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Let's talk about the latest update...

SirCracken
SirCracken Member Posts: 1,414
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And just when I was done praising the devs for trying to be open minded.

Positives first; Clown is now much better. His add-ons haven't been butchered, (unlike Billy's) and the new addition to his power is interesting to use. The perk buffs are nice. And the re-worked maps have really well made graphics. The QoL changes to Trapper and Wraith are also good.

Now the negatives. My god the new UI is absolutely terrible. All of the information previously accessible by just looking at one corner of the screen is now strewn about it for no reason. I would say it's like a mobile game UI, but most mobile games I know of actually allow you to move elements of you UI where you want them to be. The "excuse" for this, (and @MandyTalk correct me if I'm wrong) is that too much development time was put into making the UI so they included it as to not waste time.

You guys are not pre-graduation art students. You are supposed to be game developers. A big part of the game design process is cutting stuff that doesn't work, or doesn't work well. You are currently sacrificing the quality of your game because you're too stubborn to admit you wasted time on a poor design choice and would rather force your bad decision on your game's playerbase than simply learn from it. I'm sorry. But this is one of the worst, if not the worst, change you've added into the game so far. Not just because it's unintuitive as hell. But because you ignored community-wide feedback to preserve your egos.

Now that I got that out of my system, onto the other negatives. There's still a massive amount of safe, "un-mindgame-able" pallets in the new Game map. Blinking with Nurse can be very janky on the new Crotus Prenn map. And the buff to Open-handed wasn't included in the patch for whatever reason. The new survivor animations are weird and uncanny. And their movement just feels..."off" somehow.

There's no other way to put it: this is one of the worst updates in dbd's history. To think that this is the act the devs followed up on asking the playerbase for feedback; by ignoring everyone so they could make the UI worse. I am extremely disappointed.

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