OPERATION HEALTH IS REAL, I REPEAT, OPERATION HEALTH IS REAL

All week I’ve been kinda sad because Dead by Daylight is my special interest, and I’ve noticed I’ve lost interest in the game. I haven’t found anything to replace it. Hearing this news makes me excited and realigned. Dead by Daylight is doing just what needs to be done!

I remember when we were told that "removing prestiges from lobbies would stop killers from dodging" yet I frequently see 2-3 killers dodge when i'm playing solo queue.

While it's adjacent to an anti-slug mechanic, it's more so a surrender option. They do have anti-slugging slated for Part II as well, where we might see a competitive anti-slug mechanic added, but this helps prevent 4-party 4-minute bleedouts. (I do hope it's player initiated and not automatic though)

And this is an option for those that are interested in playing the game? I assume it'll be an individual choice given it requires all other players in the dying state. So you can still go and do that while whomever else chooses to surrender. Choice.

I mean that's why I said it's adjacent to an anti-slug mechanic and more so a Surrender option.

(it does at least reduce the overall time spent slugged in certain scenarios)

"To speed up general Bloodweb activity, we’re adding a button that will allow you to spend Bloodpoints in bulk. "

What exactly does this mean? Is there an option to auto buy the higher tier items?

They finally are adjusting the AFK crows oh my god holy ######### yes.

Wait that's what I assumed they meant. Wasn't the A/B testing that you could see your teammate's perks? If not then I don't get the point of this either.

just some sort of interaction with other players other than friends. Like there’s no point in adding people on dbd because you can’t even message majority of them.

It would be nice if they put in a filter system to prioritize what you want, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just put in a slider for how much you want to spend or to set a prestige limit and then just get stuff randomly. Something that simple has been wanted for years, but maybe they'll add more because they're allotted more time.

Great news and something that's been needed. The devs have already gradually but surely removed most of the big grievances from the game, but there are still a bunch left many of which are being addressed here.

That said, I honestly feel like these changes aren't going far enough considering that BHVR is adjusting their entire release schedule that they've kept to for years and years now. Given that, I would have hoped for more.

Surrender Option

While the option to surrender in hopeless scenarios is welcome to end a match that could otherwise be needlessly (or maliciously) prolonged, I don't think this goes far enough. It will finally stop players from being able to slug survivors to bleedout just to annoy them, but it doesn't address the much more common scenario where 2 survivors are left alive and the killer slugs or otherwise refuses to kill the second-to-last survivor in order to try and guarantee the kill on the last survivor as well. I think the surrender option should also be available in the dying state if only 2 survivors remain in the trial.

Although ideally they would go much further with this and address the bigger issue that is the existence of these "hopeless scenarios" altogether. The 2v1 and 1v1 endgames are a big point of pain in this game's design. Why is it that the last two survivors find themselves in a scenario where escape by actually playing to the game objective is essentially impossible, and the only real hope is hiding? That's undesireable for everyone involved. A lot could be done to make the 2v1 a more compelling and thrilling gameplay proposition, that promotes action and interaction. The 1v1 endgame could also do with a complete overhaul to make it a more exciting culmination to a match, but at the very least removing its egregious pain points seems easy enough: make it so that the hatch closes itself automatically after some time, preventing the killer (or survivor) from camping it; make sure gate spawns are never too too close and move the first red light indicator to 50% of the opening process.

“Go-Next" Prevention 

It really remains to be seen just how accurate and helpful this system will be, but for now I'll use this opportunity to suggest also doing something about the much more common "go-next" issue: lobby dodging. Dodging lobbies completely disrupts the matchmaking, and also allows players to "shop" for lobbies they think offer a better chance of success. I think the game should keep track of how often players dodge lobbies and give them a matchmaking cooldown if they do so excessively, in a similar escalating manner as is done with the disconnect cooldowns.

Extreme Hiding & Body Blocking Prevention 

While good in and of itself, I think here again the more pertinent issue is the "unwinnable match". Extreme hiding the vast majority of the time occurs when there's only two survivors left in the trial and their only hope of survival is by hiding until one of them is found and killed, such that they may escape by hatch. I think it would be better to address the issue that the idea of objective-oriented gameplay collapses in these scenarios than it is to essentially make these scenarios even more hopeless. They may think this will push survivors to actually try and do gens, but all it will really lead to is people giving up and the game ending without any further gameplay (and if the "go-next prevention" system forces them to go through hoops to get killed without getting penalized for it, that's a recipe for disaster).

The 2v1 endgame could offer a lot of worthwhile gameplay still if it were to be adjusted in sensible ways, there's no reason to essentially force the game to end at this stage and rob everyone of gameplay.

