Cornil

@GentlemanFridge said:
Idk about you, but I prefer playing my PvP game against actual Players, not bots.

And I prefer to play my team based game with real people and not bots, it goes both ways. Don't know why I should be forced to play a heavily losing match to potentially an excruciating length just because an entitled teammate decided he'd rather go make a sandwich during his disconnect cooldown than to play the rest of the match out. I've had teammates DC numerous of times in a match that we were actually winning in, and manage to escape or get very close to it even with a single bot. Two bots though, the game is just over. There really might as well be an abandon option for that.

Also if I'm playing killer I'd honestly rather play against bots than players who are just giving up and refusing to play, but maybe that's just me. If you really don't like playing against bots and getting the free BP, then there's an abandon option currently active if the survivors are all bots.

in Are Disconnect Penalties Really Necessary? Comment by Cornil June 30, 2026

@Mandy said:
I would say (as someone who sees the data) yes Disconnect Penalties are definitely necessary, whenever penalties are switched off the DC rate increases vastly.

You're probably right, I don't doubt it reduces the amount of DC's overall, but is it even possible to account for players who play sloppy on purpose, just give up? I know it was a monumental and nearly impossible thing to implement as a feature, tracking and punishing players who give up instead of disconnecting. I recall when it was first implemented it was giving false flags. But in my matches I legitimately have at least a disconnect every four games. And the ones without disconnects some players just give up. Maybe I was just lucky back then but I don't remember seeing anywhere near as many players disconnect in my matches before the penalties were added.

Maybe a solution could be to allow the abandon option to appear for the survivors if one or more teammates abandon? Could counteract people trying to "abuse" it by making it contingent on if the survivors are queued together or not.

in Are Disconnect Penalties Really Necessary? Comment by Cornil June 30, 2026

@cogsturning said:
I don't think their should be DC penalities but I also basically never DC. I can count on my fingers how many times I've DCed. But what you say here
How is it fair that people who abide by the penalties have to suffer because the penalties do nothing to discourage the toxic players these changes were intended for?
How would free DCs change this? People like me, who simply don't believe in DCing as a personal stance, will still be stuck with bots. Probably even more than now. There are already enough free outs with the abandon option. What the game needs is a way for sure loses to still feel worthwhile.
Content creators aren't a good example of anything in this game. They do it for a living and they invest too much into it. Most people get stressed at work.
What is casual though? If you truly have a casual mindset, you shouldn't be nearly so stressed if you lose, nor should you be inclined to sweat for wins. More and more, I feel like "casual" means still wanting to win but with less effort. Sometimes I "casually" 4k at 5 gens. Didn't feel causal for my opponents though, I bet. So what does casual look like for each role when neither wants to sign up to lose?

How will it change? I doubt it would for you at all. But for people like me, when my teammates inevitably DC like they do now with the penalties, I’ll also be able to DC freely if I choose to do so. The truth is I don’t think the penalty stops anyone anyway. Most players stay to get their blood points, the cooldown doesn’t stop these kinds of players because they already have p100 and don’t need the BP. They lose nothing other than a little bit of time taking a break before getting back on to do it all again it seems.

Sadly the only way to make sure losses still feel worthwhile is if the game was properly balanced. The current meta is geared around 5 basically uncounterable perks designed for niche uses but survivors can easily force you into those otherwise niche scenarios. It creates a lose-lose situation that’s so far out of your control it removes all sense of responsibility for your loss of the match. Which of course creates frustration. It’s the “losing to perks not players” feeling I’ve heard some content creators express.

