Anyone else just not finding joy in playing DBD anymore?

Yeah, I've been playing other games way more. Without log in rewards I haven't even opened DBD except for couple times my swf teammate wanted to play - only played a couple rounds when that happened. It's just not fun being the only 2 on a team doing anything while our teammates are hiding in a corner to avoid any possible interaction with the killer, it's 4v1 not 2v1 for a reason. Before people atleast tried because it kept them in a rank for matchmaking, now they just rely on their teammates to carry them.

Spirit keeps me going.

Yeah.

I'll occasionally play a few matches of survivor, but that's about it. Killer is too frustrating to play and survivor can get boring pretty fast, so there's no point in playing for a long time.

I'm not playing very much at the moment, mostly because I'm super busy with school right now. But even when I do have some game time, I am usually playing other games. I used to play every day. Now, I'm playing 1-2 times a week just to get my dailies. Really hope they address SBMM. People clearly aren't happy about it and the numbers are showing. More BP every month just isn't going to cut it.

Yeah DBD is starting to wear me out. It doesn’t ever feel exciting to escape or get kills as much.

I've been feeling this way for 2 years now. I hardly ever get on. I might pop on once a new chapter releases and that's only if it's a killer I think will be fun. There are many chapters I flat out refuse to purchase because I don't want them. I sometimes get back on when friends want to swf but that hasn't happened since mmr was introduced. I haven't played since boons were introduced and from what I'm hearing I dodged a bullet. I'll stick to games that I find actually fun.

I haven't enjoyed the game since SBMM was added and the broken boons were added the game isn't balanced and I don't like playing either role as survivor is boring and killer is way to stressful with all the unfair things being added

my stand point is the community is toxic, the hackers are a massive issues and the devs are not listening to the community about the issues so i probably wont play the game until this is all fixed or the game finally dies

I more or less do the same on most killers. There are some I take seriously and relentlessly camp and tunnel. I actually had a survivor pretend he ran me for 3 gens and I had to kindly explain to him that hanging on a hook doesn't count as running me. Lol. Odd creatures they are.

But yeah, if I accidentally kill someone on say Spirit, it gives me a feeling of dread. I am so bad at her even when the survivors wouldn't qualify as potato.

DBD was my main game for the longest time and I've been playing since Freddy was first introduced to the game (Poor original Freddy who had to put you to sleep)

Now....my friends have to literally drag me into the game and I'll play for like an two hours tops (with the 10 minute survivor queues, that's like 8-10 matches included match times and lobby times). I've said it before in previous posts but I want to play for fun and some matches are, but like half the matches are dealing with campers and tunnelers and everyone knows the only thing you can do against that is "jUsT dO gEnS" so now I'm playing m1 simulator because 1 players decided to make the match boring by not chasing anyone.

It's just a drag to play now

I haven't had joy since 2019

Also what's UB?

It's not MMRs fault though, you're just seeing more efficient players more often, at least when compared to the old grade system which rewarded farming and goofing off.

Still, a lot of matches are wildly different, either too easy or difficult. I guess because the match making prioritises queue speed over balance. (it could probably use some other tweaks regardless)

It should be good for the game to get a better understanding of game balance, what someone does with that information is another matter.

gen speeds, maps, SWF, time pressure on killers etc are all big problems

Yep new content isn't satisfying

Lots of anti fun mechanics still being in the game

maps are still bad

perk buffs usually don't do anything

This is the exact reason that I seem to have been taking longer and longer breaks from the game.

I don't know why, but even when I completely lose multiple games in a row, it doesn't seem to change my MMR, I just keep getting matched against the same type of really hardcore players, that honestly as it turns out are significantly better than me (Unless I'm playing at my absolute best on my best character) so yeah it gets boring really fast.

I enjoy a challenge, and I prefer CLOSE matches where I have to fight for the win, and even then if I lose I don't mind because it was close... but when I keep facing teams as Killer that have 4 escapes and only like 3-4 total hooks in a row, or being the first one to die as a Survivor multiple matches back to back.. it drains me so much, I don't have any urge to log back in again.

I used to find this game so fun, i used to play Hillbilly and have 4k's almost every match no matter the map.

But nowadays, i just find the game seriously unfun. By the time i finish my first chase, 3 or 2 gens are already done. The amount of times i've hit a survivor and the hit magically didn't count because of Dead Hard is just ridiculous.

Not to mention TTV people and fully coordinated SWF's, i get it's normal to want to play with your friends or your stream and all, but something just breaks once communication for survivors is added to this game.

Last time i played DBD it wasn't like that. I swear, it might sound silly, but it felt balanced back then. (Back when Twins were released)

MMR has absolutely killed the game for me. I would play 3-4 hours of killer almost every night and now I might play an hour total every week. Every game is a sweat fest with toxic survivors so I'll play one game, get BMed for 10 mins and then quit playing for a week.

I’m still enjoying the game. 🤷‍♂️

Also I noticed comments above like “I used to get 4k most of the time and now I have to sweat to get 2 or 3 kills.” Well yeah, that means the SBMM is working! Why would you expect to get 4 kills most of the time without actually having to work for it? 1-3 kills is supposed to be the most common results, so the gens being done is the rule and not the exception. The fact that you got 4 kills all the time in the old system means the old system was worse than the current one because it was putting you against weaker players than yourself too often.

I get the complaint by brand new players that their initial ratings are too high. I don’t empathize when people complain that they have to “sweat” to get 4 kills.

The game lacks a casual mode.

SBMM doesn't belong in a game that relies so heavily on RNG mechanics like what DBD does. Not to mention when the 1 in the 4v1 equation is put at such a huge disadvantage thanks to the amount of communication that SWF have at their disposal, I can't blame Killers for tunneling and camping. Hit and run play styles used to be an effective tactic with a lot of killers, but thanks to perks like COH (especially in a SWF) m1 Killers hardly stand a chance anymore without playing dirty.

Steam has seen a drop in players consistently for months now, and I wager it's the same on consoles. I'm tired of sweating as killer, and I'm tired of my matches as survivor lasting less than 3 minutes because I'm hardcore tunnelled out of the game. I've always said that should this game ever have a proper bot mode, I will play that probably 90% of the time because at least I can blow off steam there, and be guaranteed to have a much more chill match.