So I have a few things to talk about.

First: The current state of dedicated servers.

I could just say they are simply raw and not ready for final release, but that is too simple and a good 3/4th of the community already says that, so I'll try to explain why.

First of all there is the problem with a lack of avalible data centers for people to use all over the globe, including places like russia, south america,africa and more. For example: There is no data center located directly in Russia so any Russian player not close to France,Germany or China will have no less than 100 ping no matter which data center he is connected to. Or South America having like 1-2 data centers for an entire continent, which leads to the simular issue. But that's the simple stuff. Another part of the dedicated problems is them actually failing to fix most of the problems they were adressed to fix. For example: dedicated servers were exciting news for a lot of newer and veteran players alike for their supposed ability to "fix the broken hitboxes", which came as a huge disappointment to many players on any of the initial test runs, because AT BEST(less than 30 ping) you would experience the same kind of game you played on the peer to peer system, and if the ping was below near perfection, which was the case for a lot of games, the situation simply became worse. On top of that dedicated servers brought a solid number of bugs, harmless and not so, to the game, previously unheard of. So in summary, in their current state dedicated servers only fixed the issue of so called "lag switching" which was basically the killer purposely making their internet connection worse to gain an advantage over survivors who would lag a lot. But even that issue was encountered so infrequently, most people simply didn't think of it too much. I know the investement in the creation of dedicated servers was huge, the system is simply not improving enough things for it to be worth switching to. At least for now. I recognize that the dedicated servers we have now are simply a test of the system in a hunt for ways to improve it, but it will take a lot of time to do so.

Second issue: The most hated thing by the majorityof the current dbd playerbase next to dedicated servers: The spirit.

The killer itself does not seem too groundbreaking at first, her power works as intended and has no potential exploits. The problem with it lies in the limitation of the survivor's ability to "do something about it". Let's look at a pretty common chase situation with the spirit: The survivor recognizes the spirit has started phasing and has to quickly decide on what to do next to avoid getting hit.

They have a few options:1)Stay at a pallet or a window to try and make the spirit miss them by vaulting at appropriate times(which are mostly random due to the survivor hardly being able to tell where the spirit is). 2) Slow walk away not leaving any trail for the spirit to follow, ultimately losing her. 3) pretend to start running away, and then quickly changing direction to shake the spirit off their trail and make her miss.

So here's where the problems are: Option 1 and 2 can be countered by the spirit player by listening to the audio cues of a survivor vaulting an obstacle(even slow vaults can be heard!) and ultimately hitting them after they vault or decide not to if there is no sound. This option can be also countered by spirit standing completely still and pretend she is phasing to make the survivor panic and make a mistake, which can prove quite effective since the survivor has almost no way of telling if the spirit is phasing or not thanks to her not having any indicators of doing so and emmiting no phasing sound while within her terror radius. And option 3 can be countered by the spirit player hearing the survivor while phasing thanks to the spirit having muffled chase music and thus nothing to disrupt the sound of the survivor breathing, grunting or running.

How to adress these issues(purely a suggestion):

First: Make the spirit emit the phasing sound even while in her terror radius, or/and add an animation or any other indicator to her husk, warning the survivor that the spirit is currently phasing.

Second: Make sounds less audible for the spirit while phasing or do not muffle the chase music. Please note that the second suggested change should not be implemented if the first one will, because having both applied at the same time will make it really hard for the spirit to tell where the survivors are during phasing based on sound.

Third:Add a window vaulting for the spirit, since the survivor approaching from any sort of angle from the window will hardly be able to tell the spirit is vaulting it, until it is too late.

Furthermore I have a small idea for a rework of the infamous "Prayer beads" Spirit power add-on.

My suggestion would simply be to replace the "No phasing sound" Effect to "You are able to quickly vault windows or break pallets while phasing. Doing so will pause the phase gauge depletion".

Also: A small suggestion for a small improvement that will have a singnificant impact on The trapper.

The trapper no longer has to collect his traps from around the map at the start of a trial, he has all of them in his hands and can carry all of them at the same time later in the match.

Trapper sack:+1 total number of traps Trapper bag:+2 total number of traps Stitched bag: +3 total number of traps.

The reasoning behind this suggestion would be that the trapper already lacks in map presense and chase potential outside of using his traps for it, but the main reason is that the Trapper has to waste a lot of precious time going around the map collecting his traps and setting them up at the start of the match.

And finally: A suggestion to change some of the addon's for hillbilly's and Leatherface's chainsaw add-ons:

Chainsaw file: Rarity changed from common to uncommon: now reduces the noise made by the chainsaw by 50%

Homemade muffler:Rarity changed from uncommon to Ultra rare: Now renders the chainsaw completely silent.

I know those add-on changes sound really strong on paper, but if we compare them to what you can take instead(AKA Charge time decreases, Cooldown decreases, Chainsaw movement speed, and so many more) you see the bigger picture and the fact that reducing the sound made by the chainsaw will simply make survivors approach chases with either of the killers with more caution and pay greater attention to their whereabouts and currect actions they are performing.

I would love to hear your feedback on this topic, reader, if you even made it all the way to the end heh, so feel free to write anything you want to say.

This was LunaTik the obligated rank 1 player, signing off.

Good luck.