Devs please think about implementing a communication systems. It would help solo a lot.

Like pings? Like from apex.

This gen is #%, or im being chased. and all you do is middle click it

I mean more emotes than point/wave over would be nice

pings like others said would work too

personally I want to dance at survivors when Im waiting at the gates

killer emotes too like.... baton flip style toss the weapon and catch it for swag yknow something fun and stupid

Point to what you want.

Want them to go save, point at the hooked survivor, if a gen or anything else is on the way then come here and then walk away and point. Want to show the hatch? Come here, take to the hatch, then point. I dont think its hard to interpret these, i guess a wheel of pre-made messages could solve that or make it less of a hassle, but i feel like pointing and come here are almost enough, a sound notification would help when chasing a panicking injured survivor. Some people will not listen, so i dont think they'll listen to a pre-made message.

Cant be pinging/waypoints because theres a map addon for that

Yeah I like that I don't have any way to listen to my toxic teammates. It's bad enough they are willing to send me a message after the game to let me know I didn't do what they wanted or that they told the killer where I was after they died.

"P.s I don't mean in game voice chat"

There is literally have game lobby chat for that.

Not only that, but survivors are supposed to have ZERO communication at all. The fact that people are able to circumvent that is the anomaly, not the norm.

No I'm illiterate.

But to reiterate, I don't want any way to listen to my toxic teammates. It's not necessary and I don't want to hear them either spamming lines from their voice actors or any in-game communications. I was actually talking to a friend who doesn't play DBD. He doesn't like a lot of multiplayer games because of how toxic people can be. I told him DBD didn't have any communication between teammates in game, and it was one of the things I liked about it.

Was that more helpful?

You want proximity chat, which is awful and has been discussed to death for years on this forum, especially considering its something a competing game did and provided great evidence to why it would be an awful fit in DBD.

I was trying to give you the reasonable accomidation that you already have the ability to coordinate to a degree during the prep time that you have before a match, since survivors are NOT locked into their builds (or even characters) until the last few seconds of the countdown.

There have been countless discussions about why things like proximity chat are awful for the game. Even SWF being able to communicate messes with the balance in a way that, years later, the devs refuse to acknowledge is as bad as it is. They think OoO isn't broken because "the person with it usually dies."

Also, in case you want a mockup of how badly proximity chat can go, I never mind posting zimbabwe bubba:

"To give the survivors the ability to talk would massively help elevate the ambiguity and confusion between survivors. And this is very possible because each survivor would have different voice actors already. And it won't always be a benefit to survivors there could be a range in which thr killer can hear them communicating."

Unless you are talking about some kind of text to speech system or a voice command subwheel, you're describing proximity chat. And if you Do mean the former, again, you want to be able to convey information in a game that was designed around not being able to convey information. Half the design of solo queue survivor was supposed to be around whether to be altruistic or work on saving your own ass, that survivors were a shaky alliance against a common foe rather than some kind of best friends squad. Even balance aside, have you even played vs in games like L4D? survivors spamming voice commands was more common than zombies slain.

Also imagine yelling that people don't read your posts when you don't use the search feature to see the thousands of similar topics already created on the subject

@DoctorDarling

First off, not everyone is like that. I have met some nice randoms off of solo queue.

Second, as long as it is something you can turn off, I don’t see how this affects your gameplay. Regardless of how you feel about it.

IDK why this devs haven't just created an item, just like med-kits or toolboxes to communicate with other survivors, a radio, if u have it u can communicate with another one that posses it, otherwise u can't. It would be balanced and not utterly broken, since u have to gave up on bringing a med-kit or a tool box in order to use it.

He's talking about a ping system where you can use the pre-determined lines. Like in Apex, you can ping "Flatline here", "Body shield here, level one", "Shooting!", "I'm being shoot!". In Dead by Daylight, we could have some lines like "generator here", "something here", "Killer is with me", "I'm being chased", "med-kit here", "key here", "hatch here".

I approve this idea, we need better ways to communicate.

Can I be honest here? The way the game is going, I doubt they will implement something like this. The team behind DBD looks like a total mess recently.

@megdonalds

Lol what?

Reason it died was because no new content was released, post lawsuit. Content is what keeps the community growing, because even without that some of us were still playing here and there.

It’s not like the option being there affects YOU. You can turn it off.