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• First up, let me get some general complaints off my chest (I will not be addressing these further).

  I play Dead By Daylight (killer and exclusively solo queue survivor) on a last-gen xBox. I don't play other games widely or often enough anymore to warrant getting a newer console. I would love to switch to PC, but the lack of cross-progression has me totally and unequivocally unwilling to do so after 2700hrs of play time and at least $100 spent on Auric Cells/licensed chapters.

  The game's performance over the last 6 months on this platform, and in particular the last month, has been beyond atrocious. Navigating in game menus between the main, either role and even the archives takes upwards of two minutes sometimes and is terribly laggy. Then, though, you have the countless error messages I have gotten in the last fortnight alone. 8001. 8024. 8007. 103. More numbers. No real explanation. Sometimes just reloading the game is enough to make it past the landing screen to the main menu. Often times, I'm sat rebooting my xBox 3 or 4 times over just to be able to make it to the menu. Makes things reeeeal unenjoyable to be spending what feels like half an hour, only to make it into a game where the killer is sweating their balls off at 5 gens, hard tunneling the first person they manage to get their greasy mits on or camping and slugging from the get-go. Of course the insta-DCs are their own problem. The curse of solo queue. Let me finally say, however - I thoroughly enjoy the game when I'm actually able to play it "normally".

  
  

  I'm sure most people who keep tabs on DBD content are fully aware of the videos that both Hens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FjZdNBJA_I) and Otzdarva (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwzJRAJVi7E) published 3 days ago with an arrogant Skull Merchant player who kept, arguably, the best competitive team (Eternal) in a grueling 3-gen for something like 53 minutes. Now, this was a custom kill-your-friends game that was agreed upon and entered into by both parties. They knew what they were in for and were happy to do it, both as a challenge and to prove a point - which they did. Since those two videos were published on the 22nd of July 2023, they have amassed over 400,000 views between them! These numbers only continue to climb.

  Now, over the last 3 days, I've gone into 4 matches with Skull Merchants (at least two different players from what I can tell) that have employed this same distasteful and disrespectful strategy. Only they're not putting it into practice against a co--ordinated and familiar team in a custom game, it's against people who mostly have no lines of communication beyond furious crouching, pointing and beckoning and often seemingly very little idea on how to counter and attack any old 3-gen situation. To top it off, the player will quite often slug and refuse to hook, just to hold this absurdly powerful position.

  After dealing with all the issues above and taking what feels like an eternity just to be able to get into a match of my favourite game, only to be thrust into this position where I have ZERO control over how long I spend in the match without DCing and getting slugged with a matchmaking ban or walking away from the game for 4 minutes while I bleed out.. I'm pretty fed up. This is bullshit. Plain and simple.

  
  

  If you are also sick of this deadly boring killer and tragically sad playstyle , then sign this very unofficial petition for Behaviour Interactive to KILL-SWITCH the Skull Merchant until she is totally re-worked to remove the ability to play the game in this way.

  
  

  TLDR; DBD performance on last-gen consoles is worse than ever before and Skully M is an atrocious killer. KS the SM.

  
  

  (I will likely not reply to any questions or comments. Good day x)

  in Please kill switch Skull Merchant Comment by DingusMcGee July 25, 2023