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17 games in and my 2v8 stats are concerning
I took notes on all my 2v8 matches today, and I'm not liking the results. Playing survivor only (queue times are too brutal for me to try killer), either medic or guide. Game 1: Blight + Billy. Yamaoka. 8K, 5 gens left. Miserable game. Killers raced around the map and racked constant downs, were always zooming over to…
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Are Medics the new Escapists?
In the previous version of 2v8, Escapists were the favorite class of SWF loopers, as they could give each other Sprint Bursts on command, and I often saw them swooping in to clutch their friends out of bad positions and extend chases unreasonably. I just witnessed something very broken in my latest match, where a Medic ran…
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Can we have more outfit slots?
As the number of cosmetics grows, and players passively accumulate more outfits through both events and the Rift, three saved outfit presets per character starts to feel pretty limiting. I've got a full page of the OG 4 survivor outfits each, to say nothing of my Plague and Artist dress-up room, where my tiny closet cannot…
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This is kind of strange
So I'll preface this - I'm really excited for Shoulder the Burden. I think it's an excellent addition to anti-tunneling tools. And I'm thrilled to have a cultist and an actual evil survivor - no semi-amoral producers this time, no tortured pillow fight champions or numbers guys who were accidentally responsible for war…
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Finisher Mori has indirectly made the survivor experience worse
I truly didn't expect this to happen without a bloodpoint incentive, but here we are. I tracked 22 matches, watching the game play out if I died early. There were 4 where players escaped out the gates, so technically 18 matches with relevant data. 10 of them had the killer slug the second last survivor. In 6 of those…
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Do survivors meme on Dracula the same way they meme at Pig?
Or do I just look especially soft and cuddly? I've been prestiging Dracula today and I keep encountering survivors who just do not run from my initial approach. Three separate games out of nine, one or two survivors at the first gen I checked crouched and beckoned, even after I hit them. One of those survivors had a pebble…
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Favorite lobby music?
The Castlevania DBD theme is sick and I've found myself idling in the lobby jamming to it more than once. Absolutely epic; the composers nailed this one, and the survivor theme is excellent too. It got me wondering… what's everyone's favorite themes over the years? Particular licenses and how they meshed their own motifs…
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Thoughts on 2v8 so far?
After years of inquiries, we've finally gotten the game mode everyone's always asked for, in an incarnation I don't think anyone was really expecting. Would love to hear how people are feeling about it. My first experience with it is just chaos. I can't tell if I'm making good game decisions because there's so much going…
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Tome 18: Core Memory: Disturbing Notions won't complete
Title. PC. I'm working through old archives and this tome challenge won't complete for me. The challenge is to collect 2 shards that appear when a gen is finished and then escape or sync to a portal. I've repeatedly fulfilled the conditions within matches - the shards spawn, I collect two of them, a portal appears, I…
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PC - Doctor visual effect prevents Snap Out Of It and recovering
Had a match against a Doctor and experienced a new bug. The Doctor used the Iridescent Queen addon, which causes survivors to carry a static charge until they reach another survivor, upon which it shocks both players. This static has a visual effect, a field of sparks around the survivor, and occasionally the screen crawls…
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Wow, the new rift outfits.
These are some of the coolest ones I've ever seen. I love how themed the rift is in particular, but Kitsune Yui? Serpent Spirit? Fae Trickster? Even that chibi devil thing Sable's got going on. Full marks. These aren't even all of the new ones, because there aren't many recolors this time around, but you get the picture.…
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Choosing what automated bloodwebs prioritize
The event, and manually selecting cakes every time before I can press that glorious center button, made me wonder if it would be possible to save some inputs on what we want the auto-selected webs instead of having them operate off the algorithm they do. I don't need a whole priority list ranking each possible item worst…
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Anyone else kinda dreading the upcoming tome a bit?
I'm always excited for new tomes, because I love collecting outfits and the feeling of making progress on something with every game. A new rift is always a breath of fresh life to DBD for me. ...But there's always a huge influx of people playing the tome characters. And I'm gonna be real, even 'fixed' Skull Merchant is a…
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Can I just point out how bad the proposed new mori offerings are?
It's a bit overshadowed by everything else wrong with the announcement, but I feel it still needs to be said. Moris are now turning into personal bloodpoint offerings - you get 8k/12k/20k bloodpoints for getting 2/3/4 kills and a finisher mori. To begin with, nobody needed more personal bloodpoint offerings, period. All…
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Feng Min's "cosplays"...
Okay, Feng getting another licensed character's new outfit once was funny, but at this point it's getting a little sad. We know she's a cash cow, BHVR, you don't gotta be so obvious about it. I'm thrilled about getting Princess Heart for Cheryl, and her first outfit in two years is some good food for Silent Hill fans, but…
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I can't get over how good this Artist outfit is
Both Aspriin and the art team knocked this one out of the park. The detail on it is so good - the crow skulls on her crown, the double seraph wings, the ink-stained feathers. It might be the single coolest outfit in the game. The set is amazing on its own, but also consider: I can't wait for more Artist cosmetics just to…
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Please change the lights in Haddonfield - potential epilepsy issue
I don't know when this started, because I don't think it's been like this since the map rework, but maybe I only noticed it recently. There's a flickering bulb in the House of Pain gen room and the effect on the room's lighting is extreme. I'll put a link to a clip here. Behaviour: "We had to remove flashlight clicking to…
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Can we get better distribution of event items?
