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I got DBD a little over a week ago and have been putting a shitload of time (and money!) into it since. I haven’t been this into a video game in years. i thought my days of shirking responsibilities to game were behind me and this brought them back in a major way. Michael Myers gets superpowers from creepily staring at people and breathing heavily, Pinhead drives people insane with chains and the Cube, poo poo like that. you can be Pyramid Head, cover the map in broken glass and force humans to walk through it to rescue their friends from the cage you put them in to think about their sins. you can be Freddy Krueger and show up in unexpected places, send humans to dreamland and chase them while their furniture grabs them and holds em in place. you can kill Nicolas Cage! And you will, a lot of times, if you’re lucky only once a game. it unfortunately is one of those games where there are 0 places online to read or discuss it. every community discussion is complaining about the devs. you’d think they were ICE camp guards the way people talk about them everywhere. the community threads are useless and every guide is written by an AI so if you want to be decent be prepared to gently caress up your YouTube algorithm or hit up our thread. i hit the highest rank yesterday and got it a little more than a week ago, you can definitely get up to speed quick. if I mostly gamed with friends I would probably not like it as much since you have to play as the Survivor, but they all play cod and Diablo 4 and Fortnite so I have been a solo gamer of late.
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Aug 3, 2023 00:36
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:I got DBD a little over a week ago and have been putting a shitload of time (and money!) into it since. I haven’t been this into a video game in years. i thought my days of shirking responsibilities to game were behind me and this brought them back in a major way. We have a thread for DBD and we'd be happy to give you tips and answer questions. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3935519&pagenumber=457&perpage=40
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Aug 3, 2023 00:43
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The core of DbD as well as what it's grown into is undoubtedly fun! There really isn't any other place so many major horror franchises can cross over and meet. In a perfect world, it's s just a fun game to play and chill in! The main issue at this point is around the random rear end community rules, tribalism between killers and survivors that foster it, and just plain ol' burn out from folks that don't know how to put the game down for a while when they've played it too much.
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Aug 3, 2023 00:49
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you can never truly kill nicholas cage
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Aug 3, 2023 02:09
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DBD's biggest problem is the community, but Behavior keeps everyone hooked in so your soul rots away and they keep making money.
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Aug 3, 2023 02:11
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:you can never truly kill nicholas cage Not even with bees?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo classic's of youtube
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Aug 3, 2023 02:15
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:it unfortunately is one of those games where there are 0 places online to read or discuss it. every community discussion is complaining about the devs. you’d think they were ICE camp guards the way people talk about them everywhere. One thing the dbd thread is going to tell you is otzdarva.com otz is one of the most popular streamers and literally knows and understands the game better than the devs do (posting videos 8 hours after a patch correcting wrong dev info etc). His site has every resource you could want for looking up specific killers and builds, or broad mechanic overviews. If this game got its entity hooks into you, good luck, see ya in a few thousand hours and you too will learn to hate the devs. I'm at 2500 hrs and feel I'm nowhere near any skillcaps, game just has a million interactions to consider and use at any given point.
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Aug 3, 2023 05:14
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Medullah posted:https://twitter.com/DeadbyDaylight/status/1686392068242055169?s=20 this implies the possibility of stunning a xenomorph by smashing it with a rotten old palette of wood and I find that surprisingly humorous Not that it wasn't already when people are doing it to, like, cenobites or eight-foot-tall muscle mutants
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Aug 3, 2023 10:43
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Thought DBD has a really bad cheating problem? Used to watch videos on it, usually ended with hackers just insta killing or sprinting away.
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Aug 3, 2023 10:57
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One problem is that a lot of people only very subtly cheated, like a couple more % movespeed and poo poo, which BHVR liked to handwave as just vaguely deniable enough that some kind of interaction happened and that was IF someone jumped through the hoops to like serious report them in the first place.
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Aug 3, 2023 10:59
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Instant Grat posted:Almost through RE Revelations, which is very, like.... fine. It passes the time and it's fun enough, I suppose. Think I'm gonna take a break from Biohazard before picking up again with RE6. Maybe I'll jump back to Fatal Frame and dust off that FF3 disc that's been sitting on my shelf for years, see what they got monks sacrificing young girls for this go around. I lied, I went straight onto RE6. It's actually really fun so far? Dumb as hell, obviously, but it's miles and miles above the peasoup-filter turd that was RE5. No more having to babysit the AI partner! Fun melee attacks in between your gun combos! You can shift healing items out of your main inventory so they don't take up space there! Dual-wielding pistols for very little practical benefit!
