Black Banquet Update
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The current rate is slightly higher than for last year's Event? What? Do you folks really think this or do you know it's not true but don't realize we also know it's not true? At best, rates are a bit less than half what they used to be.
This isn't meant to be any less of a celebration? Again, what? What exactly is this anniversary about then? Opportunities for monetization? You've announced plenty of those. An in person event a lot of well off people can fly out to? Wooooo. The graphical update that might as well be next year's anniversary announcement?
Cakes have always been the highlight of the anniversary event. Something simple, completely free for both BHVR and the players - a fun little thing to work for and you guys have managed to completely screw that up for the 10th anniversary. If this is a sign of things to come then thanks for the heads up. We all now know we can just go next on the 11th anniversary because who cares?
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What i am not understanding personally is why they arent communicating WHY this change is being made. if this si whats intended then you did so for a reason and thats fine. you know that obviously this change is unpopular but you seem to be unwilling to explain why this change is being made. if you had a good reason to do so it might help with the backlash with why we are supposed to enjoy the biggest celebration in the games history with a bunch of people who have played up till when the game first released(like myself) and then make them feel like you are taking something away from them.
i dont personally care too much about the cakes, i dont need 1k in my inventory but it doesnt feel fun when after every single match i have to spend 1-3 bloodwebs on surv to pull a single cake.
and currently i dont believe auto bloodweb is actually prioritizing cakes because i have witnessed multiple times the entity taking the cake instead.
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I agree.
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The lie saying it's more than last year is downright insulting.
Using weasel wording to say the amount of "guaranteed" cakes is more (because they were random before) is even more so.
Why lie straight to our faces? There's tons of gameplay footage from streamers last anniversary that proves we had many more cakes last year. It's just ridiculous.
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For those of you who are upset and feel like BHVR aren’t listening, I’m with you. But you all need to realize that they’re not going to change their behavior (pun intended) unless you actually stop playing the game or at least stop spending money on it. That is the only feedback that they are really going to listen to.
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So Will The Switch Receive the Update. This is kinda a Important Question. We haven't received any feedback on if or when the Switch will get the update
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I believe cake decision is opposite to what they want.
It all just feels like they want us to spend more time in game to make more cakes.
For some of us this will simply not work because there is only so much time we can spend in game, because real life etc.And then if someone doesn't get enough cakes for the year they will simply avoid playing.
I know this is a case for a part of community. That's what some of the people I met before do.We have cakes on more characters = We might buy skins for them = We might spend more time in the game because we have incentive
People that don't get incentives might move to another games.
We have 53 surviviors and 43 killers! 99.9% of the playerbase will never be able to upgrade everyone to p100.
It all just seems off.
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What baffles me is that, even though this is supposedly 'the first iteration of an ongoing event', if, before release, you'd asked anyone who has any experience with DBD about the Black Banquet features, they would have told you that they were atrociously unbalanced and would make Killers lives' miserable for no good reason. Did it not go through the normal testing and consultation process?
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At this point I do find it rather hilarious they will do anything, ANYTHING except give the players what they want, without explanation other than their 'FUTURE VISION'.
Your 'FUTURE VISION' sucks.
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@Mandy the whole event is such a mess and that is so sad considering the fact that this is the 10th anniversary event but you make it look like you don't understand neither the community nor a good gameplay loop
We as a community love event cakes and grind for them but you've increased the price of them last year for no reason and now you lower the price but keep the spawn rate? Who thought it is a good idea to give us less cakes?
We get four days of Bloodhunt and that's it? Bloodhunt and feast became so rare for over a year and even now - during dbd's biggest event - it's not worth than four days and that only because it's your way to say "sorry"? If anything, we should have the Bloodhunt until the end of the anniversary, especially when you also removed the extra BP from hooking and finishing generators (and removal of party totems). Who or why you thought that this is a good idea?
The community goal of 1mio trials is just 20k BP and one rift level worth? That is also so sad. If anything, it should be 10mio BP.