Title. Earlier this year, we made a big improvement to event bloodwebs by guaranteeing level 50 bloodwebs would have at least one of each event item in them. It was really great and expedited the whole experience of collecting event stuff massively, especially on survivors who always have more unique items to gather. Issue…
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Bloody Party Streamers not working
Title. I've used a couple of them during the event and they don't appear to give bonus bloodpoints, at least not to myself. At least one other user has reported the same thing. The streamers were not returned to my inventory. Survivor Puddings appear to be working fine. It would be nice to know if the same applies to…
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Any fun event experiences?
Seeing a lot of the usual threads complaining about camping and tunneling during events, so I thought I'd shake things up. Anyone got any fun stories to share about the new event mechanics, or players doing wacky things? Had two silly things occur today. One game, I'd just hooked a Dwight and went to the nearest rift to…
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Major archives improvement?
I was just doing a challenge to sacrifice 4 survivors. I kill 2, but one DCs halfway through the game - not while downed or in chase or anything, but probably a random internet crash. I let the last guy go because he looked like he wanted the Left For Dead challenge and it's not like I was getting this done in one game…
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Something cool I noticed in this rift
For a long time, people have complained about the charms for each featured character in the rift - they'd have a symbol that often only loosely referenced the survivor/killer, and it was just the same charm on four different backgrounds. They were pretty unambiguously clutter. Now they're different! Mikaela's series has…
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Wesker stuck in place after survivor DCs mid-slam
I've got a Claire running in circles in front of me at the time of typing this. Had a Mikaela disconnect when I was in the middle of picking her up after a slam (as in, I didn't pick up the downed Mikaela manually, but the slam automatically transferred her into my grip and it was during that animation where she quit.) My…
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I had a nasty thought (FOMO and recent decisions)
So a few weeks back, they announced that all non-licensed cosmetics are eventually going to become available with shards. Everyone cheers, give or take a few saltlords that don't want anyone to own things for free that they had to pay for. Consensus is that this is a great step forward and a pretty generous move from BHVR.…
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Why you gotta do moris this dirty?
We can only mori one survivor now? And only at the very end of the trial? Then we need a collective F in chat for the absolute best part of moris, which was other survivors photobombing them. Seriously, moris were the most fun part about Devour Hope and Rancor. Why on earth would you remove that part? What purpose does…
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A small buff to Head On?
Just pulled off one of those one-in-a-million locker saves on pure dumb luck, and it got me thinking. It'd be nice if once you were in a locker for 3 seconds and Head On activated, the aura of the locker you're in was displayed to all other survivors so that it's easier for survivors to coordinate plays. It's not really…
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Blast Mine is still pretty bad
I appreciate that they buffed Blast Mine, but it's still much weaker than it was before, and it was never a strong perk to begin with. It is still not worth running. 45s on a gen is a massive ask for a one-time use that doesn't replenish if it sees no value, considering all of these things: -If you place it too early when…
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All non-licensed store outfits are going to be buyable with iridescent shards!
Woohoo! This is a pretty great step - essentially it's BHVR ungating previously paid content so that you can now purchase it for free. This will be really noticeable on certain characters who had a lot of paid outfits - Feng and Kate come to mind. For some examples, Minotaur Oni, Pink Bunny Feng, and Doll Dredge are now…
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Is Trickster actually heavily played?
I ask because in a year and a half of being in the game, he's received six new outfits, three this year alone, plus a guaranteed spot in either of the upcoming winter outfit sets. Compare that to Blight, one of the most played killers, who's gotten four new outfits since he dropped. Or Huntress, who's had two new…
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Hoarder is actually a decent information perk on Wesker and Nemesis
I put on this perk for a meme build and was surprised when I actually got consistent value out of it. I didn't expect it to work with the supply cases their powers spawn, but it does, and that's in addition to survivors having to drop their items to pick up the cures and then pick up the first item again. In every game…
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Is it just me, or are matchmaking incentives really unreliable?
And I don't mean it like they're not always there or on the side I want them to be. I mean I'll start a match with 100% survivor bloodpoint bonus, I'll end the game and the next lobby still shows it at 100% survivor bloodpoint bonus, but I don't get any bonus bloodpoints from the match. This happens to me pretty often.…
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Can we take a look at Eruption?
So this perk's pretty much wholesale replaced PGTW, and quite frankly I preferred dealing with Pop. There's two issues I have with this perk. One - by nature of the way it works, Eruption is better against solos than SWF. SWF can call out when they're about to go down and have their teammates release gens at just the right…
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Showing people's prestiges in lobby is a mistake
In each match I've played today, I've had a newbie teammate, something which was evident during the game. One of them didn't even have perks. More than that, I've been able to identify they're new before the game even starts because they're playing a default character at prestige 0. If I roll a whole lobby that looks like…
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What the actual heck are these perk changes this update
Seriously, I'm getting more and more baffled the more I read. -Mettle of Man went from an extremely situational perk that gave a good reward if you did a lot of throwing earlier in the match, to taking slightly less effort for a much less useful reward - one that doesn't stack with other endurance effects, can be bypassed…
