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Many survivors don't want to go back to 1v4 after 2v8 ends
1v4 feels overly sweaty not to mention boring as solo queue survivor after the chill chaotic fun matches of 2v8. The maps just feel empty and there's barely anything going on. I really hope they make 2v8 permanent because 1v4 is just not it anymore.
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2vs8 should be pernament and I see many complain the reason it should go away because it affect 1vs4 queque times and they say people don't want to play 2vs8...
If that is true then 1vs4 would not have queque problems. Survivors need some new fun things 2vs8 I think that will solve queques. Now though it's been better and all my queques today has been under 9 min on killer and even some under 5 minutes.
Devs already said they are going to put separate bp bonuses for different modes in future. So that should solve if 1vs4 has any queque problems because not bonus bp.
I think both modes can co-exist. Dbd has biggest playerbase of any asymmertical horror game. So it can definetely have 2 game modes. Eventually more players return to play 1vs4 regularly as well.
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While I'd like 2v8 to become permanent, I think it's a fantastic add to DBD and I also think it wouldn't drown out 1v4 (while there are people who prefer 2v8, plenty of people are just playing it now because it's new and time-limited, it won't have this effect on 1v4 queues forever…) I think it should go away for a bit just so devs can cogitate on whatever data they gathered and make some adjustments to the roles, killer powers, map design and mechanics, etc. This is a very successful test drive, but it's still the test drive.
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If 2v8 becomes permanent the only survivors left playing 1v4 will be 4-man swfs.
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What? Thats the first time ive heard of any survivor wanting to stay in 2vs8.
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I felt this way about Chaos Shuffle and survived, you'll be fine.
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And me? Any survivor who likes flashlight saves or stealth builds or any kind of perk variety will choose 1v4. Any survivor who wants to play against a killer who isn't one of the OG 5 wants 1v4. Survivors who prefer a game where they have a better sense of what's going on and can feel safe knowing the killer is occupied prefer 1v4. Survivors who want to be able to loop without having a second killer show up and go 'lol no' need 1v4 - or survivors who don't want to have to dodge Huntress hatchets while looking out for Trapper traps at the same time, because 2v8 is chaos. Hell, I want 1v4 because 1v4 has Off The Record and it's way too easy to get juggled between the killers and forced out immediately in 2v8.
2v8 has draws, but there are things it does worse than the original mode, or just doesn't do at all. And I find that my teammates play differently when we're a huge swarm of survivors - from solo 1v4 to solo 2v8, people are way less altruistic in the new mode, or invested in keeping teammates alive as long as possible. There's less teamwork and more 'someone else will take care of that.' Also more sandbagging, part because there's just too many survivors not to run the killer into someone, but also part because Guides are always helpfully showing their auras to anyone who needs to ditch the killer.
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2v8 has its shortcomings, but still, you can do very well with little effort, even in solo queue. Besides, the bp bonus is very attractive to a lot of people.
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I mean, the last time I played this mode, there were 7 people unable to get me out of my Cage. I got one-hooked (or one-caged).
The problem I see is that 2v8 is more something for SWFs (which is something I always said when someone wanted it). But if you are a Solo-Player you will just have to deal with more Survivors being inefficient than before.
I personally enjoy 1v4 way more than 2v8.
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I definitely feel that way to a degree, but the novelty is going to wear off a bit at some point. And when/if the available killer roster is expanded and players can use their killers of choice, some of the chillness of the 2v8 is going to go away.
One of the great things about 2v8 is that it's really hard to tunnel, but some of that is going to be diminished when the higher mobility killers are (ostensibly) introduced into the mode.
I can think of some really nasty killer combos we're likely to see at some point.
Also, a lot of the current 2v8 killers are teams of players who were previously surv players, and just not all that good yet. I feel like it's pretty easy as surv now, but I don't expect that to last forever.
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It’s fun and I love it but it is different since you can’t really pick a customized loadout.
I believe 1v4 is still the more balanced mode. It feels more technical. And still very intimate so that the Killer and Survivors get to know each other 💀🔦
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Yeah sure you can get ######### over in a game. Several games in a row. But overall? I think you're going to succeed way more than in normal mode as survivor, or at the very least, get a feeling of success without investing too much into the game- especially if all you want to do is casually play… and I think that's what a lot of DBD players want. Most? I dunno about that, but a lot nonetheless. They just want mindless fun.
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2v8 was fun but it got stale fairly quickly
the gameplay loop is too repetitive since there is no variety in perks or add ons and at this point all you see is huntress & trapper each match
I almost always escape each match which adds to the staleness, not by skill either but just by the sheer fact that we'll always power through all the gens and probably lose like 1 or 2 players in the process
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Count me out of that. I'd much rather play 1v4 survivor than 2v8.
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I also enjoy more 1v4 as survivor because i have perks and can make every match feel different since survivors are skins. But i also think 2v8 can be improved for survivors and it is a new mode that should be brought back more frequently than the modifiers. I'm fine with 2v8 not being permanent but please, don't take MONTHS or even year to make it available again.
