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Not to make any accusations, but:
Would anyone be genuinely surprised if the 'company' that made that crap turns out to be run by the current license holders to milk as much money out of the license while they still have it?
And if that is the case, wouldn't that be money laundering and taxevasion? I don't think they are rich enough to not be on the, what is it, IRS? radar?
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At least well enough to let you play dbd
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I think valve recently announced they got EAC to work smoothly on steamdeck
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@BrokenSouI said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2561748#Comment_2561748
Fine, fine. I will seek help elsewhere. However I happen to own a house overlooking a beautiful ocean front in the Sahara dessert. Can I interest you in buying it after you receive your 17 million ? I will need 1 million up front before we continue this conversation though.
Now, about that toaster...
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Dunno what to make of that tweet. It feels like a non-answer or a 'well, if the current licenseholders do this crap before losing the license that's not on us'. but not anything that's really uplifting...
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In this case, as the nfts-crap backpaddled (they boasted dbd/bhvr was involved before) bhvr not saying something might be it's an NDA by their lawyers. meaning they are suing the everloving crap out of those bastards
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@KingFrost said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVUMf8kFy24
Paulie Esther confirms that NFT's offer no exclusive DBD content.
it's still nfts. If bhvr does anything of that kind, personally I'll be leaving.
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@Rey_512 said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2553820#Comment_2553820
He did the research for you refused to watch the video he linked.
he linked a video with stuff in it that can no be found elsewhere.
I went and checked for the instagram comments and they... just don't exist.
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@TAG said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2553890#Comment_2553890
I can make one for you after my friends leave, if you like.
heh.
So, I looked through the Instagram posts and... that post does not exist. By the formatting on it it is a response to a comment. However, no such conversation can be found on Stephsciullo's account. Meanwhile, the other account in that screenshot is conveniently privat. BUT:
In order to comment on someone's posts etc, you need to follow them. Which isn't the case here. Thus no communication can have taken place between stephsciullo and blindninja1
EDIT: checked doug's account as well, and guess what: NOTHING
EDIT 2: I'm not entirely certain on this one, as I don't know at what character-count instagram starts a new line, but I think in this case, given the charactercount in the names the 'So' of the supposed response should be right behind the 1, not on a new line.
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@Orion said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2553868#Comment_2553868
That's exactly my point. Hell, I can fake a tweet right now if I so chose. It's not difficult; even if I didn't know how to do it on my end, there are definitely online tools for that.
Give us one for either VHS or the F13 game confirming a collab with dbd
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small correction: her twitter is not verified. But this type of convo is very easily to fake. And scammers have commonly gone the extra mile to pretend their scam is actually a totally great thing.
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going with what Pixel Bush pointed out in his vid on the topic:
No word from her on that topic on her verified twitter, only one accounts that are supposedly her.
So, unless you can link the actual account that is indisputable her and the actual conversation... i'm calling bullshit.
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As for the voicelines as such, let's go down the list of possibilities:
- It's what the topic speculates (very, very, very unlikely)
- It's a copyright issue (not totally unlikely, but not very likely either, given how copyright and licensing works)
- It's a technical issue. e.g. They are trying to have the first voiceline part sound where the teleport starts, and the second to where one teleports. for dramatic effects. and it's just not working without screwing up other sounds. (most likely the actual issue. Makes me wonder how many keyboards have severe bitemarks)
- someone accidentally overwrote the files with no backup and they need to be rerecorded (not likely, but, hey, something like that almost happened to ToyStory iirc)
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@truegod_10 said:
It's kinda sad that a guy can sit and do all this research, with some help, and make/edit/upload a video before the devs/pr people at behavior can simply say this isnt true in a tweet or forum post. I have seen other people say they do not work weekends and stuff, but someone should at least be monitoring for major issues like this so they can at least be addressed briefly until a more complete answer can be given next week.
Bhvr's information policy is all over the place, that's no news. But yes, with stuff like this they should absolutely have someone telling the community if it's true or not. just if it's true or not, nothing more. If some news that gets the community upset/angry/concerned or, if positive, excited, just a simple 'this is not correct, we'll tell you more asap', respectively (for good news) a 'this is true, we'll tell you more on X at the official reveal' could do wonders.
