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Why is dbd?
I had my fair share with the game and it once was my favourite game. Now I'm just getting annoyed thinking about playing it, yet I would love to, if it wasn't for the circumstances the game is in.
While some of the struggles of the game have improved, the community has not. When did we took the turn from fun games, intense games or being able to make a mistake without loosing the entire match to killers doing nothing but tunneling and camping at 5 gens on their map or survivors trying to bully/taunting a killer and also always trying to bring the match to a map in their favor.
Why is it that every time something that breaks the game is discouvered, everyone wants to abuse it instead of walking away from it in terms of fairness until it's fixed.
It is a game after all and people are constantly power tripping, playing like their life depends on it. Everyone wants to rub it in the other sides face that they just had victory worth absolutely nothing in the real world.
Survivors started to command others to leave a lobby because they thought their ingame skin was not comp enough. These people can't be sane anymore.
I already walked away from this game multiple times and everytime I come back for a new chapter it get's worse.
Now I am not sure how to stop that downfall but dbd starts to feel like old MW3 lobbies and is on the road to be like LoL.
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I've played for 8 years & took 2 breaks, one was after my best friend died but that was a general video game break not dbd specific.
The other was last November, i'd just had enough of everything in the game quite honestly.
Came back in feb for my birthday & 2vs8 then they announced all the changes for this year & I thought i'd give them a fair chance, they have until the 10th Anniversary next year to convince me to stay, I'm highly sceptical but trying to keep as open a mind as possible.
Biggest issues for me personally is matchmaking & it always has been, while I think mmr isn't nearly refined enough lobby dodging kills it regardless, hiding prestige helped but doing away with the lobby, & making actually relevant punishments for dc's (along with changes to go next & tunneling ect) in my opinion would make a significant difference.
I'm not holding my breath, I don't particularly have any hope, & I expect a god awful 10th Anniversary event thats grossly one sided will be my final & ever lasting memory of my most played game of all time!
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I only play it for a hour or so a couple of times a week and thats enough for me.
I know others play it for hours upon hours a week and that's fine.
Personal choice is a great thing.
But gone are the good old days when as killer you could stand at the bar in dead dawg and survivors would queue up like customers before starting a chase. Like I'll give you a 5 second start and then I'm closing the bar to hunt you down for not paying your bar bill.
How some people get so angry at pixels on a screen baffles me. It's a video game nothing more nothing less.
Toxic end game chat because you lost a game? Sad.
If i lose I lose. I don't care.
Toxic end game because you won. Sad.
I think Toxic winners are the worst.
Wow you won a video game.
Are the press waiting outside to take your picture? Are the tv stations calling for an interview?
Spoiler alert, no they're not.
NOBODY CARES.
Keep your toxic comments to yourself and accept you won or lost because you played better than the other side or they played better than you.
Nothing wrong with a gg or similar.
You are allowed to chat like a normal human being without resorting to primary school behaviour/comments.
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aye man… just walk away again until the craving comes back "i speak from a killer main standpoint"… for me, i played since 2016, i never get upset when playing its always fun when i play, yeah i get more gamer if i get pressed to stand up show them survivors who is in charge or whatnot, as for comments…. comments i always enjoyed, my steam profile is filled to a brim of dbd salt, so that is a way to deal with it, just accept it as fun… play your game. nowdays as for a good while now i been playing on console which eliminated post game chat, and with that i block communications so i don't get no dumb dumb message whiner or w/e which opened a new better way to enjoy game for me, and block gamertags, play with survivor names as i do or just turn them off, god i want a no hud option so bad which is another topic…. play the game like a single player game y'kno. i get the music going and i just turn on my chainsaw and go, but it applies to any role, maybe no music for surviving and or… i mean, at times i turn music off because i know i need to focus. enjoy the expressing from the other players for the interaction, have moments with other players in-game and leave it there then go next, kinda like just turning off from the community helps, for me it opened up a new enjoyment to be had. plus the game is so big, now its just a whole bunch us randoms, not just a little bunch of us randoms that passed by each other often but that is another topic too. yeah tho, just turn off from it all and enjoy the game, can''t you tell i turn off since i am typing so much? i have fun with it sometimes, keyword "sometimes"… bust most time just do you, find a little more other hobbies to do while you have game on, nothing wrong with hanging on menu or anywhere in-game for time until you ready play, i may play one match an hour while on, help with the burn out i guess, it helps to have things going on with dbd rather than just doing the dbd, i been there… there just doing the dbd, some may say that i am just doing the dbd, but i do do a little. idk tho, i hope i could have been any of a little help with this.
