ChurchofPig

I watched a video by The King today and he did point out that the devs like the hint at things very subtly. He said that Mathieu Cote at one point gave a hint about Silent Hill coming by saying the he had to "stay silent" about the chapter. Not to mention the 4 looked like Pyramid Head. I think by referring to the chapter as "stars" makes me think of what little I know about Resident Evil and the S.T.A.R.S. which was the same theory The King was talking about by leaksbydaylight. Although this is also under the assumption the chapter will be licensed and it very well might be.

in Time for some(very) early speculation/wishes on the year 5 chapter! Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@ukenicky said:
I feel like even after the key rework, whatever they may be changing about them, like if they do add an animation time to unlocking and limit one person to escaping through it, or making it spawn differently, none of it will be enough for killers.
Idk I feel like killers are always going to be unhappy about the possibility of one survivor being able to escape with a key through a closed hatch. Like it's "robbed them of everything"
Like yeah maybe it robbed you of a 4k but that survivor probably wanted to survive and not be robbed themselves lol this can go both ways sigh
Bottom line, I'm hoping keys get reworked accordingly so they're more about use as aura reading tools and less about hatch escapes since that just bothers killers so much when even a single survivor gets a clutch escape as the last one alive with it.

Personally for me, being robbed of 1 kill feels better than being robbed of 2 or 3. I have no problems with keys existing it's just the fact that you can

A. You can find a key in a match (although rarely the one you want it still occurs)

B. You can take multiple people through the hatch

It feels like you're robbed a bunch more. I feel like there should be more of a risk to bringing a key. Sure there will be killers still complaining because both sides have those people who nonstop whine and complain about EVERYTHING wrong with the other side. I personally feel like when they introduced the hatch offerings they buffed keys and that upsets me. It felt unnecessary.

in Keys are 100% Fair (In a Single player Style Game) Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@Tricks said:
My Survivors always take Small Game, here are some problems I run in to with it:
You never know how many totems have been broken because unlike generators there is no tally as to how many are left to be completed. So you don't know weather its time to stop doing bones because you've done 4 and a team mate has done the 5th one so its almost always a guessing game or a matter of luck as to weather or not you complete them all or not.
And by then you've almost always wasted the entire match looking for the last set of bones when its already been done or just cant be found.
If you've 'done bones' its again almost always at the cost of everything else in the match because if you stop doing bones they don't get done before egc begins so by the time it comes to leave your team mates are either already dead because you couldn't spare the time to rescue / heal them or do gens and you end up with less bp at the end for it.
Its effectiveness vs bones is GREATLY diminished when your up against Freddy, Trapper or Hag because you get a LOT of false positives with bone locations wasting far more time than usual because you spend most of your time searching for bones that end up being a trap of some sort.
SOLUTION:
Doing bones needs a MUCH greater reward. Say 5k bp per bone pile then everyone would be climbing over each other to get them.

I do not think 5k is a good number, but I do like the idea of awarding more. Currently you get like 1000 for a dull and 1500 for a hex. I say increase that to 2k a dull and 2.5k a hex. (That might still be much cuz that's 10k with no hexes on the map, you still get 5k if you get all totems with no hexes currently)

in Psa for all noed haters: Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@TripleSteal said:
Small qol improvements like disabling last second item switching, displaying character icons in post-game tab, adding proper spectator camera for killers; also bug fixes, optimisation and so on.

Same and because of the icons of adepts we know they have icons so you can tell who everyone was playing. (If I understood that correctly) Along with improvements with disabling last second item switching, I feel they also need to lock the survivor when you ready up (same as killer). Also a rework to totem spawns and keys (but keys we know are happening).

in What do you wanna see in 2021? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@horrortale_sans said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1849151#Comment_1849151
allow me to start they take SOOOOOOOOO much skill to use why do KIllers complain so much have you seen the new moris there so OP now this game is SO killer sided

No stop it's to much lmao

in Keys are 100% Fair (In a Single player Style Game) Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

I'm not a killer main but play both sides fairly equal. Matches like that I still try to kill them all to try and show that their harassment doesn't affect me even though I really want to scream, cry, and throw the controller at the tv.

They'd have to be really over the top with their harassment for me to want to cry though.

