A Guide to the Gameplay of The Black Banquet
You’re invited to The Black Banquet, a new event where – over a two course meal – you'll gain delectable effects that’ll help you complete your objectives in the Trial.
The Main Course begins promptly at the start of the Trial. One of three meals is randomly chosen for the Menu of the Day, defining that Trial’s effects and kicking things off with a Global Effect for everyone.
During this course, Survivors can collect Morsels from Dining Carts.
Eat these for a small, personal effect, or work together to fill a Banquet Table with 4 Morsels, and you’ll trigger a stronger Banquet Payoff, affecting all Survivors. It pays to lay out a feast!
On the Killer side, use poison to make easier prey of Survivors, imposing a stamina gauge to their sprinting and making them cough.
Poison can be thrown at Survivors as a small AoE, or applied to objects like pallets, gens, and even the Banquet’s own portals.
It can even be applied to Dining Carts, secretly tainting their Morsels for a time and preventing them from filling Banquet Tables.
Once 4 gens have been completed or a single Survivor remains, it’s time for the Dessert Course.
During this course, the Global Effect deactivates, Morsels can’t be collected, and Killers can’t use poison. Instead, both roles can interact with Dining Carts or Banquet Tables for a random buff, like Elusive for Survivor or Undetectable for Killer.
Want to learn more about The Black Banquet’s tasting menu and each dish’s effects? Take a look below for a full breakdown!
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we just gave every killer clowns ability pretty much
Yeah have to admit there is no much point of poisoning anything. I might do the main table sometimes if I am full of tokens but otherwise its more useful to use them in chase.
this is so disappointing basically killers get almost nothing a bottle of poison and haste at end game if they go to the cart and interact with it while survivors get so many strong benefits and thats just eating the morsel the banquet payoff are insane.
for a 10 year anniversary celebration where we meant to be celebrating survivors & KILLERS it just appears that what killers got was thrown in at last minute because there was so much attention on survivor end
Devs i know it is very unlikely you can make changes to this event as it is out now but if you ever do this event again next year then please give more thought to the killer community and make the event actually for survivors & killers
I will say aswell for any killer players who see this post avoid this event just take the queue times and play normal that how strong i feel about this event that it is an avoid
ANDThis is one of the worst events I've ever seen, really who thought it was a good idea to give general insta heal to survivors and pallets that can't be destroyed for a minute? and damn they REGENERATE, so we're talking about infinite loops at the chac, Poisoning the survivors is almost useless also because of the slowdown you get when loading the grenade and poisoning the pallets (which by the way doesn't last forever)..I honestly haven't seen any results, but the nice insta heal during the Chase, some loops that are infinite if you don't destroy the pallets? And what about genrush? Obviously, much longer loops, giving the survs more time to gen. I've played a couple of games but I won't be playing any more, it's one of the most unbalanced things I've seen since the medkit syringe.
Killers got basically nothing while survivors turn into superman lmao
LOWER CAKE'S RARITY!!!
The imbalance in new mechanics per role isn't even funny, this is absolutely miserable for Killer.
Survivors have eleven new mechanics, and Killers have one, that while cool, is not very useful.
This is a little outrageous, events should be fun for both roles, not just new toys and fun for Survivor and only stress for Killer.
I don't mind the Survivor mechanics! But jeez why is there NOTHING for Killer to do but just sit there and take it, Morsel after Payoff after Global effect after Morsel after Morsel after Morsel after Payoff after Morsel after Payoff????
it isn't even a new killer mechanic, it's just one of Clown's bottles
To be fair killers where the most focused on in the last anniversy so its not surprising its swinigng in the other direction for once.
Whats the point of making the Offerings more difficult to get? Do you not want players to be able to earn bloodpoints faster with them?
Please make the cakes easier to get. Its the whole reason we are here. Ever since p100 was forced to get only 1 cake per bloodweb last year, it has made p100s not worth playing during events since they get offerings about 1/10th as quickly as everyone else for 10x the price.
