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Survivor Gameplay is Boring and Unrewarding
All you do is hold m1 on a generator and then hold m1 on another generator, and then maybe if your lucky you only have to hold m1 on one more generator and then you can go and hold m1 on an exit gate, then leave.
Before someone mentions it, you do sometimes get chased but depending on the rank and the killer that can be boring as well. "Interesting" chases are against killers that get bored chasing you since most chases are against m1 killers. If you are going against a hag, or a nurse or a spirit there is very little input you have on the chase, while if your reaction time is good you can have some interesting plays against Hag against a nurse or spirit you hardly get chased. If the spirit or the Nurse is good enough there is nothing you have at your disposal to change the outcome of the chase. You can try to dodge but you can't dodge what isn't there. Prayer beads are the worse offense to this as there is a 99% chance that if you go against that, you will be pulled off of a gen and there was nothing you could have done to prevent it, besides maybe gen tapping which is just a bad idea in general.
Either way, main point of this is that BHVR needs to do some major changes to the base survivor gameplay so either chases are more entertaining or that the main objective isn't so god dam boring. People wonder why survivors doing the objective is called "gen rushing" its because in a regular game everyone is so god dam bored of doing generators for the past 3 years that they don't just hold M1 and leave. They try to get chased or go for flashlight/pallet saves or do some weird specialize build.
If holding M1 on generators was the most entertaining action on the planet, killers wouldn't stand a chance against survivors, but the main point is to at the very least make doing generators a little entertaining, just a little, because it is boring. Really, really boring.
Also they are changing bloodpoint values but I really doubt it is enough to make survivor feel more rewarding, if anything it might increase everyones bloodpoints by a few thousand every game, just enough to get 1 more brown item... yay.
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i mean you can always play the distraction
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If your just going to summarize the entirety of survivor gameplay as just holding M1, couldnt you just as easily over simplify killer gameplay as just PUSHING m1? Afterall, searching, hiding, scouting a location and all that... Thats not a thing...just M1.
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We had a thread a few days ago how Killer is unrewarding and boring to play.
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True, but the main objective for survivors is to do gens and escape, you can boil that down to finding gen, doing gen, avoiding killer, and leaving. With killer their main objective is to kill survivors: you find survivor, you chase survivor, you down survivor, you hook survivor. The difference is that the killers main objective requires chases while survivors main objective actually discourages chases, since if you get chased you will probably die. One is required to do the only fun thing left in the game. If survivors were required to do something that was more interesting than finding gens and fixing them I think it could make the role as a whole more interesting on top of the chases.
If every survivor on a team did that then no gens would get done and they wouldn't escape. Meaning at least someone is going to have to hold M1 down and depending on how many people are bored and trying to play distraction it just makes that players experience worse. That is if they are trying to win, which I am assuming they are.
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Killer gameplay is SO boring. Litterally ALL you do is click twice on survivors. SOME killers make this even MORE dull by only making you click ONCE.
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Maybe go play civilization if you find DBD's gameplay boring. You just complain about what you don't like without giving any ideas on changes you would like to see. Just saying what you don't like won't help one bit.
And there is actually 1 thing to prevent spirit with prayer beads to grab you. It's called spine chill a perk you find on 99% boring.
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Any game gets boring if you play enough of it. Just play something else
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I don’t think survivor is boring, I actually typically get bored of killer quickly.
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tbh there is 1 thing thats most boring in survs, if killer is 4Head tunneler or camper and only "counterplay" we have is doing gens xd which is "fun" and "entertaining" (and im talking about tunnel in which killer is ignoring every other surv and running for that 1)
killer gameplay is boring only if survivors are playing like bots and you cant get normal chase as killer xd
and as killer you dont have to worry about 4Head teammate that will take killer next to your hook (or loop him around shack when youre in basement), or screw skillcheck on healing right after unhooking xd
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You mean like Civ 5?
https://www.twitch.tv/deadbydaylight/clip/WimpySlipperyMarjoramUncleNox
While it is true any game will get boring if you play it enough, but when a game like cookie clicker has a more engaging core gameplay than DbD survivor, I think it could use a bit of work.
