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What were the 5 best and 5 worst changes for Dead by Daylight this year (2024)?
At the time of this video’s release Chapter 34 has been released, named Doomed Course, with new Killer The Houndmaster, and Survivor Taurie Cain.
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Perk Types 0:20
Destroying Characters 1:42
Sacrificial Ward 2:49
Maps 3:33
Powers & Reworks 4:47
Lifeguard Whistle 5:48
Events – The Bad 6:41
Events – The Good 8:07
Perk Variety (Meta) 8:47
The Store 9:35
Outro 10:16
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Skull Merchant changes are just the worst, I would understand if they made her just a bit weaker, but they nerfed her so bad that using her power is just not worth it in most cases, literally, you slow yourself down to eventually damage a survivor which your M1 does without slowing you down, quite contrary, if you are not using your power then you may gain bloodlust which indeed does speed you up
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The Worst thing of all that happened this year: The BHVR Layoffs
Ah, makes me glad I uninstalled this piece of garbage. Do I miss it? Sometimes. But it's kind of like missing Christmas when you're a kid. Sure, you can have Christmas now but it just won't ever be the same as it used to be. Nice video though.
Another change that was positive was the revival of Billy. Billy being good again is a huge positive for the game.
Killer power "bloat" is a huge negative. Killers shouldn't have 4 different abilities like Vecna. 1 or 2 is enough.
Something I thought was great this year was small buffs and quality of life improvements for certain killers. They took some killers that felt a bit too add on dependent like dredge and bubba, and made them feel so much better to play without giving them a huge buff/rework. I would love to see more small improvements like these to certain killers in the future.
Are the Teamwork perks actually new though? Reminds me of Dwight’s Leader perk among others that share benefits when standing close to teammates.
Fnaf coming soon
One thing that sticks out like a sore thumb to me is Houndmaster. Overall pretty underwhelming and uninteresting. Visually she doesn't have the scary or intimidation factor (the dog does) and the power doesn't feel good to use. It just feels like a way worse deathslinger imo, with the dog seemingly just dragging the surv into a pallet or away from you. The patrol trail speed boost feels out of place. If say ghostface had a teleport, that's what houndmaster speed boost whilst following a patrol feels like to me, just kinda random. Not saying she shouldn't have it, just seems like a weird thing to have. Also her ultimate cosmetic whatever its called the same rarity as naughty bear, the dog in it is a HUGE turn off for me. I hate poodle breeds, they look so ugly and it prevents me from liking the skin. Overall Houndmaster was a huge miss for me.
2v8?
I personally liked the knight change he's not as buggy anymore the guards no longer have to be used in chase and the knight in my opinion is boosted to a tier because of the change where last time he was b or even c tier
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i really don't like the Demogorgon whistle change, i realize it was mainly used for devourgorgon but still it was so unique compared to his other addons. they could have just nerfed one or two of the hex's a bit, i really hope we don't get more killers like deathslinger where the addons just change numbers
I think the lifeguard whistle was good change, the totem time wasn’t the issue, it was the fact that the demogorgon could teleport almost instantly to the totem even withou thrill, and to make things worse he could have infinite portals by using the pumpkins add on. Resulting in a extremely OP gaming tactic that’s hardly dealt with in Solo Q…
Reworking maps to make it more fair for both sides is alright, but their reworks aren’t really executed properly, rather then toning down the amount of filler pallets and loops on survivor sided maps, they just make super small maps with bad loops like haddonfield and decimated borgo
For maps imo I absolutely hate the dnd map it too big and very killer sided,for demogorgon addon it such a waste opportunity to give him a longer range shrewd or something fun,the skull merchant nerf was to much even tho I hated her to begin with they should off removed her haste and tinker her hinder not gutter her Chucky is ok he not bad and as for events I don’t like lights out it was pretty bad, Halloween was ok but I liked last year better, winter events is always meh not that great, chaos shuffle,bloodmoon,and anniversary are the only memorable thing that I enjoyed this year
It's funny to me that Lights Out and Halloween Rift were my favorite events this year, yet 2V8, Anniversary, and Chaos Shuffle are just boring to me despite everyone else loving them for some reason.
They def should make killer powers not tied to legendary outfits. They’ve changed stuff when the community gets mad enough, but they also haven’t.
