10 Incredibly Strange Nerfs that happened in Dead by Daylight History! 

Apparently there is a slight audio issue with the video, my apologies I don't know what caused it :(

I think the strangest nerf ever made was all the friends we made along the way.

My left ear really enjoyed this video

1. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the lore nerf. We still lack a clear focus on Benedict and Vigo. The Archives are so saturated and poorly executed at times. Feels more about rewards now. 2. Don't like what they did to Pharmacy. Yes, you can now get multiple green medkits, but you don't get the increased chest speed and reduced noise while healthy, you HAVE to be injured. Also, Calm Spirit's "buff" ruined it. Those silence actions aren't game-breaking by any means.

Flashlights were changed so as to not cause epileptic seizures so as much as I agree they felt better before, I think preventing potential seizures is more important.

I think the nerf that made me sad was the pyramid head rear nerf. 😔

I really hate that the Benedict Baker quotes stopped coming. I loved the ones with Pig and Clown in particular.

1:43 I still remember when I was fairly new to dbd and I was playing as a killer and suddenly all ( or 3 of them i can’t remember the details that well💀) were suddenly gone because they opened the hatch with a key and they still had to do 2 or 3 gens I think. I was just standing there being all confused mao😭

Benedict Baker should return or clarify is the Observer, or a version of the observer who was a survivor once, also leaving Vigo outside the lore is just odd, consider him a huge help for the survivors, they expand the tomes, and it feels they forget about both of them and focus in black vale lore

I really hate how the devs have handled Freddy. I still consider myself a Freddy main but I just don’t want to play him because they can’t seem to make his power strong and fun at the same time

The 90 second gens is the best thing that ever happen. Before the "nerf" literally everyone was bringing tool box, prove yourself, built to last and the other bs perks. If you didn't played a top tier or didn't dodge like 10 lobbies before every game it was unplayable..

Azy I have to vehemently disagree with you on the gen change. They are still flying because they keep adding gen speed perks for survivors and they immediately nerfed a large sum of gen slow perks after the negligible and useless 10 second addition to gens.

Here’s another nerf: BHVR removing the really cool summary of: _"Death won't accept him and thus he remains, a calamity, indisputable master of his victims' nightmares."_ from Freddy’s power description. These devs enjoy making him even lamer with time, its so sad.

About the Billy Overheat nerf, it actually gets stranger. See, the Overheat function, okay; DbD got to a point where almost every killer has some form of resource management, and Billy stood out, plus it made it harder for him to infinitely rev in situations like camping, okay. And when 4.1.0 launched, honestly, it wasn’t that bad. Overheating could only really happen if you went out of your way, and while the add-ons were made trash, basekit Billy felt alright. …but apparently that wasn’t good enough for BHVR… In 4.1.2, they said it didn’t really feel like the Overheat mechanic came into play ever, so they reduced the rate at which heat dissipated. To me, THIS will always be the strangest nerf. Like, this mechanic no one really asked for in the first place and complained about the PTB iteration being too oppressive, let’s make it more oppressive again for NO reason. Really kicked Billy while he’s down.

I think the worst nerf was the hatch key one because I've come across some ridiculous 3 gen situations when we couldn't do the last gen 3v1 and the killers never committed to a chase so the game lasted half an hour until we had to eventually give in and gave him the kill. The hatch key was perfect for this situation and gave survivor a chance to still escape.. I know paying attention to what gens we're doing in what orders is important as well but you cannot always control it when you play with randoms.

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.

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

I love you Azhymovs! I want to play DBD without any spoilers for the event and then BOOM! Here you are with a top tier quality video to distract me

maybe they should make a change to the key, like maybe you can open a small hole in the exit gate once all gens are done or something, that only one survivor can fit through.

I had my first key escape a week ago! And probably it's gonna be my last for a very long time too 😭

Keys are items for aura reading, not for opening hatch. Its just something they happen to be able to do

Regarding the Breakable Walls when they now changed the design of them its actually a huge nerf to Ghostface as he cant stalk through them anymore. Makes maps like Gas Heaven, Eyrie and Cowshed way more frustrating to deal with.

There’s also the aura nerf, where all the auras became extremely difficult to see, until the Devs amended them!

Genuinely my fav dbd youtuber ,top tier content, (informative and fun) , great voice (asmr worthy) and as alwayz the bestest outros :)

I actually didn't mind the billy nerf because he was annoying just spamming chainsaw in certain maps basically being near impossible to complete the last gen (on certain maps)

There was also the realm offering nerf, some of them were further linked to the lore and was removed really early on.

