Kyxlect

Same issue here.

in Not receiving the crown with the twins Comment by Kyxlect July 3, 2021

I escaped twice as well. Thought it was because the event started while I was playing but I tried restarting the game, getting the pop ups and free currency, escaped again but no dice.

in 5th year anniversary crowns not unlocking. Comment by Kyxlect June 30, 2021

I think it's more likely to be rejected. Because you talk about just being able to avoid toxic Killers but there's one Killer for every four Survivors. So the chances of you running into the same Killer should be fairly low unless there's just not a lot of Killers queuing up. On the other hand, this isn't just going to help with avoiding toxic Killers.

Some people list their Killer main in their Steam Profile description and of course there's streamers which you do acknowledge but I don't know, it seems like you're trying to brush it off or something. If you look at a Killers stream you know what Killer they're playing which is precisely what a ton of people don't want because you can use specific builds to fight Killers and you have an even bigger advantage than SWF's with their comms because you know exactly where the Killer is and what they're doing.

So, do I think Behavior's going to implement a controversial change like this into the game thereby harming streamers who are actively promoting the game for free? Not a chance. Let me repeat that. Not.A.Chance.

in Show Killer IDs in the Lobby Comment by Kyxlect June 28, 2021

Make it so that whenever a Survivor goes up to the hatch and attempts to open it they hear a key breaking sound then instantly get sacrificed to the Entity.

in How would you change keys Comment by Kyxlect June 25, 2021

I agree. I hate all the farm maps as both Survivor and Killer mainly due to the corn. If the Killer brings a Hex good luck finding it because it's gonna be the one that spawns in the corn making it damn near invisible and as Killer it's just straight up impossible to see due to the corn. Survivor's probably running right past you and you wouldn't know.

in Can we delete coldwind Comment by Kyxlect June 25, 2021

Knock Out

When putting a Survivor into the Dying State with your Basic Attack:

Their Aura is not revealed to any Survivor farther away from them than 32/24/16 metres.

in Knockout trumping Kindred / Better together, possible bug? Comment by Kyxlect June 24, 2021

@Steah said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2297702#Comment_2297702
He's 110 Movement speed. Being m1 is suicide

Well, as I said, I'm not very experienced as Trickster but I did just play a game as him using the methods I suggested. First time playing Killer today so I'm not warmed up and made some mistakes but in the end, I still got 2/4 Survivors versing a two to three man SWF group with minimal Perks (Level 12 Trickster) and I would suggest playing from Level 1 myself anyway, more challenging that way, gain more experience using a Killer and their power rather than relying so heavily on Perks. So if OP is looking for a starting point he can start there and work out a better method, at the very least, he'll get profit while doing it. Feel free to offer your own suggestions if you like though.

The video below is of that game. You can analyze what both I and the Survivors are doing throughout. I know I definitely didn't pressure gens but that's currently what it feels like playing Trickster. It requires so much time and focus with his ability that you just don't have much time for anything else. That's why I suggested lowering the blade hit amount.

https://youtu.be/90O_G9IqwgU

in Trickster is a killer in this game btw Comment by Kyxlect June 22, 2021

I'm not a Trickster main but I do tend to play Killers when I want their teachables. I played Trickster up to Level 12. Right now, I think the strategy is mainly being an M1 Killer because his knives are crap. It takes too long to injure someone when you could've just done it with your main weapon faster. Rapid Fire Knife throwing is only really beneficial if the Survivor is close because the accuracy on that crap is horrendous at range but again, why use that instead of your main weapon..?

With my current experience, which isn't much, I'd say the strategy is to only throw a single knife at a distance whenever possible as it's accurate. Just build up the meter. If a Survivor is at a loop you can quickly pull out the blades and throw a single one at them as soon as they're visible then put them away and start chasing again going for the M1. If the Survivor is going to vault a window or sitting at a pallet use the Rapid Fire.

You need to choose the proper times to use those blades. You could imagine him as being a worse Huntress, which he is, but take what you know about Huntress, if you hit someone with a hatchet you can put it away and reactivate the chase faster. Same with Trickster, knife injure someone, put the knives away and give chase.

