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Best Memories From When You Started Playing?
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I started playing a bit before the Legion patch. While the game was a very different place back then, I do miss the 'vibe' maps had, as they felt a lot darker and grittier.
Now granted I played a lot of survivor back then and it was hilariously silly, but WGLF was a BP machine if you could get it going but it also resulted in a LOT of survivors competing for the unhook and without baseline BT…do the math. This actually resulted in me playing killer more as I was so irritated at constantly getting farmed.
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Well, my fellow 2018 DBD player, my best memories from when I started playing are, naturally, Freddy.
Nothing in DBD was as fun as playing Old Freddy, and nothing will ever come close. He was my killer, my reason for playing. I loved that character, and I still love him.
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My first match against a tombstone Myers.
Seeing him mori my friend was unexpected and hilarious. I didn't know he was able to do that back then.
Otherwise? Falling in love with Piggy of course! ❤️🐽❤️
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Quite a few but I think one of the most humourous was when I got my Evil Incarnate achievement because the Survivors I was facing kept teabagging me and quite often in a group.
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I won by downing everyone with M1 as Hillbilly because they would dodge every time I tried to chainsaw. Got a hate message after, saying, "Man, you're just a M1 Billy." Like that's some kind of knock against my skill or something. Super funny.
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Our characters' heads would tilt, and it's like, "Aw crap. Run."
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EXACTLY!
Or, if you were bold, "…maybe I have time to finish this gen". That is when the Block add-ons were useful.
Ah, I miss him so, so much. What I wouldn't do to get my killer back.
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My first match ever with my beloved Piggly Wiggly was on old old Haddonfield. Barely knew what I was doing, repeatedly got spun, and ended up with maybe two hooks. They took my gens, they took my totems, they took my wallet and my left shoe! I still very clearly remember them all up on one of the overhangs crouched and slowly bobbing their heads.
I've never been a particularly good killer, but I know I've come a long way since those days.
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I think I started with Wraith, then promptly resolved to never do that again. Huntress was a lot of fun but I was bad. I think I bought Hag for Ruin and Devour - and holy crap I loved her. I'm more of a macro/tactical player and I think I mained her on and off for the entire time I played DbD.
Only killer that I enjoyed more was Skull Merchant and we all know how that ended.
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That reminds me, I think my favourite aspect of old freddy when I was a new player was how authentic it was when you were awake and you'd see survivors hover into the air and seemingly slap themselves onto hooks. Def one of the most iconic Freddy details that's no longer really a thing
Then again there was also times where you'd spawn in, hear the lullaby then immediately people start DCing on the spot.
Fun times.
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I very much miss the vibe of the dark maps too, I think they ruined a lot of the horror aesthetic by making maps daytime. My fondest memories are on old Coldwind, where I was absolutely terrified of killers and would run OG Spine Chill so I knew when the killer was looking my way and I could pre-hide from them lmao.
No0b3 and Monto were my favs and I even watched TrU3 back then, I was amazed how players like No0b3 were so confident around killers and all I wanted to do was to learn to 360 killers.
I miss the aesthetic of old Coldwind in particular, the golden night skies had such a vibe and I feel they completely destroyed that with the new maps which I no longer like at all.
I miss old DBD, I think they improved a lot (obviously) and it is far more polished and refined… but old DBD had way more character
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I loved the vibe but the dark maps…the problem was how much the incentivized hiding forever. Holy crap were Claudettes a pain on the old Game, for instance. Unless you used another program to pump up the brightness to absurd (and ugly) levels, they could be legitimately invisible.
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My best memories from when I first played Dbd are centered around how the game initially made me feel. When I first started playing I remembered feeling like I was actually in a scary movie. I loved how the different combinations of Killers, Survivors, skins, and stages made each trial feel like its own unique story.
Here on the cusp of 2025, not only do I still feel the same way but the feeling has actually become much stronger.
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Our mostly revolve around kyfs and the shenanigans we would pull on each other and friends. From instant full heals to use each other as a shield to moris on the offender to effectively playing mine sweeper with doc and jump scare Freddy.
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I think that's what I've lost in a way. Now all I see are ones and zeroes essentially - many thousands of hours in and I know the game pretty well. There are no more surprises. Oh, I can always improve and get better at looping/counter-looping, aiming etc. but that's all muscle memory stuff. I can tell when someone is better than me or when they're easy to loop/catch. I can generally guess after the first 5 minutes of a match what the outcome is likely to be.
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Started playing in 2016, vaguely remember thinking Dwight's running cycle looked like he did a number 2 in his pants. Almost folded over laughing.
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Yes that can happen. I’ve found that reading books and trying to come at the trials with a bit of role-playing can help preserve the imagination like it was the first scary time playing the game 😨😄
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Ill keep it simple, everything before 6.1 patch came.
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I remember having all my progress reset.. then getting 15,640,000 in compensation.
Now that may seem like a lot... but this was back in 2017, meaning it wasnt just the old bloodweb
it was the bloodweb that you needed to "click to continue" everytime you got a node (each node took like 2-3 seconds) and bloodweb prices were ridiculous back then. It wasnt based on rarity, but rather what ring it was in the web. First ring was 3000, 2nd was 5000, and 3rd was 8000. So in the same bloodweb you could spend 3k on a New Moon Bouquet, and 8k on a poopy brown medkit
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The best killer we have, my friend <3
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I just went against a Freddy. I love to see them. Ggs to him!
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My best memory when I first started playing was when I met a friend named Pumpkin. I don’t see her as much as I use to but she taught me Dbd and walked me through the fog so I wasn’t alone. I miss her 🥲
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I think the overall state of the game, from variety to balance has - barring some aberrations like pre-nerf Eruption and MFT - been objectively better for everyone since then.
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One day there will actually be a Freddy rework.
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I started in 2019- things I miss:
- Dark maps, especially Coldwind. Daytime Coldwind just isn't it.
- Spirit before the directional audio. A lot of people will disagree (understandably), but I am hard of hearing, so I had to rely on outguessing/predicting where survs were rather than listening for them. This was a lot easier before her phasing sound was directional, and I just can't use her as effectively anymore unless I run the cherry blossom every time.
That's about it. People talk wistfully about old DBD, but for the most part it was comprehensively worse than it is now. I mean having to deal with OG DH and the old bloodweb alone would outweigh anything positive we've lost, imo. There are so many things about old DBD that are better dead and buried.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
I never got to experience old Freddy, but I am sorry for your loss. I will say that as a huge fan of 80's horror, his current moribund state is a travesty.
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With the January rework coming it's best to move forward. Dwelling too much on the past can be overly painful 🙂↕️
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I remember playing Myers on release and was wondering why I couldn't catch anyone. Then realized I could press M2.
Myers used to be 103.5 % or 4.12 m/s in Tier 1.
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I am afraid that is not possible, my friend.
Old Freddy isn't just my favorite killer in DBD. He IS DBD.
I think you would have liked him, my friend. He was an amazing character.
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I started playing in 2021 and one of my first games was together with @radiantHero23 as survivors. We played against a Myers on what I think was Wrecker's Yard and didn't know all the perks and addons yet. When the game began he creeped up on me and stalked me and it took forever for me to realise. Later on I ran towards shack with that Myers on my heels and my friend already in a locker. He mindgamed and I thought he'd left, so I was about to leave and just when I came out of shack he grabbed and moried me. I had no idea what was going on since I hadn't been hooked before.
That was how I learned about the Tombstone and Tombstone Piece.
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