What are you thankful for?

No mater what we think of what BHVR does, we have always been amazed at how good the visual updates look. Even the one update we dislike still looks great.

We also appreciate the DS nerfs over the years. Slowly but surely got to a good point (tipped abit after that but still).

This one will probably get us yapped at but we also like how the game has (slowly) become more and more balanced. No instant heal medkits or instant repair bnp. No true infinites baseline. No recovering from exhausted while running. The small things add up.

And for BHVR putting up with ALOT of hate from people for oftentimes little reason. Patience of saints for whatever reason.

Recently? I'm thankful for Wesker. Best designed killer since Blight. First killer in a long time that I'm actually sitting down and trying to grind the various techs on.

The QOL update for solo queue.

Complaints around survivor gameplay are typically so far from my solo experience that it's hard to feel heard. Complaints around gen rushing, or gen perk builds, or toolboxes with BNP. None of that is my reality, it's not something myself or the team mates I get matched with engage in. So it was really nice for the devs to acknowledge the solo experience in amongst all that noise and recognize the reality for alot of us, completely separate from killers and swfs and all that 'them vs us' stuff.

nothing, i'm just becoming tired/upset of this game/company generally speaking since:

1 map rewok are even worse than their previous version, both aesthetically (the new maps doesn't even have a grim look like the old ones which were darker and more close to the horror atmosphere) and in terms of gameplay (they worsened the situations of the maps by adding stuff that wasn't necessary like breakable doors and despite they have SLIGHTLY nerfed some of the most broken loops in the game, they compensate by adding more pallets and window generally speaking)

2 nerfs to killers/perks that were without logic and no one asked (billy, deathslinger, selfcare, pharmacy, etc etc)

3 the blatant hypocrisy of the devs on certain arguments, both in game stuff and other things that i won't mention here for obvious reasons (you can easily guess tho)

4 they are more concerned about releasing skins than invest some of their resources into new mechanics/game mode and stuff for fighting cheaters (they did something, but that wasn't enough to be considered worth of mention, also do not forget that they opened the gates of hell when they released for free dbd on epic games store) and toxicity (all the proofs that i send to them via screenshots of people who were awfully mean by writing insults, slurs and death threats were are ignored and left unpunished)

5 NFT stuff and other debatable decisions...

i wonder how people can still defend/appreciate a company like this one despite all those issues...

I'm not sure exactly what all of his techs are, but his mimic hug tech seems way harder to pull off. I sadly am doubtful they will come up with a better designed killer for quite a few chapters.

Thankful for base kit Borrowed Time. Didn't play much before that, since I was pretty new to the game, but helped a lot.

Thankful for new Lethal Pursuer, that perk is so nice to use now.

For the bots too, they're great to have private games when you don't have a full lobby, despite their quirks.

I'd say thankful for Reassurance but they nuked that one. Still, the intention counts.

• Solving the DDOSing issue that's been in the game since 2019 and every single time it is brought up they sweep it under the rug
• Implementing working anti-cheating/hacking measures
• Balancing all killers so that all of them are roughly the same strength
• Introducing SBMM that turned SoloQ from a frustrating but occasionally awesome experience into a complete misery fest that makes me want to have my wisdom teeth removed again except without anesthesia this rime around
• Learning from past mistakes and introducing maps that don't have a ridicious amount of easy to chain god tier loops that force M1 killers to break pallets until the gens are done and hope survivors don't abuse infinites
• Nerfing anti-tunneling perks and introducing killer bullying perks so that both soloq players and low/mid level killers are miserable to the same extent
• Encouraging 3 genning so that matches boil down to who gets tired first and not who is the more skillful player

Except people were complaining about Deathslinger's quickscope on the forum rather frequently back then because Deathslinger players could just scope in and out constantly to force Survivors into a lose lose situation no matter what.

Also map rework being worse or better aesthetically will always be a subjectivity case.

BP economy overhaul, and the perma-unlocking of perks on prestige. Those were excellent changes.

That doesn't change the fact that alot of people didn't find his quickscope fun nor fair to go against and bhvr reacted accordingly to that feedback, whether or not bhvr did enough to compensate for him losing his quickscope is it's own discussion. Also i'd argue that Deathslinger takes more skill now to land a shot with than he did before.

Current maps may be brighter yes, but that does not necessarily make it a bad thing. imo i genuinely 100% prefer daytime coldwind with it's Texas Chainsaw Massacre aesthetics over the dull and boring brown aesthetics old coldwind had. I'd say the same for all the other reworked maps as well.

I'm thankfull that it provided 7 years of content for me. I like to watch streams and to play the game. Definitely worth the money I put in it, since I got a lot of enjoyment out of it.

I'm thankful for visual design. Lover their designers and how they implement characters or drawing maps (last update to red forest was top notch)