I feel like a good buff for Trickster would be to lower the amount of knife hits he needs to injure someone. It's a grueling eight hits right now. Maybe lower it down to five or six and see if that's better. Shouldn't take so long to down a Survivor when it's supposed to be his main power in my opinion and in comparison to other ranged Killer's.

in Trickster is a killer in this game btw Comment by Kyxlect June 22, 2021

@Mazoobi said:
Well there's no incentive in playing solo que unless you want relatively frustrating games which is a good to high chance.

I'd say the incentive is you get better at the game faster. It'll also feel like you deserved it if you manage to escape because you didn't need an overpowered cheat like comms just to win. Solo Survivor is only frustrating when the Killer tunnels you or if your teammates do something stupid like bringing the Killer to you or unhooking you near the Killer without BT. It's also very frustrating when your crappy SWF teammates talk crap about you (as a solo) in the end chat saying you're trash or whatever when most of the time you know it's their fault, because they're bad at the game. So basically, SWF's bully both sides.

Honestly, I'd really like to have that filter the devs talked about at one point. I'd filter out SWF's as both Survivor and Killer.

in PSA: Playing in a SWF doesn't make you good at DBD Comment by Kyxlect June 22, 2021

@ModernFable said:
I'll keep this as short:
Certain perks push Killers and Survivors towards unfun or ill advised play styles, I intend to rework them to be more fun or reward players for not playing ineffectively for Bloodpoints. Additionally, I'll be buffing perks that lean towards a play style which interacts with every player.
We're Gonna Live Forever
When healing another Survivor in the dying state, your healing speed is increased by 100%. Gain a token for completing any of these actions for the first time, max 2/3/4 tokens:
Heal other Survivors the equivalent of 1 health state
Heal another Survivor from the dying state to the injured state
Safely unhook a Survivor
Repair the equivalent of 1 Generator
Cleanse a Hex Totem
Escape a chase
Each token provides a 25% post-trial Bloodpoint bonus.
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Beast of Prey
Upon entering a chase, gain the Undetectable status effect for 10 seconds
Beast of Prey has a cool-down of 60/50/40 seconds
Beast of Prey grants a 50% Bloodpoint bonus to the Hunter category post-trial
Dead Man's Switch
After hooking a Survivor who had not immediately hooked prior, Dead Man's Switch activates for the next 60 seconds
While activated, any Generator that stops being repaired will be blocked by the Entity for 35/40/45 seconds
Affected Generators are highlighted by a white aura
Dying Light
After hooking a Survivor for the first time, gain a token
Each token gives all Survivors a 3/3.5/4% penalty to repairing, healing, and cleansing speeds
After getting all 4 tokens, give all Survivors a 20% penalty to gate opening speeds
Insidious
After standing still for 4/3/2 seconds, you are granted the Undetectable status effect for 15 seconds
Insidious has a cool-down of 30 seconds
No Way Out
After hooking a Survivor for the first time, gain a token
When a Survivor comes within 8m of a powered exit gate the Entity blocks them for a period of time if you have tokens
Each token is worth 8/9/10 seconds, up to a combined maximum of 32/36/40 seconds
Remember Me
After hitting a Survivor for the first time with your basic attack, gain a token
Each token increases the opening time of the exit gates by 5 seconds.
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If for whatever reason these perks must remain Obsession, then giving them effects to switch the Obsession around could achieve a similar result.
Example: Remember Me could gain tokens on Survivors who are not the Obsession, and then hitting someone for the first time could turn them into the Obsession.
However, I don't see any real benefit to keeping them as Obsession perks, so I didn't.

Mainly just looking at Beast of Prey at the moment. So you basically want to nerf a perk that's never used in the first place? 10 Seconds of Undetectable status as soon as you enter a chase is nothing. In it's current state, it may have some effectiveness versus more skilled Survivor's since they're constantly looking for the red stain but it's also very useless because Bloodlust is not very useful and you lose it after you miss an attack, get pallet stunned, break a pallet or if you can't lock onto a Survivor fast enough.