I had a match where I was playing Freddy (one of my first matches as him) and there was a 4 person swf (very obvious swf cuz of names) where they all had flashlights. I loaded into the match and found that only one had a flashlight so I was like "Oh no". The problem is this one person was very immerse so I never knew where they were and the only time they'd appear was to blind me through the corn and I was never able to pick anyone up because I'd just get a flashlight to the face. All 4 remembered to tbag at every moment and all 4 tbagged me in the exit gate. I even looked at their builds. All had the small pp build with purple flashlights with the pink bulb and sapphire lens. (which all were given to that one person). All of them got out, but none deserved it.

in Fellow killer mains what is your opinion? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

I'm surprised there aren't any survivor mains on here yet complaining about how keys are balanced and completely fine.

in Keys are 100% Fair (In a Single player Style Game) Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@Seanzu said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1849123#Comment_1849123
Except every case of "bullying" I've seen in dbd is the exact things I've listed, which aren't really bullying besides the end game chat thing.
I had a killer dc over deception yesterday and then proceed to start typing N-bombs in chat, I don't think that was bullying but I certainly reported it and moved on and didn't make a huge thing about it on dead by daylight bc if the actions of the person were to be deemed bullying they'd be removed from the game after a report is looked at.
but instead people come to the forums and say they've been bullied when it usually means they've had a game where either the survivor or the killer was better than them, or they got DSd one too many times.

In my experience, there are ways all of those can be considered bullying, however not every flashlight save and not every t-bag and not every perk used is bullying.

