Is this Anniversary Event Good or Terrible?

When the Resident Evil chapter released it caused the game to be unplayable for a lot of people.

For the event, people are playing like this is some sort of tournament. However all the other stuff like the 500k blood points, cakes, and blood shards per day is neat

The event is fine, the high occurrence of strong BP offerings is really the only good thing.

Crowns are a little boring but cosmetics are nice I guess.

I prefer events where they have offerings that give you extra points for getting hooks and completing generators, like the summer BBQ/

If they cominbed the two event types ie. using a cake lets you get bonus poiints from gens AND gives you more points, then that would be amazing.

Since the release of the chapter, the game has been a nightmare to play, frames drop every few minutes, and you can barely play killer without getting screwed over by lag spikes/fps drops.

Not only that, the event has awoken the worst in people on both sides, there can be 4 cakes and my teammates can be bullying the killer/gen-rushing or the killer can be tunneling (actively just chasing one person out of the match, not the loose version) and hard camping. End game tunneling/camping is fine I don't care, and I'm not expecting the killer to play nice, but it's a nightmare to play against.

All things considered, it is a really bad event. Useful if you wish to level up a character or two, but that is about it.

Events happening while its basically unplayable for a lot of people

nothing to counterbalance this fact like a longer event or a 2nd event for when major issues are "mostly" fixed

no tracker for community goals

Cakes massively down for killers from last year from up to 4+ cakes down to an average of 1.5 cakes per bloodweb and survivors still suffering with 0-1 even items per level 50 bloodweb

Its just last years event but with the shrine of secrets more active but the rest of the event is more just a shell of its former self since its the same thing but there are less event nodes in the bloodweb so its effectively a drained version of last years event

What I would like to see to "fix" the event before the event ends

Community trackers (at least updated on the hour it doesn't have to be 24/7 I just want to see the progress / progression)

Either extended event or 2nd event for when optimization issues are fixed

More event items per bloodweb I think each side should have 3 event nodes per bloodweb minimum so that killers can stack up on cakes and survivors have access to plenty of event items, not just 1ish item per bloodweb, its an event its not supposed to be a grind its supposed to be fun and a time of celebration not of stinginess

Nothing about this "event" was hyped or even interesting once you did learn what it was.

Free stuff is better than nothing, but I think the presentation is lacking and the event itself is also underwhelming.

I appreciate the extra iri shards, But this event feels kind of meh to me. It's basically the same event as last year and it gets kind of boring after a while.

I wouldn't say terrible but... mediocre and forgettable

I think it's not terrible, but it's not good either. It's just the event from the last year, that is it. Just adding a few decorations, items and an offering doesn't make the event unique or good. Where are the actual good events? We have had them in the past. I liked the summer event, where you would fix the event gens for extra points or hook survivors on the event hooks for more points too.

We have the crowns as unlockables, but not only do they look a lot like last year's, but they are also visible from space. Only people who don't care about stealth would ever use them. Also, killers can get the crowns easily and survivors have to get them and survive, which is much harder, there should have been a middle ground, like, find a crown and fix a gen to keep it or something.

All in all, we were promised the anniversary and halloween events would be the best ones, because they would focus a lot on them, but it doesn't show, at all.

So many bugs with the RE chapter. No need to explain more.

Old console is so sad. I genuinely can't believe it hasn't been taken out back and put out of it's misery.

This event.. one of two they were focusing on.. what have they done? Just reskin last years event basically. They also lowered the drop rate of event items/offerings in the bloodweb. Anyone who tested this event should have seen the problem.

They then release a developer update that ignores all of this. Quite insulting to this community imo.

You could have added more options, not just good or terrible. For example:

Excellent, good, neutral, bad, terrible

Performance issues making game unplayable. This is the biggest of them all. Even if event was worth playing the performance issues are so bad that I can't enjoy the game and I also worry about dbd breaking my ps4 for me to even consider sucking it up to play during the event.

Killers being able to deny survivors crowns - this was complained about last year and devs did nothing to fix the issue. I've seen killers target survivors that are not licensed or already wearing cosmetic just to prevent survivor from being able to get crown. While the point was to prevent survivors from getting crown and suicide on hook because of past events now survivors are suiciding on hook or DCing because they figure they won't be escaping that match and should just move on to next match quicker in hopes they'll have better luck. Neither side should be able to prevent the other from receiving rewards in an event - when killers were limited to few event hooks in other events the devs made it so survivors couldn't sabo those hooks and prevent killers from their event reward. Requirements for cosmetics/BP should never be something that one side can prevent the other from receiving.

Because survivors need to escape with crown they are getting gens done as fast as possible to escape which leads to killers playing harder which leads to both sides trying for quickest match possible and that most times will end out being low BP even with cake offerings. Ultimately the matches are quick and unfun for either side.