Also I do have a casual mindset because I truly don’t care about losing. But my escape rate on survivor has dropped from above 60% to under 25% since the event started, and my kill rate on killer is above average, so if I truly cared about winning and winning alone I’d just play killer. My point though is that even wins can feel frustrating because of the way the current meta plays. I don’t enjoy playing against survivors that give up at 5 gens, but I also don’t enjoy having flashlight saves 18 times at 5 gens just for the survivors to lose the game. If they’re going to win, win normally. Same goes for losing. I don’t go out of my way to tunnel and facecamp but half of my games in this event have been 3 people constantly harassing me so I can’t get a single hook, all just for them to lose the game in the last few minutes because they couldn’t just do the actual objective. Maybe other survivors just like losing, I don’t mind it at all, but when I’m suddenly losing 16 out of every 20 matches on survivor it gets to me a little. Like I don’t even get to play the game most the time, it’s just 2 minutes on hook, at max 3 minutes in “chase,” maybe about a minute healing or doing gens, and that’s it. Half my match almost is just dying on hook or the ground and the other half waiting to be tunneled out when the killer inevitably finds chasing a new survivor to not be a winning strategy.

I feel forced to bring decisive strike but I rarely get good use out of it, I’ll always get double-tapped anyway because I don’t have teammates that coordinate around it. But when I play killer I’m basically forced to slug or tunnel, or else I’ll eat every DS and DH on all four survivors just to get 4 hooks before the gates are opened. Kicking gens and playing a normal macro game feels like a distant memory now, playing killer now just feels like a never ending chase, which tires me out, regardless if I win or lose.

in Are Disconnect Penalties Really Necessary? Comment by Cornil June 30, 2026

Stuff like the above image cannot be healthy for the long-term of the game. 3-man abandon in the bottom match, try-harded in the next three matches just to be tunneled out another two times, teammate got tunneled out at 5 gens in the match I didn't, then I played a joke match with no offering/item on Jeff just to—you guessed it—get tunneled out by a fifth Jason player. Its just miserable. I DON'T want to play killer, although I win almost all of my matches on killer, even in the anniversary event. Its boring, I want something intense, and different. I like the breakup of gameplay from doing gens, healing, getting saves. With killer its just constant chases, and I've grown tired of it.

Getting escapes feels great because its rare. I'm actually okay with dying as a survivor, I don't get as mad or frustrated like some some might. Escapes have become too rare for me though. I'm sorry but when my escape rate drops from over 60% to under 30% because one killer came out, who is either wholly overpowered, or I and everyone I play with just has a massive skill issue, then I want to ban that killer. Its as simple as that. Or at the very least I want the matchmaking system to guarantee I get one match that isn't Jason like, every 3 matches? Is that too much to ask for?

Also, for the problem of repetitive maps, I've gotten Eyrie of Crows 3 times in the last 30 matches but haven't seen a single map from the MacMillan Estate realm once. I got The Game 2 times, Dead Dawg, 2 times, but I can't remember the last time I've gotten Greenville Square. I've gotten the Freddy Fazbear's map once in the last week, Garden of Joy once I think, but I get the stupid Walking Dead """map""" at least once every 30 matches of course, because they're all in the same realm the chances of getting any of its 4 maps are a 25% chance of the already 5% of getting that specific realm. Its just not fun.

in Suggestion: Killer Ban Feature & Map Offering Repurposing Comment by Cornil June 29, 2026

@Wezqu said:
Killer ban system should never exist as would be just abused by preventing the top killers and causing anyone who playes them to have longer queues. It would not be healthy for the game
I like the map offereings to give better changes of to get the map never liked the idea of changing them to be ban the map in question as don't like that kind of features in games anyway.
If I paid money of something I want to be able to use it.

Maybe it would encourage BHVR to reconsider the balancing and play-state of killers who are mass banned by survivors and lead to a healthier balancing, especially since BHVR almost looks exclusively at stats to make those decisions.

The "if I paid money" argument kind of falls apart when you consider that survivors paid money too, for their perks, their cosmetics, etc. Why should they be forced to play against the same killer 5 times in a row, get tunneled out in an absolute sweat-fest just because the matchmaking system refuses to account for repeated killers and maps? I provided two options here, the killer/map ban features are just one.

