Do people like looping as gameplay?

I think we all wish chases were a little more interactive, but beyond Pallets and vaults, theres not much we can do. And BHVR have spent 4 years doing nothing to add more to chases. I'd love to see more interactivity with killers and maps. For example, Hawkins. We all know the doors either open when a Gen completes, or stay sealed, but what if both survivors and killers could activate buttons within a room to seal a door, and open another in the area. Essentially, you'd create a new pathway for yourself, and slow the other person down. Just simple little interactions like this would spice up chases across all of the maps. And it wouldn't have to be limited to doors. It could be anything.

I mean what do you want them to do? What can they do to make chases more interactive for both sides of the field without seriously nerfing the Killer's damage to survivors or increasing survivor's health?

It's hard to find something good that will stick and be fun to do over and over again without becoming tedious, it's much harder to program and implement such ideas to the game.

There are proposed ideas outside of chases that would potentially make the game more fun, but since no one is able to test those concepts no one can know for sure, it's all just speculation.

Looping is fun when it’s not “run 3 times around a low wall safe pallet and then drop it”, or “drop unsafe pallet and hold W”. If there’s some kind of prediction and interaction it’s a lot of fun, in fact it’s the only thing in the game worth playing for and why DBD has lasted as long as it has in my opinion.

I find it dull as both sides. It may be more inconsistent to do non-looping strats, but win or lose it's genuinely more fun than running in a circle.

I find it extremely dull and it's one of the reasons why I avoid playing killer.

I think they have merit, but it's hard to tell for sure, y'know? I've seen Hunt gameplay and it has similar features, but they don't feel all that great.

I mean, devs said numerous times in streams that want to praise stealth play over loops, whlch is understandable but with the countless amount of aura reading perks/addons, and now NVIDIA filters who allows you to see up to the other side of the map like a picnic area and supposed dark areas are now brighter than snow in noon, I heavily doubt we ever move from that endless loop gameplay.

The problem is that stealth gameplay is much more frustrating as killer than loops imo.

I rather get looped for 5 gens by neon Nea than playing against 4 Blendettes on Yamaoka and not finding a single soul while all gens get done.

This is just boring and frustrating. It often happens when 2 survivors are left in the game and both are waiting for each other to die so they can get hatch. So they just stealth around and without whispers you'll never ever find them. It happened 2 times to me, nobody did a gen, I couldn't find anyone, I checked lockers, basement, everything..and in the end I just tabbed out of the game, went afk and watched youtube videos.

Stealth gameplay is the worst.

I'd even wish they would implement something that let's the killer start endgame collapse after a certain time has passed.

That's really cool.

Looping is boring and brain dead af to me.

As a survivor there is no skill what so ever involved with looping simply because your feeding off of information and that's not skill imo

As a killer, dealing with looping is like a steak the slowly loses seasoning with each bite! Get looped by 1 survivor, down and hook them and it's on to the next survivor so they can do the same thing so that the next survivor can do the same thing!

@GoodLookinCookin

Thank you! Tbh when I thought of the idea, ultimately I only saw it working on the bigger structure loops/tiles.

I think there is something to be said that after a while looping does feel like you are running in circles, so in an effort to enhance the “looping experience” , having something like some kind of wall-crumbling mechanic to add to that intense-adrenaline-jump scare factor would be very cool.

@AVoiceOfReason

Thank you 😊

I like looping as Survivor but I hate looping as Killer.

Sometimes looping is needed to win, sometimes people only do it to troll the hell out of already losing Killers.

It is what it is, I stopped hoping for empathy of Survivors when I'm having a bad day, especially after yesterday when I facing countless red rank SWFs while trying to learn Deathslinger on Rank 16.

Just sucks that especially Survivors always have to rub it in that they won or that they're the "better" players and I say that as a Survivor main.

It depends, there is looping and looping. Mindless looping around one single pallet, dropping it and switching to the next loop is boring af. Looping done by chaining different tiles, windows and pallets is fun and engaging.

To me, looping is the worst and most boring part of the game. I usually dont disconnect, but i had games where i stop playing as killer if i got people that just run from one loop to another.

As survivor, i dont loop, instead i juke the killer and make him lose me, which to me is much more engaging.

Looping is effective in the game, because you can waste the killers time and he doesn´t just get so someone else, but i hate it. Its the reason i play less and less killer. (but i am a survivor main anyway, just play killer for the change of perspective).

on both survivor and killer? honestly it just feels cheap and goofy.

i mean the only time i'v ever seen "looping" in a horror movie was... scary movie... a spoof of scream. at least what i can remember i cant find the scene if someone wants to chip in please do im sure scream get run in circles around the table then stops to catch his breath while the girl continues screaming in circles

says alot when the best survival tactic in DbD is from a joke horror doesn't it?

give us less loops and more stealth in our horror focused game please, add doors to use like pallets but you can also hide bhind but killer can also call you out on said door by slamming it to hurt you if your behind it or hiding behind an open door.

give us us small crawl spaces we can hide in like a locker but lower to the floor so its harder to find for both survivor and killer.

give us windows we can close to slow down the killer or for the killer to close pre-chase so that the vault is denied unless they jump throw it and put themselves into the bleeding state if injured or injured state if healthy.

give us more damned interaction with the maps we play in, slow doen gens alittle, make the killer ACTUALLY SOMETHING TO FEAR!

less of this looping bull crap and more focus on not getting caught by the killer, make games last that little bit longer by slowing down gen speeds AND hook death speed (as in the sacrifice progress) so the killer has more reason to not camp because it'll take so damn long.