in A simple question for survivors, why do you bully? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@TotemsCleanser said:
Totem spawns are a huge problem. Let me explain myself, as someone who mostly mains survivors and is ALWAYS doing as many totems as possible.
Around 6/7 months ago, I got so tired of NOED that I decided I would be doing all totems by my own if that was necessary. I usually play SWF so many times I can count on my friends to do some bones, but when I play solo Q I mostly have to rely on myself only. So, back then, I started learning totem spawns. Every totem spawn in every map. I carries Detective's Hunch around, sometimes also a map, solely for this purpose. I watched some videos about totem spawns in specific realms to memorize them. Overall, it's a huge task and I am still learning (yes, even after all these months) but I have generally grasped where most totems spawn in each map.
Having all this knowledge, I can say quite a few things about totem spawns. Because some of them are so good, and some of them so bad, that it's ######### crazy. I believe that the pinnacle of totem spawn balance lies on Grave of Glenvale. Totems do not spawn out in the open, but you will be able to find them as long as you're looking for them and you're not in too much of a hurry (say, there's a teammate on the hook and NOED is up). There's very few "bad" totem spawns in this map, say the one in the windmill, the one in shack and the one in the main building (which can be tricky because there actually a lot of totem spawn spots in that saloon, lol).
There's two particular maps that have insane totem spawns, at least in my opinion. Part of this is due to the fact that I easily get lost in those maps, and I probably end up checking the same places multiple times without realizing. These are Hawkins and Lery's. Very few weak totem spawns (gates for both maps, Demogorgon thingy and upper floor for Hawkins are the only ones I can think of rn), and many strong ones that are hard to spot per se, and even more if you take into account that everything looks similar in that map and it's hard to pinpoint which places you have already checked and which ones you have not.
The following strongest maps (not as strong as Hawkins and Lery's, imo, but still strong) are Silent Hill and The Game. Again, maps in which it's easy to get lost as a survivor, but that have many spots in which it's easy to see the totem without even looking for it, and also some memorable spots like the bathroom ones in both maps, the door ones in The Game, the 3rd floor one in Silent Hill to give some examples. Some other totem spawns in these maps are really well hidden though. And Silent Hill has an extra problem, which is that it requires you to check every area twice, because you need to check inside the classrooms and on the hallways, and in order to do this you usually need to go back lol.
Every other map in the game, except for perhaps the Swamp (a map that makes many non-totem-connoisseurs (?) struggle because of the edge of the map spawns and stuff) has very weak totem spawns. Coldwind, MacMillan, Azarov and Crotus Prenn are great examples of these. Easy to randomly see, a lot of memorable spots, so many identical tiles that have the same exact totem spawn, etc. I rarely struggle to find any totems in these maps.
Why am I saying all of this? Because maps and killers can drastically change how big of a task it is to actually find and do totems without throwing the whole game away. It's not the same finding all five totems in Lery's than in Shelter Woods. It's not the same to find all five totems against a addon-less Wraith than against a rank 1 Spirit with good addons. The game is about economy of time. You need to do your objective faster than your enemy can do theirs. Rank 1 Spirit players, from my experience, are extremely good at their objective. Add-onless Wraith players, usually not so much. Please don't "but oh my god survivors are so OP they can loop even a good Spirit player" because my point here is that some killers have it easier to do their objective fast than others. Not that you cannot win against the Spirit, lol.
All of this being said, I feel there are three totem perks that are the hot topic in these forums. The first one is NOED. I don't think NOED is OP as ######### as some others believe, but I believe it's a little bullshit. Because having to do five whole ass totems to MAYBE counter a perk the killer might not even have, feels a little bullshit to me. Don't get me wrong: most times, I will try to do those totems. I stopped being one of those "lazy" survivors you talked about who refuse to do more than one bone long ago. But you must take into consideration that doing five bones (yes! only five) can be A LOT sometimes. In maps where totem spawns are hellish, like Lery's, it can be VERY tough to find them all and at the same time be doing gens. You usually have to sacrifice a LOT of time to do this. And like I said, this game is about time management. The faster you do your thing, the better chances you have of winning. Now if you're on SWF it /is/ easier to find all totems and get rid of them. But this game isn't only SWF. Solo Q survivors exist and, well, like you said, survivors /are/ lazy many times. And I can't torture randoms on comms with my constant "do bones or I swear to ######### god" the way I do with my SWF team.
Then on other maps (Coldwind and MacMillan being the best examples, imo) doing all five totems is easy and you can actually manage to get rid of them ridiculously fast. I remember one particular game in Coldwind where I got rid of all totems within like 3 minutes of the game being started, lol. This is generally not the rule, of course, but my point is that overall (depending on the killer you're paired up against, of course) you can usually afford to do all bones in these maps if you're trying really hard to avoid NOED.
Now, the other two hex perks that people have been talking about a lot are, of course, the Ruin + Undying combo. Now there's a lot to say about this combo, because it can be somewhat useful to OP as ######### depending on many things. First: the aura reading grants some killers enough time to actually get to the totem and shoo the survivor away before they can cleanse it, for example Spirit, Freddy, Billy, Blight and Nurse can easily play off a play like this. You will think "well, but then survivors can distract these killers so that, meanwhile, their teammate can do the bones!!" and while this is entirely true, this requires survivors to be in some sort of comms most times. SWF is what I mean. That's the second factor when it comes to R+UD in my opinion: survs on comms can easily communicate to each other when it's entirely safe to do the bones. They can also entirely counter this combo by communicating and finding not only one but BOTH totems before cleansing any of them, then cleansing both simultaneously. Then, the killer won't be able to be in both places at the same time, and you'll make sure that you get rid of UD so you'll have to do only one extra totem max aside of those two. Easy, right? As long as you're on comms. And as long as, again, you're not in one of those hellish maps where totem spawns are so good that you usually spend too much time looking for totems, and when you finally find them it doesn't really matter anymore. That's the obvious third factor: maps. R+UD is a complicated combo to analyze in my opinion because it relies too much on RNG + these three factors I've mentioned above. It can be literally useless against good, communicated SWF with totem spawn knowledge. It's deadly if survivors can't manage to find the totems, despite actively looking for them (not being lazy!). It's also very RNG reliant because of the random map thingy, the particular totem spawns it will spawn in, and the particular place in the map that survivors will spawn at (because survivors often spawn next to lit totems, and that should definitely not be happening for ######### sake).
Why did I write this long ass comment that probably no one will read? Well, first because I love totems and any chance to talk about them I WILL take, lol. Secondly, because I wanted to bring actual insight into the matter, analyze it from all possible perspectives that I can think of, because I feel that very often the analysis that people make when it comes to this particular aspect of the game is superficial to say the least. And third, to bring my totem-cleanser, mostly-survivor-main perspective onto the table, because I feel that as someone who can definitely NOT be considered lazy when it comes to totems, I have a lot to say lol.
There is really no conclusion to this post. I just wanted to explain why both sides mainstream opinions are partly right and partly wrong when it comes to totems and hex perks. If you have read this whole bible, I hope you have some amazing DBD matches tonight and thank you for keeping up with me until now. Lol.

