What’s going on? Is this game slowly dying?
Wait times weren’t the greatest then ruin was nerfed, they brought in dc penalties and wait times started getting even longer. On top of that, we also have a matchmaking issue which you would think would make wait times shorter since people are getting matched with whoever but this is not the case. Wait times are still long.
I’m in red ranks and haven’t seen a red rank killer in weeks. Lower ranks are getting destroyed and games are really boring at the moment.
Yesterday I didn’t get a killer that was a higher rank than 16. You can imagine what happened when a lobby of red ranks kept getting rank 16 or lower. The first 4 games I had..
- afk wraith
- afk huntress for part of the game then she couldn’t even hit 1 person
- dc mid game
- dc mid game
actually I’m pretty sure I had 3 killers dc yesterday.
I can’t confirm this but just by speculation, it seems that all these changes the devs have made is slowly killing the game. They’re forcing people not to play or people don’t want to play. Unless someone else can explain what’s going on? I’m on PS4 by the way. Not sure if other platforms have the same issue.
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For how long? Usually it picks up for a couple of weeks then goes back to the way it was again. 🤷♀️
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Usually the reason for staying afk is for shard and rift...at least they are on the right track.
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Seriously stop acting like a baby, everyone knows that the game is in bad shape. However, if version 3.6.0 did not fix this, everyone can accept that the game is dead. After that, they can no longer collect the game.
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This game has just become so unfun. The matchmaking itself is busted, and I find myself going up against both SWF that pop three gens with one left after my second hook, and the next match I'm stomping poor Rank 20s who are scared of the Killer the whole match.
Its unfriendly to beginners, frustrating for veterans, and all we've gotten for its fundamental issues is band aid patches. Its lasted so long because it doesn't have competitors.
I mean, jesus, the game developed a culture around DCing bad games. Even with the recent penalties, it doesn't seem to hurt the amount of DCs, or people just AFK.
I don't know why I keep coming back at this point. I think this game would have been in its grave a while ago, people just don't have another ship to jump to right now. The recent patches that are coming through seem to put it on the right track, but it seems like so little actually adjusts for every chapter.
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From what I hear pretty soon you’ll be matched by “skill” except you won’t ever be able to know you were still playing against yellow rank killers
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The last several killer nerfs went too far and ruin was the breaking point. I love the game but barely feel like playing anymore since killer is so weak. Most red rank killers quit the game or try to stay in lower ranks so they can play fair matches instead of getting instantly owned by red swf. Unless they buff the heck out of killers soon this game may not last another 6 months. They don't seem to really care though
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they may not have any competition at the moment but i believe there are a couple of games coming out this year that may change that. come april 3 when project resistance (resident evil 3) comes out, i'll be moving on to that. it's also an asymmetrical multiplayer game.
with the issues with matchmaking, i'm wondering if they have already started testing the mmr system. matchmaking has been broken for ages but recently its just got 10 times worse and you are right, it's really unfriendly to beginners.
i do hope they can save dbd because it can be a decent game but the way it is now, i don't know.
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I can't do my stupid survivor challenge for escaping through the exit gates three times because they just dc or camp me, understand able though
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I agree and i'm a survivor main. they say they are catering for the newer players but as a result of that, they are killing their own game. everyone sucked at ruin when they first started playing but everyone sucked it up, dealt with it and learnt how to push through with ruin. why make exceptions for new players now. not just that the poor new players don't even stand a chance with the matchmaking as it is. how long do they think new players will keep on playing for when they keep getting destroyed.
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And they couldn't care less about new killer players, they attack them brutally at every turn with nerfs and bad matchmaking
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yes. it is.
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I will say that the game isn't doing so hot. My killer queue times are getting shorter and my survivor queues are getting longer. (Green ranks, PC)
So when I get tired of being beaten by people 4 to 8 ranks higher than me as killer I have to wait for the same thing to happen whenever I play survivor.
So as people above me have undoubtedly said, killers are either switching to survivor or packing up.
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It's basically heading back into the dark times. Give the game a few more months and I bet all my Salty Lips that the Devs are gonna pull another 1.9.2. Swf buff with new sabo, FTP, etc.