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The first though is a pro/con, the lack of effort can make survivor feel unrewarding, and the BP bonus cannot be a long term solution.
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I'll be glad when 2v8 is gone, at least until they add more killers to it to have some variety. Every 2v8 match has a Huntress who's using one of the 57 methods of aura reveal in this mode to blast you from the other side of the map. Even in this mode with 7 other survivors to choose from, the killers will still be racing across the map to find survivors that were just uncaged to tunnel them as well. Even when I try to play 1v4 right now, the killer queues are still 5 minutes plus and survivor in 1v4 takes almost as long to find a game. Maybe if they put some iteration into it it'll be more enjoyable in the future, but right now I'll be glad when things get back to normal.
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I'm not arguing that, but I am saying that they count for something to a lot of people. I don't think this mode should be permanent but I understand why others want it. It's easy mode, and for the time-being, about as casual as you can get in DBD.
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If 2v8 had more variety in killers it would be more attractive longterm. I like the lack of 'regular' perks, relatively low chances of being insta-tunnneled and the chaos of it all. Even when you lose a killer and someone pops a gen revealing your location again it's a bit of a thrill. 400bp isn't too shabby either. The killer games I had with a friend felt very fun even when we were losing.
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FWIW, I've played DBD for 6 years and I've never been a Stan. I've always had other pvp games that I prefer. 2v8 is the first time I feel like this could be a game I play daily, because it's lighter and simpler and faster — more like the games I love most.
I can see how, for the hard-core fans who do Stan DBD, they might feel differently.
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Ah yes of course, playing excessively survivor sided mode for long time will make actually fair mode feels like "overly sweaty" for sure
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I'm already fed up with 2x8. The problem is that 1x4 doesn't have any BP incentives so it also makes me not want to play it either
This is the best moment to take a break from DBD, until the new mode goes away and everything goes back to normal once again
I'm only playing a few matches now because of the new Tome page that has opened, I want the rewards
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Sure they do. They're facing 1 killer instead of 2. Their main complaint in 2v8 is "It's unfair! I can't outrun 2 killers!" I can't even make the argument that they're more likely to have a bad teammate cost them the game in 1v4, because whether it's there or in 2v8, dead weight is dead weight and it'll cost you. I feel that killers are gonna have a hard time adjusting when they go back because they can't insta-cage people and they don't have a teammate. Coinciding with that 10-second hook time buff isn't gonna help either.
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Sure they do. They're facing 1 killer instead of 2. Their main complaint in 2v8 is "It's unfair! I can't outrun 2 killers!" I can't even make the argument that they're more likely to have a bad teammate cost them the game in 1v4, because whether it's there or in 2v8, dead weight is dead weight and it'll cost you. I feel that killers are gonna have a hard time adjusting when they go back because they can't insta-cage people and they don't have a teammate. Coinciding with that 10-second hook time buff isn't gonna help either.
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2v8 is unplayable garbage. Unbalanced, unfun garbage. Every match I did was filled with more sweat than I normally encountered in a normal match, regardless of if I was survivor or killer. And that's IF I got to play as killer, since the queue times were so bad. It was the worst thought out game mode I have every experienced in any game I've ever played, and I've played a lot of games. Bloody Overwatch - the king of terrible game design - has better thought out modes than 2v8 was.
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Definitely good that they have experimented with this. Was fun to begin with. But now it's just killers either shooting across the map to interrupt the uncaging with Billy or Wraith or if they're playing together their team mate does it by staying on opposite sides of the map. Played a Billy/Wraith combo where it was practicallu impossible to get an unhook without the other killer showing up.
If its not that, it's getting old very quickly facing huntress in 9 out of 10 games. The mode needs more variety to make it viable long term. How they do that, I'm not sure.
There has to be less people playing it now, it was taking a good while for some of my survivor lobbies to fill up this afternoon. As I said good that they've experimented with this though.
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"The mode needs more variety to make it viable long term."
This.
I really liked 2v8, I think it was fun and something that DBD really needed, but the lack of killer variety is pretty bad. I honestly think they should have delayed it until every killer was playable.
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I have been escaping way more in 2vs8 soloQ than in normal. 1vs4 is for swf and 2vs8 is for solos you got it wrong. 1vs4 requires more coordination and skill from survivors and you need swf agains't most killers to have chance. I would however like to see some antitunnel and saves in 2vs8 and something for chase agaisn't 2 killers still in future. I don't think I play 1vs4 soloQ again if 2vs8 comes pernament.
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I think 2v8 shows how stagnant 1v4 gameplay has been for a long time. I'm not a fan of 2v8 but I can understand why people like it.
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This was just test and they will add more killers/classes and maps next time. But I find it also enjoyable there is not any unfun killers from 1vs4. Imagine your facing skull merchant and knight...
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Don´t speak for me.
This mode is exhausting and also there are to limited options and a lot of unfair situations where you can´t do anything.
Needs some tweaking.
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I like both of them, to be honest. I wouldn't mind.
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