Expectations for DbD in 2021/2022
Sitting at 2,300 hours in this game split 65% surv/35% killer I can't quite put my finger on it but the game has changed in the last 3-4 months, and not for the better. Whether you are new or a veteran the games (at least at my MMR which was rank 1 both sides prior to new MMR) are almost all routinely the same:
1) As surv you only see: nurse, spirit, bubba (with camp), blight, twins, wraith, and about 5% of matches you get the other 18 killers in a mix. (Went hundreds of matches without seeing plague, GF, myers, etc).
2) Perks have gotten out of hand for both sides, both in numerical amount and functionality. You could probably boil both sides down to the same stale 10-15 perks used 95% of the time.
3) As survivor, you need to be in a swf on comms or go home. Solo queue is a nightmare of DCs, hackers, hook suiciders, sandbaggers, or just really inefficient gameplay. You know what I mean, you finish with 24K and still died while some johnny rando escapes with 11K or dies with 6K. Sad.
4) As killer you are highly encouraged to get downs asap, these gens are popping like mad. So you get only the high mobility killers as mentioned in #1 or you have to slug, camp, wait for 2nd stage etc. I see this in almost half my games. When they don't, they lose badly.
5) Game just feels to have lost that edge of your seat are-we-gonna-pull-this-off feel on both sides. Killers either trounce the survivors in a 4K with 3 gens left or they get absolutely stomped on. Survivors either 4e or 1e, little in between.
I guess at the end of the day I wrote this to just say that both sides seem super frustrated right now and I can see why. The fun factor has seemed to have been drained from both. Each side is trying so very hard that it becomes more of a grind and much less fun.
Call to Action for BHVR:
- New Game Mode(s)
- Overhaul bloodweb tedium and most perks
- Aggressively smash game breaking bugs
- Begin designing DbD 2 to fix broken core mechanics or invest enough in your game to re-write it.
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Honestly, I don't have a single expectation.
BHVR has already done enough damage, and they are not going to stop.
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There's no hopes for this game after they decided MMR should be a thing. Changes to the core of the game will never come, they are too proud of their work to do any drastic changes. They'll just keep doing what they are doing now.
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I agree with this. A lot of popular streamers have honestly from what I’ve noticed are just burnt out from all the tryhardness SBMM has to offer. Ohtofu made a good point last night that at high MMR gameplay you pretty much need to play killers that require some/alot of mechanical and muscle memory to cope with good swfs like Nurse, Blight, and even duel engravings billy which requires alot of mind gaming and timing to outplay survivors in such a unique way and that right there just feels so monotonous. Streamers can’t even stream without focussing so much on killer gameplay anymore. I remember watching umbra/tofu etc play killers while talking to chat about anything and everything so easily and now you don’t see that hardly anymore..
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My expectations : More Bugs, More skins, (especially extra pricey legendary ones) more crying from both sides, more threats of quitting that are never actually held up, more "X game is gonna kill dbd" but doesn't even hold a match to it, and I'm just gonna keep playing because for some reason I love this game and just can't stop.
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I watch TRU and I heard he said he didn’t wanna play killer anymore. That’s sad cause I enjoy watching him play.
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I want something to make the grind less painful.
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My expectations
More surv mechanics that include the killer wasting much more time on neutralizing benefits than chasing.
Maybe an okayish anni and halloween event.
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More bugs, more skins, more unfettered and unrepentant greed, more out of touch proclamations, more lip service by the community team which leads to nothing actionable, more veterans leaving, more young ones getting duped into joining.
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Tru3 wants game to be competetive and skill based, not perks vs perks or whatever other bs. Dbd is not even close to it. If he keeps pushing himself, he will just burn out.
I don't have any expectations, I'm empty about game. Mb I will be excited when they tune up some weak killers so they all will be on same page, and change maps to be more fun to play, but currently it's like whatever. I don't expect much from a game when content is made faster than balance/bug fixes.
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