You're the kind of survivor who I definitely think should have a voice about the matter because you aren't being lazy. You're trying. I agree with what you have to say about the amount of RNG when it comes to totems. If you get stuck on an inside map, I do believe unless you're bringing Detective's Hunch you're probably going to miss 1 or 2 or maybe all totems. When playing killer I think it's more impressive if they're all broken (which I only notices as Nurse or Plague who I bring NOED on) on the inside maps. I think many of the maps need reworked totem spots. The inside maps/Swamp maps need easier spots because many of the spots are really difficult to spawn (except for a few that maybe need a little buff like the ones by the doors on The Game). I do not expect if I'm in a lobby of all solo q survivors for them all to broken. Also, I feel like if you're facing a rank 1 Spirit like in your example, it's also fair to say they aren't bringing NOED so it would be more worth your time to be doing the generators than totems like in your example. If you're facing a Wraith with no good add-ons or just no add-ons, maybe spare a minute or 2 to go totem hunting isn't a bad idea because it could be a real possibility of NOED.

As far as Ruin + Undying, I feel like the problem is more Undying. If you get stuck on a map with good rng for totems, that combo can be much harder to face than others. You also have a point that unless you're in a comms/swf group you probably can't depend on someone to go to that totem unless someone else stumbles upon it or you were running/walking/crouching with someone when you stumbled upon it. I feel like Undying is probably hard to balance to make the combo weaker because of all the rng involved and the other factors (such as amount of totems broken). Totem spots on all maps need to be reworked honestly. That's correct.

The fact that most maps are really easy to find totems on and then like 6 of them you can maybe find 1 to save your life is kind of hard to deal with. Especially when faced with NOED or Ruin + Undying. I almost feel like before messing with anymore hex perks they need to take a look at totem spawn points first.

in New Unhealthy Gameplay Loop Survivor Laziness Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@NightWolfsFury said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1848662#Comment_1848662
I think the biggest reason people dislike NOED is because a lot of times, it rewards poor killer play. I rarely see really good killers run NOED because they don't need it, but you can always tell when a killer will have NOED by how they play, and it's usually bad.
With this in mind, a change they could do for NOED is a token system like Devour, for example. 1 hook does nothing,2 hooks will give you speed boost. 3 hooks will give you the full speed boost benefit (or even more since it is a tier system here), and then 4+ hooks will give you the exposed effect.
It awards you playing better and not just giving free value no matter how crappy you played.
Regardless, NOED has never bothered me, so I don't really care. Lmao I don't really think any perks are too powerful on either side, outside of thinking Undying is a bit too bloated.

Since you don't care I feel like I can have a conversation about this. Personally, I feel like killers only bring it if they are new to the killer and feel like they might need that buffer or they're just newer to killer in general. I feel like it's design was made so that people can play killers they're newer at and still feel like they have some form of a chance. There is one change I think should be made to it for sure though. If you just happen to have a good round NOED will still activate if you close the hatch, I think it should be more like Rancor where all 5 generators have to be done.

I personally only use it on Nurse and Plague. Those are the only 2 killers I find myself struggling with so I use NOED to help myself a bit. I don't use it because I'm trying to be awful, I'm using it because I feel like it could help me get a kill. Personally I can understand the reason survivors hate NOED. I hate it to when playing survivor and it does feel cheap. It's why I mostly try to avoid using it, except for those 2 killers I mentioned.

in New Unhealthy Gameplay Loop Survivor Laziness Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@Zozzy said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1849030#Comment_1849030
if you only play 2-3 games a day then i am not shocked you haven't reached r1.
survivor q takes ages and if you play solo depends heavily on your team mates or the killer if you pip or not. If the gens get done in 2 minutes and you didn't get a chance to be chased or save gg your pip.
Killer is just a stressful slog. you will pip easily until red ranks where the requirements become more demanding and you run into 4 man swf often.

Honestly that's true and for killer along with more swf that means you run into way more toxicity.

in Am I a bad player? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@magicmaster2020 said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1849031#Comment_1849031
I suppose so, but it would still be nice to say I made it to rank 1.

