The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

I haven't loaded in since update yet but was planning on later today. I was hoping since this patch was mainly bug fixes that maybe performance wouldn't get worse. Of course it does get worse though and right before the Halloween event... Always the patch before the Halloween event starts...

The devs don't play their own game on console or they'd see the same things we're seeing. And then they don't believe us unless we have video evidence and tell us to deal with it when we tell them it's difficult to do on console.

I play on XBox Series X and since the 6.0 update, the game health has been awful. Longer than normal loading screen times (2-4 minutes main loading screen after starting the game, between 30 seconds to 2 minutes loading a match), lag, stuttering, significant framerate drops, audio lag, ect.

Changing sounds does not improve framerates. Animations do very little. What does improve framerates is making sure content is released with little to no bugs/glitches, that locations/maps aren't cluttered with unnecessary objects, and codes aren't trying to overwrite other codes. My guess is there is a lot of codes trying to overwrite other codes. You have 4 players with a large list of possible perks, 1 killer with about the same list of perks, killer abilities have to compete with said perks and vice versa with survivors, while competing with objects in the map (generators, totems, ect). My overall point is the game is starting to get cluttered with code and that can cause some of the most issues in framerates, freezes, lag, ect.

They need to either fix their codes which may not ever be possible depending on how many are conflicting. or start a whole new game from scratch which would be the easier solution.

And up to this point their solution is to neither recode this game from the ground up nor make a fresh DBD2. Most likely waiting for support of the prior gen consoles to end so we can be all be punted away...

Its not too bad but expect short freezes like always.

I'm gonna play anyways.

I completely agree.

Agreed, I think they mentioned its on the cards on a anti cheat post but maybe I'm just looking for answers so hard I wanna see I'm going crazy aha

60 FPS lives on a beautiful farm where it plays with Switch cross-progression every day

After their 4 year promise and this post going for 2 years with no real improvements to optimization I think it's confirmed they aren't bothering, especially for the older consoles. Knowing new consoles have experienced performance issues already I'm sure it won't be long before they'll be in same spot - asking for optimization and seeing no improvement, only BHVR saying they're looking into it.

After this it has made me not want to play BHVR games on console because I can't trust that they'll put in effort to optimize the games for the console playerbase. I got the new game for free on ps+ but I won't be downloading it, I've learned my lesson with DBD.

Less relevant?

I finally got an Xbox series X. Still get stutters in the middle room of Lery's, especially against Freddy or Doc, and a few spots on Garden and Haddonfield and other maps. Sloppy Butcher being applied on any of them triggers a frame drop, and you know that perk will be run more often after the recent update. Exposed triggering for any reason can cause it to happen too.

The more ya run DBD it seems these issues slowly crop up again.

I like how they removed the optimization reports section , but the game still freezes when some things happen overall in the game + the new building related to the SM on shelter woods still kills my perfomance when chasing there so Im forced to play on medium or low when i get that map to avoid fps drops.

totally we dont need a optimzation issues report section RIGHT? 🤔

Still nothing new.... damn

I was able to play the game again like a moth ago... I did have fun... but I also feel like my Killer preference is getting stale

Not much to say on the Console side I haven't had many issues with it

SWF teammate has never streamed so be kind of random to DDoS him and do it this often.

The people kicked from these triggers can see the killers load out because it says killer DC'd too even though match is still going - it's like the game is confused and gives you DC penalty just to be safe.

Seeing more people in that post mention same triggers it really feels like it's related to performance issues we get. Maybe for most it causes the freezes we've complained about here but others it is kicking them from the match.

Of all the frustrating things in this game, few are more frustrating than losing track of a survivor or missing a skillcheck because of framedrops.

I'm still suffering on Switch, and I had the genius idea of getting my friends on the switch version too thinking the custom games would be better but no. It nearly bricked one of my friend's Switch Lite (Game crashed and system wouldn't power on for a whole day), another friend said they had constant frame stutters which causes them to miss skillchecks occasionally, and I can barely play an oni match with more than 1 person being injured since the blood orbs cause massive frame slowdown. Every one of them thinks the game is just a cash grab due to the low quality of the port. This is the impression new console players are getting.