This may seem like a dumb or pointless question but, what do you think about the DBD community?

I'd love to be able to sugarcoat this for you. But I can't. The majority of the community is toxic due to the fact of how competitive this game is. Sure there is a few kind people around here and there. But it can be tough to tolerate if youre starting out. Best of luck

I used to post a lot on Steam GDs before I got permaed, out of all those thousands of posts, I wouldn't say it was all negative. But I put down the game itself with how annoying its inherently flawed mechanics are.

You can find some truly awesome People around, but you'll have to dig pretty deeply into it to find them.

Personally I like this community. It has a few crates of bad apples but at the end of the day most of us can come together and enjoy the game like one big happy dysfunctional family.

@Visionmaker said:

@robin said:
The only toxic part is the teabagging. I can handle taunting like spamming the flashlight or whatever but t bagging is so childish...it's what middleschoolers do in Halo and Cod.

I see you've never been facecamped for no reason but pallet looping eh

Oh I've been facecamped and it's frustrating but nothing gets me as bothered as a teabagger

The reddit is mostly salty killer mains, with a pinch of salty survivor mains complaining about how stupid, unfair, and pointless they think the game is. The game itself, however, is usually pretty nice. Sure there's toxic t-baggers, but not nearly as much as you read about online (People with negative experiences will report that but people who have positive ones generally won't). Not that my experience trumps everyone elses, just .. well this is asking for our experience so :P

In this community, at least for me, the good outweighs the bad. I've actually mad a TON of friends in the Dead by Daylight community, and that outweighs all the salt I'd get in games. I don't think that any in game play is particularly toxic, but the chats can be a bit overwhelming at times with trolls.

As a Killer main, I hate the community. Mostly filled with entitled, cocky, biased, whiny survivor main that talk out of their butt.

I like the DbD community. One way or another there is justice by warns/bans or even in-game justice. It's an entertaining, active one and this makes it kinda perfect.

the number of people who played the game for fun, that's the only problem very few
everyone plays taking the game very seriously but I get it now
it doesn't give you any pleasure when you play the game that way
RANK DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING FOR ME ANYMORE!!!

MemberBerry said:

Most survivors are toxic and biased, while most killers are unhappy, negative and dislike the game (all for a good reason). Sure, you can, here, tell me you're not toxic, but 80% of the survivors t-bag and flicker their flashlights, so what's the point of saying it?

Uncomfortable said:

It's not the most toxic community, but it's still pretty bad. Go to any dbd player's steam profile(including mine), and you'll see tons of people just commenting insulting stuff. I always keep my end game chat closed because I can honestly can't handle negative online interactions. I just can't stand having that negativity in my life. It almost feels like every time I open the end game chat it's always someone saying stuff like "reported for camping" "noob killer" "Skrub player needs crutch killer to win". It's even gotten to the point where one of the most "popular" players is toxic. Someone who bullies obviously new players, exploits, and gets his fans to mass report people is one of the biggest names in this community. I honestly don't even want to say his name, but I'm pretty sure you know who he is.

It's not all terrible obviously. I've met friendly and funny people through this community, but the competitive nature of the game can bring out the worst in people.

AlexAnarchy said:

DBD community summed up in two seconds,
Survivors - want easy wins every round and don't care how much they have to break the game to get it
Killers- Want the game too be an actual horror asymmetrical game where they can actually be feared and feel like killers instead of clowns making circles around pieces of wood.

I find that One toxic person is all it takes to make others around him super toxic as well. It's a constant domino effect that cause people to be very salty, troll a lot and be toxic as a result.
I remember first playing the game in mid 2016 that there were a lot of complaints about broken things in the game, and I didn't care nor did a lot of my friends. The game was very brand new and you just had to learn to adapt.

Comparing the community then to now, the community is more toxic now. I've been a victim of becoming toxic (I also am to blame for letting it happen) because I had a killer who face camped/tunneled me (because the game before that he played, he was pallet looped/flashlighted/body blocked) or survivors who don't unhook me safely/do gens/bodyblock the killer hits and whether or not it was the survivors/killers fault for that or their own fault cause their skill is low, this is a result. And then my next game I play I either end up trolling the next killer or taking it out on the survivors by not helping.

Ultimately I try my best to not be toxic or troll excessively, and to constantly be prepared to adapt. That's all you can do. There's always going to be something broken or unfair as long as new content is being added (And I think we all like new content)

The thing I believe now that is causing the most toxicity is the Emblem system for BOTH killers and survivors. That's another conversation for another thread. Changes need to be made, a lot of them and I don't see toxicity going away(or decreasing) anytime soon until they change this.