Delay dedicated servers even further

I hear the Euro servers were amazing, and the American ones were awful, so perhaps some of the server locations just need some optimizations.

Dedicated servers are terrible

Sorry, but for me and my friends - what you are saying makes zero sense. Dedicated servers took the quality of the game by several notches up. In fact, I don't feel like playing anymore in the CURRENT lobby simulator that is DbD without dedicated servers. It's a world difference for the better.

I can't tell about your experience, but my and people I played with experience was amazing and was overall so much better than the usual P2P where you join lobby 2-15 times depends on your luck and depends on your host. Such an inconsistent experience.

So we can hear people whine "when are dedicated servers getting here?" when they've been off for less than a day?

I disagree that the general consensus of the servers test was negative.

I saw more positive feedback than negative, which is big considering people who would come to the forum are more likely to come to complain than come and compliment.

yeah, it is, but theres also a lot of bad, and some mixed. if it was overwhelmingly positive, then i'd agree with you, but its not, so the servers should be delayed

for you, yeah. you and your friends got lucky. Dedicated servers will come, they HAVE to at this point. the money spent, the Switch version operating on servers only. servers will come, they just need to be fleshed out more before they officially launch. the "launch now fix later" mentality is a bad one that developers have these days. lets welcome the times they decide to take their time doing things.

@SteelDragon To be fair, this was one live test. Now they tweaking again. I'm fairly confident there will be additional Live tests throughout October.

So, the original server launch delay is still in effect. And they said Fall 2019, which gives them until late December.

@SteelDragon I'll reserve judgement on that until they announce they are launching them. They technically have until December 21st (the last day of Fall) to do so and make their new schedule, and a lot can happen with the Netcode in two-and-a-half months.

Yeah, that's why I made the poll - mixed was a lot better than I was expecting tbh. Looking at all the complaining that goes on on the forums, one would think that everyone is having a gamebreaking experience with them. According to the poll (to which respondees seemed to be mostly Australian or European, so maybe that's relevant) a good chunk of people actually consider them at least on par with their previous experience, if not an improvement.

@SteelDragon All of which should be immaterial. You do realize that doing network and server coding is a different beast from programming perks and killer powers, or doing map design?

Unless their team is a majority Jack of All Trades but Masters of None somehow, the folks dealing with the Netcoding are very unlikely to be the general game programmers.

I actually have folks in my family with Masters Degrees in that field. Three people, as a matter of fact. And not a one of them could program game code to any professional degree.

But they can handle your server and networking coding just fine.

And yes, the issues being faced would be normal. The difference is that pretty much any other game studio would have built their game and the servers from the start to use Dedicated Servers. The issues would have been discovered and handled during closed Alpha, closed Beta, and then the final tweaks in Open Beta via massive player testing and load testing.

BHVR is doing this to a live Game-As-Service three-plus years after the fact. So, it's going to be messy as hell.

@SteelDragon They've already shown they will delay them. I don't see where your worry is coming from. BHVR has delayed them and showed they want to get them right.

Yes, they are going to be tested in the Live game as part of that process. In any video game, a minority of players use the Public Test Servers. It's a regular complaint throughout the industry from development teams. BHVR needs as much player feedback and as many players on the Dedicated Servers as possible to get accurate data. Which means we're going to continue to see Live Tests throughout the process now.

Blame your fellow gamers who don't want to use the PTB.

But the cold reality is that not every member of the DbD playerbase is going to benefit from Dedicated Servers. Hell, there are Overwatch players, on Blizzard's top-of-the-line servers and Netcode, that suffer lag and other issues. It al depends on location, personal internet, and other factors.

But the same was true of P2P as well. Not every player benefitted from the original set-up, either.

My experince ... im already end with this game until they dont fix problems with delay, i get chainsaw if im already in locker, get hits after i jump and fly already, hits throw walls, if i dodge hits i see how killer hits air and from that air squirt my blood and others. This experince destroy every fun in this game. Maybe i will try it next year if they fix it.

Unfortunantely that can't be fixed. Your movements are delayed to the killer. The killer is reacting to your past position which could be +120 ping from where you think you are. You can't expect the killer to swing at your future position in order to get hits.