I mean, imagine the following:
Someone, once the F13 legal quarrel has finally been resolved, claims that the F13 developers and rightsholders are working with bhvr to bring jason to DbD and Trapper to F13 as a legendary skin or something. Can you imagine the hype increase if bhvr would confirm this as true (after checking back with the others, of course)?
Now, checking back as above is a thing companies have to do with licenses etc. sure. But when it comes to n*ts, a company not doing it is already best adviced to debunk it as quickly as possible to break the scam and leave scammers stranded.
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@GentlemanFridge said:
...It's Bush, I think. Not Brush.
Regardless, good show. Good to see him addressing this so quickly as well.
fixed it. dyslexia struck again. thanks
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@[Deleted User] said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552692#Comment_2552692
NFTs are built using the same framework, the creation and "Movement" of NFTs through trade is still problematic (each transaction/creation requires about the same amount of power as to Power a US home for a day, in the case of Ethereum), though there should be less impact as these are things that are supposed to sit still without additional transactions.
However that is not to say that NFTs are not power-hungry, they are.
But they don't. and the people benefitting from the scam don't WANT them to sit still. because only the movement creates more actual money for them (it's a weird, destructive MLM (MultiLevelMarketing, not the gay thing) scheme)
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@[Deleted User] said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552063#Comment_2552063
Crypto currencies are what causes harm to the environment. NFTs are just one of the things you can buy with them
nfts are 'hosted' on the same mechanics as crypto. so... they both cause the same harm.
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I always wondered: is the broken key the key (hah!) to the third way to escape the trial
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@Apexgnifrums said:
Can someone explain what NFT is?
copying from potassium's thread with the same question:
They are cr*ptocurrency like... well, they claim to be art, but they are more... bookmarks to art you have no control over.
It's all a massive scam.
and it's a massive scam that wastes massive non-renewable energy, thus blasting as much co2 into the air as the country of norway in several years.
as others put it:
Imagine you like the Mona Lisa. Like, REAAAALLLLLY like the Mona Lisa. You can go to a dude that doesn’t need to be in no way associated with the Mona Lisa, da Vinci, or the Louvre, hand them a boatload of cash, and in return they tear down a measurable amount of the Amazon, mulch the trees, and make a piece of paper saying “X (you) owns the Mona Lisa”. Then they hang that piece of paper in a broom closet. And that’s an NFT.
also the above broomcloset is a very specific one the person who sold you the thing can brick up whenever the like, without anything you can do about it.
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They are cr*ptocurrency like... well, they claim to be art, but they are more... bookmarks to art you have no control over.
It's all a massive scam.
and it's a massive scam that wastes massive non-renewable energy, thus blasting as much co2 into the air as the country of norway in several years.
as others put it:
Imagine you like the Mona Lisa. Like, REAAAALLLLLY like the Mona Lisa. You can go to a dude that doesn’t need to be in no way associated with the Mona Lisa, da Vinci, or the Louvre, hand them a boatload of cash, and in return they tear down a measurable amount of the Amazon, mulch the trees, and make a piece of paper saying “X (you) owns the Mona Lisa”. Then they hang that piece of paper in a broom closet. And that’s an NFT.
also the above broomcloset is a very specific one the person who sold you the thing can brick up whenever the like, without anything you can do about it.
@Clowning said:
To put it very simply, it is a non-fungible token, say you see a sick image on the internet, but you don't know how to copy and paste pictures and you have to be a special boy at all cost, so you get yourself a verified certificate that you own this piece of art that doesn't even really exist and it's yours and it belongs to you and only to you. I could even screenshot this thread right now, get it verified and claim that picture as my own.
You buy them with Cryptocurrency. Crypto requires "mining", which is basically algorithm solving that you let your PC do. Naturally, this consumes electricity. Some people will tell you that three seconds of mining can destroy the entire Amazon rainforest, some will tell you that it's literally harmless, but the main point everyone can agree on is that it's wasteful, pointless and Behaviour's involvement in this would be bad news as it also may or may not impose other various restrictions on content.
anyone telling you there anything positive about crypto is either benefitting from the scam or is a gullible fanboy of the people benefitting from it.
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i mean, they only need to recycle half of ace's cosmetics...
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@LapisInfernalis said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552769#Comment_2552769
How should I know?
I have already given up. They made him a rich architect from Bavaria, give him Lederhosen which look nothing like the real ones in addition to the clichee german looks with blonde hair and pale eyes. Do I need to continue? If they add a skin with him wearing socks in sandals , it will just put one more stereotype onto the list.
