FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE DISABLE DEDICATED SERVERS

Yeah that's what a bunch of us keep saying, They wont fix anything, especially not lag because that's a player issue not the game's and it will mess up huntress big times.

Because the community asks for them since 3 years.

I wanted them because I wanted more DC punishment. I'd take endless DCes over a lot of what's happening now though

I don't understand why they didn't do another ptb test for this though, a lot of these problems would've been picked up immediately in a ptb without harming live for however long the test lasts.

@Ark_the_Bonsai The servers being on Live is still a test, same as it would have been for PTB. The reason they went to a Live Test, though, is due to needing as much data as possible.

There are still a lot of PC players who don't install and test on the PTB, so these live tests allow them to get as much data as possible on where the Dedicate Servers need work.

They are being tested throughout early October. These are not the permanent builds or officially launched Dedicated Servers yet.

I still habe no Problems. It netter than before now.

i mean they cant now. they've already spent the money setting them up. and Switch CANT operate on the peer to peer connection, so they're stuck working on these servers. we can only hope they figure out how to make them actually function.

yeah, i dont know... i play on xbox and im just very worried about how it'll be for the console players. i mean... are console players gonna be tested at all or is it just gonna go live and stay live for us like everything else they do?

i play on 130 ping flawlessly

@DBDbuildsYT Well, they're still not done yet, so time will tell.

That said, however, while I hope like hell they get it all ironed out, I stated here at the forums months ago that given the coding issues we've experienced with DbD for years now, I had very little confidence in Behavior's upcoming Netcode for Dedicated Servers.

But, time will tell.

I cannot share ur unsatisfaction. I have just very little problems with the servers.

Well, ragequits/DCs are not good for this game either and the servers seems to be our only solution for this right now. And because of that Im looking forward to dedicated servers.

They can deal with DCs now without servers. They had a system in place for over a year now to punish players that DC too often but have gone lacks on enforcement.

@SpacingLlamas In my experience, and bear in mind that when I worked in the game industry networking and servers were not my area by any stretch of the human imagination, you have a game coded for P2P, and are moving it into Dedicated Servers well into its commercial lifespan. On top of that, you're doing this in such a way that, unlike if you had the servers during a closed Alpha, closed Beta, and then Open Beta phases pre-launch, you have to deal with getting all the Netcode correct and damn near flawless under Live conditions.

My expectations were very tempered from the initial announcement. This is not a small undertaking. Most large studios don't do it this way. And BHVR hasn't exactly been known for their coding work on DbD so far. No offense to them, it just is what it is on that subject.

Can they pull it off? Sure, yes they can. But only time will tell.

@SpacingLlamas Exactly!

And for years BHVR resisted Dedicated Servers and stated it was not on the plate. Until they decided to port to the Switch, which requires Dedicated Servers. That changed their mind, and now they're scrambling since they obviously want to maintain a consistent build across all platforms. Particularly if they want to ever implement cross-play between all four platforms down the line, like many other games are now doing.

But this is potentially going to be a rough process. I would imagine a lot of 2020 is going to be dealing with Dedicated Server issues.

I've heard that death garden dedicated servers are pretty good and being their still from BHVR studios, I want to hope and believe that the devs could do the same.

Though that game was built along side with dedicated servers but still

@Kilmeran It is strange. Death garden is doing many things right and that we want the devs to be doing but is a failing game regardless. (Also the game was extremely poorly advertised, not surprised it's failing)

And DBD the opposite of those things. Not updating regularly, poor coding, bad dedicated servers, where they choose the focus on things, ect.

Death garden, coming to consoles if it ever does might save it.

@SpacingLlamas I think the issue with Deathgarden is that Hunter really does require aim ability (unless you played the latest Hunter, which really was broken at its launch), especially when going against Scavengers who know what they're doing. And let's face it, many people that play DbD and went to DG probably weren't steady shooter players.

I play Overwatch, and have since 2016. Although I main Tank and Support, I can also very effectively play Soldier 76, Hanzo, Widowmaker, and Ashe. So, I can aim. Hunter wasn't that difficult for me when I tried DG during a free period. Tracking a Scavenger was no more difficult for me than tracking a Genji.

Unfortunately, before that weekend was over, I was already growing bored with the matches. I'm not sure what they're missing, but they somehow felt less engaging than matches in DbD. And this is from someone who plays DbD has a side game and doesn't think its game play is that in-depth, and becomes repetitive quickly.

As a result, I did not purchase the game.

Looking back, I think it might be yet another behavior game that suffers from poor map design. In Deathgarden you have scavengers and hunters with hyper-mobility, high jumping, and wall-climbing. and yet maps that are designed as though the characters move around like in DbD.

Deathgarden is a game that would benefit much more from urban-style environments, even if apocalyptic cities, with nooks and crannies, more elevations, and structures to truly chase through. Maps where when to use the hyper-mobility and when not to do so requires more thought. Maps where drones weren't so damned map covering, and I say that as someone that played mostly Hunter that weekend.

One thing I have learned is that BHVR is very bad at balancing map design with their own game play design.