have rune slots. That would mean that stronger killers like Blight would be very restricted to having only one slowdown, maybe one information or something that would limit his options while killers like Trapper wouldn't had any, so no perk restrictions for him. That would need A LOT of work, and could be very unfun for the stronger killers to have limited options in using perks that they unlocked, but I think that after a bit of balance changes this could work well. (maybe even due to these restrictions a lot of perks could be buffed since strong perk combos could be present only on week killers anyway and with that we could see Pig near top of the tier lists)
I really wish we got to a point, where base regression is strong enough on its own, and 4 regression perk build isn't opressive. Can it be done just by buffing the former and nerfing the latter? Otherwise we might need a category system (no more than 2 perks of the same typre)
The issue overall is that generators don't take long enough to complete by base. It's 90 seconds, not including skillcheck bonuses, toolbox and perk bonuses, and also not including multiple survivor bonuses. In a game that can, at the very most, last 60 minutes before the match is forcibly ended by the server. To fix it, I would do three things. 1. First, raise the base amount of charges of all generators. 2. Second, all % based regressions except the base amount lost from failed skillchecks and the amount naturally removed from damaging a generator manually are instead changed to a flat amount of charges being removed. This heavily limits the amount of regression power the killer directly has. In conjunction with generators naturally taking longer, the _need_ for regression is removed and it is now as optional as taking a Toolbox for a Survivor. Additionally, the amount of regressions a killer can do to a generator is reduced to 5 from 8 over the course of a match forcing them to use it more sparingly, rather than whenever possible. This regression limit would be more clear to the killer than it currently is. 3. Finally, Toolboxes would also get reworked to instead forcibly pass skillchecks rather than direct generator speed bonuses. In detail, here are the changes I would make. 1. All generator's maximum charges would go up by an additional 30, raising the time to complete a generator to be 2 minutes, not including any outside factors. A fail from missing a skillcheck would be unchanged from 10% of the current progress, and a manual damaging of a generator would also be unaffected, still removing 5% and costing the killer one "regression" on that generator up to their maximum. The closer a generator is to completion, the more imperative it is that Survivors lock-in on the task at hand and do not fail skillchecks, as it could harm them more than ever before. 2. Perks and addons that previously removed charges of progress on a generator by percentage are *all* changed to different flat values. Regardless of how much a generator has been fixed, these values will never vary and always be static. This further limits the direct oppression that regression effects have on generators, however because it is static, it will prove for a larger hit on low progress generators than previously. Because the maximum amount of regressions is reduced to 5 from 8, the killer would have to pick and choose when they want to regress more carefully, or deal with the inevitability of Survivors completing the generators without further resistance. 3. Toolboxes would no longer provide direct progress speed bonuses, and instead be used to forcibly complete skillchecks. Skillchecks skipped this way would always be "Great". Whenever a skillcheck is skipped this way, the toolbox loses a charge. The amount of charges is based on the rarity of the toolbox, and each toolbox would grant a flat bonus to the amount of charges gained for skillcheck skips, also affected by some add-ons. Due to this drastic change, sabotaging with a toolbox will also use up charges like skipping skillchecks. The amount of charges would be a flat amount of uses, rather than a percentile value. All "Repair speed" effects are changed. Gaining an increase to speed on a generator directly is now *only* increased by survivors working together on a generator. When I mean a generator should take 2 minutes not including bonuses, I *mean it.* Some perks would obviously have to change to implement all of this, so here's my ideas for the ones that affect toolboxes and repair speed. Overwhelming Presence: Doubles the amount of charges used per skip/sabotage, but even if the item only has one charge left, the action can still be done unimpeded. Non-toolbox item charge values are unchanged from the previous version. Franklin's Demise: Removes 25% of the item's maximum charges, and permanently prevents those charges from being regenerated for the rest of the match. An item reduced to 0 maximum charges by this effect is destroyed. The item aura reading effect is removed, and the item is no longer removed from the Survivor's hand unless it is destroyed. Built to Last: Items with reduced maximums from Franklin's Demise can only ever be recharged to that maximum. Corrective Action: Does not affect Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes. Fast Track: Is unaffected by Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes. Fogwise: Does not trigger with Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes. Hyperfocus: Does not affect Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes. Friendly Competition: When you complete a generator with the help of at least one other survivor, Friendly Competition activates; For the next 75 seconds, you and those survivors can freely choose to skip skillchecks on generators as if you had a toolbox, however no bonus to progress is granted. If any survivors affected _manually_ get Great skillchecks, they are given an additional 3% bonus to progress. If any of the affected survivors fail a skillcheck on a generator, this effect ends for all survivors affected. Invocation Weaving Spiders: Maximum charges on generators reduced by 20 from 10. Overzealous: After Cleansing or Blessing a totem, gain charges up to a maximum of 8 at any given time. If it was a Dull totem: The next 2 failed skillchecks when repairing a generator or healing another Survivor are instead considered Great skillchecks. If it was a Hex totem: The next 4 failed skillchecks when repairing a generator or healing another Survivior are instead considered Great skillchecks. Potential Energy: While the effect is active, Skillchecks cannot be skipped with the use of a Toolbox. Prove Thyself: For every other Survivor repairing a generator within 4 meters, Prove Thyself increases the chance for you to see additional Skillchecks by 20%, up to a total of 60%. During this time, the skillcheck zone is increased by 10% per additional survivor, up to 30%, and reduced by 5% per successful skillcheck hit in a row, down to -30%. If you fail a skillcheck while this effect is active, Prove Thyself will disable for 45 seconds. No longer affects other survivors around you. Tooboxes can be used to skip these skillchecks as per normal and will not trigger the 5% loss in skillcheck zone size. Quick Gambit: Survivors repairing generators within range of this effect will have Skillcheck failures automatically be considered Good skillchecks so long as the Survivor with Quick Gambit continues to be in range and in Chase with the Killer. Additionally reveals the aura of Survivors affected by Quick Gambit to the Survivor being chased. Rookie Spirit: This effect cannot be triggered by Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes. Scavenger: The repair speed reduction is replaced with the following effect: Recharging a Toolbox will permanently reduce it's maximum charges by 25%. Scavenger cannot be reactivated for 30 seconds and is disabled for the rest of the trial after activating four times. Sole Survivor: The repair speed effect is removed, however the Gate and Hatch opening speeds are still increased. When you are the Last Survivor Standing, your failed skillchecks do not trigger a Loud Sound warning to the Killer, and do not remove any progress. Streetwise: Your items are granted an additional 25% maximum charges, this effect extends to all other Survivors in the trial. If two Survivors have Streetwise, the effect is increased to 35%. If three Survivors have Streetwise, the effect is increased to 45%. If all Survivors have Streetwise, the effect is doubled to 50%. It would be a MAJOR update to the game, and definitely would shake the game up by its core, but honestly I think the game needs it.
I think you could even go further and tie gen regression perks to each killers kick regression such as Pain resonance could regress 4 kicks worth or gen blocks being based on regression speed like deadlock blocking the gen for 100 x your killers regression charges per second (assuming 0.25 charges base regression that'd be on average 25 seconds like it is now) I rather like the idea as it gives devs more stats to balance killers with and if perks would be based on your killers own regression stats, perks would excel with different killers.