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Aug 3, 2023 11:07
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Instant Grat posted:I lied, I went straight onto RE6. Just make sure to look up some of the finer details of the combat system, since the game tells you pretty much nothing. High score merc runs are a work of art.
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Aug 3, 2023 11:08
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Shady Amish Terror posted:this implies the possibility of stunning a xenomorph by smashing it with a rotten old palette of wood and I find that surprisingly humorous Don't forget you'll be blinding it with a flashlight too. I always laugh when I get blinded as Pyramid Head, through his giant helmet with no eye holes
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Aug 3, 2023 12:07
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dogstile posted:I liked 5 I couldn't get over the desaturated green filter that's overlayed on top of the camera for the whole game. Or the whole "babysitting Sheva and dealing with the awful inventory" thing.
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Aug 3, 2023 13:45
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5 requires a co-op partner to be vaguely playable
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Aug 3, 2023 13:48
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I'm a solo man through and through, unless it's a Soulslike type situation
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Sakurazuka posted:5 requires a co-op partner to be vaguely playable Luckily i had this. That didn't save 6 for me, i hated 6.
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Aug 3, 2023 14:09
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My roommate and I played RE5 from like 8 PM all the way through to the early morning in one sleep-deprived experience, it was great, absolutely would kill me if I tried it today, have never touched the game since.
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Aug 3, 2023 14:10
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There's a mod/ trainer that makes RE5 ok solo by giving your partner infinite ammo/health, otherwise it's pretty bad without a friend. RE 6 does much better in making coop optional.
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Aug 3, 2023 14:14
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Instant Grat posted:I lied, I went straight onto RE6. I'm in the camp that enjoys 6 to some extent, it's definitely better than 5 and there's a lot of fun to be had in there, even if the whole thing is still kind of an uneven mess. The melee system is pretty great, although it's weird how little of it is actually communicated to you by the game.
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Aug 3, 2023 16:02
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I'm the resident 6 defender, unironically enjoy that game so much.
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Aug 3, 2023 16:22
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Captain Hygiene posted:The melee system is pretty great, although it's weird how little of it is actually communicated to you by the game. I just naturally gravited towards it based on not wanting to waste ammo if I could avoid it
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The combat and gameplay for 6 is pretty fine and even good in a lot of ways. It unfortunately does not help the trash fire stories, terrible gimmick levels or horrible pacing. 6 is just bad overall.
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Aug 3, 2023 18:46
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I'd like to try out dbd but like most multi-player games I am afraid of being viciously torn apart and spitroasted for being bad
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Aug 3, 2023 18:49
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Meowywitch posted:I'd like to try out dbd but like most multi-player games I am afraid of being viciously torn apart and spitroasted for being bad Turn off chat and just have fun. You'll lose a lot when you first start out, but after a few hundred hours you'll....well, you'll still lose a lot but hey, you're playing against horror movie villains.
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Aug 3, 2023 18:52
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Meowywitch posted:I'd like to try out dbd but like most multi-player games I am afraid of being viciously torn apart and spitroasted for being bad There's no voice chat and the only text chatting there is post game that you can just exit out of and never deal with. If you die early in the game to you can just leave and queue for another match. You'll never have to deal with the community if you don't want to.
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Aug 3, 2023 21:15
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Just wrapped up Leon's campaign in RE6. I am absolutely puzzled that this is supposed to be "the really bad one". This rules?? Also it seems to be beefy as all hell in terms of content and playtime - only done with 1 out of 4 campaigns, and I'm almost 10 hours in.
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Leon's campaign was great. I only got halfway thru Chris and Peirs' but there's was def way more boring
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Aug 3, 2023 21:32
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RE6 was just not what anyone wanted out of a resident evil game, be it original or RE4 style - the hyper linear stage based structure especially feels really off, and the incredibly lame "do this really simple puzzle while infinitely respawning zombies attack" trick shows up constantly instead of any, like, actual design.