Mantafahrer. Don't forget Mantafahrer.
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@LapisInfernalis said:
Your stereotypes of my country make me sad.....
Lapis... it's my country too... This is a warning from experience.... (though I'd not be averse if it were ALDIschlappen)
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If I may add an additional possibility:
Quest-Packs:
Allow players to buy questpacks with unique challenges and additonal lore (more fleshed out than tomes) that have a legendary cosmetic plus recolours as final reward.
Thus a legendary outfit would not just say 'look, i have a lot of money' but would give genuine bragging right because you went and did all those challenges.
Or have the legendary cosmetic as such, but have recolours in the packs, and see what sells better.
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short answer:
spaghetti code. They need to clean that up and smooth it out first to bring in any massive changes.
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The saddest thing about this system is that, looking at how some abilities and perks work, you COULD EASILY have a system that can tell a 4k through slugging from a 4k through 12 hooks without tunneling, camping or anything. The mechanics are there already. a system that can tell if you survived through hiding and camping the hatch/gate or if you survived through being good at chases or hiding (hiding while doing stuff like gens, unhooking, totems etc that is) a system that can tell if you died after running the killer for the last 2-3 gens and your teammates bolted for a good reason (camping/noed/bloodwarden etc)
The mechanics ARE there.
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@Jago said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552535#Comment_2552535
Felix. That guy is ewwww
Ah. I thought the no was in response to the post directly above, not the general topic XD
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@Jago said:
No
now, are yu saying this because felix or because of victorian swimsuit deathslinger/blight?
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@Mistikus said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552514#Comment_2552514
i dont think that would stop them tbh
you think having shirtless felix only in a cosmetics bundle with victorian swimsuit deathslinger and blight would?
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@Sonzaishinai said:
You underestimate the thirstyness of the dark side of this community
@Mistikus said:
i see you are that lucky or unlucky person who didmt seen how thirsty many people are here
I am fully aware how thirsty they are... I want to spare them from the horror they'd invoke.
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@JohnWeak said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552486#Comment_2552486
Yes but it has been a long, long time that the peak players number hasn't be so small.
yep. guess people are severely losing fate.
botched MMR, unfun matches due to camping, tunneling etc, broken maps (uncleansable totems for example). people are pissed
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@JohnWeak said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552473#Comment_2552473
The game is dying pretty quickly the last weeks, thanks to the SBMM coupled with the total unbalance of the game.
We went from 85k players to 50k in 2 weeks. Many killers have stopped to play as my queue times have increased a lot when i play survivor in soloQ.
while some fluctuation after a new chapters hype is common, there has been a drop to 15k players (on steam) at points. even at peak times Qs are a mess now...
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@Sonzaishinai said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552461#Comment_2552461
Me going down with humanity would be a small sacrifice for the greater good of things.
On a serious note, if i really wanted the pinhead voicelines i would just get a soundboard and press a button everytime i teleported to trigger it.
heh.
also, it's not as if most streamers don't already do them themselves when playing pinhead.
Edit: if it IS true and they had to agree to this ######### because that 'company' helped them get the license... I say remove the entire license and remake the ability and give it to Deathslinger.
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oh no, that's normal since mmr.
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@Sonzaishinai said:
So what i'm getting is that i can buy the pinheads voicelines and destroy humanity while i'm at it?
you are part of humanity. also as it is an nft whoever has the bookmark can just delete it and charge you again. every time you log in theoretically.
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@GoodBoyKaru said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552190#Comment_2552190
Okay externalities badly explained in about 4 seconds.
Aight so yes everything has an external cost to thing. These are known as negative externalities. As these costs are not included in the price they can cause the invisible hand of the free market to mess up, the signals sent by the market to be wrong, and thus cause over production and overconsumption of a good. The government however intervene in markets to help combat externalities in theory, by offsetting the cost through different methods, such as taxes on the more draining goods, or subsidies for competitors which have positive externalities (and so are underconsuned or underproduced). Obviously not the full list.
In theory the tax revenue gained can be reinvested into subsidising better manufacturing processes, conservation efforts, etc.
Also we have tariffs which are the tax on imports and these can be higher to help offset the transport cost.
Obviously I say in theory in reality when does this happen?
