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BHVR PLEASE MAKE PRESTIGE OPTIONAL AGAIN

Antrapace
Antrapace Member Posts: 253
edited July 2022 in Feedback and Suggestions

The new forced prestige system doesn’t work for myself and many others.

I have all of my killers maxed out with every perk at tier 3 / purple, only thing I need to top up on is add ons.

Being forced to prestige, go back to level 1 and go through the mundane blood web over and over again, not only costs me a lot of time but a lot of bloodpoints too, plus the majority of time I don’t find the add on that I’m looking for.

I stream DBD full time and this unnecessary change causes me endless problems on stream.

Please can you just revert it back to being optional?

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Comments

  • Thusly_Boned
    Thusly_Boned Member Posts: 3,039

    I think BHVR's plan is to increase rare items early in the bloodweb to compensate, or at least I recall reading that.

    I hope so, because I sure don't need more yellow and brown add ons.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,528

    The killer add on grind is brutal atm. No BBQ bp bonus on top of forced prestige. It feels so much worse than it did before.

  • Antrapace
    Antrapace Member Posts: 253

    That would help a little but it’s not what some of us want, I have no desire to sit clicking a few items and watching the pointless animation. I just want it optional again.

  • Antrapace
    Antrapace Member Posts: 253

    It feels a lot worse because it is!!! I’m not even sure if it will help out newer players as they suggested. Well if they don’t change it it will be optional…once I hit prestige 100 😂

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,429

    Making Prestige Optional would kinda destroy the entire new system they just implemented.

    Maybe what they should do is each level of Prestige, the bloodwebs start getting bigger, sooner. So instead of waiting until level 40 for 2 perks per web, it's 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 and then once you hit Prestige level 9 every bloodweb is the size of a level 50 bloodweb.

  • Thusly_Boned
    Thusly_Boned Member Posts: 3,039

    I can't complain about the changes overall, since the patch essentially finished my quest to get all perks on all characters, which is where I really felt the grind.

    I do think that once you prestige the first time, the rare items should show up the same at level 1 as level 50, if you're going to make prestiging mandatory.

  • Antrapace
    Antrapace Member Posts: 253

    How exactly would it destroy it? Having it optional doesn’t make one bit of difference IMHO.

    Player 1. Needs perks and add ons = uses new system

    Player 2. Wants to show off their high prestige = uses new system

    Player 3. Doesn’t care about prestige / only wants add ons / wants to save time = uses old system

    bigger blood webs would help a little but more of band aid…real solution rework the blood web all together!

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,429
    1. As an indication of how much you've invested in a killer. It wouldn't work if you could just ignore it.
    2. Players shouldn't have to choose between 'unlocking perks on other characters' and getting add-ons. And while not as important because it's not affecting gameplay, they also shouldn't really have to choose between bloody outfits/perk charms and add-ons either.
  • MrPeanutbutter
    MrPeanutbutter Member Posts: 1,586

    100% agree. I am way less motivated to play than I used to be due to getting far fewer BP per match than I used to. To make it even worse, matches are taking longer as well.

  • Sharpefern
    Sharpefern Member Posts: 422

    So unpopular opinion I guess but I don't see an issue with the new system. I think in addition to everything is not running the strongest add ons every time. Like Pink and Purple stuff isn't supposed to be in every game and should be more rare as their names suggest.

  • Laluzi
    Laluzi Member Posts: 6,226

    God, this. It feels like I'm getting nowhere compared to what I used to rake in. I miss BBQ like an addict misses their fix.

  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 3,944

    because more rare means more expensive, and when your "economy" is centered around a twisted form of rng gatcha pulls, it creates a massive variance in value for literally every possible node on the web.

  • Ghoste
    Ghoste Member Posts: 2,135

    Agreed, it was way too easy to stockpile all the best stuff before. Although some of the rarest add-ons are kinda trash anyway.

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,713

    When they make the rarities the same as the level 50 blood web there will be zero reason to have Prestige be optional. It will take you exactly as many nodes to get an Ultra Rare you're after, for example, whether you do it at level 1 or level 49.

  • Phantom_
    Phantom_ Member Posts: 1,393

    Would be nice if they added a system to at least sell off the items/offerings/add-ons you don't want and never use anyway. At least that way you'd have a bit more BP to spend.

    THIS!!! Even some of the green add-ons have become rare.

  • Sharpefern
    Sharpefern Member Posts: 422

    But rare items are more likely to appear on the later levels. Like one purple add on is worth much more than 2 brown add ons.

  • TragicSolitude
    TragicSolitude Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 7,458
    edited July 2022

    The Bloodweb starting at tier 1 after Prestiging is an issue.

    I just went like 20 Bloodwebs without accepting the final perk. I didn't want the perk at tier 2, I certainly don't want it at tier 3. And it was great, knowing exactly what the Entity would consume first because of that one perk being unclaimed let me manipulate Bloodwebs in an efficient manner. Now I'm at Prestige 2 tier 1 and I have to accept the final perk to continue on. So far, I've decided to just not continue putting Bloodpoints into the killer Sucks. At some point that'll happen with all my killers, and I'll be at a roadblock where I just can't put BP into any of them anymore.

    The way this whole thing is set up takes away player choices and I hate it. I can't keep this one perk forever at tier 1 the way I did with the old prestige system. I can't choose whether or not to prestige. I can't stick with level 50 Bloodwebs. And I can't choose to keep my prestige levels private from others.

  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 3,944

    and then you have to pay another 20k to get dumped back down to only brown and yellow addons again. Out of every 50 webs, your chances go from near zero to low, then you pay a mandatory tax to put them back down to near zero and repeat.

    By constrast, the old system you just got up to p350 and you not only had a realistic chance to see one each web, but the odds didn't keep dropping and climbing back up. It was a more fixed rarity, not a variable one.

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,429
  • Antrapace
    Antrapace Member Posts: 253

    Thanks for taking the time to move this thread to feedback and suggestions, it will suffer a slow and agonizing death. I guess some things never change on here 😂

  • Adjatha
    Adjatha Member Posts: 1,814

    It took a full 50 blood webs for me to get 3 iridescent addons for a killer. That's around 1.5 million. For THREE iridescent addons.

    This new system is REALLY not very well thought-out.

    Unsurprisingly.

  • Antrapace
    Antrapace Member Posts: 253

    It’s beyond a joke and the forced prestige should have never happened. I’m only looking for some green add ons and that alone is proving really tricky.

    Its a shame this post was relocated to feedback and suggestions which anyone on the forum barely uses 😭

  • YOURFRIEND
    YOURFRIEND Member Posts: 3,389

    I'm just posting in support of the op. Nothing else to say.

  • Antrapace
    Antrapace Member Posts: 253

    I appreciate the support, I don’t feel like my suggestion is too much to ask for. Shame this post will soon lose all visibility.