What are the Top 3 Problems Currently in DBD in your Opinion?

1. Loops: Starting to get stale. They should start designing maps to give players the ability to maximize their efficiency in chase without having to run in circles. This meaning no more RNG and tiles, and just design every map to have only one iteration.
2. Survivor Recovery Speed: Survivors heal so quickly nowadays, it’s ridiculous. With the addition of Circle of Healing, this issue is becoming more apparent.
3. Lack of Dev Communication: This is to reason why this community is so divided. Nobody knows what’s on the devs’ agenda and we don’t know where they stand on the problems in their game, if they even realize it in the first place. This is also why people think the devs are incompetent, because they don’t defend themselves. They pour their heart and soul into this game, they should stand by it.

Most if not all of the people that created the game and had a vision for it are gone, and that's not an insult to the people that are continuing the game, it's just that it's very unlikely the ship will set sail in a different direction. They tried with Deathgarden, didn't work out. This ship will always be Super Smash Slashers now. The formula works, but I'd say the soul really left when they stopped decorating generators for holidays. The team is a lot bigger now, but that means you have a producer telling everyone what to do, and everyone is executing what is told to them. That will never not be robotic, even in video game studios.

Everything is much more fast paced now. Animations sped up, things are more spur of the moment instead of deliberate and methodical. Atmosphere has given way to 'pretty' (which again isn't bad) and because the game has to be respectful of other countries laws and what they find offensive the game has put itself into a box. We're never going to see body horror, decapitations, bones in general outside of totems etc. It's very safe. Kinda weird for horror.

The focus on kills and escapes. When the Killer Cube came out you needed 2 kills and a hook to pip and everyone back then thought that was meh. There shouldn't be a defined win condition. The trial itself should be its own experience...but nah. Exit gates and kills. Do gens and rush out the door or end up on a hook. It is what it is. In my view 10k points pip, like how it was back in 'the day'.

Just my two cents.

survivor/killer balance

bugs

toxicity

I think iridescent addons should be power fun with no draw backs and alot rarer to get it's a little silly I can okay every game with highest rarity thing every game if I want easily

The power gap in perks being either useless or meta ei preditor v corrupt and flip flop v DS

The effectiveness of face camping the first survivor which is made even better with noed

Performance/optimization.

Grind.

Issues with particular maps.

-The Grind

-Failing to seperate the casual and competitive players

-Map design

1. No secondary objective for survivors
2. The chat filter that censored "Yun-Jin" yesterday
3. Absurd window RNG turning buildings into either god loops or dead zones

1. Script Users - Anticheat needs an update. The amount of PC script purchasers has increased exponentially since SBMM. Close the game engine to users ability to write scripts. Let the players who bring perk picture changes be disappointed and close it off. This alone could prevent many of the hacks. I'd also recommend hiring more personnel to review games/players and begin banning the negative parts of the playerbase. I'm tempted to include adding boxes to the player's FOV to prevent stretched res. I think it's a shame that people only feel competitive with these unfair advantages.
2. Hook Grabs - I think the two-health-state hook grabs should be removed from the game (obviously, injured players could still be grabbed). I believe killers being able to hook grab a healthy survivor encourages camping. If killer didn't get an insta-down (the hook grab is the equivalent of a chainsaw hit no matter what m1 killer you're playing as), I think many of them would be less inclined to face camp. Even those classic Cannibal killers would be less incentivized since most of them don't revv the chainsaw when survivors approach; they hook grab. Another potential adjustment is just make unhooks take considerably less time. The amount of game delay provided by lazy 'strategies' is I believe an issue in the base game mechanics.
3. Hillbilly's current state - I agree with GeneralV. Although I am excited at the buffs Hillbilly's getting in the mid-patch, I would prefer addons without activation requirements and fewer downsides. More fun addons is the path I am wishing for. I have made threads on how his addons could be changed, but glad he's starting to get attention.

Many of the things I felt were issues are supposed to be addressed on 10/19/2021 (Pig addons, Wraith's All Seeing, Trapper base kit, Ghost Face charge time addon requirement, and even Hillbilly's addon buffs). This game has consistently progressed in what I feel has been a great direction. I hope it continues to.

1.map balance

2.perk balance

3.hacker/streached resolution

Map Design

Map Design

Map Design

-The disparity between what killers must do and what survivors must do in terms of effort for reward. Killers need to interact with, and outplay survivors multiple times, fast and consistently to achieve their objective. Survivors must hold M1 on a thing for a bit, there's a bit of macro play involved but it's vastly simplified by SWF. This makes it so that survivors sometimes don't even have to outplay the killer at all to escape or win. This is the biggest problem in the game imo. I could go further into how much simpler survivor gameplay is for what it gives the survivor team compared to killer, but i'd be ranting at that point.

-The absurd amount of things in this games that are designed to either fix your mistakes or safeguard you from a mistake. NOED, DS, UB, SB, DH, Spirit Fury, the new spirit addons, etc. Usually they require barely any effort from the user in order to be massively impactful in the match.

-Addons that poison the design of a killer. A killer's basekit is neutered for the sake of jpgs that may or may not be available depending on whether you find them on the bloodweb. So instead of having a nuanced power that can be transformed by addons, powers sometimes are barebones and only function with certain addons. It's a horrid system imo.

The map rotation/offerings, map based rng outliers, and removing maps. They need to fix maps, clearly.

Grind

Queue times

I have only 2. I'm ok with everything else. Even that 2 problems not bother me too much.

• Performance/Optimization
• Game Speed (I'm cheating a bit as this is a mix of both map size and gen speed)
• The unhealthy mentality of a subsection of the playerbase that bleeds into gameplay.

Map design, queue times/matchmaking and optimization

SWF

Console optimization/No cross save

Grind

1. Not being able to rotate the killer in the lobby
2. Having to say Pinheads voicelines myself
3. The spring has gone on one of my buttons on my PS5 controller which causes me to accidently teabag in chases and then I get camped and tunnelled.

I recommend you to buy a new controller. xD