How the upcoming asymmetrical game fixes some of the biggest dead by daylight's issues

[Tormented]

Dead by Daylight is out for 7 years and never had a true competitor, or they all die within a year
Hopefully Texas Chainsaw won't suffer the same fate but the chances are slim since it restricted only to one licensed franchise, let me talk about things it did better than Dead by Daylight
First of all let me address that you don't need RTX 3070 to play Texas Chainsaw massacre at full HD, I played it with RX 580 on ultra settings ^^

1- Better objectives: Your objectives won't hold you hostage for 90 seconds, you know what that means? no generators

2- No hook mechanic unlike Dbd, this one can be good for some people but also could be bad for others, it means that family aka killers won't camp you on hook, or comeback to you when you get off the hook (tunnel vision), but it also means you have to play better to survive longer and if you fail there will be no forgiveness

3- better graphic, not far better but still better graphic than dead by daylight

4- Motion Capture, most of the movements of the character are mo-caped so they feel way more realistic than Dbd

5- Voice acting/being able to talk: Yes, not only characters can talk, they react to noises & they can also interact with each other like: "Ana, You're Alive!" so when you play as a character, you actually feel like you're playing as a human

So is it better than Dbd?
My answer: Definitely better than Dbd that came in 2016 with only 5 playable characters but current Dbd is here with 7 years of content/BugFixes/licensed characters/non- licensed characters/balance patches, so we can all agree Dbd has way more replay value even tho it might not be better

[Astral]

Thanks for telling me that there's another franchise with The Cannibal made it easier to tell which killer to put my auric on.

[Myrkana]

DBD will come out on top mostly because chainsaw will be severely limited by it being 1 franchise. The evil dead game was touted as the DBD killer and it ended up being a dud.

Asymmetric games are very hard to balance and keep balanced while releasing new content. DBD isnt perfect but the variety of content keeps people coming back.

[Tormented]

Originally posted by Myrkana:

DBD will come out on top mostly because chainsaw will be severely limited by it being 1 franchise. The evil dead game was touted as the DBD killer and it ended up being a dud.

Asymmetric games are very hard to balance and keep balanced while releasing new content. DBD isnt perfect but the variety of content keeps people coming back.

Agreed, I believe there are better asymmetrical games than Dbd but they eventually die because lack of support and content, on the other hand Dbd is the only asym game with the roster as big as fighting games and almost half of them are iconic characters

[erandomone]

No Tunneling? You must not have watched any of the same folk playing the test weekend.

Not only is tunneling possible, MULTIPLE KILLERS can pincer you and take you out of the game immediately.

[Leah]

These arguments are always super simple to dismantle.
You cannot support a game being better purely by saying
"it looks better"
and
"it has more stuff to do per round"
Graphics don't really matter up until a point where it hinders presentation, and more stuff to do is far from a good thing, asymmetrical games are not even remotely easy to balance, which is why Dead by Daylight survived with the whole idea of "less is more"

But I'm sure THIS will be the one, surely this one will take off unlike Evil Dead, Last Year, Friday the 13th, VHS or Predator.

[Eden Monroe RWR]

Originally posted by erandomone:

No Tunneling? You must not have watched any of the same folk playing the test weekend.

Not only is tunneling possible, MULTIPLE KILLERS can pincer you and take you out of the game immediately.

LMAO

[Tormented]

Originally posted by erandomone:

No Tunneling? You must not have watched any of the same folk playing the test weekend.

Not only is tunneling possible, MULTIPLE KILLERS can pincer you and take you out of the game immediately.

I watched, I also played a few matches, it's not as annoying as Dbd, in TCM killer chases whoever they see and move on after they take them out or lose'em but in Dbd killer just ignores everyone just to take you out, not once but three time, which makes the game so miserable and toxic

[Gh0st.exe]

Originally posted by Soulless One:

Originally posted by erandomone:

No Tunneling? You must not have watched any of the same folk playing the test weekend.

Not only is tunneling possible, MULTIPLE KILLERS can pincer you and take you out of the game immediately.

I watched, I also played a few matches, it's not as annoying as Dbd, in TCM killer chases whoever they see and move on after they take them out or lose'em but in Dbd killer just ignores everyone just to take you out, not once but three time, which makes the game so miserable and toxic

That has nothing to do with the game tho, that all depends on the person playing the Killer. What makes you think TCM wont have its fair share of tunneling / "breaking the rules of the imaginary Survivor-rulebook-for-Killers" once the game has its full release?

[Slurs! In the Discord]

tbh the game won't have the equivalent of dead hard/noed thats already an improvement

knock on wood

[erandomone]

Originally posted by Slurs! In the Discord:

tbh the game won't have the equivalent of dead hard/noed thats already an improvement

knock on wood

They DO have a perk system though, that wasn't part of the testing.

[chasing for hugs]

Originally posted by Soulless One:

How the upcoming asymmetrical game fixes some of the biggest dead by daylight's issues

3 and 4 depends on taste.
5 would be pointless in DbD.

To 1: The survivor community has to take the blame for generators only. Hex totems could be a second objective, but survivors don't want to find and cleanse them. Therefore they are mostly weak. Skill checks won't be touched, because survivors would protest once again.

To 2: The hook mechanic is crucial to keep a match going, to give second and third impressions, which can be used for different pathing, mind games and memes. The killer earns the right to defend the position where the survivor went down. In the end, to stop camping and tunneling, every single (fresh/mixed) hook has to increase the chances to win as killer significantly. Designing this properly, without any holes, is a complex issue though.

[Hawk tuah girl]

Texas chainsaw massacre is exactly like Evil dead. Over hyped and nothing else. Now it's dead and gone like Friday the 13th or predator. Dead by daylight still the best. Btw how is Meet your maker?

[Myrkana]

Originally posted by Soulless One:

Originally posted by erandomone:

No Tunneling? You must not have watched any of the same folk playing the test weekend.

Not only is tunneling possible, MULTIPLE KILLERS can pincer you and take you out of the game immediately.

I watched, I also played a few matches, it's not as annoying as Dbd, in TCM killer chases whoever they see and move on after they take them out or lose'em but in Dbd killer just ignores everyone just to take you out, not once but three time, which makes the game so miserable and toxic

yet. Its not even fully out right? Right now its a new game, people are exploring and testing stuff. If its too complicated youll lose most players. DBD is simple at its core, anyone can learn to play and get better fairly easily. The maps are fairly small and the games go around 20 minutes or so on average.

evil dead as an example: Focused on a niche group who liked evil dead. The maps were very large and there was a lot going on. Steep learning curve and other players could really screw you over with items and ammo being per player. Games were at least 30 minutes long unless one side was completely dominating, but even then the survivor side could only go so fast.

[Tormented]

Originally posted by Myrkana:

Originally posted by Soulless One:

I watched, I also played a few matches, it's not as annoying as Dbd, in TCM killer chases whoever they see and move on after they take them out or lose'em but in Dbd killer just ignores everyone just to take you out, not once but three time, which makes the game so miserable and toxic

yet. Its not even fully out right? Right now its a new game, people are exploring and testing stuff. If its too complicated youll lose most players. DBD is simple at its core, anyone can learn to play and get better fairly easily. The maps are fairly small and the games go around 20 minutes or so on average.

evil dead as an example: Focused on a niche group who liked evil dead. The maps were very large and there was a lot going on. Steep learning curve and other players could really screw you over with items and ammo being per player. Games were at least 30 minutes long unless one side was completely dominating, but even then the survivor side could only go so fast.

I can completely relate to your opinion about Evil Dead, however my matches in TCM took 10 minutes at worst, it's not that long unless we played so bad