Developer Update | Player Intent System

We need "Stop opening chests and do a gen" and "stop hiding" lol jk, but this new system looks really good. I look forward it.

i like this, but i cant help but wonder, so it's a radial wheel, do you have to press something and then the wheel comes up, then you have to press a button? it worries me its not very time efficient, it would be better if you can preset button keys, im on ps5, so ill use ps5 notations, lets say, press square to activate message, then you quickly press L1, to ask for heals,

would also like to add, i dont think i need to let anyone know im in chase, since they can already see the entity claws indicating im on an active chase. It would also helpt if we had extra options for things like, if i need a heal, it would be great for us to be let teammates know your location, at least 2 presets, like, i need heal, im at main, or im at shack, (it would also be an iconic call back to david and dwight meeting at the killer shack, wink wink)

change repair to: do gens!
remove "healing" and "im being chased", we can already see this

Most likely it works like this you press/hold a button to bring it up but you can move the same time. Then you just use the mouse to move it the direction of the message you want to show. Its the same as the Lich's magic wheel. You just need to move the mouse the way the message you want to rely is on no clicking needed.

They have had the basic function in the game since Lich was introduced.

About the chase one its needed as people can be in chase even if the indicator is not moving for example looping the killer using Fixated killing the chase. Not to mention PIg while she is crouched as that does not even start the chase but she is still chasing you.

thank you SO much! Maybe now solo q can properly enjoy Cenobite without losing any efficiency!

Its already in the game. Lich has a wheel to chose his magic and it does not stop his movement.

Pleasantly surprised at how varied it is, as well as the ability to customize the wheel to your preferences. The message display is obvious without being obtrusive, and the icons for each message in the wheel are a pretty nice touch for readability at a glance in a tense situation. My only feedback here is that I would like the ability to add specific perks as messages (with the caveat you have to actually have them on you) or have an additional way to ping them once you're in trial. That way, you can announce you're not just going for a normal unhook you're using Shoulder, or need it for Deliverance, or that you're Plot Twisting instead of being slugged, etc. Overall even if that isn't added, you've done great work on this, good job.

It would be helpful if you could use keyboard bindings for these. Having to pull up a wheel on m&k controls sounds really annoying.

Really great feature! I play killer and survivor 50/50 and almost always play survivor SoloQ, this is def a very nice feature for SoloQ!

Only thing I really have to add is that the text appearing next to the survivors looks a bit unnatural, it might be the text background but it feels out of place, maybe its too big? Regardless very nice feature thanks for communicating with us and showing us an early preview! <3

Would it be possible to get a full list of chat commands published? Even if it’s sort of a rough draft. There’s some that I think would also need some options or context dependency. If I had to leave two options cemented as “please unhook” or “please don’t unhook killer nearby” it limits how much I’m able to communicate, where a radial option coming from first option would be nice.

Or it could be context dependent wheels, one for hooked one for unhooked.

Also it’s a bit less important as we can check people’s perks but some way of pinging that you have a particular perk would be nice. If you’re cutting it close to make a save and you see an ally a second behind you you don’t have the time to pull up and check if they gave deliverance or babysitter or some other perk that would change your priorities. A teammate pinging “I have wglf” changes what I do on the ground

I'm a 7.1k hour-player that 50/50 splits on Survivor/Killer, and I largely but not exclusively play solo queue on Survivor.

As someone that's seen and received over a decade of harassment and toxic behaviors in Dead by Daylight, something that's very important to me in a system like this is the ability to quickly be able to immediately mute any players abusing the chat wheel for harassment.

Where there's a will, there's a way, and gamers will somehow figure out how to use the chat wheel to harass teammates by turning a specific chat option into something it was never intended to be. That's simply an inevitability.

When this happens, it's important that I can tab out, select a player, mute them, then immediately return to gameplay with minimal interference.

The introduction of the Killer Power bio in the Match Details screen failed on this front, because since the introduction of Killer Powers in Match Details it is no longer convenient to tab out and see my Quests, now that they're on a whole 'nother tab. I have to tab out of my game (which is already undesirable as it is), scroll my mouse cursor over to the right tab, select it, then scroll down through a scrollbar-list of quests to find the one I'm looking for, all while losing out on precious gen repair time or stopping mid-chase or risking myself getting caught. The inconvenience to check Quests is no longer worth it, so I no longer do it.

