Bad play BHVR (Massive cake rant)

I take long breaks from DBD, I come back for 2v8 and events if they seem worth my time. Current state of this event doesn't feel like it's worth logging into the game.

Yeah… I'll hold off on playing until this obvious oversight is remedied.

This change was made last year too, actually. They said back then that yes, it's intended because they don't want you to have thousands left over after the event like previous years.

Which, for other events where the items are locked to the event that makes sense, but for anniversary cakes that have always been able to be used all year round, that's BS.

My energy going back home now after work knowing what the event is like.

10 Years Anniversary and such a bad event.

Someone on reddit said that Behavior is acting like they have to bake each cake individually.

I still have my spreadsheet from the 2024 anniversary event. On average on Survivor one would get 30 cakes per single prestige. Killer roughly double that.

They nerfed it last year but I'd take last year's rate over this years! 3-5 cakes per single prestige is genuinely abysmal.

This is the 10th anniversary! We should be celebrating, players LOVE grinding for cakes during the anniversary. Anniversary cake hoarding is what makes the slow times during the year more bearable to play. I felt the cake nerf last year was disrespectful to my time playing, and I stopped playing for months once they doubled down and said they weren't changing the drop rate.

If they once again refuse to increase the drop rate for anniversary cakes, i might be done entirely. The real world economy sucks. Why does a made up economy in a video game have to suck too? Players grinding and hoarding cakes to use throughout the year only increases player morale. Like I said, the real world economy sucks. I have to work more irl to barely stay afloat as is. I refuse to play this game 3x as much just to earn the same amount of cakes i earned just two years ago. One, I do not have the time, and two, I refuse to give my time, energy, and money to a company that I feel is disrespecting that limited time I do have.

It’s so disappointing. It just cost me more than 4 million bp to get one single cake on each killer. It does feel like an insult.

I play both sides equally. I used all of my offerings on killer from the year 8 anniversary to get Alan Wake to prestige 100. My career hours on survivor is a good 25% higher at least than killer. And yet, I tend to side more with killer lately, because outside of the S tier characters, the game is in a pretty noxious state (assuming MMR is working properly). Equal skill survivors obliterate equal skilled killers on the majority of maps when the killer isn’t in the top 5 strength-wise.

Yes, it is undoubtably true that survivors get less anniversary cakes than killer. It’s been that way for all offerings since forever. Survivors have numerous items they can get, each of which have 5 to 10 addons they could use. Meaning not only can survivors get every kind of rarity item, but the addons for them. It over-saturates the blood web greatly for them. BUT, in regard to the anniversary, survivors also get flashlights and med kits pretty freely (or at least before the rarity change right now) and commodious toolboxes (the best kind) basically for free. There is some compensation for survivors getting less anniversary cakes, as the items they get are generally good. This update ruins some of that as well. Like, why is a standard anniversary flashlight, which is uncommon, now rare? Just because it’s got cosmetic changes for the anniversary? It doesn’t make much sense.

Killers have one power, far less addons to deal with, so their blood webs are far less cluttered, meaning a higher chance of getting anniversary cakes. However I’d say that this update to the rarities has royally screwed over both sides pretty equally. Survivor items are now harder to get, and killers best addons now have to compete with an overglorified bloody party streamer. It’s hardly fair to anyone.

I agree that the rarity and in turn the reduced drop rate of anniversary cakes is really annoying. There is so much to spend bloodpoints on for them to be this stingy, please @behaviour I beg of you hear our appeal and make the tarte common. This event will struggle to feel very celebratory otherwise.

I am especially curious as to what BHVR’s thinking was. Someone mentioned it was to prevent “hoarding a thousand offerings from the anniversary,” but is raising the rarity from lowest to second highest the solution to that? Is it a problem that needs a solution to begin with? The character you get the offerings on you’re forced to play to use the offerings, they aren’t interchangeable. If you manage to play the game enough during the anniversary, don’t you deserve the thousand offerings? It’s the most hype time of the year for the game in terms of new content. Perhaps they thought making players need more playtime to get the offerings would make them play more. But it’s likely the inverse, players will be discouraged to grind, the rewards aren’t worth it.

Theoretically, they could’ve just made the rarity uncommon instead of common across the board for anniversary items and the backlash would’ve been maybe a tenth of what they’re receiving now. But I’m of the shared opinion that no change was needed at all. Survivors can get commodious toolboxes frequently if they manually use their bloodweb anyway, and killers will just bring puddings instead of anniversary cakes since there’s no difference on their end. Killers don’t play with anyone else in the lobby, why should they care if the rest of the players get an extra 100 percent? This update guts at least half of the enjoyment found in the anniversary celebration.