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Aug 3, 2023 21:50
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The whole game's length is a big thing, too, it wears you down. I've said before that there's more cumulative fun in there than some of the shorter, newer games, it's just spread throughout the whole 25 hours or whatever instead of being a tight 6 or 7 total.
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Yardbomb posted:One problem is that a lot of people only very subtly cheated, like a couple more % movespeed and poo poo, which BHVR liked to handwave as just vaguely deniable enough that some kind of interaction happened and that was IF someone jumped through the hoops to like serious report them in the first place. Never played it, and haven't watched anyone stream it for a while, but yeah, this was a common complaint of streamers, at least. You have to have an incredible depth of knowledge to detect most of the outright cheating in the game; it's only very rarely stuff like invincible survivors. It at least seemed like the gameplay experience was fine most of the time, but every so often a killer player would run into someone who would just happen to miraculously rubberband away from every hit due to lag, or fire off their abilities just a little too often, or who could indefinitely outpace the killer's movement speed without it being one of the one or two slowpoke killers. I stopped watching people play the game because, as with any competitive multiplayer online experience, taking it too seriously tends to lead to really unfun toxicity on the part of all involved. A little bit of hacking/occasional rudeness isn't a surprise, as with all online multiplayer you've just gotta be ready to let that wash off you every now and then. If one can accept that, it is a game that allows Nemesis to punch Nicolas Cage in the face or a kid from Stranger Things to flashbomb a plague mummy, so it'll always have that going for it.
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Blockhouse posted:RE6 was just not what anyone wanted out of a resident evil game, be it original or RE4 style - the hyper linear stage based structure especially feels really off, and the incredibly lame "do this really simple puzzle while infinitely respawning zombies attack" trick shows up constantly instead of any, like, actual design. Yeah the thing about RE6 is that it's developed a bit of a cult following from people who can get into the spirit of the general badness of the story and its over the top presentation in a B-movie appreciation kind of way, and if that's what the game was going for it would have been a huge success, but that's not what the game was going for. They wanted it to be like, the Star Wars of video games; just a massive blockbuster success with huge mainstream appeal across all demographics. Which was a weird thing to want for a horror game even if it was more of a horror-themed action game than a true horror game. It's just not subject matter that's going to have broad appeal no matter how streamlined the gameplay gets. Although that weird misguided thinking is probably also why it works so well as the video game version of a "so bad it's good" movie; a consistent theme with all the best ones of those is "they genuinely thought all of this was good when they were making it". The fact that the game plays all of its ridiculousness with zero irony does actually make it more fun than if it was self-aware. The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Aug 3, 2023 |
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sigher posted:There's no voice chat and the only text chatting there is post game that you can just exit out of and never deal with. If you die early in the game to you can just leave and queue for another match. You'll never have to deal with the community if you don't want to. I disagree with the latter part of this because you have to play with the community to play the game, and there are absolutely some rear end in a top hat things people can do in game to ruin your fun. Probably won't recognize any but the worst when you're learning to play, and if you play killer there is a little less directly that survivors can pull off to ruin fun.
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I used to really love playing DBD but I was never, ever any good at it. Now everyone I used to play with has either moved on or gotten way too good to put up with my dumb rear end.
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I just want to play as all the cool murder ladies.  Also, I dunno where else to put this, so I'll drop this here; here's an empty store we passed by a few weekends ago in downtown San Jose.  
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Evil Kit posted:I disagree with the latter part of this because you have to play with the community to play the game, and there are absolutely some rear end in a top hat things people can do in game to ruin your fun. Probably won't recognize any but the worst when you're learning to play, and if you play killer there is a little less directly that survivors can pull off to ruin fun. And don't forget there absolutely is voice chat when it comes to survivors, they just get on discord, which fundamentally fucks with the game when it was built without any expectation of voice coordination.
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Yardbomb posted:And don't forget there absolutely is voice chat when it comes to survivors, they just get on discord, which fundamentally fucks with the game when it was built without any expectation of voice coordination. I'm not going to begrudge people playing with friends and chatting with them, a lot of the time this will fall into the "won't notice the effects while you're learning anyway". And when you do start to notice it, there are ways to play around it. Also just because they can talk to each other doesn't mean they know how to communicate or execute.
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