NFTs are wasting needless energy, more than a small country produces, when you don't even get the ######### piece of media and your ownership certificate can be wiped at any time.
We need food. Trade allows us to get this food at a much cheaper rate, with more diversity. We "need" phones in our current society. They are at this point essential for finding and holding down a job.
It wouldn't be as much of an issue if most of this energy wasn't coal power but the fact that so little of it is renewable (again the 72% figure I think it was- I woke up 5 minutes ago- is disputed by many). But it's literally doing absolutely ######### nothing for that much energy consumption. The opportunity cost of NFTs and crypto mining in general is far too high.
also cryptocrap is one of the reasons getting good hardware is hard right now and more expensive than it should be, because those ######### are taking the chips for their crpytofarms.
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@GoodBoyKaru said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552434#Comment_2552434
I doubt it, honestly.
i know i'm still gonna ask. And I'd say if enough people ask, they might
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@GoodBoyKaru said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552246#Comment_2552246
The reason people think it's legitimate or has the chance to be is bevause they name drop BHVR, and say they're using their assets and their game.
If this is fake, then welcome to legal hell and I hope we see one massive lawsuit becuase that is ✨theft✨ and violates copyright laws.
Also the Discord server has Doug Bradley's wife in also saying it's real.
If this is real, well.
you think steam provides a refund in this case even if a game has been played for more than 2 hours?
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Here's a link
Actor Doug Bradley returns to the role of Pinhead in one of the first generative NFT collections that grants in-game access.I hope it's fake, but let's be real:
This is a company that has been significantly ignorant of its users, from small things like not tackling age-old bugs to big stuff like mocking people for asking for accessibility only to then massively backpedal at the backlash and claim they've been working on it 'actually'.
I'd not be surprised. Angry and disappointed, but not really surprised.
@Firellius said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2552244#Comment_2552244
I looked it up: some other company is selling NFTs made from DBD assets, specifically Pinhead's model.
An NFT is a piece of visual media with a unique code attached. That unique code is treated as a proof of ownership over that particular art piece within the NFT community.
It also takes ungodly amounts of power to generate these codes, meaning that NFTs are likely to burn through massive amounts of fossil fuels to generate, making them extremely hazardous to the environment, and their value is entirely arbitrary.
That's how I understand it, anyway.
Basically you are paying thousands of dollars (much more than the game costs with all dlcs) for a BOOKMARK that the owner might delete as they please, leaving you with nothing. All while using as much energy for that bookmark as norway uses in a month or such
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No.
In the video it sounds as if mmr only exists because previously it 'was rather counting your playtime' which is what the grade do now. All while what was tooted as 'skill based' only counts how scummy you can play (as by, going by the explanation, slugging at 5 gens and hooking everyone then earns you more points than 11 hooks at letting the last person go. as does waiting for everyone to do, do nothing and then escape through the gate. that isn't 'skill' or anything that should be rewarded)
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I really hope they have more data on how some kills happen. Cause seeing pinhead on top of that list while knowing how many people simply DON'T OPEN THE GODDAMN BOX and then complain about the chains....
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So, yeah... if you play as scummy as possible and slug, tunnel and camp for the 4k the game will consider you more skilled than someone getting in 10-11 hooks without tunneling camping or slugging and lets the last person go.
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Seriously, if this is ALL there is to the 'skill based' matchmaking, then they could just not put it in at all. Cause sorry, but if someone who does little to nothing gets more/as many points as someone who tries to be a decent teammate, respectively when camping/tunneling/slugging brings you more 'skill points' than playing fair and square, getting 10-11 hooks in and letting the last person go.... then it's not a good system, it's a sociopathic psychological experiment
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@TMNoThumbs said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2548474#Comment_2548474
What is monitor buying you though? With a lullaby killer the survs already know you are there, its not like its allowing you to get any closer to them. Even on killers with a smaller TR like hag I think the utility is probably limited.
What I meant is this:
Monitor doesn't influence the lullaby, yes. But unlike Huntress' Tricksters blends strongly into his TR music. Thus he could theoretically move through his lullaby (so to speak) to get a sorta surprise attack.