This is a cool concept and definitely could help bridge the gap towards making regression feel more "fair" amongst the stronger and weaker killers. My primary concern with this idea though isn't even that it would require the devs to know which killers need stronger vs. weaker regression, but that it would take a game that is already difficult to learn from a numbers perspective for newer players and add yet another stat to consider on a killer to killer basis. Unless the generator regression stats were mostly consistent with only the killers on the higher and lower levels seeing some small percentage tweaks, I'd be worried the stats would vary too much and potentially confuse some players on both sides of the game. I don't think this is the worst trade-off necessarily, but I think making DBD as simple as possible for onboarding new players is still important and worth considering. If I have any follow up thoughts about this I'll post them, but thank you for sharing your ideas!
Honestly, I think this should be expanded beyond gen regression. We can have killers having slightly weaker powers if we buff them in other places. Give all killers 3 more stats: Bloodlust, Wrath, and Bulk. Bloodlust would be a modifier for how quickly they wipe their weapons after a successful hit. Wrath would be how much base regression they do to gens. Bulk would be how long they get stunned for. If you give all killers these 3 stats that modify the base times across the board, you can make Killers like Trapper stronger without buffing Nurse. OR you can nerf Nurse or Blight or Spirit without necessarily changing their powers or add-ons and giving them penalties. Imagine Nurse takes an extra .1 seconds to wipe off her blade and gets stunned at pallets for an extra .15 seconds. That wouldn't be detrimental to Nurse but would be to Trapper.
I literally been talking about this for a few years that based on the killer you use you can adjust how strong perks or regression is for them. Obviously M1 killers need more than killers who can zoom around the maps very quickly.
My thoughts have been "variable gen speed" repair speeds fluctuate based on ebb and flow of the game. K 0 hooks, but 2 gens have popped? Gens take longer to do. K has multiple hooks with 0 gens complete? Gens repair goes faster. Don't know how difficult it would be to implement so might just be irrational, but I do think having it operate essentially like a catch up mechanic could possibly help.
The only problem i have with this is that good and bad killers arent good and bad at every level of player (billy for example), and balancing around high end players could affect the majority of other players in unintended ways. Thats why there is no concrete killer tier list for ALL levels of player
Good idea, problematic for a number of reasons besides the main reason mentioned (BHVR failing to gauge killer strength). Mainly, Ruin, which on certain maps right now is stronger than it has *ever* been thanks to the 5% repair rule kicking in every time you hop off a gen. This new regression value would either have to ignore or interact with Ruin's % value. While the former would make the perk obsolete, the latter would be dangerous considering the two killers you mentioned as the weakest are in fact fairly good (and in Trapper's case, insane) at defending totems. Hag and Demogorgon would have to be adjusted *solely* on the basis of being S-Tier Ruin defenders. Second, metas change based on new perks and seeming unrelated buffs/nerfs regularly. Remember when Ultimate Weapon turned Pig into the most lethal killer overnight last year due to the interruption of box searches? Now there would have to be another factor to balance around for every killer...and consultants or not, I don't trust BHVR to do the work required.
Idk why they dont just implement a soft perk ban that certain killers cant use certain perks. and they already did that by making nurse unable to exposed hit during her blink, why cant they do stuff like that more so they dont need to rely on perks to do it but basekit changes. could cap blight to 2 aura perks cap nurse to 1 etc.
You can absolutely ensure that people shift away from slowdown perks - you can remove those perks. Instead of making players balance gen regression with their loadout, just balance the mechanic and replace those now-unnecessary perks with actual perks instead of required dead slots in a killer's build.
I thought pretty much an identical idea a while ago but with other stats like kick speed and stun time. The problem with this, however is as you say with trusting developers with sort of tierlisting strength of the killers. To be honest I wouldn't think the developers would even want this either though, as they would have to be very transparent with how they think each and every killer strength wise is, especially considering they usually try to balance the game overall rather than balancing around higher level play.
I had debated posting this but I actually think it would be smart to dramatically buff regression perks but attach those perks to something like an exhaustion mechanic where you can only have one regression perk proc every x seconds
An idea that seemed cool would be if the skill challenges were more minigames like skull merchants drones, thus making survivors have to pay more attention to their task rather than autopilot mode. If you can find a way to get survivors to miss their skill checks, you solve part of the regression issue while also letting killers naturally apply more pressure without purely having to rely on kick builds. This also allows skill check builds (with some changes obviously) on both sides more appealing as well
4 slow downs is still more then enough. Not to mention the ridiculous 3, 4, or even 5 gens that spawn together on quite a few maps but honestly you gotta expect some stress playing anything other then the top 5 killers so if you don't wanna feel stressed run 4 slow down Nurse or Blight every game which is what a lot of people are already doing.
Yeah everything I come up with on paper I think is really good, up until I remember that the higher tier killers exist. Here is where I landed: I think the first step is to make perks and effects have diminishing returns so stacking them isn't as good. This would've solved a lot of the stupidest mft+hope stuff, and would hopefully help standardize the 60 second swing in gen completion time you can currently have. Once gen completion rate changes are more normalized without the most insane ranges, then regression perks can have diminishing returns so that if you've stacked 4 it isn't much better than just running 2. And once you add DR to regression perks you can add in a per killer rating so perks can be adjusted on a killer by killer basis, and once you have that you can add in base kit slowdown. My idea was that gen repairs would slow down while the killer was in chase with someone that hasn't been hooked, and people that haven't been hooked repair faster based on the highest hook count survivor to discourage immediately tunneling one person out.
@@tannerjones1230 I don't know. It'd require playtesting. If it did, it would help with some of the dumbest maps where playing completely safely you can extend a chase for several minutes but even those generally rely on not being "in chase" while being chased. (and then there is Wraith that doesn't trigger chases while chasing.)
@@cinatiropel Did you skip past the part where I said gen times needed to be normalized to remove the possibility of 30 second gen completions or adding a per-killer setting to tune them all differently? I mean, I even started off with saying there needed to be basekit gen regression of some kind....
What if we half some of the main gen regression perks then put the half onto weaker killer and for the higher tier killers give them around 25% of it as base kit. I feel like that would be a nice buff to killers so they can actually run chase perks and not worry about gens flying. The 2 main perks I’d like to see would be pop and pain res. Have pop at 15% base kit for weak killers and for strong killers have it at 7.5% and for pain res have it at 12.5% for weak killers and for strong killers put it at 6.25%. Also this would promote healthy game play because for pain res you have to hook different survivors to get use out of it and pop you have to leave the hook, so I’d hop that would be enough to incentivize people to stop camping and tunneling.
Oh woops base regression is 0.25charges per second not 1. Billy would be more like 0.15 not 0.75
yes this is good but then again then NEED to implement the point base system that would solve ALL the perk and addons issues and would let them add actually new and fun stuff that won't be busted on the top tier killers
Base regression is .25?????? Jesus
@@dom3833yea it’s pretty awful, you need 4 seconds just to take away 1 second of survivor progress. That’s why 200% ruin was so good
Oh so we can't make blanket basegame changes for killer because there's the potential for imbalance but FOR SURVIVORS now that shits A OK, just give um basekit borrowed time, basekit haste on unhook AND give them basekit deliverance as well because thats definitely fucking balanced. Waiting for these retarded as devs to go through an add basekit unbreakable and off the record next.
@@davidcorodeanu4535absolutely not…that would make some perks be unable to be used with others or builds that are unusable on certain killers. This is pretty much the antithesis of what dead by daylight is, a game where anything can happen.
I can confirm that this is not in fact “fool proof” because I am stupid and I don’t get it.
