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Does anyone else have extreme apathy towards the game right now?
I used to play every killer each day. Hours of playing.
Now I get one match and I am already over it, and I go play monster hunter or outriders. The bugs, crashing, running like trash on my high end system, stuttering with every new effect / gen pop. Toxic survivors, first new map in what, 6+ months is disabled in an hour.
Its actually kind of embarrassing. It feels like the game is held together by ducktape, and its getting worse and worse with each update.
I was so excited for this chapter too.
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Well killer takes very little skill to get good at. There is no grind or learning curve, so I got bored with it as well. Good post.
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oh thank god, im crashing like crazy on console as well. Are the crashes part of the performance issues they are fixing?
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I used to play a lot too, i still love the game the bugs don't bother me so much bc I rarely encounter one. What makes me stop is usually is campers, tunneled and bad teammates ( I play mostly soloq) genting the same maps in a row or only going to McMillan, autohaven and cold wind, I despise these maps.
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Killer does take skill to learn and master.
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if I'm being honest not really I actually took a 6 month break before returning about a month ago so I'm still enjoying the game
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Yeah I'm in your boat. I have almost 2k hours and the past few chapters have been massive disappointments. The amount of bugs introduced is just staggering and they take weeks to fix only for more bugs to come later.
Solo queue is hot garbage most of the time. For me it's a meme at this point. Tunneling and camping is pretty rampant but ultimately my deaths usually result from my team mates making incredibly dumb mistakes over and over.
As killer, my games are either a stomp of potatoes or a sweaty gen rush match. I do not enjoy either of these and there doesn't seem to be any games in between.
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I dont play alot of killer, because im bad at killer. I get to purple rank and them im just trying to do challenges.
I play a lot of survivor which is super casual tbh. Hmu on monster hunter sometime, I love that game.
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I played yesterday first time after few days break. I noticed one weird thing. At evening time killer queues was usually instant. But yesterday it took several minutes to find lobby as killer. For a 1,5 hours I only played 3 games. Just comlete my dailies.
Survivor queue took less than a minute. Looks like there is lack of survivors even at night time.
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This game has been one crazy letdown after another for months now.
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There is no killer that is easier to play than survivor is. Get a grip
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Game? No
Devs? Yes
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Yep, I'll play 2 or 3 games then I'm just done and no longer want to play that day, maybe even for the whole week. I watch streams more than play the game itself. It's a lot more enjoyable than actually playing.
The constant atrocious bugs each patch (some carrying over to the next patches, some being in the game for over a year...), the wild imbalance, the awful maps, the grind that never stops... it's embarrassing.
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I completely agree with you guys.
Like if I used to get teabagged [ a word I can't say because of a forced censor in a game where murder is the goal] I would go after them and try to kill them.
Now I just think eh whatever.
At its core the games great but the lack of communication from the devs yet constant new cosmetics makes it feel silly. Even a new engine like the frostbite engine wouldn't fix this.
I think the game needs a competitor. They have a monopoly on this right now.
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Same. It looks like ######### on PS5 after the patch. I really don't have any faith they will put effort into making it look as good as the XBox Series X version again any time soon.
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It will be like this all the time once MMR is fully introduced.
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I really need to play and grind BP to finish Jill, but after 3 or max 5 games a day I am done with the game and don't want to play it anymore
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Haha i understand what you mean. For me and my friends its the only game we can play 5 hours in a row. Every other game gets boring after a while. Even with all the bugs.😅
Oh man i just realized we are machoist.
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Depends on the killer.
I started playing the Plague recently and most survivors had no idea when and where to cleanse, etc.
As the killer, I only needed to learn how she played.
Survivors need to learn 24 killers and their perks/powers while killers need to only learn the basic core mechanics of survivors.
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Been feeling apathy for months now. The last thing that got me excited was Hex: Undying because it actually shook up the meta.
Every update since the Blight chapter has been quite underwhelming for me.
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I mean im excited to play as some of my favorite video game series characters,but the dev's really need to shape up.The game has been fun. This patch just had alot of frame drops this round it's never this bad, other than that that's my only issue, I think some people may be laying the hate on a little thick but I, get you want to play the game.The new hotfix helped with alot of those issues tho at least on my end ,still frame drops when people DH or Nemesis uses his power every other chase or so
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You are a broken record
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I feel like this game is frozen right now
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I know how it is. I absolutely love what this game once was, but despise what it currently is.
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I used to play killer and survivor rotation pretty much every day. Nowadays i only play a couple of survivor matches every now and then and that's about it.
The game really went downhill in terms of fun since the Billy nerf for me.
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I felt this on a spiritual level, except mine would be 2018 instead of 2017.
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Held by ducktape? We aren't even that lucky, it's held together by Mold.
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No, I have no apathy toward the game. I am annoyed at all the pathetic losers disconnecting and abusing the technical problems of others to get away with it. Them I have a problem with. The game is still just the game.
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I used to play the game a lot, But now not so much. I usually play the game on console, But had to switch over to playing on my PC after the amount of crashes and frame rate issues. Even then, I'll play 2-4 games and then I'll be done for the rest of the week. I love the game, but I'm not really happy with the state of it right now. It doesn't even feel fun anymore.