Only 1-2 items/offerings per blood web. Bloodwebs should be filled with these not limited, especially on survivor side where there's multiple items along with offering.

bloodpoint

Ill ONlY talk about the real aniversary, the resident evil and 5.0.0 patch aint counting there

The devs said they would drop other events to focus on their 2 big ones, Aniversary and Halloween...

Now this aniversary...IS THE SAME AS LAST YEAR

same crowns, same idea, same loading screen, same cake and items, just with a fiew tweaks here and there, and its so sad because it isnt hard to pull off, nor does it show the extra work around this event for dropping others, even skins on hook and gens are the same, maps arent specially skinned for this, no new addon or offering, no new gameplay mechanic just forthe even, not even a Double Bloodpoint time...

And so instead of having a Bday party, many players play the same or tryhard some extra and the time.of the event ends up not even feeling special anymore

If Halloween ends up being the same as last yer...it will just be another big disapointment

there is nothing bad about the event.

but there is also nothing great about it either.

so neither of your two options work.

Throwing free stuff at the community is a real easy way to get most people to shut up and for other white knights to criticize the people that don't like the event saying "wow you don't appreciate free stuff how entitled are you".

The fact is it's lazy. Giving free things to the community isn't what I call an event it's just called incentive- people will get back on Dead By Daylight if the devs promise them free in-game currency and this boosts player numbers and likely an increase in sales for cosmetics, chapters, and everything else.

An EVENT is supposed to actually significantly change the gameplay of the game itself for a temporary period of time such that normal gameplay is put on hold for a brief period during the year. An event provides a window of time where people are allowed to take the game less seriously than normal and to just have fun with a reward system that provides a goal to work toward and earn something for playing during that time.

However, again, what they did was lazy. They reused nearly everything from last year's anniversary, even the overall banner theme and advertising for the 5th anniversary uses the same black and gold thematic from the previous year- which looks fantastic, but using it two years in a row all of a sudden makes it less unique and less important in the grand scheme of the history of DBD. The actual gameplay change is not impactful at all since players don't have to actually be proactive, they simply need to be in the right place at the right time, and very little about the overall pace of the game is changed (although survivors have to do a bit more work since they need to survive. The "reward" itself is the same dumbass crown which might have some interesting lore attached to it being a "primitive and crude representation of the entity" and all but beyond that it's not a worthy reward to actually sink your time into. Aesthetically the crowns look completely out of place and the floating halo that bobs above a survivor's head frankly just looks more ridiculous than anything else. Of all the cosmetics that have ever been created for events, which has resulted in some truly stunning and amazing cosmetics by the way (think of the Blight cosmetics for both killers AND survivors), these anniversary crowns are undoubtedly the worst.

Which is truly unfortunate because one of the devs themselves during the anniversary stream said that they were going to put less emphasis and resources on / toward most of the events so that they could allocate them specifically for two: Halloween and the Anniversary. (Personally I would have said Halloween and the Winter Solstice [or even the Lunar New Year] because historically the anniversary events themselves as they take place in-game have always been more or less lackluster and trying to make the anniversary "bigger" and more grand really is just a show-off move which strokes their own ego but okay). So remind yourself that THIS event- the one that's going on RIGHT NOW for the 5th anniversary, is what they saved and waited for and were so excited to release. Truly pathetic.

I normally don't agree with Space Coconut and frankly just listening to his voice alone rubs me the wrong way because of how naturally snarky and sarcastic it sounds in every single ######### video, but he hits it right on the head with this one:

I feel this. Been 4k slugged and just left there to bleed out while the killer taunts way to many times. I know I'm not amazing but dang, just hook me so I can get I to another match and have fun!

It's the same exact thing as last year's anniversary event, the only good things are the iridescent shards that they gave out (even still, not enough imo, should have been enough for a full set of cosmetics, 21k), and the bloodpoints, which make the game feel like less of a slog to grind through as you earn BP at a decent rate. There's nothing else I can say that's good, the crowns are boring and lazily just float at the back of your character's head like last year, and beyond that, what is there really? Retextured items are cool, I guess?

The main issue is that they said they weren't doing a lot of the other events because they were supposedly focusing on the anniversary and halloween events, or something akin to that, and this is what we get? I don't think there's been a genuinely good event since halloween 2019, personally.

I really wish they would have tied balloons to the body bags in the main screen area. Lots and lots of balloons.

Broken chapter full of bugs, missing console optimisation and the „content“ of the event is basically just a bunch of free blood points, some shards and one recycled cosmetic that almost nobody is going to wear.

Add to this that a big pile of the free stuff was given out to silence the crowd because the game was literally unplayable for some people.

happy fifth anniversary...