Nice video as usual! Two things I kind of disagree with on this one though, the flashlight change always struck me as a godsend because people used to use the old flashlight alongside a macro to be VERY annoying, and in reality after getting used to the new aiming/timing of the flashlight it really doesn’t feel too bad to use. The other change I actually thought was really good directionally was the gen speed nerf, ever since the introduction to mmr anyone who is at a high level knows that gen speed is still absolutely insane, and a lot of the current gen regression perks are nowhere near as good as pre nerf ruin and pop, so it’s a real head scratcher. It’s like you said, they wanted to slow down the pace of the game while making killers less reliant on slowdown perks, but at the same time 10 sec reduction when you nuke all the viable slowdown perks from orbit really doesn’t fix anything since gens go just as fast when survivors are being efficient

The gen nerf wasnt really that Strange. Bhvr recognized that by removing perks like corrupt and ruin from the meta, they were removing a valuable plaster fix for the killer’s weakest point in the match - early game. They then tried to make up for that huge killer nerf by increasing gen speeds overall. The issue is that we have a gen kick meta now which is a lot less chase focused than the corrupt/ruin meta and thus forces survivors to strategically focus gens. It becomes much more of a tug of war within the gen spreads rather than winning through strong early chases cuz corrupt. The final product is tedious for survivors, extremely tough on killers weak in mobility and just generally less chase focused. But the idea makes a lot of sense and I wouldn’t call it a “weird” change. Just a misguided balance patch.

the flashlight thing though, they made it a 0.4 second timer where it would count even if mistimed, so when you woulda flashed quickly to fix your time, you no longer need to, if you dont make it now you wouldnt have before

I still feel like gens go to fast. This I believe boils down to me finding a lot of survive with friends groups and having a lot of toolboxes or perks that make gens a slight stop. If anyone wants to comment, I use 1 or 2 slowdowns, I'm pretty alright in chase, and keep pretty decent pressure. But I keep having matches with 3 or 4 hooks and no sacs and I don't even have a high rank or mmr. It doesn't make sense why I struggle so much and I have been playing for 2 years as both sides. Anyways 80 to 90 seconds for gens seems negligible and if you are going to nerf gens you might as well make the gens take 120 seconds.

I think hatch as a second chance after they have so many second chances perks is fair

Another video! Thanks Azhymovs!

I actually care about the lore it helps me “understand” them better

Out of all of these, the flashlight ‘nerf’ is the weirdest one to me. It doesn’t make them much harder to use, just as you put it, it’s just kinda awkward to use and get the timing right.

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

the worst part about the nerf of Deathslinger's terror radius is that it's not even necessary to have if they nerf the ADS as well. If he takes longer to aim on you, you can hear the ringing noise, terror radius or not. I understand that they wanted to prevent people from equipping MnA and get stealth shots, but this isn't necessary anymore as he gives an audio cue when aiming on you. I think that if he kept his old terror radius, that would be more fun for everyone. You could still benefits from a small tr as slinger, and you would still have cues as survivor. Now it's just run once you hear the terror radius, it's not fun.

Hmmmm... Nerf pig more?

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.

4:06 This is cool. I went to the wiki you mentioned and read them all and really liked them. I also got the idea to write something similar for the ones who don’t have these little stories. It’ll take some time (which I don’t have at the moment) but if I do it would you be interested in seeing them and giving me thoughts?

Nice video, I wish they would nerf Windows of Opportunity to remove seeing breakable walls, I've ran at them thinking they were a pallet so many times lol

Totally agreed 😊 Would appreciate if the cc actually matched up though

I have a video idea: you’re favorite quotes from the flavor texts of add ons perks and items

I have a buff idea for the keys with a new addon that would allow survivors to break breakable walls. Make it a lock and when used would spent like 25% or more of the keys charge. It would give survivors possibility to open some doors that would be beneficial for them like the side door on the badham preschool building that killers rarely open as it gives easier loop for the fence window. It would not be the most useful addon in most maps but it would give some more usage for the keys and it fits because I always see the breakable walls as doors anyway as they block doorways.

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)

I read up that the flashlights were to prevent epileptic seizures which could explain the spacing but the sound idk why they'd change that. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'm hoping every single pig nerf is on this list, lmao 😂

Love the consistent uploads😍😍🤌🏻

wait what was the map shown for the hud nerf clip??? i remember playing it a while ago i just dont remember what it was called and why it was removed

The Flashlist changes took places because many people with epilepsy had seisures while playing killer due survivors clicking in their face. It was needed for epileptic players to be able to play killer.

i think with the gen speed slow down nerf, it's actually made gens go by faster. before when i would play killer, i felt like my games were mostly balanced. I could either get 8 hooks on everyone and maybe they all escape or i could clutch a 3 or 4k by end game or 1-2 gens left. it felt really fair. now i feel that the gen repair progress nerf has forced a lot more prove thyself and a lot more pairing up on gens. I swear i can be in a chase for 20 seconds before a gen pops and then another might pop another 30 seconds later. and it's like that most every match

Pyramid Head's nerf where they nerfed his... Let's just say newer players will never understand

Ever since the flashlight nerf, I've rarely used them because they just feel bad to use imo :/ They should have kept the old sound and have an adaptive cooldown that starts at 0, like old flashlight, and gets longer with each click

The Pyramid Head's behind nerf

anyone know where to see all of the Benedict Baker lore bits? I can't find them in the wiki, and I know that they aren't in game anymore, so I was wondering if there was anywhere I could find them

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.

i turned my headphones back to the shop just because i heard it only on one sinde, only to find out that the video is broken, not my headphones...

