This game has you hooked on...

*Ekhem*
Anyway, with that out of the way...

Despite a lot of people holding the opinion (often out of spite or anger) that Dead by Daylight is a s**t game, it really isn't. Perhaps it isn't in the best place, perhaps it's not where it should be, perhaps it's going the wrong direction, perhaps it's lost it's personality a little bit, but it's not by any means a bad game. If it were so - it wouldn't be this successful after all, and it sure as hell wouldn't still be around after all those years.

DBD killers (games that were supposed to smash DBD) are a bit of a meme in the community, however I wholeheartedly believe no other game will topple off DBD's success as much as DBD will do it to itself.

The game has mostly lost it's horror element, and it seems like now they're just adding whatever licence they can lay their hands on. By that measure, it is easily the most versatile game in this genre, featuring most of the horror icons, some famous characters from the media and other crazy licences. It's a blessing and a curse. There's so much choice here it's enough to give you a headache, but with that - I feel like a lot of things just feel out of place. And the roaster just keeps getting bigger and bigger...
By extension - so does the amount of DLC's here and the money you need to spend...
Sadly, for a while now the devs have been working tirelessly on providing a new chapter about every 3 months or so, meaning that a new player coming into the game will have a hard time getting used to everything, and returning players who left the game for a while will also struggle just as much, especially with existing stuff constantly changing as well, on top of all the new stuff coming in. In other words - if you're not playing or watching this game religiously and you don't eat, drink, breath and sh*t Dead by Daylight - you will most likely have a hard time adjusting.
Another thing worth mentioning, the pace the devs have thrown upon themselves with releasing a new chapter with such consistency has resulted in significant decrease in quality of said chapters. Each new killer feeling more like a mixture of existing ones, like Killer Z feeling like if a Killer Y and Killer X had a child with a mixture of Killer B kinda thing. It starts to feel a bit lazy and uninspired. Quality over quantity, guys.

It's a fun game in it's core, but the balance here is atrocious. It always had terrible balance, but at this point the game itself doesn't know what it wants to be. It wants to be competitive, but at the same time it panders to the more casual players with all it's might.
Dead by Daylight is sadly not a game where your skill matters. It's a game of advantage. There's very little skill expression here, and whatever little of it there was, it's also slowly getting taken away, replaced by absolutely smooth-brain mechanics.

Now, Dead by Daylight easily has one of the most toxic, entitled, cry-baby, man-children community in gaming, only comparable to League of Legends from what I hear (but I never really played that myself, only seen snippets) and it's like a very sad, unfunny joke. Every other game someone leaves, leaving the team handicapped. People throwing tantrums left and right. People dictating other side how they should play, witch hunting, doxxing, cheaters holding people hostage, death-threats over losing a match in a video game... Just a full catalogue. It's sad, and it's disgusting.
A thing worth mentioning, people who are supposed to help direct the game toward the healthy direction apparently have no say at all in what happens with the game. Not only that, but their advice is often hardly ever taken into consideration at all, despite them usually being very, very experienced in the game, often sharing knowledge the devs simply lack of. These guys are really just there for the promotion, nothing else.

Despite all this, it's a fun game. Awful community, but a fun game.

This game has you hooked on... *Ekhem* Anyway, with that out of the way... Despite a lot of people holding the opinion (often out of spite or anger) that Dead by Daylight is a s**t game, it really isn't. Perhaps it isn't in the best place, perhaps it's not where it should be, perhaps it's going the wrong direction, perhaps it's lost it's personality a little bit, but it's not by any means a bad game. If it were so - it wouldn't be this successful after all, and it sure as hell wouldn't still be around after all those years. DBD killers (games that were supposed to smash DBD) are a bit of a meme in the community, however I wholeheartedly believe no other game will topple off DBD's success as much as DBD will do it to itself. The game has mostly lost it's horror element, and it seems like now they're just adding whatever licence they can lay their hands on. By that measure, it is easily the most versatile game in this genre, featuring most of the horror icons, some famous characters from the media and other crazy licences. It's a blessing and a curse. There's so much choice here it's enough to give you a headache, but with that - I feel like a lot of things just feel out of place. And the roaster just keeps getting bigger and bigger... By extension - so does the amount of DLC's here and the money you need to spend... Sadly, for a while now the devs have been working tirelessly on providing a new chapter about every 3 months or so, meaning that a new player coming into the game will have a hard time getting used to everything, and returning players who left the game for a while will also struggle just as much, especially with existing stuff constantly changing as well, on top of all the new stuff coming in. In other words - if you're not playing or watching this game religiously and you don't eat, drink, breath and sh*t Dead by Daylight - you will most likely have a hard time adjusting. Another thing worth mentioning, the pace the devs have thrown upon themselves with releasing a new chapter with such consistency has resulted in significant decrease in quality of said chapters. Each new killer feeling more like a mixture of existing ones, like Killer Z feeling like if a Killer Y and Killer X had a child with a mixture of Killer B kinda thing. It starts to feel a bit lazy and uninspired. Quality over quantity, guys. It's a fun game in it's core, but the balance here is atrocious. It always had terrible balance, but at this point the game itself doesn't know what it wants to be. It wants to be competitive, but at the same time it panders to the more casual players with all it's might. Dead by Daylight is sadly not a game where your skill matters. It's a game of advantage. There's very little skill expression here, and whatever little of it there was, it's also slowly getting taken away, replaced by absolutely smooth-brain mechanics. Now, Dead by Daylight easily has one of the most toxic, entitled, cry-baby, man-children community in gaming, only comparable to League of Legends from what I hear (but I never really played that myself, only seen snippets) and it's like a very sad, unfunny joke. Every other game someone leaves, leaving the team handicapped. People throwing tantrums left and right. People dictating other side how they should play, witch hunting, doxxing, cheaters holding people hostage, death-threats over losing a match in a video game... Just a full catalogue. It's sad, and it's disgusting. A thing worth mentioning, people who are supposed to help direct the game toward the healthy direction apparently have no say at all in what happens with the game. Not only that, but their advice is often hardly ever taken into consideration at all, despite them usually being very, very experienced in the game, often sharing knowledge the devs simply lack of. These guys are really just there for the promotion, nothing else. Despite all this, it's a fun game. Awful community, but a fun game.