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Hello people of the fog!

It's Dev Stream Day again! Please remember to be civil and give constructive criticism :) Also, please note that I'm not able to watch the stream until later today, so I'm not able to provide a quick summary for those at work etc. If anyone can spare some time for it, I'd be happy to link the summary in the OP!

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Don't just stand half a meter from the hook 'HIDING' behind a half meter fucking rock and then start chasing the killer around the hook so I start struggling.If you do this you're an absolute dickhead

It was just answered on the developer stream that Red Envelopes will just do absolutely nothing when the event ends. (Any Red Envelopes in an already generated bloodweb will stay there as well until the bloodweb moves to the next level.)

Where's the harm in turning them into 50% or 75% personal bloodpoint increases to all categories? Not as powerful as an Escape Cake/Survivor Pudding or Bloody Party Streamers, but better than a Sealed Envelope/Hollow Shell. It seems like a huge waste of an opportunity that just contributes to major inventory clutter of common offerings.

Everytime you hit a survivor, gain a token up to a maximum of 5.For the cost of 4/3/2 tokens, you can walk through a pallet to break it.

Edit: Changes made in response to feedback.

Just tried this out and i had my survivors messaging me about how much more stressful it made the game for them.

Distressing Unnerving Presence Overcharge 4th perk of choice

Add Ons: 1: Interlocking Razor 2: Extra Boxes/Increases box time/Box Skill check chances

Unnerving affects box skill checks, combine with distressing and you can go from no terror radius to ALL THE TERROR

can you get banned for removing the fps cap? i've seen videos on youtube but it requires changing game files.

Would love to know that! What do you guys think?

I'm a rank 1 nurse with 2000hrs so don't call me a noob killer and to 'git gud', majority of games when I 4 man the team or 3 man them there is always an excuse 'nurses shouldn't use ruin go watch these streamers L2p' being called a 'camper' because you slug someone in a 2v1 and they know where hatch is... sure call it camping and say how awful I am yet when I check your steam profile you've never even hit rank 10 killer so you don't understand at all how to play as one... I've came across people with well over 1000 hours and they still have never experienced high rank killer. I used to be a surv main, toxic type bs in the chat, but now I just say gg and leave, and whenever a random teammate complains I just defend the killer, because I for one actually know the struggle sometimes and you have to do what you gotta do to win. So please stop telling killers how to play yet you've never fully played one yourself GG.

So I was gifted this game two weeks ago, and I have to say that this has some absolutely amazing moments. It's fun, I've never really given games like this much though (only asymetrical game I ever loved were the Spies vs. Mercs modes in Splinter Cell), and I'm hooked, no pun intended.

My gripe, however, is the grind. I normally don't mind progression systems in games, because we all need something to work for, and I understand people who dedicate a lot of time want something to show for it. That's fair.

What's very aggravating, however, is the fact I am locked behind a fuckload of grinding, then more grinding to get RNG perks in a bloodweb, across a shitload of killers and survivors.

When this game first released, it had what.... 3 killers and 4 survivors? That seems pretty reasonable. Now we've almost quadrupled the cast, and that leaves some of us severely behind, and usually in very unfun games where people with 1k+ hours in the game have absolutely insane stockpiles of tier 3 perks, and Very Rare and Ultra Rare add-ons.

At least every other game I play now, having gotten into the rank 10 area, see me going up against Iridescent Hatchet Huntresses, two survivors with BNP, and all kinds of other things that make either surviving insanely lopsided, or gen rushing uncounterable.

I really don't know what the solution to this could be, since giving insane BP boosts would only make this even more problematic with max prestige survivors having even more crazy items and add-ons, but I'm having a hard time convincing friends to either play this, or having the new friends who have played to stay.

I had a daydream where Mathieu Côté is playing Survivor and he is getting...DESTROYED!! Gets Tunneled, bullied, farmed, then face camped. then at the after game chat, the killer called him very bad names. not gonna say them cuz idk how much I can say on Subreddit, but lets just say, "weak noob survivor."

Then just have Mathieu get really angry and tell the killer, "You know what....thanks to you, killer, BBQ and Chili is now a Hex Perk."

Can you imagine how that Killer would react when he realized he destroyed one of the killers best perks cuz he wanted to bully a Dev from DBD xDDD

Just remove the button. So they might think twice before closing out the whole game, just to get out of a match. Ez pz.

Honestly, having unique hooks in a match was an interesting mid-game judgement call for killers. I would love to see a new killer perk using this kind of mechanic.

