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Nonsensical Grade System

Ethromel
Ethromel Member Posts: 176
edited January 2024 in Feedback and Suggestions

Why am I being penalized for NOT being spotted or chased by the killer? That makes no sense.

The autonomy that these killers have to chase or not chase a survivor should not determine whether or not MY grade goes up or down. Isn't the whole point of survival to NOT be seen by the threat? So why is this grading system backward rewarding players who can't be stealthy to save their lives getting rewarded for sloppy performances?

Mind you these are the same players that will require a rescue because most of them are horrible at looping and therefore are nothing more than liabilities to the survival of their teammates. And if it weren't for me or others similar to knowing how to play, these survivors usually die within the first two minutes of the match, and that's AFTER being unhooked because they got spotted within the first 20 seconds after the start.

Yet, while I and other veteran players will have to risk ourselves to save these weak links, the killer tunnels the weak link. The game DOESN'T consider me to have been chased. I survive the match, get the top score, but get a MINUS ONE to my grade.

This is just another ridiculous mechanic in an already obviously flawed game made by tertiary thought.

Comments

  • Batusalen
    Batusalen Member Posts: 1,335
    edited January 2024

    It's true that the pip requirements for survivors should be tuned, but if you are simply "not spotted or chased by the killer" but unhooking, healing and doing gens, you should be getting points for:

    • Lightbringer: For actively doing gens + 1/3 of the points for other survivors doing gens.
    • Unbroken: For not being downed in the whole game.
    • Benevolent: For the healing and safe unhooks you or your teammates do.
    • Evader: For being inside the killer TR even if the killer didn't chase you.

    So, at minimum you should not be losing any pip. In what grade are you?

  • Ethromel
    Ethromel Member Posts: 176
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3626264#Comment_3626264

    I am iridescent IV on survivor with no pips now. Originally I was iridescent III, but I keep getting a -1 to progress because I'm very good at staying out of sight even after a hook rescue. The other survivors leave scratch marks and the killer typically hunts them down. I escape only to find I'm losing a grade for NOT being chased.

    I will get gold or iridescent on my grading, but the chase emblem will be empty and I get punished for it. I understand and am a practitioner of ninjitsu, and implement my knowledge of it in the game. So I often hide in plain sight. If I get spotted it usually only happens because another survivor starts working with the killer or becomes a hater because I'm not getting chased and will LEAD the killer to me. I immediately blend my scratch marks with the turncoat traitor and they get chased anyway, while I blend back into the environment.