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What's the point of adding it to 1v4?

Dadeordye Dadeordye
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You guys are moving towards the right decision here, but why give these bonus for playing 1v4 too?
Doesn't make any sense if the idea is make people play 2v8…

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  • Aven_Fallen Aven_Fallen

    Because the first time they only gave the Bonus to 2v8, which resulted in those 400% not being enough to attract enough players to 2v8 to get bearable queue times for Killer, but good enough to pull players away from 1v4 so that the queue times there also were really bad.

    Now they try it in a different way. And obviously, if this means that even less players play 2v8, it is a good indicator that the mode does not really have a future.

  • Nazzzak Nazzzak

    I actually appreciate this response from them. I honestly did not think they'd change anything until next 2v8. Also I think it's because both queues are suffering, not just 2v8. Lots of players aren't interested in 2v8 and just want 1v4.

  • crogers271 crogers271

    That was my thought as well at first, but I think I see what they are trying to do.

    My guess is they want to boost the player count for the weekend for both modes and then judge the impact of 1 bot / 400% BP. If people just go and play 1v4 that doesn't solve the short term issue, but it does give you pretty valuable long term information. And if when they return to no bots on Monday, survivor counts (as a proportion) increase without an incentive, well, then it shows how much people hate bots.

    @Nazzzak said:

    I actually appreciate this response from them. I honestly did not think they'd change anything until next 2v8. Also I think it's because both queues are suffering, not just 2v8. Lots of players aren't interested in 2v8 and just want 1v4.

    Yeah, I was not expecting this either, which is nice. Only a 3 minute drop in queue times though has to be way below their expectations (and, we also got how long the average queues have been, which I think lots of people have been wondering about).

  • Dadeordye Dadeordye

    @Aven_Fallen said:

    Because the first time they only gave the Bonus to 2v8, which resulted in those 400% not being enough to attract enough players to 2v8 to get bearable queue times for Killer, but good enough to pull players away from 1v4 so that the queue times there also were really bad.

    Now they try it in a different way. And obviously, if this means that even less players play 2v8, it is a good indicator that the mode does not really have a future.

    I hope it has a future because I'm enjoying much more than 1v4.

    @Nazzzak said:

    I actually appreciate this response from them. I honestly did not think they'd change anything until next 2v8. Also I think it's because both queues are suffering, not just 2v8. Lots of players aren't interested in 2v8 and just want 1v4.

    Yeah, both queues are bad RN, but if someone just wants to farm BP they'll go straight to 1v4 to use cakes, which will take away potential survs from 2v8.
    I was also not expecting that they would do anything either in THIS 2v8.
    BUT we are also not seeing anything about fixing the bugs, specially Wesker one.

  • Dadeordye Dadeordye

    @crogers271 said:

    That was my thought as well at first, but I think I see what they are trying to do.

    My guess is they want to boost the player count for the weekend for both modes and then judge the impact of 1 bot / 400% BP. If people just go and play 1v4 that doesn't solve the short term issue, but it does give you pretty valuable long term information. And if when they return to no bots on Monday, survivor counts (as a proportion) increase without an incentive, well, then it shows how much people hate bots.

    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3884450#Comment_3884450

    Yeah, I was not expecting this either, which is nice. Only a 3 minute drop in queue times though has to be way below their expectations (and, we also got how long the average queues have been, which I think lots of people have been wondering about).

    Makes sense.

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