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What's even the point playing survivor anymore?
When the killer can just tunnel you or one of your teammates at 5 gens and there is practically nothing you can do. Tunneling can realistically be countered in coordinated SWFs, and it still would require wasting half of perk slots for basic needs, so what is the point playing soloQ then? It's as if you are not even meant…
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There should be some kind of exam every player must take in order to access soloQ
And it should include general information about all of the perks. If the player fails to answer correctly what a perk does - he fails the exam and can only try again after a 24h cooldown. The cooldown should increase exponentially after each consecutive failure, and it should take just one wrong answer to fail the whole…
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Green glyphs don't spawn anymore?
Just had several games as survivor, both in Chaos mode and default, with this challenge equipped. In all cases, not a single green glyph was spawned, no matter how many gens and hooks happened. Their auras are supposed to be highlighted once EGC activates, so I tried waiting for the EGC and nothing was shown, even though…
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Both second chance perks and gen slowdown perks should be gone
These are kinds of perks which purpose is to plainly prolong the opponent's objective. They all make the game frustrating and unfun for the opposite side. This is the reason why they are always in meta, and why every change in them always creates huge unrest in the community. It's hard to defend gens against SWFs, but it…
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Is MMR reversed?
I mostly play Wraith, and most of my games end up with 4k's, so I would expect my Wraith MMR to rise continuously. But yet I get potato survivors in half of my games, making those 4k's even easier. But when I pick a killer I have barely touched, almost always I get sweat squads with 100 prestige and baiting cosmetics. I…
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Working with the killer is getting out of hand
Out of about 20 of today's soloQ games, in HALF of them a survivor was leading the killer to other survivors. Most of the times it happened with the 2 survivors remaining. Almost always the killer then proceeded to let the rat go, and once when I was ratted out and hooked, the rat was just spamming the unhook animation…
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The greatest problem of DbD
Name the greatest problem of DbD on your opinion with only one word (or abbreviation)
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"You were hiding the whole game"
As an average soloQ enjoyer, I know very well that the endgame is basically 1v1v1v1v1, or as many "1"s as there are players left. So of course when I'm left with just one teammate and 2+ gens left, I don't hope to finish all of them, so I wait for the other guy to die so that I at least have a chance of escaping. However…
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Working with the killer is the new normal?
For the last couple of days, every third game happens to have one survivor who intentionally sells out his teammates and leads the killer to them, after which the killer lets him go as a "thank you" for ez game. It happened before, but much more rare, now it looks like some kind of new meta in soloQ or something. Have you…
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Sole Survivor is the new soloQ meta
We all know that in DbD skill = escapes. So, how can you play skillfully in soloQ? Just use the new Sole Survivor meta. As soon as any of your teammates dies too early, start hiding. Avoid the killer, because looping is not skill, skill = escapes. Ignore gens, because gens are not skill, skill = escapes. Wait for all your…
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They actually pulled the game from steam for Russia
Even though they swore they wouldn't do this. BHVR is such a BHVR.
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New kind of cheats
Just had a game as basement Bubba. Hooked one survivor, stand on the stairs. A Laurie shows herself upstairs and starts running in place, as if lagging. Then - boom, she is already unhooking the survivor in the basement. So basically a "sneaky" teleport into the basement, bypassing the stairs. Nothing extraordinary here,…
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Lunar Event hypocrisy
We added Escape Based MMR which nobody likes, everyone opposes it and demands to rework it at best or to scrap it altogether at worst. We ignore it, because this game is similar to hockey, and one lead designer knows better than thousands of experienced players. We added the disastrous map of Raccoon City, which almost…
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CoH is nerfed, NOED is not
If anyone had any doubts, it shows perfectly which side the devs take in this "us vs them" argument. NOED has been the most unfair and hated perk in the game, turning occasional 0k into 2k, 1k into 3k, and 2k into 4k with no extra effort required. CoH wasn't that strong in the first place, if we don't touch the problematic…
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In soloQ teammates are your main enemies
Just had a game in soloQ. Started doing a gen with one Cheryl in the shack. Spine Chill goes off, so I go into a locker, while the clueless Cheryl remains on gen. It was Ghostface, he starts stalking her, and she doesn't see him. She gets exposed, runs towards my locker and tries to open it to show to killer I'm there, and…
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Why are killer mains more numerous?