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If you think BHVR created the survivor/killer roles merely to fulfill their vision for an asymmetrical horror game, you are mistaken. Survivors themselves are meant to represent the homogeneous masses who have no desire for individuation, mere lemmings who live boring lives. They may have a subconscious awareness that their lives are unfulfilling, but they will perpetuate their ways, never fully grasping higher realms of thought. Survivor mains are proof of the degenerate sheep who have no shame in being sheep, and BHVR has given them avatars to represent themselves in order to divide the masses and locate truly exceptional people: killer mains.
Unlike weak survivors who must congregate like chimps in order to achieve basic survival, killers are representative of elevated consciousness; they are beings who recognize that every moment the reality itself is testing them, and that there is no time to waste; the killer main must constantly reforge his identity and skills. "Survivor gameplay is boring and unrewarding"? It is, and those who choose to play it should experience it as such; however, the killer main pays no mind to the experiences of survivors. The wolf is not bothered by the musings of the sheep.
If you queue up survivor, know that you have already given up your individuality as forfeit.
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Wolves don't live in their mom's basement.
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But with civilization you don't even need to use WASD for a bit! It's just M1 the whole time! Such boring! Much unfun!
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in all seriousness this is like. One of the main reasons why I think the new deathgarden is better. Say what you want about playercount, balance ect. The main objective is far more engaging than 160 seconds of gens are.
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Literally just this ^^^
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+1 nice one 😂
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I do hope they add more things to do, variety is the spice of life.
One thing Killers have that Survivors don't is variety, Killers can choose different Killers to play as and they all have different abilities and weaknesses, they all play differently. Sure the goal is always the same but the way you achieve that goal depends on who you're playing.
Survivors don't have this variety because they are just skins, nothing about their gameplay changes at all unless they interact with the Killer. All Survivors do is mind game chases and do Gens, while Killers have to work with the strengths and weaknesses of whoever they are playing.
This is why Survivors need more depth, Survivors need something more constructive to do so it doesn't get boring. I strongly suggest we have another Objective besides Gens, for example, one match has fixing Gens and the next match the Gens are already done but they have something else they need to do before they can open the Exit. This makes each match different and random, and if they add a third then there is variety all around.
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Again people keep asking for Survivor powers. I'll make this short, Killers have to deal with tier lists. Period. Do you reaaaaallly want survivors with tier lists? Do you really want posts on which party set up you NEED to take to be viable? Do you want people leaving the lobby because you are not using a proper tier Survivor? Seriously .. be careful what you ask for.
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I agree that repairing gens is not exciting. However, if you can't find fun in getting chased or sneaking around/evading the killer, then probably the survivor role just isn't for you. And that isn't a problem, not everyone likes to play both roles.
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I love repairing generators. It's literally my favourite part of the game. I'm so pissed when the killer comes and disrupts me.
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The thing is: adding some new exciting stuff to distract survivors causes gen to not be done and everyone dying (hollowed blight). If the new thing is more efficient at escaping then generators are obsolete. In both cases game is broken.
Try playing as survivor with 1 life only. If you die you stop playing for today (it solves the "who cares if i die" and bleeding problem. That really made survivor exciting for me, now i respect every killer. He camped me? Well #########, shouldnt have got caught. Its the killer who should be the power role and in that case he really is.
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Can't edit. Boredom problem, not bleeding :p.
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Lmao I wish survivors in my matches were holding M1 somewhere on a gen. Half of them are crouched waiting for ruin to get cleansed.
If you’re that bored than as others have said, become the distraction.
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I too love oversimplifying things
also making survivor not being skin will make the survivor side even more garbage with survivor harassing other survivor for taking "subpar" survivor
Big no for me, I already get enought people bitching at me and sending me death threat as is
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@Dragonredking Your only saying that because YOUR the one who picked Dwight, who only gets +15% boost in locker hiding. Shouldve picked Nea instead who can teabag the fastest.
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i enjoy playing survivor for the most part, i love being on the edge of my seat wondering who the killer is, are they gonna sneak up on me and then there's the adrenaline rush of hiding 2 feet from the killer hoping they don't spot. However i am constantly working to getting everyone to P3 so there is a lot of prestiging and swapping characters so i'm never sitting on the best of everything. I also swap between killer and survivor every 50 levels so that can also help.
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