Blacklist Killer Option

I like this Idea. If it made my que time longer I wouldnt care in the slightest.

Also I would rather survivors blacklist a killer they don't want to verse rather then just giving up when we do get that killer.

I would def use this for ghoul if it was a feature, sometimes at peak times you are getting 3 or 4 ken, rize, rize, ken.

I think it should be only 1 killer block for SWF. if you in a SWF you have to agree on the killer you want to blacklist (or maybe go off host of lobby) being able to just block 4 killers is too much. 1 killer would be very welcomed tho, their a 42 killers. the game is not going to break because I am able to blacklist one. and if a tone of survivors are blacklisting one killer to the point they cant get matches, that kind of says there is a issue with THAT killer that should be changed.

Disliking a Killer is not a valid reason to leave a match. Accessibility issues are one thing — this is entirely different.

I don't know about you but if I'm getting my 3rd or 4th ghoul match in row I will just dc and take the penalty.

I don't want to verse ken repeatedly but also wanna give the others a bot. Maybe this could help with killer repeat prevention outside new releases rather then a blacklist so people are not just getting back to back matches with the same killer repeatedly when the game has 42 that can be picked from.

Unfortunately this is a horror game. At best, I can agree that perhaps there should be an option to disable certain phobic features in the game, replaced with less agitating varients. Like black smoke for Weskers power instead of his tendrils, and muting Plagues vomit audio.

That only goes so far though. As nice as the sentiment is to help everyone enjoy the game in every way possible, its not possible. People play the game in its entirety or not at all as with almost every other game.

Plus, Art isn't particularly special among the rest of the roster. Each killer is disturbing in their own right to an uncommon degree. Springtrap is a child killer who stuffed their corpses into animatronic suits while trying to achieve immortality. Freddy is in the same boat, a child killer who uses people's fears to kill them in the worst ways they can imagine. Leatherface is a literal cannibal who dismembers and guts people like they're beef.

Arts violence is over the top and sadistic, but not special.

That's what you sign up for when you hit ready up.

All tho i don't entirely agree, its dead by daylight not ken by daylight. that's why I'm fine taking the penalty in this situations because I would rather take a penalty then verse ken repeatedly back to back. would not have a issue if it was something like ken, blight, nurse, blight but sometimes at peak times Ill get ken, rize, rize., ken where I just sick of it and dc give the team a bot.

Why I like this idea or a killer repeat prevention just to mitigate the issue of getting the same killer back to back outside of new releases.

43 options you mean now that Jason is in the game.

People with epilepsy get triggered by it now since the visuals got changed you can look it up.

Unfortunately, there's no real way around the brutal difficulty curve of starting as survivor. The game is old with a fairly competent player base and in general, a 0 hour killer is going to win against a 0 hour survivor, as survivor checks your knowledge much harder than killer does in the beginning (these checks even out later).

The best thing you can possibly do is play killer yourself, those that you have trouble against especially. If they're paid/licensed watch some content creators gameplay (specifically gameplay, not opinion pieces, you do not want to go down that rabbit hole).

Yeah I've never bought this. There's hundreds of PVP titles with stronger epilepsy triggers then Drs limp wristed effects. If this had ever actually happened they would have eaten a lawsuit over it before the epilepsy warning was implemented.

Oh no… not a metric for the devs to figure out which are the most problematic killers and have real time information on who they should focus on.

Contrary to what you said, OP, this would actually create a massive increase in queue time, not a small one. It would also categorically destroy DbD's presence on streaming services - which, while I will be the first to say #)*%% streamers and their effects on the game, it would hurt everyone in the long run as awareness would decrease.

Increasing the queue time of just the 4 man banning Ghoul, Nurse, Blight, Hillbilly (for example), does not just increase their queue time. It enters them into the queue, and the queue attempts backfills and re-prioritizations according to how long someone has been in the queue. What this means in effect is that the queue will start balancing a huge number of SWF parties with differing selections of 'no encounter' characters, and it will bog down the backfill system.

Additionally, and more critically I feel, two other effects would result from this change.

First, this means SWF's would end up bullying (potentially) non-S tier killers and only non-S tier killers, which are the killers already least well equipped to deal with SWF's. You would butcher the play rate of anyone who wasn't S-tier overnight as a swarm of the poor low MMR Trappers and the like would get buried by a deluge of SWF's.

Second, let's say we did this. Let's say it goes active. Now we have a new problem. SWF A says 'We ban Ghoul, Billy, Nurse, Blight.' Easy enough. SWF B however has someone with emetophobia. They have to ban Plague. So they ban Ghoul, Bully, Nurse, Plague. Now SWF B is being punished and is more likely to face a Blight, which is far far more common to encounter than a plague to begin with, just because someone in the group had a phobia. This creates an instance in which groups are penalized for having the very legitimate core reason to use the functionality. The people who need to use it get punished, whereas the people who want to use it get rewarded.

This is invalid, and I cannot think of a single good thing that could come of this. Easier to change the 'problem children.' Or more over, remember that this is an 18+ horror game, and that inherently means queueing into some unpleasant things. If you have a legitimate phobia, it's considered common practice to avoid things that include the triggers of your phobia. It's not considered normal to show up to said things and demand they stop including those things to suit your pallette.

When I say please no that's coming from a place with absolutely zero thoughts regarding balance going into it. Matchmaking already implodes over little things like someone waiting a bit too long or someone leaving the lobby, it does not need more variables that can make it fail.

You either get a multiplier to whatever queue time woes you already have at your location/time of day/mmr, or you get a likely increase in horrible mismatches. No thank you.