Hopefully they listen, (like when they unlinked chapter purchases with cosmetics that made it more expensive, ie Nicholas Cage or Alien) and not like a FOMO seasonal cosmetics situation where they still haven’t changed it.
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I think how it could work, for each Invocation perk you have the time required to finish the invocation is increased by 30 seconds (if you had 4, that would be 2:30).
U should rank the killers based on how disturbing their lore is❤️
Another thing they should consider adding is the ability to skip the death/mori animations. Especially if you die constantly, seeing the same animation over and over is tiresome
7:24 all i want is the orange all hallowed eyes to be put on more characters also I wasn't a fan of the blighted styles this year
I disagree with ghe take on Skull Merchant.. she wasnt on the point of trying to find a spot in the meta.. she has a proper meta.. and that meta is way too toxic for the game.. and thats to take three gens as hostage.. while I agree that shouldn't have gutted her, I disagree that shes not terrible for the game.. Otz once made a video about Skull Merchant being used in the pro scene.. the game took around an hour I believe just to complete.. and while most players wont take that long (weak killer and uncoordinated team will result in faster finish), I still think that the gameplay is terrible..
I really don’t understand why they nerfed skull merchant into the ground. I get it that she isn’t the most popular killer but there are some people that play her and I’m sure they aren’t happy about it. It’s kind of sad that even the devs don’t like her to this point. Also chucky didn’t deserve the negative changes I don’t understand why they did that.
2v8 is not what everyone wanted. It's not nearly as fun as the mod and chaos shuffle sucks. The first lights out was fantastic.
Different power look should be basekit for every skin duuh
Personally I enjoyed lights out cause that was the event that I played a lot when I came back to the game after a long hiatus. It was also fun to use killers without perks and add ons just to get a feel for them
I'm actually happy you criticized The Troupe. I thought we'd get far more creative skins but well, can't have Feng fans waiting more than 3 seconds for a skin
Honestly I’m a Skull Merchant main and it really bummed me out seeing the borderline insane nerfs and changes she got. I haven’t played her because she’s just not enjoyable to use anymore 🙁
To this day I still dont know why they havent changed shattered hoped that is the WORST perk in the game my guy
As a player that just started this year i was definitely overstimulated by all these creative powers but learned to love all of the new killers (except houndmaster)
Naha your ideas on killers are soo wrong. Chucky and skull merchant were so bad for the game. They were brain dead easy to play and insanely strong for needing such a low skill and no real counter. Chucky you just get hit every 12 seconds and skull merchant drops a drone in any looping spot. Brain dead easy for people with half a brain cell to pick up and win constantly.
Dbd trying to put their killers into a weaker state so they’re easier to rework is so stupid. Like they did it with the twins and are doing it with Freddy, where the killers are nerfed heavily before they wait several months to a few years before reworking them. It’s a trend and it’s not great
The Skull Merchant nerf was the worst thing BHVR has ever done. Even if you do not like her, you should be terrified that people whining can result in something you love in this game being obligerated while one of the devs literally laughs about it during a Twitch stream. This is a horrible practice to set a precedent on.
2v8 is fun for maybe a week. keeping it around for that long really brought down my enjoyment of it. not to mention the limited killer roster was frustrating. All those killers I wasn't a fan of and because of limited size i would always see the same 3 killers in EVERY match
Skull Merchant nerf for example showing that dbd has a bad design in the core mechanic. But new BHVR is going the easy way. Nerfing the Killer.
Same for Freddy. They reworked him and gutted him later because of bad perk design decisions.
Nearly the Same can you apply to Skull Merchant. She was fine.
But they never looked in the core mechanic. Since Endgame Collapse they never touched again the core mechanic.
I give you a promise without her you would never have 8 gen kicks…deja-vu with repair…etc
its all band aid fix what they doing. And mostly every killer will suffer over time.
And when you look exactly deja-vu change was only for the 3-gen when they find a solution for that. And you know what ? its the same perk since the solution.
The Sac Ward is a good change but only because many survivors dropping map offerings for specific realms because bhvr make some Realms really unenjoyable for every Killer.
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skull merchant deserved to get gutted like she did
I just have to say, I LOVE the way your voice fits the DBD vibe. You sound like the entity’s nicer younger brother
i agree