Hey, Stadia Players!!!

Sandt21
Sandt21 Member Posts: 761
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How does DBD play on Stadia? Good or bad? Does it dome with any of the free DLCs like the console version does? How big is the community? Is it difficult to find game sometimes?

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  • Xbob42
    Xbob42 Member Posts: 1,117
    edited October 2020

    I have tried out the Stadia version (for a single match) but I'm not a "Stadia player" as it were. Still, I can answer most of your questions:

    How it plays will largely depend on your connection to the server. For me, aside from frequent-but-small hitches (very very tiny skips every now and then, honestly wasn't nearly as bad as "hitches" sounds, since it never felt like I was losing control or missing info or anything) it ran very smoothly. It was very responsive. I played a round as Huntress and had no trouble aiming or keeping up with survivors, and while it was probably very slightly harder than landing shots on my PC, it was only by a small margin. Again, it's gonna depend on your connection.

    I didn't notice if there was any free DLC, sorry.

    The community is the same as everything else because of crossplay. You also get end-game chat so it doesn't feel lonely!

    Because of the above, finding a game was super easy, same as on my PC.

    One issue was image quality. It was by no means bad, but it was kind of like watching a 1080p or maybe a 1440p Youtube video with okayish bitrate. A little blurry (just a smidge) and if you looked at bright solid colors like the sky on the map I was on, you could notice compression artifacts. That would normally bother me on any other game, but since DBD is horror-themed, I kind of liked it? Not making an excuse for it, just saying that noise and stuff generally fits horror vibes.

    All in all, I wouldn't play it over my PC version at home, but if I was on the road or something and couldn't take my PC, I'd be 100% down to play it, no questions asked. Assuming the internet was decent wherever I was at.

    Based on what I've seen of the console version, Stadia looked about 100x better than any of them. Even with the minor hitches, it's nothing compared to the mega freezes that consoles get, or the huge dips in FPS, it ran smooth. Weirdly, the last gen finishing did initiate about a half-second pause in the game, similar to what I've seen on consoles. It wasn't connection related, it definitely felt like it was the Stadia hardware being hit by whatever causes the consoles to pause for that event.

    The best way to see is to just try it yourself, though. It's got a free trial (sign up and cancel it immediately so they don't charge you if you don't want to use it), and going from signing up for an account to actually being inside DBD took literally less than 2 minutes. You don't have to wait for downloads or anything. I'd say give it a try if you're even a little curious.