What original chapter do you think was most/least hyped?
Hi all,
Which chapters (original) do you think were the best/worst hyped or just didn't live up to your expectation?
I personally feel like Demise of The Faithful was a very quickly forgotten chapter, and didn't live up to expectations with the map.
As for most hyped, I feel like Shattered Bloodline was a very well done chapter and had a good amount of attention behind it before it was released.
What about y'all?
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Most hyped was probably Descend Beyond, as Blight had tons of setup. Least hyped was probably Demise of the Faithful, as the only big thing that was added was Plagues perks, everything else was just kinda there.
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I remember people getting hyped as ######### for the first ranged-attack Killer, and that she was going to be free as well.
At least for the Killer mains, that chapter was pretty hype.
I don't really know which one would be the least.
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Agreed on DOTF, but Descend Beyond... Yes this is kinda true? I guess the same can be said about Cursed Legacy, but the execution on both felt bad. Cursed Legacy had some good teasers, but a boring map. DB had a cool killer and that was like... it. I like Felix, he's good, but the chapter itself feels like a letdown.
Ooh I don't think I was in the DBD community yet. I came around Freddy's release. That must've been fun. I just remember being so hyped for the shop and the Clown, then they outdid themselves with Shattered Bloodline IMO. God that was such a cool release, I haven't felt the same since that one. None of the hype. Minus Stranger Things, the chapters since feel so... passionless. Darkness Among Us felt disappointing and quickly thought of. Still good, but it wasn't nearly as good as SB. Demise was... not good, super average. Cursed Legacy was cool, having been intertwined with SB, but still not the same as SB. Chains Of Hate felt so disconnected from DBD, although it was greatly executed, there was something missing about the release. Just felt like they released it to release something, not because they wanted to make it. I don't even want to talk about Descend Beyond.
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Cursed Legacy was really exciting for me. I was a bit disappointed in the lack of connection between the survivor and the killer, but that's not necessarily expected. I did love Curtain Call, it felt like more of a test run for the new format of chapters, though.
Darkness Among Us and Demise were so saddening ngl, those felt like they were releasing content bc they had to.
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Chains of Hate. While I like Zarina, most players see her as forgettable. Deathslinger has mixed feedback but I was never a fan of him. The map, Dead Dawg Saloon was pretty awful in my opinion as well. My most memorable chapter that was original probably has to be Shattered Bloodline. Adam is one of my favorite original characters and the map wasn't too bad. I dislike Spirit but she's one of the most played killers at red ranks as well. To be honest with you though, my favorite maps and characters for the most part are the originals but for the sake of the discussion I would go with SB.
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I came here to basically post the opposite of everything you said.
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YEAH! Something about this chapter wasn't very... identifiable? Like, outside of DBD, I would not recognize Deathslinger right away as originating from DBD. Zarina seems forgettable, but I like her outfits. Although the theme of rebellious female who came to success despite their odds seems to be an overplayed backstory in DBD. SB Is definitely my favorite. It felt like it had a lot of passion behind it in the team.
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I think most can agree that Demise of the Faithful was less hyped.
As for the most hyped chapter.It's difficult honestly.BHVR did a really good job at creating great original chapters in my opinion.
Almost all of them were pretty exciting
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Yeah, DOTF was pretty big of a letdown. Sadly so, I was really excited for a nearly religious map. I guess they didn't have it in them to make a real temple or anything.
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I think the most hyped was probably Cursed Legacy, and unlike a lot of new Killers, Oni actually lived up to it.
Descend Beyond wasn't all that hyped even though people had plenty of reason to be, and when Blight dropped the reception was honestly quite lukewarm.
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The map really was one of the biggest disappointments i had (regarding the map in a chapter).
I was so excited to see some ancient temple in a dessert.
Placing that temple in red forest was such a bad idea.
At least her design looks great and she has 2 absolutely awesome perks.
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Demise of the faithful was probably the least hyped, because when they released it, they also accidentally released ash's perks ahead of time in the kyf lobby. The whole plague dlc was overshadowed by the news of an upcoming ash williams dlc.
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Descend Beyond was probably the biggest original chapter in recent DbD history (even over Chains of Hate). Though I'd imagine Last Breath (first DLC), Of Flesh and Mud (introduction of Totems and Hexes), and Lullaby for the Dark (First Ranged Killer) are all reasonable competitors for the highest hype within DbD's lifetime thus far.
Darkness Among Us was probably the least well-received chapter; Legion was poorly balanced (simultaneously super weak and highly exploitable plus capable of cheesing the emblem system) and Ormond was almost completely unplayable on release (mainly due to bugs/optimization problems with the map, but it also wasn't and isn't well-balanced for gameplay).
