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Reasons I, as of Oct 31st 2021 have quit DBD.
Ive played DBD since it launched on Xbox. I loved this game to death the first few years. I played Killer most of the time and had fun, but that all changed after the Stranger Things update. Since that update it feels like they stopped really taking it as a 1v4, but treat it more as a 4 person Survival with a fifth person there to mess with you.
Since that update all the developers seem to care about is the Survivors. Almost every new Survivor perk is amazing (as they should be) but some killer powers and perks seem to fall flat. Take the newest additions to the DBD cast. Ceno and the Witch girl. Ceno has cool perks, but his power feels so janky that no one seems to use it. While this new Survivor has a skill that can basically instantly heal her or her fellow survivors in 3 seconds with a med kit.
It also doesn’t help that most killers either get reworked so weirdly that it feels like a nerf (My opinion on Doctor) or never get the good reworks they need, like Trapper or Legion. Yet they will buff all the survivors equipment so they can “counter the killer”. You shouldn’t “counter the killer”, you need to put play the killer.
I know some Survivor mains will call me salty or stupid, but I just can’t handle this game being this lopsided. Especially when I’m playing against a 4 stack of PC players who can spin and turn fast enough to break Blights knees.
I do hope in a few months I can return to DBD, but as of now I think it’s a lost cause. I’ll miss all the cool Survivors I’ve met though. Wish more people would act like them.
Edit: “Winning” for me was either having a good time or getting at least a 2K. Anything beyond that is a bonus. I’m not as crazy as some people are who only care about 4Ks
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See you next weekend
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Personally mostly salty that they nerfed mid tier killers that didn't remotely need nerfs... Deathslinger, Wraith, Pig.
People will claim Pig's new addon's are a buff, meanwhile her older addon's that were removed were actually stronger.
Deathslinger is dead now, no point even talking about him anymore since he got TRIPLE nerfed and is just laughably bad now.
Wraith was unfairly nerfed... It didn't kill him but why on earth would you nerf a low B or high C killer to begin with? Because of bad players?
Like yeah I'm happy they finally gave trapper his basekit bag that we been asking for for 29299295 years and that keys finally got nerfed even though it should of happened at the same time as the Mori nerf...super survivor biased that they got theirs removed a year later... but let's be real, the game is grossly survivor sided
Tell me one thing, why does Deadhard even have invunerbility frames to begin with? It's strong enough as a means to gain distance. This perk has been meta for ages and even though it was broken and not working correctly almost everyone ran it... that should say something. Now that it's actually working it's even more busted than it was before. Nerf the perk. I say this as someone that is also abusing Deadhard.
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I have a bit of whiplash, fam. I already knew the game was heavily survivor sided when getting into it, but to see all of the recent changes, I am just like, "damn, homie!" I underestimated their commitment to the cause, but they have proven to me that they can go even further beyond.
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I’m perfectly fine with Survivors having a edge but it seems like they don’t care for the killer side anymore.
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It's true.. Game is survivor sided..people who thinks the contrary are the survivor mains who want to keep bullying killers and make YouTube highlights.
Each month killers are nerfed.. Unnecessary nerf for spirit this time. 'makes her become more skillful' they said.. Easier for survivors they meant.
More and more people dropping the game because of this 1 sided thing.
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Trappers peeks need a buff. Since he is supposed to be your introduction to the game you’d think all his perks would be B tier at best.
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I like agitation depending on the killer I am playing. Brutal strength can be okay-ish if you are playing Wraith with his break pallet/vault window addon's but other than that a pretty weak perk. And his 3rd perk I completely forget the name because it's absolute #########.
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The boon totems take a long time to apply and can be snuffed in an instant. They do more harm than good. The amount of time it takes you to get up and maintain a totem, you could have a gen done.
They aren't worth running. In fact, I can't think of a single top tier perk to come out for survivors in years. Unless you count Mettle of Man, which was nerfed right after they collected their money for it.
All the best perks come from the first few rows of survivors. Now, if you have given up on enjoying the game itself and just want to be a jerk, Headon, Quick and quiet, blast mine, and flashbang makes for a fun build. But that's far from helping you actually win.
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I use brutal on a lot of m1 killers, with enduring. I use agitation on my big boi Bubba. It helps a lot to get them to the basement. I do not consider either particularly strong, but they feel good.