Honestly the invitations from the previous anniversary were easier to understand, it was just one thing with numerous individual effects, but now survivors have 3 different foods all with 3 different effects, it's too much going on at once to keep track. Meanwhile the poison just makes strong killers even better, try running from a Billy revving his chainsaw when you are poisoned and are forced in to walking every like 4s because your run is on recovery, yeah that's an insta-down. Not having Tryks either, the mode has no life to it…
Can we get a "balanced" event ever? I'm whole heartedly a survivor main who plays killer for quest completion but fr this is miserable as a casual killer and the survivor side is just bonkers. Got locked behind an invincible pallet in the game map for 45 seconds… twiddle my thumbs while 2 gens popped was great…
Like no offense, but the event itself is legitimately one of the most unfun I have in this mode pl5ayong killer, the survivors gets so many abilities granted which are extremely busted, while the killer gets like almost nothing, poison just barely does anything useful to punish survivors
This is how the event has gone for me so far:
As killer I sweat for my life for mostly ties. People already knew exactly how everything worked and how to maximize it to heal people mid chase or when downed, or to turn invisible around a corner and body block with budget DH.
As survivor, it's basically all Jason and we lost every single match because he's the current free win button.
So I went back to 1v4. I'd rather wait in the 6 minute killer queue, and there have also been way less Jasons over there on the survivor end.
good job bhvr, unbalanced event number 1045.
Why are we so harshly against making both sides fun and viable for events. Either one side is busted op like with black banquet, or the side is op like with the og anniversary event before it got canned.
The invisibility and portals is far too much and needs to be redone/nerfed. It shouldn't be able to hide survivior scratches or wounded ones blood, that's taking things way too far.
I feel like the event is a little survivor-sided, couldn't we add last years Killer's abilities to the event to this event? I feel like it would even out
We are eating good this year. My quanton gets a banqet and my demodoggo gets a bunch of heads.
i would strongly disagree that killer were the most focused on last year anniversary i believe it was on paper fairly balanced both sides in terms of effects and in game the killer just edge it cause the remote hooking and auto break just made killer a bit more efficient so they can be on survivors more often then normal
But i would argue as well that compare the powers event that killer got last year to Survivor power in this year event that survivor got the biggest win ever and its not even close.
The fact that at all main courses all survivors can get a free health state is insane, killer never got anything like that in any events they never had an ability where they injure all survivors after doing an event task and that just one of the insane effect survivors get!
i cant see any viable defence for this event its not balanced its not fun for killers and back to my original post "for any killer players who see this post avoid this event just take the queue times and play normal that how strong i feel about this event that it is an avoid"
this was meant to celebrate 10 years of DBD of Survivors & KILLERS and killers i can safely say was a 2nd thought with this event which is sad and heartbreaking i hope the devs can do better
Well that's good to know what the poison even does. I realized that it slows people down, but at so random timings that I though they are bugged xD
Also as a feedback, I honestly feel like it's not worth poisoning any carts it just takes time to heavely. I rather chase as fast as possible and try to defend gens :D
Nobody is eating good this year - BP rewards are deliberately minor, cakes are deliberately rare and even if they fixed this tomorrow (they won't, it'll be in like mid July), everyone already spent that big BP reward.
On top of this, the poison feels glitchy and often like it just doesn't hit right while survivor abilities are absolutely ridiculous - I've had one SWF basically go invulnerable during a chase via frequent health states and…something with medkits maybe? I've also been trapped for extended periods of times by survivors making pallets go invulnerable on maps with no way out of rooms unless you break a pallet - and they can use this to semi take you hostage.
Who designed this?
That said, thanks for this OP, I was a little confused by the way poison worked.
Omg why didn't I read this first. I was throwing poison at the carts, I didn’t realize i was supposed to walk up and actually select it lol
Worst event for Killer players ever just miserable and unfun
You have no clue how many heads i've eaten already my fellow fog creature.
