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What would be you're ideal year of DBD?

Xray
Xray Member Posts: 295

Since we are a couple days away from the new year and Year 10 for DBD is about to start, if you made the decisions how would the next year of content play out? Heres some of what my ideal year would be.

Buff Trapper to at least high C Tier

Swamp Rework

Twins Rework/Recode

Buff weak killer and survivor perks to change up the stale meta

Diablo as a full chapter

Have more band shirts (would love some Sleep Token shirts)

Comments

  • CrypticGirl
    CrypticGirl Member Posts: 1,465

    Reverting all the mechanic changes they've done over the past year would be a good start. Who knows what can be done after that...

  • karatekit
    karatekit Member Posts: 285

    Restore pallet vacuum

    Improve survivor animations

    Dead hard usable unlimited times and removed hook condition

    Nerf Dracula

    Remove cheaters

  • Philscooper
    Philscooper Member Posts: 316

    Probably when i joined. (2023)

    Both sides had busted perks or/and killers,

    Events were fun for both sides.

    Heck, they made soloq playable on halloween event, insane to think about, how much an event can be fun if you just think a couple of steps ahead.

    The reason why i loved halloween event, is because people were rewarded for doing gens, so everyone did gens 24/7 and the meta killers, blight and nurse, were handicapped since survivors used portals mid-chase and gain massive distance, giving variety to other killers.

    But it wssnt completely survivor sided since killers can still use the event to their advantage.

  • Tenac
    Tenac Member Posts: 77

    Not terrible ideas but I am curious on why the Dracula nerf? Not judging just curious.

  • Darkwhitehair
    Darkwhitehair Member Posts: 3

    It would be cool if they added Yautja species from the movie predators as the killer while surivor Dutch play by Arnold Schwarzenegger as a survivor. I want behavior to add a new feature like recording so allowed players to see their previously match. It would be nice to see a update of anti cheat system since I found some match where some killer and survivors cheat on pvp match which is not enjoyable for both side.

  • crogers271
    crogers271 Member Posts: 3,262

    Once upon a time, they had ideas for lots more mods, things like a 5v5. The failure of the QoL has really put a damper on the traditional 1v4 for me, and I'd really like them to invest in more ideas like that to give variety to the game.

  • THE_Crazy_Hyena
    THE_Crazy_Hyena Member Posts: 1,339

    Personally, I would wish for a full on rebuild of the game. Similar to how Valve did it with Counter-Strike, when it was time to move CSGO over to the Source 2 engine. This proved to be a great success.

    Other improvements I would like (that has not been mentioned by others in this thread):

    • Better BP and shard rewards overall.
    • Improved matchmaking / or return to ranks.
    • Rewards for P100 / rewards for reaching certain Devotion milestones.
    • Being able to select the main lobby theme (similar to what PUBG did).
    • Better performance optimization (comes with the rebuild) / moving the game onto Unreal Engine 5.7
    • Unbinding of certain actions with framerates, like movement, skillchecks and such, to make the experience consistent across any framerate and platform.
    • Christmas themed Sable skin ❤
  • XDgamer018
    XDgamer018 Member Posts: 708

    If we are talking gameplay.

    Better tutorial or ways to learn killers/dlc killers (powers etc)

    But for content i only "want" one thing

    Full blown The Casting of Frank Stone chapter (killer, survivor(s) and a map)

  • jesterkind
    jesterkind Member Posts: 9,564

    Good question… I don't have concrete ideas for the "how" of all of these, but I think broadly the list would be:

    • Another pass at anti-tunnel. Ideally sooner rather than later, but if it's towards the end of the year, that'd be palatable as long as it is more likely to actually happen this time. This one I'm actually cooking a post about, a version of anti-tunnel that learns from the previous attempts.
    • Trapper update. Nothing huge, just a moderate set of dedicated changes for addressing his bigger pain points.
    • Something for limiting slowdown perks in a healthy way, so each perk can be individually stronger without worrying about stacking getting out of hand.
    • Something to limit unhookable build shenanigans and/or something to limit really aggressive hook denial, it's SUCH a pain on killer. Flashlight squads are fine, even fairly dedicated sabo players aren't that bad, but there's a threshold where everything's being used in extremes where it gets so frustrating to play against.
    • (Honestly flashlight addons could use an overhaul though)
    • Bloodweb clutter overhaul, especially focused on how outdated and cluttered the offering system is. Maybe paired with a Luck mechanic rework to make it actually a real part of the game?
    • Doctor Who content of some kind :)

    Fairly unlikely we'll see all of these, but I'd be ecstatic if we saw two or three across the year. Obviously too, continuing the trend of buffing a bunch of perks in most updates is good, but I don't think they're gonna stop that any time soon.

  • karatekit
    karatekit Member Posts: 285

    Genuinely because I am bad at the game and dont know his counterplay. he is actually very strong too but idk if enough to merit nerfs this is just a biased take

  • Robotfangirl67
    Robotfangirl67 Member Posts: 654

    I want better focus on game balance and communication. While also wanting Jason to come to the game of course.

  • BorisDDAA
    BorisDDAA Member Posts: 525

    Maybe they finally add proper graphic settings.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,723

    But who has the money to buy it and wont milk the game dry to get that money back?

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,723
    • Something to do. Ranks, challenges for special skins,...
    • They could fix the stats tracker
  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 22,952

    I mean, the way I see it is that BHVR is already milking the game dry.

    Might as well give it to someone who will do that and maybe has the capability to make the game better.

  • The_Count
    The_Count Member Posts: 167

    Eliminate cheats and bugs, but I know this is never happening.

    This INFINITE%!

    If they cared about the players and the game they wouldn't do half the crap they do like leave for vacation and left the game swarming with cheaters.
  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,723

    Not really. They just let it quietly generate money.

    Milking would be:

    • Skins which cost 150 euro. Better, you need to buy the entire collection to get the skin for free. So its not an obvious insane priced skin, its a present for loyal customers...
    • Little unnecassary gimmicks. Cheap, but they add up. Blue light for your flashlight? Also a funny sound? 5 euros each. Better, its only available in a bundle with a skin you dont want. And make it time-exclusive.
    • And why bring old rift-skins back? Wait until everyone wants them badly and then bring a slight recolor. Could also work for legacy. Just make it blue.

    But you could also give dbd to an asia-publisher:

    • Slower progression and the ability to speed it up with money
    • Lootbox/Gacha-systems
    • Pay-to-win-booster: how about a 5th perk slot per use

    And i really hope behaviour does not read those ideas.

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 22,952

    Skins are already outrageously expensive, 20 USD is absurd.

    They recently got rid of Archives and made the BP much more grindy with fewer rewards.

    They brought in a whole bunch of kids with FNAF, then made predatory pricing changes.

    They refuse to upgrade Anti-Cheat. The game is functionally a paid F2P game, at this point.

    Events becoming worse and worse. No rewards, no Skins, and no currency.

    Plus, did you see the collectors edition? 250 USD for a ######### statue and an art book. Oh, but you get like 300K BP!

  • Chrarcq
    Chrarcq Member Posts: 61

    Too many to count but one very recent change that I would undo is that horrid Autohaven filter that nobody asked for.

  • Rogue11
    Rogue11 Member Posts: 1,969

    Having spirit, pyramid head, and wesker powers plus a teleport that blocks windows. No that's not a biased take to any sane player. He has counters for every possible survivor defense/resource and when he gets outplayed catches up instantly. So stupid