Strong killer kick gen, small boom. Weak killer kick gen, bigger boom
@@MrGalactus95 but weak killer = weak legs
@@khelwi113Entity magic tho
@@khelwi113 weak killer go on leg training entity bootcamp
@@khelwi113 looking at nurse and blight compared to trapper... trapper def has way stronger legs (ignore freddy)
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
As a software developer I'm printing this quote off and hanging it in my office
@@benlinton1696 Unfortunately, I can't claim credit for it. Someone else made the quote, I don't recall who. As a web developer and aspiring programmer, however, I understand your frustrations lol
Foolproof is not going to be enough, we need behaviorproof.
Underrated comment
"killrates show that pig is and Freddy are doing well, they Will have the lowest regression. Nurse is underperforming.
More like dbdcommunity proof, since they understand the game even less.
Accurate ASF honestly @@itzYonko
@@itzYonkowish I could give that comment 1000 likes lol
When a skull merchant kicks a gen the gen is completed and the skull merchant explodes and is killswitched for three months
NOW we’re talking!
Where do I sign the petition?
Just for this I’m playing Skull Merchant for the next 3 weeks.
I suggested something like this a few years back and got an onslaught "BHVR will never know how to tierlist the killers" comments. I still think it's the right direction to go in but I've expanded into believing that build allowances might actually be the best move for balancing all aspects of the game. Like a DBD version of pick 10 just less open so the devs don't lose their minds.
been playing since release; devs are definitely a lot more aware than they used to be as of late and with the upgrade to unreal 5 it might be an actual genuine possibility that we see a simple change like this come to the game; that being said they are still the slowest game devs i've seen lmao, if we see this change it will be 3 years from now
Scott "engineer" Jund, fixing generator problems
As a Billy main of several years, i still get a rush of endorphins every time someone says "A strong killer, like *The Hillbilly* for example"
Yeah same, I've been playing him since I started playing dbd in 2020 but on the other hand, I lose a small part of my soul every time someone uses the words "Hillbilly" and "Overpowered" in the same sentence
Billy is mega strong but you have to actually be good which most people are not
The return of the king
Me with pyramid head
@@Juanus14Unfortunately we get assiciated with Lopro using bots (not real Billy players), as it's an extremely problematic and overpowered addon for him
Now imagine if they answer that they can't make a base regression value per killer for some reason. Or that it would take for about 5 years to implement such a thing into the game.
YEARS?!
I don't know if it's still like this but I remember behavior mentioning in the past that technically all killer powers are loaded on the map but just not in play or something. I would be willing to bet that thanks to that they would somehow find it difficult to implement this idea.
@@thecrackedtaillight2213 That may be true because there are cheaters throwing axes as Ghostface and setting bear traps as Leatherface.
@@thecrackedtaillight2213powers in dbd are more like weapons you pick up in cod but infinite ammo with their own attachments
I thank the gods you play both sides Scott. Sometimes I’m on Reddit too long I read to most smooth brain takes from people who play specifically one side. I stg people who hardcore main one side ruin this game for everyone else
100000%
Yeah Reddit makes my mind melt lol
plays both sides but scott is irrefutably a survivor main and most of his takes tend to lean in that direction.
The dbd community also has lots of people who love to loudly share their opinions on the balance of the game, then turn out to have barely any experience and lack half the knowledge the game has to offer
@@ronjohnson2760 you trippin, he sees more balance than most. I play both sides too and I agree with a lot of what he says. Not everything but generally he’s trying to strike balance not discord
BHVR: "We can't just give killers individual regression values because if we stun nurse out of her power how do we disable Trapper traps"
i think if we are allowed to ask the universe for accurate adjustments to their kick strength, i would rather just see them buff/nerf killers to where they are all relatively close and just do basekit gen regression plans instead
That'd be more ideal yeah, but this would also take about 10 minutes compared to several years readjusting every killer
That's not really feasible or even something we actually want, for example take legion, pretty weak killer, pretty annoying to play against but with obvious weaknesses that counteract it's strengths, how do you buff legion without making them insufferable to play against ? Currently the strongest killers are also pretty hard to master with often either powers that are mechanically intensive or require massive amounts of knowledge but are ultimately strong by design because what they do is what you need to win a game of dbd as killer (down people fast) but also there mechanical aspect makes it so counterplay exists, a lot of the weaker killers have their power basically be a guaranteed hit with very little skill required but it takes a lot of time, to make them strong you would make that guaranteed hit happen faster
@@ScottJund I think it would be a pretty good band-aid fix WHILE they fix other killers, but implementing this would simply allow bhvr to make weak killers "strong" by buffing their wrath numbers and calling that a rework.
Theres plenty of killer powers that are always gonna be ahead or behind the pack without a complete total rework or a change that makes them completely obnoxious and unfun for one side.
@@InfInityNoir 90% of the playerbase already see's Legion as insufferable so buff away. Can't make them any more mad.
The issue with Scott's suggested change is that it will make low-tier, noob-stomper killers even more noob-stomper-y and it will make high-tier, high-skill-floor killers even less accessible.
Pairing killer specific gen regression with a hard limit to how many gen slowdown perks a killer can run at once would make it much easier for them to balance slowdown and individual killers I think
Only if survivors also get gen progression perks nerfed you can still do a 27 second gen
@@NameIsDocI feel like the true problems are tookboxes and maybe maybe hyperfocus if the perfect scenario happens. Stuff like Deja vu is pretty harmless
@@D-Doc-C Deja has its part to play as well. Due to the spaghetti code of DBD. Whenever you stack certain types of perks together, they unknowingly stack off of each other, boosting each other strengths significantly. Theoretically you could get a boost up to 400% with the right combination of perks.
This is the reason why thana and pentimento could extend Generators out to like three minutes when used in conjunction. as they were stacking in a weird way,. And that stacking is the reason why thanatophobia was Nerf into the ground instead of fixing that interaction. The initial idea as to why they didn’t fix that interaction and instead just Nerfed Thana into the ground was because it would mess up in the old engine and cause a cascade to failures.
now that we have a new engine there is no reason for this spaghetti code nonsense. There is no reason why survivors should also get these kind of boost.
@@NameIsDoc This isn't a 'nerf killer' thing, I think they can afford to make regression perks stronger and more reliable if killers are limited to two of them. Right now there's just too many variables to balance around, they can't make any perks too strong because of edge cases like four slowdown nurse or something vastly skewing the effectiveness on one side of the scale. Ensuring that there can only be two slowdown perks on a killer loadout covers about half of that, and killer specific gen regression speeds would address the other half pretty nicely.
@@HalcyonRemnant I understand what you’re saying however, I think that’s putting too much odious on the killer the core issue the reason why four regression or slow down exist because there are multiple chin, progression perks that exist that completely break the game that puts the killer on a timer that they cannot keep up with for the vast majority of killers. I don’t give a shit about the nurse. I’m tired of everything centering around the goddamn nurse, what I want is a consistent gameplay across all the killers and I don’t think that Ning killer further will help anything if the core issue is not addressed.
If you’re going to restrict the amount of killer regression perks, then we have to do the same to survivors restrict their gen, progression perks.
yeah i've always thought that killers should have specific "classes" for gen kicking stuff. it would also probably help BHVR in the future when designing new killers because they have a general idea of what kinda kit to encourage. like is this killer a pursuit killer, a ruination killer, or whatever
I wish more games would do this, like I'm tired of certain game characters just being able to equip whatever they want and be able to still do a crap tonne of damage while using a tank or healing build. (Why yes, I used to play League of Legends.)
