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Should 2v8 be put to rest for now?
Before i start this topic i will say i am not the biggest 2v8 fan and i have only played survivor and dont want to que with a random killer player.
When it was announced that 2v8 was coming back again, i will say i was not really that hyped for it to be brought back so soon. The art says it is attack on titan themed, but it just is not. We had the same problem with The Witcher themed Chaos Shuffle, you cannot just slap a sticker on a barely changed gamemode and bring it back and say its new and improved. The only thing attack on titan themed about this 2v8 is the little rewards you earn and not anything about the gameplay. The whole jangling keys (banners, charms, icons) approach will not work on those who want more from the actual game play and thats a big problem i have with these mods constantly being brought out over and over…. they just dont make major changes to the mode to justify it being around for two weeks. Just because its popular does not mean its good. 2v8 lacks innovation, the gameplay has not changed at all, i guess survivors get anti camp on the cages and Deathslinger got a buff but thats not enough to justify bringing it back. If you wanted this 2v8 to be truely attack on titan themed, why not make the killers bigger like you did with My Little Oni or something like that? The mode needs to change things up majorly, and before someone says oh its 2v8 how are they supposed to innovate? Well maybe we should push BHVR to do more with the mode instead of bring back the dead horse and beating it with a stick again. I dont care if its adding boons and hexes, killer rotations, or whatever but something needs to change because its getting stale. 2v8 should feel special, heck all the gamemades should feel special but constantly bringing them out over and over with on the surface level changes and not major gameplay overhauls has burned me out of the gamemode.
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2v8 is the only reason I'm coming back and play nowadays.
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I love 2v8 as I feel like killer is so much more fun when playing with a teammate and being able to play survivor during queueing makes it worth it.
The only thing I would like to be able to do is queue for killer matches while being in a swf for survivor ones as more than 2 players (granted some friends may need to wait a little while for you to return from the k matches if their queues aren't synchronised)
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“Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s good?” I would come back with “just because you don’t think it’s good doesn’t mean it’s not good.”
I love 2v8, both as killer and survivor. There is a good reason that BHVR brings back this mode on a regular basis - it’s extremely popular. I understand there is a minority of players like you that don’t like it, but they can always play normal mode. “Play while you wait” for 1v4 exists now to eliminate the queue time issue.1 -
Like it or not 2v8 has attracted a casual audience for survivors and there's a ton of people who come here to play just for 2v8 cause 1v4 is a miserable experience for solo Q
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I definitely think it should return a lot less often, especially now we know that development has stalled (if not totally ground to a halt) with what more they can actually add to the mode. It's also too disruptive to the regular queues and basically locks me out of playing Killer for the best part of a month entirely. I mean yeah, I can technically still play if I want to, but I'm not waiting 10 minutes to get dunked on my some SWF on comms with my bottom tier Killer of choice. Thanks but no thanks.
I've also soured on it because my favourite Killer has been removed from the mode despite (by my own stats, at least) not actually being very strong. And I can't forgive the community for complaining enough to get them kicked out of such a silly and unserious mode. It has really limited future possibilities and stymied its growth.
There's a part of me that thinks they should have more or less stopped development at the first iteration and just moved on to creating a wider variety of modes. An Attack on Titan themed My Little Oni would have been sick. When can we see that make a return? I feel like the popularity of 2V8 has pushed BHVR down what has become a dead end road at this point.
I'll still play it when it comes around (mostly I play Survivor), but that says more about my reluctance to play 1V4 Survivor than anything else.
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I don't think they should can it, but I do think they shouldn't bring it back unless they have two new killers added per iteration.
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I personally disagree because I do enjoy the mode, regardless of changes or none. I just think people need to realise it's not for them.
Eventually if there isn't enough people playing that's when the stats start talking, otherwise rn, I see plenty people playing it. It's mainly Core DBD players who seem bothered by it.-1 -
I dont want it gone forever, i just want bigger breaks in between so BHVR can make meaningful changes to the mode. It feels like the last two times this mode has come around it began to grow stale very fast.
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I don't dislike it, but not having a single killer I enjoy really gets tiring after a few games.
I agree, then.
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That's fair, I've taken the opportunnity to learn new killers, but I also mainly play survivor when I play solo in it. I just enjoy the chaos, plus the anti-slug etc is nice.
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I was pretty gung ho about it for a while, because I assumed we'd get all the killers eventually. my balloons kinda bursted now so I kinda just stopped caring. id rather be chased by a ghoul than wraith or Oni, sue me. I can't even play someone simple like Unknown..
I'm just pivoting to Rivals until it's over.
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I was enjoying 2v8 until it became Zombiev8. Seeing Nemesis every damn match has become so stale.
99% of the time it’s predictably either a Nemesis and Chucky or a Ghostface and a Nemesis. I loaded into a 2v8 last night and got (surprise surprise) Nemesis and a Wraith! First time I’ve ever been actually happy to see a Wraith.
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It needs new killers badly. This is the least I have played the mode. Every match of mine is Nemesis, Wesker, Oni. The zombies and oni in particular are two issues that make me not enjoy the current iteration. Four zombies needs to be reduced to three and Oni needs more than a slap on the wrist to prevent him from being the only killer people want to play. A killer that never leaves his power and has zero actual counterplay is not fun to go against.
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