I'm a Rank 1 killer and Rank 2 survivor and I can say, for the amount of pain you have to put up with in order to get there it's not worth it.

in Am I a bad player? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

I've seen better grey rank players than some red ranks. Rank really means nothing.

in Am I a bad player? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

I can't even tell if this is a killer/survivor/neither main talking. It's just so bad for both sides.

in Spamming unhook? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

I'm not a killer main, but I do play it just about as much maybe a little more than survivor. I have a list (short but it exists)

It's okay for survivors to bully the [BAD WORD] out of killers
matchmaking
totem spots
survivor perks not being reworked in the same style as killers (which has been said)

That's it. I honestly feel like the killers are much nicer both on the forums and in game than the survivors. Although they're are some real [Bad word] on both sides and some real angels on both sides, it definitely feel like there's more toxicity on the survivor side than killer side. (Which is kind of ironic seeing how the killers are the "villains" of the game)

in Killers tell me whats wrong with the game from your perspective? Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@Shugon135 said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1848587#Comment_1848587
What about all the decorations for Christmas? And the outfits like Santa clown for killers? Does the entity like to celebrate christmas?

Part of me wants to say there's no lore attachment to the used to be Christmas events, but I have no clue. I only know about the halloween lore. I feel like the christmas/winter solstice event was just because we should celebrate the holiday season but there could be lore behind it.

in The holidays Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

For survivors who also think "I'm not doing the side objective but nerf this instead" here's the devs answer for you "No."

in New Unhealthy Gameplay Loop Survivor Laziness Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@MadLordJack said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1848751#Comment_1848751
It really is awful that you have no interest in any sort of proper discussion. Not that I came in here expecting you to, your post clearly spoke for itself. You would rather trade petty insults and pretend that everything is your opponents fault.

So, I was a killer main up until December 2019, since then I have been playing both sides much more evenly. There's a reason totems are called a side objective. However, if you do not know all the killers perks you do need to be wary of NOED being a possibility. You don't need to be spending the entire match looking for totems, it's a waste of time and will make finding and breaking totems feel much more difficult than it is. Although, if you are not being chased and looking for a gen and come across a totem, make it the priority over the gen (ESPECIALLY if as the 4 survivors you're looking good). At that point, you'll realize totems are very easy. (NOTE: I play both sides every day so every day I see both sides of every argument within my matches. As survivor I go up against Ruin/Undying and lemme tell ya I've probably only seen 5 matches since that combo became a thing that the combo actually was useful and wasn't destroyed before the game was even halfway up and gens were still popping even though we were looking for totems)

in New Unhealthy Gameplay Loop Survivor Laziness Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@The_Bootie_Gorgon said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1848686#Comment_1848686
and according to the meta thought process, time spent on anything other than a generator is a waste.
It's like all the min/maxers in all of gaming history want to "balance" dbd for the purpose of min/maxing every single match.
DBD is unique, but again people want to treat this game like any other tdm game.

I get that DBD is unique, but that doesn't mean you can just say "I'm not going to do a side objective" than {bad word} and moan about how something being powerful and saying it needs to nerf. Especially when by doing the side objective you counter it. That makes no sense. "Hm. I don't feel like doing the side objective. OMG THE KILLER HAS SOMETHING POWERFUL THAT WAS COUNTERABLE BY DOING THE SIDE OBJECTIVE! NERF NEEDED! GET RID OF IT! But I'm still not going to do the side objective."

...no.

I'm not saying you specifically do this, but that's the argument at hand.

in New Unhealthy Gameplay Loop Survivor Laziness Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

It sucks to be the person on hook in that situation, but if you want to keep the killer from getting to much pressure and easily 4k'ing that's pretty much the only way to punish the killer atm.

in "Just do gens if the killer is facecamping" Comment by ChurchofPig January 3, 2021

@The_Bootie_Gorgon said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1848679#Comment_1848679
This is why ppl hate noed, self care survivors etc...

It's fair to hate something, but if someone is saying "Nerf this/Get rid of this" because that's their playing style and refuse to try and counter it, that's where the problem lies. I personally hate it when NOED activates, but I start the match thinking that the killer has every perk so if I see a totem, I break it.