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Will keyboard and mouse ever be implemented into console ?
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On PS4, often when I play The Demogorgon, I will use the pounce attack and the animation will end as soon as I get to the survivor like it didn't reach them even though I was in range of securing the hit. Is this something to do with hitboxs or am I missing something with the pounce attack? Thanks for the feedback!
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I could answer this for you. It's because on a controller you have analog input, and your inputs can be in any direction. On a keyboard, you have a digital input and can only move in 8 cardinal directions. It's easier with a controller because you just spin the stick, where on a keyboard it's more complicated.
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Why do notifications on console cause such serious frame drops? Xbox players have come to hate Sloppy Butcher because your screen will freeze for a solid 2 seconds when you get hit, which means you end up running into a wall or sometimes directly back into the killer. It's quite unfair. Doc is a giant walking frame drop even after his rework. PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS!
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I know it's not an actual autoaim. It just "makes the hit look better". But can we please have a button to turn it off?
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What do you think about Scott junds idea of a "trial warm up"?
Will it be tecnically easy do make? Do you think it can be a solution to some of the problems of the game?
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Can you please explain how pallet/window hits work? Like, the timing and distance of the lunge, the conditions (medium and slow vaults, injured survivors) required to connect a hit and etc. Some hits are suppose to hit (there's even an achievement for it), but it's hard to understand how, so I think having a demonstration would be a good idea!
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On PS4, why are there frame rate drops whenever you enter bloodlust?
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I just wanna have some fun with Totems but on older maps they are just in sucky spots hide the totem better!!
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Why is it possible for a killer to hit me when i vault and have already taken a few steps ahead?
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Why is it every update causes the same error that was fixed by a previous update. I.e. The Rank update error.
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Is there any plans to implement higher sensitivity for consoles? I find myself being unable to catch a survivor pulling a 360 and having to wait for them to finish before I’m able to hit them. Aim Enhancement usually makes me miss while they are spinning.
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Will Doctor huge fps drops be fixed or you guys already have a fix for it on the Next patch?
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Is there any technical issues as to why console hasn't been optimized yet?
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Are there any plans to reduce the way the killers enhanced animation hits can cause misses and camera flicks.
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Do survivors all have the same size hit box? Do Killers all have the same size hit box?
Youtuber's and streamers have been saying all the survivors have the same size hit box, and the killers all have varying sizes of hit boxes. Which explains why Clown can't chase survivors around corners, because his hit boxes forces him to take a wider girth around a corner - making him move at the same speed as survivors that run as close to the inside of a turn as possible.
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Can we please get cross progression if possible if not possible what is stopping you?
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Can you explain how the action order is registered because as killer it feels like grabs take last and survivors escape mid animation all the time.
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Have you thought about reducing the hitbox around killers to allow them to round objects better without losing as much distance?
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any changes coming to dead hard ?
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Last it was said that you were aiming for 60fps on PS4/Xbox One by the end of Summer 2019.
Is a big update to console performance still coming?
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Why is DBD causing PS4 systems to overheat? It is the only game I play that causes this issue.
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Why dont iridescent add ons work with each othet?
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Are there any planned fixes for when a killer appears to grab a survivor but then gets cancelled mid-animation?
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Why do killers have different lunges I get it for higher or slower mobility killers? For my Example wraith and freedy
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This ones for you @SpaceCoconut
With the Hag, as of the moment, she cannot be played because of that weird bug from teleporting.
Can you please explain why this happens to us, and how you plan to fix this?
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How does the loop safety assessment tool work? For example, in the 3.5.0/1 patch notes, there was mention of a +82 loop safety rating. What does this mean exactly? How safe are the loops on an L-wall/T-wall tile vs. a long wall jungle gym tile, and how are pallets taken into account?
Thanks!
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Regarding performance and UI feedback the game gets slower the longer it's running and it literally freezes sometimes for some seconds when navigating through menues and so on and it became really worse on consoles. You promised performance optimizations since over 1 year already. When will you finally address and improve those essential issues?
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The experience on console (PS4 in my case) feels to be going further downhill with every patch and is the reason many friends of mine who were previously long-term obsessive players of this game have given up on it entirely. Are there still optimisation plans for console, and if so, when can we roughly expect them? And if not, when and for what reason were they abandoned?
