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Hey everyone, today we’re looking through the strangest nerfs in Dead by Daylight history. These are things that just left me confused when they happened, they aren’t all directly bad, it’s a combination of being stunned, being unhappy, and just kind of being generally confused by the decision. There’s a range of things in here, so I’m interested to see what you all think.
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Freddy addon nerf 0:22
Key and hatch nerf 1:41
Billy overheat nerf 3:15
Lore nerf 4:05
Twins nerf (all of them) 5:45
Flashlight nerf 6:22
Deathslinger TR nerf 7:36
Breakable wall nerf 8:19
90-second generators 8:53
HUD nerf 10:11
Outro 10:54
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Surprised you didn't mention any of half dozen pig nerfs. Continually nerfing an already bottom tier killer
The flashlight nerf is completely fine. I’ve not had a problem using them to blind killers or get saves since the nerf. Now you can no longer spam click your flashlight to annoy killers. I see that as a win.
Sorry if im misunderstanding some of these comments but people being able to play without health problems is a bit more important than you being able to spam click flashlights xdd
Im honestly glad i didnt play before gens took 90 seconds, the feeling of suddenly taking 50 seconds more just sounds terrible
RIP my left ear.
If you guys are on desktop you can get an equalizer that can turn the audio into mono, it'll play the same volume out of both ears.
You forgot to mention the worst nerf of them all.
They nerfed Pyramid heads cake.
the weirdest nerf was to calm spirit tbh
I actually care about the lore it helps me “understand” them better
Nerf Pig
The Generator nerf is not a bad nerf, as survivor I barely notice the difference, whilst on killer it allows me to get a lot more pressure with lower tier killers. (without using slowdown perks)
Love the consistent uploads😍😍🤌🏻
I do think that gens and gen related things need go be nerfed for the sake of consistency. Back in October, Demi popped a gen in 34 seconds. Alone. That's not okay in any form.
Overheat didn't really affect Hillbilly, all Hillbilly mains agree that the addons where the real nerf, Overheat was actually necesary for game health
Honestly, Freddy's rework really irritated me. I wasn't able to play DBD around the time they reworked him because I didn't have a way to play, but when I came back I found a killer I mildly liked playing was just useless. I don't think they will rework him because nobody really plays him anymore, but maybe I'm wrong and they will. I hope so because as much as I love Wesker, I liked mildly annoying survivors with Freddy.
Seems like some of these nerfs were quickly thrown into the patches to temporarily remove large issues in the game and work on them in the future. For me, this has made gameplay very boring now, and I am playing this game less frequently than I ever had.
glad keys got nerf to the ground
It feels like in the early days the devs had a vague idea of the route they wanted to take in terms of lore, sprinkling bits of Vigo and the realm outside of the trials throughout the game and completely did a 180 when the archives released. I actually prefer the Benedict Baker flavour text as opposed to most of the archives.
I really feel like they could have made it so the hatch spawns once all gens are done
I think that the hillbilly neff was good it craps billy from spamming his chainsaw and using his hammer
I don't wonna go to school ((
Maybe who ever worked the Benedict Baker quotes stopped working for BHVR and who ever they assigned to create the quotes after the person who quit isn't as good as the original writer.
A nerf I remember was the Blast Mine Repressed Alliance combo. It used to only apply the blast mine itself allowing you to save Repressed for when the killer kicked the gen, but now they are both applied at the same time, making it not synergize as well
The new breakable walls have a lot of clipping
Normally you couldn’t see it because non breakable walls are in the way. But with aura reading like windows of opportunity it looks REALLY bad
The weirdest nerf of all are all the nerf of Pig tbh
I personally have seen one person escape hatch with key when I was playing pig, I was patrolling the exits and saw her stand up while trying to open it and when I saw what she was doing I just let them leave since keys are pretty rare and they played well
I mean gens are still fast popping so not sure what the problem ks
I don't really have a problem with gen speed but I know the reason they didn't wasn't so killers would use less slowdown. Look at all the perks they have released since. It was so they could add more and stronger gen rush perks lol
Nerfing flashlight spam because a dev got salty.
I know it’s a only a perk nerf but the blast mine nurf for me was really unnecessary. Blast mine never bothered me as killer and now as survivor it never even feels fun to use anyone. This is just my opinion tho.
"…change to lore."
Not me saying: "What law?"
i dont understand why the hatch exists at all tbh,its really unfair for the killer. you do everything you can to put yourself in a winning position then you need to win a game of basically a 50/50 coinflip, and its even worse if they have perks to help them find it. also i think the gen nerf was made purely because it was too easy to repair them and overall survivors needed a nerf
Is it just me or does the wiggle feel odd?
Why are you hating on blight? Hate on nurse
There’s also the aura nerf, where all the auras became extremely difficult to see, until the Devs amended them!
I completly agree with the Hatch/Key bit.
There's literally no point in keys. Wallhacks?? Okay sure, but that's weird and should be usable with a map over a key.
I had no problem with anyone knowing where hatch spawned. I thought it made for cool and funny plays on both sides.
Killers could see it and know exactly where to go when they had someone on hook with 1 survivor left. If everyone was slugged in end game, it made for a crawl race, and honestly who was ever ACTUALLY taking their full team and escaping out of the hatch halfway through the match??? like??? That just didn't happen save for a good meme once in a blue moon.
Yo talk shit all you want about Freddie's sound increasing add-ons but those have carried me. Damn near made me a Freddy main.
I want to give a little more information about the Hillbilly rework.
1. Hillbilly’s add-ones we’re definitely useful before but are all now literal “add-ons”. They can be useful but situational
2. Hillbilly’s curve was changed to have better techs and not be able to easily flick kill survivors. This ultimately made Hillbilly hard on console and just in general
3. Despite being considered the most balanced killer, Hillbilly was still a top 3 killer so the devs felt like he was going to be the easiest to tackle. His nerf was more of a way to force a fall from grace than remove crack billy and Insta saw
I think the gen and flashlight nerf was because of the cheaters in the game. Just saying. I'm not sure tho. I don't even play this game but been on a Dbd binge
Two minutes into the video and I realize this is explaining dbd downfall
Freddy was pretty unique and interesting in the release, and his power fits better for the character… He was weak, yes, but i think weak is better than boring… Freddy players can fall asleep too during the match