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Why I'm struggling with Dead by Daylight: A Statement

Hello people of the Fog,

alas, the time has come, yet again, for me to ponder my Dead by Daylight and Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim journey and whether or not it should come to a close.

The game has weighed on me with the weight of a thousand pebbles but I have forced myself onward. I collect bloodpoints. I die. Occasionally I lie down on the floor for a few minutes and then die. Sometimes I finish a generator and die. Other times I give a fellow survivor a much needed back rub and then die. But death is not an escape, and so I am thrown into another trial to perhaps tempt fate and maybe, just maybe, against all odds, hear the rumbling of the exit gates and taste freedom with bated breath.

Then, of course, I die.

The life of a survivor isn't an easy one when it's impossible to well, survive. And I think this is a trend that has been pushed for a long time, by the developers, so I don't want to see one of them coming in here and acting coy. You know what you've done. Medkits, for example. They take so long to heal with that I literally have to watch Family Guy funny moments on my phone to pass the time because I'm just so BORED. Almost bored to death. But death is not an escape, and so I put down my phone and continue, keeping Peter on in the background for company. He's the only one I can talk to, you see, as the developers adamantly refuse to add voice chat to the game (shocker) and my SWF abandoned me after I accidentally threatened to Blast Mine their home addresses. The survivor experience is not only boring, but lonely. Peter can only crack so many jokes before I start crying.

Then, obviously, you've got killers just playing like they actually want to kill you. One of them hooked me twice in a row the other day (the nerve) and another didn't let run past them to the exit gate after I'd pebbled them in the face. Like, where is this toxicity coming from? Both games I died, but death is not an escape, so I went into another game and one of these killers really wanted to ruin my fun and my day and my life and so they played Blight. Peter was gone at this point (my phone's battery had died and I really didn't want to have to get up and charge it) and so I was alone as my team were mercilessly mowed down (I assume that's what happened, anyway, because I immediately disconnected).

And people say killers have it rough. Made For This? No, survivors obviously aren't if they're getting killed so much. This game needs a serious overhaul. I know it's wrong to take sides, but when the developers add a killer who has LITERAL TUNNELLING built into his power you know it's gone too far.

I thought the Xenomorph was the straw that had finally broken the camel's back. I was... bamboozled. But, then, somehow, it got even worse:

You know Cybil Bennett from Silent Hill? Great character from a phenomenal game, especially now that she doesn't look like she'd be more likely to slip you crack than arrest you for possessing it. I bought her skin recently after beating Silent Hill and was abhorred at what I discovered. The Raccoon City 'police department' (no capital letters?) debacle was not enough. No...

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IT'S NOT "BRAHM'S", BEHAVIOUR. SHE DOESN'T PATROL THE TOWN OF BRAHM. IT'S BRAHMS. THAT'S THE NAME OF THE TOWN. IT SHOULD SAY "BRAHMS' POLICE SHIRT". SHE HAS SERVED THE TOWN OF BRAHMS WITH HONOR AND MERIT AND THAT DESERVES TO BE RECOGNISED, NOT ROLLED AROUND IN THE DIRT WITH THIS ABUSE OF PUNCTUATION!!

WHY IS IT ALWAYS POLICE DEPARTMENTS??? FIRST RACCOON CITY, NOW BRAHMS. NOT TO MENTION DESPITE KNOWING IT BACK TO FRONT RPD IS MY OWN PERSONAL HELL. I'VE DIED THERE COUNTLESS TIMES, BUT DEATH IS NOT AN ESCAPE

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HERE WE GO AGAIN. "BRAHM'S POLICE PANTS". IS BEHAVIOUR SUGGESTING CYBIL STOLE THESE PANTS FROM A PERSON CALLED BRAHM? (again, not entirely out of the question for the old version of Cybil, but this version? No way.) IT SHOULD SAY "BRAHMS' POLICE PANTS, BECAUSE THAT'S THE NAME OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT!!

DISCUSS!

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