Quanton mostly served up feasts for others though.
If you managed to lose as survivor on an event like this then I'd really question the skill of survivors here.
This is pretty much a dream Easy Mode for survivor players. You can only lose here if someone intentionally sandbags you or your team mates have a negative IQ values.
Instant invisibility is by far the worst thing of this event. What exactly is a killer supposed to be doing when a survivor goes invisible and doesn't leave any scratch marks or blood behind? Also it's somehow the only effect my games ever get?!?
Also I swear there are way more pallets than usual. Even when survivors are poisoned, they can make it to a new pallet easily… while walking.
I thought nothing could beat the original Blood Moon event in terms of unfun, but this managed to pull it off. Congrats Black Banquet on being the worst of the worst.
Play survivor, save up enough BP to get a cake on killer. Use poison and hope it works right. Repeat.
Why killer ability needs cakes that they deliberately made 95% rarer while survivor abilities don't, I'd love to know why.
Well I think I know, but I won't say it here.
I have forgiven a lot of things in the past.
Y'all gave killer nothing to do in these events and I forgave it, as I don't play events to win.
You've gigabuffed survivor with a bunch of stuff they can do in the event on top of their perks, and I forgave it.
What I cannot forgive is that YOU DOUBLED THE PRICE OF THE ANNIVERSARY CAKES AND MADE THEM VERY RARE!
The past 9 years those cakes have been priced as Commons and no one complained because that's the only time of the year they can be obtained. You did not need to mess with that. This feels like a slap in the face to the people who wanna reduce the grind using these events because they're the best way to do so.
With all due respect, please for the love of The Entity stop fixing what isn't broken or I will personally usurp your General Manager of their position and restructure the entire balance team myself.
You do realize that you get the extra price back after you either exit the bloodweb or it levels up. You are not paying of them more in reality as you get refunded.
I suppose I'lll be back. I like BDB after all. I could and tell my friends about the "cakes"". Just now IU can't "forward the message" in the future, need to use the… well… I don't know… dbd user infetrface
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Getting a shadow refund has nothing to do with the fact that the cakes are twice as expensive as they have been for the past 9 years. It's still fixing what isn't broken.
It’s amazing that they could come up with such a ridiculous event—worse than an amateur’s—for a milestone 10th-anniversary celebration.
I could never come up with an event like this, so I really have to admire them.
This has to be the BEST event BHVR ever done! Thank you to the devs!
Why even bother with this event at all as killer? It is so laughably even easier to play survivor ESPECIALLY in this event. The survivor experience is (and probably will always be) pressure-free I tell you.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the event survivor abilities (especially invisibility) make it into the actual game.
This event feels like killers are eating old pb&j’s at school while the survivors get a whole free Pizza Hut party complete with hot wings and sodas.
The event is miserable, and it is a complete joke for a game's 10th anniversary.
fartpoison bottle can be strong when used right, but that's not really the point. It feels uninspired. You just gave us a modified version of clown's bottle and said "here's your slop, piggies." Poisoning the tables does little and, again, feels completely uninspired. Wow, poisoned food that realistically does nothing in the long run. Fun. Most games, I just ignored the tables. There was no reason to go out of my way to poison something that a coordinated team could get around anyway.For a game that I've enjoyed since mid-2018, this event was exciting to see in the livestream. After playing it for 2 days, I have no real desire to queue up in the event. This coupled with the "fixed" cake rarity (that didn't really change anything, by the way), leaves a sour taste in my and a lot of other players mouths.
Should be ashamed for how bad this event is you really expect this to bring back players that is supposed to be the big 10 anniversary event?
I've played since Oni release. I've seen many highs and lows from the devs. Seen you take steps forward up the stairs that improve the game but almost always fall off the stairs right back down because you refuse to fix the broken stairs!
was that sarcasm?
exactly
and what killers got exactly from the last anniversary (year) ? i don" t remember much
Terrible arguement. It was bad then and it's bad now. These things should be balanced, not so one sided that half the userbase would rather just play the normal mode.
