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How’s everyone feeling about DBD’s current state?
For the past few weeks i’ve only been playing a few matches a day. Some days I don’t play at all. I used to play for hours but i’m starting to get bored of the game. And I love DBD and I don’t wanna quit but after a few games I decide to get off.
I guess i’ve been playing too much that I need a break. Also I feel like this new SBMM system is driving me away. I’m not gonna quit just because of this new system but my killer matches have been miserable. I don’t expect to have good matches every game but it’s been nonstop. Survivor games haven’t been to bad. But I play a little more killer. I wanna know if people have been feeling the same way I have? Because I feel like this game is starting to go downhill. A lot of people seem worried about the direction DBD is heading.
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I like it. My matches feel much more accurate and much more close, especially on the killer side of things.
My teammates are no longer rubbish, nor are most of my opponents.
My only complaint are my queue times as killer, which tend to be relatively long.
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Waiting on VHS.
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I miss old DBD. I never thought I'd miss ranks.
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Just faced a Spirit who knew where everyone was, no matter the circumstance.
By this I mean, she would down someone, go all the way across the map and find and down someone else, do it to a third person, and I'm just here trying to pick everyone up before their inevitable demise.
This is including my own position after hiding in a locker. Did not have Charge add-ons but was using Haunting with extreme frequency.
If hacking was taken control of, I would have less to complain about. Using Spirit to throw people off of it as well is sad.
Thing is, i'd much rather have a killer hacker than a survivor hacker. A killer hacker will you out the gate in 5 minutes (assuming no slug). A survivor hacker will prevent you from playing, and possibly soft-lock you out of finishing the match, to which i've had the displeasure of also experiencing (this specific survivor failed to soft-lock and fell to the ground and died).
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Its alright the game had more awful state. I already implemented hours upon hours into the game so I already got my money's worth. I could just quit and come back when there's a new killer, no shame in that.
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bad
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Balance : Best its been
Community: Worst its been
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Bored honestly, but my solo experience has been more entertaining not saying that it has been fun because that will be a lie.
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Pretty good.
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Horrendous, I'm actually confident in saying this is one of the worst states the game has been in since launch. The past 4 chapters have all had incredibly buggy releases, half of the killers from those chapters were broken or completely unplayable at launch.
I expected MMR to be bad but even the people that are claiming they're having a good time with it are saying it's incredibly inconsistent. Killer is a ######### job at this point, every single match win or lose gameplay has devolved to who is gonna make a mistake first.
I've been mad at balance changes before, new killers, or the addition of the rift. But never has a change made by the developers directly impacted my ability to have fun in DbD. I'm happy for the people that MMR is benefiting, but if your a veteran player? God help you.
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Waiting for VHS Back 4 blood and the new evil dead game. Only been playing survivor on DbD recently and that is to do my dailies.
Before I would spend some of my weekend playing now nah...sbmm is king🤑
Cant be bothered to finish the rift even
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It exists.
This is probably the most meh I've ever felt about the game.
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I second this.
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Me too. Definitely looks like a step up from the other asymmetrical games
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The latest chapter was kind of the last straw for me. We've had broken chapter after broken chapter, the anniversary event's "extra effort" was non-existent and the game is now leaking licensed content with BHVR refusing to comment on it. I feel like BHVR is trying to attract new players with shiny content without caring about the existing playerbase. If the bugs aren't bad enough to stop someone from buying the game and a few DLCs, why fix them?
I keep coming back here because I want the game to improve, but I have a bad feeling that they'll just keep churning out DLC until the game is unprofitable and then shut down the servers, rather than dealing with the bugs. I really hope I'm proven wrong.
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Precarious.
The dev team seems rudderless. SBMM launched, but at the same time we have blatantly uncompetitive maps/mechanics/add ons/items/overtuned perks. They're taking a one size fits all approach, and the issue is one size fits all typically means one size fits no one.
They launched a battle pass and they're cranking out cosmetics like never before. At the same time, the quality control is egregious. Blatantly unprofessional with what they allow to ship.
They seem quite complacent, and they have no room to be. All it takes is one viable competitor.
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Game peaked last year imo, think it started to come down after Trickster. Then again, the hype towards Nemesis, FNAF and the pin head teasers shows that this game is far from dead. Think sbmm is a big blow and now ranks mean Jack sh**
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On Survivor side it's been perfectly fine for me, playing with Survivors and against Killers right around my skill level 9/10 times.
