I won't blame Otzdarva if he leaves Dead by Daylight and as Fog Whisperer

Money rules.

This counts for Otzdarva as well.

The overall frustration around Base-Players is very (!) unverstandable. I mean, little things take ages to arrive, while DBDMobile is showing heavily how you could move on.

Little things like a return of OG Freddy with Adjustments is taking FOREVER and gets delayed till eternity, while small things like the HUD gets hyped... which isnt that big of a deal. Its nice, it should have been around sooner, but everything just TAKES FAR TOO LONG for the devs to do.

It feels (!!!!) like all that matters is pumping out new chapters for money, copy&paste. It feels like the biggest part is creating killers and cosmetics, while gameplay gets abandoned besides small things.

They need 6 months (!) to adjust a perk, like WHAT?

I don't think he'll leave. He's built up his audience with dead by daylight content. I just think he needs to mix it up a little in terms of different games (which seems to be what hes doing) cause yeah he probs burnt out

I dont ignore it.

I gave the devs a lot of critisism.

But just because some things are negative doesnt mean that everything is bad. Most players just focus purely on negativity. I try ot be optimistic. Life has tought me that being always pessimistic only leads to pain, anger and sorrow.

We can be better.

It’s also dbd mobile.

The platform has been out for a fraction of the time OG DBD has and yet there are so many things they have implemented that the community wants ranging from QOL to great skins/alternate moris and even a new game mode recently.

Naturally people would look at all this new stuff and ask themselves “Why doesn’t the OG game have all these? What are devs so busy with where even implementing QOL changes may take months if not years?” Sure the public may not be aware of the workflow that OG dbd has going on, but that is where PR has to come in to manage expectations and portray things in a better light.

The devs are all great people, but I think the PR in responding to questions could be handled better.

The comment that Otz talked about in his video regarding showing perks in the lobby definitely could have been phrased to something like “We have a lot lined up now but we’ll do our best to slot it in when we can!”

The reply acknowledging that nothing could be done about suiciding on hook sounded so … desolate. I could even sense that the dev replying had no idea how to resolve hook suicides and had no intention of trying. Even if that is the internal opinion of the dev team, it’s not something that should be acknowledged to the public. Once again it could have been PR-ed better.

As much as I get the point of the AMA is to be truthful as much as possible, the comments don’t just reflect the opinion of the devs but of the company itself. I’m not going to assume only one dev thinks that hook suicides can’t be fixed when I read the reply, I’m going to assume that BHVR as a whole is aware of hook suicides and acknowledges officially that it can’t be fixed.

The PR needs to be better.

I will say that the "years" thing rubbed me wrong as well, but at the same time... None of this is new.

I think, generally speaking, Otz really needs a break from the game, and many players with him. He's heralded as the DbD encyclopedia, but that's gotta eat at the man at some point. He's ultimately just a player with frustrations, just like the rest of us.

Familiarity breeds contempt, and all that. Proportionally, one can only be amazed how he doesn't loathe DbD at this point.

It's too early to have expectations on what the freddy change is gonna be as we don't even know what their plans are for him yet.

The AMA are always a joke. They just answer meme questions, give nothing answers, or just outright ignore good questions.

That said, I found this video pretty lame. They have changed perks that It's has found to be problematic.

He, like many players and streamers are just annoyed that MMR got tweaked and he doesn't get super easy matches on a regular basis.

I don't even dislike Otz, but just calling it how I see it. I still have fun playing, but this game definitely deserves criticism. I just found this to be a little over the top. BHVR is not acting any different (for better or for worse) than they have since Otz has been playing it. Now he's getting some tougher games and all of a sudden BHVR sucks? Lol, sure.

There is a very simple solution to survivors giving up. Remove the 4% mechanic, because it is dumb, remove the struggle mechanic, because it is dumb, and actively start banning people for afking, trolling, griefing, or "giving up". Every other team based multiplayer game is able to do this, why can't dbd?

