Jimmy22666
Jimmy22666
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As someone who ground out the first two events (playing during that time was miserable) and then took a break for a few years... It is a little disheartening to have pretty much the only exlusive thing I had now being universal.
However, as I've missed around two years of cosmetics from events and the rift since then, I'm excited that I'll be able to grab all those cosmetics again! :D
After all, it'd be totally moronic and completely arbitrary to only award the first 2 events and none of the others. As long as it's consistent, I don't mind at all.
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I took a break for a couple of days and tried 4 games today...
- a surv dc'd near the start of my first one (killer game) - a swf member told me they had crashed.
- The next game (surv) had someone I legitimately thought was a bot, they followed me around, standing behind me as I did gens (actually blocking me from leaving a gen) and literally taking no game actions whatsoever, game didn't last long.
- The next game had a wraith who I guess was making a point or maybe they just went afk when waiting for the lobby... Either way, we never saw the killer, just did our gens and left... 1 person dc'd (either boredom or another crash).
- The last game actually looked like it could be fun... until I get a sudden crash with a stacktrace. I was alone, healthy, on a gen and the spirit was chasing a teammate, no idea what could've caused it.
That's FOUR out of FOUR games I tried (even referring to them as games is generous). Yes, a small sample size but it can often only take one or two bad experiences to put someone off, at least temporarily, let alone every single time! As I crashed during my first and only game the previous times I tried to play, you could even count it as 7/7 games in a row being ruined (spread over killer & survivor)
Why would anyone want to keep playing this game when these matches are not the minority or a small fraction but instead seem to be the expected result.
No one wants to slog through countless boring or uninteresting 'games' until they finally get a rare chance to actually play and have fun...
P.S. Forgot to mention before but why on earth can you not select your rift challenge (or even look at the tomes) while searching OR once in a lobby? Again... kinda minor issue but when combined with waiting for 20 mins only to realise there's no way for you to select a challenge even when you have plenty of time before the game starts, it's infuriating. It even seems like the perfect place in dbd to kill time while waiting for a game... The bloodweb and loadout being accessible seems like a clear acknowledgement of giving ppl things to do while in the lobby so I'm baffled that the same wasn't done for the rift. Maybe it could be abused in some way but I can't think how.
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Sadly I've had consistent 10-15+ min waits, nomatter what time I play (from morning to evening but mostly just the afternoon)... I'm in the UK and play on windows.
I just played my first game of the day (made and finished breakfast in the queue) and was heading towards a 4k when again I crash for no apparent reason with no error/log and am given another penalty for both sides... Probably done for the day again tbh and I barely even got started.
I hate dcs and it really does ruin the match for multiple people but as long as there seem to be so many bugs, crashes, and ridiculous wait times, I don't think the penalties are okay yet... at least on killer side - I've never had any issues on survivor side (except minor bugs and teammates, haha).
It just saddens me that, as a long time fan of the game (I've owned it for almost 4 years) who has taken breaks, I WANT to come back and play. I WANT to get hooked again and enjoy all this great content and improvments that have been added. The rifts/tomes are exactly what I was looking for in terms of more things driving me to keeping playing each day past the daily quest.
Instead I feel I'm being driven away, I've been resisting buying other games as I don't want to lose my interest in dbd again but if the same thing happens again tomorrow... I might just give up and if I move on to another game, that will likely be it for another 6 -12 months.
Again, all these issues would usually be minor gripes but when combined with the mind-numbing wait times, they become deal-breakers.
How many other people are in the same boat as me and simply lose patience for these kinds of isssues completely nullifying any enjoyment they might be having with the game?
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@thottiepippen said:
I am a baby killer trying to learn the killer side. I am sitting in 20-30 minute queues. How the hell are people supposed to get better ?? My survivor queues are instant. Shakes fist!
Exactly, the important iteration cycle of practicing and improving your own gameplay is also adversly affected. It's difficult enough to learn as it is, especially once a game is older and there are larger skill gaps, without making it feel more punishing and harder to cement lessons you've learned in your mind for the future.
Like I said above, it also likely feels a hell of a lot worse to lose when you have to wait so long to try again... There's a reason that the 'instant restart' has been a mainstay of challenging games for years - focusing ahead on the fun of playing again distracts from how bad it just felt to lose (or whatever happened) whereas forcing players to dwell on the previous unpleasant experience is likely to drive them away.