It's been starting to get weirder on the Killer side though. For every one round I get with players on my level, I get three with hella toxic Survivors that just annhilate me. That could be just me being outplayed and not properly switching up my tactics enough to handle toxic swfs, could just be this community continuing to get more toxic, but I don't feel as if I was having this many kinda frustrating games as recent as last week.
Aside from that though, I haven't run into that many other issues and queue times usually aren't long at all during the times I happen to play. For refrence, my experience has primarily been Solo Q on PS5 and some occasional games on PC (I always have crossplay on)
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Stable but stale.
Things change so slow. I would love to see a patch that gives a mayor overhaul/buff to like 60 perks.
I wouldn't even mind if 10 of them are grossly op and need to be tweeked down a couple of months later.
I just want a bit of chaos in the game. That i can accurately predict what my opponents build is makes it hard to enjoy long sessions of this game.
It's a real shame that a game with so much variaty feels so often the same
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Horrible, balance wise is still terrible and perks that are horrible are still not remembered, several killers are boring to play or just flat out terrible, or straight up broken. Game Health has been at its worst (Dead Dawg has been disabled twice) and we haven't gotten a severely buggy update since over a year ago almost
I am honestly amazed at why I still play this game
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It's gone downhill since the Silent Hill DLC came out and has only marginally improved at mid-chapter patches before plummeting back down at the next DLC launch. Resident Evil, the one franchise I've been wanting in DBD for years, was a disaster.
When was the last time we had access to all the maps for longer than a week, by the way? Start of June? Oh, but that was around the time there was the massive desync issue, right?
It can't carry on like this. New content and cosmetics won't be worth a damn if the game can't function properly.
God I hope VHS is good.
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I feel the same
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The game is still buged and unbalanced on many levels
The updates get short but long to install
The MMR isnt doing much to actually help the game
The game almost didnt evolve on the mechanics and objectives
I play the game cause i lile it, but i dont enjoy it nearly as much as a year or two ago...
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It's fine for me
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I like the grade system. It feels more intuitive, even if it's mostly just a slightly clarified version of ranks.
SBMM isn't great, but as long as I'm getting my 2-4k games and getting at least one of my friends out the door, I'm largely content. My friend and I had a fun day recently of going through killer adepts - I'm apparently better at Nurse than I thought, with a conservative playstyle, even against the SWFs I was getting.
I am getting absolute trash from console teammates, though, which was a problem before the new systems. I really wish that SBMM seemed more consistent when it came to cross-platform play.
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Agreed.
I'm tired of BHVR not focusing enough on balance changes.The meta hasn't exactly changed since years.
You pretty much always see the same few perks every single game to the point that gameplay starts to feel super stale.
They play it way too safe
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I honestly love the game. I don't just love it, I adore it.
There are a couple of asterisks though: I'm playing on PC, so I don't have anywhere near the problems that my console brothers and sisters do. As a mostly lifelong console gamer I feel for them, it's not fun for glitches and what feels like foot-dragging to ruin your gaming experience. I also have my frustrations, such as dealing with killers like the Wraith and Ghostface. I know that a lot of people don't have any issue with them, I simply find them to be so prevalent and so profoundly cheap and repetitive (no terror radius, free hit, game over soon, yay) that whenever I get them - which is WAY too often - my enjoyment is significantly reduced and I just want to hurry up and get to a different match. Killers hate sweat squads (and I understand and empathize), I hate these two killers. I'd rather have Spirit every time.
Beyond that, and a few lesser frustrations like getting maps I don't like being forced to waste hundreds of thousands of BP on bloodweb items that I will literally never use, I'm enjoying the game greatly.
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I feel like BHVR seems so incredibly confident that no one will be able to rival their game to the point that they don't care about the quality of the product they present to us.
They don't even bother to deliver the bare minimum.Screw up all the time and aren't showing any signs that this will change anytime soon.
If anything will kill DbD,it's gonna be BHVRs overconfidence
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I understand your point and don't necessarily think that you're wrong, you have a valid opinion. But if they massively overhauled a bunch of perks, do you not feel that within a little while people would make meta builds out of THOSE perks and the problem would just repeat itself?
But as I said though, you're not wrong. There are what, 150 perks in this game? More? Yet you only ever see the same 20 or 30. I feel that we can use more things like "faster running" (for both sides) and less things like "sit in a terror radius for a straight minute so you can throw a distraction pebble".
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Running a slug build, it works - a little over half the time.
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I understand your point and don't necessarily think that you're wrong, you have a valid opinion. But if they massively overhauled a bunch of perks, do you not feel that within a little while people would make meta builds out of THOSE perks and the problem would just repeat itself?
Well,it's obvious that there will ALWAYS be some kind of META going around no matter how much you change things up.
