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So whens the mega thread gonna be answered
I'm just curious because it's now at 31 pages and lasted over a month we had an mod make a statement saying they will look into it but haven't responded since
If you've haven't seen the thread you can find it on the first or 2sd page called
(Rant) this game is getting harder to enjoy due to poor optimization
We are waiting for an answer and no we dont need a date it would be nice but not nessciary what we want to know is what actions are being taken to help the optimization.
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Isn't their silence enough of an answer? Console optimisation likely isn't coming. They're just too cowardly to admit it.
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Not giving an answer is also an answer, you know. Your best bet is to cause an uproar on twitter and get someone influential to speak on your behalf, this is how they got the colorblind options at least. A single person that has some semblance of publicity is more significant than hundreds of unhappy customers apparently.
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The same thing was said about MMR, yet here we are. Maybe they just don't have an update yet.
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Was there a huge mega thread of people demanding some form of MMR?
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BHVR does not care about consoles released 7 years ago. There is no incentive for them to care. To them, this is a you problem. I can't find a ps5 either. Best of luck.
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People complained about matchmaking all the time (just like they're currently doing with MMR). I don't know if there were truly any mega-threads about it, but it had so many separate small threads pop up that it effectively got the point across.
Players concerned with DbD's poor optimization have just been gradually banding together to share/vent their frustrations about it these days instead of creating lots of smaller individual posts. Makes us feel more like we're being heard, even if it's only by each other.
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There could have been, if the mods were to merge all the threads complaining about the matchmaking. The fact that there was a megathread on this subject is by virtue of the mods' actions, not as a result of the problem being more serious than matchmaking.
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It's just not fair because no one should have to purchase a 500 dollar new console to play a 5 year old game.
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Even if they respond with we dont have a plan yet but are willing to cooperate to make a plan that's still great amd acceptable to the majority
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They wont respond, simply because they are forbidden to respond to that issue.
And we all know why that is.
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Well we know that that's not a good answers anymore
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seems they care more about bringing new content in the game and not fixing all these bugs.
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I'm sure that there will be a console optimization, however I think that it'll most likely be next gen focused although I would love for them to give it to the last gen consoles as well.
They'll probably end up pulling a minecraft and discontinue updating the last gen version once the majority of players stick with the new consoles, hopefully not but that's how these things tend to go.
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After 2+ years since announcing their aim to get 60 FPS on all plattforms (early 2019) you're gonna expect SOME kind of update at this point.
Absolutely silly,that we have no info on their progress yet.
It's insulting to a large part of the community.
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I'd agree, except there have been ZERO improvements since it was announced they'd be working on it in March 2019.
The game has only gotten worse.
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Thanks.
I figured I'd chime in a bit.
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I dont think 60fps is possible on the switch tho.. Atlweast not if you dont want to make it look like a roblox game.
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I mean yeah,but PS4 and Xbox One should definetely be possible
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Fair point.
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I've given up hope. They are not optimizing console any time soon
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Even if it's not wouldn't you want consistent frames around at least 40
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The thing with that is you’d never get enough people to commit to such a task but boycotts are needed sometimes to get people to listen to their frustrations
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Which is why getting someone on Twitter to make a fuss is a better idea.
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that's what what I'm also concerned about, when they'll stop updating the game for last gen consoles. I feel like that could be soon ugh.
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I don’t know anyone on Twitter who can make a big enough stink that Bhvr would even care
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While this can sometimes be true (not about BHVR specifically, about any game developer) it's also not uncommon for companies, gaming and otherwise, to wait to release a statement until they feel that there's good reason to.
A specific date or specific details will be analyzed to death by fans, there will be more debate and demand for even more answers, and if for some reason things change in the meantime people will get all bent out of shape. If they say nothing, and choose instead to work on things until they themselves feel that it warrants a response, the fans will complain that they're lazy and don't care.
It's lose-lose. I saw this on the THQ WWE game forums for years, and I see the exact same thing here. Some developers provide a regularly updated diary of their progress, other developers choose to keep things private until they feel satisfied that it's time to provide more information.
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Someone did I won’t say his name but he complained about colorblind mode and the devs responded and said it’s coming in Chapter 19
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BHVR is known to have a very "hands off" approach to their community when it comes to certain issues.
Color blindness was one of those issues, until a certain dev ticked the color blind community off with his statements.
Optimization has proven to be one of those issues, with little to nothing being done about it for about 2 years now.
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But if someone does manage to get a large following of boycotting dbd and their future content that would be a huge revenue loss to the company so wouldn’t it be better to just give updates on a long and over due update
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unironically read the title as MAGA and i was so, so concerned.
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Thousands of unhappy customers
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One Checkmarky Boi
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They are watching it, to find an excuse to close it
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Hopefully they won’t. As long as discussion stays civil and there isn’t any name bashing
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If they do close it, I'll re-post all 50ish videos in a new thread.
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Here’s my guess as to what happened, and what the problem was.
I don’t think they ever intended to do intensive optimisation for PS4 or XBONE, beyond minor tweaks and bug fixes.
I think that every time they publicly said they were optimising for console, they specifically meant PS5 and Series X/S. And technically they could say that without it being a lie.
I think they were banking on a much greater transition of the PS4 and XBONE DBD player base to the new consoles, expecting only ones that wouldn’t would be those that can’t budget for one.
The problem they never saw coming (again, just my theories) was the extreme shortage of supply of the new consoles, leaving a great deal of DBD players having to still play on PS4 & XBONE, even though they’d willingly buy a new console in a heartbeat if they were available.
So they now have a conundrum where they banked on not needing to invest more time and finances into more intensive optimisation of the older consoles, because “why? so few DBD players will be playing on those consoles within 6 to 12 months.” only to now realise many of those players are now forced to play DBD in those older consoles for probably a much much longer period of time.
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This is from way before the new gen consoles were even a thing, they were specifically talking about PS4 and Xbox; even the Switch version didn’t release until later 2019 iirc.
If it wasn’t possible to achieve I can understand as it sounded impossible to achieve 60fps back then, but the silence on it is frustrating; I just want to know if it is still being worked towards and if not what went wrong.
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They specified Xbox One and PS4 though and said they'd get 60 FPS on them.
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