-Insta sabos
-Faster toolbox repair speeds (what a nerf, it's not like Wire Spool and Scraps/Instructions exist)
-Breakout and MoM to synergize with insta sabos which will make baby killers wanna mori themselves and force experienced casual killers to make slugfests
I honestly don't see how anyone can see this as being healthy for the game. All we can do is just do what we've always had to do, rely on the mistakes of survivors in order to gain momentum. Good luck trying to get red rank swf with 1000+ hours of experience to make more than 1 mistake the whole match.
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you can't even pip at the moment with the way the matchmaking currently is. not in red rank anyway, you just have to hope for a safety pip. so basically red ranks are on the way to extinction anyway.
most of the games i had yesterday, like i said were against rank 16 or lower and because they weren't as experienced or still trying to learn the game or whatever, the games went so fast, the killer dc'd and/or you couldn't do enough in the game because the killer couldn't hook or hit anyone so there was no one to save or heal. i barely saw the killer in most games so you don't get bold points, you don't get enough points for doing gens and totems alone.
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Sure feels like it. Playing Killer feels like garbage, Survivor queues are long and games are quick. Last night was the first gaming night in awhile I did not play this game at all and decided to "play something else."
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No the game is not dying, the numbers do not back it up (pc). However for me I really dislike the matchmaking, i just have stupid boring games. Most games are a stomp, no matter which side whether you play killer or survivor.
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I play on PC and the Survivors queue times are taking minutes.
The killer queue times are taking minutes as well.
At least 2 minutes on survivor and about 3-4 on killer.
It's also Monday and everyone else is at work, so it's pretty understandable.
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3-4 minutes or so for survivor, about 20-30 seconds for Killer tonight. No, the game is not dying, but there will always be a group that says so. There were people saying it during the Nurse patch.
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My guess your killer is somewhere in browns-yellows. Pick up some ranks, up to greens, and your que will be almost instant. All survivors that can't bear the queue time are trying a killer, but they're not ranking up and basically 80% of player base is in browns and yellows as killers.
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My killer queues get faster and faster, my survivor queues get longer and longer. I rarely have fun no matter which role I play. When the survivors burned a Lery's offering and a Petrified Oak offering, one DC'd the second time I slugged them. So yeah, decreasing the number of hooks on the new Lery's and all future maps, great idea. -_- The changes to sabo will only make it better, I'm sure.
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To me the definition of a dead game isn't a game which pulls nearly 30k concurrent players on Steam alone
I think the health of the game is pretty stable, there's a distinct pattern of better figures on dlc launches and a slight dip during windows of nothing.
While I agree people don't really want to play killer so much anymore, including myself. I don't think it's something which will lead to the game dying. We've had poop matchmaking times constantly since release on PS4 especially and after all that the game has found success.
The 30k+ concurrent players is BHVRS safety net and they won't have to make drastic changes unless these figures took an alarming turn which they're not. A lot of killers are just playing Survivor or more casually at lower ranks because they can't be bothered ranking up.
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The game is not dying on PC but, on consoles it will die if the game keeps having the bad matchmaking for Killers and Survivors alike, also all this nerfs, changes and reworks that are just making the trolls keep doing exploits and trolling... If you play this game all the time and still maintain a Buddhist zen like control over thinking about breaking your monitor/tv, computer or console after dealing with trolling and exploits screwing your game up you deserve a F*@ing MEDAL!
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That ruin nerf was a band-aid and the way it was implemented was a sham. They must have known that games were going to fly and that certain emblems were going to be affected.
I am not a killer if i have to follow a set of rules. Hamstringing me into doing ten hooks in a game is not going to make me way play this was.
10 hooks, 2 or 3 gens left and winning more than %90 of chases results in the game that counts as perfect and 32k. Good luck getting any of this to work in the current game and at red ranks. Might work on 4 randoms who dont run meta perks.
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Steam charts seem to reflect this, especially since the next chapter has been delayed.
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not to mention the toolbox changes they are going to bring in....faster gen repair speeds, 2.5 second sabotage time on hooks. not only will the killer get gen rushed even faster but they may have trouble hooking survivors depending on the rest of the team etc...good luck to anyone that wants their adept trophies now too.
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I have given up on adepts for killers. Not gonna happen. I am not going to torture myself anymore with this game, i dont play anymore, for the sake of some useless achieve.
This game was fun while it lasted and is in freefall now. At least for killers it is.
Why have i spent the last hour and a half here on teh forums for a game i dont have installed or play?
I have hope. That is all
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