How do you feel about dbd as whole right now ?

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It's amazing. Humiliation is what fuels DBD. It's a very negative game. If you aren't playing with friends, I question why bother?

I adore this game and I had been having a ton of fun maining Pyramid head. Now in saying that, the game is feeling rather stale. More and more matches are becoming frustrating instead of fun and I feel my skill is deteriorating rather then remaining stagnant or growing. I feel like it's way harder to 4k with ol' pp head this week then it did last week and Pyramid head is starting to feel rather stale after playing him almost exclusively the past two months. I've tried playing my old mains though (Trapper, demo and doc) but they just seem so much weaker and less rewarding to play that I find myself just returning to Pyramid head. When I play Survivor it's just camping killer after camping killer. I think I need a break from the game as I usually come back to it with a clear head with a few month break but I just can't because I'm essentially addicted to this game. Most of my days are spent playing DBD or thinking about DBD when I can't play it. Anyhow, my vent is finished. Now go on and have a lovely day you lovely people.

I'm not real happy with it. My play time has dropped off significantly since crossplay was introduced. The shadow nerf to rift progress through challenges as pretty demoralizing for me as well.

In total I'm totally fine with the game. It has it's flaws which are constantly worked on. My only problem I noticed recently is roughly half of the community. At least in game. Which turned into a big whining symphony most of the time. It's either unnecessary toxic crap which tries to make the game experience horrible on purpose or the "genrush" or "tunnel" etc accusations that are totally pointless. Just as examlpes.

A plain "gg" after the game, or not daring to think about good ol' "you got me there" / "I was like OOF" chat has become ultra rare. I'm already happy when a BS tunnel claim gets countered by his own teammate when I play killer or when I defend the killer against BS accusations returns a thx or something...

I'm frustrated right now. Frustrated by how he current patch didn't get delayed despite the huge number of bugs and general problems introduced with it. DbD is a game I want to like, and there are nights where it's genuinely enjoyable. But right now playing it is just one big bundle of "yeah, that's bugged isn't it?" and that's not what I want to be feeling when I play. it's made more frustrating when the response we got is "here's a few BP as an apology, but don't forget about our new paid skins coming out!" It just feels...hollow, really. It's just hard to muster the will to potentially have a few frustrating games to warm up and get to the good ones when I know the good could get stopped up at pretty much any time with one of the over a hundred bugs this patch introduced (according to the threads here.) It's just not a good feeling, especially when the new chapter means I want to regain my 100% achievement completion. Mixed brain messages galore.

You get less progress for completing all the challenges. It used to be where if you completed all the challenges and played a reasonable amount then you could easily complete the entire rift. Without any warning or notification they changed it so that by the time you complete all the challenges and played a reasonable amount, you'd still be about 10-20 rewards short. That is a massive difference in grind time required to complete the rift. That is essentially an extra 100-200 games required to play to get the same reward.

Now don't get me wrong here. I don't think the rift pass is a bad deal. I bought one rift pass and played through 3 rifts with it amassing an impressive amount of cosmetics. Since you earn the auric cells back you could just keep completing battle passes with one investment. I get that it doesn't make them too much money if the rift is too easy to complete. But it really took the wind out of my sails to keep playing the game. I would have preferred if they made it so you could only earn back 500 auric cells but made the rift easy to complete so players would need to invest 5 real dollars to do a new rift. They would make more money and I would feel like my time playing was worth the reward. Instead they moved the goal post mid race which doesn't sit right with me.

I love it. I'm still having a blast with this game, even as solo survivor. It's honestly rare that I run into issues that are commonly complained about in the forums (camping, tunneling, dying on first hook, etc...). On the killer side of things, I see far less toxicity than I used to from survivors and can appreciate being outplayed. There are bugs, and I have faith that they'll be resolved. For now I'll just continue to enjoy this game as I have been for a long time now

Unfortunately yes, and I play both killer and survivor. There is a very, very obvious imbalance in gameplay that isn't being addressed and HASN'T been addressed. Many are frustrated, but we can only hope it starts heading in a better direction.

