Jarrecko
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I felt compelled to create an account just to voice some of my concerns going forward both with these changes and BHVR's actions up until this point.
I feel it necessary to question what exactly the point of the PTB is? All of the concerns being heard were voiced previously during the PTB. The community has been ranting for a long while now that these changes will cause problems if implemented. The fact that as a community our concerns were essentially ignored has convinced me that the PTB is little more than a method of building hype around upcoming changes to motivate people to either return to the game to check out the new content or to purchase the game when new killers are shown off. So if I can be brutally honest for a moment I think the purpose of the PTB has become deceptive as clearly our criticisms amount to very little beyond adding a slash icon over injured survivor's portraits. Thanks I guess?
Now, to the changes. As far as the locomotion with survivors is concerned and their animations as someone who plays probably 60% Killer and 40& Survivor I find the animations unintentionally humorous. What was once a fearful, tense run animation has now become what appears to be a jaunty jog without a care in the world. Instead of warily hunched over looking around nervously survivors now stand super upright with confidence while unmoving. The other animations I can live with but, the standing, walking, and running animations look very..silly for lack of a better word as if the meme of Survivors being the threatening monsters and killers being the weak victims has actually become a reality. The Survivors don't look like they are in life and death situations anymore. It's just all around a bizarre change tonally. I can't speak to the ability to juke with the new animations as I'm only an adequate survivor at best but, I've certainly heard DOZENS accounts from other people whom have experienced the weirdness and especially hit detection keeps coming up as a massive problem.
I've seen some of the videos thus far of Survivors getting hit almost 3-4 feet away from the Killer in truly bizarre cases of bad hit detection. Hit detection has always been kind of off in DBD for one reason or another but, it definitely feels like the issue has been compounded post patch.
As a survivor the UI update is all but, irrelevant to me though I like many others do not like the new exhaustion bar colors as it makes it very difficult to see. Still admittedly I don't particularly need the UI as Survivor mostly though the hook counter is appreciated.
As a Killer however the new UI is..nauseating and I don't mean that as a snarky remark. I mean it literally makes me dizzy and sick trying to pay attention to four corners of the screen like that while also searching around for survivors. Splitting everything up into the four sides of the screen legitimately makes playing killer more difficult right now. Even an option to just..rearrange the UI to be more palatable would be tremendous. If I could just move everything back into a location similar to the prior UI that would help mitigate some of the nausea.
Overall it is unfortunate these issues have overshadowed the Clown rework that while far from perfect I do enjoy the reload speed increase.
Honestly BHVR had made some small strides in actually communicating with us recently ( The transparency around DS and OOO I very much appreciated) but, there is still a lot of work to do on that front. It appears that they take criticism as some kind of attack on their person when in reality most ( certainly not all ) criticism is done out of love for what they have made. I love DBD, it's one of my favorite games but, I'm not going to stick my fingers in my ears and pretend the game is in a 'good' state right now because it is not. This mid chapter patch is proof that there needs to be some difficult conversations had and individuals at BHVR need to realize that the fans are not the enemy.