General feedback for update 8.7.0
With the newest patch now released on live servers I wanted to share my thoughts and hopefully give the developers my suggestions if they see this post. I do want to start with what I enjoyed about this update.
- Orela's addition
- New lighting and texture rework
- Quests have been streamlined and players no longer need to select only one quest in between matches
Although these may seem like a small amount of positives, they are very appreciated and do not go unnoticed, I'm sure bugs will be fixed in the coming patch but I still wanna share some I've seen
- The games performance stuttering and having delays in certain inputs
- Although I have heard that multiple killers are currently experiencing bugs, I only know of The Singularity having a delay on placing Tripods making him feel clunky and uncomfortable to play
I didn't want to spend much times on bugs as I'm sure they are already being worked on. For me, the new Rift and Quest System is my biggest concern, and I wanted to share some brief criticisms of an otherwise promising system.
I think everyone has noticed that these new quests give far less rewards than the previous system. A simple change of making the rewards match the past systems amount (or even give more) would be greatly appreciated by everyone. The biggest talking point in the community that I have seen is how long it takes to gain levels in the Rift. As I said this is a brief and admittedly rather messy and undescriptive feedback post which is why this next suggestion may not seem like a well informed one, but I feel as if the levels should be earned as fast as they were in the previous system. Please let me know if this change doesn't work for whatever reason in the new system, I haven't interacted with it that deeply yet to know if this makes any sense or not. A small issue I have is the lack of variety in quests. Although I do like how easy it is to progress quests by just simply playing and not being forced to go out of my way to equip a certain perk or character, I do definitely miss the variety in the quests that we would get. It does feel like the lack of varied quests is just because of how new the system is, which is why I do not think it should be a huge take away from this post or a main focus to be changed over everything else. I know many people have said that the rift fragments earned from playing matches have been removed. I am not sure if this is true or if it is a bug currently being looked at by the developers, and seen by the community as an intentional change. If this is an intentional change I would strongly suggest reverting it and keeping it as a feature as it lessens the grind, even if by a little bit. Overall I do feel like this new system could be an improvement with some time and changes, and I do hope the speed of leveling up the Rift pass is more in line with the previous systems speed as one of the things I appreciated most about the previous system was how much it respected my time and didn't make me feel like I need to grind everyday because of a fear of missing out on certain rewards.
Overall I think the criticism and feedback the community has been giving for the new rift system is warranted, and I do trust Behavior will listen to the community as they have been recently, but I do also feel a lot of the community is jumping to conclusions very quickly before the developers respond to our feedback. The new Rift not having any new lore was a big worry for many, myself included, but not long after the update the Dead By Daylight twitter account had confirmed that we will still be getting lore. I do still have my worries about the implications of The Dredge and Haddie not receiving new lore, as well as the characters who will be introduced in the next chapter because of the new system that will be used for providing lore not being released yet, I do truly hope we will see these stories released after the new lore system is implemented.
If this post is a complete mess, I apologize, this is my first time using the forums to share feedback. I do hope a community manager or developer sees this and takes my thoughts into account, if not, I hope to hear what others in the community have to say about the update as well.