I like this idea, it's like the threat of the killer heightens the stress/fear thus the survivors gen speed is adjusted depending on the tier of map control and how powerful the killer is. I think this would be easier to adjust for bhvr since they like data so much for changes, that maybe they can gauge from average kill rate, ect.
I like the implication from your comment being that a druggy abomination is the least threatening compared to a teen with a knife.
Yeah it’s definitely a good idea it just probably shouldn’t be based off kill rate because nurse has the lowest kill rate by far
@@ixand3ri311 I didn't put any thought into how they would chose the rates, I'm just saying they have data they like to use, and if the lowest kill rate is nurse as you would say that would obviously be taken into account. Let them figure that part out
@@exhalete Ofcofc
Unless you play solo queqe survivor and play with headless chickens who just wander around doing their own thing😂
This is a great idea Scott. Nice visual as well. I’m glad someone finally addressed that we need base slowdown BUT it can’t be the same for every killer due to the balance issues between killers
Legitimately great take. Would love this. This for killer and that Push Limits thing you recommended for Survivor are the two basekit changes I've heard recommended that this game could use most imo
Would the required charges to stop it regressing always be 5? or would it be attached to the kick percent
its cool because I have seen people discuss this! in that reddit thread the top comment thread is also about these ideas, which is great because the more people that're talking about this the more the devs may consiter it in the future!
I don’t know if I want less slowdown perks😅. All slowdown perks do is perks that aren’t dedicated to anti-chase. Imagine a killer having modern slowdown with bamboozle, spirit fury, friends til the end, and starstruck. The current punishment for killers not doing that is reduction in gen slow down.
I had an exact idea like this a long time ago.
it could also help with balance of perks a lot and give killer groups a more distinguished identity of what they want to do or can do, it also has the added benefit of being able to more directly target some killers strength and weaknesses outside of touching their powers
thing is, balancing this is INCREDIBLY complicated. Killers all around feel like base gen kicks NEED a buff, but at the same time survivors do not want the gen kick to do TOO much damage. A solution would be to incorporate PERSONAL kick regression to EACH killer like Scott said. HOWEVER, BHVR's history make it seem like they would never do this. When things get too complicated regarding mechanics or coding, they usually choose to ignore it. This would require nerfs/buffs to every killer regularly from then on and require X amount of more work than they are already doing. Not calling them lazy, but I doubt they will pursue something that requires more work for no extra money.
Ugh, I can already imagine the headache of trying to get the IP holders for certain killers to cooperate, since BHVR has to work with them to even get the slightest change to go through.
@@BrightWulph that's not true at all, only for cosmetics and extremely significant visual overhauls to them do they have to worry about licensing permissions. they've always been able to freely balance licensed killers as much as they'd like without any hassle. It is part of the negotation, always has been.
How about making the slowdown perks have a passive reduction to regression speed? Just so there isn't 4 risk-free slowdowns being run as the meta.
I also like your killer-based regression speed idea too. There's definitely things to work with.
I think it could work pretty well, because direct value shouldn't stack as easily with passive effects.
Sounds great and less complicated to implement.
That hasn't been an issue for a bit though. Because good survivors focus more on reseting when gens are being stalled. It's mostly an issue of bad/solo survivors.
I feel like adding a vc for survivors would fix alot of the games issues.
Oh and it isn't risk free using only gen reg perks makes it were you can't take alot of other great perks.
Scott I had the same idea but for pallet stuns. I thought that there could be an extra stat for how “fragile” a killer is. Figured we could have killers like Blight or Nurse get stunned slightly longer while weaker killers stay the same
How would it be if killer perks started getting sorted into categories such as chase, gen regression, slowdown, aura reading e.t.c, and after that you're only allowed max 2 perks per category or maybe just the gen/slowdown ones. Then you could maybe look into starting to buff base regression
I remember suggesting this for stun length as well, where DS would hit longer for blight and nurse, less for weaker killers.
i feel like stuns hitting harder for nurse makes sense because she's always struck me as fragile compared to most killers
MOBAs have solved this issue already. Add unique keywords to regression perks to make them not stack then re-evaluate their balance once players are limited. It doesn't need to be as broad as all regression, maybe just something for enhanced regression (overcharge, call of brine), active regression (pop, pain res), and passive regression (ruin, surge, eruption). Sure it limits build variety, but the build variety is the problem here. The game will be much easier to balance if these strong options are limited
Like League with Mytic iteems did you can only use one gen reg so you don't need to nerf gen regression you can even make pain 30% or 35% because you have only 1 gen perk.
Why are survivor mains talking about regression perks being 'problematic' or something of the sort when said regression perks JUST got nerfed hard? Are we living in different realities?
@@cinatiropel I'm about 65% killer/35% survivor friend. Having regression perks in general isn't bad, it's like one of 5 interesting perk interactions in the game that bhvr can think of, but the power disparity between taking full regression perks and taking one or none is insane (is this a hot take now?). This also makes the game impossible to balance, and down right ridiculous whenever a new regression perk is created because the number of perks it could synergise with grows exponentially.
This was my post! Thank you for discussing this.
They're going to have to do something about this gen regression soon, I've already seen a lot of forum posts and Twitter posts complaining about killers slugging more. Like sure, slugging at five-gens is cringe. But when lower-teir killers or even killers who don't have good gen pressure but good chase power (like you said) loose two-three gens before they can get their first hook, it is incredibly worrisome. Like what else is the killer supposed to do? Even with a good chase power like Legion, Wraith, Clown they can't be in four places at once.
It's even more worrisome when survivors equip themselves with saboteur, hyperfocus, WoO, Lythe, DS, Unbreakable, OTR, Weaving Spiders, Boon:Exponetial, Boon:Discord etc paired with Comodius+brand new part+hacksaw. Like sure, SoloQ will be slightly more disorganised, but if they play smart and have the right builds, they can cause a problem for a lower-teir killer or slower skilled killer players.
We seem to be heading towards a Meta where it'll be easy to bully the killer, which will lead to killers slugging and bleeding out more because of their frustrations with the game, which in turn will make survivor games miserable and then BHVR will step in and make basekit unbreakable, wich will make strategic slugging useless. Thus the cycle continues.
Actually, this seems pretty similar to mine idea of perfect balancing: 1. Bhvr makes official tier lists of killers (not by killrate stats obviously), killer addons, survivor items and addons, maps. 2. Before the match starts all this tiers are taking into a formula, which defines base time to repair one gen. So, for example, if it is survivor-sided map then +5 sec to repair a gen, but the killer brought strong addons so it is -5, if it is nurse its like -10 to repair, if strong items then +10 etc. I don’t know if perks should be considered, bc on every killer each perks is different, or make tier list of perks on every killer individually and with every addon combination(which is a lot of work, so it is easier to not consider perks)
The major problem with this that I see is that the 'strength' of a killer is situational, especially when it comes to gen defense or being territorial in general. Trapper, for example, can completely lock down areas, especially on maps like RPD where there are limited ways in/out of areas/gens, but Haddonfield and Gideon can also have 3-gens where one of them is literally inaccessible without going through a one-way area past another gen. If he has a particularly good 3 gen, then the lack of mobility doesn't matter. Even the regression limit might not matter if survivors literally physically cannot reach 1-2 gens without passing through multiple traps. So in those situations, buffing their base regression will make them even more horrendous to deal with.