Demise of the Faithful was pretty anti-climactic and could be worthy of the title of "least hyped" just from how rough the Chapter that preceded it was and how "meh" its own content was.
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(Chains of Hate) Least hyped: Zarina: I say this because nothings special about her like her perks especially. Shes just boring. Though The Deathslinger is a fun killer to go against his perks are nothing special. Nice saloon map though.
(Descend Beyond) Most hyped: Felix: the best biography out of all the survivors, one really good perk that's good with the regeneration of items, and hes good looking and German too. The Blight is a really cool killer and hes unique because hes "blighted" naturally which is a profound concept in dbd so that's what's good about him and his perks are all really good especially undying with ruin. No map which is a bummer though.
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Feel like Cursed Legacy had a lot of hype. People didn't know if it was Rins ancestor, father or other.
Definitely least hyped was the Chains Of Hate. I hate when they don't show a trailer before the ptb and since no one had any clue about the killer before the ptb it just felt meh.
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For me personally I was most excited for the onis chapter. I love the lore of oni demons in real world so I was thoroughly excited for him in game. I still main him and I don't see it changing anytime soon. He just seems like the kind of killer you can't beat no matter what ( even though you totally can ) and I love that.
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LITERALLY! I hate when there's no trailer to hype up a release, or if there is, it's after PTB which is weird.
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Just kills the hype for me. It's why when they build it up like for the Cursed Legacy and Silent Hill chapter it's soo much better.
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Definitely Shattered Bloodline as most hyped. Probably Darkness Among Us or Demise of the Faithful as least hyped.
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Descend Beyond. No other killer can claim to have been teased for literally years.
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Shattered bloodlines was pretty hyped hell it had everyone going on a wild goose chases trying to find specific things in the game that would hints towards what the chapter would be.
There was the people thinking it was split mouth woman.
They were the people thinking it was a samurai.
I don't think any chapter got so many community interactions and theories going.
Descend beyond will probably be a close second as the blight had been hyped up for two years at this point.
The 2019 archives tome for The Alchemist only typed people up even more even though for some reason everybody thought it was Vigo with next to no proof ( but I digress)
The other thing I could remember getting a lot of hype around it was probably Darkness Among Us.
Everybody forward because of the teaser picture that it was going to be a split personality killer ( because of the names and tallies of the respective Legion members)
Some thought it was going to be a mask swapping killer changed forms or powers depending on the mask ( because of the masks reflected in the mirror)
Then the trailer made it seem like it was going to be a camouflaged killer that look like a survivor until they striked.
Even though every one of these theories turned out to be false it was still a lot of hype. ( controversial opinion I think the idea of a group of Killers all working under the same name is a lot more interesting than the theories. So I'm happy that we got)
These are what I consider the top 3 hyped chapters if I'd have to rank them
I'd say shattered bloodlines is the most hyped purely based on just how much community interaction it got.
Then descend beyond for being built up for 2 years
Lastly Darkness Among Us
As for the one that had the least type I would probably say the demise of the faithful.
The teaser image was pretty much forgettable
The trailer was probably the worst trailer Dead by daylight has done
Overall by the time she hit the ptb a few people ( including myself and I'm pretty much a lore head when it comes to dead by daylight) had even forgot that they hinted to a killer in the first place.
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I think Shattered Bloodlines had the biggest hype going.
I remember all the speculation that came from the teaser video where a man maliciously attacked a young girl (Rin Yamaoka) with a katana.
I think the chapter was very well done, despite my hate towards Spirit.
The least hyped chapter ... I'd probably go with Chains of Hate, actually. Did we even get a trailer before the PTB? I don't remember there being any build up apart from some lore leaks of the killer / survivor and 1 teaser image. Then BAM: PTB out of nowhere.
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Hopefully in the future they realize that, tbh I did find the whole speculating for the Chains of hate and what the theme was, it was fun and I heard a lot of crazy ideas, however when it was revield to be a wild West theme, that surprised me. I personally didn't think about Wild West, but after it was revealed who the killer was it was sorta meh later on.
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Shattered bloodline was my most hype chapter since it was the first dlc added since I started playing. (I started playing like 2 days after clown and Kate were released). So that was a very special release to me.
As for my least hyped I literally didn't care about blight at all. Ik that's probably just me, but blight just wasn't surprising to me and he had a lame release imo.
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Everyone speculated it was a killer who could knock down walls (based off breakable wall leaks). Then when there was no teaser the reveal felt flat.
The same could've been said for the Blight if the leaks didn't reveal who it was. Also the teaser before was 100x better than the one for Deathslinger.
