/v/ - Video Games

>>14667114

It's pretty fun.

>>14667116

Forgot to add: buy it cheap in a sale though. It's not worth a full price buy.

>>14667118

its £7 on PSN right now.

>>14667122

Oh, I haven't really been following it. I played a bit of it a while back then got distracted by other stuff. I'd say you'd get your money's worth for £7.

Was gifted this by a mate to play and it's kinda fun to play with friends but not worth a buy at full price.

>>14667118

>buy it

nice try, marketer

>>14667129

Most games are fun to play with friends to be fair. Wasn't there a Friday the 13th game that basically copied this one?

>>14667152

I hear didn't do so well.

Friday the 13th was better

>>14667172

Setting aside the sjw devs that banned people for bad comments on the steam forum AND banned players for "literally raping" their female friends in game by killing them wasn't that just a shat out cash in based on a fan project the owners of the ip shut down after they smelled money?

>>14667134

>pirate a multiplayer only game

Glad to see you're shitting on a game you know nothing about. About par for the course on /v/.

>>14667152

>Wasn't there a Friday the 13th game that basically copied this one

Yes but I've not played it.

>>14667172

Why though?

>>14667187

even if thats all true its still better then dead by daylight.

dead by daylight community doesnt like losing so they gimped the killer to the point of uselessness.

>>14667199

DBD is just a really dumb game.

It's alright for a little while but it gets old fast. I'd say rent it if you're really interested.

>>14667114

I played the open beta early on, decided to wait and see rather than buy in. I enjoyed my time as a killer for the most part, stuck entirely to Trapper, don't remember if Wraith was available then, but even at that very early time, some of the anklebiting killer-flouting metas started to form. Mass hook breaking. Palette looping, the practice of dropping palettes and running around certain objects & obstacles in their vicinity faster than the killer can get around them in spite of his superior speed, so he's forced to bust the thing and give you a chance to slip out. Players trivially healing back up if they ever slip away so that they're that much more difficult to down, even if there's a hard limit of 3 hookings and you're dead. And the use of exterior voice communications that were never intended, with group matchmaking that was also never intended; it'd have been fine if Survive with your Friends also necessitated a friend on Killer, but they didn't for some reason.

Now, when all that shit is ossified, codified and widespread anywhere but with low-rank randos that are as new as you? I imagine it's rather hard to learn your role, not without consulting guides and the like. But if you do know your role, even if the survivors are very competent- but not perfect, and I imagine it's hard to be actually perfect as >>14667309 warns of- then you will give them a hell of a time depending on killer choice. I hope you'll forgive my hooking an entirely normalfaggy youtuber, but it's what I came across when thinking to check on Dead by Daylight and where it's gone on seeing the 'asymmetric multiplayer' thread a little bit ago, and is genuinely informative. Also, normalfag earnestness doesn't detract from the schadenfreude of watching survivors get their shit pushed in.

This is the Doctor. He shits on, completely destroys, all stealth gameplay attempts. You will not hide from him. You will not palette loop him for long, and might get cockblocked entirely by a shock attack. He hounds and pursues everyone and forces them to constantly reveal their position through insanity-induced screaming and ruins all effort to ignore him and rush generators, because madness fucks up your ability to do skillchecks. And is just generally very unpleasant to deal with, while also laughing like a cunt the entire time. So it's not like killers have nothing to work with, even after reactive nerfing; at least not if you're not using one of those at the bottom of the tier pile.

>>14667114

>A killer tracking dumb teens seems like fun but this reeks of balancing issues

And you're right, the survivors are extremely OP.

I wanna fuck Jason

>>14667651

>So it's not like killers have nothing to work with, even after reactive nerfing; at least not if you're not using one of those at the bottom of the tier pile.

Against a group of people that are actually trying to do objectives you're basically fucked unless you're playing Nurse or the Hillbilly.

>>14667651

>d I imagine it's hard to be actually perfect as

Thats because you dont even need to be perfect to win.

If the game actually required Survivors to play perfectly to win & rank up, the kill rates are a lot lower.

The scoring system encourages playing sub-optimally to troll & farm the killer as much as possible.

You dont need to be good to win as Survivor. You just as easily win by abusing overpowered skill-less shit instead.

Abusing broken shit is just as (or even more) effective than actually learning to play stealthy & learning to juke.

>This is the Doctor. He shits on, completely destroys, all stealth gameplay attempts

Not really, no. Just intentionally take the first scream, then its free sailing from then on.

Just stay out of the terror radius and manage your madness meter. Stealth is still 100% possible against him.

The only Killer that is actually immune to stealth play is the MirrorShape build, but thats a pure memebuild anyways, useless against players who know what they are doing and how to exploit MirrorShape's low movement speed and hilariously short lunge range.

>and might get cockblocked entirely by a shock attack

Shock does nothing against looping, it only stops vaulting.

Plus thanks to the slow down he gets from charging his shock, plus the delay between firing and actually hitting, you can fairly easily bait & juke it.

>because madness fucks up your ability to do skillchecks

All it does is randomize their position from centre screen to another spot. Its very easy to deal with.

