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The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun
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Those are so painful to watch but I know that pain.
I played on Coldwind map last night as killer to see how it was because as survivor it feels super sluggish to me. I just wanted to kick gens for that "kick gen/destroy pallet" challenge so wasn't even trying to hit anyone. It felt terrible as Ghostface, I didn't even use my shroud so not like that was there to make it worse. Next round I played as Freddy on Lery's (survivor offering) for "hook 5 in one match" and it felt better compared to the previous match. It's pretty bad when indoor map feels better than the reworked outdoor map. 😬
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THIS CRAP IS SO DAMN ANNOYING 😡
You want to turn around,get a FPS drop and suddenly go in a completely different direction and potentially lose chase because of it.
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Sure is fun
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I'd just like an honest response from BHVR, even if we didn't like the actual message. Either give us something to look forward to, or let us quit wasting time on things that aren't going to be fixed. Just be open about it.
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Are you playing with pc people any chance ? I find if I’m playing with crossplay on the game lags a lot more then if it was just the same platform
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I've not seen any difference.
Except for when people macro their flashlights, that causes a lot of frame drops.
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I agree.
If they are breaking their promise, then they need to come out and say it. Stop giving us false hope that the game might be fixed for us one day.
I think they are hesitant to do so because of the potential backlash from it, which would be deserved.
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Agreed.
The vague brush off responses we get when not being flat out ignored is part of why when I do finally get a ps5 I'm not bothering installing DBD. Why install a 5 year old game that ignored the issues when there wasn't a new generation of console available? History will probably repeat as issues pop up on ps5/Xbox series x.
If they were atleast honest about their plans, or rather lack of plans, for ps4/Xbox one I'd respect that. If they had said they realized they weren't going to be able to optimize ps4/Xbox one like they promised but would make sure ps5/Xbox series x would receive more attention to prevent performance issues getting as bad as they are on last gen I would be happy that they acknowledged the issues and would be more willing to install when I get a ps5.
I get they want to avoid backlash, but they're losing players anyway by not addressing the performance issues.
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even on pc my game has started to freeze extremely frequently as bad as it out right dying on me i know my specs are fine im well above it but its so buggy still it needs to be fixed cause its verging on unplayable and im losing all the progress i make because of this in seconds
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You can see how disoriented I was.
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That sad part is, that kinda lag is guaranteed to happen like at least five times a match.
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It's like someone grabbed Demo's head and held him in place for a sec. Such nonsense
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Unfortunately.
Despite there being nearly 10 pages, BHVR still hasn't responded to us, even when presented with overwhelming evidence that the game barely functions on Console.
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I agree. At this point I'd like to hear something like "We know we set a goal of 60fps minimum for all platforms, but we underestimated the difficulties of achieving that goal with the last gen consoles and our planned improvements. As it turned out, these graphical updates here and those design choices over there, etc. proved to be beyond being consistently run on them..."
Because that's what I think happened, with a full & proper optimization no longer possible. And to avoid pissing off such a huge chunk of the playerbase they opted for silent running. A bandaid basically.
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I don't even think that's true, but it'd be better than what we have now.
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It's far more fustrating getting no response at all. Any update would be a godsend
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You love to see it right 😥
Happens to me every match.
Also,is it just me or are the loading times for a match suddenly a good bit longer since the update?
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"Thank you for the feedback,we'll look into it."
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"We've passed this along to our team" won't cut it anymore...
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I know,but apparently that's the only kind of response we are gonna get 😧
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I'm fairly certain the only response we'll see on this thread is when they close it.
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"We are aware of the issue and are working on it."
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Yeah,that's possible too 🤣
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What else have they been doing for the last 2 years?
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As we can see,nothing 😓
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Evidently.
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Putting breakable walls on every map, nerfing Pig and Legion, oh and adding more cosmetics.
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Oh boy more Legion nerfs
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Oh, and I forgot to mention they're also working on the trial warm up.