I kind of thought of another idea for reworking this perk. So instead of gaining the Undetectable status, how about significant buffs as soon as you obtain Bloodlust? +X% Window Vaulting Speed and a unique one, if you're hit with a Pallet while Bloodlust is Active you immediately slam it back up against the wall. (removing the stun as well or significantly reducing the stun duration? The aim here is to shorten chases and retain Bloodlust)

"Your lust for a kill is so intense that your connection with The Entity is momentarily lost, making you totally unpredictable."

This would also help M1 Killers end chases quicker.

in Changing Perks to Improve Player Experience Comment by Kyxlect June 21, 2021

I agree that it should be nerfed/altered because I myself use it as often as possible. Why? It counters all Killers. I know they're coming a mile away and so does everyone else using it or if it's a member of an SWF group then everyone knows while they gen rush. Gives me time to walk away leaving the Killer confused and wasting time looking for me. It also gives me a bonus to other actions like vaulting.

in Spine chill change. Comment by Kyxlect June 18, 2021

@fogdonkey said:
Idea:
Make the perks from the base game, the perks from purchased DLCs and the perks bought from the shrine immediately available to all characters. I.e. it is not needed to buy the perks from bloodweb, the perks are immediately available and on max tier.
Benefits for players:
- Removes a lot of grind for players who would like to play various characters and perks but don't have a lot of time to grind for getting all the perks from the bloodweb.
- Prestige will still require grind, so only dedicated players investing a lot of time will be able to get the exclusive prestige skins.
- Prestige will be more accessible for players who already managed to get a lot of perks for a character and don't want prestige, because they would lose perks.
- Players still need to buy items, offerings, add-ons from bloodweb, so the current balance is not really going to be affected.
Benefits for BHVR:
- People will be more likely to get into the game and buy DLCs. More money for BHVR! (Currently buying a new DLC is a bit discouraging, because players won't be able to fully use/enjoy it until they manage to get most of the perks, which takes a lot of time.)
- People will be more likely to buy skins, especially survivor skins. More money for BHVR! (Currently why would someone buy a skin for a survivor that they don't play, because has only a few perks unlocked?)
Other important reasons:
- Perks differ a lot from items, add-ons and offerings. Once a perk is bought in bloodweb, it can be used forever. However add-ons, offerings and possibly items get lost after the match. So balancing wise (in the long run) it doesn't make sense to sell the perks for bloodpoints (it slows down a bit buying other stuff from bloodweb only until all the perks are unlocked).
- I guess the grind was not so noticeable earlier when there were less characters and perks. But after 5 years there are a lot of characters and perks, and more will come. With the current system the amount of grind is increasing a lot as new characters and perks are added: the grind is increasing quadratically for new players and increasing linearly for old players. This makes it very hard for new players to get into the game and hard for old players to stay in it. (This means that it is roughly 4 times harder for new players currently compared to what it was when there were half as many characters).
Further work:
My suggestion fixes the grind issue but there are still various other improvements that could be done. Let's don't discuss them too much in this topic, because it is not the main message of my post.
Some ideas for further improvements:
- Adding more ways for hardcore gamers to show off their dedication (more special exclusive skins, badges that show up next to their name, toplists, etc.).
- Possibly making prestige harder since my suggestion makes it a bit more accessible.
- Balancing the prices in bloodweb, possibly making the nodes more expensive so that players can't use the best add-ons, items, offerings in the matches all the time. Possibly removing the bloodpoint effect from BBQ or WGLF as part of this balancing.

https://youtu.be/5hfYJsQAhl0

You've gotta be a troll, right? I don't think it's even worth a serious response from me or anyone. Never gonna happen lol.

in Eliminate the grind by making the perks immediately available Comment by Kyxlect June 17, 2021

Don't think I've ever had a Killer bad mouth Survivor's after getting a 4k and if I have it's such a rare occurrence that I don't even think it warrants discussion. It's always the Survivor's that start something. Like insulting the Killer because of how they played or a perk they used.

