This is not a team game
Dead By Daylight is all about farming stats to rank up. Whenever I load in a game I have a mental checklist of the things I need to do to rank up.
- Get 2-3 safe unhooks
- Cleanse any totem spotted
- Contribute to popping 2-3 gens
- Heal literally anyone that comes near me
- Have all my chases last at least 30 seconds minimum and get a pallet stun in each one
And that's Dead By Daylight. Focus on the checklist, rank up or at least avoid de-ranking. You have a team, but you're really just working on your individual stats. Worked to get me to Rank 4 last season.
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Survive with friends is a team game, and a pretty fun one at that.
I would argue that your checklist can prove that it is a team game. You're focused on things that do help your team - unhooking survivors rather than leaving them to die, especially making sure these are safe unhooks; preventing NOED; completing the objective; healing other survivors; and distracting the killer. All of these contribute to your team being able to do the same things that you're trying to do.
Yes, your final evaluation and "rewards" are based on your individual performance, but you wouldn't get nearly the same results if everyone disregarded their teammates for selfish purposes.
Ultimately your fellow survivors are just cannon fodder for you.
Well if you look at it through the eyes of a sweat lord who only cares about ranking up then yeah you're sort of right...
That moment you read this and realize your a team oriented checklist is amusing. Except based on the chase one you check off the bad at chases drop pallet.
Agree 100%. It grinds my gears when people refer to other survivors as "teammates". You are not a team. You are a group of survivors.
It's generally in your better interest to help others but your goal should ultimately be for YOU to escape. Whether other survivors escape or not has no impact on you. If you want to play selfishly that's your decision to make. 90% of the time whether you escape or not is dependent on your and you alone.
To make it a team game, the devs would need to come up with a differently weighted rank and bloodpoint score system based on the interacted survivor being in your swf group or not. (Quick examples would be penalties for dead swf members or harsher restrictions on safe-unhooks when unhooking strangers)
As it stands now, there are no mechanics IN-TRIAL that differentiate between groups or the default solo survivors.
The problem is that there is no voice communication. Without it you can't play as a team. Some players post discord age teamspeak links in the lobby though.
Using voice makes it a team game but then the game becomes a bit unbalanced.
I know the devs wanted a scary feeling with the game, but without voice it just feels incomplete.
It's not supposed to be a team game. Even the devs have stated you are not required to help your team in any way, shape, or form. Otherwise Blendettes would be hung, drawn, and quartered.
Play how you want, but don't be surprised if no one bothers to help you when you need it because your playstyle isn't healthy for the team as a whole. It's up to you to decide how you want to play.
Devs: We won't balance around SWF because the game is played mostly by Solo's (SWF's on their spare time). We won't balacne around SWF because it's not intended as a "Team game" it's intended as a survival game.
Also Devs: Everything that matters into you gettting points for ranking, and bloodpoints depends on you playing as a strong member of TEAM SURVIVOR! If you don't play for TEAM SURVIVOR! Then you are penalized points in the ranking system.
Survivors can 1v1 the Killer. This is not a team game; it's a tag-team game