This anniversary stream feels like it is either gonna make or break DBD's future...

Don't know about others but for me it certainly is. Ive played this game in 2016 for some months, some weeks in 2019 and im back since 2 months this year. I really wondered how less has changed during all this time, the only thing which feels like a difference are boons. Everytime i come to the same result, the gameplay is like 2 mins of interesting gameplay and then transfers into cheap tactics and memes and theres close to no variety, beside this it only really has toxicity wars and all of this gets stale quite fast. I always liked this game, its graphic and atmosphere, the arena, the design of the characters and its potential but the gameplay was never good enough. Im on the verge of quitting again for a long while unless i hear that they adress the gameplay and its balance.

Ive played for 2 months and i feel like ive seen everything again, every other game that i like and that im good at i can play thousands of hours before i ever get burned out somewhen but this is really the only one i have no interest in playing after such a short time. I have it currently running in the background but i didnt play since a week and only striving a bit through the forums to see how the community percieves this game. I only really wait for the stream, maybe i squeeze out the experience of the new killer before i go if i find him interesting but im also looking for a different game to start or come back to.

well, I feel like the silence on many issues has been deafeningly silent lately, with things that have been issues for years getting more and more issues piled on top of them. Not even in terms of balance, but many topics people are getting tired of radio silence concerning. If we get a Q&A full of the same meme questions that have no concrete answers, its going to be the last straw for a lot of people.

I feel like performance is going to be a massive issue. It seems to vary with every single patch, in the cases where its not consistently awful for people. Like many structural issues, the longer it gets ignored, the harder it will become to fix (and thus, the more likely people are to give up on it and just leave.)

If it gets skipped but we get another meme of bunnies working on a gen or something taking up one of the slots, people are rightly going to feel ignored. And thats not even talking about the topics that get extremely unsatisfactory answers, like the cheating epidemic.

As long as it doesn't legit break the game like the RE chapter DBD will be fine.

If there is not even a WORD of Stranger Things' return, I will not be pleased :)

I don't think anniversary stream will have any impact on the game. That is because Anniversary stream just talks about road map of the game.

We already know a lot of road map of the game. for example on realm beyond, there is only two realms in which they have not changed of the old maps which are red forest(mother dwelling & temple) and backwater swamp.

in term of killer updates, Patrick hinted twins. he also talked about back-filling improvements to matchmaking and hinted something about survivor team-rating, I imagine its something to do with facecamping killers in EGC and survivor leaving their teammate behind because their inability save them. maybe if your team-rating is very high, you draw even if you died.

Survivor Icons were mentioned at the start of the year.

Peanut mentioned that dev are working reducing grind. He rejected the idea of removing all perk tier. It makes me believe that they have bigger plans in mind. No clue for how big of grind they're reducing.

If peanuts goal is to remove all grind altogether, he might be doing something like removing prestige & making that unlocked teachable perks from other characters automatically unlock on every other character at tier 3. This means that all blood webs would only have the generic perks and the character specific perks. teachable version of the perk would be available when corresponding character has their specific perk at level 3.

In any case, regardless of what they say about the road map for DBD, very little changes until actual changes are implemented in the game.

QoL changes would be wonderful,but this is BHVR we're talking about.

Same company that took 5 years to add a toggle button

No, they rejected the idea of revamping the perk structure as a short term fix. It isn't true that they rejected doing something with perks as part of their broader restructuring of the bloodweb and experience system. And it's definitely not true that them simply not "confirming the changes they're making" means anything one way or another.

The anniversary is already lowkey a fail if it is an original chapter...