Way too often I see people just crouching around somewhere, hiding in lockers and stupidly diving the hook, when the killer is borderline camping me. Running around the hook in a 10 meter radius isn't really patrolling but I couldn't care less, since by the time I'm on the hook I got enough points to keep my rank or even gain a pip.

But it just tilts the shit out of me when I see people just do...nothing. Like use the time while the killer camps to complete gens. If you split up and do 3 gens each that's so much worth for one survivor sacrificed.

WELCOME TO RAGE WEDNESDAY, LOCK THAT CAPS AND RAGE ABOUT WHATEVER HAS PISSED YOU OFF THIS WEEK.

THINGS NOT TO RAGE ABOUT:

• LOWERCASE LETTERS. LOWERCASE LETTERS WILL BE MEET WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE
• SLURS AND THE LIKE. SWEAR ALL YOU FUCKING WANT, BUT DON'T BE A DICK
• REDDIT DRAMA
• CALLING OUT OTHER PLAYERS

Hello people of the fog!

We hope you're having a good time grinding these spicy coins! Today, I have a few announcements for you, though attentive followers of our subreddit and the weekly Developer Stream on Thursday might already know about them, so take it as a "Just in case you missed it" kind of announcement.

Weekly Developer Q&A on reddit

It's been already announced last week during the Developer Stream, but we'd like to remind you that it's actually happening:

From today onwards, you can ask the developers of your favourite asymmetrical horror game questions, give constructive feedback or share your suggestions in our new "Weekly Developer Q&A" Megathreads on Monday, starting at 3 pm (UTC)! It's not a live AMA though, so you'll have to wait for the answers until Tuesday. We've prepared more information in the actual Megathread today, so please take your time and read it thoroughly :)

That said, our weekly "No Stupid Questions" Megathread will now take place on Tuesdays instead.

New Moderator

A little late, but we'd like to officially welcome /u/Ps4_and_Ipad_Lover as a new moderator of this subreddit! Feel free to say hello and contact them if you have any questions and concerns about the subreddit :)

CSS Changes

Shoutout to the lovely /u/maglavios who dedicated their freetime to pimp our subreddit theme! :) You will now find the most important links (post filters, weekly threads, links to official websites etc) in the menu bar beneath the header. Furthermore, our "Calendar" and "Shrine of Secrets" sections have also been improved visually.

Thank you for the awesome work, it looks amazing! <3

Save The Best For Last

We promised to keep you posted on the ongoing discussion about memes in our subreddit, so I'd like to give a short update on the matter!

As things stand now, we will remove Thoughtful Thursday soon™. We are currently working on a "Memeless Mode" (similar to Night Mode) to move away from our current filter system and to offer users who do not enjoy memes a better experience while browsing our subreddit. We will also amend our subreddit rules to increase quality control on memes in order to encourage more creative content and balance out different types of content.

This is still a work in progress - if you have any suggestions or ideas, please don't hesitate to share them with us!

Yes. We need more cosmetics.

We all know DBD is a grindfest. However, a lot of us don't mind it since there's those Prestige cosmetics waiting for us in the end. Or that event reward. Those make people play the game way more than they would for simply it's mechanics, as much as I like them and want them to shine.

I've done it myself, I've played DBD like I've never played just to get the event's rewards and I know a lot of us here did this too.

So, the thing is:

Cosmetics make people play the game. Way more than they would otherwise. We like customization, we like rewards for the grindfest. We like variety and to stand out.

So, please. For us and for yourselves, turn DBD into a dress-up grindfest. Completed 100 gens with Min? Pants with tools cosmetic. Killed 50 with the Pig's trap? Bronze weapon cosmetic. Rescued 50 different survivors with Bill? Jacket full of medals cosmetic. Things like those would suffice to make people play as if their lives depended on it.

Because we know people want this. There has been threads about this. Lots of people are playing for the event's Jacket and they don't even play David King. Some don't even play Killer and are busting their asses off just for the Huntress' mask!

Hell, they pay for those as DLCs, even if most of us don't want to. We want to be rewarded for playing the game and taking part in the grindfest, not just in a timed event, but in the game as a whole and in more ways than just bloody clothes. You want money? Make a fugton of cosmetics and open the marketplace for us to sell/buy them.

Shower us in cosmetics and we will shower DBD in even more hours of gameplay. I wouldn't even mind if this got a chapter or two delayed.