Obviously, fixing map generation would be the core solution, but LOL BHVR. I personally think it'd be healthier for the game to scrap regression as a mechanic entirely and just have a hard set time limit. Say, 10 minutes, and then a 5 minute Endgame begins. Survivors get bonuses in EG depending on gens done, or perhaps add other mechanics (totems, close glyphs, etc). Killer gets bonuses depending on hooks/hook spread, or other 'appease the entity' stuff. Plenty of time for both sides to play the game and engage in the mechanics, and nip being able to hold things hostage in the bud. Could even more aggressively go after camping/tunneling in that kind of framework as well.
exactly, the problem is the killers who strength relies on a list of checkboxes vs killers who are generally strong. these killers should be weak and should be losing when survivors are playing correctly and not giving the win condition away. we need less win condition killers because for the most part once the condition is fulfilled the killer comes online and there's little to be done about them. even killers like wraith can sometimes excel, the only killer that i can think of being universally weak is freddy.
On midwich you can guarantee a 3 gen with trapper and literally hold the game hostage if yoy want. Im guilty of this😂
Survivor can exhaust kicks on any map. this is non-factor. there is no reason that regression is 0.25 after nerfing 3 gens. At this point, it is just BVHR incompetent balancing in play.
Giving Trapper a buff like this where he gets 200% regression speed would just lead to a meta where every Trapper runs Ruin/Thrill and Iri Stone for permanent regression state.
@@BunnychanFarabee Ruin used to be 200% before and it was meta on every killer.
That's actually not bad at all, it wouldn't make a gigantic impact on the game, but it would even the playing field a bit more for the low tier vs high tier killers
My biggest concern is the fact there are killers that aren't even balanced within their own addons. Somehow Myers is both top tier and D- thanks to tombstone piece.
They'll have to install suicide nets for the balancing team
Ppl don't often use the tombstone add-ons anyway. They take too long to charge and ppl are impatient.
The Add-ons should change that Value as well. You could make every Myers with tombstone piece kick worth nothing :D
@@maxschroder6873 the tomb stone add-ons are really gimmicky which is why no one normally runs it you can't balance an entire character over 2 add-ons that make the ability a gimmick. Yes they're strong add-ons but the problem is that they're rarely used
@@maxschroder6873 they would absolutely have to install suicide nets at that point
@@Scyclo You say that but almost every myers game i play is either tuft , tombstone or the tombstone shard . And of course people just feed the beast . If it isnt that its scratched mirror of vanity with them burning lerys 90 percent of the time .
Honestly the stat for the killer could literally be called "Map Control" and range from low to medium to high and the bonus regression being given based on that. I love your idea Scott, this would really give the low tier killers more range and wouldn't affect the higher ones as much.
How would they rate the regression value on new killers? Based on strength in the ptb? Or adjust through patching after release?
what about organizing every perk into certain categories and you could only have a certain number of perks in that category at the same time? like you could only run two slow down perks at a time and two chase perks at at time? i dunno how good of an idea that is, but i thought i’d just throw it out as i thought of it
I think while not a bad idea it’s not full proof as the devs could use this as a bandaid fix to not actually adress balance issues among the killers. For example they might leave dredge in a weird awkward place with locker spawns locked lockers etc because they gave him higher viscuousness and they can point to that as a “fixing” him. Same can be applied to many other killers in the game.
I'm curious if we had a system like this how it would interact with perks that work off passive regression (ruin, overcharge, call of brine and such)
I feel like this would have to come with some kind of max % loss change to gens too, a three gen trapper or hag with -8% on every kick with 2% regression would be my thirteenth reason as a solo q player lmao. Someone can correct me if the gen kick blocking thing would be enough to counter that playstyle, I haven't played the game very much since that released.
Excellent idea and surprised I haven't seen this earlier. Would give devs another knob to use when balancing killers.
I was thinking the same thing when you were explaining that how regression perks can't be buffed or nerfed cuz of the power differences between the killers. Why not kick dmg and regression speed be different for each killer. This is a great idea, and hope can be implemented.
I was also thinking for tunneling and camping problem, instead of having 3 hook stages, maybe each player could bring 3 survivors to the trial. Whenever you hook, you die, no struggle or anything. Then your 2nd survivor enters the game. Maybe a little cinematic kind of way, you see your survivor gets hooked, and camera moves to a far away location, and stops in front of a locker, where your 2nd survivor emerges.
Even tho, killers can still tunnel you out if you only have 3 survivors to use, so maybe you could use one of the existing players survivor after you use all of yours. This also effects the endgame screen. As a killer, you don't have to kill every survivor in the trial to win. Let's say you killed 8 survivors out of 12, you've won the game. And for the survivor, it counts individual. If you've used 1-2 survivors and escape, you did a good job. But if you've used 3-4 and more, you've done a bad job at surviving.
This might also increase the skin sales, which benefits the game. You don't have to bring 3 different survivors to the match, but let's say other players did, you might like the skins when you're playing as their survivor and decide to buy it for yourself.
For unhooking skills such as "we'll make it" or "deliverance" they might have a different condition to activate.
Let's say for deliverance, if you've been in the chase for certain amount of time, you can unhook yourself from the first hook, but that survivor stays broken trough the trial. (Not the new ones you bring)
We'll make it could be used by the player who just lost one of his survivors, maybe after you get out of the locker, you go to your teammates, and heal them fast for a certain amount of time.
This is kind of a big difference so I don't know if they'd code would allow such a thing, but if I was making an an asymmetric game that is similar to DBD, after seeing games current state, I'd definetly make it that way.
I remember I think in a otz video where he had an idea to rework toolboxes (back when they were overpowered) to have them produce a sort of shield overlay so that instead of increasing repair speed they would add a delay before generators started losing charges from regression. I think it would be interesting if both survivor and killer perks revolved around the idea of building and damaging generator shields instead of direct regression, a perk like pop would only be super effective against a team that's bringing toolboxes but would be able to strip the shield completely of a gen. Perhaps then killers can have buffed base regression and in turn survivors get some sort of base generator shield building. The idea is that survivors items/perks are less about speeding up repairs and more about creating a defence against gen regression and killer perks become focused on tearing down this defence and allowing generators to regress at a normal pace, you would only need one anti-gen perk to help with destroying shields, taking 4 anti-gen perks would essentially be like taking 4 anti-heal perks, sure they would stack but it wouldn't be a versatile build. Most perks would have their function remain almost the exact same just targeting generator shields as opposed to gens themselves.
Honestly at the very least the new regression stat would at the very least be a temporarily solution for killers that are in a weaker state like trapper until they got around to fixing them.
To make a comparison, this is like the HUD update that gave solo queue more info but nothing really for SWF so it effectively bridged the gap between the two. This is basically the same thing for killer...it somewhat bridges the gap. Will it bridge the gap completely? No not even close, but it will help a lot if done right.
This... Is actually a really good idea though. That would also make sense thematically, like how Trapper has the perk to break things easier he could have insane regression by default.
Honestly this game could *really* use more adjustable values for the individual killers in general, even stuff like breaking/vaulting/recovery speeds, could help balance things more easily - of course, with the pretense that Behavior actually would do that, but in a perfect world it should help accomplish that.
If the problem is killers running 4 slowdown perks. What about adding a cooldown to gen regression perks? So e.g. a killer can only trigger pop/pain res/surge once every minute. Kind of just like the exhausted effect survivors have.
I mean, I'd argue some killers need that.
Like, yeah, 4 slowdown blight is fucking obnoxious. But if you see a Trapper with Corrupt, Pop, Pain Res and Grim Embrace, can you really blame him?
THANK YOU I WAS THINKING OF THE SAME IDEA FOR A WHILE NOW!!!!
