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denying tombstone and sportsmanship
seen some back and forth about this over the years and i'm curious what everyone's take is on it is it bad sportsmanship to intentionally deny the tombstone achivement when you will die either way? i don't think many people would argue that using lockers to avoid dying is bad if you will still be able to continue the game,…
is doxing bannable
I was playing killer last night and first killer match get a 4k and get doxxed in the endgame chat i reported them but heard nothing back is bhvr going to do anything or are people allowed to just run around doxing people when they get mad at a video game
How is the Houndmaster Changes?
Honestly the QOL is welcomed but the number tweaks should have been more Houndmaster is still not good and needs more buffs Houndmaster needed buffs imo Chase Hit box Width increased by 1.5 meters Collision detection reduced Chase cooldown reduced to 3 seconds Chase command speed increased by 15% Chase Speed increased by…
Hotfix tomorrow?
Do you think it'll be sent out tomorrow or Tuesday?
Killer mains who play a variety of Killers... I need your opinion
I'll keep this as short and to the point as possible but it's going to be a bit of a read, but I'm basically looking to play through all the killers, and not moving on until I get a certain number of wins. I'm considering minumal 3K a win. Not wins in a row as a streak. Just play until I hit that number.The point being, I…
Does the development team really understand why the Houndmaster is so unpopular?
As the title says. Did the development team play at least 10 matches with the Houndmaster themselves? The QOL of the details in the update was necessary, of course, but the problem is the narrowness of the dog's hit points, the discomfort caused by the change of viewpoint, and the difficulty of hitting the survivor with…
Houndmaster builds
Just wanted to see what you guys have been using on her. Figured with the bug fixes, people might be hopping on her again. Here's mine. The rope+ rapid brutality has a tendency of throwing people off for a 2nd hit. Might change once I get higher MMR as her...
Chucky nerfs are a bit to much
The nerf to chuckys cooldown is fine and justified but the nerf to slice and dice speed feels terrible and needs to be reverted there is no way this should of went through this makes chucky so much worse at everything he's already 4.4 with a 14 second cooldown and that change kills his power entirely at most loops please…
My 2v8 solo que survivor results
So I did 77 games in solo que in 2v8 an here are some of my results. I apologise for my spelling and grammer in advance. Gen completion -out of the 77 games 54 of the games every gen was done which is around 70.1% -the lowest number of gens done was 4 -From making notes next to every game and re-watching footage from my…
Killers weak so much
If you are a Survivor main who can say "No" to what I say, if you haven't played yet or if your killer mmr is low, I recommend you to play killer. With each update, powerful perks come to the survivors, while only trash comes to the killers. Also, if you have high mmr and are playing a standard killer (Not Blight, Nurse,…
Please BHVR put the TOTH meta slaves in my lobbies I'm literally begging
"All I ever see is TOTH Plaything Penti builds" ok where ######### ARE THEY THEN PLEASE
This is proof of how bad designed Invocation: Treacherous Crows is.
In this video he got very little value from Invocation: Treacherous Crows even with calm spirit he barely got any value. This strongly proves how weak Invocation: Treacherous Crows is and how completely it fails in its purpose. The only purpose I see for Invocation: Treacherous Crows besides this perk being designed to be…
Where's the sound queue for PC when a match finishes loading?
DbD used to have a nice bug that if you turn on the "mute while out of focus" option the game would still play it's audio when the match had started. This was pretty good. You could use any other app while waiting and them just Alt+Tab to DbD when the match started. In some patch months ago they fixed it and in the last…
My top five "Worst surv perks in DBD new era"
5 : Exultation (because "build to last" exists) 4 : Hardened (?????) 3 : Boon - Illumination (!!!!!) 2: Deadline (really? LOL) 1: Invocation- Treacherous crows (OMG, why???)
I hate the Chucky movement nerf so much
His Slice & Dice movement speed nerf from 10m/s to 8m/s feels sooo bad. He feels so slow and sluggish. The cool down nerf... Meh whatever but GOD that nerf to Slice & Dice feels god awful. Revert it back now!
I Wish There Was A Way To Bleed Out Faster...