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Why does huntress chuck invisible, wall phasing, Honda CRV's at you? I thought she was supposed to throw hatchets.
I get she needs some aim assist to a degree so they actually hit, but it's very annoying to run around a turn and take 3 steps and still get hit, or to dodge perfectly or so you think and watch it about to fly way past you and still you get hit. There has to be some better way to solve this problem for her right?
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Are you guys going to add more Dedicated Server locations other than the ones you have now, if so where do you guys have in mind?
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Okay, so my main question is when are dedicated servers going away, it is something that is EXTREMELY unhealthy for your game. Peer to peer felt better, worked better for everyone, and is just better in this game overall. I don't see why we are forced to play on dedicated servers when the PTB exists for a reason.
Also, saying "what we are doing to reduce the feeling of hits that don't appear to be close enough" doesn't help anyones worry that dedicated servers won't be put in the trash as they should. We KNOW those hits shouldn't hit us. Covering up the hits that shouldn't hit by changing animations isn't good game design. It should be obvious by now that hits are way more generous than they ever were before. You could loop things many times before but now you can't even be greedy because of how inconsistent the servers are. Remove them, tyvm or at least give us an option to play on P2P.
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At what point should the window M1 hit no longer be available? I've been hit on a double L wall after taking more then 4 steps while being at the end of the wall. This was before and after dedicated servers.
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Can you guys finally add more sensitivity to controllers? And when we can expect stable 60 fps?
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short version: in the stalking mechanic (Ghostface and Shape powers), how does the game know when a survivor can be stalked?
(long version, because I would like a somehow precise answer here :P: a survivor can be located not only behind a wall, but also behind see-through grass / half-way behind a generator / between the shack planks etc. - meaning that only a part of the survivor can be seen. I assume you raytrace from the killer POV to the survivor location, but what are the points that you use in the raytracing?)
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How does dedicated servers affect things like grabs (EG: gen grab, totem grab, hook grab etc)? I'm curious why it happens and what it takes to make it happen less.
Also, why does having a really good ping seem to make my experience worse (not being able to hit through windows or pallets when I see streamers do it all the time)
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Why does healing heighten the survivor hitbox, especially when most healing animations involve the survivor bending over to heal someone or themselves?
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Will graphics and FPS selection items be added to PS4?
Monster hunters, etc. have selection items
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Will there ever be more graphic settings
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Is it possible to get optional projectile aim assist for Huntress on console, similar to other FPS games?
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Dedicated Servers for Xbox
Is there an expected date for them to be released? What issues have you faced with dedicated servers for Xbox?
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Is there a reason as to why Huntress' hatchet's hitboxes are as wide as the damn survivors?
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Higher sens on console, I'm begging you.
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Any upcoming plans to address second phase hook "struggle" button
Mashing X feels horrible and it's awful for hardware and fingers alike
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Are new maps / loops designed with dedicated servers in mind? (question is related to hits through pallets/windows due to latency)
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Why does an interrupted grab often revert to “no damage done” instead of a hit?
To clarify: an injured survivor accidentally performs a vault and the killer hits the survivor which registers as a grab. The grab is then interrupted because of latency and the survivor runs away. The survivor should be dead on floor.
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When are grabs going to be fixed?
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The hitboxes of Freddy's hits and Huntress's hatchets are the worst by far. Are you planning to do something to fix them?
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Sometimes when playing killer the game will pause for several seconds when I pick up a downed survivor. What is causing this and is there a plan to fix it?? Also I occasionally get noticeable frame drops when playing killer, usually when I swing at a survivor, however I've never experienced frame drops as survivor. Why does this happen and is there a fix? I'm playing on PS4.
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What kind of benefits do you, developers get by using dedicated servers? (like statistical data you wouldn't be able to collect otherwise)
What were your hypotheses of benefits of enabling dedicated servers, and which of them were validated / which of them turned out to be false? (btw, I really like the dedicated servers, they were a huge plus for me: constant, low ping, consistent hitbox counting)
What are the parameters for map generation/randomization (like relationship of randomized objects and must-have objects)?
How is it calculated, what could be a grab or a simple hit in the game?
What are the biggest technical challenges when implementing new behavior/mechanics in the game (like the resettable pallets or the upside-down)?
How is the dev teams working process (e.g. scrum, kanban...)?
I know I've just broke the one question per person rule, but I would be happy to hear the answer for any of these. :)
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