Dedicated Servers Test: Feedback

Here in Chile, South America Dedicated Servers are 10/10, perfect, improve the gamep´lay and the waiting times.

Ping are always 80-90ms

Thanks Developers!

The overall experience seems fine, however I noticed some things:

• When playing as Killer, I always noticed a very slight lag after kicking a generator, like 0,5 seconds longer than usual, which doesn't seem like a lot but it was enough for me to notice it.
• After some survivor matches, I got kicked of my party because of an "unknown error" so I had to rejoin. I recall this only happened to me once before the dedicated servers, but now it happened more often.
• Finally, and probably the most annoying one: When playing as a survivor, Dead Hard did not work correctly most of the time. I activated it at the right moment BUT I got hit anyways, and the exhausted meter also showed up as if it had worked. I've been using DH for a long time and I know something's wrong here, cause I get hit in the middle of the animation. This happened me 3 times last night and it was really annoying.

Except for those things, the rest of the experience was fine.

I find it good on both sides :)

Usually 50-100ms.

Only people that complain are people with bad internet, that when they play as hosts (killers) before dedicated servers made other survivors' experience miserable!

killers still hit through pallets and windows idk why... ping stable 60-80

As a game that came out P2P i think it should always be P2P, Dedicated servers makes everything worse. Exemple : On the killer perspective the survivor movements looks really clunky and it's the same thing the other way around. Huntress hitboxes are way worse for survivors and sometimes it just go trought them. When you have a ping highter than 90 as killer Billy's chainsaw charge time is laggy, You rubberband as nurse and sometimes you don't even go trought the objects or walls you would of on the live build, You can't 99% stalk with myers anymore because the lag will make you go tier 3, Hits trought windows and pallets are way worse than live build like you can get a hit even if the survivor is 1 meter away after fast vaulting a window and get a hit trought a pallet after it's fully dropped.

Even if you get a 40-50 ping lobby as survivor you don't know if the killer you're going against either has a good ping or bad ping to the server and stuff like this can happen.

For someone that has over 6500 hours in the game i think dedicated servers are a bad introduction for Dbd.

The worst think I experimented playing was a huntress hitting me with a hatchet after I turned around a corner. From my perspective, there was no way the hatchet could hit me cause there was a wall between me and the killer (it was on Lery). On a different game, the killer was able to grab me when I was already running away after vaulting a pallet.

I also hit a survivor putting her in dying state before she vaulted, and after she was on the ground, she got up, vaulted and then she was down again but on the other side of the window.

Overall, I feel lobbies are better than before (better ping). I play with friends that live in South América and the ping was always +300, now barely reaches 150. The queue time feels the same for me.

The servers need improvement for what I saw on different streams and for what I experimented myself (lag, weird hits, frequent disconnects for no reason, etc). Hope you guys can improve them.

For me they are working well

I played quite a lot in the servers to test them, I tryed a couple of killers and that's what I saw:

-Some powers are a little laggy like the shape and hillbily's saw. The shape stalk is weird to handle, if you want to stalk to almost full to pop it at right time you are probably not getting it at first time. There is a tiny lag, almost a input lag, and when you realease the power button it continues to stalk a little.

-The dream world is super laggy, is seems to be capped at 30 fps somehow

Most of my survivor lobbies were fine, consistent yellow ping, and less long wait. However, I encountered lobbies with no killer and waited around 10-15 mins before deciding to search for a new one. Matches were okay too, I get lags on the beginning part but it eventually gets smooth. Hope this helps.

I had no problems before this besides the old "Corrupt Cloud Data" problem... Which happened once. I played 5 games and I ALWAYS disconnect in the middle of the match while trying to suffer through huge lag spikes as killer and the same is for survivor as well... Which I'm bad at. The only game I played since the update was a Custom that didn't DC me...

Played with billy mostly and some hag/hunt.

-Impossible to hit melee saw, survivors start flicking/blinking as soon as they make contact with killer body, thats impossible to keep track/body bloack properly;

-if not enough, almost always it seems like they change direction so fast there's no turning animation plus there's a consistent survivor"phasing";

-half my saws that should score a hit just end like they hit an obstacle(windows/narrow paths/survs near walls)

-Turning feels totally Ewww.

Even basic hits feel completely messy.

As awful as it can be. Completely unplayable for any killer who heavily rely on power for downs.

Edit: 15~25 ms every match, South murica.

The Shape is basically unplayable now. If you don't stalk to 100% immediately he will lose a quarter of his stalk progress. The Trapper now always steps in his own traps. Ghost Face will also lose stalk progress and his reveal mechanic is even more inconsistent. The fact lobbies fill up first makes dodging or telling what is a SWF group impossible now.

Why, why god, why is this live instead of being in a PTB.

Window vaults give killer hits pretty long after survivor vaulted. Experienced pretty annoying lag in 1 of 4 matches. Others were fine, survivor isn't exactly where displayed. Can be off about a meter. Survivor glitched to spot hit registered (huntress hatchet throw)

Remove the servers immediately, please. It is very disgraceful to force all players to test your uncompleted product without previously informing and asking for their permission.

If you want to test your servers,

1. put it on a PTB and let players themselves decide if they want to try it.
2. If u have a hard time finding enough volunteers, just pay for a group of players testing it 24/7. Stop take advantage of your player base as free labor to finish your unpolished work

Devs, I am losing respect to you.

