http://dbd.game/killswitch
Role queue
I'm kinda tired seeing ppl good at juking getting all the points and glory.
I had an idea similar to the current emblem system. I wouldn't lock the characters but *some* perks would be only available to certain roles.
Ex;
Roles:
Healer: (selfcare, botanist, empathy, etc.) +50% BP, efficiency and speed towards healing actions and items. +25% BP for teamwork actions.
Mechanic: (saboteur, technician, wake up, etc.) +50% BP, efficiency and speed towards repair/sabotage actions and items. +25% BP for stealth actions.
Tank: (dead hard, pharmacy, we're gonna live forever, etc.) +50% BP for taking hit on self or for others and safe unhook. +25% BP during chases.
Medium : (spine chill, premonition, alert, etc.) +50% BP seeing the killer and escaping from him or his terror radius. +25% BP for stealth actions.
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I don't think roles would really work in this game, since perks are interchangeable, and people would riot if they suddenly could not use <x> perk because their roles does not allow it.
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It would make the game Much better and balanced imo. Everyone would still be able to use most perks and repair gens or wtv but it wouldn't be "efficient". It would also add a goal for each survivor instead of just "I* need to survive".
(phone at 5% I'll explain mode later)
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Get a SWF group and roleplay your class system. People have spent time making it so they can run any build they want. Taking that away is going to be very difficult and riots did I mention riots?
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This isn't the Berlin wall ppl
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not a good idea because builds are builds for a reason, and classifying them would remove variety and hinder gameplay. it also might start making people "main" classes, so you'll end up getting comfortable with going against certain builds, weakening your killer gameplay against others.
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..What?
Still, I think roles would not work in this game. Just because they work in different games (Mostly FPS's) does not mean they'd work here.
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You could still use any characters but their perks has to match the role requirement. Certain perks could be cross roles.
Also, these rules wouldn't be applied to private matches.
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yeah we know, but we don't want our BUILDS limited. If I can't use DH and Spine Chill I'm A N G E R Y.
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Eumm of you don't know about the Berlin wall riot...idk...one of the most famous riot of all time ?
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Again; people would not be happy if, suddenly, 2 perks they used together were now in 2 separate roles.
Role queue would not work in DBD.
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It isn’t a good idea.
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It would and it would force ppl to actually work as a team much more than rn.
No matter of the popular/unpopular opinion. It would also balance the survivors.
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No. It's a bad idea. Role Queue does not work in all games. This is one of them. Survivors don't have roles. Survivors can use any perk they own.
That is how DBD is.
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See what I mean lol most ppl here are just mad bc they couldn't just run around using DH and letting their team do the rest whilst farming BP.
This as to be stop and role queues would help A LOT.
Anyways my opinion feel free to disagree ^^
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This game is supposed to be a scary asym game, not overwatch. The lack of comunication was an intentional design to make survivors not know the intentions of the other survivors to increase weariness of working with them. Doing this would almost entirely defeat the purpose of this being a horror game since it's now just an asymertical reverse pac-man fan fiction.
To all the people who were about to comment "BuT ThE GaMe DoSeNT ScAre ME!11!1!!" You need to relax, if you are on these forums you likely have been playing for a while, you are numb to this games horror. To new player this game could actualy be scary and I think thats a big bit of the apeal.
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If this was true they wouldn't allow survive together, just like "Dont even think" ...
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This is not a good idea.
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The fact that your thoughts went to OW when I based it off the pc horror game with those exact classes (not last year...Hunter ? Hunted ? I can't remember) is funny to me. XD
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Even if roles was "such a great idea" the roles would be HORRIBLY unbalanced. Like out of all 65 survivor perks, only 10 would actually make sense to be in the healer role as an example.
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Yes but as mentionned not all would be locked to classes. Most would be cross roles perks.
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You mean that DBD ripoff in a school where the Survivors can kill the Killer, which almost always ends with the Killer being trolled/camped & losing?
Yeah..that game does not have any ideas DBD needs.
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*Looking at my "it's not last year"*
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If you'd use proper punctuation, I'd have known you meant Last Year the game, not 'last year' as in 'Not a game from last year'.
Imagine that.
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Okay ? I'm sorry from the 4 languages I speak english isn't my best. Sue me.
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Well, I apologize then. You spell very well, punctuation aside.
But don't get snarky about me not understanding what you said, when you're aware it's not your first language.
