How satisfied are you with the game currently?

I think it's fine. Not great, but not terrible. 6.5/10

I personally think a lot of your points are overexaggerated. I don't think Made for This "killed killer diversity". I can still play basically any killer fine and I still face a decent range of killers (Wesker's massive popularity extends way further back than End Transmission anyway).

I wouldn't call Xenomorph a dumpster fire either. I'm not struggling a massive amount against it, and once the cooldown bug is fixed, I think people will stop complaining for the most part.

My biggest issue with the game currently is the sheer number of underwhelming perks. There are a lot of downright terrible perks, and a lot that are just "meh". I would really love to see a lot more perk buffs, as the amount of bad perks outweighs the number of good ones. This is exacerbated by the fact that the majority of recent perk releases just haven't been very good strength wise.

Buffing a large number of perks would help build diversity a lot, and I'd like to see it become an even more common thing. BHVR included a good chunk of nice perk buffs with the 7.1.0 update, but in my opinion we need a lot more.

I don't know how long it'll take to get that point, as designing changes to perks is a pretty long process. I just hope we keep seeing a good chunk of perk buffs with every midchapter (more along the lines of Trail of Torment and less of whatever happened with Hangman's Trick, though).

Changing the meta is a difficult task, but we've reached the point where we need a lot more perk buffs than perk nerfs. Only a couple of perks either side need toning down, but there's a LOT more that need a facelift.

Not much interested. Especially as solo survivor.

Don't want to play mediocre killers considering MfT after End Transmission.

SWF is fun but has so many advantages unlike others so I don't play more than an hour.

Starting to make me think that the most optimal way to enjoy DbD is just waiting for patches I hope I guess.

Also it is getting tedious because of lacking cotents/game modes.

I think the Xeno has broken the MMR system since it was released. I'm facing top tier killers that I usually never see (with full Meta builds and iri or purple add ons). Even the lower tier killers that I've faced are running their strongest possible load outs.

One killer even asked if Self Care was still in the game and asked if it was still viable. Yes my friend, Self Care is indeed still in the game (and at your MMR, no it's probably not). Imagine never seeing Self Care in a survivor build? I see it all the time!

Meanwhile, my survivor lobbies are around about my skill level. I've not escaped once today. Where did all the top MMR survivors go? Are they all playing Starfield or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something? A popular / strong new killer's probably brought a lot of experienced killer players back to the game too.

It'll probably go back to normal in a couple of weeks, though. The only thing I really didn't enjoy recently was the change to vaulting (which they've mostly fixed). I didn't hit a single survivor through a window before that got patched.

Otherwise, it's more or less the same as it was when I started playing half a year ago. I don't think meta shifts affect lower MMR players all that much (I wasn't there for it, but I can imagine the healing nerf noticeably made the game much, much harder for a lot of solo survivor players).

I'm still hopelessly addicted to the game. Send help / out of 10?

(edited because I got the name of Self Care wrong).

I'm very satisfied. I love chasing, and can't care less about defending boring gens. They buffed Coup, and gave us Rapid Brutality! They also tricked survivors into running puny haste and endgame perks.

We may have not arrived to the speedup meta yet, but that's where we are heading, and it looks so much more fun than the slowdown meta. Let's not stop until Clown is S-tier!

It's pretty good they have fixed a lot of things like solo survivor we can see what teammates do that is super helpful. Game will never get balanced to perfection but it's in a decent state. Some maps could be smaller and better balanced but will probably happen..and Pyramid Heads addons will some day get better, Twins, Skullie will be reworked etc.

There will always be things to fix but it's a lot better than 2 years ago for example.

Still pretty decent, better than previous versions so that's a current 8½/10

8/10

For DBD to be a 10/10 they would need to:

Buff weaker Killers

Buff more underused perks from both sides

Nerf Made For This

Encourage/Reward Killers for spreading hooks among Survivors

Make Killer MMR hook based instead of kill based

Give Killer an FOV slider

Make half of Kindred basekit so Survivors can see each other when someone is hooked

Add controller options such as deadzone settings and different sensitivity when aiming as Huntress, Deathslinger, etc

Remove Blight's "Hug Tech" (exploit)

Revert Survivor nerf to their speed boost when injured

Allow Survivors to bleed out if everyone is downed/you are the last one alive

Add Keyboard and Mouse to console (no reason not to with crossplay being a thing)

These are the changes I think would be universally good for the game

yes please buff all sorts of perks and thus is genuine

buff deadhard, decisive strike and vigil range buff

killer main btw >:-)>

They need to remove self unhook attempts, it's just bad for the game and besides Deliverance it is almost never worth doing in terms of actually playing the game.

Rework slippery meat, rework luck based items/addons and stop letting people just toaster bath themselves on hook because they get pissy.

Mechanically, the game feels the best it's ever been. Not perfect, but better than the bugs of the past. I'm able to excel as Killer and Solo Survivor when I play well, and when I lose it's most often than not easily traced back to my own misplays.

However, players DCing, giving up on hook, killers facecamping, and just a general role imbalance during peak times that messes with matchmaking, seems as bad if not slightly worse than ever. It's frustrating, because it seems like players are creating this self-fulfilling prophecy and dragging the game down around them for everyone else.

No harm in reworking those, but that isnt the cause of survivors displeasure. I'd assume they'd just run to killer to get hooked again

the ranking system was a very meaningful part of the game for me. since then, it feels like the game became more isolating. the next best thing was being able to see people's prestige levels, but that has been removed from the game for me as well (they apparently removed it for select players).

dead hard was really fun, and flashlight clicking was enjoyable. and i say this even as a killer main, because i played a lot of killer, and it made games more interesting as both survivor and killer.

i enjoyed being able to unlock perks on all characters without having to do the blood web so many times.

i enjoy the automatic blood web feature, and i think preventing instant downs when unhooking is also good. but overall, a bit of magic has been removed from the game.

I give the current state a 4/10. Once it gets to 3/10, I'm done. I enjoyed the game before MMR was introduced. Every time I play, I keep chasing that high I will never get back.

Good grief some of y’all are very clearly due a break from the game.

It’ll always be around 6/7/8 for me.

Solo Queue can be pretty damn miserable sometimes, but a large part of that is just not really solveable. You just can’t fix stupid.

Also, it may be recency bias, but I also do not recall matchmaking being any better before MMR was introduced proper. I regularly faced curbstompers, whilst having very starchy teammates with less than 10 hours. The latter has significantly improved. The former very much not.

6 or 7 out of 10.

Killer is fine. Solid 8/10.

SWF is also fine. 8/10.

Solo survivor is a complete waste of time. Teammate matchmaking is some of the worst I've experienced in any online game. WHy even have SBMM if you're going to allow unlimited lobby dodging and zero logic backfills? 2/10.

I'd say a 9/10 but I've only played for a little over 1700k hours starting around this time last year, I missed so much of early DBD that I think my response my be moot, that being said I love the game it's so frustrating sometimes and awesome at others. I can see how people could get burnt out though, the community is rough but coming from other more intense pvp games this is kind of meh. The devs do baffle me from time to time with how they buff nerf certain aspects with no rhyme or reason. The gameplay is what I love though, the whole chase and being chased is just dope to me and never boring or unfun.

The game needs an alternative game mode, something ground breaking. 2 v 8 or some kind of new format for games. Probably at a 6.5/10 right now. Litterally brought a PS5 yesterday but haven't used it yet, that might bump it up a little for me but after nearly 30 chapters, something needs to give.