Feedback | Dedicated servers live test

It was great. The Dedicated Servers drastically improved my ping from 280s to 130s and the best part is that it was consistent so I never had to leave a lobby and find a new one. Matchmaking was way faster than before, I didn't feel anything wrong with hits ( maybe because I am used to bad hits at red ping ) and everything was great.

Only played survivor so far.

Been good for the most part, ran into Myers about 4 times last night, ONE of them was really buggy.

Tier 3 music is all weird and played multiple times or tier 3 will pop but I wouldn't get one shot down.

Footage from my friend's stream

https://clips.twitch.tv/PricklyCuteEggplantPoooound

I don't know if you have any knowledge of this, but god how SWF sucks.

While I have green ping and is doing "decent" in game, my friend on the other side of the world has so awful ping and lag in a match. Please fix this.

Also matchmaking still doodoo.

I've played several survivor matches and a couple killer matches (due to the longer queues). I'm getting consistently a ping around 50 ms in the lobby which is better than the previous test. I've had a couple games as survivor which felt like moving through molasses. I haven't noticed any rubberbanding or teleporting around.

We've had a couple disconnects, including the error message "player disconnected during loading" but then in the tally screen nobody was displayed as disconnected. I've also encountered a glitched lobby without a killer. When my teammates started to leave, the game continued to put new people in that lobby.

Aside from that the gameplay has been mostly normal but I don't do a lot of looping.

The hitboxes are out of this world bad. Chainsaw hitboxes, huntress hitboxes, trap hitboxes, window hitboxes. If servers are going to be this laggy, hitboxes have to be changed. I have a few clips of my friend to show this since my computer is unable to record.

It is entirely frustrating and gives killers free hits. Even when I play killer, it feels completely awful and unfair.

I've never lagged that much. I play both roles. When I play survivor, I see the killer teleporting which makes almost impossible to loop. Futhermore, the hitboxes are terrible: I legit get hit when the killer is facing the other direction.

On the other hand, when I play killer, I FEEL LIKE I AM THE NURSE. I keep blinking and I can't follow anyone because I keep going backwards every two seconds. I play huntress and if I throw a hatchet at the wall, somebody gets hit.

Note: I leave the lobby when the ping is over 120, however, I keep lagging.

The first live build was AWESOME, but this is actually terrifing. I would genuinly love to ask for your anwsers and solutions to those problems above-mentioned.

Completely terrible,

Same stupid problems as before, as most killers, my danm power get messy, laggy, delayed, I literaly sprint through ppl with billy and they wont fall.. chainsaw at windows is a joke, survivors start flickering as soon as they colide with my body like they we're a nurse, survivors change direction like there is no animationand flick so hard that's impossible to aim,

M1 got actually worse than before, it's terrible, ppl are blinking/de-syncing/whateverdevscallit so damn hard after hit that sometimes i'm unnable to keep track of then even in plain field.

Really useless servers, completely terrible.

Stop turning on this abomination u call servers in live game, use it just in PTB.

For real, just drop this server thing. Nothing is going well so far, u guys won't be able to fix those multiple problems anytime anytime soon.

that's it, another brake from DBD until this """"""server""""" is off again.

but hey, jake's hair is great now!

is it just me or the last generator's notification bubble for killers disappeared...?

Also, there is some delay on power/ interaction. And hitboxes are just acting weirdly.

I'm from Taiwan,and here are some complaints and advice or feedback from our game forum.

(1)Playing killers is not as fluency as then before,especially using nurse and MM's power.

(2)Randomly lag happens when killers interact with objects or slay people.

(3)Now survivors can just press ready and watch the YT until the game start,that a great improvement.

(4)Maybe can let killers know whether survivors are SFW or not after the game start. (We know if we show that at the waiting room may decrease killers' playing willingness)

(5)Similar to (4), maybe we can show if others are SFW or not at the end of the game.I believe most people are curious about it.

(6)Red Rank still need a long time for queuing. And sometimes it gives ridiculous match that made an unbalanced game.

(7)The Rank system need to be adjusted,Now it's too difficult for both killers and survivors to reach Rank 1 ,especially for solo survivors.(And these make most of Red Rank survivors are AT and also cause too few Red Rank players.)(Maybe relate to (6))

(8)DC boi need punishment.

(9)Maybe can let solo survivor players know the killers perk in advance.

For the last clip. You've always been able to walk over your trap right after putting it down. I've done that a lot even before dedicated servers.

I managed to play a bit of killer and it seems pretty nice. No rubberbanding, but sometimes when getting stunned I freeze for like a second before going into the animation, same with breaking pallets and gens. I've had hits on survivors I didn't agree with the game on. Like someone had finished throwing down a pallet and I still managed to hit her.

My Huntress hatchets seem to go through survivors sometimes and other times I hit them without actually hitting them. She seems a bit off.

I tried playing Michael and sometimes when you tier up into tier 3 you go back down to tier 2. It's a bit odd. Chainsaw hits are also a bit odd. When playing Bubba I had a Jeff run right through my chainsaw. I have the opposite issue with my Billy, hitboxes are very generous with him. Hitting around corners, autoaim hitting the surv for me etc.

