The Amanda's Letter add-on for The Pig has been Kill Switched due to an issue with incorrect RBT count.
http://dbd.game/killswitch
Does anybody else find the ever-increasing amount of lore not interesting?
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort, devs. But the amount of lore being put into new characters, it hardly leaves anything to the imagination AND it's getting more and more tiring to read. I reckon it should be saved for the archives and then killers are left slightly more open ended upon release.
Do you guys agree or disagree? Genuinely curious on this one
(tl;dr, lore too long and explains too much, I want less upon release to make killers more open to interpretation)
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It depends. Some like deathslinger’s is amazing to me but then there’s trickster who I have no interest in
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Depends I think the only lore I truly hate is hags or the new nurse stuff, other than that I love the new lore even if it's small tidbits
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I like the lore.
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People care about the lore of... this game?
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I think what it's missing is the connection between other survivors & killers. I'm reading the lore like it's an anthology series, but even for short stories it doesn't really expand their personalities all too much. Dwight was known for being a nervous leader, but "did you know he cares about people" is what I really learned from his lore besides his additional background.
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Considering that it's almost entirely all written lore, and not displayed through other things like cinematics or even cosmetics and map features (because we haven't had new maps in a long time) yeah, I'd say there's a point where it gets to be too much, and we're about there now.
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I agree, but I think slinger's lore was pretty expansive for it's length. Trickster's feels like a run on sentence going nowhere.
Yeah. This exactly.
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Yeah.. of course some people care about it? Nothing wrong about that.
whats the point of asking this in such a (mild) provocative way? If you don’t care you don’t have to participate in the discussion...
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I'm just tired of Archive lore contradicting the orginal lore or ignoring it completely. This has happened a lot and it's annoying.
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Has it happened?
i only really noticed for Legion. And I haven’t looked at the lore of the new tome but Yui got a story from a different dimension or something where she is not the same I think?
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I've been playing this game for four years and never once have I cared to even look at the lore lol.
Does the killer look good? Does he have a good power? Other than that I don't really care tbh.
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I actually like all of the lore. My biggest problem is that lore entries are tied to these pain in the arse challenges that I just cannot be bothered to complete. Honestly I'd like to know more about Blight, Deathslinger and the lovecraftian stuff that's happening with the entity and the trials XD
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This game has lore?
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Yes. Every character has a background story. And the archives bring lore to the featured characters plus the observer..
how can you not notice this in-game?
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i barely read any of it, trickster in particular is just so flipping long. I looked at it on the PTB and scrolled down and lost any motivation I might've had to read it.
The only recent killer who's lore I have read was blights
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Yeah. When dbd first came out the lore EXISTED but was VAGUE, and that actually somehow made it more believable. Adding horror + belief actually granted the game a modicum of "scariness". Now I can read how many squares of TP each character uses per wipe, and reading all of it is a massive chore, which additionally removes all of the "unknowns" and removing unknowns is what kills horror.
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The thing is some lore is way too large and not especially interesting, especially talking about newer killers. Besides, I'm not interested at all in Archives lore just because I can't unlock half the entries. Not because I'm trash (which I am) but because I don't have that character/ I don't want to play them.
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Lisa's lore. Which completely ignores her orginal lore that made her sound cool and instead focused on her being friends with a ######### essentially.
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I don’t read the lore...BUT, I have found some Lore related videos on DbD and they make visiting the lore much more interesting then just reading it myself. Not sure if I’m just easily influenced by their enthusiasm in lore diving or how they sneak in their own lore theories/ideas, but some videos I’ve seen has made me appreciate some DbD lore.
Mostly I’d say I don’t care for the lore though, but I do have exceptions~
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Generally I like the new lore, I loved especially the Nurse's since it described her descent into madness. What I don't like much is characters bios which are too long, like Elodie's or the Twin's. The bio should be short and representing the character essence, not an essay on their childhood.
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It all depends
I like Dwight's lore because of how simple it is and how morally grey it is.
I don't like Nurse's lore because it's about how eugenics are good and how the nurse's killing spree was based around genetic superiority rather than misguided mercy killing.
I like Trapper's lore because it gives the character more depth.
I don't like Hag's lore because it doesn't matter in the context of her character
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They're a few paragraphs each and completely optional to read.
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THANK YOU. Hardly anybody is understanding why I'm against so much lore, it's not because it's too lengthy to read, it's because it kills the vibe. I like mystery to the horror. I liked the old stuff that left room for imagination and didn't tell a whole movie plot.
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I like it for the same reason you don't. "Leaving stuff to the imagination" is a sign of poor writing, IMO. It shows that the writer(s) didn't take the time to think about what they were writing and are just hoping the fans will fill in the gaps with their fan fiction.
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You guys read the lore?
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I honestly like that they put so much work into coming up with character backstories and so forth. Even the simple ones, like Meg (she was a jogger who disappeared, and whose body was never found) give interesting, sometimes creepy insight into who it is that you're playing.
I can understand the complaint that too much explanation ruins the mystique, I've definitely felt that about some things. But in the case of this game I guess you can always just not read it, not accept it as the "true" version of events. If I can do it with the Disney Star Wars trilogy, anyone can do it.
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I like the lore, But I hate how some of the Archive lore just changes the original lore completely.
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I've never cared much for the lore. I usually only read the killers' and I do it one time, just enough to remember the big ideas behind them. Trapper: family owned a mine. Wraith: worked at a junk yard. Plague: a cult leader. When asked on one of the surveys how much it matters to me, I really don't care.
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Although not official, as it's a concept I came up with over 3 years ago and not currently in the game, How do you feel about THIS lore:
It's a long Read, but if you only read the Backstory part... I'm eager to hear your reveiw.
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If I unlock the lore in the archives, I read it.
Same goes for character bios.
I never actively look for extra lore online, for me that would just spoil the effort I've put into gaining it by doing challenges already.
So in answer to your question, I like the lore I've read; but bear in mind, that I haven't read all of it yet.
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well.. of course many people do.. why are you asking?
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