I'm kind of in a 'tired of it' phase right now.

Don't get me wrong, still one of my favorite games, the new Ormond is visually amazing, and I had a blast with the new Killer; but just the vast amount of new bugs, combined with the bugs that specifically [BAD WORD] with Huntress, Legion, and Wraith - my three favorite Killers, has killed my excitement.

If I get on DBD again this year, it'll be to try and complete the Rift by playing Survivor with a friend - she seems to still be having fun with DBD - but if I don't finish the Rift I won't stress it.

I mean, 90% of the charms are as boring as they are useless and, IMO, every outfit but Ace's and Nea's suck (and I already have better outfits for both of them). Not much incentive to try and go out of my way to grind Rift tiers.

I might play DBD again later if/when I get into a 'DBD sounds fun' phase again, but I'm not lacking other things to do with my time.

I have what I call a love hate hate relationship with this game. Been playing for like two and a half years, around 1400hrs or thereabouts. play both sides but less and less killer as the performance issues mount. Because I play on an Xbox1x the bias from that point of view will necessarily color all that follows.

Concept: Horror game, 1vs4, admittedly hard to pick up as a new player, but two roles to play, many killers from popular slasher movies and such, all with unique powers and counterplay. Most excellent premise. Vast possibilities.

Optimization and performance: 60 frames minimum guaranteed. Ever going to happen? Been almost 2 years. Frame drops whenever any status effect is applied (Exposed, Sloppy, Lithe, Bloodlust, Myers teiring up, etc). Frame drops on the indoor maps, especially Lery's. Frame drops when a gen pops nearby, chests are searched, going into struggle, a rat farts anywhere on Lery's, etc.

Latency: Before Blithe came out ping 40-70ms, then most Xbox1x's got the insta-overheat issue lasting for a week. Next patch hotfixes the overheating but ping is now 140-160ms ever since, with no change in rig.

Connectivity: I am aware of the multiple stops between my router and the lovely ded servers, but several brutal errors/hiccups still occur. Most common is "No Internet Connection" despite not interrupting Streaming or party chats, or like drifting out of team lobbies while still appearing in them & squashing matchmaking, and just last week Error 401 Player Level Update errors. No other game lags you right out of matches quite like DBD, and toss in the random crashes we all get for good measure.

Level playing field & Crossplay: It is hard to feel you're in a fair right in either role, but especially as a console killer, when performance issues are aggravated by things like Sound card this, Video settings that, Filters this other thing, and numerous other options legit or otherwise that all console are locked out of. It is my biggest gripe with Crossplay along with the performance issues, and I doubt I'm alone in that.

Notice all of this doesn't include concerns with perceived perk abuse, physical map designs, the growing bug colonies, game balancing, etc. That's because all of the above lists hinder the gameplay so much they must be addressed before the rest of the problems imo. The Xbox's and PlayStations are capable of running more demanding games than this one, especially the 1x and PS4pro, but have such a hard time digesting DBD. Just DBD.

For various reasons I and many others are going continue to play this game on an Xbox1 for the foreseeable future. Perhaps the game shouldn't have been ported to console, but it was. Perhaps the devs shouldn't have committed to the 60 frames pledge, but they did. Just get a PC doesn't hold up against that, and neither does "git gud". All I want is justice for my platform and not to feel very much forgotten & left behind.

I'm still having fun.

Things can always be better, and i too find this patch quite a trainwreck, but it'll take more than this to turn me off.

Holy crap you're right. When I finish a match i don't think "hell yeh" I think "thank god that's over"

I love the game, but the one thing I dislike is the toxicity. And by that I don't mean tunneling or camping. Not even flashlighting killers to make them mad. What I mean by toxicity is the people who take this game so seriously that they want everyone to play how they want them to play. The people who treat this game like life or death and cuss people out in the after game chat because they didn't play the game to that specific person's expectations. I think it's stupid, and I feel like there are too many people who take this game too far with that type of stuff. Overall, it should be a casual fun game, and I love the friendly people that I do meet in my games!