The only killer who got worse since the changed the layout of the breakable walls is Ghostface. A lot of the times with him, i i would have stalked sombody through the little holes in the door, but now you can't do it anymore. F for Ghostie :(

You forgot to mention the worst nerf of them all. They nerfed Pyramid heads cake.

Honestly I see where they were going with the 90 second gen nerf but honestly they should have just shrunk the maps cuz they're too big and it takes too long to get a down before gens are finished

Ghostface detection and stalk also were strangly nerfed, i mean, you can by an accident fully stalk guy in the corner of screen and get detected behind the wall or obstacle.

I have to say when they thought of reducing the effectiveness of self-care by nerfing the healing speed to 35% from 50% they did not take into consideration perks like sloppy butcher that makes it half the time to repair a generator to heal or the hemorrhage status effect that makes you lose healing progress very quickly which can make an interrupted heal much more damaging to survivors that run self care then intended. I'm a killer main who also plays survivor and I say it was a nerf into the grave.

Hope your doing well this holiday season ❤ Don’t get burnt out for us. Love you!

Benedict’s view on Kate 😭

Ok I Main Freddy and he has his strengths, mainly being a massive weapon hitbox, It allows for some insane hits. But I have 2 complaints about the dream snares, 1. Survivors can see them, this gets annoying fast, by the mid way point snares are almost impossible to use if you use them a lot in the early game, this encourages barely using them at all which is what I generally do. 2. The affect it gives, instead of hindered it should give them incapacitated

oh that's perfect i always sleep with only one headphone in my ear, thank you, sweetie

Strange nerfs? You mean Pig's entire existence?

hej azhy, the flashlight changes were aimed to avoid photosensitive epilepsy in some players. I do understand the gameplay logic you explained and how it feels different but it was made to avoid health problems

The hatch still didn’t get nerfed on mobile but weirdly you don’t see much keys on mobile…

I only run keys with Blood Amber for extra information Since i started playing lastvyear, iv only ever seen 1 survivor escape with the key

You should do a video ranking all characters full prestige outfits.

They did Freddy and Twins so wrong in this game. I think if the twins bugs can get fixed and charlette got a temporary rage mode when Victor gets kicked. And I feel like they should change up some of his less useful add-ons, and add more to the dream world, like a second timer until survivors are in the dream world so long they get exposed giving incentive to wake up, and adding another fake element into the dream realm too, and similarly to Doc and his insanity, I think Freddy's dream world should invert some skill checks.

my swf and i have just been bringing keys in lately as offerings for the killer bc they're more useful that way lol

autodidact buff when, an entire video on autodidact :0

I’ve only escaped with the key once since the rework and I didn’t even bring the key with me

What do you mean Freddy went from strong and boring to weak and boring? Freddy was always weak and boring. You could give him a chain gun that fires sleep paralysis bullets that afflict survivors with Hindered, Blindness, Madness, Incapacitated, Exposed and Oblivious from up to 128 meters away, and he'd still be weak and boring.

I think the nerf to sabatoging hooks was and is a mistake to this day. the effect of a good sabo is basically useless because the hooks respawns like half a minute later.

Killer mains complained CONSTANTLY over Reddit and Facebook and pretty much all social media about hatch and key. Every other Reddit post was a killer main complaining about "free escapes" all the time even though survivors has set objectives in order for the hatch to spawn. Killers were always tunneling a key person out of the game.

"...change to lore." Not me saying: "What law?"

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

Good thing I’m only using my left airpod

Homie is using trail of torment on Freddy . what in the confusion

Strange buff video coming next?

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.

