It's really been a rough year for DbD, huh?
Binding of Kin being the single buggiest patch DbD has ever seen (since I've started playing, anyway)
Stranger Things leaving
The hacker uprising which has gone wholly unaddressed
The RE chapter also being one of the buggiest chapters yet, of which the performance issues have yet to be ironed out
Performance in general
MMR/SBMM that has many players wondering what the point of playing even is
I truly didn't expect myself to say this, but you really need to get your act together, BHVR. I can excuse any of these (minus the hacker thing) individually, but all of it, so close to each other?
Stranger Things leaving wasn't your call, I'll give you that. On its own, we'd have accepted it and moved on. Losing the map is a shame, but, again, not your call.
Binding of Kin was not licensed. Corona being the possible reason for this debacle aside, this really should not have shipped the way it did. RE had the excuse of being a licensed chapter with a not-so-insignifcant party behind it for pushing its release. BoK did not. It was around Christmas, and with that comes little time in the office. Understandable. What is not understandable is how the chapter didn't get delayed way further. The killer was straight-up unfinished. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and bought the chapter, expecting you to fix the most egregious bugs, and you mostly did. Some of those bugs, like Victor clipping into the ground, soft-locking the entire match for them should never have seen the live version, period.
And then there's the hackers. You've promised an overhaul in how we can report these players. That kind of stuff takes a while to develop, I can understand that. I'm a very (sometimes too) patient guy, I can wait for this. This has been going on for years now, though. Just tell us something, anything about what you're planning on doing about this. Because if basically all of the game's associated platforms are to be believed, hackers are getting rampant thoughout. Hell, even a "we tried something, didn't work, trying something else" would do it for me. Anything.
I can't speak for the performance aspect, as my game has generally been running okay on the lowest settings. I have seen enough console players complain about the atrocious framerate, however. There was this one massive thread that I sincerely hope has been useful, but can't say for certain whether it has been. It's an "on-going process", I can understand that. On its own, this would have been excusable.
What I can speak for was how excited I was for SBMM/MMR, specifically for when I play as survivor. For the most part, my matches have been largely the same as survivor. That is to say, I still get matched with <100h players. I didn't think much of it, I am not the best survivor by a long-shot. My killer games saw a noticaeble disparity in what opponents I'd face. I'd absolutely stomp in one game, then get absolutely stomped a few games later. Then when you dropped what the actual factors influecing MMR were... To be entirely honest, the emblem system sounds way better on paper. There's absolutely no nuance in qualifying how good a survivor really was, should they be the first to die. Now, I'm not one to care about playing optimally--far from it. But I can't help but have this lingering feeling of none of my actions in-game being worth anything. If I want to be altruistic, I want to be that against an opponent against whom that actually matters. If I die, but saved another teammate, the game will verse me against an opponent in which such a scenario simply won't have the same impact it would in that first game. I'll end this rant here, 'cause I want to adress one last thing.
This whole NFT business... It came with acquiring the Hellraiser license, that much is clear. Pinhead was a much anticipated character, and I'll fully admit he's a great addition to the game. But you associating yourself with the pinnacle of capitalism that is NFT's is such a massive sell-out, in my opinion. Like with Stranger Things, this was quite possibly not your call to make. But truly, I expected you to have a stronger position, legally speaking, when it comes to this. I genuinely hope for you that Steam won't disassociate itself with you because of this. But quite frankly, I wouldn't even think you don't deserve it if they do.
This has been my extremely disjointed rant about DbD's 2021. Let's hope we survive without much else to bring us down. But then, I know a fair few of you won't even grant BHVR that luxury. Can't blame you either.
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Yeah I can't wait for bhvr to say nothing about it and just keep on keeping on like everything's great while the walls are crumbling around them
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it's a shame such a game is in the hands of incompetent jokers lmao
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The dev's are speed running killing dbd. I think they're making good time, good for them.
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If you were to tell me Dead By Daylight is going to die this week. Literally any other time, I would have laughed at you and called you an idiot. But now it seems they want their game to die. Especially with up and coming games like VHS and Propnight. BHVR could not have ######### up any more.
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Well yeah, but I have never feared for the existence of the game on Steam. For any game at all, for that matter.
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I really cannot trust these people since I am their buyer and I enjoy their content, but it is very poorly executed now both in business matters and in the game itself.
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Let’s just say VHS is looking mighty appealing right now
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Now, more than ever, I really want to return to the past and pretend that nothing has happened.
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I usually don't agree with your nostalgia, but in this case... Mhm.
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"There's no way VHS will kill DBD."
They're right. BHVR will kill it themselves.
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We still have a few months to go.
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Precisely.
Who knows what'll happen come Christmas? Will the game still be alive by then? Who shall say?
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[body]
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I'm pretty sure DbD won't die by the end of this year. Will the next chapter be buggy af? 100%.
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When you actually list out all of the issues since December 2020 starting with binding of kin, it’s crazy that it’s about to a full year and the issues are still consistently happening. Also to add - the All-Kill chapter came with bugs too, specifically the pallet stun bug that took a while to fix. I was on PS4 at the time of Resident Evil’s release and literally couldn’t play DBD for a few months due to the frame rate issues until I got a PS5. I’m not even sure how the performance is now for last gen consoles. The biggest issue overall I have with BHVR is the lack of transparency during every issue you noted. They always remain completely quiet, everything is a secret, and if they do finally say something, it’s very vague and generic. I’m hoping they can get it together because the game will eventually die if they keep this up. It’s a miracle they’ve been able to retain players during this past year.
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