This game is the bane of my existence, always coming back to me.
I don't like online games; they always bring stress and the only happiness that comes from them is seeing your rank going up or unlocking a new shiny thing after 300 hours of grind.
But Dead by Daylight is different.
It's different because it always comes back, there's nowhere else to go. If you get tired of a shooting game, you can just play another one; if it's a fighting game, you can switch to another.
Dead by Daylight? There's no way out because, unfortunately, this game is unique. There is nothing like it or at it's "level" of success. There's nothing else to play if you get tired of it. That's why I always find myself missing it, downloading it, playing one miserable match, remembering why I uninstalled it, and then uninstalling it again, only for the cycle to repeat after some time.
And fuck me, I hate when people bash at the developers of other games, but with DBD... my god. I have never seen such incompetence in developing a game.
The progression, maps, THE game mode - it only has one mode - the balancing, or fucking lack of it. It's simply pathetic.
The maps are absolutely disgusting. This game made me realize that between having no variety and having variety but with trash gameplay, I just prefer palying on the same map over and over.
And don't even get me started on the countless failures in balancing the Killers in this game. The weakest ones remain the same or even get weaker, while the strongest ones get stronger or are left untouched. The biggest example is the "Trapper" and the "Nurse":
The Trapper has to walk slowly around the map setting traps, which can be useful or completely useless...
The Nurse can teleport through obstacles in seconds across the map...
BUT the Nurse is quite challenging for new players to use, while the Trapper is relatively good at killing NEW players.
DAMN, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?!?!?! NEW PLAYERS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE TRAPPER, AND NEWBIES ALSO STRUGGLE TO USE THE NURSE (Her power is quite difficult to master).
IT'S LIKE NEW PLAYERS ARE STILL LEARNING TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME!!!! What a surprise, right?
As a result, both the Trapper and the Nurse have hardly been changed since the game's release.
It's pathetic, and it keeps getting worse.
I started playing the game in 2022... and it's bizarre how much worse the game was back in 2016. For example, I recently discovered that Killers couldn't close the hatch... Meaning they couldn't do shit with it. It's bizarre; it's very hard not to find the developers incompetent. It's downright sad... But they're good at selling cosmetics, at least.
Why did people play it? Because there's nowhere else to go.
It takes WAY TOO LONG to unlock anything in the game; it's basically pay-to-win.
Most maps are horrible to play on.
And survivors aren't entirely safe. They can be focused by the Killer and end up just not playing the game at all, also seems really boring gameplay (I've never played as a survivor).
It's terrible...
Maybe the disgust I feel is partly my fault. I tried the game hoping to have some sort of "Power Fantasy" of being "The Killer and killing the survivors" because I really wanted an asymmetric multiplayer game like that. But the game is more like "You're an old man trying to chase delinquents out of your backyard." It's shit.
The annoying part is that sometimes there are matches that are fun even if I lose, but the majority of them are hollow victories because the survivor team doesn't even know how to play or commit a lot of mistakes, or defeats where I feel powerless and unable to do anything.
Unfortunately, this game is not just shit, it's a "unique" piece of shit; there's nowhere to run. THERE ARE NO OTHER ASYMMETRIC GAMES.
Of course, I don't recommend it. It's just too damn frustrating. The only "good" thing I can think of, which I've already mentioned, is that the game is unique. But the fact that it's unique only turns it into a prison.
I don't like online games; they always bring stress and the only happiness that comes from them is seeing your rank going up or unlocking a new shiny thing after 300 hours of grind.
But Dead by Daylight is different.
It's different because it always comes back, there's nowhere else to go. If you get tired of a shooting game, you can just play another one; if it's a fighting game, you can switch to another.
Dead by Daylight? There's no way out because, unfortunately, this game is unique. There is nothing like it or at it's "level" of success. There's nothing else to play if you get tired of it. That's why I always find myself missing it, downloading it, playing one miserable match, remembering why I uninstalled it, and then uninstalling it again, only for the cycle to repeat after some time.
And fuck me, I hate when people bash at the developers of other games, but with DBD... my god. I have never seen such incompetence in developing a game.
The progression, maps, THE game mode - it only has one mode - the balancing, or fucking lack of it. It's simply pathetic.
The maps are absolutely disgusting. This game made me realize that between having no variety and having variety but with trash gameplay, I just prefer palying on the same map over and over.
And don't even get me started on the countless failures in balancing the Killers in this game. The weakest ones remain the same or even get weaker, while the strongest ones get stronger or are left untouched. The biggest example is the "Trapper" and the "Nurse":
The Trapper has to walk slowly around the map setting traps, which can be useful or completely useless...
The Nurse can teleport through obstacles in seconds across the map...
BUT the Nurse is quite challenging for new players to use, while the Trapper is relatively good at killing NEW players.
DAMN, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?!?!?! NEW PLAYERS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE TRAPPER, AND NEWBIES ALSO STRUGGLE TO USE THE NURSE (Her power is quite difficult to master).
IT'S LIKE NEW PLAYERS ARE STILL LEARNING TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME!!!! What a surprise, right?
As a result, both the Trapper and the Nurse have hardly been changed since the game's release.
It's pathetic, and it keeps getting worse.
I started playing the game in 2022... and it's bizarre how much worse the game was back in 2016. For example, I recently discovered that Killers couldn't close the hatch... Meaning they couldn't do shit with it. It's bizarre; it's very hard not to find the developers incompetent. It's downright sad... But they're good at selling cosmetics, at least.
Why did people play it? Because there's nowhere else to go.
It takes WAY TOO LONG to unlock anything in the game; it's basically pay-to-win.
Most maps are horrible to play on.
And survivors aren't entirely safe. They can be focused by the Killer and end up just not playing the game at all, also seems really boring gameplay (I've never played as a survivor).
It's terrible...
Maybe the disgust I feel is partly my fault. I tried the game hoping to have some sort of "Power Fantasy" of being "The Killer and killing the survivors" because I really wanted an asymmetric multiplayer game like that. But the game is more like "You're an old man trying to chase delinquents out of your backyard." It's shit.
The annoying part is that sometimes there are matches that are fun even if I lose, but the majority of them are hollow victories because the survivor team doesn't even know how to play or commit a lot of mistakes, or defeats where I feel powerless and unable to do anything.
Unfortunately, this game is not just shit, it's a "unique" piece of shit; there's nowhere to run. THERE ARE NO OTHER ASYMMETRIC GAMES.
Of course, I don't recommend it. It's just too damn frustrating. The only "good" thing I can think of, which I've already mentioned, is that the game is unique. But the fact that it's unique only turns it into a prison.