Why do map offerings still exist in DBD?

"They can be fun but in all honesty it’s mostly used for bulling from either side."

Yeah this is pretty accurate. Rarely is some guy just wanting a map for his build or because he enjoys it. The vast majority of the time it's a squad just wanting another stacked advantage on top of their swf and bnp's/syringes/styptics. Like 90%+ of the offerings are all for the same few busted survivor maps. Rarely do we see variety here. I'd love to see a statistic on map offerings for not only how often they're thrown but also which maps are getting thrown the most. It would be ridiculously lopsided for the same few over and over.

When I play Sadako, I very much want to see the Game… Because im feeling a little devilish…

Jokes aside. I think you are correct, however. Fixing maps is an even harder task to deal with than removing map offerings. They more often than not can decide the outcome of the game for whoever brings it.

Removing map offerings would help a lot right now to tackle to overoptimization that this game heavily suffers from.

True that, my friend.

I don't think fixing the maps is particularly hard, to be honest.

We've had excellently balanced maps in the past: Original Chapel, Coal Tower, most of the Coldwind maps after patch 3.7.0 (except Cowshed), most of the Autohaven maps after the number of pallets was adjusted.

It is easier and better than removing map offerings, imo.

The maps probably need adjusting so the bias towards either side is reduced. Regrettably, this will take time as well as "trial and error" to get the balance right, and it's extremely unlikely that maps will ever be perfectly balanced (even more unlikely that there would be an overwhelming agreement amongst players!).

There are some things they could do to ease it. I'm not for the complete abolishment of map offerings because I do like the variety in Offerings. However, there are some ideas:

1. Make Sacrificial Ward not just cancel out map offerings, but completely remove it from the pot.

2. Make map offerings occur less often in the Bloodweb.

3. Create grouped map offerings. By this, I mean consolidate 4 realms into one offering and balance them so that there's as much chance of a survivor-sided map as there is a killer-sided or mostly-balanced map. That way, they may be used more to avoid a realm, rather than go into it.

4. Perhaps alongside 3, create new Offerings which affect things within the map, such as weather, side quests for extra BP, or maybe adds portals (such as on Vecna's map). Maybe even an Iridescent offering to randomize everybody's perks (including your own)!

It's possible to add some new flavour in Offerings, whilst still leaving room for maps.

Or just revert Gideon back to its original layout and adjust the number of pallets.

Oh I love being sent to The Game as Mirror Myers

It's because the developers know there are some players that need an extra advantage by having a good map because otherwise they will have a difficult time. Survivors who use survivor-sided map offerings like Eyrie, Badham, or Ormond are bad players who need an advantage - otherwise they will even lose against a beginner Trapper or Freddy. Survivors who use map offerings for old maps either think they are comp players or want as much control as possible over the match. Both player types often run similar builds. And if it looks like they will lose the match despite the map offering, they will dc. Same goes for killer players but these ones use them not that much. It's actually really funny and intresting how similar players can be. Also intresting when it comes to which server uses which map offering and how often.

In my opinion, map offerings should lower the chance for the realm instead of increasing it. This would make map offerings more balanced overall and would be the best solution for the game. The current map offerings are unhealthy for the game because nobody likes it when someone sends them to a map that is bad for their role. Some maps are also really boring to play on depending on the killer or survivor role and get send to these ones will make it even more worse.

Some users say maps are the problem which is true some maps like Eyrie, Badham, The Game, Haddonfield, or Midwich are really bad for one side or boring and need more adjustments but: It is nearly impossible to make every map overall balance but also unique. There will always be a part of a map that either the survivors or specific killers can abuse really well which - as a result - makes the match unfunny when the other side is prepaird for it to play into that. It will also take a long, long, longe time to balance every map because the developers are also busy with new content, bug fixes, and other stuff that there is not much time to give old maps a quick and good fix. Their modern map design is much better than the old one (e.g. Toba Landing, Nostromo, Greenville, and the current PTB Map are overall balance and unique). However, sometimes the developers are not perfect and miss the point of good map design, which means the reworked map is still awful and they have to revisit it at a later date (e.g. Garden of Joy and Haddonfield missed this).

Overall, the best that the developers can do is to rework map offerings and still rework problematic maps because doing both is a good quick and longterm solution for the playerbase to enjoy the game more.

To be very fair, Killers also do this. They also offer strong maps for themselves, however I usually only see it as ranged Killers who need open maps, or stealth Killers who like indoor maps… or Skurchent.

I feel like Map Offerings should actually work the other way and guarantee you DON'T go to that map. That way there's less manipulability and more randomness, and we don't have as much of this syndrome of "I am gonna force Ghostface to play on Coldwind, and Billy to play on RPD" or "I am gonna force the Survivors to face my Huntress on Ormond." You'd have to adjust the achievements for them, of course!

I wouldn't be against getting rid of them, or at LEAST consolidating them. Too many map offerings are for 1 map instead of a realm having like 4 or 5 maps. I feel like some of those could be combined.

Yeah the majority of killers I play are low tier or m1 killers as well.

Pretty sure the size was the same, but it had way less pallets than it currently does. Generally speaking it was considered a killer-sided map.

Fair enough, that one actually works with that map.

Honestly I don't think fixing the maps would be particularly hard. The work has already been done for many of them.

I think Badham 1 is okay, because it still has the map's original layout which works fine. The other four can go.

When survivors play a Game offering but I'm playing Nurse.

This.

I love it when it happens. For both sides:

To be fair, it is Nurse.

Yep! Knight is my new number 2!

I started playing him during the first Lights Out event, as Freddy wasn't available, and I gotta say I loved him. Easily the most fun I've had with a killer since Old Freddy.

I hope to get him to P100 after Mikaela.

Really?

Well done, my dear friend, I'm so proud of you!

Ha, guess you can finally harm the crew, then.

A blush as red as that P100 badge, no doubt.

Who is next after yourself? A different killer or a survivor?

Map offerings shouldnt exist in the Game and finally need to be removed Map Offerings are just there for SWF and Nurse Mains

I instant dodge every Map Offering

If your game should close for whatever reason during the offering or loading screens, you will not receive a matchmaking penalty.

To be honest, removing map offerings would just be a bandaid solution to terrible map design. However, the devs stated that they don't have a problem with maps being the decider factor of who wins or loses the match, so they might as well get them removed.