Could this community go without attacking the devs...

I agree that the devs are trying pretty damn hard and the game has improved significantly than what it once was.

Take the Endgame Collapse for instance, an absolutely amazing change that came with almost no bugs and was overall very good for game health.

This is the standard we should be holding the devs to, however, in terms of quality. Because they've proven they can do it. They've proven they can be incredibly competent developers- I mean look at Freddy- however like we should celebrate their successes we should hold them accountable for their failures- example, Nurse.

The community does need to take a chill pill and at least try and focus on the positives (like buffed bubba :D) but I'm not going to blame the player for asylum's bullshit pallet spawns, or the deadzone of a map that is Shelter Woods.

What death threats?

I can absolutely agree that most of the time, the developers have absolutely the best intentions for the game, and generally speaking they do have a rough idea of how to best push the game forward and appease as many players within the overall community as much as possible. Unironically, I think they've done a "pretty good job so far"

However,

That being said, I don't think that completely absolves the devs of all wrongdoing. There are indeed times when they ######### up, and it's good that usually they learn from their mistakes however at the same time as being some of the smartest people when it comes to the game it can often feel they are the most detached and unsympathetic.

I always like to keep to the devs side and have faith, but when they warrant my criticism it is entirely justified (because in all honesty, it's rare that I criticize the devs at all). A perfect example is the recent change to auras, this was something absolutely nobody asked for, it wasn't a system or mechanic that necessarily needed an update, and yet the devs still felt the need to change it anyway. And somehow they managed to make it worse in all facets, from general quality to visibility, it was an all around disaster. Worst of all it completely alienated the Colorblind community who suffered from this change the most, where even people with perfect vision have trouble seeing auras, they were completely invisible to those who suffered from certain kinds of colorblindness like red-green colorblind. This undoubtedly is something that the community has every right and reason to be outraged by.

And it's not like this is the only example either, add-ons and more specifically Ultra Rares are consistently on a downward trend in quality and usefulness, and it's almost as if the devs have no idea what does and doesn't make a good add-on. The Lopro chains were a perfect example of this and it was frustrating how painstakingly obvious what a viable version of the add-on looked like. One where it only dealt a single state of damage after you cut through a pallet.

These are the decisions coming from the devs (which the community had NO impact on or say in) that really rustle my jimmies, and to be honest for the first time in a long time my faith in the devs was truly rattled this mid-chapter patch.

After seeing that they're working on buffing those very add-ons and fixing the issue regarding auras, my faith has been (if ever so briefly) restored. It's good to see that they're getting quicker at correcting the mistakes they do make and take action sooner rather than later. That improvement in the face of failure is something I can get behind wholeheartedly.

Depends on the killer, and it's not the fact that you only have one kind of attack. I personally can't find ANY enjoyment holding a chainsaw, camping or targeting one specific person just because they lucked out and spawned next to me but other people do.

I enjoy playing Pig to toy with survivors and really mess with their heads. Combination of turning my stealth on and off, occasional tactical slugging and fast Ambush attacks. Basically becoming a predator hunting prey. Y'know that killers are meant to be.

As i recall it was only a few survivor mains crying for billy nerf. The complaint was getting one shotted in dead zones. I never saw the issue, they deserved it. Billy's chase music is awful the saw overpowers the Terror music until until he is right on top of you. I used to love a match versus billy now I hate it. I used to love playing as billy, now i hate it. Awesome change, needed and deserved. the aura rework is awful, absolutely awful. My gut feeling is that there was a problem on mobile and they "fixed" it across all platforms.

Behavior, as a studio, is incompetent and got lucky with one game being a massive hit because the concept was good. Even then the original game needed emergency fixes. They clearly dont test their game and aren't passionate about the game. They are like midas except instead of gold its feces. For the devs to stop getting trashed they need to bring the quality of their work up to about an 8. They are currently running at a 0.

There are things that need fixing.

The "BHVR" of the community is probably the biggest thing. I honestly don't know how some of the big names that keep getting mentioned, quoted, posted, and used as legitimate authority here got their fame, as they are some of the biggest proponents of negativity in this game. Their reach and attitude creates a lot of mimics who spout their rhetoric as if it were the truth, when it's honestly a mix of both, but we(the community at large) have mostly decided that if BHVR doesn't fix their problems first we shouldn't be held responsible for being garbage human beings to one another.

And I'm not saying they shouldn't be negative, but the way they espouse their critique doesn't actually do anything constructive, it just creates a mob of fans who view every highlighted match their streamer plays as the cold hard truth of the entire game.

The truth is there are problems with the game, but those problems don't excuse our rotten behavior. And unfortunately until that behavior changes, nothing BHVR does will matter, because there will always, always be something the negative Nancys and Steves think is broken and needs changing.

I am a big fan of the devs and will generally not resort to attacking them since it’s pretty clear they’re trying. Within . Sone things, like whatever tf is going on with auras, are inexcusable, and I fully support people being as aggressive as they need to be to get the problem sorted immediately. Please and thanks