I'd like to speak with the manager (map rotation frustration...)
I'm a long-term player and have been playing DBD for roughly seven years, with well over 1,000 hours in the game. Over the past couple of years, though, I've been playing far less than I used to, mainly because of map changes.
Map offerings feel almost meaningless now, and the current map rotation seems to repeat the same maps constantly. Over the last four weeks, I've only played on four different days. Every single session started with Hawkins or Raccoon City. I absolutely despise indoor maps, so this has been incredibly frustrating.
Yesterday, I played seven matches. The first map was Hawkins, the second was Raccoon City, and the final match was Hawkins again. Since map offerings barely matter anymore, it feels like I'm stuck playing the same indoor maps over and over. The game has really started to lose its appeal because of that.
I understand why the developers reduced the effectiveness of map offerings, but there has to be a better solution.
One idea would be to add a map voting system with two possible maps. Each survivor would get one vote, while the killer's vote would count as four votes.
For example:
- If the vote is split 50/50, the game randomly chooses, but the killer's preferred map gets a bonus chance.
- If the vote is split is something like 80/20, those percentages become the odds of which map is selected.
In short:
- Improve the map rotation so the same maps don't appear constantly.
- Present two different maps for players to vote on.
- Weight the killer's vote more heavily, with a slight tiebreaker advantage when votes are even.
Comments
Same map already can't appear until you have played four maps between and even then its rare that they appear after those four other maps I usually have longer time getting the same map around that 4-6 matches. Of course offerings can cause the same map to appear earlier but it should not appear until at least four matches are played between.
Understood. This is my experience. Each time I play, I generally play at least four or five games, so over the four days I have played recently, I can see how Hawkins or Raccoon City are often the first map chosen the next day I play.
That interesting as I have been collecting the maps I have played against for little while now there is a thread here where I have posted them I have like 120 matches in it and the most common maps I get are Toba and Nostromo. I have not even seen Hawkings and I love that map and RPD I have like six times between the two versions. Like currently I would say that you have higher chance of getting Toba, Nostromo, Badham and some others that Hawkings or RPD.
Let's trade Steam accounts. 🤣 I'm so tired of Hawkins…