I sure do love being Bleed out for 4-minutes when the Killer can just end the game. It would be nice if there was some level of agency from the Survivor's end to deal with this issue. :) Also yes, as you can imagine, the Killer did ye ole' W + S on top of me, nodded, and threw hatchets at me while I was on the ground.…
Chucky feels terrible
The new movement speed feels terrible, nerfing the movement speed by 50% is comparable to 2.7.0 Legion being 125% in Frenzy, it feels awful. Please, if not fully reverting it, at least consider partially reverting these changes, for example: Movement speed to 8.8m/s Duration to 1.5 seconds Now you have a dodgeable movement…
I fear the Houndmaster is the new Skull Merchant
About 7/10 Houndmaster games have been all hex builds with the add on to make survivors scream when the dog senses them. With TotH being one of the hex totems, of course. It has gotten to the point where I have noticed people will DC as soon as they see it's her or they will wait until something makes them scream because…
My MMR is unbalanced
I have 6k hours stemming from 2018 to now mainly on killer but a good amount on survivor. When I play survivor solo the players are just horrible. It’s making me wanna quit the game again and it’s not even enjoyable. You can’t even have fun because they killers try so hard it’s a stomp every single time it wasn’t like this…
Is the new update is buff survivor and nerf killer?
Chucky is dead now.
Houndmaster's chase theme has been reverted!
The accordion is back!! Thank you for pulling a vecna and reverted her chase music back from the ptb bhvr
People finally started to realize that Unknown was overrated?
During last weeks I started to hear from my friends and A LOT of content creators who were attached to this character that he feels different now, after people realise how to play against him. It was fun to read people put him in A tier on release, but I wonder how many people rate him way lower now than they did on…
Does anyone know how long it takes for your MMR to lower?
Hello, solo survivor main here with nearly 2000 hrs-ish ! So, before we start, please be aware this is NOT a "killers are so op nerf them all" post. I think killers need to be stronger than survivors, and this is not a post crying about how unfair or how unbalanced they or the game is or whatever. It's a genuine question,…
Regular Players. Do you still get Killer anxiety?
Sure you've played tons of Killer before. Let's say you've been playing lots of Survivor and haven't played Killer for awhile, do you still sometimes get that anxiety to queue up to be that 1 in 1v4? Hard to believe me of all androids this happens to but oddly it still does. Couple nights in a row I tell myself 'playing…
New Auto-Kill Bot
I just had a round where a Twitch TV Player killed everyone instantly. Fun fact -after the end of said round I got a disconnection penalty although I didnt disconnect. Lovely
Another cheaters wave, Remove Epic accounts already.
For the lasst 3 days i got tons of matches where my whole team get killed at the loading of the map with nurse, that uses random (or not very random) names of different streamers. Upon checking their channels it becomes obvious, that streamers have nothing to do with this. All of the cheating accounts have 1 thing in…
“Just Use Counterforce” (Hex: Thrill Of The Hunt Rant)
I see a lot of posts saying “just use Counterforce to deal with Hex: Thrill of the Hunt” but I’d love to just collectively deal with all of these threads by bringing up some counter arguments that completely shutdown Counterforce entirely. First off… let’s talk modifiers… and math… For those who don’t know how modifiers in…
Killer cheater insta kills everyone 5 seconds into the match
Hello, its happening more and more often that i get games in which a nurse typically insta kills everyone on basemet hook as soon as the game starts, with everyone dead in 5 seconds. Then we get returned to lobby and have a cooldown on matchmaking. Last time it did give me a 15 minute cooldwon already. Is there any way to…
4x Instankill Cheater Bot in less than 12 hours - I'm very displeased! - Matchmaking Ban
Dear BHVR, this is the 4th time I'm facing the same instantkill cheater bot and now i'm waiting, again, to the end of my 15 minute matchmaking ban. This is getting out of hand. Reporting that cheater takes 3x the time of the match, lobby included. At this point it's just ridiculous how powerless BHVR is against cheaters.…
Houndmaster only works at noob levels
With Houndmaster even if all her bugs and jank were fixed she's just not strong enough to compete with average to skilled players with how easily counterable she is despite having high skill floor already Scott talks on why even against average players HM can't reliably succeed or get enough value from her kit.
As you know, developers tend not to weaken something, but to destroy it completely
There are plenty of examples of perks. Perks that are now completely useless and are only relevant for meme builds or that you have to use for challenges. They are nothing more than stopgaps. Hello Meta What will people complain about next when Trill is broken? You know how developers tend not to nerf something, but…
Can't remember last time I lost with this Myers build
Corrupt, enduring, spirit fury, bamboozle. Tombstone piece and JMM. In short the key is playing normally and using mori when it's guaranteed you will get it or just keep it tap away for moments you find right. Few tips. At the start of the game always use high ground (usually 2nd floor of the main building) to stalk, or…
Why does the hound master pick survivors up so ######### slow?!
