This is getting out of hand...

Posting here since it keeps getting auto deleted on the main subreddit.....

I know there are a lot of other things people are worrying about right now... mainly the complete broken and buggy state the game is in right now, but I can't stay silent about this any longer.

I have been playing since 2022 and have about 2,000 hours in DBD. I'm a killer main with probably around 70% of my playtime into killer. I say this before I make my main statement to eliminate other killer mains from immediately writing my complaints off as another "entitled survivor main" or something like that. Anyways, I think Dead Man's Switch is a serious problem in this game.

This is basically the modern day equivalent of CoB + Eruption. A whopping 50 seconds of blocking gens is an astronomical amount of time. It is able to proc way too often and I'm not even joking when I say that a good 60%+ of my matches as survivor is just a killer running DMS coupled with other perks to make it even more insufferable. Whether it's pain res or grim embrace or surge or eruption... damn near every single match is an utter slog to get through because the gens are constantly blocked ALL THE TIME. The fact that it can just keep on procing over and over and over and over and over and over again is insane to me. This perk needs to be a scourge hook that only activates the first time a survivor is hooked. Most of my matches consist of me trying to do a gen then DMS+Pain res activates, then I'm either doing nothing or completely restarting on a different gen because losing 20% of progress instantly + 50 seconds (probably more) of regression means that my progress is cooked. But THEN, by the time I find another gen and start repairing it, what do you think the odds are that somebody else hasn't went down before I can finish the other gen? Near zero. So then it happens again. This is incredibly unhealthy and boring. It's getting to a point where I'm not even getting mad, I just sigh and don't even feel like playing anymore. And to make matters worse, SO many killers run DMS I feel like a lot don't even know how to play without it. Obviously getting kills and winning is going to be easy when you're constantly denying the survivors from doing their objective the ENTIRE match. The other part that makes it so problematic, is just how many things in the game synergize with it. There's pain res, surge, eruption, grim embrace, ultimate weapon, phantom fear, fear the darkness, deadlock, dragons grip, friends til' the end, infectious fright, merciless storm, the doctor's AoE blast, a bunch of killer addons I won't bother getting into, or just the killer themself. DMS wouldn't be that bad if it existed by itself, but it becomes unbearable to go against when it's supported by other perks/abilities.

I could rant on and on but if you read this far then you get the point so I'm just going to end it here. This perk needs to be balanced because I really haven't felt like this playing survivor since the CoB + Eruption meta.