room___237

@Zagrid said:
Why?
What was good enough to make you spend the money on it. And if you are willing how much have you spent on cosmetics in total?
I'm curious because it seems that BHVR keeps adding more and more cosmetics but I have only bought 1 and have gotten 1 battle pass in the past.

you know if you buy 1 rift pass and always complete them that you get all your auric cells back? do you only need to pay 10 bucks once to get all the cosmetics they come out with in the rift forever pretty much. That seems pretty damn fair to me. If you don't play it enough to finish the rifts, then maybe it isn't worth it to you if you don't care for cosmetics. I think it's fun to switch it up every once in a while and would never buy the cosmetics in the store. Those I could see as complete rip off. The rift pass system is extremely fair though, and I don't get complaining about it. I wish they also had rank rewards at the end of the month with more extreme rank resets so you had to earn them.

in To people who buy cosmetics or the premium rift. Comment by room___237 November 18, 2020

the way that phasmophobia game works would be similar to how this would work. There is no way of turning off your mic when in game, so you would literally have to turn your mic off completely which would nullify the problem with comms in the first place if you were using discord or whatever app you like, there would be no way of avoiding DBD also picking it up, similar to how phasmophobia works..

in SWF Comment by room___237 November 16, 2020

ok, here was my post last summer about a mechanic i was thinking would work....

What would you think if comms were proximity based? This could be something where when talking near the killer the killer could get a notification. It would be a way to actually balance comms and talking too much could be detrimental. There could be comm based perks, but that wouldn't be essential. Still though, think of all of the possibilities...further range, closer proximity for the killer to get notification, etc.. Use your imagination. Like i said though the perk idea wouldn't be essential. Most of the blow back I've heard about why this would be a bad idea is based around it being an easy way to bully the killer or other players. The simple solution to that would be an option to turn it off as survivor and play as is now if those problems occur when playing survivor. When playing as killer there could be just a simple notification when people are on comms and within a pre-determined proximity to you. This is something I think the devs would be able to work out to find the best balance. Then there would be no need to worry about bullying killer, as killer can already be bullied in the same ways using notifications and other interactions that are already in the game and the comms idea would add no new interactions outside of the notifications and how they are already in game.

Another knock against this idea is that "people would just play comms the same way they do now." which is a possibility I don't deny. If the game had no way of muting the mic when one was connected to the game system it would also solve this. So, if you are playing DBD and have your mic on, you would be subject to this, even if you were also using a third party comm software. People would essentially have to have a comm system not connected to the console or PC to get away with it and that would deter that type of thing. If using a 3rd party comm system, yes, they would have unlimited range, but the killer would still get a notification when near someone speaking into their mic. That wouldn't change, and there is a way to do that. It would be a little more powerful for survivors using current comms then the idea I'm posing, but that is already available and having a notification for killer WOULD add more balance anyway you look at it.

I just ask you to think about this, and please behaviour, do the same. The idea may need some tweaks, Im not suggesting it is perfect. There is a ton of potential for growth with this though... including: ideas for perks, ideas for killer types (adds a whole new dimension on how new killers could be designed and I have some great ideas here for licensed killers using this), more balance, more fun.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am sorry if it is long winded, but it is something I have been thinking about for a while and I wanted to hear what others thought about it. Please, I ask you, when playing as either killer or survivor, think of the possibilities of something like this and how it could add to the enjoyment of your game play while also thinking of possible applicable areas it could be used and post them to this thread. I would appreciate hearing all of your ideas. If you have problems that would occur with this, also post them. There are no bad discussions on this.

in SWF Comment by room___237 November 16, 2020

ive made a post in the past about a mechanic i think could help level out comms. Let me find it and post it here to see what you guys think.

in SWF Comment by room___237 November 16, 2020

Im fine with SWFstaying in the game. The developers need to address the fact that there is a large groups of players playing in SWF and balance the game accordingly though. For starters, I dont think the burst of speed survivors get after their first hit should be as big as it is. Ive noticed that a new play style is emerging where SWF teams are literally running in a straight line, holding W as far as possible away from gens and making the chase take as long as possible, not by looping or skill, but just by how long it takes for the killer to catch up. Then while this chase is being done their teammates will jump on the gen they were just on and finish it by the time the chase is ended and survivor hooked. Now, with the way that the game is now, if you arent gonna be a tunneling little bit**, then you are going to need at the least 9-10 hooks to end the game, probably 8 at the least. Do the math. If every SWF starts playing this way it is going to be very very hard to get 3k or 4 k as killer. If you have to run a perk (save the best for last) just to balance the game, then there is a problem. The devs need to balance the game as if there are SWF's. Right now they are just ignoring the elephant in the room that they are. Like I said, I dont mind SWF's, and I play killer probably 80% of the time. I also almost only play solo que too so I know the pain that is solo que. There just needs to be more recognition by behavior in how much they are really being used. I will check when i think it was a SWF and am almost always right when I think it is. Its not hard to pick out.