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It’s Chilling Presence I believe. Causes item usage to increase while in the killers TR.
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Then why don't you play survivor? Because you know soloQ is pure hell and it's a thousand times worse experience than playing killer, right? Solo survivors are much weaker than this "killer side".
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Your thinking of doctor's Overwhelming Presence. Trapper's useless one is Unnerving Presence, which decreases the skill check zone
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See you in a few days. They all fall eventually. Even i did.
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It’s more the fact that Survivors didn’t need the boons, plus yes it takes 2 seconds to disable the boom but the person running it can just go get another one with 16 seconds. Most killer perks have a cooldown or can be disabled (outside a select few)
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Yup. Survivors haven't been nerfed at all in all these years. They haven't made numerous changes that drastically affect looping or just add more killers that have abilities to just shoot right over a pallet or through walls. Nope. Kill rates weren't in the ballpark of "most people die horribly every game." Nope. Not at all.
Different year, same garbage. "I can't 4k every game with every killer while afk. Plez nrf survs."
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Thanks for the correction
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As an aside: does Unnerving Presence work on DS?
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And hopefully they add a ranged one shot that ignores pallets next. Would be great.
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It's because they look at data from low tier-average players and balance around that, because that's where their money mostly is. It's not from the people who already have the chapters and the skins they want. These low tier killers are easy to pick up and get kills with at lower levels. That's why you see so many new survivors complaining about how strong pig, deathslinger, wraith, legion and doctor are. Same thing with Freddy.
So they Nerf these killers because they stomp low to average players. And they add in overly strong perks that affect the entire team, so that these new and average players don't actually have to get better at the game, and it's much easier for them to play.
They need to balance around more around high levels of play, and give newer players better bot options with all of the killers they own so that they can practice and get better at the game. But that would require them to spend time on something other than just making money, so they won't.
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If you read my post it clearly says I don’t care for 4Ks. I just think Killers aren’t being given the love they need.
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Only affects Healing and Repair checks. From what I understand, it use to effect all skill checks.
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I did before. Got Nea to like level 40 something and got bored of it. Since all the killers I met were Michael or Ghostface
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Might carry a little more weight if you posted that on a main account rather than creating a new scrub account.
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Literally made this today. Just to see if anyone agreed or had ideas on a reason to keep playing.
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You say that, but considering that the average game still ends up with 2+ dead, I'd say overall killers still have it too easy. Gens definitely can be done too quickly, but until you can't just camp someone out of the game within three minutes, I don't see a way to fix it.
It exists like that because otherwise you could just camp everyone out of the game every game and guarantee the 4k. Pause the hook timer if the killer is within 32m and we can talk about what to do about gen speeds to slow the game down as a whole.
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And every time we waste another 16 second making a totem is another 16 seconds we aren't on a gen doing something actually productive.
Seriously, these boons are trash. It's like applying old ruin to yourself, running around looking and playing with totems instead of getting the gens done.
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I think the Hook Timer should be slowed when the killer is near. Kinda like the EGC
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I also dont care of kill at all. Just mainly to make survivors struggle with my End game build, thats my fun. But sometimes they just throw salt on me on purpose and ask "why u so salty?"
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Well, that is the thing. Camping got worse when Ruin got changed, then got even worse when the MMR made it all about kills. Fix gen times AND the camping situation, seems like a good deal to me. Both currently suck....and change the stupid MMR system.
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Let's be honest. No it didn't. People go out of their way to camp and be toxic in this game. I know someone that loves to just flashlight at every pallet, for example. He's a douche.
But I've been playing for over three years now. People have been camping forever. It only gets worse when there are events, as the sadists want to use the opportunity to run everyone else's fun.
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As someone that only plays killer and solo que survivor that is a load of crap.
Solo que survivor isn't that bad, it's just not broken like SWF
Solo que survivor still has the power of being a survivor...If you know how to loop you will have a good time
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Or do just like I did.
I've been playing since day 1 on playstation and was mostly playing killer like about 70/30.
Because it's the most fun imo.
For me playing survivor is easy and escape most of my game, don't get me wrong i still enjoy it tho especially getting chased as long as possible.
But ever since they implemented sbmm, all i got was sweat fest after sweat fest after sweat fest after sweat fest, etc.
