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A hellraiser game is also announced for 2026.

Uninstall

it's fine being a perk.

Get a divorce lawyer.

Nothing by that company is legitimate competition. It's a game that will last a year or two max before it gets shut down. For a game to really compete with DBD it would probably need to drop with 5-6 big licenses in it and be backed by some serious money.

since no one else is going to state this- I will.

we need to get rid of all these high ping / vpn abusers.

EVERY single game I played today killer had ping of 100+

I have a proactive suggestion or 3

1- let us see the ping of ALL players in the pregame lobby

2- give us an option to turn on a setting where ping above 100 cannot be paired with us

3-lower your ping limit allotment

killers have been getting free hits, using high ping to their advantage. Not saying everyone needs to have great internet but it’s kinda necessary when playing online games to prevent bugs, glitches etc.

what are your thoughts on high ping ?

Speaking of this, what happened to that explanation they promised saying they would outline how they use the killswitch 🤔

i agree currently blight is overpowered, if they truly fix mmr tho and balance the game correctly nobody will do such winstreaks, even for the best teams getting more than 10 wins in a row would be miracle, which is totally fine. 9 out of 10 is 90%, its better than even pros get in league of legends already by far when they play their own main character. the winrate of a 2000streaker is 2000% WR, and even if he had lets say 200 winstreak, he will still be on the 200% winrate, should i do a 100 winstreak on blight record and post a vod calling out the bs power this killer have? cause i can, as former blight main myself, the only reason i stopped playing him is due to boredom, now playing billy, having more fun. even tho billy is broken as well currently with the unsafe tiles. but i didnt expect this change either.

I've always found there's a useful distinction between "casual game" and "party game" in this context.

Adding those in to the idea of a "competitive game" (I don't have a better term for this- obviously all the games being discussed are literally competitive because they're PvP, but people broadly understand what's meant here I think) gives us a more useful spread of potential games to look at.

A "competitive game" in this context is easy to define. Something like CS:GO, League of Legends, your average fighting game- they're all designed around taking the competitive element seriously and are structured around this idea. They may have casual queues, but those don't tend to be the main focus of the playerbase and broadly aren't what's balanced around as much.

A "party game" in this context would be where things like Fall Guys and Mario Kart come in. It's not as though there's no competitive elements to those games at all, but they're fundamentally designed around being easy to pick up and play, more chaotic than competitive, and largely just things you'd have going at a party or other gathering without people needing to commit too much to playing them.
Easy, simple, quick, something you can explain to someone in five minutes and have them be able to play competently.

A "casual game", to me, would be in between those two. It has more of a commitment and more of a skill curve than a party game, there'd still be the capacity for it to be taken seriously, but it's more designed around being the game that you'd play during a Discord hangout with your mates rather than something going on at a party. For other examples in this vein, think of something like Phasmophobia, or even more chaotic games like Lethal Company.
There's a bit too much setup and explanation involved for them to really be considered the same kind of thing as Mario Kart or Fall Guys, but they're also clearly not designed the same way as something like CS:GO or League.

DBD, to me, is a casual game first and foremost. It's one with a bit more of a competitive streak than some others, but BHVR fundamentally balance it more in line with that kind of thing.
The competitive element of DBD has grown over time, but I don't think it's fully outgrown its casual nature just yet.

You can blame the lack of variety at high MMR on the fact that BHVR have ignored making any sort of meaningful adjustments to most of the killer roster for years. For the mid- to low-tier killers that have been reworked, the reworks haven’t resulted in any improvement in their viability at higher MMR. Until BHVR actually makes some meaningful adjustments to nerf the higher tier killers and buff the lower tier killers, you will continue to see this lack of variety at higher MMR.