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Lengthen or change the struggle phase
I'm not sure how often this gets brought up, but I'm on Xbox and if the killer has a good chunk of lag or latency, the struggle phase can kill. It's not intentional, it's just the lag/latency can be so bad that it doesn't register your button pressing for a moment and assumed you stopped trying. Me and my friends have this happen to us fairly commonly.
I suggest either making the button tapping to require less presses per tick or whatever before it considers you giving up.
Or the new cages with Pyramid Head. They introduce a new way of dealing with the struggle phase. Though the lag/latency can affect skill checks, you can miss skill checks during the struggle phase and not immediately DIE. Therefore, you aren't punished for something entirely out of players control.
I know you guys don't want the player just doing nothing during the struggle phase and that's fine. It just really should be more lenient for situations like these, and unfortunately, they're unavoidable at times. You can't tell how laggy it'll be until you're IN the match, and you'll get punished for leaving and screw over your team... Though, they're usually in the same boat if the killer has the bad connection to the server.
Thanks for reading~ surely my friends and me aren't the only ones that randomly die because of this.
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Yeah see that's the issue with how bhvr solves a lot of problems, they don't fix them, they sell fixes as DLC.
Problems with mechanics? Add bandaid perks like Hangman's Trick and Mad Grit that are so niche they never get touched.
Game goes too fast and more stalling is needed? Well that's when Pig got a power that stalled the game in a separate way to gens, but it didn't fix the issue for EVERY OTHER killer.
People have been asking for skill checks to replace mindless key mashing for years? Well don't change that, something that would make so many people happy with literally no drawback, no, sell it as part of a killer's power. Because it's just as well the survivors get to choose to go against Pyramid Head to get the better struggle mechanic. Oh, wait, they don't.
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Because of my keyboard being broken I've had to use a macro for a few months now and honestly I'd rather just have someone mod the xbox to have one, or buy one of those controllers that has a macro built in (I've seen em before, long time ago.) and just use that, personally it's easier since the whole DBDL Team owes me 70 bucks for a new space-bar, It's gotten to the point I can't even type normally without problems arising, I've had to go back and add spaces and redo words in this post a total of (36 times) since I've written this, I've did the number for this post at the very end after I finished counting. it's stupid. really. I wish they never had this stupid feature in the first place because they're costing some of us extra goddamn money to play their stupid game.
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This might sound stupid but. Dont console players have dedicated servers? Because if they do the lag is on your connection to the server, the only benefit the killers get from lagging are hitting you. Since hit registration is (so far) only on their ends. I could be mistaken but thats how its been on pc ever since dedicated servers got enabled.
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We do, we just got it like a month or so ago but it does still do it. I don't know what it is for sure, but I just know the results. I know we don't have like 1GB of upload and download speeds or nothing but I don't think all of ours are that bad. I dunno.
I do know that every time I was the killer and I got bloodlust, there's a second of lag and there's also always a second of lag whenever someone spawn an item in the chest. Maybe it's just the inferiority of my Xbox x? I dunno.
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