Flipside to this would be a modifier to charges per generator for each killer. Would artificially increase the amount of gens need to be done for the weaker killers but also could decrease the ones needed for stronger killers. Also, it would not require killers to need to kick gens
the real true horror of dbd is the devs not understanding their own game and just balancing based off numbers and stats and kill rates
Freddy has highest kill rate, he’s getting nerfed…
Since consultants announced everyone has an idea. With that said I think Scott is a consultant. Idgaf if he is because low-key he's been one for years without the title and I think he's good at it. And if he's not one he should be because I know some killer mains that would love an open field with not pallets, windows or nothing but 360's and gens would require a jump start from all 4 including the killer to even get them started (that's the tru3th about some killer mains) and then surv mains wanting 4 exhaustion perks with base kit second chance perks. Scott has a good middle ground.
No solution is fool proof, but in your example even with the different slow downs based on the individual killer, nothing stops those same killers from still bringing 4 slowdowns.
Here's my idea, make base kit gen regression be tied to the perks you bring. Allow me to explain, for each perk slot that does not include a gen regression/slowdown perk (this includes perks like deadlock, corrupt, tremors, etc.) you gain a 5% buff to gen kick damage and 1% of base regression. This by the way includes a change where the current base kick regression is removed meaning if you run 4 slowdowns, kicking a generator will literally do nothing unless you have pop or something. Having all 4 perk slots not include a gen regression or slowdown perk activates a feature where kicking a generator now does 30% damage to gens, base regression is now 5% per second, and by default all generators now take an additional 10 seconds to complete. These numbers are subject to change, but this is a much better change imo because it will literally punish you for bringing 4 slowdowns, and massively buff killers for bringing none, and allow you to feel more freedom in your perk selection without feeling like those perks are mandatory.
One last thing I've always suggested is adding a base kit thana to the game. It's much easier to implement, although it doesn't really solve the major issues with much larger changes.
Only issue i see with this is somehow twin's code will find a way to screw it up because of how much of a buggy blackhole they are
Yeah I kinda like this. I think there even might be other factors where a better balance in DBD would be taking some general actions and tweak them in a case by case (killer by killer or survivor by survivor) manner.
I wonder if applying a base regression on a killer by killer basis is an approach? so things like nurses don't get too buffed but trappers and freddys can appreciate the ability to control the map more with tailor made base regression buffs for them. edit: (literally stopped at 4:49 to give my two cents just for him to say it at 4:52 lmao! well at least we came up to the same solution lol)
Definitely! Like how killers have a speed based on their powers, their "kick power" should change how fast and strong they can break gens pallets and walls. They could also have bloodlust levels be different based on killers as well. Would definitely help balance killers easier
I get the impression the whole point of the regression nerfs was to take focus off of regression. The more survivors have to re-repair lost regression, the more boring the game is for them - even setting aside whether the game is a win or a loss. They may have an ideal for how long chases should take, and if a killer can achieve that, theoretically they should win. It's maybe also a guideline for how killers should set up side objectives to keep the game at least mildly interesting for survivors, rather than require them to hold M1 for longer. (I'll maintain, I think Xeno's fire turrets are an excellent example of this design, and many people don't appreciate it)
I had an idea a while ago that I'm not sure would work or able to be balanced (also behavior would never actually implement it cause it would be a ton of work) but it was basically a rework to the perk system where rather than having 4 perk slots, you would have a number of "perk points" to spend and each perk would be assigned a point value. you could then make it so the stronger killers have less points than the weaker ones, meaning they wouldn't be able to run as many perks, and the stronger perks would obviously cost more, adding to that (all survivors would have the same number of points). again I have no clue how balanced this would actually be but I thought it would at least be interesting
Totally random but normally I'd just slap on eruption and surge together and be happy with my gen regression, but the stupud anti 3 gen update only allows 8 regression events (even through perks/addons) to happen on a gen. And I've tested it with eruption and surge, fully blocked a gen with 3 kicks. What is supposed to be a backup measure for holding games hostage is instead a direct nerf to both surge and eruption, which both hinge off of downing anyway.
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The way you were explaining the problem I actually came to the same solution before you said it. But I also thought of why not make generators more or less unique per each killer, just like the skillchecks on The Doctor. Since most low-tiers are usually gimmicky type of killers you can make gens apply or have gimmicky effects on them.
The only issue that I see with this is that it would kinda just encourage those weaker killers with greater regression to camp 3-gens. Yes, there's the anti-three-gen mechanic, but that doesn't prevent it entirely and can still allow for a match to be unnecessarily drawn out. Couple that with certain perks like Overcharge, Call of Brine, and Pop Goes the Weasel stacking with these regression effects, I feel like it would have the opposite effect on trying to balance out the disparity in chase times. Like you said (2:38), you can't rely on the sportsmanship of the community to not use the most effective tactics to win.
How about adding a tag to every perk that classifies the type of perk that it is, and for every duplicate tag y ou have equipped, the effects of the perks become weaker (maybe dropping in Tier)? It would encourage build variety without making the perks necessarily unviable while also properly nerfing boring broken builds. Maybe only have this apply to regression perks?
One thing that I was thinking would be weight classes, which still is kinda a blanket change but hear me out. Nurse would be the lightest class and have the current base gen kick regression and Clown for example would be apart of the heaviest weight class and have a slightly higher modifier to the kick damage (technically this should apply to pallets but I don’t wanna deal with that). IMO it wouldn’t fix everything because of some obvious outliers (Freddy being small and Oni being fat as fuck) but it could work. Very similar to Scott’s idea but could be fine like that
In addition to this almost every killer needs some small variable to their kit that affects map generation like Trapper increases the size and thickness of grass patches. Huntress gets fewer tree/large object clutter. Dredge spawns more lockers etc.
You think BHVR is going to sit and playtest and refine the regression value set for each killer?
Could also maybe make a perk for that regression system. Something along the lines of forfeiting gen regression for movement speed or something idk. The higher your x%/x% is then the higher speed you get or something. That way nurse can't use this very well.
You could make it so that for each gen regression perk you lose a percent of the whole group. This would make it so the more slow down perks doesn't equal more actual slow down depending on the killer. Along with your idea of course
This may be a bad idea, but what if regression increased its speed by a specific percentage of the killer remains in a close proximity to a gen. That way it becomes a trade off of regression vs map control.
That would make 3-gen'ing much worse
I love this idea. Would be awesome to see this in game.
While this is very much true, I’m still not entirely certain it’d fix the over reliance on regression perks. I still think some sort of additional base kit regression for all killers would be useful, potentially something which rewards not tunneling (for instance, dealing minor damage to all generators each time you hook a unique survivor before any survivor has died) would go a long way to rebalance regression and make perkless killer less miserable. The amount could even be determined by the stat just like the base regression. Just a thought overall.
Hmmm, that's pretty wild. I would like this just to see who would get what values.
Honestly it is a good idea because, if necessary, you could go the extra step and tie generator regression perks' effects to this statistic. Then it's self balancing because weaker killers who need it get stronger benefits from those perks whereas stronger killers who don't get lesser benefits. Pretty good suggestion I think.
Only problem is that it adds another level of complexity to an already fairly complex game. Take a new player who has no idea what any of these things means and try to explain to them what it is and, well... Yeah. Gonna be 90% of the work just trying to find an elegant way to present the information.
I think we all had the same thought when you said BHVR needs someone to help them make a rough tier list...
'Hello friends, this is Otz'
I had an idea on how to balance the perk usage, which will never gonna happen, but I'll give it anyway.
