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What do you want the developer focus of DBD 2023 to be?

jajay119
jajay119 Member Posts: 1,061
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As with the title, what in your opinion, do you think the devs should do to improve the experience of DBD this year?

What do you want the developer focus of DBD 2023 to be? 26 votes

Continue to release new killers and survivors
11%
SmoeQuietussolidestcross63 3 votes
Focus on new maps
7%
K139K05DoomguysThumb 2 votes
Boost Quality of Life (QoL) adjustments to the game
42%
Header[Deleted User]FridayNightPizzaHugTheHagArchol123JylppyGrunbarsaneesDistortion_EnjoyergenipreysPaleface 11 votes
Prioritise existing map variety and design.
30%
GibberishBlueberryChordycepsjajay119FMG15Brandon48SmolBlobSnowflake_Syndrome 8 votes
Other (please elaborate)
7%
Aurellehealsoflove718 2 votes

Comments

  • jajay119
    jajay119 Member Posts: 1,061
    Prioritise existing map variety and design.

    I personally chose to prioritise current maps. We are at a weird period at the moment where some maps have been re-designed and some haven't. Badham, for example, is very visually out of sync with other urban maps and is still very survivor sided (so I'm told). I'd much rather see a period of time this year where BHVR look at current map issues and create better varieties of existing maps than try and push out more new content.

  • Gibberish
    Gibberish Member Posts: 1,063
    Prioritise existing map variety and design.

    I think the biggest problem with the game currently is map design. Like 90% of the problems DBD currently has stem from poorly designed maps.

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671
    Prioritise existing map variety and design.

    As always map design is the games number 1 issue.

  • DoomguysThumb
    DoomguysThumb Member Posts: 2
    Focus on new maps

    Imo, the game would heavily benefit from more variation in environments. I think if BHVR took a season or two and just worked on releasing whole map packs this game would feel a lot more fresh and less repetitive. Right now too many maps look and feel the same, regardless on whether they are in the same "family" or not (i.e. Coldwind Farms maps). Give us a beach town esque map, or maybe one posted up on a mountain with some nice verticality to it, etc.

  • HugTheHag
    HugTheHag Member Posts: 3,140
    Boost Quality of Life (QoL) adjustments to the game

    Buff unused perks, balance some maps. Fix some hitboxes, give some love to lower tier killers. =)

  • jajay119
    jajay119 Member Posts: 1,061
    Prioritise existing map variety and design.
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3317142#Comment_3317142

    Honestly, why is Slippery Meat even still in the game? Who is using that when Deliverance is in the game?

  • HugTheHag
    HugTheHag Member Posts: 3,140
    Boost Quality of Life (QoL) adjustments to the game
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3317244#Comment_3317244

    True, haha. I guess it's in the case when you get hooked first and didn't manage to have a safe unhook before. You know, the Deliverance syndrome where you'll be found first through Lethal.

    But to get max value out of Slippery Meat, you have to start trying to unhook yourself as soon as you're on the hook, and if the killer sees you try to free yourself, they might as well stay and watch you kobe, then go after you again.

    Deliverance is better because if it's guaranteed, you can wait until the coast is clear.

  • Distortion_Enjoyer
    Distortion_Enjoyer Applicant Posts: 83
    Boost Quality of Life (QoL) adjustments to the game

    i want them to improve their bots so when my team DC cause they were downed first a bot takes over, only for survs, a killer bot is a joke

  • sanees
    sanees Member Posts: 617
    Boost Quality of Life (QoL) adjustments to the game

    M1 killer buff, most killers are not viable against a good SWF so it definitely shouldn't be

  • FMG15
    FMG15 Member Posts: 456
    Prioritise existing map variety and design.

    Half of the current maps are simply not balanced for both sides. Midwich favors killers too much while Fractured Cowshed and Garden of Joy are too survivor sided. Many maps should be reduced in size while others need a higher pallet density. Shelter Woods actually needs both.