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Finally fallen out of love with DBD
Hey guys, for the longest time DBD has been my favourite game, I've invested 4000 hours into this gem.
While there was always going to be a point that we all stopped playing, got bored or moved on, it seems to have happened almost overnight for me.
I play all aspects of this game, killer, survivor, solo q and sweaty swf. And for the first time I can say I find them all a miserable experience. I've tried to articulate what I mean below.
Solo q is the most obvious, its always had a bad rep, but I've never experienced it like this. Since the latest patch, every one of my solo q games has been awful, tunnelling killers, idiotic teammates, the whole lot. I dont think I've ever died on hook as much as I have this last week. Survivors seem scared to do anything injured, and also seem to avoid any risk of injury, (blocking, unhooks, spreading hook pressure) its been downright miserable and unfun.
I dread trying to bring new players to dbd because of the experience they'll have.
Swf isn't much better, while I know how it feels to be an m1 killer dealing with a bully squad, and while I've been that bully squad myself, again somethings changed. In a good swf, as of now, the one and only strategy is to rush gens in 5 minutes. No fun interactions with killers, hardly any fun chases or teamwork moments. Gone are the days of beaming a tunneling nurse to buy your teammate another 5 seconds of gameplay. Its just clock in, rush gens, leave. I've had matches where we "win" with an average of 14k bloodpoints. I can't imagine this is fun for the killer either. Even the usual interactions like pallet saves seem awful right now, with the prompt to drop only working when it feels like it, people being sucked 4ft away from the pallet as the killer picks up, and missing saves even as the killer is mid lunge after pickup. Its straight up broken, and random.
Killer, while arguably buffed by the last patch isn't fairing much better. Its almost impossible to play the game in what I think is a fair or fun way, I.e not tunneling, not camping etc. The reason for this is exactly as above, the survivors know the only move is to rush those gens, teammates are expendable, pallets are pre dropped as being injured is almost a death sentence. I had the day off yesterday, and after I'd calmed down a bit from my latest solo q experience, I decided to try hag, spirit and wraith. And holy ######### if I wasn't in complete control of the game. Whoever decided on the hag change needs to seriously re think, and if you've not had the pleasure of disarming her traps, while crouched, next to her hook, while she has stbfl, and a minefield that would make ukraine look like a playground. Then I invite you to try. If hag wants to win, she already has. Wraith was a lot of fun, while I miss burning him, it feels amazing not to be scared of flashlight squads any more. As for spirit well, sloopy, thanata and half a brain cell got me the easiest 10 games of my life. I haven't played vs her much lately, and im thankful for that because my experience with her was amazing. The lack of healing, the healing slowdown perks and the lack of teamwork as a result really brings her back to the glory days.
And yet I hate it.
I hate that I can remove deadhead by hitting straight from the hook, I hate that I have to do that or lose 2/3 gens before the first chase, even my boy wraith was having pallets pre dropped and seeing people dc. I swear that killers have gotten massively stronger from this patch, and as a result they are awful to play, I've had some games I downright hated, because the survivors had nothing they could do. Still running down? Have a slap on your way off the hook and ill see you again in 3 seconds. Medkits? Better hit those greats because im coming. Try to rotate hooks, get everyone to second? Tough ######### cos 3 of them left 2 minutes ago, since that is the only viable strategy.
I used to play on both na and eu servers depending on my friends, but something changed with that lately, im a full second behind on na, and while ping was always an issue, it was never unplayable the way it feels now, any small loop is death, even if they're on the opposite side as they swing, your ass is getting hit. It never used to feel like that.
We have killers like Billy in the crosshairs, while alchemy ring still exists. We're having every new perk added to the game being run through nurse just to make sure the games not unplayable for a month. We have a huge gap between solo and swf that has gotten so wide, I dont even want to solo anymore. And thats a shame because I met some really great friends along the way by playing solo.
Before I played this game I was a csgo player, thousands of hours, and only ever played shooters, DBD was such a gem in the rough that it became my most loved game for years and years, and I hate the state that its in, and the state the devs would have it in. We might as well have a large empty map where one side holds m1 and the other has to play unfair. Where trapper cannot possible play in a fun way without a 0k every match, but he can watch blight dismantle a comp team at 4 gens with his add ons.
Survivor and killer seem more toxic to eachother than ever before, there's a lot of well deserved resentment at the devs and I have no hope that any future changes to either side, will ever make the game half as fun, half as interactive as it once was
I care about this game enough to spend an hour ranting about it, and id love both sides perspective on how the game is right now
Cheers
Comments
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Sorry to hear it. When long time players of the game don't want to play it any more its always sad to see.
Hopefully you come back in the future and not because you miss the game but because they made some changes for the better.
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Appreciate your comment, and I hope so too.
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Skull Merchant made me uninstall dbd, they made this killer even worst to play against
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I keep a free dc for her in solo.
Swf she's easy to crack but, in no way fun
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Best of luck in whatever you pick up next (not sarcasm, seriously, I hope you find a game you love as much as you've loved DbD).
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