The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

Odds are you will be disappointed more. ☹️

Anyone played today? I played a few surv games again and it is a mixed bag.

Maybe it is not as bad as re chapter but it is definitely a big step back compared to before this patch. And it doesn't feel good at all. It feels like a huge handicap again.

It seems worst on unhooks and being hit sometimes, also some killer powers seem to start causing it again.

Could be even boons.

So now we have to figure out what causes it and restrict our playstyles and builds. And avoid playing some killers as well.

Just like before...

Yeah. It was playable for a while but now we are going backwards for some reason.

And I actually wanted to spend some money on a game since the devs were fixing things. I didn't buy anything since the re chapter for obvious reasons.

Not sure but @Pulsar experienced it himself. It is crazy tbh.

And that's the reason why I have crossplay turned off most of my matches.

I too have experienced the stutters with kicking pumpkins as a surv, not sure about doing so with killer.

yeah the globe icon is above the Feng if you look closely.

Today I started playing DBD again - I was taking break while there were no challenges for me to do. It definitely feels worse after this update. Every match starts with stutters. While I haven't had the freeze after random unhooks there are definitely stutters after every unhook. When kicking pumpkins the ones that cause status effect cause worse performance issues that regular one.

Had a match against Freddy on Dead Dawg and it was rough with bad performance. I was actually pretty happy he tunneled me out so I could leave it sooner. Nemesis is still miserable to play against with the funky hits he's had since the mid-chapter patch.

At this point between sbmm and performance issues I'm not even trying to make it to the end. My swf teammate and I are just getting our challenges done, once we get them done (or as much as possible in a match) we just have killer kill us so we can move on to the next match faster. Before there was an incentive to play well and stay in the match - safety pip or pip up for evenly matched teammates next round - but now that incentive is gone because even if we double pip if we die we are not guaranteed good teammates. May as well get our challenges done and quickly move on to the next round while teammates hide in a corner afraid of gens.

Sounds rough. My teammates are usually decent except sometimes. I am winning a lot more than before sbmm tho even with these issues as survivor. Killer on the other hand is super hard.

That's good then. I didn't experienced any more crashes tonight so dunno what caused it. At least it is not a general issue.

I think performance will be better without pumpkins at least, cause they are causing short freezes also.

The problem is that I freeze when others smash them too.

I had way better random teammates before sbmm so was more fun and would escape more often but with sbmm my swf teammate and I are running around doing everything only to die and be stuck in unfun deathloop. It's been so miserable that we figured why bother even trying if we're just going to be stuck dying until we luck out with competent teammates that finally work together and escape. We're just getting the Halloween challenges done for free cosmetics and then playing something else because DBD just isn't any fun now. The best part about the For Honor crossover was we found a game to replace DBD. 😂

Nemesis is basically the same freezing mess as he was before the fixes.

One step forward, ten steps back devs. Smh.

Wish I could opt out of playing against him. Escape doesn't make it right, it ruins chases.

Got another couple of example clips to share, hopefully they are still useful and help get this smoothed out for as asap.

This is another example of a freeze when someone was unhooked the other side of the map while I was being chased and exposed by Ghostface, a killer who is definitely not the worst affected by freezes.

This second one is a great example of the freeze when breaking pumpkins and as its Kate right by me who kicks it, you can see what it would be like if she was the other side of the map. It doesn't seem to matter who kicks it and where, we all freeze.

Sadly can't see that one getting fixed before the event goes away tbh though :(

I wonder if this is related but when I look at the old Pustula offerings, they say they are only usable during Midnight Grove, despite referring to Blighted Hooks\Gens instead of Tangled ones and also being 'no longer available' even during the event which it specifically now mentions in the offering description.

It suggests there's overlap between the old event code and what we are using for this new event and I have to wonder if things like that will just confuse the game more and possibly affect it in ways like we are seeing?

Is this when playing as killer, survivor or both?