DbD Is An Amazing Game, Spoiled By It's Community.

Here's a list of reasons why DBD HAS BECOME LESS ENJOYABLE AT LEAST IN MY OPINION.

Meta

The problem isn't necessarily with the community itself, it's just the unanimous frustration on both sides that can make it, truly; unbearable.

The state of the gameplay leaves it in almost a flawed state. The unpredictability of the game is gone due to the meta washing down everyone's throats. And while sometimes you can just be unlucky it can be incredibly frustrating to want to progress. Because ultimately, most people who find success obtain the skills they have by playing along with the meta. Until they were comfortable leaning off of it.

Stagnant; lack of evolution

I am hoping that these perk changes set us in the right direction. The current meta may be 'healthy', but it's like eating the same meal for five years. It gets dull. There's nothing to 'spice up the meta' with the latest character's perks. Most of them are situational at best. And that's not a bad thing. But some of them are too situational, which makes them borderline unusable. The tomes are a band-aid fix to a problem that still maintains itself and continues to pile like dirty laundry.

I want the game to evolve more. Gen-rushing is always going to be a problem because it's a matter of "survivor's doing their objective' but the lack of expansion on what to do makes optimization of one build that much easier since there's only one route you're taking, the most fun is the most efficient way-- so why bother with the scenery?

bad feedback (This may be biased. do feel free to correct me.)

Like all things, the 'unhealthy state' of the game cannot just be fixed on the lonesome side of the balancing team. To do that, they need feedback. But with multiple sides calling for nerfs, and group polarization consistently occurring, it explains this. To quote simply psychology,

If this sounds familiar, it happens in political discussions, in the game content discussions. And since the game has divided itself neatly into two separate teams, receiving feedback from either is impossible due to in no particular order: Lack of proper reasoning, inability to experience both sides, lack of understanding or empathy. When trying to compile feedback, it is impossible to do so in a sea of arguments; which is why change can be so hard to do.

Granted, this doesn't mean some of the game topics are not without nuance. But like many online communities, you can expect those sections to be flooded with "get good" "you're just bad" or other replies that don't really address the problem at hand. When you have two, very extreme varying opinions on each side, it's hard to find a middle ground.

HOWEVER, things get better.

The best thing you can do is, leave your honest feedback. Explain why something bothers you. When feedback becomes constructive, it becomes useful to gather, especially in terms of QoL improvements. There could be an entirely separate discussion on how the developers use feedback (if, they use it at all), but that's another conversation for another day.

However, there's a whole other set of problems. But do know, play the games you enjoy, and play them without care. The endgame chat has always been a cesspool of toxicity. Don't bother with it. And if you truly aren't having fun, don't be shy to put down DBD and play something else.

I hope you have a better time in the fog. I hope the changes prove invaluable, but then again; we'll just have to wait and see.

Yeah it feels more grim than usual atm. People dcing after getting downed pretty much every game (are the penalties off? It really feels like they're off) and the last two survivors taking the game hostage out of spite if there are still multiple gens left seems to be happening more and more often 🙄

(fyi killers- if you're searching for the last two survivors and they haven't touched a gen in a good while, go to the basement. 9/10 times they'll be in there climbing in and out of lockers)

Yeah.

I turned chat off and stopped caring about the game.

Everyone's a bot to me, now.

If I finish a tome challenge early in a match or get bored, I'll throw YouTube on.

The results of matches no longer mean anything to me.

The fun of others no longer matters to me.

The accumulation of Rift Tiers is absolute.

The Tome is all now. Tome. TOME.

I disagree. This game isn't that great and though the community is definitely not that good, the game itself is not what I would call amazing. It can be given in maybe by the end of the year if all those things that bhvr said they would do in the anniversary stream actually happen.

There's only so much you can do against salty losers that dc, or afk. The game at least has a dc penalty, though there really should be some punishment for people that afk too often.

However, I think this does illustrate the biggest problems of DBD. I would argue an amazing game, for me, would make sure these very unfun and crappy strategies were not as rewarding. Tunneling, camping, and even mass slugging, should be weaker.

And for the other side, it would be nice if killer couldn't be so stressful, with how fast gens can be repaired.

If these issues were addressed, DBD could be an amazing game for me personally as well.

For wacky fun like having someones feet to be sticking out of a locker yes. Actually trying to play..... never. I still remember when I think it was shroud who uninstalled live on stream.

They are saying the opposite in that post. Trash talk is what is toxic, and they suspended me for calling survivors rodents, I think? So they are technically consistent about it. Lol.