A Dead by Daylight discussion blog. Minors DNI, please. For sake of ease, you can call me Danny, he/him/his or they/them/theirs. Please see my pinned post for all other info. Hope to see you in the Fog!
Hello! I'm rosevilleain (pronounced "rose villain"). If you're wondering why I didn't just make the username "rosevillain," it was taken already by someone for non-DBD purposes, and I've kept the name consistent everywhere else I'm signed up for (links below). Besides, this means I actually got the name everywhere I signed up 😆
For sake of ease, you can call me Danny, after the character I'm obviously basing my whole aesthetic around.
I don't ever feel comfortable listing my exact age (tbh, that's not exactly a good idea to do, anyway, and idk when that became the norm for people to do) so I'll just tell you I'm in my 30s. Which is why I'd prefer it if minors DNI. That, and I might occasionally post, reblog, or discuss NSFW stuff, so that wouldn't be appropriate. If you're not 18+, please respect my boundaries on this.
I play both Killer and Survivor fairly equally. My main characters are Ghost Face (duh) and Dwight Fairfield respectively.
I'm starting all of this to talk about DBD; the good, the bad, and the ugly. As someone who plays both roles, I don't care about "this game is [role]-sided" arguments and, quite frankly, I'm tired of hearing that because there's good and bad for each and, at the end of the day, there are loads of things that should be reworked to better balance the game. So, whereas I'd love to have discussions and "hang out" with other DBD enthusiasts, please try not to do this in my comments 🙏🏻
I'd say I'm pretty average at this game, and I won't pretend that I know how things should be fixed gameplay-wise, but I'll give opinions or ask questions where I feel the need to.
Other than that, I'm pretty friendly and easily excited about the stuff I like lol. You can use he/him/his or they/them/theirs as my pronouns.
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Are you actually excited for the Finisher Mori to be the core game experience, or do you agree that this is a bad idea (or should have just been a separate game mode or limited modifier)? Feel free to expand on your thoughts in the comments or reblogs, and check below the "Keep Reading" for my own expanded thoughts on the subject.
These images are from my tweets on the subject, just as an idea of where I stand.
So... Do you want Finisher Mori as core gameplay, or no?
Yes, I'm excited to see this come to core gameplay.
No, I don't think this should be core gameplay.
Voting ended onMay 21, 2024
As I said in the text for the poll, every time I've seen this get brought up, my experience is that I've seen an overwhelming negative reaction to it. There have been a few people I've seen who don't hate it, or they think it's cool, but nobody I've personally seen has ever been incredibly enthusiastic about it or seemed super pumped for it to be added.
My stance on it has always been that this would be much better as a separate game mode or, when they started doing them, a limited modifier. Changing the whole core game around a concept that wasn't exactly well received is astonishing to me. And the last time they mentioned it in passing on social media, the prevailing sentiment I saw was, "Bro, you're still working on this?"
Not exactly an enthusiastic response.
Also, as I mentioned in the first tweet, you can't remove BP multipliers from Perks because "it's too easy to accumulate BP now" whilst simultaneously adding so many other things that inundate us with BP.
Ngl, the fact that they're still forging ahead with this, and that they're so excited about a thing that not many players share their excitement about (again, as far as I've personally seen) has killed my enthusiasm for everything else that I was previously looking forward to. I get that they want to shake things up, but this ain't it imo.
For the most part, I'd like to keep all my spaces fun and generally light hearted, save for the occasional rant (because, well... This is DBD 😅), but I want to talk about something important right now.
If you've been playing this game for long enough, you'll know that there are multiple heated debates amongst the community that will cool off for a while, only to make a resurgence again at some point. Right now, I'd like to address the one that I'm seeing a lot of at the moment.
Let's talk about filters... But, really, let's talk about accessibility in gaming. Primarily in Dead by Daylight.
Before getting into it all, a couple of quick things to note: a. This is a long post, and b. a lot of it is stuff I said elsewhere (namely Instagram). I also broke this up into a couple of sections to (hopefully) make it more easily digestible than a wall of text.
About Those Filters...
Now, I have some tweets of my own to post. For context, Hens went on from that first tweet to discuss his findings a bit, and asked if people wanted him to make a video addressing the subject. After most people said they wanted to see a video, he agreed.
Now, here is my quote tweet and short thread.
I want what I said in that first tweet to sink in. This game first launched in 2016. The colorblind filters available in the game weren't added until 2021.
It took Behavior five (5) years to implement a feature that would allow people with colorblindness to play as anyone else could. This was a feature that should have been available all along, yet there was a need to ask for this to be added. And it still took them half a decade to do it.
