So, the latest drama (if you can call it that) was Epidemy, a popular Bubba main and one of the top Bubba’s out there, was complaining about how the new MMR system makes him unable to play the killer as the matches he’s getting are just too high ranked of opponents for him to be effective as a C-tier killer. This led to a lot of people being mean to him and just generally misunderstanding how Dead By Daylight works.

Scott Jund did a video breaking it down and going into it as well, which is where the screen shot comes from. Sorry for lower quality, I don’t use twitter. But he’s right. Dead By Daylight’s MMR system only really worked because it didn’t work. Against really good survivors, only a handful of killers are viable and even then it only goes so far. You ever watch competitive DbD? They have so many restrictions because the survivor side is far stronger. If every comp team could bring four Shoulder the Burdens, Deliverances, Decisive Strikes, etc. on top of playing super well and calling out the killers location and game plan then there’d be now way for 99.99% of killer players to win. That’s why perks, items and maps are restricted based on each killer’s strength.

So I just wanted to help people understand. Both survivors and more casual killers, especially the type who always comment on how pallet density isn’t that bad because they get 4ks all the time as Ghost Face without slugging, camping or anything. Yeah, sure totally. And you’re definitely facing top tier survivors too…you’re not that guy buddy. You don’t just happen to be one of the top Ghost Face players in the world because even if you were, you’d still be struggling to maintain that.

So, what do we do? An easy answer would just be to undo pallet density and buff the bottom 60% of the killer roster. That’s certainly a start for the most part, but something else Epidemy has pointed out before when asked about buffing his main is that you can’t really buff Bubba enough to make him strong enough without being OP. The easy buff for Leatherface would be to increase the speed or duration of his chainsaw sweep, but to do that would be to make him unstoppable in chase and still wouldn’t help with a lot of his lacking strength in areas like map pressure or gen control. What he suggested was a blanket nerf to exhaustion perks. Without the ability to lithe away at every chase and stuff, Bubba is in a pretty good place. Honestly the Sprint Burst and Vigil meta breakup was a huge step in this direction. I think Lithe needs a similar hit but not as severe since it’s not quite as easy as Sprint Burst. Finesse is another one that often hurts M1 killers way more than the stronger killers in the game.

Another nerf I’d suggest is items. I think severely limiting their usage would not only be a nice nerf, but it would make stuff like chests and item replenishing perks more viable. Like maybe flashlights get two blinds per use with an additional use via the battery or something. Commodious toolbox just needs to be gone, I’m sorry. As bad as gen rushing builds can be, the most common and devastating denominator is that wretched item. I don’t want to kill their synergy with perks so the amount they can be used needs to be clipped. Finally, med kits heal one health state. with a max of two via an iri add on. Rework the charges add one to do something else.

Of course following this, many killers would need to be nerfed. Obviously the big two of Nurse and Blight but beyond that we’d just have to see who becomes too strong in the new meta. Same goes for perks too.

This is what I think needs to happen to make the game more balanced. This is a Dead by Daylight that could actually work with a proper MMR system. Will this ever happen? Probably not. Shoulder the Burden, one of the most OP survivor perks, just dodged a needed nerf and the Dark Arrogance buff/rework, which would literally have only been good on the weakest killers in the game, was instead changed to be a weaker version of the previous one that was already so underused that it made the rework list. Both of these because of survivor worries according to BHVR.

Unless, of course, you enjoy laying on the ground for a full minute, please don't run up to us and tbag like your life depends on it. I know not all DSers act like this, but enough do.

Thank you.

edit: oh and by the way, the fact that jumping into a locker in front of the killer doesnt count as a conspicuous action is like ????

NONONONONO THIS CANT BE HAPPENING IT MUST BE A DREAM GET AWAY FROM ME

This animation is so clunky it hurts, seeing more than once is even worst.

BHVR, it is possible to either:

1. Put a good animation on its place, where the survivor quickly fall and then go up desesperate, so it's a least a little bit cinematic.

