Me, After The Anniversary Event Finally Ends:
It's been a lot of fun, and I'll probably poke my head back in for Halloween, but I'm starting to burn out here.
I really do enjoy playing killer, as frustrating and stressful (and occasionally demeaning) as the role can be, and the changes upcoming in the overhaul do sound rather positive for the most part, but solo queue survivor is miserable right now, with basically every second killer either cable pulling the second the game starts going sideways or hard camping/slugging at the first opportunity (seriously, both sides DC far, far too much and it ruins games).
On the other side of things, killer queues are now lurking somewhere between 4 and 6 sodding minutes. So something is definitely squiffy somewhere, and I don't think that the band-aid of bonus BP will be making things much better.
While the upcoming changes are going to make the balance between SWF and killer a little better (although OTR is going to need a nerf), it's going to be far worse for solos, especially with the newly buffed Knockout encouraging an already frustratingly effective 'anti-solo' tactic.
This isn't meant to be a rote 'I'm quitting unless you change x' post, more of a fond farewell to the fantastic forum folks that I will for sure miss, and again, this is more a 'ja ne' than a 'sayonara', because...man, I need a break from this game.
We'll see what things look like later this year - but I'm done at the first sight of any 'pumpkin suits' come Halloween.
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Understandable, Have a Great Day
I was on break for like 6 months (MMR, COH, Validation, killer nerfs).
Changes overall seems good for midpatch, but I agree they didn't help soloQ in any way, nor fixed camping and made some overnerfs.
That could be fixed easily imo.
So there is space for improvements for sure.
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True pro DbD player only plays when anniversary event is active, kek
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Lol.
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Godspeed.
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I used the event to p3 14(!) killers. Trying to get all perks on my Trapper now cause I don't want to prestige him since he has a lot of old offerings I don't wanna loose. I am gonna be very happy when I am done and I will probably take a break until the next patch goes live.
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The snowmen were awesome, and I don't know why so many people complained about them.
I don't know how I missed the OTR buff. Holt #########. That's awful. That's going to have the pick rate that Dead Hard does now. I was starting to warm up to some of the killer changes, but could very well outweigh all of them.
I will keep playing, regardless.
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Let's just say, I was learning Ghostface at the time, and people could instantly unmark themselves by jumping into the snowmen.
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The event started right when I hit burn out but I'm somehow enjoying myself again.
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Good luck to you, hope you do come back
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I came back last weekend for the anniversary after three or four months. I’ll be taking another break when it’s done.
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I'll almost certainly be back eventually.
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I have only seen a Killer disconnect once. In thousand(s) hours.
I have seen disconnect Survivors a lot, they won't take any humiliation. Rage quit aplenty.
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Yeah I've really gotten into Dredge, but outside of that I find nothing else the Killer roster has to be appealing.
I freshly P3ed Dredgie yesterday and the Blood web RNG has NOT been kind to me so I have literally nothing I could run on it right now, meaning I had to play other Killers yesterday evening to make some BP - and oh boy 4 games of 3+ Dead Hards, coordinated SWFs and pretty bad maps in a row and I was reminded why I quit this game in the first place.
Seriously, all my favorite Killers are either way too weak to compete so I just get bullied (Trapper, Doctor, Deathslinger) and / or have been done so dirty by BHVR that I just can not play them anymore because they are no fun (Hillbilly, Deathslinger).
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I feel you. I'm fairly burned out at this point - been playing far too much, and MMR is not providing me with satisfying games. Might taper off, might take a hard break - if I do, it'll be interesting coming back to a changed DBD.
Totally agree that I'm dreading what solo queue is going to look like with stronger chases and 90 second gens, especially when 5 seconds of basekit BT does virtually nothing to stop camping or tunneling. The floated solo queue information buffs cannot come fast enough.
Either way, you'll be missed around these parts!
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Just FYI Playerbase is up a massive +45% over the last 30 days on Steamcharts. There must be a huge influx of people playing killer.
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I suspect a lot of people who tend to play survivor otherwise are playing killer because the bloodpoint gains are higher, more reliable, and more flans can be obtained in the bloodweb.
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Also could be Dredge is still relatively new and very popular apparently.
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It's probably this.
The fact that I can earn almost triple the flans by playing killer is silly.
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