Map Offerings 

I don't mind map offerings being nerfed but I also never really minded them existing, this was never a real pain point for me personally, killer or survivor. Although now that it is finally happening I bet it will be a bit of a "be careful what you wish for" situation for a lot of players that cannot any longer send their opponents to Haddonfield or an indoor map as a stealth killer or the like. And I too will miss being able to play Scratched Mirror Myers.

I think making it so that map offerings do stack might be a better way to go about it, with a 25% chance per survivor offering and killer offerings still being 100%. That way if survivors really want to play a certain map, they will have to forgo using any other offering, as well as all spend the specific map offering (which they will absolutely run out of sooner or later this way). And killers could still play all the map-dependent strategies that exist. Maybe with the caveat that if both sides bring map offerings, the chances are mediated (so 1 survivor offering vs. killer offering = 25/75 chance to get the killer's map; 2 survivor offerings vs. killer = 50/50 chance to get either (or 25/25/50 chance if the survivor offerings are for different maps); 3 survivor offerings vs. killer = 75/25 chance to get the survivors' map (or 25/25/25/25 if they are for different maps, or 50/25/25 if two of them are for the same map, and so on…); 4 survivor offerings vs. killer = 20% chance for any of the maps to appear, 80/20 if all survivor offerings are for the same map etc.).

I will also say that there are some maps in the pool that are so problematic that this prospect of playing a much more random variety of maps is a bit concerning. Badham, Garden, Eyrie, Haddonfield, Sanctum, Ruins, and Temple being the most notable. Either introduce map offerings that reduce the likeliness of getting a specific realm, or better yet, address the blatant issues with these maps.

Spawn Rules 

Nice.

Bulk Bloodpoint Spending 

Nice.

Quest System 

Lots of things they could do to make these things more fun rather than repetitive, although I doubt they will change much with regards to what it is you actually have to do in the trials to complete dailies and challenges.

Perk Loadouts & Preview 

I'm pretty sure this as opposed to what people are hoping for refers to the little perk loadout graphic on the upper right-hand side of the screen that a bunch of players have been having for many years already. Calling that "a successful round" of A/B testing is as odd as the idea that this is some sort of "feature" that will tangibly improve the quality of the game experience or needed to be tested for years. You can literally just open your loadout screen to see your perks if you really don't already know what they are. What gives? Sure the little info is nice to have I guess, but including this on an ambitious QOL roadmap that they are revamping their entire schedule for is… well, silly.

Now, showing all survivors' perks to each other (in the lobby and the in-trial info overlay) would actually be an immense QOL improvement truly worthy of being mentioned here.

Quickly touching on the things planned for the second round of QOL improvements in the latter half of the year, I'll say that while all of them sound really promising, I think one would do well to rein in their expectations, especially given how… moderate their QOL adjustments for the first round of issues are.

As an avid Self-Care and meme build enjoyer, I don't look forward to being lobby dodged because somebody doesn't like my perk choices. We removed prestiges to reduce lobby dodging, why would anyone want to add something that might bring it back again?

Showing each teammate's perks while in game on the ping / offering page would be something I'd like to see, though.

I'd like to know if Survivors will be penalised for "going next" by attempting to self unhook or by missing a skill check to give the other final player a chance at hatch in an obviously lost game. Will I be expected to hang on in these situations, giving the Killer more chance to find the last Survivor? Because I usually let myself go in these situations, since it feels a bit petty or like BM to stay alive in a doomed trial.

Other than that, I don't have anything to add except that I'm really happy to see BHVR responding positively to some long standing issues. Obviously, we don't know what solutions they have in mind yet, but this is at least a good sign that this stuff is on their radar and they're working towards improvements. I think they've realised that there's no point in bringing big deal* franchises like FNAF into the game if the new players they've attracted don't stick around because of long standing player frustrations that have never been properly addressed.

*(So the kids tell me. I know nothing about FNAF)

Moving forward, Map Offerings will no longer guarantee the appearance of a given Map, but rather increase its chances by 20%. Note that they will not stack. We’re also looking to make it so Map Offerings, as well as several other types of Offerings, will remain a secret during load-in – that way, your decision to remain in the match will not be swayed by external factors.  

I feel like this is the wrong approach to map offerings. A 4-man gets an 80% chance of getting the map they want with this, while the killer only gets a 20% chance. The simpler solution that is fair for both sides is to flip the current effect. Instead of sending you to a specific realm, it removes that realm from the pool.

Basically just map bans.

The concern is if all 4 survivors bring 4 different map offerings, then what is the overall chance that one of those maps is chosen?

20% for each of the four, I assume the rest of the maps have the normal weight.