Overall, you became so stinky with BPs even now during our biggest event, which is such a disappointment. We love to grind for that stuff but you do anything to make it miserable
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Have the developers ever actually pulled off a "killer play" using the Baked Camembert setup in a match? If not, I’d like to see them play it live on stream.
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Am I the only one who can’t access the first page of this topic?
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same I had to add p1 to end of URL
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/469539/black-banquet-update/p13 -
It's happening on other posts too. Some sort of Vanilla bug.
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They spent 10 years saying Legacy would never return because it was exclusive—turning it into something mythical and highly coveted—and everyone clamored for it to be a prestige reward. Now, they just hand out a Legacy recolor as a cheapened login reward. It’s truly disappointing what they’ve turned the 10th-anniversary event into; besides, I don’t even play as Dwight or Trapper, so it makes no difference to me. That’s one of the things that irritates me the most: things get released, and you have to get lucky for them to actually be for the characters you play. It’s depressing.
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If this is their "vision" for future events I won't be around for it. This event was a disgrace.
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For those that haven't yet seen, we have updated on Twitter (I will forever refuse to say X):
Following player reports, we have been investigating why the Toothy Torte offering is appearing less than the previous year, and while we have not completed our investigation into why the previous year granted more than the intended amount, we have made the decision to increase the current guaranteed amount of Toothy Tortes so that each level of the Bloodweb will have at least one offering to guarantee 50 offerings per Prestige Level for the rest of the Event, this replaces the current Mystery Boxes that spawn. Event items will still spawn in the Bloodweb normally.
We know this has been a massive source of frustration for players and we apologize that this has taken as long as it has, we want everyone to enjoy the rest of the Anniversary Event and the Bloodhunt. Happy 10 years of Dead by Daylight!
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Better late than never I suppose, thank you Mandy
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Changing it to a flat 50 per prestige is great and all but can we all get a bunch sent to our mail to claim as we wasted a TON of blood points before the change
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Yeah this would be nice, or BP. I've spent a good 20mil and have little cake to show for it.
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50 cakes per prestige is so much better! Thanks Mandy!
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Is that live now or coming next week? Nvm i tested it, can confirm its working now thank you
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Why would you need to investigate when you (meaning the dev team as a whole) said the spawn rate was intentional?
Though I do understand not wanting to say X. I personally like to call it the social platform formerly known as Twitter. 😂
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i think shes saying that they were under the assumption(i guess) that last year didnt give as many cakes as people hare saying they got
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Likewise, I think we all refuse to call BHVR competent. 😅😝
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For the people complaining about balance… you’re in the minority. Just take a look at the player count it’s never been this high before. Bhvr should do new events like this one more often that focus on fun and ignore the killermains that are terminally online here
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I guess looking at what survivors need in this event just to win matches only shows how bad the average survivor is.
I really hope behavior takes this into account into future balance discussions when they try to get opinions of survivors.
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This is a much better compromise. Good thing I saved around 8 million BP in case it would be fixed. Yet I can't but feel for those who spent all their millions of BP and didn't receive many cakes as a result
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Careful. Remember... critisism is(n't) welcome here.
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When transitioning to the dessert phase, was it intended—rather than a bug—that the food you were already holding didn't disappear and could still be used afterward?
I found it strange that when I’m on the Killer’s side, my poison is confiscated once the Dessert Phase begins, but when I play as a Survivor, I can still use invincibility, invisibility, and dashing even during that phase.
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Best event that BHVR ever created! Truly a masterpiece! Thank you to the team who made this possible!
