Asymmetric DLC

#1

The balance of the game going forward is all wrong really.

The success of online multiplayer rests on the pull of you taking a personalised avatar online

People love their pred bling, but you are essentially swapping out colour palettes for a character that spends most of its time camouflaged and hidden to the rest of the player base.

Preds are obviously essential, but as pointed out on Twitter, 80 percent of the lobby are Fireteam, and if there is no incentive to populate this end of the game, it fails.

The one twitter post inviting people to share their Fireteam bling was hilariously met with people showing off the ‘unavailable’ DLC Dutch and Isabelle skins, and people feeling salty about this.

BO6 has parasitised the hardcore FPS crowd away from this already, and their seasonal pass formula works with player character progression for a character you never really see for yourself, nevertheless feeling personal to your FPS experience.

I don’t know what the business benefit of ignoring the call for Fireteam variety and premium options, because that essentially ignores the FPS player base

#2

Devs dont care

Pred dlc easier cash and grab

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#3

That may be the case, but the physical release on PS5 and re-launch suggest re-investment and an attempt to kickstart the IP.

There’s already indication that Fox/Disney collaboration for the upcoming film is already a thing,. Badlands movie tie in is almost certainly planned (if not already developed). However, the game has to survive to Nov 2025 to capitalise on it.

Dead by Daylight has a goododel. Asymmetric PVP with HUGE licensing deals and a balance of Antagonist/Boss and ‘Hero’ characters.

#4

He’s right, they don’t care about making the game better, it’s just a small indie company making money off of skins

#5

Surely they will make more money pumping out skin designs and weapon reskins/new tech for the Fireteam characters?

The weird thing is that there is a Pred tutorial mission, but nothing for Fireteam, which you play as more often in quick matches (unless you wait out in the lobby)

There are mechanics such as spotting/tracking/parrying with knives that are NEVER explained to new Fireteam players. Mudding up to evade predators is never fully explained either.

For those that are hunting for currency, all the daily and weekly challenges are Fireteam based.

Net result: we have a tonne of YouTube and Twitch vids of Pred players massacring Fireteams that don’t even know how to function as a team.

How Illfonic can think that money can ONLY be made with Pred DLC is short-sighted, as you you can potentially create a market for weapons/skins/cosmetics for ANY Fireteam character, whereas a DLC predator is a fairly significant choice. If the design is crap, then that limits the earning potential of the DLC

I bought all of the ‘canon’ / movie predator content for a bit of fanboy cosplay, but some of the new designs border on ridiculous. WTF would a Predator cosplay as a Samurai?! A Spartan/Gladiator Predator would be cringeworthy, unless the stats or additional weapons are appealing in their own right

#6

Welcome to the forum bro, we been here since launch even preordering the game starry eyed with enthusiasm, but after no communications and no feedback to our questions, this company decided to just sell Predator Skins and not fix the unaccountable bugs ruining our experience

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#7

Painful fan experience.

I wish I took to this place sooner.

It would have maintained my enthusiasm

Still fuming over the screwed PS4 entitlements. That’s killed me really. Progress, DLC as well as trophies - vanished

What may have happened is that another profile was used for the DLC on the same console, and while that was all OK while that profile was on the console, when I moved on from the console, the DLC entitlements went with the console. Couldve been mine when I was setting up the console, could have been an ex (not beyond her to delete a game profile - if such a thing can be done). Who knows. It’s in Sony’s hands now.

Right now, finding some solace in finding such an active and hilarious community

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#8

Oh you have no idea lol