Otz taking a break

There’s a massive difference between being targeted by hackers and it ruining your games and bemoaning the fact that survivors are bringing stuff like toolboxes with BNP, using prove thyself and hyper focus etc.

The former is a serious problem (Otz also mentioned DDOS as well) and seriously needs addressing. People say streamers shouldn’t get special privileges and I agree, but stuff needs to be put in place to stop people being held hostage for hours or face DC penalties through no fault of their own. I don’t understand why it seems like this isn’t a massive priority for the devs- it’s a seriously bad and embarrassing look for the game.

The latter complaint however regarding “Gen rush” builds does come off a little (only a little) entitled. However to counter that, I think Otz probably now feels like through a combination of various factors that he can’t really do any special challenges anymore, which is probably going to render the game very stale for him. Whatever side you’re playing, there are stronger perks/add ons/items etc that you can bring and unfortunately if you don’t bring those things (which Otz tries not to) and the opposition brings the strongest things they can then the match will be tough and you’ll probably lose. At which point there’s no point crying about it. But it means stuff like challenges and win streaks are probably too stressful to even bother with now and with that I do sympathise.

That sucks... But it's good to take a break

It is true, the game might be in the best spot it has ever been in (in my eyes) but it is also in one of its most problematic times.

I watched his first game on the stream and at the 10 minute mark he goes into more detail and, yes, it sounds like a lot of it has to do with him being tired of stream snipers and cheaters. It also sounds like he’s still probably going to play DbD but just isn’t interested in doing crazy challenges and such, he might be thinking of just splitting his time between DbD casual games for fun and other games he hasn’t tried yet like Hades which he was playing at the end of the stream.

P.S. Also a bit later he goes on to say the game itself is actually overall in the best shape its ever been for most players, it’s the issues he has as a high profile streamer that are frustrating him (sniping, cheating, mostly going against Nurse and Blight at his MMR, problems at his MMR with Hyperfocus right now, etc.) None of which impacts average players, it’s instead high end, prolific player/streamer issues.

Think we all need a small break from games from time to time, even one of the best players.

He can go and play Civilization

I mean, with all the respect to Otz, for a guy that makes 50k a month playing dbd. I wouldve quit it long time ago, no amount of money can help you endure what he has to.. Beeing a succesful streamer day in day out playing dbd, insanity!!!!!!

Hope devs will figure out, but i doubt it. Good luck to Otz whatever he does.

The first 30min of his most recent broadcast is filled with him discussing his frustrations as of late.

This is more speculation on my part, as he maintains the position that it is just cheaters & snipers driving him away from the game, but I believe he feels helpless (about all of the game's problems) despite his status and contributions to the community, and is in need of something that will give him satisfying returns on his investments.

Here is a clip from his last stream, talking about taking a break. I labeled it 'Part 1' as I anticipate finding something a little more concrete later, which I can link you to as well, because this is in no way an official statement about taking a leave from DBD.

Edit: Otz clarifying to his viewers that he still wants to play DBD

Can't blame him.

It's hard to know if someone's subtly cheating or just good and it can absolutely ######### with you.

Oh a reporting system relying entirely on players to record all their games and do all the work backed up only by a terrible anti-cheat that doesn't really work is leading to the game being miserable? Who could have possibly seen this coming?

BHVR has been ignoring this issue for years and it's finally becoming too much, we'll see if they take it more seriously now that the game is becoming literally unstreamable but probably not.

He is rich through his streams, he dont deserve to complain when it is literally his job and a easy one compared to many other jobs. Stream sniping is bad, yes, but he gets money from it so no need to be sore, hacks are annoying and should be banned but he is paid to endure that, DBD gave him A LOT of money through views, donations and increase in popularity. He is using vpn, good, DDOS is awful, but he surely wont quit of course, why would he? Either way there is no need to feel bad for him, yes the issues are glaring, cheaters, sniping and DDOS attacks are bad especially DDOS, but gaining THAT MUCH MONEY he gets from it i would not complain at all.

I really don't get the thing with gen times.

"Oh no, the game is in such a bad state right now, because of BNPs" – dude like, you played the game back when BNPs were insta gens.

Gen times are at their slowest in history.

Keep nerfing all speeds, but don't buff solo Q.

Gen times are NOT a problem. SWF is the problem.

When playing solo q, you have to be lucky to see 1 gen pass. Let alone 5.

Yeah most streamer chats are echo-chambers, Ive been accused like five times of subtle cheating as Myers by increasing my speed, it always goes as this "Uh this Myers looks fast" then the chat starts "he is cheating, either PWYF or he is cheating" and then "lol obvious subtle cheater", if they bring the accusation in post game chat I try to reason with them due to Myers animations he seems slower than he really is, even if the streamer ends up convinced the chat still spams "cheater, cheater, cheater".

Being sorrounded by people bombarding you with the same ideas over and over cant be good for your own perception of the world, happens a lot in real world, sometimes Something™ gets blown out of proportion by the press and suddenly everyone is afraid of Something™, even when the cops go out and say there was only one case in the last year people are still super scared of being victims of Something™.

I played against a Nemesis the other day who was running more than 4 perks.

Because I was running Saboteur, I could see he had Monstrous Shrine. He was also running Devour Hope, Undying, Ruin, Haunted Ground, and cleansing totems took about as long as if he had Thrill of the Hunt.

I said to my friends very early in the trial, "This killer is cheating, but we have no way of proving it to the devs. The video file size to prove he is cheating would be too large for their system to process. Everyone report in post-game, and then laugh about how our report will get thrown out for lacking a ticket and evidence."

This is what is happening to Otz? He is streaming and i dont see it, i just see he complaining that a killer was camping and that a killer hit him on hook at endgame chat.

Actually its even worse. A better comparison would be if Brad Pitt was filming a movie and a guy poked him every 20 seconds, ruining the scene and making the movie unable to be completed. That's what the cheaters are to streamers.

It's honestly hard to believe how little communication BHVR is doing about this whole cheater problem. We understand that you can't fix everything overnight but not even aknowledging the problem and remaining silent is not going to work. There have been various ideas on how to deal with the situation but nothing has changed. I understand why Otz would decide not to stream DBD anymore when he has to worry every single game about getting stream sniped, held hostage or apparently even getting ddosed.

Even if the video file is heavy, you can post it on Youtube as private and share the link in the support's ticket. That's what i always do.

And while you all write a lot of words, Otz is streaming right now. He is streaming DbD. He just finished a match with plague, and he chose hag for next match. Just to let you know.