Problems of Dead by Daylight

Hi guys Im from DBD community in Korea. I gathered some opinions from the community to discuss about problems of DBD and suggestions. Id like to hear from u guys and discuss about it. Feel free to ask questions or discuss about the topic.

1. Problems other than game mechanics

a. Gap between newbies and core users.

The game has turned pretty old, and its normal to have gaps between newcomers and core users. However, I think there is absolutely no policy to boost up newbies to catch up. Newbies tend to give up after bumping on a wall of blood points they need to spend. With out the perks they can't even start a fair game with core users. I think a BP boost or a free perk/Killer rotation would help newbies to have more interest in the game.

Also Good job DBD team for updating the Tutorial, hope it gets better gradually.

b. Killer/Survivor Ratio

Playing Killer is hard for new users. especially when the free killer perks doesn't show good performance in game. Im sure quite a lot of newbies were drawn in to play as killer and ending up with 0 kill, quickly losing interest in the game.

Unlike survivors, there are many killer perks players need to purchase. However, even after purchasing they can't just use the perks. The user would to LV up the killer till 40, and spend even more BP until the perk appears on another killer's blood web. This is an unhealthy cycle since people can't earn enough BP when they first play the game.

This gap prevents new users to even try playing as killer, resulting less potential killer users. Thus the matching time extends, and the quality of the game drops due to lack of killers.

Adding on to this problem, the reward for the killer isn't that good comparing to all the stress killers get. I suggest adding an extra reward just for killers would be more motivating to Killer users. At least give them more blood point, most killers need expensive addons to win the game.

c. Blood point System

Going back to the point I've made before, the Newbies don't have enough perks to play a normal game; Especially players who wants to play Killer. As the contents and characters piled up for 5 years, Newbies need to spend BP to catch up. However since DBD is a PVP game, The gap only makes disadvantage to new players.

In the other hand, core users with hundreds, thousands hours of play time have too much BP. Most of their character is LV 50 and some of even filling their characters with prestige skins. I suggest adding an system to boost BP for newbies, and a reward for existing users to spend their BP on. May be a new mori animation, or an escape animation so it wouldn't affect the game play.

d. Useless addons / offering

Most addons of a killer and survivor is quite useless in game play. Users have stacks of unused addons, and we are sure it will never be used again. Some offerings even give advantage to the other team (Shroud of Seperation)

Adding up on the BP policy written above, we think it will be better to sell unused addons. The core users wouldn't feel left out even if BP boost are only given to Newbies.

e. Cheaters / Bots

Please... Please eliminate Cheaters and Bots. Give them a hardware ban, and listen to user's reports more please.

f. General convenience

Most games nowadays comes with convenient functions. Perk searching system? Perk presets? Game replay? Practice mode? These are basic functions we need for a better game play. At least give us a game replay so we can report more cheaters with evidence. If we skip the game result by accident, its nearly impossible to even search for the id of the hacker. Most newbies start the match up with bots. Waiting 20 min to play a game and ending up meeting a bot killer isn't a good experience.

g. MMR and matchmaking

I think adding MMR was a positive change. However, its hard to understand some matchmaking issue when the mmr is not open to users.

2. In game problems

a. Gen Rush

DBD is more of a game of tag (at least viewing from KR server). Therefore the objective of the survivors would be to Gen rush and end the game asap.

I think the reason of making boon totem was to make the survivor focus totem to lower the gen speed. However the boon totem was OP, and the killer was forced to search the totem and waste their time. There should be a systematic way to slow down the generators to make a interesting game.

b. Bugs

Fix it plz. Hate to see random rock sticking out from the side of the shack.

c. SWF and Discord

Teamed survivors are usually on discord, and that also means they can share information. This results with a same effect as playing with a few extra perks (Kindred, Bond, Empathy. etc)

At least we've heard from the last patch note that Behavior is planning to buff the solo queue. Im looking forward to that. Tho the buff of the killers would also be needed along with the solo queue buff.

d. Unreasonable key placement.

Still don't understand why the key placement for object interaction is the same. Its frustrating to self heal when I was intending to open the exit.

Feel free to talk about the issues we have came up with. Im willing to share our thoughts in KR server