How to fix the black banquet for killers
I've seen a lot of posts that have called the black banquet survivor sided, and I agree however, we need to give proper constructive criticism instead of just turning it into a us versus them.
I don't think the issue is actually the buffs the food items give the survivors or the spawns of them. I think the main three issues are these
- pace setting- The killer struggles to set the pace in this event due to the lack of interactions and no good way to counter or get rid of active banquets other then to wait them out, or try to bait out survivors using morsels which isn't the most fun gameplay loop when survivors can get the morsels so easily.
- Lack of info- During the masquerade event in the top left you could see the active bag of tricks and how many progression actions (hooks and generators) are left till the next event or trick happens. with that info players could plan accordingly and not feel cheated when someone got healed or exposed from a trick giving everyone a equal knowledge playing field about the twists about to happen
- Killers lack of interaction. As I said earlier in the post, Killers on have one way to interact, which is to poison the food or to slow down survivors by hitting them directly with the poison bottles. making it no different then the haunt ability from the Halloween event or snowballs when you put it on a gen or pallet. expect these give a heavy slowdown debuff or just being able to eat cake for minor buffs in the end game.
So where do we go from here and how do we fix this event?
First I feel like behavior needs to change their developing philosophy from prioritizing survivor's enjoyment compared to killers, they did it with the last 2v8 and now they're doing it with this. if this keeps up it will just drive killers away from the game which will accelerate its downfall if it has not drove some away already.
Second. Add killer interaction with the event items other then poisoning them some ideas are
-letting killers knock over food carts/ tables after they get hooks to get rid of progress on them and make the food carts have to be picked up before theyre used again.
-Adding a new interaction with those who are carrying morsels to 'smash their plates' when hit getting rid of the morsels making them get another or use it earlier before they get hit for it to be effective.
-The ability to smash the cakes so survivor's can't get their desert buffs.
-Giving killers special buffs at end game (hear me out) survivors get buffs all game so give killers some love during the desert section. such as,
'The ire of the host' when chasing the obsession get a 3 percent speed buff (no cake required)
'clean up duty' Survivors need to clean/ repair tables and carts for each cart that isn't cleaned up the killer gets a 2% speed buff and a smaller terror radius (objects that need interacted with glow white and you can see their auras as survivors)
or 'strong drinks' which reverses the survivors controls until they get water (plague cleanse type interaction) or till they get hit.
And lastly instead of that card in the top left corner that tells you that it's dinner/desert. I would like a card that shows you how close survivors are to getting a banquet buff for everyone to see, just like they do for the bag of tricks.
TL;DR: Add a way to get info, to undo the progress of the banquets and morsels and add more interactions.
I would love to know what you all think
Comments
Dude, they don't care.
They. Do. Not. Care.
I've had to fight for every hook, playing as mean as possible, because you can literally become invincible in a SWF if you know what to do, or take the match hostage.
If they'd cared, this wouldn't have gone live. Plus, the cakes show just how little they care.
Stupid, buggy, unfun event that seems to have been put in to make killers quit.
All we can do is hope. and if we don't give constructive critic then, they won't change anything
I'd rather delete this joke event completly and give everyone x10 BP multipler with common rarity for cakes and items
The community has given behavior plenty of constructive criticism over the years and they still put out this event. And given how past events have gone we won't see any changes to how the event functions outside of maybe a couple of minor number adjustments.
BHVR has consultants that they appear to not utilize.
You act like they're going to change anything regardless, or do it in anything until event is nearly done.
Know how I can tell?
Precedent. It wasn't until quite recently that survivors had spots where they could go down and never be picked up (but still healable). These were in the game since pretty much launch and some of them were only fixed when they removed or reworked that map.
Again - they. Do. Not. Care.
We have given BHVR so much constructive feedback over the years. Their fog whisperers and consultants have given them so much feedback. Bugs get reported and it takes them YEARS to fix them, if they ever get fixed that is.
They just decided to ignore all feedback and just proceed as planned.
This big 10 year anniversary event is just the icing of the (missing) cake. But there will be a point that even the devs realize that all the Feng and Sable cosmetics won't make their next paycheck when there is no one left to buy them.
Are you new around these parts mate?
Give killers more abilities bring back remote hooking and remote pallet break
not at all, ive been here for years. like 2018 ish
remove the group heal, invisibility and invincibility and i’m okay with the event.