Please don't notification spam the killer

I emphatise with you however you should play survivor, and I dont mean this is a bad way, its just that accecibility features for killer are non-existant. Other alternative might be to keep playing killer but on mute, which is not the best and will deny you information but its maybe a solution.

Why do I say this, because as much as the prople in this thread emphatise with you, relying on good will is naive, the people doing that spam do not care if it gives you something, in fact im pretty sure if they knew it gives you pain theyd do it more. So relying on them to behave is frankly not a real expectation to have.

Imo, anyone who (fast) vaults repeatedly so that a killer gets a notification doesn't do it for any practical purpose - other than "distraction by annoyance" maybe --- which frankly, I can very well do without anyway. Imo, two fast vaults - back and forth - can have a number of reasons. But three you don't really need to do - and with two preceeding vaults the audio cue doesn't give additional info either. So I think it'd be a win for everyone if noise notifications are only replayed twice (per survivor in an area around the first vault location and within a certain time). And/or the killer gets an option in the setting to turn off the noise notification and instead get a "notification vignette" when the sound plays, so that they get a visual instead of an audio cue to look around and find the visual cue indicating the location.

I think they should make the noices less loud the further away people are from the killer. It makes no sense that its as loud from the other end of the map as it is next to you. And distance is working fine with the terror radius heartbeat.

I definitely feel you. I also am on the autism spectrum and there are certain things that tick me off and make me overly uncomfortable, including touching as you mentioned in the thread and any kind of object getting close to my front neck area are extremely sensitive to me. Even if it’s just something minor like a little bit of air blowing on my neck area, I can’t even describe the amount of discomfort that gives me.

When it comes to loud noises, it’s not the spamming that sets me off, but it’s rather how loud it is and if I can physically feel the sound. Autism affects everyone differently, but that’s basically a little bit of my experience.

Yeah that's a good point. A similar thing happened when people pointed out flashlight clicking was an issue for epilepsy and they reverted the wiping animation update when it caused motion sickness. And they are adding an FOV slider for that same reason.

So they do care about accessibility and hopefully this thread does get their attention.

Honestly, I'm surprised there's not a cooldown or something for notifications from the same source. They gave Spies from the shadows a tiny cooldown for basically this very reason. Why do I need to know the same locker got opened and closed 37 times?

I completely forgot about that haha. That was awful.

Even when not taking into account sensitivity to hearing, those notifications can be rather distracting. Depending on the platform and settings there are options to stop notifications. On Xbox there is an option to silence them - I only get the notification when pressing the big X on the controller and see a notification has been sent. Hopefully there are options for other platforms.

However, it can be annoying, especially if someone is trying to team with the killer to say where a survivor is.

Notis should become silent after spammed more than 3 times. Or whatever theyre using to spam should be blocked off. Nothing is more annoying than playing huntress w/ iron maiden and having to endure survivors spamming the lockers. Very overstimulating and not fun.

I just did this the other day to get a PH attention... I hope that wasn't you, I was a Kate and my friend was playing pink biscotti...or was it the clown outfit? Either way, if I did cause this I am terribly sorry

Spamming noise notifications can be very annoying even for people without a disability like me. Here's hoping one day we'll at least get an option to deal with it.

Dyspraxia is a learning difficulty that is not as hard on people as autism but is not know as much as autism and dyslexia and ADHD. It affects people in different ways it can affect peoples verbal skills not so much me it can also affect you physically. It is scaled mine isn't as bad as some peoples. Some people can be extremely clumsy and some people may have to live in a bungolow due to falling down stairs I think. Mine is minor so I could work past it but in school I had to use a laptop and I got some learning support. Not as much as people that have it worse or people with dyslexia and autism. I think autism does deserve more help though. Dyspraxia is not known by many unfortunatly. I was lucky and was diagnosed at a young age though so I could get help improving my balence. It does also mean that some people with it don't like noisy environments I think if I remember correctly. Some of this info might be wrong google might have better answers.

i have no doubt bhvr will do something about this as long as it draws more attention

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Not saying I don't belive you but its strange how many killers always have problems like this when they want something to be changed:

Epilepsy attacks because of flashlights

Feeling dizzy or sick seeing the post hit animation

Now is autism if they hear too many notifications.

Maybe you are telling the truth. But the community here lies so mucho to get what they want that I am more than skeptical.

Just make it more quiet the further away it is, just as it is with the terror radius heartbeat already.

Have you ever considered that a large portion of people who play the role that requires as little social interaction as possible might be on the spectrum? Or that the world is filled with people who suffer from extremely common illnesses who also like to play horror games.

Flashlights being able to rapid fired clicked was annoying, gamebreaking as it literally could crash a lobby, and ran the risk of triggering seizures.

DBD has some of the most aggressive motion sickness triggers in a mainstream game which is compounded due to killer having a forced FoV that's too small for some and too big for others which causes motion sickness. It's a long standing accessibility issue that most games on the market have had the sense to account for early by giving players FoV sliders and trying to keep sudden forced dragging of the camera to a minimal.

Constant notification spam is a long standing and well known annoyance tactic survivors use to bother the killer. It offers no real value to their team and for players that have issues with over stimulation a round of DBD can become problematic. Again, it's an accessibility issue that most games resolve by either attaching cooldowns to noise notifications or letting players have the option of controlling which things give notifications or the frequency of notifications.

Killers in this game have gotten the sum total of about 1-2 accessibility features while survivors have gotten some sort of accessibility or annoyance limiting feature pretty much every time they've asked. Not saying that's a bad a thing, but literally the killer role NEEDS basic baseline accessibility features. People have been asking for notification cooldowns, FoV slider, granular audio controls for years. Not because they want to just win a game, but because the game needs these things and should have had these things. Part of the reason people often drop the killer role or DBD entirely is due to lack of baseline features that are present day one of most modern game releases.

You're not gonna see such gameplay from me, but I'd like to mention that Asperger's can and doesn't always have to be on the high-functioning end. I can work just fine, behave like an ordinary person.. You wouldn't even know that I have Asperger's unless I would've told you, though, you might've found my behavior somewhat odd..

Whenever I have faced such players, all I have to do is to take my headphones off or click the key combination to mute my volume.. And that's it; They can spam their fast vaults however they want to, but I can't hear anything, so they're wasting their own time while I'm still going around the map and destroying all the dropped pallets and breakable walls.

Quite a lot of people do treat the game competitively, so you're gonna run into such players from time to time.. They do have double standards for such situations, so arguing or discussing this matter with them isn't gonna do anything, but boost their egos by giving them the so desired attention.

Take care.

Why would anyone be against what is essentially a QOL issue rather than a balance issue? Your comment confuses me. Why would you object to any of what you said, even if there's NOT medical issues involved?

Even if EVERYONE lied about epilepsy and motion sickness, what would be the argument for KEEPING things that make the game feel bad and doesn't affect balance?