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Ah yes, the early game collapse.
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So many killers powers hurts console players instead of helping them. I'm curious of stats for killers between console and pc. Like what is the difference in performance between them. How many on console rarely use the killers powers to avoid FPS drops. How often do killer miss hits/lose chases when bloodlust kicks in.
How can you properly balance a killer when console platforms experience performance issues that directly impact the killers.
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I can guarantee you that Nurse and Blight are EXPONENTIALLY worse.
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First time I heard someone say Nurse was best killer in the game I laughed, I thought they were joking. Then more agreed and I was like "are you just terrible at the game? Nurse is easy escape." Then I found out that on PC Nurse is actually a good killer and I couldn't believe how big of a difference it is watching a PC Nurse from streams vs the Nurses I was facing. I've had maybe a handful of good Nurses in my few thousand hours of playing.
I can't imagine they could properly balance her between console and pc. Could do what would be a minor nerf on pc but would be huge nerf for the console player.
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What are the odds of them doing that tho?
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Maybe, but it's not like other, far more intense games run better.
I'd take it though.
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And it bleeds into the queue time problem as well. Fewer consolers playing killer means a larger % of them playing survivor compared to PC, where playing both and/or maining killer is much more common.
Evening out the performance differences would benefit all players on every platform. Am I the only one who thinks so?
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Certainly not.
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Man it looks like you're internet is trash
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Not only do fewer play killer on console but many of those that do turn crossplay off. I've seen many say they turn off crossplay just for killer but turn it on for survivor. Why so many with crossplay on have terrible q times while those of us on console with crossplay off don't have bad q times.
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Oh boy, this comment again.
Download is 250 mbps and upload is 38.
The game is badly optimized. This isn't caused by bad internet and if mine isn't good enough then idk what to tell you.
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It's not the connections. Please, borrow a friend's PS4 or whatever and start DBD. Embrace the frame freezes during the first menu screen. Bask in the drops should you complete a lvl50 bloodweb and start another. Enjoy another drop when you back out of that.
Now my friend, now you are ready to play console killer.
How about Doc? Head on into Lery's, and move to the center room. Static Blast please, and spin to find those filthy dirty survivors. What? Can barely turn the camera? How odd. Must be those dang new fangled internets again.
Somehow you find a surv and shock away at em, getting that madness up. Now you're close enough to lunge for a hit.... but just then Bloodlust 1 triggers and you only take a little bit of paint off the wall...
That's just Doctor. Demo's shred attack freezes the game; gen pops near you, frame drops occur; you apply Sloppy, more drops; surv Sprint Bursts away, drops; Freddy pretty much anything, drops; Myers tiers up, drops; Exposed is triggered, drops; Exhausion, drops; and so many more.
Other larger & far more demanding titles don't cause the problems DBD can. They promised us 60fps, my Xbox1x struggles for 30, and can dip into the teens at times, especially indoors. It's just this game.
Do the experiment. Find out for yourself.
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That was much better than I put it.
Well said.
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We're in this together fellow consoler, and we need eyes on the problem & allies in our cause.
The more PCrs that see our side the better. Let their own experiences with the game on a console do the convincing. :)
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So weird we are on different consoles and when we test our internet connections it shows it is running fine yet we have specific FPS drops anytime a survivor across the map is hit with sloppy butcher, or when a gen is completed, or when bloodlust kicks in, or we hit tier 3 with Myers.... Must be the internet, couldn't possibly be that the game is poorly optimized when we don't have these issues with any other online game. /s 🙄
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I wonder how many strictly PC players have tried the game on console to see how rough it is. I've seen PC players that switched from console to PC talk about how much of a difference it is and how rough it has been when they've hopped back on to console but I've yet to see someone that only plays PC give the game a shot on console just to see the difference.
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Wish they would, be a real eye-opener I bet!
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I'd love to see DBD streamers borrow a friend's ps4/Xbox 1 for a week of streams.
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There's an idea.
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