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I have problems with the new Patch (8.7.0 and 9.0.0)
First of all, I really, REALLY hate the new colors they did for the normal 5 tiers. They are confusing for both old AND new players (because people will still use the term yellow medkit and everyone will get confused), they are ANTI-ACCESIBILITY (worse for colorblind people), and completely unnecessary, given they were changed to "make the game more like other games". Why? Why do the Devs want this game to be as devoid of personality as possible? Don't fix what's not broken.
On top of that, they removed the Event rarity, so now Event items are ULTRA RARE! And they cost 5000 BP now! These mostly useless offerings that majority of people ignores, now cost as much as an Iri add-on. That is unacceptable. It seems to have been fixed with 9.0.0.
Next up, the Rift. It was made way uglier now, with small icons that you need a microscope to see well, and the "BUY PREMIUM!" button slapped in the middle. It looks like a cheap mobile free-to-play game.
Another thing is, unless I miscounted, the premium track no longer gives you back a 1000 Auric Cells, but only 975. Again, why? Yes I miscounted, my bad. It's still 1000.
Next up, the Quests. One word, GENERIC. The name is generic (it should be Rituals), the look is boring and generic, the challenges themselves are all really boring, and they want to also retire the Compendium on top of that? My opinion is, no, keep the old Tomes. And maybe add some more unique challenges into the new system too.
And finally, we come to the fact that the Rift was made unbelievably grindy, with the Daily Rituals giving you NOTHING. Barely any bloodpoints (even though the ones before gave you at LEAST 30000 for each one), not enough Rift Fragments for A SINGLE TIER. It's also yet another FOMO feature, since someone found out you have to do almost 40 days worth of the Daily Challenges alongside everything else to get to Tier 100. (Edit: You do still get passive Fragments from just playing, thank god, but it's not visible. STILL, the Daily Challenges are FOMO at it's finest) And that's not even mentioning the Weekly Rift Challenges (in a case they disappear too, I'm not sure of that tbh). They don't, thankfully.
Overall, this update was yet another shove towards DbD becoming a joke of a game, like Fortnite, which the Devs seem to aspire to become for some reason.
Edit: Also, I know that BHVR is trying to figure out a new way to display the lore, and I really hope that they'll figure it out soon. I would love some new stories.
Edit 2 (Done after 9.0.0):
The change to make every offering that isn't a BP offering or a Luck offering Secret is a dumb oversight. This will backfire with Hatch offerings now being a ticket straight to a free escape.
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Agree with everything you’ve said.
The new quests system is particularly egregious though. 2500 for a daily is INSULTING.
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I hope they tighten this up. I agree completely 💯.
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Right? Before this we had 30 000+ per challenge, and it didn't even require that much with some characters, like Wraith
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100% agreeing with you. This patch (aside from Orela herself) was a major step backwards.
And don't get me started on the "quests" that hand you a measly TEN (10) iridescent shards.8 -
The pass gives back 1000. I checked it, because I was unsure.
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Oh god, I didn't check the number or shards it gives you, but you're right. That's awful.
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Ok, at least there's that. I just can't count.
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For a moment I was scared that the pass wouldn't give you back 1000 auric cells.
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There is usually that weird bug/glitch that sometimes make you get -25 yet the game seem to self fix it or devs patch it xd. Kinda strangely common as well.
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Thanks for clearing that up.
I don't buy the Rift Pass, so I wasn't really aware of the bugs it comes with.
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BhVR is unaware that the Ormond and Borgo scratches are hard to see, or it took them years to finally change the color of the map. I never thought from the beginning that they would make any user friendly changes to the color or size of the icons. On top of that, the various changes made this time were worse than I expected.
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Yeah, them fixing what's not broken infuriates me a lot.
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I agree with the event offering. Every event offering besides cakes become useless wants the event is over which means we lose so much BP for nothing - in general it is also better to drop BPS or cakes instead of the event offering which is so stupid.
What I really dislike about the new rift is that there is no quick way to check it: You have to either go to the main menu and then click rift or go to the quests and then click on the rift button. I miss the rift icon on the left for a quick look. I can understand that for some people the icons are to small.
I like the new quest system and the milestones feel cool - much better than the old dailies and tomes. It feels much smoother and faster. I admit that I've never did dailies because I don't like to play something that I cannot play or want. However, I miss the specific archives for rift-featured characters. It gave them more attentions and featured them better. This was really cool and I'm sad this is gone - it was gone with the latest tomes too but now it seems completly gone. So, in my opinion, this new feature needs some adjustments like more daily quests and a higher reward, especially BP. I also feel like the milestone time (same time like for the rift) is too short because I am already nearly done with the killer ones and for the survivor ones I will not need 80 days. In addition, there should be a special rift-quest-system with quests only for the featured characters (e.g. 20 for Dredge and Haddie that are like down 20 survivors during Nightfall, escape 3 trails with Haddie, use Dredge/Haddie-Perk and do xxx with it). Otherwise, I appreciate that we now get four different recolors for some skins. Yes, not so special but cool since it enables more unique outfits.
About the new grind: On the one hand, it feels better because I was already done with the latest rift two or three weeks after they started and then the whole rift felt so over which was a bit sad - the archieves I did for BPs. On the other hand, the new quest-rift-features feels a bit too much because it looks very strictly timed and difficult to get done for casual players even with events (e.g. the next 2v8 or an upcoming anniversary one).