(Just in case, before I begin: I myself play both roles almost equally, and I'm not a "main" of any side. I usually play as whoever has the fastest queue time at the moment.) We all have seen our fair share of these "us vs them" threads, we see them every day, but many of you might have already noticed that such threads…
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Last good update was a year ago
4.5.0 was in January 2021, it's when we got the new HUD, clown rework, wraith buff etc. Let's see what we have been getting since then: 4.6.0 - The Trickster, one of the worst designed killers in the game, still remaining as such. 4.7.0 - The Trickster is buffed and now it's impossible to suicide quickly (skillchecks):…
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Why is DC penalty on
if the game STILL can crash or kick you to the main menu with no apparent reason? I don't know any other development team in existence that punish the players for EXPERIENCING bugs! You get punished for being the victim of a broken game, by the broken game! How is it even comprehensible?
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Haven't played the game for a month...
Think about giving it a shot. Join soloQ. The killer is a facecamping clown (in both senses). Still no anti-camping mechanics, after 5 years in development. Get facecamped. Let go on hook. Close the game. Uninstall. Nope, just nope, I guess I'll have to go back to playing propnight and waiting for VHS.
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How long are we going to have to wait for No Mither nerfs ?
No Mither is making killer games absolutely miserable when it's abused. Broken status is absolutely broken, the fact that I can hit someone while carrying a survivor and they stand up from the ground ready to unhook said survivor in a instant. I really hope they go down the road of making No Mither a limited use like…
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Is this a bannable offense?
Look at the following possible scenarios: Hatch game. Two survivors left, some gens remain. One survivors is downed, the other is hiding hoping for the hatch. The killer slugs for 4k. The slugged survivors is crawling to the remaining survivor, thus leading the killer to the other survivor in order to sell him out. Same as…
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Report from Hell: 35 Trials of SoloQ
All of you have heard about soloQ, and some explorers in further regions of experience even actively participate in this peculiar activity on regular basis: out of necessity or for their masochistic pleasure alike. But for those of you interested yet not brave enough to try these extreme kinds of entertainment, today I'll…
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How BHVR intentionally destroys soloQ
We all know soloQ is hell, it's an endless trail of nightmarish pain and suffering beyond natural human abilities, but observant players might have noticed that the situation is gradually becoming worse from one update to another. Let's recap. Archives For some reason survivor challenges specifically make you throw the…
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So they turn DC penalty back on...
But still leave these bs hits through windows and pallets untouched. Like yeah, survivors totally have no legit reason to DC, not even after getting hit from 7 meters away after a window vault.
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NO CHALLENGE SELECTED
For how long is it going to keep happening? I've lost progress on countless challenges already because I was sure it was selected (as it was supposed to), but then after the trial realized it was "no challenge selected" the whole time. Is it broken by design?
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Dead Hard = New hit validation tech?
So will DH be like new pallets, where you clearly hit a survivor, see him scream, but then your hit gets rolled back? Is this a new step of testing killers' patience of how much they can endure before uninstalling or turning into full bubba-facecamp-1st-hook mode?
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How to escape Elo hell as a solo survivor?
I mean, is it even possible now? With the escape based matchmaking every time you die - your MMR drops. Starting with a certain point you will get survivors which will make it impossible for you to escape without the hatch (which doesn't give you much MMR anyway). And with every new death caused by potato teammates your…
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Loading takes forever
Is it just me, or loading into trials started to take literal minutes after the update? It's launching fine, finds a lobby quickly, and then when the actual trial tries to load, it takes forever. Just now I had to wait for MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES to load into a trial! How is it even possible to have to wait for the game to…
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Since we all know how exactly MMR works now...
Why is it still hidden? Shouldn't we be able to see our MMR score, like we can in every other game with MMR? Because the only made up reason for hiding it is now irrelevant after the devs confirmed how the algorithm works, what's the point of hiding it now?
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Pretty good MMR so far
I complete 3 gens from 0 to 100, save two teammates and heal one of them just after that, then loop the killer for a minute and get hooked. The last gen gets done and all 3 teammates escape, leaving me to die on my first hook. Result: their MMR goes up, my MMR goes down. Well, I guess they are just better players.
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For how long will the game reward high ping?
