What was your first impression of the game?

I loved it when I first started it and I still love it.

I'm a huge sucker for horror and DbD is like the Smash of horror. I find it soo cool when characters from different franchises are running along side each other.

The game has it's ups and downs but I still find it super fun.

I started to play DBD in late September or early October 2020 after learning about it on TikTok, and initially started out only as a baby Meg survivor for a good while. My first impressions were actual fear due to me not knowing about a lot of the mechanics, like I remember at first I didn't even know how to point or wave. I also didn't know about scratch marks, which probably helped a lot of killers find me. I also got to enjoy the old Autohaven, MacMillan, and Ormond...which part of me misses. It quickly became my favorite game and most played game.

And it remains so to this day!!

WHY are there so many unlockable characters? I've bought most of the DLCs but for around 70% less of their base price: they're way too expensive (I can see how a license costs 10€ but how do two characters cost 10€ in a game with more than 40 unlockable characters?).

I started playing about two weeks before Pyramid Head and Cheryl came out. I mostly played survivor and was pretty terrified and thought the game was pretty violent. Now, it’s violent in terms of murdering my sanity because it’s DBD.

My first ever match was when I was playing as Billy on Swamp back in March of 2018.

My first impression was that this was a fun scary slasher game; and that being able to play as the killer was just so gosh-dang cool.

Boy was I wrong.

I played only survivor for quite a long time. I didn't fully understand the perks and the sprint burst. I was pretty annoyed at the beginning. Was quite scared and almost never went for unhooks.

I joined back im February 2018, when the Saw chapter was most recent, i suppose the licenses and cool original characters were what intrigued me to play the game.

My first impression of the game was that it was going to be scary and/or exciting. I started with Killer (Did horribly, Btw).

My impression of the game now is way different, I don't find the game as exciting anymore. That scary feeling I had when I first started playing this game has completely vanished.

When I got the game in 2016, I already had knowledge of it for 6 months. I knew about looping and stuff. I was 8 at that time, turned 9 a day later. I wasn't speaking English at all, I am not native. Gotta say that all I knew about looping, not wasting pallets and stuff... 0 effect. I was still so scared I couldn't even dare wait at a pallet. Soon enough I learnt how to look back, my English got better (thanks to school for grammar and games for vocabulary) and I also got good at killer.

Impressions? Fun and scary.

I personally think the same. The athmosphere was better before due to the fog. Yes, this is what you need to add back, the fog. It was the truly scary part of the game. Also, when the game launched, the hit animations and sounds looked and sounded far more realistic.

Before I got DBD I had heard here and there that it was OK but nothing amazing.

When I got it, I did the tutorial and was like... Ok this seems alright. Then I got instantly sucked into a Kill your Friends... and... my reaction was essentially "Wait, there's perks and items and you can put together different builds? How did I not know this? This is gonna be great! OH GOD WHY ARE THERE SO MANY? Later this is going to be great but right now, OH GOD WHAT DO I PICK?" So... essentially a mix of excitement and being very very overwhelmed. I am happy to say the feeling of being overwhelmed has left completely.

Nope, I don't mind at all. I agree with GeneraIV, the older versions of the maps might have had less depth in graphics, but they had atmosphere. Macmillian and its blue tint as a unique feature coupled with everything else just FIT correctly. It all just fitted perfectly together. Now, we still have them, but they have lost their charm, I made a post about it but I mentioned that the maps feel so lifeless. Link to that here:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/244299/the-maps-feel-so-lifeless#latest

Just look at the picture GeneralV posted, compare that image of the crotus penn asylum to the current one. The original is gorgeous, a beautiful place to be murdered at lol. But when you look at the new one, it does objectively look better in terms of graphics, but at the same time it somehow lacks detail (it's hard to explain).

The fog looks weird now as well, the moonlight cannot be changed anymore (I loved using the offerings that messed with it), and it looks cheesy.

What do I think the main problems are? Lack of color, lack of ambience, improper lighting, lack of vegetation, and lack of weather. All the trees look the same, all the grass is a little funky, and the. Look at current autohaven for example, it has the structures done good for the most part, but at the same time they seem out of place somehow because everything else is bland. There isn't really any wind blowing, the little vegetation it has just stays frozen, the clouds in the sky are just there and don't really move, and the lighting just doesn't suit it as it used to since it changed.

I personally think that it is mainly the structures are a big reason everything looks off. The buildings got some changes and do look better, but it's like the main structures (not tiles) of the map got a big upgrade and everything else got shafted.

And I don't mean to come off as rude or having super high expectations of BHVR, but I just miss the old feeling of the maps and would like them back. I also don't mean to sound like a know-it-all either. I mean this is just my opinion and I am not an artist, just someone who enjoys it (this game), I don't know what should and shouldn't be added to the graphics of the game.

So to summarize, the old maps were ALIVE, as they should be considering the super basic lore of the game. The entity creates a real (map) that is literally the exact same as the normal world, your home, but it isn't. The new maps, while they aren't necessarily bad, seem to have failed to give us that feeling. Not to mention it is hard to even enjoy the new graphics with poor optimization, which again thanks for looking into Mandy to see if there is any news on optimization.

So yeah, the old maps fit all together, they all were balanced in terms of everything said above, they had their own little details here and there. The new maps.. not really, they feel almost fake.

Well said, my friend, well said. And I agree completely.

Whenever I think about the old game, one thing that comes into my mind is that the ambient was dark, but buildings were generating light. This actually caused an interesting effect, because the darkness, combined with the fog, caused a horror feel. However, contrary to new Autoheaven, you could still see your surroundings due to the builidngs being in contrast with the general lighting. Also, the moon paid a very important role. It shined very bright and you could see it from anywhere. Nowdays, without fog, the horror aspect is ruined. This is due to the fact that fog obstructed your vision, and this sure helps. It is way creepier when you can't see past a certain point, rather than not seeing anything (*caugh* Autoheaven *caugh*)