Not played since 2022, What have I missed?
I stopped playing dbd several years ago and I finally returned this week and my first impressions on returning is a mix of overwhelm of a lot of new perks, killers, survivors to get to grips with and a sense of underwhelm at how it's still just repairing generators as an objective (from my understanding)
I remember making some pretty entitled discussions when I was here years ago because I wasn't satisfied with the direction of the game but coming back without the constant criticism is refreshing and I was probably projecting in a lot of criticism I gave.
So...
Anything I should know,
Which killers since are fun, balanced and underplayed?
What shouldn't I waste my time with?
And for returning players what is everyone still mad about 😅?
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You have missed…a lot
Skull Merchant was taken to the firing squad
we are mad at Pallet Density, the existence of Ghoul, and random perks
No more creative and fun stacking builds
Jason is finally here
Blight got nerfed a little
Theres so much more
Welcome back Skull Merchant is not reworked so she is still totally weak. Ghoul is the most opressive killer. What killers are fun depends on what kind of killers you want to play as there has been so many added after you left.
Most things that people complain. Pallet tensity change, Ghoul, generator fix speed, t-bagging, some of the recent PTB survivor perks, Jason that is coming to the game etc.
Oh and killer can blow a gen by just looking at it with a perk.
Also I've realised that I bottled up the general toxicity around the game and the way people communicate with eachother and it would influence me to constantly complain instead of giving credit when credits due.
At a quick glance, I think this might be a dynamic people still have themselves which isn't healthy to be in.
Ehhh thats fair, but welcome back.
also Freddy was reworked as well forgot to mention that, and Myers and Pinhead are gone
and Myers is reworked too if he owns him as he now has a dash attack. Oh and Stranger Things is back too and Vecna is in the game. Two different Vecnas.
This dude has missed evolutions of this game lol
Yeah he has missed so much. It would be the same as I would go play Rainbow Six: Siege when I have not played since 2022. Would have no clue what the new operators would do.
God i hate Siege its so frustrating to play lol. Id rather play against a Basement Bubba then play Siege
I keep looking at Dracula and seeing the possibility for a build that uses unsafe pallets as bait for survivors to get locked in a vault animation in a unsafe space, and then using the fireball attack whilst they're penned in.
From what I've seen of the killers since, many look fun but at the same time I don't know how viable they are. I'm closest to buying Dracula and playing him a lot I think.
I have no idea how prestiging works, whether the bloody cosmetics are the same as they were to unlock or whether unlocking teachable perks have been revamped, if you pardon the pun.
I was able to trail a few killers over the last few days, the unknown looks kinda fun but in terms of spooking people but not sure if they're particularly good against experienced survivors etc.
I'm coming back with the mindset to just have fun and not so much about winning so hopefully that mentality is a little more common these days, fingers crossed 😅
It is still my favorite shooter game. I liked the more tactical approach but not everyone needs to like every game.
Basically you have to prestige them once to unlock their perks for all killers at level one, P2 for level 2, P3 for level 3, then P4-6 for bloody cosmetics. P7-9 for charms of the perks of the killer your prestiging. however at P25, 50, 75,100 you get really cool looking badges/icons specifically of said person. Also that Drac tech does work a lot as someone who loves the Killer.
Great Pun btw
That is quite common tactic with Dracula. Wolf form is good too to follow up.
Dracula is good he has basically everything in his kit, map traverals in his bat form, ranged attack in base and good double dash attack in the wolf form
You can click the prestige now to see what you get on what level its just cosmetic reward thing nothing more really
Unknown is not the strongest or easiest to play but he can be fun when you get nice hits with his power
That is the right way to come back don't take it too seriously just enjoy the game and don't let other people bother you toxicity is still quite decently common.
Also what was the last killer you got before you left?
Only shooter i ever play is Overwatch if you call it a shooter?
Well it has shooting like DBD has with Deathslinger.
Maybe I've returned at the right time then,
Rather than waiting and getting frustrated at each tweak and update like I used to, I get to dive into everything for the first time once again.
I'm playing fairly well on return, still rusty but muscle memory plus having gone through the steep learning curve of years ago is so valuable.
I used to be an Xbox player and I had all dlcs upto nemesis but I'm playing on steam now and I don't want to re buy the dlcs I bought on my Xbox so I'm excited to play new things and be creative without breaking the bank.