in SWF Comment by room___237 November 16, 2020

@Chewy102 said:
DbD is 4 years old now and it has had MASSIVE amounts of changes since it launched. Some good, some bad, some questionable. A game should change with the times but sooner or later those changes add up into turning the game into an abomination. So many little things adding up that the game just breaks for one reason or another. Technical issues, balance problems, core gameplay, sooner or later one or more things will just break to the point of impossible to fix.
Why not just put focus on making a sequel? Instead of forcing change after change into a game not built for it causing untold problems, just make a new game from the ground up.
DbD was built for p2p and had dedicated servers forced in. At first this broke a LOT, and to this day some things are still jank due to it.
DbD's core gameplay was balanced around solo play and had group play forced in. This not only broke balance and the ranking system, but adding SWF broke several other things as well when it first came out such as matchmaking. Then as the game is slowly being re-balanced around a mix of solo and SWF, it is causing problems as well with Killer rework after rework needing countless hours/days/weeks/months of dev time. Not balance passes, complete reworks. That's an insane amount of work and money put into something just to start over. It's a WASTE of work/money!
DbD's ranking system has also changed several times over the years and has became a running joke. Being said that "rank is worthless" or "why bother ranking up" over and over again. When the ranking system changing so damned often how can it NOT be a joke? When the devs can't define what skill is, how can anyone?
DbD is also getting rather big for what it is. Or what it can handle to be. 20 Killers and 22 Survivors is getting up there and is a very good thing to have seeing how that keeps the game diverse and from getting stale. But the pure grind for those counts are getting well beyond massive! 216 total Killer perks and 240 total Survivor perks all picked by RNG to what perks you get and each perk taking on average 2ish games worth to unlock before BP boosts or events. And you have to grind out ALL OF THESE FOR EACH AND EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER!
When it is enough? When should it be time to just start over? It might just be time to let DbD be what it is and move on to a sequel.

Are you serious? Im glad you got the extra money to just throw around. Alot of us have grinded our asses off. Over the past 3 years ive gone off and on with this game and I dont want to start over if it isnt necessary. They are adding things constantly, they are updating maps, graphics, perks, killersetc. What else do you need? All a sequel is going to do is make everyone rebuy a game they have already put alot of time into. All for what? A different name on the box? Games now days are turning into live services and the idea of making a new (version) every year is not in the consumers interest. EA and other studios might do it, nut they are greedy companies and we are lucky behaviour isnt as greedy as that.

in Why not just make a sequel? Comment by room___237 July 7, 2020

@Peanits said:
I think if all perks were available in the shrine all the time, it would definitely be a no brainer for most people to just get the perks. But that's the thing; they're not. You've gotta' wait and hope that all three of their perks appear in the shrine, and with how many perks are in the game there's no telling how long that might take. Getting the character is a sure thing. You get them, you spend a few points on them, you have all the perks for sure.

Well, lets just be honest here, most survivors and killers have like 1 and MAX 2 perks that are really viable. So maybe that argument would be valid if they all had 3 good perks, but actually most have 1 that people actually want.

in Shard value Comment by room___237 July 7, 2020

@Peanits said:
I'd actually be against that, as someone who doesn't want to tunnel people out of the cage. One of the neat things you can do is cage someone and send them across the map when you know survivors are close to you, that way they're forced to go across the map and waste a lot of time to save each other. If it sent them somewhere randomly, you take that bit of strategy away and make it entirely based on luck.

exactly. I see it too many times in game playing killer. You get bombarded by survivors who are either looking for farming bloodpoints or borrowed time/decisive strike and players are on comms and know that they can unhook right in front of you before you walk away and it doesnt punish survivors for being over altruistic. Yet another reason comms are a problem. Everyone knowing each others perks and combining each others against the killer to bully them. I love the option to cage them not because i tunnel or camp, but because survivors try and exploit me playing fair by using this combination of perks and communication. It is something i wish more killers had the opportunity to do Survivors need absolutely no more hand holding as things are. There are plenty of ways already that killers can be overwhelmed by teams. It gets sickening everytime that a new killer comes out all I hear is how they need to be nerfed, all this without any real time playing against them. How long has PH been out now? I guess everyones already an expert on him now too huh?

in Additional “Nerf” To Pyramid Head Comment by room___237 July 6, 2020

I would also like to point out to the ones saying toxicity would be a problem that i assume you are also in favor of fixing other toxicity problems? Like messaging after matches, all survivors quickly changing into the same skin at the last second when its too late for killer to do something about it, comms in general, the paper shooting out of flashlights with a noise to troll the killer. Survivors think all these things are fun, but they can all be used to be toxic and bully the killer, yet i do not see the survivor advocates for those things not being in the game. When somone brings up ideas for balancing against an overpowered survivor ability that has been in the game since the beginning and people say its toxic to take out somehow i dont get it? Especially with all the things that can be used in a toxic manner in the game already and people are fine with those.