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Any fellow OG 2016 players here? (NOSTALGIA THREAD)

I genuinely only see a legacy survivor once every ~3 months now. Are we slowly dwindling away?

I remember things such as;

  • Loops that were actually infinite
  • Facecamping could block any interaction with a hook
  • Trapper could place a trap underneath a hooked survivor, guaranteeing a trade
  • Exhaustion wasn't a thing and each perk had it's own respective cooldown
  • Sprint burst's 20 second cooldown even when running
  • The harvester was the biggest meme in the game
  • Before balanced landing was introduced, there was no fall recovering speed penalty
  • Decisive strike was not an obsession-specific perk and you could use it instantly on any survivor
  • Instablinds
  • That time instablinds took a literal meaning due to a bug that came up when the devs tried to fix freddy's blind bug
  • Wraith had no bell hitting animation and the bell sound just emanated from him


What fun/nostalgic memories of DBD do you all have?

Comments

  • SasukeKun
    SasukeKun Member Posts: 1,858

    when sprint burst and others were pink perks, and you could activate sprint burst with no exhaustion just cooldown, was great

  • Iliketoplaykiller
    Iliketoplaykiller Member Posts: 352

    I miss playing killers without feeling the need to run addons to win.

  • Mike_Steele
    Mike_Steele Member Posts: 22

    Not for the killer kek


    A few more fun memories I have:

    • The 2018 Tinkerer II incident
    • That time when the devs thought it would be a good idea to remove the timing aspect from flashlight/pallet saves
    • Common colored/Pink colored perks
  • SleepyWillo
    SleepyWillo Member Posts: 2,197

    and no cooldown mechanics 😂

    I don't miss the broken infinites though!

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 20,782
    edited October 2021

    Eh, I've been here since early 2018, the tail end of the Dark Times.

  • ElusivePukka
    ElusivePukka Member Posts: 1,599

    I was there. I remember. cue flashbacks of flames and screaming

    Back then, I was a survivor main. Balanced Landing and Sprint Burst, my nectar. The frustration of killers, my wine. Flashlights? An enigma I still don't fully understand. Hated them then, want them deleted now.

    I also remember feeling like a chump when I took a break and came back to discover legacy skins were now a thing I missed out on :P

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,175

    Not from 2016, but I assure you that you will never meet someone as old fashioned as I am.

    I booted up the game for the first time in December of 2018, roughly around Legion's release. That Winter theme alone was enough to send shivers down my spine.

    The old maps, old powers...Old DBD in general was the best game I've ever played. Everything was way better than the disgusting mess that DBD is now.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,175

    I would face Old Legion a thousand times in a row if it meant returning to Old DBD.

  • ClumsyTrapper
    ClumsyTrapper Member Posts: 544

    I miss the old bugs like floating head chainsaw Myers or getting ontop of the top of the harvester ogs know what I mean

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 9,220

    From the tail end of Dec 2016 but can remember a lot from your list.

  • venom12784
    venom12784 Member Posts: 666

    Remember standing at the hatch for 30 minutes waiting for either the killer or the survivor to make a move. Pepperidge farms remembers

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 9,220

    Mained Myers at the start. STBFL + Unrelenting ftw. Basement parties didn't last too long. 😄

  • Kalec84
    Kalec84 Member Posts: 495

    You forgot the window sprint when vaulting from any position :)

  • Beaburd
    Beaburd Member Posts: 998

    Oh, I've got plenty of these memories from ages past. You've listed a lot of actual in-game mechanics from back then, so here's some memorable moments from me instead.

    "Get good, idiot. Learn to drop the chase when a survivor heads to an infinite." - Countless survivors justifying infinites in 2016.

    Followed by...

    "Get good." - Mcote

    "It takes SO much skill to do anything even resembling an infinite." - Mcote

    I was so passionate about the game back then, and as a killer main, the comparison I noticed between these two sets of quotes really made me upset. I still remember trying to get involved in killer strikes in DBD's steam discussion forum way back when, which mods repeatedly deleted.

