Review of BHVR's progress on DBD year 4 - 5
Another year has passed and it's July, the event is coming to an end and for whatever reason I am in the mood to write a "review" of the progress that the devs have made on the game from year 4 to 5.
On to the Annual review. Now I am re-watching the road map section of the year 4 stream, right at the start the focus is on "game health and dedicated server performance" Stefan and (please forgive me) Jerome? spoke about increasing the performance (rate) at which the servers run to better the performance of the game overall, this was brief and it shows because Dead by Daylights performance (currently worse) is not better then last year at least it won't be when this upcoming patch comes out. (F)
We then go into a brief talk about the 'Validation of interactions between killers and survivors" (I would like to say I may have found out why grabs are so botched). This was successful (except grabs), if we remember when the devs redid how hits work, they would turn on the "validating system" for a few days and gather data and turn it off and eventually the system live and hits do feel goo and that's the only reason why it's a success. It still needs some clean up for grabs though. (C) because grabs have been busted far too long
MMR, as far as I know BHVR is still working on it, I am part of the community that feels that this system will better the game overall, that it could prevent that noob who's just started playing the game a few weeks ago and ends up against the most try hard survivors, or that casual party crew going up against the sweaty spirit.... The system from what I noticed looked pretty good and I'm excited what it could mean for the balance of the game and hope that we'll hear something on MMR in the near future. (B+)
Updating the old - We have seen the many of the older maps get updated and now we're seeing older characters get some love as well. They did this throughout year 4 and the majority of the updates have been awesome, this also includes killer reworks such as Doctor etc...(BHVR's art designs always knock it out of the park) (A+)
A "collapse" addition to the start of the game - I will state that I'm quite upset that this has disappeared, there's only been one content creator that's mentioned this piece of info that the devs stated that their moving forward with and BHVR has been silent, it's as if Stefan didn't even say it on stream and this is something that they could have fun with. Why on earth not even update us about it? "hey guys we're not going to be moving forward with changing the start of the match" some may be salty about it, I know I am because the game desperately needs it but at least we know. (F)
Crossplay- happened (B+) still no crossprogression.
Graphic update - See "updating the old"
misc= events, chapters (C+)
Bubba being better then Billy- (F to pay respect)
There's a lot that's left on the table, certain things like MMR I can understand but the validation system still needs work and the game performance should always be #1.... I also would like to hear an update on the "beginning collapse"
Over all grade - C or 5.5/10 if it weren't for the few good chapters that you put out, it would be like a 1/10. I'd rather have those few good chapters like Descend Beyond or the silent hill chapter, even the Twins chapter was somewhat relevant... I am going to need to see an improvement in the game performance or the health of the game so you can improve these grades BHVR. I won't be paying for the rift this time.