If that wasn't terrible enough, there are many colorblind people in the community for whom the available filters do not work. At least not as well as they should. Which means that there are many players using third party filters to simply be able to see the game.
The Usual, Disappointing Response...
But there are some players that use them to have an unfair advantage. So they should be banned... According to far too many people. And if you are one of them, I ask you to consider this:
If you are more concerned about the people who don't need it, you are ignoring the people who do. If you are more concerned about the people that don't need it, respectfully, please take a step back and think about why that is.
Because we see these things said constantly, about features we use just to be able to play like anyone else can do. When disabled people see and hear the comments about how these features should be banned, or how "unfair" they are, what we hear is, "Yeah, but I want to win, so…"
No matter how many times we explain why it wouldn't be good if these things got banned or changed, it doesn't seem to matter. No matter how many more people that use these things need it than don't, it never matters.
My Personal Struggles...
In the second tweet of my thread, I said, "BHVR shouldn't ban their use. They should do better by the disabled people that need better options. This is a general statement, not exclusive to colorblindness."
When I said that, I had a very specific thing in mind, although I'm sure there are other examples of which I'm not even aware.
I'm not colorblind, though I have other disabilities that affect how I experience video games. Though I'm neither deaf, nor hard of hearing, I do have an issue perceiving sounds. Particularly in video games.
For DBD, when I play killer, I can't always find survivors by listening for them because I often have trouble figuring out the right direction that it's coming from. I frequently run into situations where the sound seems to be coming from one direction, but then it sounds like it's actually the opposite, even when it isn't possible that they could have run that way because I would have seen them.
When I play survivor, I frequently can't tell how close the killer is when going by the terror radius because it often sounds a bit further away than it really is. Before I realized that it was a "me" issue, I used to get so pissed because I'd get grabbed off of generators even though it sounded to me like I had a little bit more time before I had to run.
In regards to that, I was once discussing how I wish they hadn't changed Spine Chill back to the way it was because watching the red dial fill and regress helped me far better than the new heartbeat does. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to properly gauge the distance. I should mention that I have several learning disabilities, as well, which definitely contributes to this. And I'm frustrated because it seems so straight forward, and I can understand it in DBD Mobile, but not core for some reason.
During that discussion, while I was explaining all of this, I had someone outright say to me, "They can't put in too many accessibility options because then people who don't need them will cheat with them."
And several people chimed in with, "Yeah, but it also tipped off survivors to stealth killers."
Um... I main Ghost Face. Yet, my point still stands. And now the heartbeat is the only option available, so I'm still struggling a bit.
People with disabilities shouldn't have to settle for "it's better than nothing," but we do. Time and time again.
In Closing...
That, "I know you need it, but what about the people who don't?" argument is a truly sad and messed up way of thinking. And half of the problem is the fact that there are many people who don't even realize that. The person who said that to me clearly didn't understand that, perhaps, that isn't something you should say to someone explaining why they need it. They weren't trying to be an asshole. They thought they were just having a conversation. Obviously there are those who just don't care, but I do believe that there are more people that just don't realize what it is they're really saying when we see this stuff. Nor why it's so fucked up.
I can personally tell you that it's exhausting to have to defend things, over and over, that make me able to enjoy this hobby that I've been doing for 30+ years. Making room for everyone to be able to play is more important than winning.
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While playing killer, I've never once thought to myself, You know what would be great? If I let this survivor crawl all the way from where I down them, make it to the exit gate, and then pick them up and take them far enough away that they'll bleed out before they can get back!
Why are some killer players like this? Just hook the person or let them go. Don't drag shit on.
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If anyone is still having trouble figuring out how to claim their Twitch drops, as I was, this video by MOANING UNICORNS (u/MOANING--UNICORNS {with 2 "-" in between words that is only showing up as one when I post} on reddit) explains it all quickly.
And, yes, I do hate that that's the name I was forced to type to give proper credit 😅
I asked this on Twitter/X/whatever the fuck, but I figured I'd ask here, too. I keep getting conflicting responses whenever I see this discussed on various sites, so I'm trying to get a better idea of whether or not there even is a more general consensus on this.
Please feel free to elaborate on why/why not in the comments! I'm super curious.
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"Are they without hope? Who do they serve? Is there even a master? I have never seen them rest or stop. They hunt until the hooks are occupied..." - (Benedict Baker's Journal)
I've decided to start off the year looking back at the different Dead by Daylight cosplays I did in 2023! I've got more dbd cosplays planned for the future, survivors included, so keen to get started on those! (Also more Twins Skins because I love them so much and believe they're very underrated haha)