I was thinking about adding something like rune, or glyph system to the perks. Each perk would have one or a few runes attached to them, and you couldn't use perks with these runes outside of a perk slot that would have a same symbol. With that all slowdown perks would have one type of runes, chase perks another, information another etc.
Thing is that not every killer would have rune slots. That would mean that stronger killers like Blight would be very restricted to having only one slowdown, maybe one information or something that would limit his options while killers like Trapper wouldn't had any, so no perk restrictions for him.
That would need A LOT of work, and could be very unfun for the stronger killers to have limited options in using perks that they unlocked, but I think that after a bit of balance changes this could work well. (maybe even due to these restrictions a lot of perks could be buffed since strong perk combos could be present only on week killers anyway and with that we could see Pig near top of the tier lists)
i honestly dont ever see a future where bhvr realizes killers have different strengths and make perks or gameplay reflect off that
ig there's terror radius so its possible but it just seems so unlikely given they seem to love changing everything at once and not specifics
i like the idea you presented though
I really wish we got to a point, where base regression is strong enough on its own, and 4 regression perk build isn't opressive. Can it be done just by buffing the former and nerfing the latter? Otherwise we might need a category system (no more than 2 perks of the same typre)
The only thing I can give BHVR any credit for is actually taking away gen tapping. 👏 for you BHVR.
Knowing the devs, they’d do this based on their kill rate stats rather than actual killer strength
The issue overall is that generators don't take long enough to complete by base.
It's 90 seconds, not including skillcheck bonuses, toolbox and perk bonuses, and also not including multiple survivor bonuses.
In a game that can, at the very most, last 60 minutes before the match is forcibly ended by the server.
To fix it, I would do three things.
1. First, raise the base amount of charges of all generators.
2. Second, all % based regressions except the base amount lost from failed skillchecks and the amount naturally removed from damaging a generator manually are instead changed to a flat amount of charges being removed. This heavily limits the amount of regression power the killer directly has. In conjunction with generators naturally taking longer, the _need_ for regression is removed and it is now as optional as taking a Toolbox for a Survivor. Additionally, the amount of regressions a killer can do to a generator is reduced to 5 from 8 over the course of a match forcing them to use it more sparingly, rather than whenever possible. This regression limit would be more clear to the killer than it currently is.
3. Finally, Toolboxes would also get reworked to instead forcibly pass skillchecks rather than direct generator speed bonuses.
In detail, here are the changes I would make.
1. All generator's maximum charges would go up by an additional 30, raising the time to complete a generator to be 2 minutes, not including any outside factors. A fail from missing a skillcheck would be unchanged from 10% of the current progress, and a manual damaging of a generator would also be unaffected, still removing 5% and costing the killer one "regression" on that generator up to their maximum.
The closer a generator is to completion, the more imperative it is that Survivors lock-in on the task at hand and do not fail skillchecks, as it could harm them more than ever before.
2. Perks and addons that previously removed charges of progress on a generator by percentage are *all* changed to different flat values. Regardless of how much a generator has been fixed, these values will never vary and always be static. This further limits the direct oppression that regression effects have on generators, however because it is static, it will prove for a larger hit on low progress generators than previously.
Because the maximum amount of regressions is reduced to 5 from 8, the killer would have to pick and choose when they want to regress more carefully, or deal with the inevitability of Survivors completing the generators without further resistance.
3. Toolboxes would no longer provide direct progress speed bonuses, and instead be used to forcibly complete skillchecks. Skillchecks skipped this way would always be "Great". Whenever a skillcheck is skipped this way, the toolbox loses a charge. The amount of charges is based on the rarity of the toolbox, and each toolbox would grant a flat bonus to the amount of charges gained for skillcheck skips, also affected by some add-ons. Due to this drastic change, sabotaging with a toolbox will also use up charges like skipping skillchecks.
The amount of charges would be a flat amount of uses, rather than a percentile value.
All "Repair speed" effects are changed. Gaining an increase to speed on a generator directly is now *only* increased by survivors working together on a generator. When I mean a generator should take 2 minutes not including bonuses, I *mean it.*
Some perks would obviously have to change to implement all of this, so here's my ideas for the ones that affect toolboxes and repair speed.
Overwhelming Presence: Doubles the amount of charges used per skip/sabotage, but even if the item only has one charge left, the action can still be done unimpeded. Non-toolbox item charge values are unchanged from the previous version.
Franklin's Demise: Removes 25% of the item's maximum charges, and permanently prevents those charges from being regenerated for the rest of the match. An item reduced to 0 maximum charges by this effect is destroyed.
The item aura reading effect is removed, and the item is no longer removed from the Survivor's hand unless it is destroyed.
Built to Last: Items with reduced maximums from Franklin's Demise can only ever be recharged to that maximum.
Corrective Action: Does not affect Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes.
Fast Track: Is unaffected by Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes.
Fogwise: Does not trigger with Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes.
Hyperfocus: Does not affect Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes.
Friendly Competition: When you complete a generator with the help of at least one other survivor, Friendly Competition activates;
For the next 75 seconds, you and those survivors can freely choose to skip skillchecks on generators as if you had a toolbox, however no bonus to progress is granted. If any survivors affected _manually_ get Great skillchecks, they are given an additional 3% bonus to progress. If any of the affected survivors fail a skillcheck on a generator, this effect ends for all survivors affected.
Invocation Weaving Spiders: Maximum charges on generators reduced by 20 from 10.
Overzealous: After Cleansing or Blessing a totem, gain charges up to a maximum of 8 at any given time.
If it was a Dull totem: The next 2 failed skillchecks when repairing a generator or healing another Survivor are instead considered Great skillchecks.
If it was a Hex totem: The next 4 failed skillchecks when repairing a generator or healing another Survivior are instead considered Great skillchecks.
Potential Energy: While the effect is active, Skillchecks cannot be skipped with the use of a Toolbox.
Prove Thyself: For every other Survivor repairing a generator within 4 meters, Prove Thyself increases the chance for you to see additional Skillchecks by 20%, up to a total of 60%. During this time, the skillcheck zone is increased by 10% per additional survivor, up to 30%, and reduced by 5% per successful skillcheck hit in a row, down to -30%. If you fail a skillcheck while this effect is active, Prove Thyself will disable for 45 seconds.
No longer affects other survivors around you. Tooboxes can be used to skip these skillchecks as per normal and will not trigger the 5% loss in skillcheck zone size.
Quick Gambit: Survivors repairing generators within range of this effect will have Skillcheck failures automatically be considered Good skillchecks so long as the Survivor with Quick Gambit continues to be in range and in Chase with the Killer.
Additionally reveals the aura of Survivors affected by Quick Gambit to the Survivor being chased.
Rookie Spirit: This effect cannot be triggered by Skillcheck skips granted by Toolboxes.
Scavenger: The repair speed reduction is replaced with the following effect:
Recharging a Toolbox will permanently reduce it's maximum charges by 25%. Scavenger cannot be reactivated for 30 seconds and is disabled for the rest of the trial after activating four times.
Sole Survivor: The repair speed effect is removed, however the Gate and Hatch opening speeds are still increased.
When you are the Last Survivor Standing, your failed skillchecks do not trigger a Loud Sound warning to the Killer, and do not remove any progress.
Streetwise: Your items are granted an additional 25% maximum charges, this effect extends to all other Survivors in the trial.
If two Survivors have Streetwise, the effect is increased to 35%.
If three Survivors have Streetwise, the effect is increased to 45%.
If all Survivors have Streetwise, the effect is doubled to 50%.
