The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

Had recently made the decision to turn crossplay off. Xbox players dealing with lag spikes for every hit, unhook, hook, gen pop, exhaustion perk (namely lithe) while survivors on pc don’t have to? THAT is what is so unfair. Being denied hits, having chases go on for much longer than necessary if I didn’t get that one lag spike that allowed the survivor to vault that window when I otherwise would have been able to input into my controller would’ve ended the chase!

I'm still not sure how this happened again.

They figured out what it is obviously since the game was improving a lot, and things were getting fixed.

I'm baffled.

On PS4, frame drops and sound stutter very often happening now. After numerous patches, these problem still exists

I honestly think all their testing is taken up with the new content that’s constantly added and they can’t spare the time or staff to properly investigate these older issues.

It just seems like a matter of time until it all falls apart, piling new issues on top of unresolved older problems.

Things were already bad enough back in 2019 that they finally placate us with news of the Road to 60fps; but things have only gotten worse since then not better.

How long before we’re told ‘for the best experience upgrade’? How much worse can it get?

What if it gets so bad it’s removed from the stores like Cyberpunk?

Its super worrying to love this game but to be stuck playing a version that just feels neglected and an afterthought.

Here's hoping VHS picks up and either DBD is forced to get its ######### together or console just has something else other than this sorry excuse

Yeah VHS might be some serious competition for DBD.

I hope it comes out and is really good, if just to encourage some better practices by BHVR.

I don't think any of us really want to see this game fail; just the collection of licenses alone is something I can't see any other game ever achieving.

I just really hope DbD becomes the game its always had the potential to be, I just think it needs some TLC in the right places to secure its future rather than this unsustainable piling on of new content on top of old content that always seems to compound unresolved issues.

Thank you for everything; just to have this sort of interaction does wonders for (my) morale, and while I am not putting any expectations on anyone it does renew my hope that things might always improve in one of these patches\hotfixes in the future - which honestly means so much.

It would be a dream come true to be able to get hyped up with everyone as the new content arrives and be there enjoying it along with everyone else <3

There will always be bugs or issues with new content but to make some progress on the optimisation would make a lot of the other problems people experience seem minor (to me at least) in comparison. I can deal with a hell of a lot as long as the foundation is solid and have been there for some of the really rocky launches over the last few years.

I do have some more clips to sort through, hopefully tonight; but if there is anything I can do to help in anyway then please let me know and I'll do whatever I can <3

I thought this clip might be notable:

It starts with a smaller freeze on unhook that we've seen before, but theres a big freeze as the other survivor comes to help heal and I noticed it seemed to coincide with the Safe Unhook score event; I wonder if there might be some link?

There is a big freeze at the end too but I'm unsure what the cause could be.

This next clip is a freeze when I get infected by Nemesis:

As I am full health none of my perks are in play here, but I did notice that again around the time of the freeze\hit the Safe Unhook score event is there again.

This is right at the start of the match against Freddy and looks to be caused by a failed skill check to wake up by Meg; I've had to assume some things there but I don't think she would've made it to a clock to wake up another way and don't think there is any other option?

Not sure how useful these last 2 will be but this one just seems to be caused when the survivor is downed by Nemesis:

And this is just another example of the freeze when a different survivor unhooks across the map; I have a few of the unhook ones if any more clips of that are useful, though I don't want to bombard you with clips if they wont be any more help <3

The Police Station map seems to bring many of the issues out, just as Nemmy does pretty much on any map. Combine the two and oh boy ya have a great chance to be disconnected from the match. No doubt there's perks that aggravate all of this as well.

Oh goodie! Another ranged killer!

Said no consoler ever...

I don't fully understand the part about Spirit's optimization on the patch notes. From my experience she was always one of the few killers that actually played without too many freezes, in fact I almost exclusively player her post-RE chapter. So was fixing things about her really necessary?

I remember someone posting here that DBD seems to load assets for every character during the loading screen. Maybe her specific asset was causing issues and that reflected on every match?

I was thinking of buying something but I am not sure it is worth it if they don't at least get it to the pre last 2 or 3 updates state soon.

I didn't play in like two weeks. Just watching streams to satisfy my cravings.

From your posts guys, it doesn't seem I should play at all atm lol.

I am not up for the re chapter misery again.

It is hard even tho I play other games sometimes I want to play dbd too and feel like I can't.

Also stranger things going away soon. Feel like I am forced to buy at least some of that lol. But we definitely shouldn't give them anything unless we have playable game again.

And, what if this happens again? They somewhat fix things and boom back to square 1 little bit later. Wish I could just buy ps5 or switch to pc with my progress :(.

Last few chapters I've been saying to myself "This'll be the one that finally kills off the proir gen machines..."

Kind of echoing your guys comments with my own thoughts.

First, I worry as theres a lot of fancy effects going on, especially the transparencies.

Second is I wonder how aim reliant she will be; as even Blight\Hillbilly can be really hard to aim on controller because of having to have the sensitivity up so high to not get 360d.

Lastly I'm curious about the Spirit optimisation from the patch notes, as I am also in the same boat that thought the game actually seemed to run a lot better when playing as Spirit than most other killers. I wonder why she was chosen when my anecdotal experience made her one of the killers that impacted performance the least while Nemesis didn't get looked at instead when there are a multitude of severe examples of issues in games where he is present here in this thread. Sure there are very good reasons and I would love to have it explained to me so I can understand the big picture.

Makes sense to use that as a yard stick. My personal guess is we're toast by the end of April, after another chapter comes out and a hot fix or two as well.

But that's just a guess.

Now I'm getting freezes when the "cleanse totem" prompt comes up. It's not happening with the heal and repair gens prompt though.

I don't have videos, and I wanna say it's both but it was a dull totem for sure.