And please, other players, speak up your mind in the comments. I know I'm not the only one thinking this for the whole duration of the event. We need to raise our voices for the devs to listen to us. :)

Not trying to call BS on the Devs or anything, so I'm really sorry if this sounds hostile.

To be honest, I always saw the Prestige outfits as ugly, not worth resetting you levels over, and always thought they were actually quite lazy.

I mean, it's just a bloody texture thrown on to the clothing. I am probably really incorrect in this assumption, but I can't help but feel this way.

A lot of the outfits in Dead by daylight have been pallet-swaps of a few of the same outfits, the same goes for Prestige. To anyone in game design, specifically in art I suppose, how difficult would it be to throw the bloody texture on other outfits?

I mean this really has confused me, every time Mathieu is asked about it, he really emphasizes that it would be ''sooooo much work!''. I'm a bit frustrated that it takes herculean effort to throw an ugly texture onto clothing. Can anyone shed some light on how much work this actually is?

https://youtu.be/WYOAuSkPthI

Hope you guys enjoy, took me a few days

I don't mean flashlights, t-bagging and all the rest of this salty meta stuff.

I'm talking about a possible in-game mechanic.

I mean - both killers and survivors are slaves of the Entity. Killers are even more so - because they are linked directly to it. And if Entity can be "displeased" then it can show it somehow.

For example, if someone has escaped - the Killer can see some terryfying visage (like Doc's face in Madness 2). Or hear some threat.

Or it can be a whole scene after a match. 4-man match - Killer is being rewarded by his God. 0-man match - punished. Nothing kinky, of course (it'll explain the thoroughly abused Wraith's appearance though).

Survivors are going through all kinds of terrible shit during a match. Killer can only be slightly stunned or temporarily blinded. Lore-wise - the stakes are very uneven.

Once again - I know that it's hard for Killers already. Just thinking that some more Entity presence can do good for the game

Matchmaking is so broken, especially during certain times of the day (for me, it's from around 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. est that it's wonky). I was a rank 13 killer (average 12-13 depending on the month and how much I play), but after being paired consistently with ranks 1-5's that run circles around me all day, I'm now rank 16. It's bullshit. Isn't the whole point of a ranking system to keep people of similar skill in one group? I'm very patient with literally every bug this game has except for their screwy matchmaking. If you're going to have a rank system, then use the god damn rank system accordingly when pairing people together. Otherwise, might as well just do away with rank all together and have random lobbies like F13 does because that's essentially what this game feels like half of the time anyway.

Killer Power: God's Hand

Hold the left mouse button to charge up your power and release to launch a projectile which whenever it hits a wall will corrupt it with the entity's power allowing you to see and move through a hole created at the location the projectile impacted. The survivor cannot see or move through the hole and will only see entity burn on the affected area. The hole will remain for 10 seconds and will disappear if another one is created.

Addons:

Ultra rare: any survivors within 10 meters of the hole are revealed (Less effective very rare version aswell)

Ultra Rare: Survivors can not see any signs of the hole (No entity burns on the wall)

Very Rare: 2 holes can be created at the same time.

In addition there are other addons which would increase the time that the holes remain and any other effects you could think of(let me know and i might add them)

Perks:

Entity's favor: While the Entity does not give overt advantages to its servants, it does tend to bend the rules to accommodate. Survivors who are on a hook will progress through stage 1 25/50/75% faster, but 25/50/75% slower through stage 2.

This perk is good for hooking a survivor and getting them into stage 2 as quickly as possible so when you hook them next it would be instantly sacrificed.

Ecstasy: Your intense desire to pursue your targets brings you to a state of intense focus. When in a chase, your fov is considerably/moderately/slightly reduced and darkened, however the survivor whom you are chasing is highlighted and their aura is revealed for 2/5/7 seconds after losing sight of them.

The Idea about this was a perk solely for providing an advantage to tunneling rather than wanting one person dead.

Blood-soaked Bounty: Every drop of blood you draw from the survivors excites the entity whose power is channeled to you. Whenever you strike a survivor, the successful attack animation is 50/30/25% longer, however you are not slowed down by it. In addition, at tier 3 of the perk, survivors auras are revealed to you for 5 seconds after striking a survivor. (applies to hatched, chainsaws etc.)

Decisive Strike: Laurie never left her home in Haddonfield without her gun. As the obsession, once per match when you're picked up by the killer, you're faced with a difficult/challenging/tremendously difficult skill check. Upon succeeding, the killer is stunned for 3 seconds/injured/fucking dies.

"Blap, blap, bitch." - Laurie Strode