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Another dev update, and yet another lack of acknowledgement about poor console optimization.
Look, the changes are appreciated, the ones that matter anyway.
But this would have been a time to let us know you're listening to us console players. Yet again you give us silence for an issue you promised to resolve 2 years ago ( 3 years when winter 2021 rolls around. )
At every opportunity you've had to let us know you're at least working on it you've not said a damn word.
Sure, the extreme lag will be resolved at some point within the next month or so. At least I can only hope you'll resolve it that soon. But the overall console issues will still persist even after that's fixed.
At this point all I want is an acknowledgement that you are trying to fix what you promised to. But with how long y'all have been silent, just about all I can do at this point is hope.
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This comes down to BHVR's biggest problem.
Their extremely slow work pace. When it takes a game studio months, in most cases years, to fix issues that are plaguing the game, you have a serious problem. Unfortunately, the DbD doesn't have competition, so the devs have no need to actually push out quality work.
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Yeah, another one of their issues is an extreme lack of communication with their community.
Only time we ever hear from them is when almo comments on a random post.
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All it would take is one dev who touchs base with us on the forums just to let us know what's happening, sure that's over the top on small issues, but when things are this bad it does so much to help people be patient, they even rally to support you, history has shown this time and again.
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Slow work pace?
Honey, I think you have it backwards.
BHVR is working way too hard and way too quickly. They don't have time to do ######### like bugs in the game because they keep pumping out DLCs every 3 months. They're probably working on a new killer right this second during the actual anniversary event and the bugs.
They need to calm down and change their workflow so they have time to dedicate to non-content related issues. Like bugs and balance changes.
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Even rainbow six siege gets more dev communication than us, and they have a much more toxic community than us.
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As it stands their work schedule is gonna keep screwing them in the long run. Trading quantity for quality never leads to anything good.
And we have had declining quality in updates for a long while now.
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I would pay doublle for a DLC that is released in 9 months rather than 3, to be honest.
Because it's more likely to be more polished than a DLC that is released in crunchtime in 3 months alongside mid chapter updates.
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Not to mention that with every mid chapter comes only a handful of changes. Feels like wasted time when major updates come out with such a small amount of changes.
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I love everything that's happened in the last month.
Genuinely wish I could quit this game for another.
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Part of the crew, part of the ship.
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In my opinion I wouldn't expect the devs to work on consoles. They have made it obvious that they cater more to PC players. I could have swore console players outnumbered PC players but I could be wrong. I expect that they will never optimize for consoles. They will just give excuses or the same old "we are working on it". To me it seems they are purposely procrastinating. That is why like I said in previous posts that they need PTB on consoles as well since PC problems will be different from console problems.
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Altogether the consoles do indeed outnumber PCrs, and PlayStation was closing in on PC all by themselves. For that reason alone you'd figure consoles would move up in proiroty some.
I've seen it elsewhere in this forum the theory that the devs were coasting on Xbox1 and PS4 to get to the newer gen machines. But Covid and the components/availability issues combined to streach the lives of the proir gen ones and still is. Plus recent patches have dropped performance on those newer consoles as well.
They seem to have quite the predicament on their hands. Their largest playerbase is stuck on the older machines they cannot or will not properly support any more (something like 80-85%). We are all feeling the burn badly now, and are starting to organize and rise up some in a common voice. The performance drop on PC recently just made it all worse for them too.
All the tinder needs now is that spark to ignite, just like during the colorblind episode. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually Camcom at this point that lights it.
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It’s not up to bhvr if console gets bug fixes, it’s up to Microsoft and Sony. They force developers to have patches ready a long time in advance so they can approve them and after they are approved they can’t make any changes to said patch. If Microsoft and Sony don’t care about the bugs getting fixed they won’t get fixed since the patches won’t get approved. So blame those two ######### scum bag companies that legitimately only care about money instead of blaming bhvr for everything
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I agree. I would take it a step further and say the only reason console players have not left the game is because so far there is no other game like DBD with iconic slashers. I think you are right. It will take some company like Capcom to light that fire under their butts. I would hate to be BHVR if majority of their main base (console players) left. I understand that there are many issues and coding that go into this and trying to figure out what's what but any other game would have sunk already.
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I'm talking about overall poor console optimization as well. You'd know that if you read the entire post.
One could reasonably assume it would be the devs that are responsible for making the game run well on consoles.
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I dont think you understand how game development works. BHVR submits to those 2 but BHVR initiates the bug fixes, the other 2 just approve that it wont screw anything up. They would lose millions if they were to pick and choose what games got updated by their own accord. Its like saying my bank wont put money in my acct, not if your job doesnt submit the transfer of funds.
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I literally cannot play this game as much as I love it right now.
Before the Resident Evil chapter, my frames were perfectly fine (i'm on PS4).
The day of the chapter release, my screen will literally freeze in place while Surv's/Killers i'm playing against (more than likely on next gen consoles and/or PC) are benefitting from this handicap.
Please, please, PLEASE give us answers or reassurance. I don't deal with frame drops in any other game I play. I understand new content is important, but pretty soon I can see last gen console players giving up on playing this if we continue to be unheard and/or ignored
Edit: (especially with how scarce the supply is for PS5 demands and PC prices inflating).
PLEASE FOCUS ON WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS!
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