Like, one could think he's much further away due to the lullaby not being clear if it is that or his TR, thus also giving the impression that he's further away when the TR starts up
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@FengisKawaii said:
Strange, I didnt get these questions at all, but different ones lol
Some questions depend on what you answered before. The RCPD question links to question 23 (at leats it was 23 for me) asking if you had experience with that map (aka if you played on it)
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Noed is a 'patchwork perk': It's there to solve a problem (not getting any kills in at all and getting frustrated/being genrushed) in the one way one should NOT solve the problem.
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@Zarathos said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2543704#Comment_2543704
A. The new ads is not something you can simply adjust to it's incredibly restrictive on turning movement. The shots you could have previously actually hit but can't now is going to mean extra loops and more expense of time the thing slinger doesn't have.
B. The zoning is heavily dependent on packing ads movement add on's so now he's an add on dependent killer akin to myer's and his stalk add on's. Other then that many survivors will be able to do the same thing they have previously been doing to beat slingers putting distance and los blocker between you and him.
C. The terror radius often meant you can get fast down's because your opening shots didn't always have to be with your harpoon. Now your losing more time shooting, reeling, reloading, shooting, reeling, reloading.
D. the stun reduction is the only nice thing I can say about the changes but it does little to nothing to stop the time being hemorrhaged by all this clunky trash mechanics.
The slinger game's I won were the one's I actively shot my gun and landed my shots. The slinger games I lost were the one's I spent trying this nonsense zoning crap. Not only that but you have no idea how tight your shots get against better survivors. They never give you an angle unless its a brief second on top of your slow ms this makes slinger frustratingly difficult to play. The quick scope meant you can thread that needle.
If your actively prepping your ranged weapon in advance, have a breakable chain, limited range, I ask the same damn question every time why not huntress? Sell me on slinger tell me how he differentiates himself in a way that makes him stand out.
The whole zoning thing i managed to pull of ONCE when i tried it for shits and giggles against a group that was very, very obviously a toxic swf (and surprise, they were). And I've seen what they did from a lot of people that cried bloody murder about the 'op zoning through fake shots'.
They try to evade by running in 90° angles. Said it before, but instead of just zigzagging and keeping on running forward, they stop pressing W and just press A/D (or the respective controller buttons)... like... what?
And I got them because after a while I stopped with trying the fakeshots thing and played like I normally play. They were very much headless chicken
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@Apexgnifrums said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2543590#Comment_2543590
Well duh, 4/5 of the gaming community is just more important than 1/5.
you.... seriously believe that THAT is how the communities demographic looks? You seriously look at Q times et all and go 'ah yes, verily, there must most certainly be 4 people uniquely and always playing survivor for every one person uniquely and solely playing killer. Why, am I not a mathematical genius?'
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With Nemesis I'd argue those saying he is MEANT to be a beginner's killer are spot-on. His perks and gimmicks are very much an introduction to the basic game mechanics on killer side, so I'd say one should look at everything about him some declare weak and strong from that perspective.
(bringing us back to the design vs desire bit)
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@vacaman said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2543613#Comment_2543613
This couldn't be more true. I don't understand the reasoning behind those choices. They are the devs, they can't be "biased" to one side but it surely seems that they usually fail to consider the fun factor on killer side when balancing.
this is what happens when Devs don't play their own games on a regular basis.
Twins, Trickster, basically 7/10 nerfs/buffs seem to be very conceptual, aka 'the devs THINK people will play like this, but they won't'.
Read up on Desire Paths (goes to the wiki article):
The devs are very much trying to discourage 'desire paths' in playstyles by blocking off everything but the path they intended for people to use. and if that doesn't work they'll close off that path and lay their own assumed desire path for people to use (which leads to the same issue). Likewise they will close off a desirepath that's trampling the flowers or a rabbit's nest, but in a way that only bars people that were already stepping around the flowers/nest, leaving those that intentionally trample these things free to go
deathslinger is a wonderful example:
They could have went and change M&A, one of the main issues a lot of people have with Caleb. That would have also solved a similar issue with it in killers like Myers.
They could have made it that his shot only goes definitely into the centre of the screen if you aim long enough. That if you shoot from the hit there's a bigger margin to miss (this is technically possible), this would have made shooting from the hip take much more skill and thus would have been more rewarding.
They could have made it that faking a shot too often in a row triggers an exhaustion animation during which you're slowed down signifcantly. (again, this is technically possible)
This would have paved the desire paths of a lot of good players properly, while discouraging those going out of their way to trample little rabbits. But no.