Rough to hear this from one of the consultants. Operation health really was kind of a bust. They promised to work on tunneling and slugging, along with QoL and bugfixes instead of new content. Instead we’ve got no new content and they changed pallet density and loops. I feel like every creator has their own pet bug that never goes away. Otz is Knight’s getting stunned while laying a trail. Slate hates Ghost face’s camera disappearing during the mori. Puffalope hates the Deathslinger aim animation being broken for survivors. Creators shouldn’t have to choose a bug from your game to adopt as their hobby horse BHVR
DbD really is too big for its britches. 😆
it’s an indie game, basically. but BHVR happened to catch lightning in a bottle and and have been riding that ever since.
the team doesn’t really have the necessary skills to address this stuff properly. really they need to spend the money and hire ppl who do, even if it includes remaking the game from scratch.
mostly because DbD can never go away for a DbD 2, or they lose all the licenses.
I agree that they are somewhat over their heads, but at the same time Dead by Daylight is still in like the top 20 sellers on steam. I have no idea how their revenue breaks down from the skins and everything, I imagine its quite lucrative. They really do need to hire a team to dedicate to game health.
At a certain point with some of these killers the question just becomes “are you really willing to accept money for this level of work?”. Some really baffling issues have made it to live, and they have a track record of reintroducing bugs after they’ve been fixed. Who could forget the mythical female vault? I think they need to accept that they didn’t put the resources needed for operation health to succeed and spend the cash to hire additional teams and run an operation health concurrent with new content. I love dead by daylight and sometimes the jank is part of the fun, but they leave showstopper bugs all over the place. I just don’t understand why they can keep selling skins for houndmaster and twins when they are both so busted.