Borderline unplayable, please take the test off now, This really shouldnt go into the weekend. On the survivor end you just get smakced while the killer is in stun animation, some powers cannot even be used, and overall its really clunky.

I am of the opinion that the new servers are awful, and I will explain why.

Ping has been just fine, anywhere from 30-70 ms ping.

So far playing as survivor: Killers have teleported through objects, landed hits that should be impossible, and items moved from where they were.

Killers teleporting: On mother's dwelling while running a loop around a pallet, trapper teleported through rocks next to house and was able to make a hit without any reason.

Hits that should be impossible: Killer reach is extremely messed up, I understand being able to be hit through a window or vault, but if you jump out of the window on haddonfield to the balcony, and get hit from the window while falling off the room, that is an issue. Killer swinging WAY behind you and connecting with hits that should have had no chance. Dropping a pallet on a killer, with no attack animation getting hits. and killers hitting pallets, after they are down, making the sound, and it still hitting the survivor.

Items moved from where they were: During the hit falling off of the roof, the killer had Franklin's demise. When going back to find the medkit I dropped, which should have been in the bushes. It was found halfway into the room of the window the killer attacked from originally.

After playing as killer, I have noticed little to no change in how anything looks or feels other than random hits that should/shouldn't have hit and did/didn't.

Whether or not you find this constructive is entirely up to you. Those are my opinions and experiences in the game so far since this "test" went live on the live server and not the test server. I also feel that the live server is not the place to test things out, since there will be no compensation for items or bloodpoints that are lost due to issues with the servers.

The matchmaking is just the worst. My experience so far (on both sides) is just horrible.

Survivor: I dropped a pallet on a killer, he got pushed back by it, but it didn't stun him. I've been hit straight through windows and pallets, and not like before, I'll be on the complete other side and still take damage, and the weird hiccups make juking so hard.

Killer: My weapon will go through survivors and miss, or vise versa. You can't grab survivors anymore as killer, the latency between survivor and killer makes it impossible. (Trapper) my traps will move position slightly for no apparent reason. Monto's latest video on Huntress proves how horrible it is for her.

Please remove the servers until it is actually tested. These are things that should have been caught internally but wasn't. Please fix it then release it live.

Not been having fun. Hitbox issues are insane sometimes and I've gotten hit over pallet drops and windows far more than I ever have on P2P.

Queue times aren't really consistent. Sometimes I get a lobby in 30 secs, other times it takes upwards of 10 mins, especially as survivor.

But my main issue is definitely hitboxes, particularly with Huntress and Demogorgon. A lot of things are hitting when they really look like they shouldn't.

1. I often get hit over 3m away from the windows and fall down faaar away from them (before you got rubberbanded back to the window)
2. We just a had a lobby without killer
3. Huntress' axes are really hitting when you're around the corner and can see them disappearing in thin air before hitting you (in a p2p perhaps but on server which should exactly prevent such stuff???)
4. New Bug:
5. We experienced a game where I could not rescue another survivor from a hook neither could the hooked one try himself the unhook-action. He was lucky a third survivor could unhook him... #########?!?

The servers are not bad, but I’ve been experiencing some weird visual glitches, for instance:

1. I’m playing Freddy, place a Snare, and his hand glitches out, remaining on the same animation. This won’t stop unless I perform an attack.
2. The Huntress’ Hatchets...

The hitboxes also seem inconsistent. I score some weird hits and some other obvious hits aren’t scored.

The Huntress’ Hatchets and the Plague’s vomit are kinda broken, the hitboxes are just weird and there are a bunch of visual glitches.

However, hits at Windows and Pallets seem to be more fair now.

I really dont like these servers. I dont live in EU btw. Survivor when i play as them i dont need low ping to play, literally 270 ping is fine. killer is now impossible to play! I cant blink or lunge as nurse cus of 200 ping, damaging gens and hooking takes longer. Any killer gameplay feels impossible. now even i really needed good ping i could of joined local killers but cant now! Sure servers load faster but i have a very bad experience. all i would like is to use killer as host.

thank you

So, I played some more Nurse yesterday. Ping at 60-100ms to the server. I noticed a few things, both positive and negative.

1. Post blink hits are finally more consistent. With peer to peer, I landed alot of ghost hits. Survivor was at point blank range, and litterally infront of me, yet my attack missed for some reason sometimes. With dedicated servers those ghost hits are nearly eliminated.
2. Survivors dropping pallets on a Nurse midblink can nullify it completely now. On P2P, survivors had to time it perfectly for that to work, but with dedicated servers it always works now. I blink to the other side of the pallet, and start swinging at the survivor, half a second later, I get teleported back to the other side, and consequently miss my swing. I don't know if its intended or not, but it takes away all skill and precision from pallet stunning a blinking Nurse.
3. You can now get stuck in dropped pallets in the process described above. Luckily the Nurse can blink out with no problem, but it still looks weird, and should be fixed.
4. Going out of a blink without swinging does weird movement sometimes. Usually I get teleported back half a metre or so. In rare instances I get catapulted forward for like 5 metres for like a second or 2. I am unable to swing when that happens.