Dead by Daylight kills its new healing system after blowback from players
Multiplayer survival horror gameDead by Daylight(opens in new tab) has been experimenting with a new healing system lately, whereby health regeneration was slowed from 16 to 24 seconds. That experiment has proved about as popular as having a meathook shoved through your chest, however, and after receiving substantial negative feedback, developed Behaviour Interactive has reverted to the original system.
Behaviour's reasoning for the change was laid out in a blog post (opens in new tab)from last month. Basically, Behaviour thought that the current healing system gave Survivors too much of an advantage for getting out of sticky situations. «Having easy access to quick and plentiful heals can cause problems, particularly for highly skilled Survivors who can evade the Killer for quite some time,» the devs wrote in March. «For Killers, this means that any chase that doesn’t end with a hook [trapping downed enemies on a meathook] — even if they managed to damage a Survivor- can be completely undone in a matter of seconds.»
As outlined in a more recent blog post(opens in new tab), however, the Dead By Daylight community did not agree. «Changing such a fundamental part of the game is a very touchy subject, so we kept an extra close eye on this change to see how it would play out,» Behaviour Interactive Said «After reviewing player feedback, we found that many of you agreed that the speed which you heal others was already in a good spot prior to the update.»
The developers also said that the change had «knock-on effects» for other parts of the game «making effects like Mangled and Hemorrhage stronger and making 'slugging' (leaving Survivors in the dying state) even more effective.
Behaviour hasn't completely restored the healing
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