Interview Series Episode 11: TheGannMan
After the series resumed to outstanding success with GeneralV the series will resume with @TheGannMan For those unaware the interview starts with simple questions and people are allowed to make commenat. And if anyone would post the past interviews much appreciated. So let’s begin.
1.How’d you discover DBD?
2.How’d you come up with the name TheGannMan?
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Yo thanks for having me on the show. I’m very excited for this and can’t wait to talk with you about the state of the game. I’ll try to answer the questions as much as I can.
why does it frel like that many known people on this forum has been playing dbd for under 3 years. It must be me though.
Also i wonder how the name thegannman got into a conversation. Either it was randomly said or it was fate by god.
Yeah I’ve noticed that too. Probably because OG 2016 and 2017 players have already quit or just don’t find going to the forums all necessary.
Also, who knows, it will remain a mystery. It did come from high school which I graduated from in 2019.
mutually liking spirit is one of the truer forms of kinship this game has to offer i feel
yui is fine too coughMy favorite Yui and Spirit main on here, glad to see you on here! Good luck!
Let’s go. Spirit and Yui are the best thing that’s ever happened in this game!
Thanks man <3
I would say that most have left and some like otz and tru3 hasn't been on the forum and there is scott jund which i do see time to time but don't know if he a og or not.
And theGannMan is a that weird and fitting at the same time but that with all name online. It great you like your name. There was a time where i did want to change mine but kept it as i took a liking.
This one will be amazing, I am certain of it!
I was going to use it as a temporary name but then I met people online that we usually SWF together and they call Gann. It’s hard to change the name at that point. I like it too much anyway.
Thanks <3
Here’s the previous interviews by the way.
3.Which side do you main?
4.Of that side which character/s do you main?
Yeah, I have noticed that too. It seems the number of newer players FAR outweigh the number of people playing from the earlier days.
I am one of those people, and I have yet to find another person who was playing this game back at the start of 2017.
I play pretty much both sides exclusively.
For killer, I play a variety but the killer that I really actually “main” is Spirit. For survivor, I have Meg, Yui, Claudette, and Jill (I only use the Claire legendary skin) all maxed out at P3 level 50 and I usually flip flop between them.
I wonder if i could considered an veteran since i played the game when spirit came out (September 2018)
I would consider you a long time player, but the title of veteran (I believe) should go to those who were playing this game when it was absolutely busted and in favor of the survivors. Back when real infinites were a thing, back when nurse was even stronger, back when insta heals were a thing, and back when hag used to suck.
Fair point.
I started on the 25th of December 2016, so you have another oldie with you :)
Edit: I also watched the game sincer May 2016, so yeah I'm probably a veteran.
Oh snap, hello there lol. Remember old DS?
I remember the 4th Feb 2017 PTB with the DS nerf and gen kick addition certainly :D.
I also remember the killer power switch and perk stacking bug.
Nice, I haven't even been around for that long. I joined several months later.
Have you been around to see the very first menu ui? I still miss the "Be a Survivor, Quick Play and Be a Killer" menu.
Nope. I do remember the winter solstice menu music though. Was the most nostalgic feeling I have ever had in a game.
Yeah it is for me too. I still miss playing with my bffs with Feng Min during that event. Such memories. Same with the 2017 Halloween event.
Most important question is
Yui over Spirit or Spirit over Yui?
why not both?
We share the same mind, merely a different time.
I started playing during the 2018 Winter Solstice Event, and that theme...
That theme was so freaking good, that it actually sent shivers down my spine. When my nostalgia is higher than usual, which is actually quite a feat, I listen to it immediately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdcp8xl5WPQ&ab_channel=BlitzDuzmOh yeah! The world's most OP killer is gonna be interviewed
5.Favorite map/realm as survivor?
6.Disliked map/realm as survivor?
7.Favorite map/realm as killer?
8.Disliked map/realm as killer?
5: Coal Tower
6: Hawkins
7: Coal Tower
8: Haddonfield
Those are really fair opinions, I'm almost the same way haha
9.Favorite killer to face as survivor?
10.Disliked killer to face as survivor?
