Unpack DbD opinion

Tamo

Hi, just been reading through the discussions &, wanted to add my own take on I suppose the game state as a whole. I'll try to be as brief as possible. (Maybe note by note is easiest)

Let's just get it all out the way though, the real action talk first & foremost; tunneling from killers is getting & has been ridiculous now - every game it feels if not yourself someone on the team swf or not is getting tunneled & it sucks. It sucks for the player who can't play, it will suck for the team & overall is one of the greatest threats to new players & even experienced players maintained enjoyment of this game.

Slugging is at an all time high it seems, like ripped jeans it's back in fashion before it goes again, here's the thing though just like those jeans there's layers to it - slugging for the finisher Mori is genuinely the worst thing that addition has welcomed in, it's just that little extra time wasted that feels so unnecessary, on that point slugging a 4K on the floor having the win guaranteed but just choosing to let them lay there is seriously uncool & is happening & needs something addressing (I don't know what just something), however those mentioned it also has to be noted survivors can't be too mad at a killer who gets a win by slugging then hooking their prizes slugs because there is some level of skill to that, that kinda needs respecting, it's a bitter truth but a truth none the less, be grateful it's over & go next hopefully not immediately into the same thing if not worse like I've already mentioned.

The game has grown killer sided, yet again there's much to be said, it's DbD the killer is meant to be a scary threat so it makes sense you're meant to feel weaker however it's also a party game where a team playing as best they can have hope - survivors have had so many nerfs in recently updates to huge perks 'Distortion' & 'Made For This' to name a couple, one feeling a bit harsh the other more necessary really respectively, meanwhile killers perks have only felt more of a tweak in their meta as it were, I will add that if this rubs some the wrong way let's take a less meta perk change recently that still emphasizes my point here 'Wake Up' not necessarily a meta perk while for many soloQ builds it comes in handy on occasion, not broken, not stupidly OP & yet they felt the need since they were focusing on Freddy anyway to nerf a perk related to his survivor for whatever reason. Just seems unnecessary & is that sign that survivors at the moment seem to be getting shafted on this matter meanwhile the killers just get a slight meta tweak.

Let's move on though, back to more gameplay stuff - Camping has been given an address & while many reckon it works while others don't see what it's doing it's addressed a slight issue in a fashion that seems to have done the trick to an extent, at the end of the day again Camping isn't the issue it's the immediate Tunneling to follow.

Killers ranting about SWF, I'll be honest some SWF teams take it way too seriously & at high MMR I'm sure you killer mains bump into plenty of "Bully Squads" the thing is though there's also a bunch of survivors who are on Coms that aren't sweating their sacks off or even strategizing, they're just playing the game together as a party. I feel like a lot of issues that are addressed affect the whole playerbase & have a massive knock on affect to just casual players who then feel like something happened for no reason just because a few players can abuse something to its full potential. Not every player is GOATED & not every team is a SWF bully squad, the game goes how it goes the teams be what they be. This does bring me to what may be my final point though the community, many of us can't voice an opinion without being shat on in the replies, players are blamed for toxicity left right & centre for nothingness, killers blame survivors & survivors blame killers, the high & mighty remind us all it's just a game - but we can all get frustrated which is the problem. Many of us play DbD to have fun, most of us paid for this game & content/dlc in it to play it & have fun. We as a community should be trying to keep it fun & be able to play whichever side we're on without all the BS that tends to happen. It's a party game & it's been the same one for almost a decade, it's survived but is fading out & will fall off badly if we keep it all up. Killers have some empathy for the survivors you keep Tunneling or leaving slugged on the floor, but survivors also understand that not every killer is slugging you because they leave you for a second to look around & they're not Tunneling you just because they happened to find you again after a little while. We're all just trying to play the game, can we all just please PLAY THE GAME.

Thank you for coming to my Tedtalk.

No but seriously, I've been seeing a lot of the posted discussions recently & it's nice to see the community speaking their mind & actually being reasonable with each other agreeing to disagree as it were. That's a healthy way to be. Not just a "Get gud/Use X perk..." or "Just don't play/Lame player = Lame opinion (vice versa)" mentality. If you read this far I appreciate you & respect anything you'd say or add in this post. I wish you well in the fog & let's hope we can get some decent address for problems in this game & get back to some proper DbD fun.