It would be a MAJOR update to the game, and definitely would shake the game up by its core, but honestly I think the game needs it.
I think you could even go further and tie gen regression perks to each killers kick regression such as Pain resonance could regress 4 kicks worth or gen blocks being based on regression speed like deadlock blocking the gen for 100 x your killers regression charges per second (assuming 0.25 charges base regression that'd be on average 25 seconds like it is now)
I rather like the idea as it gives devs more stats to balance killers with and if perks would be based on your killers own regression stats, perks would excel with different killers.
This is a cool concept and definitely could help bridge the gap towards making regression feel more "fair" amongst the stronger and weaker killers. My primary concern with this idea though isn't even that it would require the devs to know which killers need stronger vs. weaker regression, but that it would take a game that is already difficult to learn from a numbers perspective for newer players and add yet another stat to consider on a killer to killer basis. Unless the generator regression stats were mostly consistent with only the killers on the higher and lower levels seeing some small percentage tweaks, I'd be worried the stats would vary too much and potentially confuse some players on both sides of the game.
I don't think this is the worst trade-off necessarily, but I think making DBD as simple as possible for onboarding new players is still important and worth considering. If I have any follow up thoughts about this I'll post them, but thank you for sharing your ideas!
Honestly, I think this should be expanded beyond gen regression.
We can have killers having slightly weaker powers if we buff them in other places. Give all killers 3 more stats: Bloodlust, Wrath, and Bulk.
Bloodlust would be a modifier for how quickly they wipe their weapons after a successful hit.
Wrath would be how much base regression they do to gens.
Bulk would be how long they get stunned for.
If you give all killers these 3 stats that modify the base times across the board, you can make Killers like Trapper stronger without buffing Nurse. OR you can nerf Nurse or Blight or Spirit without necessarily changing their powers or add-ons and giving them penalties. Imagine Nurse takes an extra .1 seconds to wipe off her blade and gets stunned at pallets for an extra .15 seconds. That wouldn't be detrimental to Nurse but would be to Trapper.
genuine question scott if you were offered the role of a consultant would you take it
This is a really cool concept
I literally been talking about this for a few years that based on the killer you use you can adjust how strong perks or regression is for them. Obviously M1 killers need more than killers who can zoom around the maps very quickly.
My thoughts have been "variable gen speed" repair speeds fluctuate based on ebb and flow of the game. K 0 hooks, but 2 gens have popped? Gens take longer to do. K has multiple hooks with 0 gens complete? Gens repair goes faster. Don't know how difficult it would be to implement so might just be irrational, but I do think having it operate essentially like a catch up mechanic could possibly help.
The only problem i have with this is that good and bad killers arent good and bad at every level of player (billy for example), and balancing around high end players could affect the majority of other players in unintended ways. Thats why there is no concrete killer tier list for ALL levels of player
Good idea, problematic for a number of reasons besides the main reason mentioned (BHVR failing to gauge killer strength).
Mainly, Ruin, which on certain maps right now is stronger than it has *ever* been thanks to the 5% repair rule kicking in every time you hop off a gen. This new regression value would either have to ignore or interact with Ruin's % value. While the former would make the perk obsolete, the latter would be dangerous considering the two killers you mentioned as the weakest are in fact fairly good (and in Trapper's case, insane) at defending totems. Hag and Demogorgon would have to be adjusted *solely* on the basis of being S-Tier Ruin defenders.
Second, metas change based on new perks and seeming unrelated buffs/nerfs regularly. Remember when Ultimate Weapon turned Pig into the most lethal killer overnight last year due to the interruption of box searches? Now there would have to be another factor to balance around for every killer...and consultants or not, I don't trust BHVR to do the work required.
Idk why they dont just implement a soft perk ban
that certain killers cant use certain perks.
and they already did that by making nurse unable to exposed hit during her blink, why cant they do stuff like that more so they dont need to rely on perks to do it but basekit changes.
could cap blight to 2 aura perks
cap nurse to 1 etc.
You can absolutely ensure that people shift away from slowdown perks - you can remove those perks. Instead of making players balance gen regression with their loadout, just balance the mechanic and replace those now-unnecessary perks with actual perks instead of required dead slots in a killer's build.
The gen kick meta saw plenty of killers willing to play "generator defense simulator"
I thought pretty much an identical idea a while ago but with other stats like kick speed and stun time. The problem with this, however is as you say with trusting developers with sort of tierlisting strength of the killers. To be honest I wouldn't think the developers would even want this either though, as they would have to be very transparent with how they think each and every killer strength wise is, especially considering they usually try to balance the game overall rather than balancing around higher level play.
I had debated posting this but I actually think it would be smart to dramatically buff regression perks but attach those perks to something like an exhaustion mechanic where you can only have one regression perk proc every x seconds
Not that theyll ever add this but I think your trial warmup idea from years ago is a more elegant solution to the same problem.
An idea that seemed cool would be if the skill challenges were more minigames like skull merchants drones, thus making survivors have to pay more attention to their task rather than autopilot mode. If you can find a way to get survivors to miss their skill checks, you solve part of the regression issue while also letting killers naturally apply more pressure without purely having to rely on kick builds. This also allows skill check builds (with some changes obviously) on both sides more appealing as well
4 slow downs is still more then enough. Not to mention the ridiculous 3, 4, or even 5 gens that spawn together on quite a few maps but honestly you gotta expect some stress playing anything other then the top 5 killers so if you don't wanna feel stressed run 4 slow down Nurse or Blight every game which is what a lot of people are already doing.
This is a great idea. I hope BHVR sees it
Yeah everything I come up with on paper I think is really good, up until I remember that the higher tier killers exist. Here is where I landed:
I think the first step is to make perks and effects have diminishing returns so stacking them isn't as good. This would've solved a lot of the stupidest mft+hope stuff, and would hopefully help standardize the 60 second swing in gen completion time you can currently have.
Once gen completion rate changes are more normalized without the most insane ranges, then regression perks can have diminishing returns so that if you've stacked 4 it isn't much better than just running 2.
And once you add DR to regression perks you can add in a per killer rating so perks can be adjusted on a killer by killer basis, and once you have that you can add in base kit slowdown.
My idea was that gen repairs would slow down while the killer was in chase with someone that hasn't been hooked, and people that haven't been hooked repair faster based on the highest hook count survivor to discourage immediately tunneling one person out.
Would it apply to first chase?
@@tannerjones1230 I don't know. It'd require playtesting. If it did, it would help with some of the dumbest maps where playing completely safely you can extend a chase for several minutes but even those generally rely on not being "in chase" while being chased. (and then there is Wraith that doesn't trigger chases while chasing.)
Yeah bro let's blanket nerf all killers indeed
@@cinatiropel Did you skip past the part where I said gen times needed to be normalized to remove the possibility of 30 second gen completions or adding a per-killer setting to tune them all differently?
I mean, I even started off with saying there needed to be basekit gen regression of some kind....
What if we half some of the main gen regression perks then put the half onto weaker killer and for the higher tier killers give them around 25% of it as base kit. I feel like that would be a nice buff to killers so they can actually run chase perks and not worry about gens flying. The 2 main perks I’d like to see would be pop and pain res. Have pop at 15% base kit for weak killers and for strong killers have it at 7.5% and for pain res have it at 12.5% for weak killers and for strong killers put it at 6.25%. Also this would promote healthy game play because for pain res you have to hook different survivors to get use out of it and pop you have to leave the hook, so I’d hop that would be enough to incentivize people to stop camping and tunneling.