Did Milestones get nerfed?

The new battlepass on the first iteration wasn't perfect but it felt like it could have been great if fine tuned. The numbers could have been lowered or kept the same and it would have been okay. With the higher requirements on the battlepass I honestly don't feel like playing because I have a life thank you very much.

Does anyone who has a job and social life actually believe the numbers were too generous prior?

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But yeah these changes are completely unacceptable, people already complained that the version seen in the last Rift was too grindy, BHVR should not have responded to that by making it even worse

Milestone numbers being so overwhelmingly high, stopped the desire for me to play the game.

I like completing every quest killer and survivor like I did with the tomes and the previous quests. Now I haven't touched the game for 5 days because I know with the time I spent on this game, I can't hit the milestones and I only play when the new rift quests are out. I hope the devs lower the numbers at some point.

A part of me is wondering if Step 10s will even be possible without 24/7 play.

I stopped playing at tier 4 hooks. Bad reward, absurd grinding which is designed for streamers or teens that play the game 24/7.

Part 10 is when you find out the Entity is real, the game is a trap, and you get permanently sucked into the Fog.

Last iteration you got 10 shards per step level, and if you fully completed a milestone quest, it gave you a total of 550 rift shards. The rewards at least kept increasing to somewhat match the growing requirements. Now each step in the milestone quests gives only a flat 25 shards, which means even if you can slog through all 10 steps, you only get 250 shards for each one.

Now to top it off, the new requirements are so much more absurd:

• 1375 gen kicks now, 275 then.
• 550 trials now, 100 then.
• 110 escapes now, 55 then.
• 550 heals now, 110 then.
• 2750 hooks now, 275 then.
• 550 kills now, 165 then.
• 550 kills now, 165 then.

We are required to put in anywhere from like 3~10x more effort into getting these all done, and only getting half as much in compensation. And just think… 550 trial completions alone would probably average to around 110 solid hours of gameplay, not counting time in queues, the store, spending bp or menus.

Oh but it's so much worse. The hooks one is REALLY bad. 2750 hooks equates to at an absolutely impossible bare minimum 230 games. And that's assuming you can manage 12 hooks in EVERY game. A lot of times it can feel hard enough getting 4 kills, or at least to end game with 3 secured. Now imagine if you win "too easily" people die early at only one or two hooks. Or you even lose and get many escapes. By far seems like the hooks one is taking the longest and I will never finish it.

Then again, I understand maybe the idea is everyone isn't necessarily expected to complete every one of these. And I'm sure other events and daily quests will make up for rift progress. All the numbers still feel very poorly thought out, regardless.

That's the issue. They're marketing the game to adults primarily, not teens or kids, which means that naturally we have less free time. The tomes should be easily completed without having to grind too hard. But at the same time I'm sure the mindset is that if you don't have the time and you're working you can just buy it out (as if that's reasonable).

On the flip side, the tome does drive engagement but that goes back to the age old problem with DBD—that the grind is considered the main point of the game.

I've stopped doing the Finisher Mori because you need every single hook you can get.

This is not healthy nor enjoyable game design.