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

When it comes to the Gen times, adding 10 seconds was the lazy way. Which didn't really change a thing anyway. It was a half assed attempt to "shake up the Survivor meta." which really didn't do anything. The only thing it "shook up" was the Killer meta when they GUTTED Ruin, Pop Goes The Weasel, ect. Survivors only had to maybe toss in Prove Thyself and that took care of it. Instead of something like finding a can of gas for the Gen or parts, they went the lazy route. Gens are just as fast, if not faster than before. They only thing that changed is that Survivors exchanged ONE of their "Second Chance" freebie perks for Prove Thyself. "Second Chance" Survivors perks are basically like Gen Defense slow down perks for Killers. For both sides, it's a stall meta. Only now Survivors are bringing Speed Up perks. They always could use Speed Up, but they chose stall instead cause it made the match longer with more chases, but still ended up in a win. Now they went to Speed Up. Less fun, but still a win. "Fun" was just a buzz word for "as long as we win." Is the win more boring to get? Yeah, yeah it is. Though Survivors proved they were less concerned about chases and "having fun" (as they SAID they were), than what was ACTUALLY fun, winning.

didnt bhvr nerf billy right before adding overheat, said he feels balanced now and then still added overheat?

My left ear is really confused about the key situation. mainly because a red kay gives free wallhacks for some reason.

I want a Freddy buff :/ I don't like to play against/with him, but I think he need to be better explored

Alright I have to address everything here, but I will say that you are entitled to your own opinions. 1. Yes, the Freddy addon nerf was weird and odd 2. Key and hatch nerf I think was necessary, me and my friends would abuse the hatch all the time, getting 4 man escapes almost every game because we got to one gen, went to shack, and popped open the hatch. 3. I have no experience with Billy so no comment 4. Lore nerf was extremely unnecessary and I found Benedict Baker to be a lore machine that was hidden in the dark 5. Every Twins nerf is unnecessary 6. Flashlight nerf was focused on accessibility, rapidly clicking and flashes agitated photosensitive players, so this was a necessary change 7. No comment on Death Slinger as I don’t play him enough to know 8. My guess for why they “nerfed” Plague’s’ ability to infect walls was because it took of some of the game’s coding? That would be my best guess. 9. 90 second gens were a must for the game. As a killer main gens being done too fast in a match was the biggest reason for me only getting about 1 kill per game. Even with slowdown perks it didn’t matter, so adding an extra 50 seconds into it really made the game better. 10. Hud go brrrrrrrr

Infectable walls KILLED our MAIN BP source. R.I.P infectable walls.

Personally, I'm okay with the gen nerf, but I was pretty livid about the key nerf. I liked how you had to have gens done to make it spawn, why didn't they just add the animation and be done with it that way? Also, I don't play deathslinger, but I felt his nerf was overdone. They made the aiming slower & increased his terror radius. They should've just done one or the other, not both. I also hope they buff Freddy. Just give multiple powers that affect survivors in the dream: like dream pallets spawn after so many seconds, dream lockers that will trap survivors in them, dream vault locations that injure or force slow vaulting, or dream totems that mess with survivors or something. He has so much potential T-T

Why'd they'd add the delay to turning a flashlight on instead of a delay between turning it off and turning it on

I think the key nerf is the weirdest because now hatch is so unbelievably useless like only in a blue moon will you see a hatch escape like it would be cool if it spawned closed when there are two survivors left and if keys are a one time thing. Like maybe the hatch could stay but the second person would need to find another key. Idk I’ve just been trying to get some hatch achievements done and the fact that it doesn’t even spawn in in the end game collapse is actually wild, because solo que idiots that don’t do gens and walk around for ten minutes spend the whole minute and thirty seconds at the exits tea bagging while I’m injured waiting for them to leave so I can get a hatch escape usually while in a chase. They need to rework hatch and keys again but behavior kind of just does whatever they want and don’t have a single person on the dev team that plays their game even semi regularly

I escaped once with a key, I actually found it on a chest with plunderer because I was doing a challenge. The killer closed the hatch while chasing me (I didn't see it when walking above it) so I hid, they keeped on going because they probably didn't thought I would open it, opened it and escaped But this is so niche that it isn't even funny

Tbh im lucky to have my left AirPod in lol.Still a great video so it don’t bother me 😌

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

Surprised you didn't mention any of half dozen pig nerfs. Continually nerfing an already bottom tier killer

Not sure what you mean about the slow down buffs. Plenty of slowdown perks got nerfed not buffed. No one even uses certain slow down perks because they got nerfed into the ground. Sure you still have some strong ones but Pop is now a shell of its former self and Hex is no longer worth it as its slowdown is minimal, can be removed super early if you know where hex spawns at and will be removed on a kill. Sure you have eruption but that requires setup. You have to stop a chase and you risk losing someone. One mistake is all it takes for the killer to lose a match. We now have other survivor perks that paired with toolboxes, can have gens done in as little as 30 seconds now just on your own.

I think that the hillbilly neff was good it craps billy from spamming his chainsaw and using his hammer

About your Freddy gameplay, doesn't Freddy have a lullaby when you are sleeping? If so, then maybe Trail of Torment isn't that useful on him