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Bc 1 I didn't know and 2 wasn't even the point.
Anyways back on topic; I'm still looking for the name of the game. Basically you are 4 hunters (Medic, trapper, etc) vs a killer (xenomorph, chtullu, etc.)
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It's a bad idea, when will you learn that it is?
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DBD matchmaking is already bad enough with long wait times for games and poor rank matching. Imagine how long you would have to wait in order to find 4 survivors of unique roles who are close to each other in rank...
As others have said, it's an idea that simply wouldn't be viable for DBD.
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Also, whilst looking I saw Identity V. Which is literally Dead by Daylight but with puppets.
They have roles and except the pc cheaters it works pretty well.
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Personal rule from F13.
Never listen to a Chad, sorry.
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Identity V is on phone, has ranks AND roles. Even then the queues are similar to DbD.
I see a lot of ppl saying it wouldn't work but it would. Wether it would be a good idea or not so far in the game's life can be debated BUT it would work.
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Is it this? It's one of the first things I found so probably not.
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The reason roles don't work in this game is it creates meta characters. The ones with the best perks will always be the ones you see. This is why survivors are just skins in essense.
Imo roles are bad due to the ones which reward normal play being better. Take healing others for example it is too dependent on wether the killers allows it and also if the other survivors let you heal them. Then there is the risk of people not doing certain actions due to it not being rewarded for their role.
This may work out better with SWF but random solo players won't care about the others they will use what they feel is strongest for them.
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Wow, ok, even though I was a Shelly main.
What next? Like f13 you want survivors to have seperate stats?
This role queue idea is one of the worst ideas on the forums I've seen in a while, sorry man but this would kill the game and will never happen.
Nothing wrong with running around with DH whilst your team fixes gens, it's teamwork, one distracts the killer, three do gens.
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Not it isn't but it is very similar! I came accros it too.
The game is basically you kill and eat animals to grow a mutation and get strong enough to kill the hunters after you.
They on the opposite side have to find you as quick as possible before you Fully mutate. If that happen or they suffer a death they can try to escape.
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You're talking about Evolve.
That game self-destructed because of bad monitization practices and a player base so caustic they could lick steel and watch it melt.
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That's why most would queue as tank but those that enjoy healing, hiding or repairing stuff would queue for the other roles.
I agree healing would be a bit situational but a dev could find another similar action to reward. Or maybe if a survivor lets the healer heal them they both get extra BP.
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Wether the community was...wtv...the game design was pretty sharp imo. Of course Killers that could fly accros the map was a bit OP tho
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Eeeehh...I can't really agree or disagree.
I got into Evolve when it became Evolve² and the rotating paywall & Role Queue forced me to play Healer in my first game (I queued for DPS).
Because of the rotating paywall, the 'free' healer was the Bug person; THE HARDEST HEALER. Which I was forced to play...when I did not know the mechanics..
My team made literal death threats after the game was over. There was no way to report in game, so I posted on the forums and got told 'Yeah. Mods don't care. Suck it up and move on'
So Evolve² was garbage and even the Role Queue was trash, IMO.
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Well I run as Tiffany so yw for all those car parts.
My point was more that ppl could know, especially randos, what their teammates will be doing during the game.
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Well of course pay walls are complet garbadge BUT then again I had to pay for killers and survivors to get a few perks I wanted.
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DbD only saving grace is the shrine of secrets but Evolve probably had loot boxes or something right ?
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And again during private matches you could run your regular builds and what not.
I just think adding a role queue during random matchmakings would help focus everyone's attention towards a simple goal, leading towards the bigger goal (team escape).
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Wat
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But who cares? It's obvious that if you're fixing a gen and the killer doesn't stop you then it means he's distracted by someone else, also, are status icons not a thing to you?
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OmegaLUL role queue in DBD. ..
what a 5head
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Soon there will be archives and the rift (battle pass), so don't worry that players won't have something to do soon.
They're scheduled for the next mid chapter which will be around October/November.
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The issue is there are only two main objectives. Doing gens and avoiding the killer. Everything else is secondary so the ones which reward these will always be what people use. This ends up lowering variety.
As I said swf possibly may play around with it but solos will use what serves them best. This is not a team game if you are solo and people only save as it gives them a better chance and points.
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If this was true survive together wouldn't exist, Just like "Don't even think"
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This ain't league of legends bro
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