DBD Positivity Thread

I love when I'm Steve or Jonathan in SoloQ and a player changes to Nancy and we both run bloody Partystreamers and become SWFs. Or, if I'm Nancy and the Demogorgon is the killer, we usually become friends post match.

personally i love the people (both the devs and players) as well as people who just play the game for fun like its just a game and many know that

If there is one thing I still love about DBD is how the game used to be.

There isn't anything left in the game for me to enjoy, but memory is something that no patch can take away and let me tell ya, I loved this game in the past.

Old DBD was easily one of my favorite games and I don't think that will ever change.

I love that it's two games in one, each with dozens of different combinations and ways that you can play. It's also kind of insane how many horror legends have been added to the game over time. It's truly become a "museum of horror".

I do miss the feeling of fear that I used to get when I first started playing, though. They've faded for me now unfortunately, but while they lasted they were a better adrenaline rush than watching any horror movie.

Thankfully, It will never stop being fun to run at Survivors with a chainsaw as Bubba, or give players a fright with a well executed Michael Myers jump scare.

I find I don't really need it as killer.

that said...i really should.

if only to have bird silhouettes appear on my screen at random

I like when a survivor has a practiced way to evade a killer's ability.

I always want the game to last forever, with just that repeated exchange, whatever it might be at whatever object the survivor is using.

It becomes like an enjoyable obsession that lasts until the match ends. I don't care about the outcome of the match, just that one player and the geometry they are using.

That's unique to this game and appreciated.

For me it's the all the different characters in one game. Where else will you see Laurie Strode, Ada Wong, Ash Williams and Nicholas Cage teaming up against Freddy Krueger, Nemesis, Leatherface, Pyramid Head or Xenomorph? Where else will you see some random guy in a white shirt come out of a locker to teabag Amanda Young? Where else will you see Ghostface chasing a random girl in a pink bunny sweater through Haddonfield and teabag her after slashing his knife across her back before taking a selfy with her, where some random dude shows up to pop his butt into the picture? That is all real. These are all things that happen in this "horror" game. 😂

Also, I like all the little things you can do in this game to throw off your opponent. Pretend to go left, then go right, turn 360°, teabag and DH before dropping a pallet. I'm pretty sure there is no other game where this is considered crazy good gameplay. 😄 Killers have their own equivalents.

Some of DBD's older realms have a distinct feeling to them. As much as I dislike some of the McMillans gameplaywise, I cannot deny that they do have a special kind of feeling to them. Same for the Azarov's maps. Even after their reworks they kept some of their original flair. Sadly, this is getting more and more rare as BHVR rework maps. The new maps all look kind of generic to me. Like they could be in any other game and I wouldn't notice, that they should be in DBD.

The community despite all its downs is also pretty cool. So many passionate people about a game that we all love and hate at the same time. But there are also many good things that come out of this community. Like Burger King Myers, Shirtless Myers, Locker Dwight (god, they are cute), Bunny Feng and the other many, many, many memes. Even the discussions on this forum, which for the most part are very reasonable.

I also love these games, when both sides are about even in terms of skill and loadout and can all agree on a good match. Sometimes I'll have the most wholesome post game interactions with a bit of genuine advice here and there as well as some nice words after a tough game. I try to spread that same kind of positivity but of course it won't always work or be understood in the way I meant it. All the better when it does.

I've had some wholesome moments, but one in particular is on my mind right now...

I was Rebecca going against Nemesis in RPD. The match went normally until two teammates were dead. Nemesis found me and I dropped down a hole, ran and vaulted through a window. I turned around to see Nemesis just standing there staring from afar and then he left.

I worked on the last gen while Nemesis would occasionally come in, kick it, and leave again. He knew I was there, too, but kept leaving me. Finally he found the other teammate and killed her as I finished the last gen. Nemesis continued to stare at me from afar. Then he took out the zombies that were getting in my way and then opened the gate, even leaving the gate so I could leave. Of all the people to spare, spare the S.T.A.R.S. member, I thought. I've been shipping Rebecca and Nemesis ever since, writing fanfics about them and everything. XD

And interestingly, this match happened one year ago today. XD

I love when I'm on a gen/cleansing a totem/whatever, and another survivor runs past and 'smacks' my behind and then runs off. It usually happens when I'm playing Thalita 🤣 it makes me laugh. I love tbag greetings. I love when the killer is good at pressure and I can't get anything done, so I point at them to go away and they do so lmao

Its fun for me to miss bounds with Wesker, especially when its due to me failing to flick the mouse at the end, I want to keep trying.

Blight is fun to bring to short wall objects where both sides can see each other and try to either hug them our bounce around them until someone messes up badly.

I like Xeno and pallet approach angles+TIming.

That sort of stuff.

Oh a positivity thread? That’s rare here. I like.

gotta point out BHVR as a company at this present time. While sure, they have the priorities not well set imo, the company per se seems to be a very good employer, especially with the gaming industry going through some tough times with layoffs BHvR is not one of those. They have presumably very good working conditions, work-life-balance, etc.

I wish the games direction was more dev-driven than management/sales-drive (at least it seems like it at times). But yeah. Overall, it seems very good.