This was the worst year for DBD change my mind

Its also the year that started to give us accessibility options (colorblind mode and upcoming struggle mechanic), which may have come late but it is still amazing that it is finally being addressed! And apparently they are it stopping to add other options.

Silent Hill and Blight chapters were pretty amazing too.

but yeah in comparison other years were probably better, doesn’t mean his year was that bad though.

In terms of content? Yes, definitely the worst.

The only good thing i can say about this year was the ds fix. That perk was broken for 4 years. Now its in a good place.

Everything else however.......yeah. Been pretty disappointing.

Year 4 wasn't an all - terrible year, besides ptb ghostface and breakable walls ( and deathslinger if you want )

• Silent Hill is so cool
• Blight is giga fun now that his camera has been fixed
• Bubba rework is pretty good
• DS/BT and hook struggle changes are all amazing
• For the most part I've liked the map reworks and animation changes
• Moris nerfed

Overall, this year has been great.

They made Hillbilly feel pretty bad with his changes, Ruin/Undying was miserable to play against for a while before they nerfed it, Twins chapter broke the game for a couple weeks, Autohaven rework made the maps worse imo, and Trickster released in such a poor state that it killed any kind of hype behind him. But otherwise, pretty good year in my book.

the thing is:

How does one define 'good content'

Cause if you look at here, twitter, etc the most vocal voices define 'good content' as anything that gives them an iWin button. Just look how survivors were wailing over the DS change, and killers over the BT change. All because the changes took away a way for them to feel superior without having any actual skill.

Look at whenever someone suggests how something can be done against tunneling, slugging and camping, and the same loud people come out of the woodwork to rage and rave and rant about how 'some killers are dependant on it' 'it's a legit tactic' 'the devs allow it' etc, despite knowing very well the frustration it brings does drive players away, thus causing the long Q times and all-over-the-place matchmaking.

Look at some people's utter unwillingness to learn new mechanics that aren't obvious, aka killer powers. instead survivors measure on whether or not a killer can be semi-successfully be looped and juked, if yes, the killer is 'fun' to go against, if not they're 'boring and should be removed'. Just look how some people say trickster is more fun to go against than deathslinger... And killers measure it solely in how easily can the powers be exploited to tunnel/camp/slug.

There's still an onslaught of utterly unrealistic demands, not wishes, for licensed chapters, completely ignoring the costs and pressure that would bring. We already got konami and soon capcom on the game's shoulders, do you REALLY want disney to plant it's nasty rear on the game just so you can have ALIEN? Trust me, you don't, people.

Also the general aversion against any new mechanics and modes. Because if you can easily win by looping/juking respectively tunneling/slugging/camping it's not a good thing.

And on the topic of cosmetics: one way to handle chapters from ch20 on for a while would be to have massive cosmetic packs for all original characters, but people hate that idea. they, somehow, WANT new killers, survivors and perks, yet they don't.

It's a bloody mess

So I guess having a major video game crossover, reworking all the old outdated "water color" maps, enabling crossplay, releasing on mobile platform, Blight, Twins, Trickster (which are all fun to play), a bunch of good balance changes, and four different rifts don't add up for much eh?

The year just started though.

This year is far from over? Bit early to sum it up.