Hot take: For what is the Bloodweb even good?

The Bloodweb has become an issue because, to your point, there’s so many worthless offerings in it. At this point I find myself getting maybe 1 Bloody Party Streamer per prestige, sometimes even none. I don’t care for map offerings, salty lips, increasing the density of the fog, etc.

I agree with the Bloodweb being removed to an extent; I think the entire perk system itself is flawed if I’m being honest, especially after seeing the Class system introduced in 2v8. Classes were clean, simple, and a great idea overall.

On that note, I’m also not a fan of having to keep leveling a character after I get them to prestige 100 just so I don’t completely run out of items/add-ons/offerings. I want to progress other characters, but I also want to keep playing my prestige 100 characters (mains), so I I unfortunately need to keep dumping Bloodpoints into those. Maybe they could add devotion to characters in the future, so it feels like I’m still getting some sort of progression after prestige 100?

It would get really boring if we removed the Bloodweb, since that would mean Bloodpoints are useless, which would mean Prestige is useless.

Outside of flexing and who gives a crap about that.

All of that would make this game really unrewarding, since the Bloodweb gives you a sense of progression, you are getting somewhere.

I disagree. I think that by making it harder for players to play the way they want to play, the game becomes unappealing when you can't equip the stuff that you want; and it becomes frustrating when you finally do have your setup but lose the match.

Why not just have a shop where players can choose what they want to buy with bloodpoints, as opposed to having to choose from a randomly generated list of options?

This game is kind of strange as opposed to the industry trend: in other games, COSMETICS are RANDOMLY given (e.g. CSGO, Smite), whereas you get to choose exactly the character or equipment you want to play as once you have unlocked them.

In Dead by Daylight, you can get EXACTLY the COSMETICS you want that usually have no effect on gameplay (other than blending in better); however, you're supposed to grind and hope that the things that have a direct impact on gameplay will appear on a bloodweb.

You may argue that bloodpoints are earned in game and not premium currency; but I'd like to point out that most adults do not have too much free time, so if they ARE hopping in on a few matches, they should be given the chance for maximum enjoyment. After all, just like money, time is also a currency.

I think progress is when you unlock and keep something, such as perks; but not when you unlock and lose it the next match, and repeat the process- which is called grinding.

I am fine using bloodpoints for perks because I know eventually I will get the perk that I want, since every level in the web gives a few perks + there is a finite number of them (you can't have the same perk at level 3 more than once for someone).

However, for items or add-ons there is no cap, nor any guarantee that they will show up in any bloodweb level.

Oh I agree. There are a lot of offerings and item addons and item variations that should be removed or at least adjusted so they are worth anything.

That's a Behavior issue, I've said a year+ ago that the locking of tiers behind levels is pointless and outdated and should be removed for new players to actually make a full build, rather than relying on the game's leveling system to allow a slow relinquishing of four perks to be used.

There is no reason why a new player in Dead By Daylight should be drip fed - you get one perk here, oh you leveled up to the next bracket.... Now, you can have two perks, three perks, four perks.

That's a Behavior issue, not a blood point issue. No point in the level locks and new players should automatically be able to equip four perks and a complete rework on what MMR should represent and point allocation.

@Leon_van_Straken

In response to your

"Strong item/addon nerfed - undo the nerf, I put all my bp into this so I dont have anything else to use!"

I would like to say, there is no need for people to buy 50 addons when they can just buy X number of addons depending on how many matches they want to play for a given game session, the meta, or simply what they want to experiment with.

I think the Bloodweb is neat as a fundamental concept, honestly.

• Not being able to buy exactly what you want means there's some degree of resource scarcity rather than just spamming iris every match (though if you're P100 and determined you can still do it) and it means you're at least mildly encouraged to give everything a chance, rather than straight up never buying an addon
• There's a small minigame component to it where you can optimise going for a specific Perk/BP offering you want, or just try to get the entity to eat as much of the web as possible for prestige efficiency
• Provides an honestly decent balance between giving players power progression in a PvP game without barring them from being able to create an effective build quickly (well, the choices of which Perks are General vs which are DLC kinda damage this, but that's not the Bloodweb's problem)

There are a lot of legitimate issues too ofc, especially for Survivors, the frustrating problem of "I want to play YOU, but I don't have any BP right now and my Event Offerings/items/levelled perks/whatever aren't on you, so I'll just go back to my main" should be solved somehow, but I think if the Bloodweb was fully replaced with buying whatever we want on demand with BP, that would be a net negative. Improvements like the bloodpoint autospending system are a better route IMO