Expand gameplay with secondary objective
Survivor gameplay is getting really boring over time. Before the bloodweb changed I mainly played killer but now I like to play both (prefer solo survivor over swf because it's more intense allthough it's very reliant on what kind of teammates you get). But after hours of surv gameplay it's getting quite boring sitting 90sec on those gens and hitting skillchecks. DBD is celebrating his 7th anniversary in a few days but gameplay has never changed in all those years.
So I wanted to ask if its possible to give survs something else to do than solely repairing gens and make the game more thrilling. I was thinking about some kind of unlock system for gens and in return reduce repairtime. Let's say all gens are blocked at the beginning of the trial and you have to find a lever to unlock a random gen. So you have to traverse the map first and run the risk of getting caught by the killer (this would make even bigger maps more bearable for M1 killers because now survs have some disadvantages too). After unlocking you see the bubble of the unlocked gen (experience survs already know where the gens are so its not such a big deal). For killers all gens are invisible at the beginning and as soon as the lever has been pulled the red gen silhouette appears and survs can start to repair it. For killer you have more time at the beginning and gens won't fly away in a couple of seconds, but its harder to find survs. You can try finding and defending the levers, hunt survs (if you find them) or prepare the map for later (like trapper).
This doesn t seem to be such a big change for the devs. It more like a corrupt interventing system and adding some levers on the maps. Some perks need to be canged and levers give the devs opportunities for new surv or killer perks (because the last perks felt somehow like some we already have).
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Please don't complain about this anymore.
Boons were made because of this complaint and I don't want another year of something as bad as Circle of Healing.
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Please read my comment again.
I didn't say anything about boons or totems.
I'm talking about boring gen gameplay and this 90 sec per gen (especially when you play solo and you have 3 teammates who refuse to do any gens) or neverending matches (like a skull merchant 3-gener, with teammates who let a 3-gen happen and after this hiding until the hatch appears). If the killers don't see all gens at the beginning its unlikly that they drive you on purpose into a 3-gen gameplay without doing anything else (if you still get into a 3-gen situation its your own fault). If survs can t repair gens from the start and have to traverse the map first to start their tasks you have more time to get into chases with them (the funny part of the game) and they can t repair gens before you re even possible to reach them (especially M1-Killers on big maps/also would nerf BNP a bit).
As I said I m talking about solo. Swf maybe doesn t feel that way cause you can chat with your teammates about other stuff while repairing and don t feel bored the whole time while sitting on a gen. I play 50:50 surv:killer (I don't main any killer like to play all of them) and about 60% of the games are really terrible. For survs if you have teammates who don t participate in the game (AFK, DC, waiting just for unhooking) and you have to do most of these boring gens on your own. For killers if gens are flying and you just sitting there and waiting for the endgame to start. I got into a trail on ormond yesterday with Blight, where I got a 4k just because the survs didn t want to give me even 1k and messed up the unhooking (camping is boring). I was only able to hook 3 guys before all 5 gens where ready. The whole game was a bad joke and not funny allthough I won. On the other hand I had very good and intense games without any kills but 8 hooks and participated in many good chases. So i don t really get it what so fun about a quick escape or a quick 4k without any good chases or a thrilling gameplay.
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