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I am sure that I will be banned. But the fact that 10 year "Celebration" for a game has had as many bugs as it does. AND the response is 9 days or so after it is already going. IS CRAZY. Put on your tin foil hat because I think that BHVR gave you 10 mil BPS and yet messed up their cake value. Weird……..I saved 15 million for the anniversary and got 40 cakes……. Now due to a random bug, "DBD every single status", i can get more with BPS that i no longer have.. Great. Tonight, 7/7/2026 I had 1 dc EVERY game. Killers when they did poorly and survivor when, who knows, the stars didnt align. I have played for years and this game to this day feels like a BETA with HUGE monetary purchases that would make a free to play game smile (Cosmetics). Every single character, killer or survivor, releases with 40 dollars worth of cosmetics. DBD is in a horrible for 10 years. No one talks about it. Those that do just move on and since there is no competition, why get better?
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This year's event is hard for both sides. Survivors got instaheals and built in boosts while killers got free kill button power. Killers saying event is too survivor sided, survivors frustrated by poison stuns. I think those are mainly community issues with competitive mindset rather than enjoying event and must say that I've never faced sweatier killers in such a rapid succession as this year when me and my friends just grinded for BP. On the other hand I don't blame killers either because ending up on Gideon with unbreakable pallets is nothing else than pure helpless state. I played enough killers and would like to leave a short feedback.
Invisibility mode - while the invisibility itself is very bad and can be tracked by loud noise, the portal refilling items is a bit overkill imo. The portals + invis is good enough to work on it's own.
Invincibility mode - probably the weakest because it provides protection only against some killer powers but unbreakable pallets compensate for that to point where you sometimes can't do anything as killer (shack, some indoor maps and so on.)
Dash mode - fairly balanced, the dash itself hurts weaker killers but overall isn't something outstanding or broken. The action bonuses are not overtuned either.
What I'm personally disapointed from is lack of rewards (maks and weapons) and also half the event being in store.
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Hey, Mandy. It was obvious to everyone that the poison mechanic in “Region” was a bug, so there’s nothing we can do about it. The wait time for the Survivor Queue will get even longer, but that’s about it.
But what’s up with Chucky not being fixed in the latest patch?! Is the glitch where his poison gets sucked into the ground, or the fact that he’s too short to enter the warp portal, actually intended behavior and not a bug???
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This makes survivor gameplay way harder then it should be.
I think devs should add carts to the tables closer so the distance wouldnt be that big.
I believe we all agree on this "pretty good job".
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What about the issue with initialization errors? My game has been having issues since 9.6.2. I reported it as a bug, and it has been over a month. It sucks paying for a game and you can't play it, especially during anniversary event.
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Since the Region Obsolescence patch, gaps have been appearing frequently where only Survivors can pass through and Killers cannot. Was this update also intended to make the Banquet event more fun?
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Please, suggest that they actually play it before releasing. Like, play both sides. Or consult content creators. Or whatever else to make it at least remotely reasonable.
If survivors are even remotely coordinated and there's the teleport+invisibility in the match, there's almost (or virtually) no way for the killer to do a thing. You approach a generator? Guess what, survivors are long gone via teleport. You follow them? Other survivors do gens while you're chasing in the dead zone with no gen to even check up on. If there's the "table timer", you might have to waste even more time, as they're invisible after being teleported AND for some reason their items refill, letting them permanently sabotage hooks even if you happen to catch someone.
Rubberbanding pallets and other bugs and design flaws are numerous, and "being aware" will not suffice, honestly.
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I would add "against a decently capable team of survivors" to it.
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For the love of the universe, if I never see another Ghoul in The Ghoul's Banquet 10th Anniversary or ever again it won't be too early. Devs please, please, just do something about this.
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People just want to get as many cakes as they did in e.g. the 7th anniversary. It's not that complicated.
Please make all event offerings/items Common rarity in future, so that getting purple addons/items isn't made harder.
(While we're at it, you could remove half the Common rarity offerings and no one would complain)
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this event has been basically trash. I'm not surprised the global isn't even done yet.
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Holy Ratio lmao. You guys should definitely take this as a message to re-evaluate things.
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Don't forget during the minute buff survivors get teleported randomly so the killer can't even follow them
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Friendly reminder to unpin. Anniversary is over.
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