11.Favorite survivor to face as killer?
12.Disliked survivor to face as killer?
9: I have my preferences, mostly Blight, Billy, Huntress, and Plague. Probably would be Spirit if someone can actually play as her to give me a concrete opinion about how she feels to play against post nerf.
10: Hag and Trickster can be deleted from the game for all I care.
11: Yui because Yui.
12: Neas are always toxic lol.
13.Favorite survivor perk?
14.Disliked survivor perk?
15.Favorite killer perk?
16.Disliked killer perk?
13: Borrowed Time
14: Iron Will
15: BBQ and Chili
16: NOED
So you're not a NOED gamer I see...
Not a big fan of it.
Understandable haha, I'm not judging. People can run whatever they want, I just wanted to joke haha
Oh yeah definitely, lol.
17.What’s you favorite chapter/paragraph?
18.What’s your disliked chapter/paragraph?
19.What’s your dream chapter?
20.What keeps you playing DBD?
That’ll wrap up the simple questions.
For 17 and 18, I’ll base my answers off of chapters that came out during the time period while I was playing the game, so Descend Beyond up to now. I was still very new when Silent Hill came out so I’m not going to include that. I don’t know what experiencing previous chapters were like so I think it’s fair to answer this way.
17: On release it’s 100% Hellraiser. I love Pinhead’s perks and is a very well designed killer.
18: I would say A Binding of Kin was the worst as it broke the game in so many ways and released an unfinished killer. Though I gotta say that my actual least favorite was Resident Evil because of my expectations for it. I shouldn’t have been as excited as I was for that chapter as it was a disaster. Games were crashing, Nemesis is underwhelming, and the map is a complete joke.
19: I don’t have a dream chapter but I guess if I had to pick one I’d love to see Pennywise added with Beverly Marsh as the survivor.
20: A lot of the characters and I’ve made a lot of good friends playing. I just can’t leave any of that behind.
21.We’ll that’s the simple questions. We’ll begin with DBD’s current hacking issue which has gotten so bad at least in higher MMR games can be taken hostage and some reports on the forums of bricked consoles. Does DBD have a fragile code that allows or are the devs not getting to it quick enough?
It really bugs me a lot that they haven’t been transparent with us about the hacker situation so it’s hard to know if they’re doing something about it or not. I don’t think it’s got something to do with a fragile code, I think it’s just something the devs don’t want to get on the issue because they know it doesn’t make them any money. I know that this kind of issue isn’t easy to resolve though but it needs to be on the top of the priority list. Let’s just hope VHS pops off so they’re forced to fix the issue.
22.VHS is the newest DBD competition because of the asymmetrical horror connection despite different gameplay for those unaware. All past competitions have been won by DBD. Yet people are saying this will be different and VHS will compete. And some even hoping it tops DBD. Or at least competition. Will VHS top DBD or at least compete and not pass like the rest?
It’s hard to know this early in VHS’s early development. I don’t know much about the game but I just feel like with all the licenses that DBD has, I have to see it to believe it right now. I think VHS has potential to be successful, just not DBD successful right now. I think even that could be a good thing for DBD, because just giving BHVR some kind of worry that a game could peak and compete with them could wake them up.
23.DBD just released the massive Mid-Chapter that saw huge changes like Spirit nerf and slight things that still matter like the nerf to Scalped Top Knot. Does this show that of DBD wanted to they could release more of these and make sure nothing gets on top of them?
With this being McLean's last patch and one of the few devs that knows how to play the game, it's hard to know if the rest of the dev team will live up to that without McLean. If competition does start to grow in this genre though, they are going to have to start making the right gameplay decisions whether they like it or not. The problem is, I don't think they know what's best for the game. I hope they prove me wrong though.
Hello Gann... We meet again.
These are pretty cool. Best o luck with these. Pretty neat to read.
24.One of the perhaps most infamous moments in DBD history is when McCote played as Hag against instant flashlights on Badham. And flashlights were nerfed Hag buffed to the S tier she is today. And if I’m correct a massive restructure of loops. Does this show that the devs actually don’t play the game enough. Or they’re just slow in changes?