Dom06
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About a year ago I would’ve confidently said “Dead By Daylight is my favourite game,” but since the deathslinger dlc the game has slowly but surely gotten progressively worse through the map changes (breakable walls, the new aesthetic, more needless dead zones in maps, etc) frustrating killer mechanics and other unnecessary changes. I know I don’t speak for every player when I say this but from someone who’s spent thousands of hours in the game it’s just sad to see the Frankenstein’s monster this game has become compared to its’ former self. The game really had charm.
NEW UI:
This new UI does an excellent job of being the absolute opposite of what a UI should be. Confusing, clustered, ugly, not to mention completely unnecessary. I saw someone saying the old UI was like a good car dashboard, clear and concise plus it was all in one area so that you could glance down and then go straight back to keeping your eyes on the ‘road’. However, the worst part isn’t the UI at all though, it’s the fact that almost the entire community gave you negative feedback on the UI and you released it anyway. As a console player myself I could tell from the initial reveal that the UI was a complete downgrade. The excuse that you released the UI is because you want console feedback is complete rubbish. You’re not being straight with the community and it’s turning players away. Having said all this if I had to choose between the new UI or the new animations I would pick the UI any day of the week over the abysmal new animations.
NEW ANIMATIONS
I updated the game with my fingers crossed hoping the new survivor animations and movement didn’t make it through the PTB and we could forget this ever happened. Oh boy was I wrong. The new ridiculous animations somehow made it through and it’s even more upsetting to see how bad survivor feels to play now. I just don’t even know what to say. Who asked for this?! There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old ones. The only decent looking animation is probably the uninjured sprint, but that’s only because it looks similar to the old sprint. Sure the old animations looked kinda goofy but they had charm, much like the old maps but I know for a fact we’re not getting them back so I’ll stop bringing them up. With the new ones they’re not goofy, they’re not realistic (which I’m guessing is what you’re going for(?)) it’s just some weird uncanny valley where I’m just wondering what on earth I’m looking at. In the matches nothing gets done because everyone is just standing still confused at what happened to their survivors and the UI. I don’t even need to talk about the new movement and hit boxes because they’ve made the game unplayable right now for survivors and I trust it’ll get fixed swiftly. The thing that makes dbd for me is the chase mechanics and now that, with the movement, it’s virtually non-existent, what’s the point on playing? It’s like you’re designing your game so that people sit on gens and play immersed, you might as well remove pallets and window vaults at this rate.
CLOWN AND MAPS (Not sure if you wanted feedback on this but here’s some anyway)
First of all, the clown change has made no impact whatsoever on his chase interaction the pallet is still camped and dropped early. Whether the survivor is sped up or slowed down the survivor has to drop the pallet and run to the next one. The same exact chase interaction is occurring just at two different speeds now instead of one. The only change really is that he now can speed himself up when hooking or walking to generators which I guess is fine just a lazy rework to be honest. It’s nice to see the Gideon meat plant now looking more like it’s from a saw movie although the map now plays even worse with more safe pallets and the introduction of breakable walls (honestly as killer and survivor cold wind farms are now the only enjoyable maps). I played a game earlier on the game where when I dropped into the bathroom above the basement there was no way for me to escape without the killer breaking a wall and so our entire team was trapped trying to save me (surely this wasn’t intentional right?!). Haven’t played the new Crotus prenn maps yet because to tell the truth I’ve given up playing dbd until these changes are resolved but I’ve seen clips of people walking through walls so enough said there.
CONCLUSION
It really is just depressing to see what dbd is becoming it truly was one of my favourite games. I’ve found myself watching through old noob3 vids getting my bit of dbd nostalgia (I wonder why he hasn’t been uploading since pyramid head! Maybe the charm of the game is gone for him too) BHVR your community is BEGGING you to revert these changes. I’ve never seen such stubbornness from a games developer after the community has come together like this please listen to your feedback it’s there for a reason!
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Same thing keeps happening to me on Xbox