The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

Game optimisation, nothing lag related at least FPS wise, their servers definetly sucks ass tho with how often you can have the game deny you a grab or have hits not connecting or connecting when they shouldnt.

Yea Legion in particular is punishing as it freezes when you go to hit and if you miss you totally lose the power and get stunned :')

Optimisation is about making sure your code/engine works efficiently with varying types of hardware mainly cpu's and graphic cards. Bad optimisation can be the reason why an old looking game runs like ass on a $2000 gaming PC but runs okay on a $300 simply because the old cpu runs the game better by sheer random luck.

On a PC optimisation can be a bigger issue because there are so many different kinds of hardware you need to test your engine on and so many combinations. There is much less of an excuse on consoles because you know it's the same hardware across the board hence why consoles can always punch up for their lesser specs when it comes to game performance because companies are able to stretch the hardware because it's specifically made to utilize it.

Edit: as people are discussing the pain of playing killer on console I made a thread earlier with my experience https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/261136/heads-up-to-the-killers-on-console

I saulte your efforts sir ! You are a hero I hope I can keep touch with you via your twitch hate to loose another good friend 🐷💕

This is such a bummer to see. It sucks to see you go, really sucks to lose such a strong fighter for console. As long as we continue to have issues I'll keep the post going because it should stay alive for as long as they continue to avoid optimization.

Unfortunately Pulsar and I saw this coming. If the planned auto ban feature didn't get him soon enough, the forums would. But even though he has been forced to retire, hopefully this post can keep on going. With thousands of views and over 60 pages, we can't let it die. Performance keeps regressing with every new chapter that is released.

While Pulsar may be gone for the moment, it is important now more than ever that we as a community stress the importance of how this is a universal issue that breaks gameplay. While I am not Pulsar, nor will I ever be him, I hope to become more active in the forums, especially relating to these optimization issues. As a real life friend of Pulsar I feel obligated to continue posting about these ongoing problems that lie before us. He was obviously very passionate about this game. While I may have less than 20 posts, I have been playing dbd for several years now and hope to express my interest for this game through the forums. I have always left the posting to Pulsar as he was more vocal when it came to highlighting issues we both shared. Now that he is gone, at least for now, I hope to give the forums a more heartfelt try.

Because we no longer have a Pulsar, its important to make it clear that console dbd is essentially unplayable. When this forum post inevitably gets taken down, I have faith that more posts of this same kind will pop up. As for the time being, I'll keep doing my part and posting a minimum of three videos highlighting freezing and fps drops every couple days. What Pulsar started cannot be understated. He brought many console fans that suffered from the same issues together in the same place. While his presence in the forums will be missed, we must press on and continue the fight for optimization.

R.I.P Pulsar

Thank you for continuing to post videos of your experience with the game. It's definitely hard for others to argue our experience when visual proof is shown.

Yeah, those are pretty horrible. Not sure how people can make posts saying Xbox 1 and PS4 are fine after seeing the multitude of clips with those exact issues. I get freezes like that on my PC as well. It actually seems worse since the 5.0.1 update, though I'm not sure they really did anything to fix it overall except for an adjustment to Nemesis, so I'm not sure why.

I have decided to not put any more money into this game until it runs good. I have not bought a dlc since Blight. I unlocked Twins, Trickster and their survivors with shards. If it's licensed, I will have to do without it. No more cosmetics. I buy the rift only with the auric cells I earn from it. I know a lot of people that have bringing up these concerns were excited about RE and bought it, but I wish they wouldn't have. The only way we will get them to make this top priority is to stop giving them money for a product that doesn't work well on systems they state it works for.

Goodness gracious those are pretty terrible. Painful to watch, had to have been worse to play through.

Before the RE chapter I wasn't thrown around from freezes like I am now. Also brought in more triggers, like before I wasn't getting them when killer would wind up/aim power and only certain killers when they would actually use their power on me. Before this chapter I wasn't getting a freeze when killer would use basic attack or I stepped in/out of their red stain. It's made the old triggers (sloppy, perk icons/status effects, entering night shroud, etc) freeze harder while adding in new triggers to make game a PowerPoint presentation from freezes.

After playing a couple games following the last update, I said, "Nope." And haven't played since. I'm on PS4 Pro, it was the first time I experienced such severe lag. I'm sorry to hear others have been struggling for much longer. I was playing dbd nearly everyday too... for years. I get the itch to play but knowing I'll be hitching every time I attack or get attacked turns me off completely.

That last line is perfect.

I have a feeling that if they don't fix the performance issues before the event starts that will be last straw for decent portion of the player base.