The big difference would be that we could finally see some kind of change to the META that has changed so little throughout the years
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The RE chapter was the start of things going downhill. Wonder what the halloween event will be like?
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Yeah I get tired of seeing the same perks every match. Not gonna shame people for it but..
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Yes, there will always be a meta.
But just something different then what it's been for the last year or so would ve nice.
Also preferably i would want the difference between what's meta and what isn't to be smaller.
Right now more often then not if it isn't meta it's straight up bad. You wouldn't see the meta as often if other perks were atleast impactfull
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Yeah I see what you guys are saying. It WOULD change up the playstyle from time to time. I guess I wish that the perks were, overall, more evenly powerful than they are. I mean again, who's going to throw a pebble when they can Dead Hard or Sprint Burst? Who's going to care about when someone's in the basement when they can be running BBQ (which is basically so OP there's essentially no reason for a killer NOT to use it)? I'd love to encounter a wealth of different play styles using different builds. Instead it's pretty much always the same couple of builds for each side. Even my stealth build (mainly aura reads) is somewhat common, at least to the point that everyone automatically assumes that I use it just to avoid the match.
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I Took over a 2 year break from this game to find the devs have still not fixed legion to not be laughably bad at high level. Very un happy that after all this time they’ve done 0 to fix what makes them bad.
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I appreciate everyone’s feedback here. 😊
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I'm at the stage where I'm praying for a new game to stop playing this.
Just remaster Black Ops 1 or 2 and I'll happily leave this game for months
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I was surprised with that recent mid chapter patch where they changed Huntress, Demo, Freddy, BT, Object, Small Game, Lucky Break and other stuff; that looked like a patch where they actually put some effort even if i didn't agree with every single change.
Every major patch should be like that, but instead, the successive ones we got were all super barebones.
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That’s how i’m feeling. Maybe i’ll try getting into fortnite or something idk.
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I thought that was one of the best mid chapter patches we got.
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Playing a game for hours a day and then not wanting to play is very natural.
If you like the game and want to enjoy it, i suggest doing what i do: Play at a pace that doesn't make you tired of it.
How much you should play to avoid not wanting to play depends on the individual.
But if you find yourself not enjoying the game after playing for just 3 Trials after a week break, you might want to consider that wanting to like the game isn't a thing you'll achieve.
Also sometimes simply mixing up your gameplay can help wonders.
I don't think i'd still be playing if Hex: Devour Hope wasn't a thing.
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I appreciate your feedback. Maybe a reason why I get bored after playing a few games is because i’m tired. Or if i’m playing survivor it’s the constant holding M1 for so long.
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Yeah, because they actually changed more than two things. It's more exciting than only relying on hoping you'll like the new DLC.
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My games were a sweatfest, i uninstalled 1 week ago, sooner or later more people will do the same, is not enjoyable anymore
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They're cranking out cosmetics because they know people are gonna buy them. BHVR loves their money whales.
They know their mess of spaghetti code needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, but instead of doing that, they're focusing on short term profits trying to sell as much stuff as possible before the ship sinks.
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I haven't played in like a month because how ######### the game has gotten.
It's stale, buggy, sweaty, and just not fun.
It feels like the devs no longer care about the state and health of the game.
I'm looking forward to Ash Vs Evil Dead the Game, and VHS coming out.
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I wish they would take breaks on cosmetics and just fix the game but we all know that’s not possible.
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I'm overall happy with the state, although when "Resident Evil" came out it was unfortunately very embarrassing for them, especially considering how big a deal that license is. The new systems works really well from my perspective and I'm still able to use randomized, non-meta builds and still win matches, except now they feel more earnt.
The big downside has been how the community side of things has changed. Granted, during my experience I've received salt at times, but I also remembered that a year or so back - possibly 2 - people were more friendly in-game. I'd receive and give compliments, and joke with fellow players. Now there is bugger all interraction. Yesterday was the first time anyone responded with a nice comment in quite some time. Rarely would I get any comment at all, in fact. The social level has reduced a lot.
I don't believe there will be any worthy opponents to this game, if they try to replicate the formula. The closest multiplayer game that would be competition in the horror genre for me is "Phasmaphobia", because it offers a different experience. But my belief is that unless people become a bit more humble, be more relaxed and stop looking to influencers who just shout abuse, mock their opponents and basically act entitled because apparently controlling pixels on a screen makes them better than other people, then the community will damage this game far more than any dev attempt.
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Thats interesting, I'm seeing the opposite. Crap teams when i play survivor. Sweat squads when i play killer. Its been a pretty bad change overall
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