Why does it take so damn long for bug fixes and balance changes?
I believe the BHVR team allocated to DBD has a good amount of members in it this shouldn't be an issue?
The uncleansable tractor totem has been here for like a month now.
The oni power bug, while patch notes say it's been fixed, still persists to this day.
Crotus Penn Asylum's near-shack pallet break that gets you stuck in the ground as killer.
Crawling under the hook exploit.
Elodie's ######### scream.
Nurse and Hillbilly's messed up FOV and animations ever since their god awful reworks.
A TON of addons that almost count completely useless OR DONT EVEN WORK (Bubba's chilli that legit stayed bugged from release until rework thats like 3 years) but are just threw away like trash and never looked at just to act as filler addons when there's so many creative addon ideas.
Why is object of obsession still the way it is I legit get an OoO each match now? Why haven't keys been balanced already it's the same case a key every match I HATE IT PLEASE I HATE IT. Why is DS still an invulnerability perk instead of an anti-tunnel perk? Why's spirit still helpless to go against? The iri head, hello?
Multiple members from the community even content creators have GREAT IDEAS, just watch this otzdarva suggested community change, even the man himself (a fog whisperer btw and one of the most non biased) knows deep down these changes won't go through.
Why does it take so long?
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You know the bigger problem is even when we wait sooooo long for the change, the change is a huge letdown.
We've waited ages and ages for a mori change, and at the end what is it? Changing a value from 1 to 2. Can't you like rework it into something healthy or rewarding like the activates upon hooking all idea? Why do I feel constantly disappointed in the devs I love this game I swear :(
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Its sad.. idk why the devs wanna kill the game so badly.
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Because the money are still pouring in
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They just choose to not spend enough money on important matters because they know they can afford it.
After all there's 0 competition for them.
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Because BHVR
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It's good that they don't make kneejerk balance changes, but it's also completely unacceptable that it takes them as long as it does to make the changes they do make. 3 years for Clown changes? 5 years for Trapper and all they changed was trap RNG? 5 years for Wraith? I could get a bachelor's degree in that amount of time. That's insanity.
Either become a lot quicker at making balance changes or quit making bad decisions with characters out of the gate like you did with Plague. Killed her from PTB and then just left her untouched through today. The issue is that it takes BHVR so ridiculously long to make changes that they have to get every change right, and they so often don't. See Billy overheat.
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They have a very relaxed work schedule, allegedly.
And people keep buying cosmetics.
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This is why another developer needs to make a similar game so there is actually competition. If there was another game like DBD that was well designed the amount of people migrating to that game would be massive. Management at BHVR would start making crunch time mandatory to try to get the player basis back because DBD is all they got. They tried making Death Garden and that flopped for some reason. If DBD goes BHVR pretty much goes with it.
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They "work when they feel like it" as they have said. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
People get so upset and such like this because they want things to be better; they think maybe they can reach the devs and convince them to maybe start caring; but I'm going to be honest with you here- that's not happening. They are not going to suddenly turn things around, ,start listening to the community, to take immediate actions on critical problems, etc...
So all we can really do is take the game as is and decide if it's acceptable enough to play or keep playing or not. That's about it.
DBD has no real competition on the market quite yet. BHVR tried to make a game in a genre that actually had competition where they then had to rely on their development ability.....that was called "Deathgarden" and it uh....did not go well.
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Consoles. They're probalbly wasting a lot of time rolling patches to consoles. They should patch pc more often and then bring changes to consoles with big patches or make all balancing server side
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Many games just as complex if not more so than DBD; across multiple consoles with far less staff than BHVR enact and roll out more adjustments, fixes, and changes in a few months than BHVR does in a year.
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okay okay, they're just lazy
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1) bhvr
2) console parity
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Maybe we'll get a multiplayer game mode from the devs of The Callisto Protocol in addition to single player campaign. But that will be no earlier than 2022
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I think Behavior wants to get bought out by a larger publisher. The thought is to make themselves attractive with a huge player base and then let a bigger company fix the game. They put all their efforts into fixing the bare minimum. The fact lag is still such a problem speaks volumes. Larger companies know how to host huge multiplayer games without lag effecting every game.
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Devs, from what I know, work only when they want to, due to the genre having no competition
That's why the game is in the state it is
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1.) They are not going to screw over the majority of players like that.
2.) Overwatch literally has a PTR on Consoles AND patches it much more frequently than DBD.
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Something something small indie company
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Because DbD doesn't have any serious competition right now.
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Something something over 400 employees
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The most unforgivable act of laziness in my opinion is the continued existence of Iridescent Head.
When they made Deathslinger, they made sure his insta-down addon was near useless. Why doesn't that philosophy apply to Huntress? Literally any nerf would be welcome to the Iridescent Head. Most Huntresses I encounter refuse to use it themselves because it feels like cheating. And almost all Huntresses I find using it play as toxic as possible.
It's simply an unhealthy addon. I think a lot of people would be happier if they simply removed it. I wish the devs worked faster on this stuff.
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I really don't understand either. I get that a lot of balance changes need to be done right and take time. But like, iri hatchets? That's such an easy fix. Just make it max at 1 even with infantry belt. Easiest change in the world. Even if it still turns out to be slightly OP, it's not nearly as game breaking. And some bugs that have been around for months, yea, I don't understand.
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Yup it ain't usually the iri head alone its iri head mori ruin undying noed, completely unhealthy
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Nurse and billy were done on purpose.
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“Meanwhile, enjoy our new overpriced cosmetics.” - BHVR
Cosmetics never get delayed btw.
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Behaviour update their game every 1 & 1/2 months, plus adding new content every 3 months.
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It's 1 month and half one with no patch notes release, it's ridiculous. We only had the awful bloodrush with 1.5x and the Calendar from December with a ######### reward just to show that they planned something.
Like most here are saying, they work when they want or when they don't like something.
There's a clip of Almo going against a Doctor with impossible skill check build, he manages to constantly miss the skill checks and complain "why it stills works like this" and then in the next patch, Huntress Lullaby was nerfed.
It's just a silly joke, but it's almost true. There's a lot of times they changed something which NO ONE asked for, for example this new HUD, aura changes that were horrible, bloodlust white screen effect. Like who asked for that?
And we all know that they don't care about how unhappy the community is, what's important is that DBD is making a lot of money.
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I remember watching a stream with Mclean where he said something like "Insta down Huntress is a goner, don't invest in it." 2 years ago. Really goes to show how slow they work there, can't even change the most problematic and complained about addon within a 2 year span. First I thought they were waiting to change it for the Huntress add on pass, but then they announce her Begrimed Head getting changed next patch, so I can't figure out an excuse anymore.
https://clips.twitch.tv/TsundereScrumptiousPangolinTheRinger
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I'm just surprised at how unpopular this is while poor Almo is getting bashed for the lack of communication between team members.
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