Playing killer with a fun or meme build was out of the question as the gens go so fast that the game was already over before it even got started.
I don't mind to sweat from time to time tho but not every single game, and I'm not 1 who goes for kills but for hooks, something sbmm doesn't allow that once you get to the higher level.
So I was like F that i will switch sides for a long time, never thought that that day would come tbh.
But for the time being i will play survivor only, and I'm pretty sure the devs will notice that, if more killers do that, there is a sudden increase of survivor players and a decrease of killer players.
Maybe, just maybe, they will open their eyes and realize that the devs are the real killers of the game
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This game is so survivor sided it's laughable.
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I don't take the "quitting dbd" threads seriously.
9/10 quitters are back within a day.
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Yeah I'm kinda the same I like those two perks even tho they're somewhat weak. Like brutal on Myers or trickster or agitation on hag etc.
What do u run on ur bubba anyways?
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I like Brutal Stength on Wraith with his pallet breaking addons, other than him it's okayish on others like Doctor since people like to predrop pallets against doctor.
And I like agitation on Trapper/Hag to get people to the hooks I want to trap around, preferably basement.
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I feel people like to make a public announcement of them quiting a game to get the developpers' attention.
I like the ones about new games. "I quit to play X game which will be 1000 % better than DBD!"
If it makes them feeling better... That being said, I should create a thread to announce that I'm still playing. Maybe people will find the fact super interesting.
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And they're always killer mains. Probably they said that for them to buff killers or nerf survivor perks.
They're not quitting. Devs knows that.
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Wow really?! Holy crap, I'm impressed. I do indeed find that exciting!
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The biggist Problem in my eyes are bhvr just buffed dead hard to the heaven and not long ago they buffed iron will the most used combo since 2017 with giant distanc to other combos playing against that is literally time waste if every single surv runns that you will not eveb win with omega spirit and double omega nurse bc its just way to easy to play surv with thosr perks at high rank
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"unncesary nerf for spirit this time" really?¨she was stupid and non interactive to play against, extremely easy to use and also was guaranteeing decent players 4ks most matches without any effort, she needed nerfs.... its hilarious you say "become her more skillfull" indeed, now you require a little bit more than a decent pair of headphones, and still actually is all you need, is just that survs can potentially make a play more often than before.
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Yeah? I have about 30 hours into DBD primarily as a Michael Myers main. I am already thinking of quitting. That's how bad it is right now for killers. If you don't believe me, if I finally decide to quit, I will come back every week with a screenshot of my time played on Steam and quote you, so you can feel bad at lying.
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The thing is survs have a ######### ton off literally strong perks while literally the killers have one perk what could make it possible to win is a hex perk called ruin, since mmr every single swf i get have this perks Iron will dead hard unbreakable and ds or even more cancer to play against spine chill resilence iron will dead hard but you cant counter any of those perks as killer thats the trash thing about that while the most good perks are hex totems by the killer side, they need heavily buffs for killer slow down perks bc pop goes is literally a joke to even three man swfs, same with thana since it got literally nerft to the ground is sloppy as well bad,
And i will never understand why any killer perk has an cooldown if it dont even expose any one so many perks could be so good against the broken surv meta like surge the twins perk with the gens.
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My friend convinced me not to delete it because we still do custom games for his streams, but I did stop playing online for awhile. I do appreciate you guys giving me your opinion on the current state of the game. (Even those who clearly sick of Killers doing this thread) And I hope that one day the Devs will try and figure out how to make the killers scary again. I do have a sub question however for the Survivor mains:
Who is the worse killer in your opinion. As a Xbox Player I find Nurse and Blight to be the hardest to use so I figured they probably are the worst?
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K. Bye then.
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Take note bhvr you have lost another player
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These forums are full of whining. Everything is "toxic". Everything has to be "healthy". To the OP. I promise no one cares if you quit or not. There is no easier side. This game is mostly luck with some skill added in. Y'all won't quit anyways. You're just looking for attention. Stop throwing tantrums and grow up.
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Im that 10th dbd killer quitter that hasn't been back. Survivors get a million second chances, and that is too frustrating to play against in high levels.
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See you in the fog 😉
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I don't care if the killers quitting this game. I don't understand why they feel to make a thread about it. Just move one.
This is a message to the devs. "Look devs, i'm quitting, do something about it"
They never quit and devs knows that.
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