We all know about the new and trendy "hit validation tech": if the survivor has a 300+ ms ping, you won't be able to hit them at any pallet, and if you do - the game will just take the hit back. But pallets are not the only place where WiFi lords get their advantage: if you try to play Blight against people with 3-digit…
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Perks worse than empty perk slot
We all know No Mither is the worst survivor perk that makes the survivor weaker than if he hadn't any perk at all. Recently I found out that the new Object of Obsession is also such a perk: it's the worst killer locating perk which also gives your location away to the killer. I actually tried the 4-eyes build of OoO, Dark…
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There are only two kinds of matches as killer
In first you destroy solo survivors at 4 gens, and in second you get completely destroyed by SWF with 4 hooks. There is nothing in between. It's like the zebra strips: this game I get ez win, the next one I get destroyed by the powers of comms to the point I have to give up, so that I have an opportunity to wipe the floor…
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Can't wait for Hawkins to be gone
Just had a game against the Twins. Most of the game time we spent on looking for gens, but after all we managed to do 4 gens, and two of us had 1 hook state, two had 0. One could think: that's it, victory, the killer has lost! One more gen to go and boom - 4 escapes! Right? Right? I thought so too, but the Twins had an ace…
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Old Perks vs New Perks
Old perks: You break everything faster! You recover from stuns faster! You one-hit everyone after all gens are done! You see downed survivors! You see healing survivors! You hold survivors tighter! You carry survivors faster! Survivors heal slower! You always know when you are near a survivor! You are silent while wounded!…
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Core issues that will never be fixed
Here is the full (I hope) list of core game problems that, as it seems, are going to stay in the game forever. SWF. This one is obvious, and the most fundamental and important issue. Comms break the balance as nothing else. A competent SWF team will destroy most killers. It also leads to the fact that the devs can't get a…
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SBMM is back, but with a twist
Now you have separate MMR for every survivor! I picked Jake for the first time in ages and that's what I got. I don't know how to explain this matchmaking otherwise.
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Doctor's shock doesn't stop survivors from vaulting anymore?
Just had a game as the Doctor where I looped one survivor for god know how long around a single pallet. I shocked and he vaulted, I shocked and he vaulted. How is it even possible? He didn't have Calm Spirit, he was screaming and yet vaulting the pallet while screaming. Did they nerf the Doctor and now his shock doesn't do…
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How to enjoy playing against SWF?
It's getting impossible once you hit purple ranks. I've tried everything, it's just hopeless. A game against SWF is a guaranteed loss. Not only that, it's stressful as hell. You sweat and stress out your guts, calculating and using every millisecond of time as efficiently as humanly possible, to the point you are about to…
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Idea how to make chat a little bit nicer
Make a system that awards players with +100 post-game bloodpoints for typing "gg" or "good game" and +150 bloodpoints for typing "wp" or "well played". This bonus should be nullified if the player typed "ez" in the same post-game chat. It won't have any impact on the economy, but will be a nice addition and incentive to be…
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If NOED wasn't in the game...
Then there would be literally no reason to do dull totems. Well, other that +1000 bp, but if we are talking only about gameplay, NOED is the only reason to break dull totems in the game. Just think about it: a whole game mechanic is hinged upon one single perk. You can also mention "inner strength", but it was added much…
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Does it count as sandbagging/working with the killer?
A lot of games I had as a soloQ survivor end up with the new kind of hatch standoff, where just two survivors remain with several gens to do and wait for each other's death to get the hatch. So most of the times I'm the one who stays alive, find the hatch and wait for the teammate's death while he is on hook, since saving…
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How to escape Elo Hell?
In order to win games, you need competent teammates. In order to get competent teammates, you need high MMR. In order to get high MMR, you need to win games. We have a vicious circle here. What should I do if I already have low MMR and only get matched with literal bots who die like flies? It's impossible for me to win…
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New DC exploit?
Just had a suspicious game as the Killer. The match starts as usual, intro camera spin, I get controls and look for survivors. Found one, chase him, break one pallet, break the second pallet, hit him, find another survivor, hit the other survivor, break the third pallet, and then the game switches to end-game screen,…
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Never again
I will never go for the last gen in my life again. If the last gen is left - I'll be near the gates waiting for my teammates to do all the job. At worst we all die, at best I can escape. I'm so tired of getting the killer's attention and then being the only one survivor who dies because teammates just went for the gates…
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SoloQ players are screwed for good now
Now that the "SB"MM is out, you all my fellow soloQ survivors will have a bad time from now on. They have been gathering info on your "performance" for the last few month to base your "MMR" score on. And they did it the BHVR way: the metrics they were using are probable developed by the same team the emblem system was…
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Let's calculate the GRIND
Let's find out how enormous the grind actually is. By grind I mean the amount of bloodpoints required to get stuff, and here I will ONLY consider getting perks, no add-ons considered at all. We will also not consider prestiging: we assume the most rational player will never prestige, wishing to save some grinding time. We…
