Clown's Build Variety is in GRAVE DANGER! | Dead by Daylight

Hey there gang. So, originally I didn't

plan on making a video for the PTB

simply because most of what we see on

the PTB is either some various change to

a few handful of killers that I don't

play and also the diminishing returns

which to my understanding I thought

diminishing returns were only going to

apply on perks. I didn't know that

diminishing returns were going to apply

on perks and killer powers. So when

you're looking at in the case of clown,

right, clown has haste. This means what

we're seeing following this change is

we're seeing diminishing returns on any

haste perk that is uh chosen in your

build simply by virtue of playing clown.

And uh believe it or not, I feel like

this sets a very bad precedent, not just

for clown, but other killers going

forward. There are also a couple of

killers besides clown obviously who do

have haste in some capacity, although

not too many. I believe it's uh knight

and skull merchant. Right? So when you

look at not only uh the specificity or

the uh the specific three killers that

are being in uh talked about here,

right? It almost really especially more

calls into question how we need to

address this now, especially again when

you consider going forward future game

design and future proofing. So all of

this is are going to be things that we

talk about in this video here today. And

it's very important that we talk about

all of this simply because of the fact

that this is going to be one of those

foundational

uh level changes that may decide whether

or not you want to play clown going

forward. And I really do mean that.

Simply I'll even go as far as to say

y'all just briefly um for people who've

been watching my stream, I've been

playing a lot more artists. when I see

this this diminishing returns change for

haste, this makes me want to more double

down on that. But again, right, let's go

uh starting from the beginning, right?

Just right out the gate, it really feels

like behavior is deliberately targeting

or disregarding clown knight and skull

merchant. On the recent PTB, it was

proposed that certain effects would have

diminishing returns if multiples of

those effects were stacked together. We

obviously talked about this. Just

recapping from earlier at the beginning

behavior was specific that the

diminishing return count wouldn't affect

add-ons. And I want to talk about this,

right? Because the fact that diminishing

returns affect perks and killer powers

but not add-ons, that's really going to

bake into the rest of the cake here. So,

as a result, you have killers like

Clown, Knight, and Skull Merchant who

are impacted in a a very dramatic way as

a result of these changes. Specifically,

their build variety has become much

worse. Notice I say build variety

because it's not just perks, it's going

to be add-ons. Since these killer powers

give the killer haste, and this haste

isn't excluded from diminishing returns,

the value of haste perks as well as

add-ons in a in a tangental way, even

individually has significantly plummeted

on these three killers. Now, again,

y'all, as y'all know, I am mostly a

clown main. I've got 7,500 matches on

clown. don't really can't say the same

for Ner Skull Burch and so maybe the

haste that they receive isn't as uh it

doesn't it doesn't fare the same way

when it comes to clown right the

emissioning returns etc when it comes to

perk builds but I did want to at least

include those other two killers since

they did have haste specifically haste

baked into their kit you look at some

other killers like singularity

houndmaster they have been reworked to

where their haste in a sense you could

call it their increased movement feet, I

guess, is at base. It's not considered a

haste effect, which means their power

does stack with a haste perk, one haste

perk at the bare minimum without

incurring diminishing returns, which is

again something that clown skull

merchant knight, they can't do. They

when they get their haste from their kit

are going to get diminishing returns

either on that haste if it is less than

the perk or on the perk itself. And all

of this again really really matters when

it comes to both making your build, your

interest in wanting to play the killer,

and also right by uh inverse of that,

your add-ons. Next, what we've got is a

list of perks that I would personally

consider no longer viable on clown,

assuming the uh diminishing returns goes

through as it is affecting killer

powers. And that is because even if you

were to take any one of these perks that

you see on this list below by itself,

you are going to receive diminishing

returns simply by using clown's yellow

bottle. And this is because clown's

yellow bottle is one of those haste

effects. So since you have two haste

effects, diminishing returns applied on

just that one perk. And that I feel is a

problem. This is going to be what pushes

people away from running any of these

haste perks at all. And given that a lot

of people ran haste perks, it was one of

the big reasons of playing clown to

begin with is that speed differential,

right? We'll kind of talk about this

later. It really is probably going to

more make you make make you ask

yourself, do I really want to play clown

anymore? Right? So, let's just go from

the top to the bottom. F of chase. F of

chase was ran in the stealthy friends to

the end builds usually where you would

cycle the obsession, you would get that

haste to start your next chase. Well, it

kind of sucks when you're losing 5%

haste and you're going from 22% down to

17%. So if you don't want to run this

build anymore because a fert of chase

and you can't get the most stack in your

yellow with fert of chase, right? Well,

that's a whole build gone. Game of foot.

Some people would use yellows with game

of foot before kicking pallets.

Sometimes they would use play with your

food because they're breaking chase with

that obsession game of foot to double

stack the speed. Maybe they would commit

um after getting the play with your food

stack and they would try to get a health

state off of that. That's a whole build

completely gone. game of foot by itself

as well being completely discouraged

without the playwood through food

because it's now only worth 3.5%. Right?

Again, we're talking about a whole perk

slot being 3.5% haste. There are so many

other perks in DBD. You've got, I think,

over 120 plus other perks that you could

take. Why would you take Game of Foot at

3.5% when you have the condition of

needing to find the obsession and kick a

pallet just to get it for a very limited

number? You know what I'm saying? It's

now at this point become so conditional

based on its current value that simply

because you're playing clown, right? You

don't want to take this take this perk

anymore. Now, it would be different if

you were playing another killer who

would get that full 7% or shook maybe if

diminishing returns than to apply to

clown's power at base, right? And if it

was just if you were taking multiple

haste perks as clown with his yellow

bottles that you would start to see

diminishing returns, right? Not simply

taking one haste perk, then maybe it

would be different. But because you're

clown, can't really take aim and foot

anymore. And speaking of approach can't

take anymore, everyone's a personal

clown favorite. Rapid brutality. And

this one is probably the most

devastating uh loss, I think, when it

comes to this change. This one really,

really does upset me because Rapid

Brutality is almost like the bread and

the butter when it comes to clown. It's

basically like save the best for last.

Like imagine if they just completely

bastardized and destroyed save the best

for last to the way where not even M1