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The new colors for the items, add-ons, offerings, and perks is worse not only because it screws up everyone with muscle memory based on the previous colors, but also because they chose the perfect shade of blue to mess up people with protonopia and none of the "colorblind options" are capable of fixing the fact that the blue and purple look basically identical. It's infuriating that they went from picking colors that weren't exactly ideal for one group of people with color vision deficiencies to deciding to change their colors and going with colors that just hurt another group with color vision deficiency. It is absolutely possible to pick colors, hues, and saturations that are easily distinguished by people in all groups. The alternative is give us the option to pick our own colors or let us have the option to revert changes to whatever set effects us the least as some form of damage mitigation.
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Yeah, the way to get to the Rift is kinda awkvard, I noticed that too.
I completely agree with your suggestion to add in character specific Challenges alongside the normal ones.
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Yeah, it's hilariously dumb that the new colors are an active change for the worse in terms of colorblind people not being able to distingush them.
The colors confuse me already, I was uploading one of my matches on NightLight and mistook a normal toolbox for a Commodious one because of the color.
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Great! It's nice to see that they listened to that one.
But, there is still a lot of things to fix, so hopefully they get fixed too.
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I couldn’t agree more, everything just seems messy & all over the place. For whatever reason, changing the colors was absolutely not needed. The display page for quests honestly, another mess. Yes the more options for rituals now converted to quests are nice, but the page is just all jumbled together & it’s all around annoying. The rift… I don’t know what mind said to change the display.. I get wanting to show more details to the items, but come on. All around I feel like these were just carelessly thrown together with no care on what any of us players were actually concerned about. It’s disheartening really.
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True.
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I believe that the patch reverting this change will be included in the next patch.
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Really?
I know that some of these things will get fixed at some point, but I'm not sure all of it will get fixed at all, much less the next patch.
Still, we can hope.
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Every time I find a "green" medkit in a chest I have to tell myself "It's a yellow medkit." Oh! A green toolbox. No, wait, it's a yellow toolbox.
Almost no one referred to these things by rarity. Changing the colors makes such a mess of all the old tutorials and guides. And the colors are so same-y. There's no contrast. I don't even have color blindness, so this has to be awful for people who do.
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It’ll be nice to see how much of the hotfix will correct in the coming days.
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Yeah, it sucks.
I already have a small story about it confusing me, I was uploading a match to NightLight, and the thing didn't recognize a certain toolbox. I thought to myself, oh, yeah, green toolbox so Commodius… wait.
I thought the yellow toolbox was green because of the color change.😅
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Sorry, my wording was off😫 What I meant to say is that I sincerely hope this color will return in the next patch... I truly hope for this as well.
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I was hoping for a change in this week's patch, but the rarity color was not altered.
I don't like leaving this change as it uses up mental resources.
I love the color blue the most, but blue is not necessary for rarity.
I miss yellow.3 -
I'll keep fighting for yellow :(
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Yellow FOREVER!!!
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Couldn't have said it better myself! Hard agree all around.
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I really want the old colors back. It messes up my muscle memory and doesn‘t look good.
About the rift: The dailies should give a lot more bloodpoints and rift fragments than they currently do. They are laughably bad. I also don‘t get why the made one rift level take 100 rift fragments instead of 10! There was no reason to change that. And why did they remove getting rift fragments by earning XP? The old rift UI did look better. The new one is so small.
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@SoGo Since the hotfix is it any better for you?
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Well, nothing that I thought should be changed has changed, so I'll unfortunately have to say no.
The hotfix was mostly bug fixes, no big changes have been made.
Still, there are next patches so I still have hope.
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Let’s keep fighting here to bring back the yellow!🤜🤛
Q: Why don’t you use icon packs?
A: I don’t want to use icon packs unless they are officially integrated and supported as a feature within the game, and even then, it wouldn't provide a fundamental solution. This rarity color change has harmed communication between users. That’s why I want this change to be reverted.
(Especially in the Asian community, icon packs are considered as data manipulation and are disliked within the community.)2 -
Plus, there aren't many packs that only revert the colors back to normal, since most of them work on a theme, AND they may or may not get changed to the new colors by their creators.
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There is no change this time either, but why do DBD fans have to endure for the sake of FNAF fans?
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Not even for their sake, only because the devs said so.
It would take 15 minutes for even the most brainrotted Fortnite gamer to get the old rarities.
But no, we have to bend over backwards because Fortnite is such a good example of a flawless game, right?
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Honestly I got used to it so fast, if it helps new players that makes me glad, this is certainly a change I can get over fast.
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Is that so!? I’m jealous.
I still can't get used to this change 😭0 -
Well, at least there is one improvement with the 9.0.0 Patch. The Event items are now Common again, so no overpriced Bloodshot Eyes and Dowsing Rods!!
Thank god.
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Another patch, another problem.
The change to make all offerings that aren't BP or Luck offerings Secret is awful. It will cause issues and complaints.
I added it to the post.
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I feel like the overall quality of life is getting worse and worse...
The rarity color issue is still causing confusion, but if everything is going to be secret, maybe we don’t even need the offering screen anymore?1 -
FR!
Like, why even show offerings when you can't see what is being brought?
BTW, I found a NightLight pack that reverts the colors to the way they were before, if you want.
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