What happened to the killer grab animation?
Since at least October, 75% of my grab animations are either canceled or interrupted somehow.
It used to be very consistent for me grabbing people off of gens or getting a window grab, now 75% of the time that I get the animation, it doesnt work.
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This happens to me too and I hate it.
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It is because of latency on dedicated servers. Really sucks
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I wouldnt mind if it wasnt so inconsistent but around the time crossplay was implemented it seems very unreliable.
Very unrewarding for stealth killers.
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I feel that
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I think the devs mentioned at some point that they are working on rebuilding the code for grabbing from the ground up for dedicated servers (same story with Dead Hard). They were designed with the old peer-to-peer system in mind (where killer was host) and haven't tended to perform correctly on dedicated servers.
Don't know how long Grabs 2.0 will take, especially with the pandemic going on and their lengthy DbD to-do list, but it should get better once the new code is eventually ready.
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Soon™
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Yeah, since Dedicated Srrvers came out, Killers have gotten the shaft for just about everything latency-wise. Hit Validation sometimes ######### up, too, because Survivors can trick it into thinking they dodged a hit by wiggling back and forth a lot as they run.
I'm hoping grabs get fixed soon, though, because unless Survivors get jumpscared by your grab attempt and panic, they WILL escape, and you WILL be confused long enough for them to get away with it.
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Yeah it's been an issue for months. I kinda found a way, or at least if feels like it, to get more grabs.
When going for a garb i mash the attack button, and i do mean mash it! Very light but very fast, and maybe it's coincidence but i grab more often.
But hey don't worry, to compensate they are removing bloodlust :D
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Survivors abuse of this bug -> spamming the keyboard keys will get you eventually freed from the grab!
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Dedicated servers fixing dbd 1 thing at the time.
I miss grabbing on gens, sadly since dedicated servers went live I haven't seen an actual gen grab.
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Yeah, there are some matches I'll get maybe half, others I'll go for ten grabs and maybe get one. They're so broken, and insult to injury (or lack thereof, I guess) that the survivor gets to run away unharmed while my hand is just stuck hovering in the air, as threatening as a shoulder pat.
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My grabs have become almost nonexistent unless I'm going stealth. What really sucks is after the grab animation begins, the survivor runs off and the grab gets canceled where you should at least get a basic hit. So you lose the grab and get no hit after an attack at point blank range...
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It's because the Killer is NOT the authority on if a grab lands or not (where as they ARE the authority on if a hit lands or not), it is either the server or the Survivor who dictates if you get the grab or not. This game was originally built for a P2P connection and grabs have not been updated since Dedicated Servers were added. I have heard that they are working on re-coding grabs from the ground up to work on servers but I highly doubt they get fixed anytime soon. Grabs work the same way high authority worked when they tested it, which is why they turned that feature off very quickly and have yet to turn it back on.
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It's so annoying, I'll go to grab a survivor off a vault but then it will stop and cancel it which favours the survivor so much
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