Remember when DBD was a horror game?

That was all before my time, but I am still quite scared from time to time in game. Maybe I am just a sweet innocent flower who takes it too seriously. Because when I am in challenge mode, let's be real, ain't nobody got time to be scared.

I vaguely remember it trying to be a horror game in its first year. Emphasis on trying, as the game's balance decided otherwise.

I've always wondered why they never removed the terror radius and red stain. That seems counterintuitive to have those. It kinda kills off any horror vibe if you can hear the killer coming, as opposed to them just popping out from around a corner.

I rember.

I was playing for Old Freddy/Pig release and it was either a lot more horror feeling or it's because I was brand new to the game.

But looking back, the atmosphere was absolutely better. It looked and felt like a horror game even if I wasn't being actively spooked. Now it feels... Like it's got horror aesthetics, but it doesn't feel like an actual horror game.

I wouldn't call a DBD horror game in the sense that it's supposed to scare you. It's a multiplayer action survival game, the horror aspects are just a skin.

As someone who has pre ordered the game but only got into it right before huntress was released, I will grant that the moon offerings did give the matches a variant of different type of atmosphere. With that said however, i sometimes thought it could get too dark sometimes to see anything on the maps plus darkest moon offering helped hiding darken bear traps, so that could be annoying when that happened.

Also I never found the old base atmosphere of the maps to be that great, mainly I found the tint to be unappealing to look at, especially on autohaven, Springwood and macmillan. So I'm perfectly fine with a shift away from the old atmosphere and look in exchanged for what we have now.

The only thing I do miss is the old father campbell's church map, I liked the brightly colored light from clown's area and the color tone inside the church itself.

Yes, the really old maps had a way better feeling. They looked better and had more atmosphäre.

However, I dont think that Moon Offerings should make a comeback. Moon Offerings meant that Developers had to keep different lightnings in mind all the time. E.g. they were not able to make a really dark map, because an Offering for darkest moonlight might make it too dark. Same the other way around.

However, the current maps are more bright than Maps back in the day with brightest Moonlight:

Looking at the picture with the Full Moon Bouquet, this is way darker than current Maps. And this was brightest moonlight back then...

A few years ago I was already joking that it feels more like "Dead in Daylight" and not like "Dead by Daylight", because the Maps are so bright. Then they released Dead Dawg Saloon, which is really bright. Coldwind, which is in Daylight... And the newest Map is also super-bright.

I would really enjoy having more dark Maps, however, the Devs are against it for some reason.

Remember when the old Dev team said: We will never make a clown killer!

Remember when the old Dev team rejected OhTofu's streamer cosmetic because it was "too funny" - look at the cosmetics we have today.

This.

Also before my time, sadly.

I hope the next maps are a bit darker/moodier again.

The only thing left that brings real fear into survivors eyes are a T3 Myers behind you or a bubba carrying you to the basement :-)

I have been playing the game since beta and have seen it all,

you have to understand that everyone has a different sense for what is horror and repeated exposure will desensitise you to it when I first started playing dbd I would literally crouch walk to the edge of the map whenever I herd the terror radius but as I played more and more I realised that the killers weren't that scary and the maps where super survivor sided with all the infinite windows making it even harder to take the killers seriously.

that being said even to this day anytime I'm on a gen and I look around only to see Myers standing behind me scares the ######### out of me.

though I agree that some of the map reworks have taken out the flavour they once had but that's nostalgia talking because I like the Coldwind farm reworks because I have nostalgia for the Texas chainsaw mascara but I'm also not to keen on the rework at the same time because I am nostalgic for the pre-reworked maps.

getting old sucks the fun out of everything.

Myers staring at you is still cool, yes.

And getting gen grabbed by Ghostface made me still jump sometimes.

The game is more of an action horror game. Depending on how you play it. Those kind of games stop being scary after so long. Play any modern resident evil game and it's the exact same effect. Spooky at first but once you learn to defend yourself you start having more fun doing that and it loses its fear factor.

as survivor i'm still kinda scared sometimes

ooh boy when it's a Myers the game just becomes so scary

especially when it's a darker map

with Myers there's nothing you can do if you see him looking at you, you gotta hide!

with Ghostface you can try to reveal him and stuff

but Myers? and if he has those crazy addons the game just becomes 10x scarier

i remember one match i was playing as Dwight and had just found out you can try to counter that one red addon Myers has by going into lockers

i noticed Myers killed someone and it wasn't a MORI, and btw i had met him earlier but i spotted him and ran away and hid

when i realised he could kill us as soon as he stalked us it really became a hide and seek game

i was very scared and when i knew he was about to kill me i would jump into a locker so i wouldn't die

i was the last one alive and Myers knew i was being able to avoid being instakilled so he let me live :') that was one of the scariest games i've ever had and it was so much fun

i dunno if it would be fun if that kind of thing just happend all the time but that one time it was pretty fun

but yeah a lot of the time the game isn't exactly super scary... but it can be scary a lot of the other times too

oh and when you're new the game is SUPER scary

VERY VERY scary

but you know it doesn't help that the first thing people tell you(even killer mains) when you start playing the game is "don't be scared of the killer" :/ people just tell you to not be scared and just play the game, so i think the players themselves also made that happen along with the devs i dunno