My tip for the Black Banquet is to burn a Toothy Torte, other anniversary cake or a Bloody Party Streamer every game. This helps everyone get more cakes to keep the cycle going. Using cakes makes more cakes.
If you don't have any of those use Escape! Cakes, Survivor Puddings or other blood point offerings so you can buy and use Tortes. Don't waste your offering slot on non-bloodpoint offerings like maps or luck.
The cake earnings might not be as amazing as previous years but matches are still cake positive. Even if you are the newest survivor having the roughest of matches you are going to be earning 5x what you usually earn so make the most of it. You will earn back the cakes you spend and more on top of that, so please do us all and especially yourself a favor and burn a cake every match of DbD you play during the Black Banquet.
Also you may want to avoid bulk-spending your bloodpoints if you want to get all the cakes that spawn in your bloodwebs. I just tested this after that big red notice at the top of the page went up and it still misses cakes, so beware.
Can you please remove this mode early? On both sides, this is the most boring thing I've ever done in this game. I don't think there is any adjusting that can be done to save it.
There are enough people making the obvious complaints, but I've another - between the build up for the anniversary and the step away from the masquerade, I was wholly under the impression we were getting an actual new game mode that would replace the masquerade. Regardless of poor balance, I think this is probably the most underwhelming event ever and screams creative bankruptcy.
It's like they had the whole crew busy with Jason so they threw the keys to Dave the cleaner and asked him to do it.
There's a plethora of party games out there that are begging to be copied for fun - and I really thought of all things they would've looked at Roblox's Banana Eats. For anyone who doesn't know - Banana Eats is an asymmetric multiplayer where several survivors have perform a bunch of certain actions (solve little puzzles etc) and avoid another player who's a huge killer banana.
Another thing they have to do during the "trial" is find all the pieces of a cake and take them to the main plate to construct the cake piece by piece. Like, I thought maybe that's what we'd have to do for the Black Banquet - set up a feast before the killer can stop us - for an enigmatic group of masked weirdos in the fog. They also have an infection mode where when you're caught you're turned into a killer banana. The more killer bananas though, the slower you go.
It's great fun and I don't understand how the Devs could be so lazy for such an apparently huge event. They need to go play some party games then come back to the table with something genuinely fresh.
I thought the same thing and was disappointed you couldn't do it on the move
Is it just me or not because I really don't care how overloaded the survivors are I'm still steamrolling on pig with a meme haste build so I can m1 then fault and m2 they're getting immense amounts of haste but they don't actually have anywhere to go it's hilarious you just need to remember to let them go and stick to your gens and mind game kind game mind game pretend to pick up over here into a free down and double hook and the games over because survivors were given more time to unhook and just don't unhook because they're too scared not understanding how the heart beat works and not seeing on the hud on in chase on the other side of the map with they're teammate leading to two people dying because he's like trying to get hatch I guess 🤣
if your a killer dont play it its a bad mode thats survivor sided
Guide: Don't play it because it's bad
Are there any disabled Maps for the event? Like I played at least 10 times on Eyrie but I haven't gotten Lery's a single time since the Event started
This is geniunely probably the worst event you guys put out. I geniunely do not want to even play the game at the moment because survivor is straight up boring bc there is no tension since its actually straight up free (I lost 2 games out of the 15-20 games last I played survivor) and killer Im not touching with a 5 foot pole bc this event is so blatantly survivor sided that as a Ghost Face main, I auto lose the second I queue up. Geniunely the most disappointing and frustrating event ever, nonetheless for a 10yr anniversary.
I’m bummed to say the least. Visually, the event is beautiful and the artist did a great job — I really love the decorations.
For something that’s supposed to be this big fun celebration, the actual gameplay ends up feeling pretty uneventful unfortunately. In development I am sure this sounded really good on paper but laid out into a live service…it’s been far from exciting