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Towards the game itself ? Not really, getting used to the game having...issues for years now and i doubt it's going to change anytime soon in any drastic way...well i guess it is apathy, my bad
I'm mostly feeling apathy towards people that go out of their way to make the game a terrible experience for others tho
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Yeah I had to take a week long break and when I came back I just had two games in a row where I just wasn't feelin it then I tried playing killer and well I had to basically force myself to do it. Everyones so toxic now a days :/
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Yeah I was really into it before the update. But I'm on PS4 and it became technically unplayable (and I guess they're trying to fix that). I went fronm Rank 3 to Rank 9 when Nemesis came out (Rank reset + being constantly booted from the game made me lose pips). Then they took away the d/c penalty and in Solo survivor that means people d/c all the time
The camping and blatant tunneling is ridiculous anymore. I'm just so over it. With no d/c penalty, people who are being camped just disconnect and I kind of don't blame them. They'll lose a pip anyways, so why stare into Nemesis's face for 2 minutes to lose a Rank when you can exit immediately?
I logged in to play yesterday for the first time in almost 2 weeks, got about 3 matches. I just didn't care anymore. What's the point?
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You're gonna get even less fun, if what you resort to is Outriders.
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Churning out new chapters and characters will help turn things around.
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I’ve been playing a lot less lately. I really haven’t noticed an issue with bugs (probably because I don’t play that much and I don’t a wide variety of killers), but it’s more been me getting really tired and frustrated with the grind. It’s gotten to the point where you need countless hours to get the perks you want on different killers/survivors. Really de-motivating for me
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you are NOT alone.
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Pretty much. I used to focus a lot of my gaming free time on DBD (so usually at least a hour or two at night with a good chunk of the weekend devoted to the game).
Now I usually hop on for a game or two (let the Daily decide what I want to do) and just that.
Now part of this is my own real life issues (chronic headaches that make it hard to stay focused anymore) but part of that is what I've said on multiple threads; I curb stomp potatoes who seem to barely understand the game even though they are also red ranked or Gods Among Survivors who would make even the best of the best of the best look silly. I know it might shock some Survivor Mains but just curb stomping the hell out of toddlers who somehow all managed to boot up the game isn't all that much fun either (I suppose it's better than the bully squads but not by much).
I don't know if this is just the natural progression of a game like this or a Me problem or what it is but regardless, my desire to play has plummeted. I bought the RE Chapter right away hoping that might be a spark but that's been it's own flustercuck of a release so...
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I'm suffering some pretty bad burnout right now thanks to to the... Less than amazing chapter releases we've had recently- everything since Silent Hill has been a buggy broken mess and everything since Oni has made me hate playing survivor more and more, especially solo. I can only play so much killer before I start to hate it all, and because no new perks have been particularly amazing I have literally had no new content in over a year.
I've played my fair share of Nemesis but his framerate drops even on PC make it impossible without extreme frustration for more than a couple games. I just can't bring myself to play the game unless someone asks me rn.
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I used to play from time to time but now I literally can't because of all the crazy freezing and lagging going on and it makes me sad. So yeah I feel kinda apathetic
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I wonder if they can see people's average playtimes dropping like crazy. I doubt they'd care tho.
Although I'm much less likely to spend money now and I've spent probably over 500 on this.
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I had this stuttering on a 5900x,980 pro ssd, 32gb of ram and a 3090. Sold my 3090 got a 6900xt and still get the same issues the consoles are getting. It's a mess.
Bf will come out with 128 players and not run this bad. Dbd can't handle 5.
Cote saying the game is in a great state right now is baffling. I guess the ign 9 went to their heads
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Oh absolutely. Did you have fun? No
Did you have fun? No
Do you expect to have fun? No
Do you normally have fun? No
I get in and I'm like... I could keep playing... Or I could cut my wrists. They seem equally appealing right now. But I'm a cheevo hunter. Whatever it takes to get my dopamine fix, y'know?
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I'm forcing myself to grind out the rest of the rift, but it definitely feels like video game chores and not fun. I was really excited for All-Kill, but I find the Trickster pretty much impossible to play, so the excitement wore off quickly.
I've been gravitating to games that have a faster reward cycle, where I feel like I'm making progress toward unlocking things every time I play. In DBD, it's possible to play a whole match and feel like it was a waste of time because it barely moves the needle.
My normal process is to drop $10 in the rift, get it back, and then buy a new skin from the store. But, this time, I feel like I'd rather hang onto the auric cells and wait to see what happens because I'm scared to invest more money.
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i've kinda just switched games for the moment cause of the sweaty killers and bad teammates that seemed truly exceptionally high after the update. Whole lot more fun on other games so far, maybe I will go back after the rank reset so I'm not matched with sweatlords.
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Yes. Truly. I'm passionate about the idea of the game and this game is not too bad but I guess like others I'm starting to lose it and will leave the game soon. There is nothing worth investing in this game and I will die an old man till the devs make it worthwhile. At this point I think I'm just not admitting to myself that this game is not going places. If you look at the steam charts the game is on a floating point which suggests that players just come and go and therefore this game is nothing more than a party game for most.
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A little, Nemesis was the first killer since ph that got me excited, the chapter would have been perfect if it wasn't the lag
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Apathy isn't the word I'd use
The RE chapter is great, I love basically all of it
Apart from the sheer optimisation neglect, the fact that we finally got a new map only for it to be instanly turned off and an upcoming anniversary event which is quite literally a copy/paste job.
I'd say mild disappointment is the right term to describe it
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Would love to see your gameplay.
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I would say at this point 100% of the long time (3+ years) playerbase has had extreme apathy with this game since they started.
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Yeah I'm on the verge of going on another several month long hiatus because everything about this game is terrible right now.
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I love this game very much, I'm just so annoyed at the constant frame drops and the other bugs that make this game almost unplayable. And the grind is so exhausting.
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