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The Least hyped: Either Darkness among us, or Demise of the Faithful. Darkness among us brought an interesting theme, however it fell short, the designs/models of the killers looked so cool from chapter before. But when we finally see The Legion it fell short greatly, they looked extremely basic now that is not a problem per say its just awkward when we got the models of Clown, and Spirit who look a thousand times better then them. The Power felt clunky, the theme of DAU felt out of place, sure it was the 90s but I expected something like late 80's style which would've been more colorful than what we got, its just weird.
DOTF felt really cool at first but when the said religion was shown to be Babylonian that's when it became a head scratcher. First of all the name of the killer 'The Plague' doesn't make a whole lot of sense because she's Babylonian, now it would've made sense if she came around the time of The Black Plague or when the ten great Plagues struck Egypt in the Bible. But instead we got a Priestess whose history doesn't truly tie into the events of Babylon, however the good thing we got out of that chapter was decent perks, and Jane, but that's it.
The most hyped: The most hyped for me was Curtain Call, or Cursed Legacy. When I first started getting into the game it was around the time of when Curtain Call was released on the ptb , and from then on I fell in love with The Clown. The Clown has amazing lore, an interesting story, and his design though slightly basic it really stood out. But most of all the cosmetic shop was introduced and that excited a lot of people even me.
Cursed Legacy because it meant that Behaviour could go back to originally seen themes and explore them a bit more, it introduced a Samurai warlord which I think is super BA, and made him fun as hell. I really do hope they revisit old themes of different chapters and explore a bit more into those themes.
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Another example of this was Clown kinda, sure it showed him the bottle but it gave no hint to it being a clown
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Yea if I remember correctly his trailer was after the ptb (I think). The teasers before though were good enough to build up some hype. Don't know why but the teaser of Kate playing the guitar was really good imo.
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I think Curtain Call (Clown) was pretty meh when it was released. You got a Killer which throws stuff at you, wow. At least I wasn't really excited. Demise of the Faithful (Plague) maybe as well but People really enjoyed puking at Survivors at first.
We are not talking about Darkness Among us (Legion), because this Chapter is an Error even to this day. Might as well have never been released.
I think hyped Chapters might be "A Lullaby for the Dark" (Huntress) or even "Spark of Madness" (Doctor). It's 2 really unique Chapters which also came out pretty much in the Early Days of DbD. Huntress who was the first to have an ranged Attack and Doctor who plays with Electricity. It's definitely pretty dope.
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I have nothing against Blight, but I haven't bought him. He looks fun in videos. However I was let down because from the teaser I honestly thought we were getting doctor jekyll and not another killer with a jekyll style skin.
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least hyped: bubba, probably. He popped out of nowhere as far as I was concerned.
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Very late sorry, but having seen this comment again, what did you think of the Eyrie of Crows?
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I want around when most killers released, but I remember quite some hype werben Artist dropped on the PTB with her damaging idle crows and how fast that hype blew its steam in the live version.
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Most hyped original chapter was probably Darkness Amogus, a hell of a lot of people thought it was gonna be some kind of split personality/switch stance killer when that first teaser of Frank looking into a mirror with the other members of the Legion standing behind him dropped, and that had people going CRAZY. When the chapter actually dropped, it gained a lot of negative reputation for three big reasons:
- Ormond needing to be disabled on launch
- Legion’s trailer being completely disingenuous to their actual in-game gameplay
- OG Legion being the worst most broken killer design ever conceived
If you ask me, negative reputation is reputation nevertheless, so the chapter definitely had a lot of hype and notoriety on account of how infamously disastrous of a launch it was.
Least hyped chapter was probably Portrait of a Murder. The only reason Artist had any kind of hype whatsoever was because of the massive leaking scandal surrounding her, and that has nothing to do whatsoever with people actually being excited for the killer. I think the “new killer hype” where fresh DLCs have insane playrates for the first few days to weeks dropped faster for Artist than any other killer, including Twins. People stopped playing her the DAY she came out. Even Sadako’s new killer hype lasted for like three weeks.
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Since I started playing in octobre 2018, a few weeks after Spirit release.
Worst: A Binding of kin (Twins and Elodie), boring killer to play correctly and bad or mediocre perks in both survivor and killer.
Best: Demise of the Faithful (its funny it is mentioned as the worst in this thread haha). One of my favourite killers, good or fun perks (Corrupt Intervention, Infectious Fright which was semi-meta in one shot killers a time ago, and Head On), a cool survivor with a different type of female body.
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@Dabihwow, there were very much devastating epidemics in the era The Plague came from. The language on the gold tablet in the temple dates her anywhere from 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE, which is a time frame where smallpox and the Bubonic plague laid waste to many civilizations. So I'd say Plague's backstory is pretty accurate. The forests were dense during those times in that region as well.
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Flesh and Mud has both the best original survivor and the worst original killer.
Map is funny.
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