    ---

    Also, never forget this famous video from back then:

    Just the tip of the iceberg killers had to endure back then too.

    ---

    Literally so much has happened over the years that I've just accepted that the game will always be terribly survivor-biased, and refuse to treat it as a competitive or serious game. Just have fun, do whatever you want, nothing else matters. That's been the only truth about DBD for all these years.

    Ask the hackers, I doubt anyone is proving them wrong on that.

    ---

    Anywho, I'm rambling. Good times!

  • Irisora
    Irisora Member Posts: 1,442
    edited October 2021

    Me, sadly i didn't prestige my Sally (nurse) cause it was my first killer in lvl 50 and it was hard to lvl to 50 at that time and i didn't want to lose at my perks, not that i really care now it just a cosmetic. It was an interesting time.. At least no one was using DH in that moment the most bullshit perk until today and fun things like machine gun build existed.

  • Magicmaster0702
    Magicmaster0702 Member Posts: 217

    I played a little in 2016. Didnt have the best internet though. I remember all of this.

  • Mister_xD
    Mister_xD Member Posts: 7,669
    edited October 2021

    well, at least im still on the Forum. currently taking my probaply longest break from this game ever since they introduced MMR with no end of that in sight as of yet.


    still, the memory of a 4.6 m/s Nurse with 3 blinks at her disposal (EDIT: basekit. you could get up to 5 with Add Ons) is one i have engraved in my mind forever xD

    the game balance back then was... questionable - but that was okay, because we all sucked at the game anyway.


    also, as for the Legacy question: i think a lot of the old Legacy users got struck by the same fate i did, that being the loss of progress bug that was around sometime in 2017 - 2018. and since the Devs outright refuse to give back the lost legacy, well, you cant wear what you no longer have.

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 9,220

    @Pepsidot

    Back then the bloodweb was bugged and I might be mis-remembering this but I believe you basically had priority to get tier 3 or ULTRA RARE perks before even getting a tier 1 common perk. They tried to fix this bug by removing ULTRA RARE (and I think common?) perks which is why you don't see them anymore.

    If I'm remembering right, the rarity chance was backwards so rare perks would show up before common. By grabbing the rare perk, the very rare version would be in the next web and the ultra rare in the one after. It made getting perks like Iron Will impossible as tier 1 was common.

    That lasted for so long. Remember how long it took just to select nodes? Took ages for those that lost saves.

  • Pepsidot
    Pepsidot Member Posts: 1,662

    Sounds right. Here's a screenshot I found in early 2017 kind of showing off the bug:

    Was only level 20! And of course you only got 1 perk per bloodweb back then, so getting tier 3 DS and SB was significant. Also, Iron Grasp, a must have perk started at common tier. I believe it was the VERY LAST perk I fully lvled up in my bloodweb for Hillbilly. The fact that I even took this screenshot and named it "About time..." really tells you how much I had been wanting the perk:

    I can't tell you how difficult it was for me to press the prestige button to try and get the mysterious "uber prestige" the devs announced after having spent so much time lvling to lvl 50 and beyond. Not knowing how much the grind would really be reduced. And yeah, part of the grind was spending BP at a snail's pace in the old bloodweb's as you mentioned!

  • Mike_Steele
    Mike_Steele Member Posts: 22

    Remember when there was 2 pallets at every loop?

  • GannTM
    GannTM Member Posts: 10,886

    Ah sweet 2016. Those were the days I never knew this game existed.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,175

    Here is one for my 2016 friends.

    Something that should have never been removed:


  • Tr1nity
    Tr1nity Member Posts: 5,047

    I never played back than, I always thought it was a cooler animation, but I think they found it was too long.

  • ProfoundEnding
    ProfoundEnding Member Posts: 2,334

    Not a Steam player so best I can do is 2017 take it or leave it 😎