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Matchmaking is also my biggest gripe with the game right now and I completely agree with removing the lobby. All it does it wreck matchmaking and waste everyone's time. I assume it would be way, way easier to get balanced matches if they removed it since once you've matched 5 players, that's it, now you're guaranteed that they'll get into a match together. I'd assume it could help against stream sniping too, but idk.
Another issue with matchmaking is how the MMR brackets works. Once you hit 1400+ MMR (from what has been datamined), you're in what's called the "gold" bracket and can match with anyone in gold, including anyone in 1800+ which is still gold but is at the softcap. This means that your next match may be some semi-decent players playing at 1520 MMR, with half decent builds and looping, reasonable match where you may not even have to sweat to get a win. Or, you get seal team 6, all with 2000+ MMR but matchmaking softcaps them at 1800, and the match is completely hopeless. The experience is so inconsistent it's not even funny.
The range is too high but I get why they do it. There just aren't enough high MMR players to go around, but still makes for a bad experience.
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I'm currently on a break from the game and don't miss it at all. I've had about two occurrences of thinking 'maybe I should just have a match' and then I watch my partner playing and think 'yeah, no - I'll stay away a bit longer'.
I've mentioned this in other threads and in other forums, but I honestly think mindset is a massive issue right now. Everyone thinks everyone else is out to get them from the word go. I've seen players 'punish' people in a match because they had a really poor experience in the one before - even though it's none of the same people so makes no sense.
I think there needs to be an acceptance that you will lose and that's ok - that you can still have fun regardless. I never expect to escape every match I'm in and in actual fact there have been matches when I could have escaped but got sacrificed because I went back to save a team mate - and that's ok. If a killer doesn't do great then sometimes I'll give them the kill - that's ok. Killers will sometimes want to meme or recogonise a survivor has worked really hard in looping them and rather than take it as a personal affront they allow that survivor to leave and that's ok. One think I think has ruined the game is the mindset shift to having to get a 4k for killers. Many seem to think they haven't 'won' if they don't. But it's ok not to 'win' it's about having fun whilst trying to get there - but now it's become a case of sweating so hard to get there rather than trying to have fun.
I think that's why the modifiers like 2V8 and Chaos Shuffle are popular - because for a time, until the sweaters come in and ruin it, they're about just having fun. That's what we need to get back to.
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They've never managed that behavior out of the community or discouraged it in any way. They reward that behavior with a consistent dopamine hit. The easiest way to win is to out-sweat your opponent, and they give killers and SWFs every tool to do that.
You're never really forced to wait on an appropriate matchup if you play like that either. Your reward for hard tunneling some solo queue players with 1/5th of your hours? The chance to instantly queue up and do it again for the next 10 games.
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I never get dopamine hit if something is piss easy. It doesn't matter if it's single or multiplayer game.
People who do are the same ones who feel like gods when some random trophy/ach pops up. Gaming getting more and more popular is probably because of companies appealing to dunning kruger society.
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I don't know why DBD is. It's a garbage game. Right? You get survivors as killer who can 1v1 you after getting hit by your power over and over, and when you switch to survivor nobody knows what they're doing. You HAVE to fix the matchmaking. It's tied to the horrible balance, too. You can't balance off anything if everything is just random.
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Dbd needs both sides on the same page to have fun. Sweating or chilling is cool,but you can't have a sweat vs chill lobby.
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