There is a very simple solution to SWF vs Solo, many of them in fact.

• Remove SWF.
• Make them separate queues (ranked vs unranked) and balance the modes differently (I.E. shorter gens vs solo, and longer gens vs SWF, or maybe SWF run at 95% movement speed, or any number of possible changes).
• Show killers who the SWF are so they can opt in/out of them before the game starts.
• Show MMR to everyone of everyone in the lobby, so both sides know if they need to sweat or not (i might have a match of 1600s and know i can chill a bit, vs a match of 2.2ks where i know i need to bring strong stuff)
• Give SWF a penalty for each member of the SWF (reverse prove thyself maybe?)

Several of these things are just numbers tweaks that could easily be worked out and tuned over time. But the simplest solution is to create separate queues.

Oh I do know: They dont have a plan.

only concerning part on AMA was bridge gap on soloq vs swf question. having an option to show your teammate your perk loadout should not take years. it should take 4 months-8 months.

Yeah I heard they started back filling players in matches to keep queue time short because people were complaining about long wait times. Yeah so low skill players have to get thrown in front of merciless killer players who focus on the "weak link" and then take the group down. It's really not fair for low skill players to go up against high skill players just because some people complain that the lines were long. And it's the same way for killer players but at least they get to stay in for the whole match.

BHVR doesn't need Otzdarva. BHVR passed a point where they are established, DBD is established. These forums seem to be turning into customer complaint lines. Welcome to DBD. BRING MONEY.

The problem is feedback is ignored here, as well. We had numerous people tell them that MFT was a problem during the PTB. All of it was disregarded and went live as is and then stayed a problem for half a year until they went, "Waaaait a minute....MFT is a problem...who knew!?!?" And fixed it.

When people recommend Otz to take a break from DBD don't forget that DBD is literally his career. When your audience watches you for one thing in particular it's really difficult to steer away from that thing if it's how you're going to get paid. I get the intention of telling him to take a break, but it's really easier said than done.

Otz is a great guy who is clearly burnt out of DBD, what he should really do is play the game a little less often and maybe focus on playing DBD to have fun with friends like KYF or SWF rather than focusing on a much more informative route or committing to kill streaks (which he loathes doing).

I love Otz for his personality, he's incredibly charming, very charismatic, and a wholesome figure in the DBD community. Without him I have no idea where DBD would be at.

Recoding the game isn't a simple task that can be churned out. It's going to take years for them to recode everything. But importantly, I'm pretty sure the dev team is already slowly working on recoding aspects of their code.

We've seen some innovation stuff with some recent killers. Xeno's underground map, Chucky's 3rd person camera, Singularity's bipod cameras. I doubt any of this stuff was possible for them years ago.

They did say that the tunnel system Xeno has wasn't possible at the time Demogorgon came out, so you're not far off.

They've said in the past it's too late to add a replay system in, it would had to been in the original coding apparently. One of the reasons why I'd love them to recode the game.

Xeno's tunnels look like they're based on Demo's portals. Chuck's pov and model likely came from Victor. I'd have to think about the various parts of Singularity to see where they came from, if not actually new. Don't play him anymore too poopy with a controller. I think they said it takes a year's time to do a killer.

"true colors"

the sad fact is that your favorite content creator had to get mad about the devs before you got mad even though they've been like this since a long long long time. this is not the only AMA in which they give non-answers. in fact start from the first AMAs recorded with mathieu cote and not queen. there were far more lies and non-answers back then, just your fav content creators didnt comment on it too much. i remember one of the prominent excuses being "it's a small indie company" but not anymore for sure.

But that's no excuse to give up.

Their response of "we find the issue with swf is more that friends cooperate than a lack of info" is correct, but it doesn't mean you don't do anything about it.

The devs do not have control over player attitudes and behaviours, they DO have control over the info that's available. Help bridge the gap in the ways you have the ability to do so!

You will never make swf equal to solo, but closing that gap by any amount will be an improvement.