That's my biggest worry with a system like this - that it will be so inconvenient to quiet the bad actors, that people may rather opt out of the system altogether.

The Mute/player safety system needs to be quick, convenient, and easy.

It would also be very worth indicating to the whole lobby when a player has opted out of the Chat Wheel system - this can prevent frustrated teammates from becoming even more frustrated that their teammates aren't reacting to their callouts, and so players know their callouts aren't being sent to an unresponsive brick wall.

Based on the design of the current Mute icons, I would also expect the Mute functionality to work in End Game Chat and prevent me from being able to see their typed-chat. I would actually love for it to work like this, that would genuinely be a great feature to help drown out End Game Chat harassment (which is usually all EGC is ever used for, anyway).

This is the exact same icon as the lobby chat. If I clicked a button that looked like THIS^ and I still received messages from someone in End Game Chat, I'd be pretty disappointed, I cannot lie.

I'm still thinking over more of my first impressions, and I'll come back to this post in time once I have.

I understand that the list can and may change, but would it be possible that we could get a full list of ALL currently-planned chat options? This would help us give feedback and insight on what's missing, what's unnecessary, and what's potentially abusable for harassment.

Also sorry to harp on about this, but I hope you can at least some kind of audio tell between the different pings because the text size looks a little small on the hud, it's going to be easy to miss in the thick of the action too, Especially for more casual players/those who are sight impaired.

Then they just mute all of them like you can't prevent that.

Please add the ability to call out a specific perk you are using! Many perks change your gameplay significantly and being able to communicate it is important, and not everyone is able or willing to go through the whole player list in the middle of the match.

While we’re at it, please make it so that the player list can be closed with the escape key. Almost all UI elements can be closed with the escape key and it’s very jarring to not be able to use that if, for example, the killer shows up while you’re checking the menu.

And of course, still no way to tell that we have Deli ready.

I think this is great! I would like to see the communication pop up/out once activated (like an animation that makes the message larger and then shrink down to normal size). This will bring a little more attention to it. The hud is useful bit it’s easy to miss things if your not constantly looking at it. If there was a slight animation to the word(s) popping up then this would help bring attention to it. I like that it won’t pop up in the middle of the screen and block gameplay.

This is a great thing, thank you for adding it.

I would like to recommend only a very small cooldown if any first. This is because in scenarios like a hooked survivor needing to give varied comms when a killer is leaving and coming back to hook, or someone on a gen has a killer coming near and leaving it, that's something teammates would need to specifically know to not get baited by, say, that survivor entering chase on the hud. So if there's a cooldown, then you'd either need a chat command for this type of interaction in particular, or you'd need the cooldown to be shorter or non existent.

It's fine if the communications get spammed because if someone doesn't like it they can just mute the offender or the system in general.

It might be a good idea long term to change how large this message is depending on whether a survivor is in chase or not. In chase, it is less likely that the hud will be checked but they might want good information like which generator is being worked on so they don't go there, or where to take the chase generally. I imagine that type of specificity isn't in the launch wheel, but eventually that would be something nice for some serious players to have.

A simple addition that goes a long way.

With that being said, you should likely prioritize updating the tutorial after this. Otherwise, this will be like the perk situation where people end up not using it because the game does not inform you that it exists. You don't need to explain every detail, but a basic rundown will at least get them on their feet with it.

I would like for you guys to revisit the discarted changes you were going to implement to prevent killers from camping survivors and also tunneling them. It is still a huge problem and the yellow bar isn't enough especially in endgame.

The yellow bar does not always help because certain killers still tend to camp even from a distance making the bar not fill up.

Also, something very very common is killers camping and tunneling after the generators are finished. The yellow bar completely disappears allowing killers to face camp.

I hope some changes can be done whether its reworking certain perks like deliverance and decisive strike or visiting old ideas you had once added to a previous PTB

I'm just wondering how simple it will be to use mid chase where you can't even take your fingers off the run key or movement keys. Or even on controllers where some wish they could remap certain actions to not be on the same button, which button would it be sharing an action with?