OP, if you're trying to suggest that Killer's are not allowed to defend themselves when Survivor's insult them because they're salty then that's the kind of one sided, close minded thinking and toxicity I'm talking about. Because I've seen plenty of that and even do it myself when I'm Killer.

in Killers who BM after getting a 4k. Comment by Kyxlect June 17, 2021

@Humanarian said:
And don't forget about the match-making system! It's actually possible for a GREEN-ranked Killer to be matched against FULL RED RANKS 4SWF!!! That makes the experience terrible for everybody.
The Survivors players have no fan because with their effeciency and skill gap because there's practically no Killer on the map.
The Killer player has no fan because they stand absolutely zero chance against such skillful and gen-effecient Survivors who have the "legal cheat" of being on comms.
THIS IS NOT OKAY!

I'm a Purple Rank Killer at the moment and I'd say roughly 95% of my lobbies include toxic SWF's with cancerous perks. No, it doesn't make the experience worse for everybody. The SWF's will thoroughly enjoy your suffering and make sure you know you suck from their point of view too even though they're totally cheating with the comms.

in The State of this Game is Appalling [An Open Letter] Comment by Kyxlect June 17, 2021

@Vulgun said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2280632#Comment_2280632
I personally wouldn't want to go against the programmers or the design artists too much, as the main people I harbor my disagreements with is those making the decisions for the game itself. The higher ups need to get it in their heads that the direction they're taking the game is not a good one.
No one is going to enjoy those fancy graphical updates, those new animations, those new legendary cosmetics, those new chapters and maps...
IF EVERYTHING IS BROKEN ALL THE DAMN TIME!
This, this is why I want someone, whether it be a programmer, graphics designer, or preferably one of the head developers of the game, to at least come out and communicate with us, the community, more often. They could even appoint a few people to be the bridge between them and us, it's not that hard to do that and it'd probably make things a whole lot smoother for everyone.
This would start solving so many issues outright instead of having the devs ignore them because it's possibly not worth their time. And no, McLean isn't enough to get us through; there should be at least one dedicated dev in every facet of the community; forums, Twitter, Twitch, etc.
Maybe there was a day where the developers of this game actually gave a damn about the community, and I envy anyone who had communications with the devs back in those days. If only the developers could just step up.
Or maybe they won't, and maybe there'll come a time where one game comes out and makes them change their attitude quick. Who knows?

Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking about while reading what you were saying. The possibility of another game to give Dead by Daylight some competition. The fact of the matter here though is there have been games that were meant to give Dead by Daylight some competition...but I believe they're all dead. Developers just abandoned them. Every single one. BHVR has listened every once in an Iridescent Moon. Like how they nerfed gen speed.

in The State of this Game is Appalling [An Open Letter] Comment by Kyxlect June 17, 2021

Well, Behavior has said in the past that the graphical and programming teams are separate to make it seem like graphical changes aren't the issue but I think one thing is that the programming team does have to stop what they're doing to implement these graphical changes. So in that sense I do agree, they need to stop bogging down the programmers with graphical updates and other unnecessary things and fix issues in the game. Even something as minor as the ready up bug that's existed for at least a year if not longer where if you're searching for a match and cancel the search it's still searching for a match and will put you in a match even though you're likely AFK.

Another bug that's existed for over a year has to the grabbing one, where you're grabbing a Survivor off a gen or if they're unhooking someone then the game just says "Nope, that didn't happen.". On another unrelated note, I want this filter feature I hear was discussed among them about being able to decide if you, as a Killer, want to play against SWF's.

in The State of this Game is Appalling [An Open Letter] Comment by Kyxlect June 17, 2021

@Hex_Ignored said:
I am not saying that I support the idea of separate queues, but the fact that basically no killer would willingly play against swf speaks for itself...

I'm not so sure about that. There are some highly skilled Killers out there that tend to use those red/purple add-ons. I'm sure some of them would be up for the challenge.