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2v8 - why is this a temporary mode?
Ok so I posted I think in August or something last year praising the devs for the game mode, and subsequently lamenting it being removed and promising to return when the mode comes back. A friend told me it was back recently and I only recently remembered, so I've checked in today and found out the mode was out only briefly in November and now its gone again.
I'm a bit disappointed as I thought it would at some point become a permanent mode in DBD. So sure, you wanna work on it, try new ideas and release it again. Why can't you do that and leave it up and running like you do with the rest of your content? Does anyone else share this sentiment? Like, for me I played the heck out of the game for about 6-7 years but the current 1v4 format just doesn't hit for me anymore. Back into exile I must go 😅 but first lemme hear your thoughts?
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It splits the player base too much. If 2v8 was a part of the game ATM a vast majority of people would want to play 2v8 exclusively. Nothing wrong with that how ever when people want to go back to regular 1v4 they must deal with the dreaded L O N G W A I T. (Not to mention killers have to deal with the L O N G W A I T in 2v8 regardless.) There's a lot of other things that factor into this as well but just from my dum dum armchair dev pov it makes sense why they can't/don't want to implement it fully into the game at this moment.
Also I think once 2v8 is played out it will become a wasteland and the vast majority I mentioned will be tired of it and back to 1v4. Making it a limited time event incentivizes people to enjoy it while it lasts but return to normalcy afterwards.No burn out
No L O N G W A I T…
No chucky revert :'(
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Does anyone else share this sentiment?Yes, though some people don't, but I've gone from being 'eh, its okay' to really loving the mode, so I'm hopeful for a more permanent fixture.
So sure, you wanna work on it, try new ideas and release it again. Why can't you do that and leave it up and running like you do with the rest of your content?A few reasons for this.
1: The mode is really causing havoc on the queues for killers in both 1v4 and 2v8. They still need to find a way to shift more people to wanting to play the survivor role to make it viable.
2: The changes are still pretty radical. It's much more of a beta mode than a full on, ready to play game. Taking the game down to test their new set of ideas, instead of putting them in and breaking the game makes sense.
3: There are still other new modes that they are working (I'm hoping for the 5v5 mode myself but there has been almost no word about it). Having the 1v4, an ongoing 2v8 mode that is still in a beta stage, and another new mode is tough on the development cycle.
4: Total suspicion on my part, they are still trying to figure out how to connect it to the 'grind' of the game as the bloodweb and pips are completely irrelevant to 2v8 (which is one of the many reasons some people love it).
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The mode ruins queue times for killers in both 2v8 and 1v4. I've had to completely stop playing the game dueing 2v8 bc 1v4 queues were so bad and since I don't like solo killer or have a friend to play with 2v8, the mode isn't fun for me at all. Sure I could play Survivor but I can only do maybe one or two Survivor matches before I get really bored in both modes. Im a killer main for a reason and when queue times are 10+ mins, I can't play the game bc I would only will get maybe 3 or 4 matches in a night before I have to go to bed. Both times they did 2v8 the same thing happened where killers were left in the queue to wait up to 20mins and it also really hurts the mmr system bc how it works, since the longer you wait in a queue the wider the search range gets and the match you do get will be really one side bc you be either going against really good sweaty survivors or baby survivors in 1v4. Either way your match as a killer may only last 5 mins before you have to head back into a 20min wait.
Tho you and others miss 2v8, I really don't and I am not looking forward it to coming back because it means I have to stop playing. If it did become permanent I would most likely have to completely drop dbd altogether (rip the money I spent). This is why I hope it never becomes permanent and only stays as a limited event bc I don't want super long queue times and imo dbd is a 1v4 game. That is what I got the game for in the first place and the reason I play the game. I would feel different if 1v4 wasn't affected by 2v8 but it is affected in both queue times and match quality.
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Not to mention the ppl like myself who only really want to play 1v4 would most likely be long gone by the time the 2v8 ppl come back to 1v4 since queue times will eventually kill the game for us. I know if queue times stayed between 10 to 20mins for months I would move on to another game and never come back to dbd.
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I dont like 2v8 at all but I'm happy for those that do enjoy it.
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Maybe due to the 20 minute wait times.
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Queue times simply become too long. Since 1v4 is their primary game mode, it wouldn't bode well for the health of the game to keep it permanent.
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I stop playing 2v8 every time even though I like the mode because I literally don't enjoy waiting 20 minutes for a game is lesser DBD and lasts for five minutes. I went on hiatus from the game after three days this time because I got bored of Surv and could not get into a game as Killer in either mode within a reasonable amount of time.
I don't like feeling like I can't play the game I paid for, with the Killers I enjoy, because I have to wait forever and my Killers will never be in the mode. There will never be Pinhead, Sadako, Ghostface, Nemesis, or Myers in 2v8. Why would I bother playing when I have to play Killers I don't enjoy in rounds I have to wait half an hour for that last like 5 minutes? Literally what is in it for me? Nothing.
The mode splits the base too much and creates horrendous knock-on effects for the Killer wait times. It cannot be permanent. I'd rather it just be its own game.
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