I went back to DBD like 2 days ago, had not played since Predator dropped. And was having a really good time. These games aren’t really competitors but still, being asymmetrical games, I’m curious what players of both games think here. Which game is more balanced, and which game has more replay-ability?
Huntings Grounds or DBD
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I came from Dbd to Predator there matchmaking system is horrible Rank 20 killers would go up againest rank 1 survivors of course you lose, most players are more toxic then Hunting Grounds, however they revamped there match making system recently, but those kind of matches happen still. Ive played for 2 years and honestly Predator is more balanced than dbd you can atleast get some kills here if you go up againest good players in dbd you get pallet looped and tea bagged at the exit gate. If you thought the bugs were bad in hunting grounds Dbd had/have way more bugs than hunting grounds and most of them were game breaking, overall the polish of hunting grounds is much better than dbd except console optimization is still bad. Replayability dbd takes the cake the maps objectives are procedurally generated but good survivors can open the exit gates and escape in 5 minutes, matches are short unless your somewhat decent but even then. Predator has more constant updates though in the beginning dbd went hard with content drops, now are lower unless you count paid cosmetics, Predator atleast makes most cosmerics free unless its dlc and even then its free after a couple months or so. I love Predators monetization paying for new predators/fireteam etc not new skins for pre existing character like dbd. So overall I like Predator Hunting Grounds better than CURRENT Dead By Daylight hope that sheds some light, sorry for the absurdly long post.
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Dbd has been stuck with the same gameplay loop since the beginning.
Hooks and generators, generators and hooks.
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I disagree a little bit. I feel like the core gameplay loop of predator is more fun for the team side, as like shooting and running around is more fun than repairing gens. But I feel dbd is wayyyy more polished at this point. I very rarely encounter bugs. I’ve also been playing for years and I mean it’s rare. You can get a bug once a game in hunting grounds
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Also the ranking does suck lol. I noticed on my way up in the ranks way back when, that as soon as you hit rank 10ish, you are playing rank 1 survivors all the time. Like you have to play and beat the sweat lords to get into red ranks. And as survivor I stay getting matched with killers in teen ranks while I’m in red. But I’ve noticed when I’m at rank 1 with killer I very VERY rarely get matched with anyone higher than 4.
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People sweat so hard dbd is ridiculous lol.
They are finally changing the matchmaking, so hopeful it will improve DL.
Rubber banding is still an issue, probably the most common one. Personally hate getting smacked when my machine says I’ve already taken 2 steps past the window or other vault.
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I should of pointed put I was a killer main so my point of view was little biased (sorry about that), I never had much fun in playing survivor even when I played survivor alot.
Yeah I think that’s why dbd is tough. Like the kids who just sweat there balls off aren’t walled off from new comers. And it’s discouraging for someone who wants to be the killer, to get emoted and trolled over and over lol
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Yeah I’ve already noticed it’s not quite as bad as I remember but that could be entirely coincidence
Yeah I’m a killer main as well I pretty much play survivor for BP and challenges. And what’s annoying is how many hours of practice and learning killers builds, unlocking perks in blood webs, learning what the best items are, and waiting to get the good shit out of the shrine, went into hitting red ranks as killer, and then breaking that ceiling into hitting rank 1. Like a lot of skill and time go into it. Fuck around with survivor for fun hit Red in no time lol it’s literally night and day difference on how hard you need to sweat
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Yeah survivor is cake walk compared to killer thats why I wish they games was more new comer friendly cause if you first start off and get match where you just get curb stomped your discouraged from playing the game again unless your stubborn or dont want too waste your money.
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They’re currently testing it, I don’t follow them closely but try and keep an ear out in case they ever do decide to expand the game.
It doesn’t have the potential of Friday or PHG, but it has had 4 plus years to polish and add content. Other lessons can be learned from them too.
- If you expect new maps faster than 3 or 4 months, in a game of this type. You’re dreaming.
- Having some form of update every 4 to 6 weeks, even if it’s just skins. Keeps 65 to 80% of your players checking in and then grinding a bit.
- People pay for things they recognize.
- Expanding your playerbase via tie in’s, can result in new players. (The reason Alien is a smart move for these devs, get it before Dbd does.)
- Communication is king for keeping things moving. The Dbd devs are very good at putting things out for fans to consume. They make use of there community via fog whispers, to keep it calm when things go poorly.
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And this could be solved by a better ranking system lol
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Yeah some sort of Alien content would boost the player base even if it was a little, bugs need to be fixed first and formost. While I’ll agree frequent content drops are good I don’t like that most of it you have to pay money for it minus a few cosmetics for prestiging.
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Well as it stands as weird as it is to say I think DBD is the overall better game just cause the bonkers bug we have rn. And like you said, 4 years to polish and what not. We can hope that Illfonic will continue to polish this game
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They’re going to man, no worries there. It’s going to take a bit.
On the plus side, they’re hiring new people and it takes time to get people into the coding. Bugs are a bitch of a thing.
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Why we cant go back to nes when bugs didnt exist lazy game devolpers lol jk,(even though they existed then too) really thoughs bugs are a plaugue for gaming as whole.
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Yeah, I much prefer the PHG devs giving us regular new colours and skins. Some people don’t like it but the regularity helps more than they realize.
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And even the dlcs are reasonably priced imo, they could suck way more money if they wanted too.