I play a lot of killer and the ban feature is actually something I would support. No sense in playing Cenobite if people are going to full-team disconnect every third match I try to play. No one wants to face bots in 33% of their games.

in Suggestion: Killer Ban Feature & Map Offering Repurposing Comment by Cornil June 29, 2026

@LolzTheGuy said:
Guys the only way the devs will probably listen is if we as a community just decide to not queue into the event as a whole. Most people from what Ive seen are NOT happy (myself included) with the current state of things. My solution to this is have everyone swap to normal queue and use the already annoying to get cakes on the normal mode. Survivor is the most boring its been, Killer is unplayable period, in the event.
The event really highlights everything wrong with this game, pallet density, power creep, blatant survivor bias, and lack of overall care. Especially since this was a 10yr hyped up anniversary. Its disappointing. If no one queues in the garbage gamemode the devs will see (presumably) and take it down early or even better fix it.
This is geniunely the only way we can actually fix the current problem.

I had started to boycott the game for the anniversary cakes alone, as that’s a more pressing issue than the event. You could always queue the normal game, but making the offerings very rare and reducing their drop rate by 500% affects you in either game mode. Saving up 20 million bloodpoints to get 200 cakes when 5 million used to net me those same 200 cakes, it feels very bad. But it seems like BHVR have decided to stick to their guns and give loyal fans the short end of the stick. So I’ve begrudgingly spent my BP so I can play a bit.

If you want to boycott anything, boycott booting up the game at all. Like others have said BHVR loves to just look at numbers like player count and nothing else. If the player count drops far enough on Steam then maybe they’ll consider walking back some things or making some changes for next year. Seems now like they’re too stubborn, too busy, or maybe too lazy to make any changes to how it is now. No one but BHVR themselves know why they haven’t done anything to the event yet. The party pallets rubber band you everywhere, the invisibility modifier portals teleport to random places sometimes which ends chases instantly. And the cake offerings are still not even half of what we used to get. Their silence on all of this is pretty deafening. We can only wait and see if they’ll take our feedback into account, or decide that it’s not bad enough to warrant change. Whether you play the game in the meantime is ultimately your choice.

in Boycott This Event Comment by Cornil June 29, 2026

@Your_Dad_Playing_DbD said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4094845#Comment_4094845
ok fine - you’re also playing one of the only killers who can capitalize on the poison with easy one shot downs. Try anyone but Bubba or Hillbilly

I completely agree with you, but it’s a spectrum or scale with killers in the event on how well they can utilize the poison. I played trapper a few games and won at least 3/4ths of those matches because of the zoning potential the poison has. I played a couple matches of Knight, he’s also good around the unbreakable pallets or invisibility. Might be even better than Bubba for the macro required in this event. And I played 5 games of huntress yesterday and only “lost” (it was a 2K) one of them to a team all using double charge addon commodious tooboxes, prove thyself, and one player using hyperfocus stakeout. My build was all aura reading, no gen slowdown, so the event had nothing to do with it. Running dissolution on Huntress and getting a first hit then poisoning them immediately makes every loop in the game a guaranteed down if you know how to path it right. They can’t vault a dropped pallet unless it’s in unbreakable pallet mode, you could always use a hatchet instead in that case.

This event has a lot of fun ways to counter the survivors OP bull crap lol, you just have to pay attention to the strengths and weaknesses of the killers you’re picking, and make sure you can craft a build around those strengths in the event. Like I remember the Masquerade was miserable for Bubba because the party pallets would randomly trigger your chainsaw break animation when you wanted to fake the pallet drop. Or survivors would spam the window block ability on main buildings making it impossible to catch them. This event is more or less the same but survivors don’t have as much control over the big buffs for them. It’s random and you have to complete an entire side objective. Playing killer feels so much easier to manage at least, see a table with progress or a gen they keep coming back to, poison it and move on. Throw poison onto pallets mid chase, don’t let them get distance. If anything it’s at least simple.

in Tunneling in the Anniversary Event Comment by Cornil June 29, 2026

@Chomperka said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4094876#Comment_4094876
i am not seeing how getting unbreakable pallet in a hatch is a "waste of time"

the longer they spend in the match the higher probability of someone dying, which means higher probability of winning for the killer. The more time they spend trying to get unbreakable pallets and a global heal against an insta-down killer that can play around pallets, the easier it is to snowball into a 4K before the match is over