23 thoughts on “The Strongest Change to Hillbilly is Understated – Dead by Daylight”
Billy in this state is perfect because of a couple of things: 1. Billy is hard to learn. Not everyone can just pick up billy like they can with chucky 2. There are so many killers that are leagues better than new billy base kit 3. The devs have finally made something fun and interesting (overdrive) that could open doors for reworks on killers. Imagine other killers who get some super power if they kept using their power
Well its not the first time that devs shows that they dont even play the game. Pretty sure they're gonna nerf it back to the ground in a couple of weeks.
Old Hillbilly was strong because his inta-saw addon combo, basically you could o you finish the rev animation before the survival loop back to the window.
when i saw the movement speed changes i actually gasped, we knew overdrive was coming but the extra buffs they gave him *may have overtuned him just a tiny bit*, but i dont freaking care i love being chased by billys i cannot wait im so excited
I'm definitely worried about these addons and his changes from a balance perspective but I also just love seeing people play billy and going against him so I don't mind rn. That opinion will probably change in the future but DBD is also a different game than it was back then. I think the average power level of the top tier killers is higher than it was before. So this billy might not be as broken feeling as it used to be. He probably won't even be in the top 5 strongest killers nowadays even if he was as strong as he used to be. Another thing is that the new overdrive makes him even harder to learn when he's already the most difficult killer in the game
What you missed Scott is the fact that the BHVR employees who were there when BIlly got nerfed already left, and the employees at BHVR right now never saw that change when it took place.
if it does prove to be too strong id say just rework greased throttle and may bring back Thompson's Moonshine just with a new effect since spiked boots was Thompson's Moonshine i just dont know what the new effect could be
I remember when dbd had that dark lighting and ambience, loading into the map only to hear the relentless charge of what you already knew was a god tier crack billy. What a time to be alive
The cd needs to be bumped up or the recovery speed needs to be lengthened with less mobility. Because of fairness…you know…instead of “this was bad for years so now it deserves to be overturned because of reparations style stuffs lol”.
Another thing to note is that Hillbilly has now become the only Killer who, barring some special circumstances on the survivors' end, can always threaten an insta down at a hooked survivor with just his basekit. With the removal of his Overheat mechanic, there's no downside to just keeping your chainsaw revved at an occupied hook.
Myers will eventually run out of his power (and he needs add ons to circumvent this) Bubba will go into a Tantrum if he keeps revving without attacking, at which point there's a cooldown/wind up for survivors to attempt an unhook Any other killer require add ons or certain conditions to be met
Hillbilly doesn't need any perks or add ons to do this. The survivors just have to hope he misses, is occupied with something else, or have Mettle of Man charged, otherwise there's nothing they can do to prevent a down.
Billy in this state is perfect because of a couple of things:
1. Billy is hard to learn. Not everyone can just pick up billy like they can with chucky
2. There are so many killers that are leagues better than new billy base kit
3. The devs have finally made something fun and interesting (overdrive) that could open doors for reworks on killers. Imagine other killers who get some super power if they kept using their power
Shhhhhh this is still better than what we had before so lets just keep this
With how unfun so much stuff is I really don’t care how strong billy is because it’s still billy
wow i cant believe Scott wants Billy to get hard nerfed vilescott strikes again
Well its not the first time that devs shows that they dont even play the game. Pretty sure they're gonna nerf it back to the ground in a couple of weeks.
Old Hillbilly was strong because his inta-saw addon combo, basically you could o you finish the rev animation before the survival loop back to the window.
when i saw the movement speed changes i actually gasped, we knew overdrive was coming but the extra buffs they gave him *may have overtuned him just a tiny bit*, but i dont freaking care i love being chased by billys i cannot wait im so excited
I'm definitely worried about these addons and his changes from a balance perspective but I also just love seeing people play billy and going against him so I don't mind rn. That opinion will probably change in the future but DBD is also a different game than it was back then. I think the average power level of the top tier killers is higher than it was before. So this billy might not be as broken feeling as it used to be. He probably won't even be in the top 5 strongest killers nowadays even if he was as strong as he used to be. Another thing is that the new overdrive makes him even harder to learn when he's already the most difficult killer in the game
What you missed Scott is the fact that the BHVR employees who were there when BIlly got nerfed already left, and the employees at BHVR right now never saw that change when it took place.
I played against him today, i agree his miss cooldown recovery time is very fast
Billy is the one killer i don't mind being overtuned when i play survivor.
if it does prove to be too strong id say just rework greased throttle and may bring back Thompson's Moonshine just with a new effect since spiked boots was Thompson's Moonshine i just dont know what the new effect could be
Quiet, now they will nerf him heavily again
I remember when dbd had that dark lighting and ambience, loading into the map only to hear the relentless charge of what you already knew was a god tier crack billy. What a time to be alive
Even if he's a little OP, I say let him have it for a little while, he's damn well earnt it!
RIP Pighouse gloves + big buckle add-on combo. You will not be missed
Don't get it confused, hillbilly is going to be nerfed. We KNOW bhvr. They have a pattern.
It's almost like I said all of this back when they announced the Billy changes.
The cd needs to be bumped up or the recovery speed needs to be lengthened with less mobility. Because of fairness…you know…instead of “this was bad for years so now it deserves to be overturned because of reparations style stuffs lol”.
I think they should make the chainsaw cooldown add ons either not stack, or maybe just lower them on missed and keep the cooldown on hit
Another thing to note is that Hillbilly has now become the only Killer who, barring some special circumstances on the survivors' end, can always threaten an insta down at a hooked survivor with just his basekit. With the removal of his Overheat mechanic, there's no downside to just keeping your chainsaw revved at an occupied hook.
Myers will eventually run out of his power (and he needs add ons to circumvent this)
Bubba will go into a Tantrum if he keeps revving without attacking, at which point there's a cooldown/wind up for survivors to attempt an unhook
Any other killer require add ons or certain conditions to be met
Hillbilly doesn't need any perks or add ons to do this. The survivors just have to hope he misses, is occupied with something else, or have Mettle of Man charged, otherwise there's nothing they can do to prevent a down.
Of course, this can only happen in Endgame.
That's okay, Onryo got the nerf instead. Again.
I juked a billy yesterday and it felt great until literally 2 seconds later he was back up my a-hole ready to M1 me 😢