I haven't seen streamers such as Otz having so much fun

I've seen a lot of content creators enjoy TCM but most of them have said and acknowledged TCM isn't a DBD killer and won't replace it. Of course streamers will enjoy TCM though it's a good game and it's a new experience that's an authentic recreation of the source material in video game form.

TCM has a lot to work out though and I admit even though TCM is one of my favorite franchises I don't know what it's going to do long term since it's restricted to just TCM unless it brings in guest characters.

I agree with this though - Personally the only thing I'm looking forward to is Nicolas Cage of all things. I have 2m bp reserved just for him.

My favorite issue is how lobbies feel like an eternity if not everyone readies up. Also how the intro to each round takes forever.

Lol. It’s only fun now because it’s new and different. Once the “scariness” wears off it will die. There’s not much the Victims can do, unlike Dbd where you at least have the chase with optional stealth.

Not bashing TTCM at all though, it’s just not going to make much of, if any, a dent in Dbd. It’ll be a nice side game for when you’ve gotten tunneled/bullied one too many times and need a break.

tbf, the last patch of decieve inc killed performance for many people. Also the heat system is really underwhelming. It might pick up steam when the devs put out the next patch that is suppose to buff the heat system if they also fix the new performance issues.

those asymmetric games did not follow dbd formula. TCM is following DBD formula. It has windows in the form of cracks on the walls which can create infinities. It has pallets in the form of doors where if you slam a door onto the killer, you can stun them and drop them on the floor. Leatherface can break the doors and pre-drop pallet locations aka breakable walls. The game has decisive strike in form of bones that stun killer. It also has lockers in form of fountain wells that you drop from to get away from killer. The game does not contain generators, but you could argue that their version of generators is more interactive. You pick-lock doors which is killer version of pallets for survivor and then you perform an interaction to unlock exit which is close to doing a generator.

The locks and victim objective is extremely fast but that is similar how dbd started with old 60 second gens. On top of that, there is perks for victim perks and family perks. TCM is closest game to read DBD 2. It takes a lot of DBD mechanics and arguably improves a lot of them. If the game got live serviced for 5 years and made bunch of new killers, survivor perks, 20+ maps. that is as close as you get to DBD 2.

It's fun because it's new and a lot of people are just messing around since it's a test.

Once the full game releases, people will optimize the fun out of it, a meta will form and they'll have to keep adding stuff to keep it fresh if they want it to last a while.

That said, it doesn't have to last nearly as long as DBD to be successful. Do some updates here and there adding a map and killers, fix anything too OP and the game will probably have it's own niche of players for a while which is just fine.

It won't kill dbd, but it's not meant 2.

Unfortunately cook feels unfun, and it's either way 2 easy to escape as certain survivors especially or way 2 hard.

Hopefully more killers add variety to each match

Reasons why the game is popular....

1) Gates and doors are "reusable pallets", and you can "pallet stun" killers with them.

2) There are bone piles where you can spam a button (even in mid-chase) to get an item to "stab stun" killers. You can hold up to 2 of these stab weapons at the same time, and you can get multiple stab weapons from the same bone pile. You can also try to 360 the killer, to try to go for a backstab stun.... and there's one character that is so strong that he doesn't care if he backstabs, because he can "stab stun" killers from any angle.

3) You can "Head on" stun people.

4) You can chain stuns together. Maybe you want to "knockdown stun" a killer to the ground in front of a container, then chain that into a "head on" stun, then chain that into a "stab stun"???? Sure, why not????!

5) Some of the loops are balanced for 2 killers to be at the loop at the same time...... so if a survivor is 1v1 with some of the killers, then some of the loops are infinites. So if the killers aren't using voice comms..... well too bad for them.

It's a game that in its current design allows you to escape in ~2 minutes with a very high chance of not even seeing/interacting with the killers. People would be losing their minds in DBD if you could escape in 2 minutes/get a 4k in 2 minutes.

The only reason you didn't see more of that is that there's nobody putting those strategies online yet.

Not every game reaches Fortnite level. Fun fact, Fortnite's original game mode failed and was taken over by the Battle Royale mode that was only added, because it was the trend at the time.

It's not likely TCM will kill DBD, although TCM itself could carve out it's own niche and live on. It's impossible to know at this point, because the game is new.

You're comparing apples to oranges now.

TTCM & DBD are not comparable to Fortnite.

Also, Fortnite has the backing of a very large corporation that has ties with other large companies through licenses. Their devs also switch up the game mechanics very often. There isn't much that the devs for Dbd, nor (especially)TTCM can do when it comes to vary the game play and keep it interesting for the long term.

I wish them the best, and maybe they're be a long lasting niche, but they won't make a dent in Dbd.

You realize you're in a thread that's comparing one game to another right?

Dbd has done a lot that made it fun, new and interesting, TCM is also capable of doing the same in its own way, we just have to wait and see what happens with both games.

It will probably suffer the same fate as Evil Dead. That game was really fun in the beginning and then it got rather boring doing the same old thing over and over. TCM looks kinda fun, but I don't think it has the longevity of a game like DBD.

DBD is unique because there's such a huge variety of maps, perks & playable characters. I pretty much main killer and I feel like every match is unique in one way or another.

Problem with games like TCM is they're pretty limited on how much they can add content wise.

Dead by daylight didn't start off with all of these amazing characters, maps Etc it took the devs time to come up with these ideas and then make them and put them in the game.

For the record I never compared dead by daylight to fortnite.

This is the point I was trying to make in my original post.

The part that worries me about TCM is that one of the designers said there was too much doom and gloom in the subreddit about the Family feeling weak.

While it is too soon to really figure that out the designer dismissing the possibility out of hand without considering it gave me schadenfreude about what happened in closed beta with VHS. If players feel the Killer role(s) are a joke player retention will suffer.

On the bright side the designers have said they're happy with a 60/40 win rate for the Family/Victims so as long as the new player experience is kept in mind it should turn into a good side game with DbD. It's just after seeing what happened with VHS I'm a bit cautious in my expectations when I hear devs make statements like that.