It takes ages.
Any Random RNG moments that completely worked against you?
Just a quick one from my first game yesterday (finally got over the anxiety to play). As a Singularity main im now obliged to bring a newly common Sac. Ward to every match since I'm the most map dependant Killer in the game. Survivors bring Autohaven Offering. I bring Sac. Ward to cancel offering. RNG decides we play…
im now 100% sure that the 'Bloodpoint incentive' system is turned off
There is no chance that the BP bonus is only at 25% no matter the time is and on top of that i see it mostly on both sides even at 0% This just cant be a me issue right?? right??
I know the November developer update is here, GO AWAY
it's now December. How do I get rid of this thing?
Do we all agree that houndmaster is a high skill low reward killer?
She's more fun than people give her credit for, I think Great design cool power idea some good voice lines not the best though I just take issue with her overall strength Currently, I feel like she's very similar to PTB and release singularity, where the effort you need to put in for the killer to work is really not…
any way yall could give us a survivor scream volume setting?
survivors scream too damn loud, and with headphones being exposed to that could lead to partial hearing loss, but i lower the volume for the screams you miss out on important audio signals. so please add a scream volume slider they dont need to be sooo loud.
Whats the point of this killer?
God ever since they added the ability to just wipe away her traps shes been such genuine garbage. It makes me so mad that every killer I loved just gets gutted (Hag, Skull Merchant), changed to be unfun for me (Onryo), or just launches in a trash state (HoundMaster). I really don't see the point in playing Hag now a days.…
Discord Ban Appeal
Hey I used the term "commit" and it was interpreted as a "#########" sentiment. I said the statement "commit you weakass. Be a hater or don't." This was in jest with a user over a discussion that they are "mean." I always say they're mean to me and they deny ever being mean. It's not a serious argument. I did not say…
Easy fix for hexes
This isn’t a perfect solution but it could help with some totems. It should be to where the specific hex totem doesn’t activate until the requirement of the perk is met. Example if you have Ruin at the start of the game all 5 totems will be dull. If a survivor stops repairing a Gen one of the random totems will become a…
Cruel limits should get a number buff
it’s been forever since I seen this used in a build and even more since I used it. I think it should get the machine learning treatment and increase its time from 30 seconds to 50 seconds. Could be 45 seconds if 50 is to much. Bunch of perks in this game can go from garbage tier to decent with a few number changes. Machine…
Nancy, Steve, and Demogorgon Adepts Still Missing?
The Nancy, Steve, and Demogorgon Adepts were removed when the DLC License for Stranger Things was not renewed by Netflix… however we now have the Stranger Things DLC in the game, in fact, we've had it for awhile, and the Adept achievements have not returned. When will we get them back?
these nurse buffs are insane
VPN abuse
Dear Devs, Will there ever be a time where you address the use of VPN and start to ban for this blatant cheating? Using a VPN to get an advantage in a party game is one step down from hacking and going against killers with 300+ ping is terrible behaviour.
Major issue I'm noticing in houndmasters core kit
Im sure a lot of elements of houndmaster have been talked to death here like her tiny hitbox and her buggy pathing, but a major point of pain I've been noticing in her actual kit is that hound sense basically doesn't do anything. Right now in her search function the only thing that Is useful is her speed boost, when the…
Anyone else had a 3 survivor match?
Loaded into a match where like the good ol' days of DBD there were only 3 survivors (veterans will know what that is like). Anyone else had this? Really weird…
You think for the push for chests in recent chapter perks they would add more to the trial
There’s only 3 chests in the entire trial. If everyone ran a different chest perk like for example surv 1 pharmacy This guy takes 1/3 surv 2 moment of glory This guy takes 2/3 surv 3 specialist this guy is taking all of them suv4 ace in the hole This guy also plans on opening chests. even if two survs brought MOG their…
All Addons become base kit, which killer is the strongest/weakest
Add ons are removed, and instead all their effects are incorporated into base effects This includes Meme add ons Knowing this, which killers are falling down the tierlist, which killers are skyrocketing to S tier, which has unique effects and properties now!?
Dracula Wolf Form should be a secondary hit
It should not be a one hit down for devour hope or No-Ed. That's all :) Oh also fix the game for survivors.

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