So my only issue at the moment is hitboxes are really off, especially for hatchets. I get a solid 60 ping each game.

FPS drops drastically in indoors. Whenever I am in a building. FPS count drops to 30 - 40, while moving.

First I experienced it on PTB, I thought it was related to it. But now on live with the dedicated servers it happens again.

Springwood preschool, Disturb ward asylum, Lerry's memorial, Hawking lab, Meat plant... These are some of the examples I encountered this issue.

I have recently felt like there have been a few hits on me while vaulting through windows that really should not have hit. It's as if the killer has a longer arm now.

There's a clear problem with grabs resulting in a hit instead, it's really frustrating when survivors completes a gen/opens the door in your face because of this.

Can we get any updates regarding the situation of opting out of dedicated servers ? I remember that this would be a thing if BHVR doesnt want to add any servers in the region that we are from. Did this change ? seems like everyone is on dedicated servers even if they were on the moon.

I made an account specifically for these dedicated servers. THEY ARE A DOWNGRADE (for most people).

As everyone has been saying, even when the ping says 60, it feels more like it's adding both the killer's and survivor's pings together. The latency feels more like 120ms. And it is not as stable as most client-side servers previously. The match takes longer to load. There's stuttering at the beginning of most matches. But the problems are plethora; here's the more important ones I see.

1. HITBOXES: Vaunting is absolutely atrocious now. I can't even delay the window vault in killer shack to bait the mindgame. Pallets are terrible too, but windows feel worse for some reason. I will consistently be hit after I start moving following a fast window vault from a killer on the other side. Hitboxes feel fatter. Huntress is no longer fun to play against because of this.
2. MOVEMENT: This is probably the thing that will make me quit the game. It does not feel buttery anymore. I know it's a dunkey cliche to talk about really feeling like a survivor, but the immersion factor is legitimately broken by the input feeling now. It reminds me of a time my internet was dropping 1/10 frames and my brain was overcompensating to fill in those gaps. DBD feels like that now. Whenever I'm downed by body rarely falls where it appears on my screen.
3. STATUS EFFECTS: Dead Hard is broken. It's been broken before; doesn't seem too hard to do. But other status effects are broken as well. I played a match with Myers in T3 the entire time (he wasn't). Like everything else, there seems to be a slight delay in bewteen server and client data that is causing on of the two to reject the status. I dunno. I've seen killers never been able to activate bloodlust. I've seen people dead hard on the ground. I used balanced landing out of a window and it lagstuttered my entire BL, seemingly because the dedicated server didn't accept the input. But I kept exhaustion.

I played on Saturnday several games as killer and hardly felt any difference in any aspect. Ranks 11-9.

However one big difference was that the matchmaking queues were a lot shorter that usually - from 2-5 min to below 1 min.

For me and my people (around 8 persons from different regions) ping in every game from yesterday is awful. Red line, 200+ ms, central / eastern Europe. It affects the gameplay a lot because hits register from 3m away, very unhappy

Today is TUESDAY, why are this "dedicated" servers still here? It's the most horrible experience since dbd launched! I had a constant 20+ peoples playing the game, since this servers are active only 5-7 playing it anymore! It's more than obvious that it's a bad experience, so until figure it out what is going on just let the game how it was for 3 years than this completely broken version..., there are no benefits at all in curent state OR if want to insist with this servers, just release DBD 2 and let's see then which version is the most playable, enjoyable!

For NAT type errors you can fixthat yourself. Go to 192.168.1.1, that’s what most router are. Set up a dmz and static IP address and you should be good to go

Dear Devs...

9/10.

9/10 is the "my number", how many DEADHARDs have been exhausted and didn't protect me today.

The North American Oregon servers feel pretty good on both killer and survivor side, I live close by them.

My only issue is the queue wait time. To be killer, it's usually pretty good, but sometimes it can get up to around 8 minutes. To be survivor, on the other hand, regardless of the time of day or night, it's always 6-15 minutes. My only guess is we have a shortage of killers on our server.

Could you look into some sort of cross server connection to get a wider selection of players?

on "30 ping" dedicated servers i have also run into bad desync with the server where killers are getting hits on hit boxes that are way behind myself. I juked a billy 3 outta 5 chainsaws and both times he hit me I juked and was 4 - 5 meters to their right /left and on my screen he just went forward and didn't turn into me. Then I have had the windows and pallets where killer was way far off getting hits after pallets have dropped and their weapon bounces off the pallet. Even my client is getting mixed messages as to what the heck is going on. Devs either fix the desync problem alot of people are having including streamers or let us choose to play dedicated servers or p2p matches. Pretty much the current state they are in they are gonna kill the pc community. I for one am growing pretty tired of the frustration of a 30 ping lobby having desync issues like 150-200 ping games.

I guess I'm not the first, but I'll add that I keep getting hit through pallets long after I already drop it. Same thing goes with windows.

I can't do that as I use my phone's internet with hotspot.

Currently, lobby waiting is way too long for both sides. The more people play at the same time the longer I wait for a single match. And the latency problems increase, even though ping seems same.