You came back on the 10th anniversary as its this sunday them having a big party in Montreal.
You can connect your X-Box account with your Steam and get all the DLC's from it to your steam one. Cross-progression is possible now. If you did not know.
your here just in time for Jason at least! Im a Skull Merchant main so i just suffer this game mostly lol. But yeah we got tons of new stuff!
I have to admit I like playing Skull Merchant even if she is not that good state.
I do too, sadly ive been unmotivated as ive been getting genrushed to oblivion lately
I'm going to give that a try, thanks 👍🏻
I have to say the Devs have definitely had a thorny relationship with the community probably always 😅 but they built a game that just hasn't died after years and years of passionate work. So underneath the complaining there's a very real layer of appreciation for how the game has been given legs for so long.
Yeah there is possibility that the game will get a face lift after the anniversary but nothing official of that yet. They also have stated that they are going to be doing stuff to this game for a long while so this game is not really going anywhere.
Is it still realistic to fend off a decent team of survivors by getting a 3 gen defense going or is it just as tough as maybe 4 years ago?
My strategy I'm trying to go with is to focus on controlling the map more rather than the survivors, some typically weaker killers might excel with this change of strategy from my thinking 😅
So a trapper over hillbilly, wraith, maybe skull merchant too.
Aggressive defense over defensive aggression. Letting survivors come to you instead of trying to find them. I'm getting excited thinking about it 😁
4 years of bloodpoints!
Ready…GO!
there's plenty of fun things to dabble in for both sides we got some neat perks and strategies.
for example, Sable is a fun character. I love yoichi for helping my team. playing dog only Dracula is fun. springtrap is fun, vecna is fun, pinhead still fun.
making builds is my favourite part of the game so you have a lot to tinker with :3
It has gotten worse in my opinion. Killers have been robbed of their last bastions…Camping is not possible anymore, Tunneling is almost impossible without loosing a ton of time. The last thing they left us with is slugging. But with Survivors being able to medkit heal each other within 5 seconds to full, it is also only semi-viable.
Pallet density was heavily increased. Survivors got basekit perks shoved up their asses. So as long as you are staying away from the low tier Killers or playing Survivor, you should be fine.
You will get to the point to see how unplayable the game has become on both sides :)
There are S tier killers that are totally unbeatable with thei own META kit.
Same for survivors, if you do not play an S tier killer, good survivors will totally destroy you without even being good at the game.
This game has become a mess.
The pallets do seem way more likely to be clustered together from what I've noticed, there's tiles where there's back to back pallets right by eachother and it makes me scratch my head and think they're so close together it's best to just get them out of play or ignore the area completely.
Pallet heavy parts of maps make it the smarter thing for me to just pull out of chases and focus on the objectives. Often I try to make the pallets be used up asap so the survivors are more defense less later.
I have noticed that survivors are pretty frequently getting flashlight saves when I pick a survivor up even when they're not in my line of sight. I'm pretty certain they got a flashlight saves as I was literally face inside a wall to avoid the line of sight.
It feels cheap and it makes me want to try out flashlights more considering blood points are so easy to get. One one side I could probably bring a decent flashlight in each match and on killer I'm bringing in moris because they're so easy to get which I don't know how I feel about that just yet
I was doing insideous noed wolf Dracula with dominance as I was learning the killer😄. It was fun and apparently very effective.
The 1 sec activation time for insideous I feel can have some utility to it, or at least if the survivors are looking for 1 of 3 possible appearances for the killer, having a wolf appear from nowhere would be terrifying especially with noed🤣
I've mixing and matching perks, got dead man's switch from the shrine of secrets and looking for new perk combinations.
I'm loving Dracula so far, maybe my favourite killer which I didn't expect at all. The bats I keep using to just go through a window and to then emerge as Dracula blocking the window and forcing the survivor to use the pallet or into a dead space. Map knowledge is swinging the flow of matches, on maps I'm not familiar with i make bad calls but so many I'm nailing decisions and forcing survivors to use everything early.
I keep using bats at the beginning to find the survivors and I often get a down or a few hits in the first 20-30 seconds which I think is huge. Corruption intervention I'm thinking would be a decent perk to run on him too. I tend to have a good focus on keeping 3 gens close together defended well.
I'm still learning but so far he's solid imo even against good survivors
this fog creature reverted everything positive BHVR has done for soloq survivor in the last seven years
Oh and theres a perk now called turn back your cock