Doctor is mid-tier at absolute best. He is not viable against competent players playing to win in the slightest, even using optimal builds with him.

t. Retard who has put 1000+ hours into this shitpile.

>>14667727

>majority of the video is standing still at an objective waiting for it to finish

this game looks terrible

I like it. Played for almost 500 hours. Once you reach the higher ranks it's just full of Survive with Friend games which honestly makes being the killer stressful. Can't emphasize that enough. Pretty fun at lower ranks tho with noobs and ppl who likely aren't communicating via disagreement where you are, who you're chasing, finding each other to heal up, etc.

Paid $20 and got my money's worth. I usually dodge SWF lobbies bc usually when they join your lobby at once it means they're working together. Don't let anyone tell you different. It starts becoming stressful when your rank badge turns purple.

>>14667192

>pirate a multiplayer only game

its possible

My friends really want us to play this game, but after reading this thread I'm starting to have my doubts…

>this shit has a ranked mode

For what fucking purpose? Firstly, I don't get why, secondly, the game is apparently unbalanced as shit, and thirdly, how do you even rank a single guy going against a coordinated team of four?

>>14667939

Assuming they havent already bought it, heres a warning:

Even if you pick it up only for playing private matches with friends, guess what.

This game is a MASSIVE grindfest.

Its fucking absurd.

And you cant get any currency for playing private matches.

So if you want more than the bare minimum amount of content in the game, get ready to grind for hundreds of hours.

Seriously though, dont be a retard like me and give money to these shitty devs

>>14667727

Yes, hence it still holding true that actually perfect players will fuck you. But if they're dumb, overconfident, make mistakes, are too altruistic, then things can still snowball against them. It's just technically easier for them to figure out how to snowball against you. Which is shit and a fix for it is not in sight, but still. If nothing else, I can still get decent footage of survivors getting run roughshod in spite of the balance slant when I decide to check on the game, so there have to be enough idiots that good games can be had.

I can't help but note that between the two normalfags here, the religious killer player is energetic and personable while the religious survivor player is an effeminate and often vacant-eyed lardass.

>>14667823

Pardon my optimism, then.

Would it really be so hard to make the killers the slightest bit better to deal with this, or else remove or moderate some of the ridiculous things the survivors can pull so that they can't just ruin the day of even the most experienced? Yes, I know, cunt survivor playerbase blocks such thinking, but in theory, on the technical level of 'can this be fixed?'

>>14667839

The survivor gameplay, certainly. It never grabbed me. Rats in a maze hitting skillcheck feeder buttons, with things eventually made to be largely in their favor. Hunting those rats as a cat was much more interesting. I don't even recall if I bothered to play survivor in beta, and if I did it was once or twice.

>>14667955

Also forgot to mention:

Progression is 100% random, so you cant even just pick out the things you want, you have to pray to RNG that you dont get useless shit like Deja Vu.

Also also: Everything except perks are single-use consumables, so the grinding never ends.

>>14667985

>Would it really be so hard to make the killers the slightest bit better to deal with this, or else remove or moderate some of the ridiculous things the survivors can pull so that they can't just ruin the day of even the most experienced? Yes, I know, cunt survivor playerbase blocks such thinking, but in theory, on the technical level of 'can this be fixed?'

Can it? Yes.

Will it? No.

The devs have even agnowledged that Survivors are overpowered and Killers are underpowered, and have made clear they dont plan on changing it.

For example, the Wraith cube.

Prior to the release of the Nightmare, the Wraith was considered the worst Killer in the game.

Then they announced they were going to do a Wraith cube (cube being the devs name for a rework centred around a single subject.)

They asked for suggestions on how to fix the Wraith on the forums. Many experience Killer players gave good suggestions on how to make Wraith from a trash tier Killer to an actually viable Killer.

Despite asking for suggestions, all the suggestions were ignored.

When the Wraith cube came out, he got a few little buffs, but also a big nerf.

Overall he was EVEN WORSE than he was before the rework.

The devs response to the backlash?

"Wraith is where we want him to be right now"

They just dont give a fuck.

Also doesnt help that the devs are utter shit at their own game, as seen by the few times we have actually seen footage of them playing.

>>14667912

>it is possible

Yeah so you can play with your 20 pirate friends on a shitty server. Even the HOI3 multi is terrible stop kidding yourself

>>14667912

Rarely unless it's using a common type of server like the Steam cracks or it's old enough to have crackable dedicated servers.

I think it's fun. The "community" are a bunch of cunts, though. Nursie is based.

What's with the alien stuff anyway? isn't it just supposed to be a slasher film simulator?

>>14677721

Its less alien, more eldritch shit.

Basically what little story there is is summarised as follows:

The Entity steals people from the real world and sticks them into its realm.

The Entity torments them by sending Killers after them in trials.

Entity feeds off suffering.

Even if people die from the Killer the Entity revives them so they can just feed off them forever.

Entity also feeds off hope, so it does give them a chance to escape the trials.

But even if they do, its just a temporary escape. They just end up in a campfire in the Entity's realm and wait until the next time the Entity sticks them into another trial.

The Survivors are eternally tormented forever to feed the Entity.

The Killers themselves were also once human, but they were broken down and transformed by the Entity into its slaves.