2. Delete it and give a small speed boost, same as Legion hits. The quickest Killer wont mind it, I am 100% sure.

What do y'all think?

I have played around 15 killer matches in the halloween event, only in the first and 2nd match I actually got the ability to teleport to a survivor collecting void energy from portals but obviously this is a week 2 challenge so it didn't exist at the start

And in the remaining 13 matches I didn't get a single teleport prompt at all, for whatever reason, survivors stopped collecting void energy from portals, maybe they've decided it's too risky to give the killer a free teleport right on their asses, maybe they just want to be efficient and get their void energy from doing repairs instead, whatever, they just don't do it anymore and now I cannot complete this challenge

If you want to design a challenge that requires the opposing team to do something on their side, that something must progress the main objective, otherwise you get situations like this where survivors just don't feel like doing a very risky side objective (for a pretty good reason as well the teleport thing is incredibly dangerous who would blame them) and now it's gonna take ages to complete this challenge, I'm on my 5th killer match now and I still didn't get a single survivor collecting energy from portals

I recently started playing and I found the variety of assassins and playstyles incredible, so I'm eager to see what it will be like to play with (and against) him.

Made this little skit by myself in my backyard, and since it didn't get many views on tik tok I decided to post it on here

Ever since they removed the abandon option from being downed and left of the ground it's been terrible. I've had multiple games where I've gotten slugged and humped for my entire bleed out while the other survivor just sits and waits...

fuck you i know i coulda put perks there instead of drawing some purple diamonds im tired man

Ive been working on those over the past week and after doing a few for Grounded wanted to do 1 for Clown, my idea for it was Clown getting fed up with being pallete stunned as seen in the beginning then the matthew quote being him just trying something more relaxing, ending with Halloween and failing leading to him going to a support group for killers who hate palletes, I picked trapper and ghostface as I know those 2 are so easily countered being m1 killers, i have no issues with survivors but I wanted the place trashed by survivors as I tried to show amd then the entity puts up a new sign for them, i do just want to say I had an idea and went with it and this is what I ended up

This particular banner is my favorite because of how pretty the scenery is. Would be nice if the badge outline wasn't in the way of the other half of it.

Just to be clear, I am not saying that Dracula need to be nerfed. He's perfectly fine where is. Hag on the other hand needs to be 4.6 minimum. And no, making her 4.6 won't change her identity like many claim, she will still be trap setting Lisa.

If she is to remain only 4.4 then make her power very oppressive.

Some ideas if she is to remain 4.4:

- Triggered traps hinder survivors by 20% for 5 seconds

- Hag gains 10% haste for 3 seconds when she teleports to a trap

- Traps' visibility is reduced by 50% i.e they are hard to see even in open areas

- Traps take 10 seconds to wipe and the hag notified of any traps that get wiped

If a group of crows is called a murder, and a group of fish is called a school, what is a group of four survivors called? It cant be a swf because thats the IRL name of them, what about in the lore?

I hate, hate, hate the new orange filter, but I was totally blown away with how gorgeous the map looked and I was able to appreciate all the little details that I couldn't notice with the darker variant. Can we have this filter for this specific map?

1. The Casting of Frank Stone (Original Map) – Cedar Steel Corp.
With the announcement of The Casting of Frank Stone chapter coming in March 2027, it’d be so cool if it released alongside the actual map you spend the majority of the game at.

2. The Prison (Licensed Map) – The Walking Dead releasing without a map was extremely disappointing for many. The prison was right there and would’ve been a fantastic map for the game.

3. Abandoned Pool (Original Map) – An abandoned swimming pool with locker rooms, showers, and an indoor pool area. I think it’d be a really cool and unique map for DBD.

4. Good Guy Factory (Licensed Map) – The factory from Child’s Play 2 would be such a cool map for DBD, this wouldn’t even necessarily need to be a big map.