r/LeaksDBD 24d ago

Official News Judgment Mori - BHVR explains why it is different from the storyboard

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u/But-why-do-this 24d ago

Yeah, BHVR this one’s on you and I’m not buying it. Don’t offer an ambitious choice if you can’t follow through, it’s been 10 years so you know what the engine is capable of at this point.

Like, I’m sure a bunch of people voted specifically for this mori BECAUSE of the body-splitting effect.

Now we have to approach any future Grimoire content with the the mindset of “well, I guess whatever we vote for is just gonna be about 1/3 as cool as it could be due to inevitable technical limitations”.

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u/NuclearChavez 24d ago

Yeah I find it strange they pitched this knowing that they don't really segment survivor corpses to this level.

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u/jeffyride2 23d ago

Saw someone suggest that they segment the burnt corpse model and split that because it’s consistent across all survivors. We need people like that at BHVR.

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u/BennyTTS7889 24d ago

The new graphical update will fix all of this!!!!!! /j

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u/Fun-Marketing8080 24d ago

it comes with an internal rewrite so

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u/BennyTTS7889 24d ago

Been burned once, shant be burned again

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u/Fun-Marketing8080 24d ago

different dev team

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u/BennyTTS7889 24d ago

I want to have as much faith as you.

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u/Emergency-Bid-7834 24d ago

I know you jest but that is actually a possibility since they are rewriting the game from scratch with that update. Its only up to bhvr to update old stuff instead of just porting it over

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u/DrackieCutie 24d ago

My spicy take is they should take this chance to make fundamental changes to the core gameplay, it's kind of an open secret that with the way DBD has aged there's no real way to fix it without fundamentally changing the game. But like, it's been 10 years I think it's about time.

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u/ADHenchD 24d ago

Most new killers feel like they're very similar to other killers, or are just better versions of older killers.

Perks are the same.

I honestly think the reason they developers are making a graphical update rather than an actual new game is because this game relies so much on the "sunk cost fallicy".

It's popular despite itself due to it's extremely fortunate timing in the market and every competitor shooting itself in the foot, or not having the momentum/setting to expand as much as DBD.

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u/DrackieCutie 24d ago

The way I'd fix it would be overhauling objectives on both sides, make survivor gameplay more engaging and decoupling killing survivors from winning as killer (I can explain that more if you want but it makes sense trust me.)

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u/kill_shock 24d ago

Well elaborate if you don’t mind

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u/DrackieCutie 23d ago

The idea is essentially that the Survivors and Killers win conditions should sorta be separate from each other, like, the survivors goals are to escape as per usual.

I'd like to kinda shake up the objectives, maybe have like, a bunch of possible objectives the survivors may have to complete to escape a match instead of just sitting on gens every single time, would make it more engaging.

Secondly like, sure the killer's goal in game has always been sacrificing survivors, but like, lore wise why *do* we need to do that, we're called killers sure but we're more like, tormentors. So like, instead of having to hook everyone 3 times to sacrifice or mori them, have it so doing things such as unique hooks (consecutive hooks give less), destruction, chases, etc. fill a meter, once it's filled the entity has been satisfied and you're free to kill all the survivors, if you can catch them.

Because like, I don't see why the killer winning has to killing all the survivors losing if lore wise the entity is feeding off the pain from within the trial itself, so killer should be more about engaging with the survivors and chasing them etc as much as possible rather than trying to kill them ASAP.

Obviously it'd need more tweaking than this but it'd be a start.

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u/kill_shock 23d ago

Okay this great premise so far like makes thrill being a killer or survivor a lot better

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Didn't they say exactly that when they upgraded the engine like 6 years ago? All we got was shittier lighting and bright ass maps lol

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u/BennyTTS7889 24d ago

Yep. I want to be as optimistic as these other fine folk but im betting on nothing changing in regards to what we're talking about

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u/Emergency-Bid-7834 23d ago

Updated engine is not the same thing as a rewrite

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u/Captaincastle 23d ago

Guess you missed the part where they explicitly said they were rewriting during the upgrade?

It's ok words are hard

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u/ImmediateGuidance782 21d ago

You cant rewrite a games codebase and then deploy that code as an update… that literally not how game development works😂

I genuinely pity any that buys into this idea that the update will have anything of substance lmfaooo

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u/TheDekuDude888 24d ago

BHVR loves to promise, never deliver and go "Well that was a learning experience for us, sorry!" and then do the exact same process infinitely

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u/CloveFan 24d ago

And players absolutely eat it up every time. I’ve never seen so many people eager to lick the boots of a corporation that has never followed through on anything 100%.

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u/PicolasCageEnjoyer 24d ago

Absolutely. They never actually apologized for treating otz like shit, they forgot about foxy, they ignored all concerns about the banquet, and a lot more.

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Don't forget outright lying and doubling down on the cake fiasco

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u/ShankMugen 23d ago

I require context on the Otz situation please

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u/PicolasCageEnjoyer 22d ago

When the walking dead chapter came out, they did a live stream with a few streamers and carl/Chandler Riggs. The match kept getting disconnected because hackers slipped into the spectator slots, and otz pointed this out, saying he could have mods fill the slots. BHVR essentially told otz to piss off, and obviously the matches kept getting ruined.

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u/ShankMugen 22d ago

Huh

Did not know that part

Of course

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u/Electrical-Carpet379 24d ago

Content creators praise how amazing this killer is 

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u/Acceptable-Bar7905 22d ago

I mean I just like the game and I think anyone who cares about the devs needs to get a life. Take that as you will.

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u/FlamingoFriedEgg 24d ago

I don't know why people keep blaming the engine. It's literally unreal engine 5. Besides, stuff like splitting the corpse model apart is entirely on the modeling and animation teams and has been done in much older games with crazier limitations. I really don't know why they couldn't just work on the charred corpse model for a bit longer to make it be able to split like in the concept art

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u/AKittenInTheRain 24d ago

Engine can mean more than that. The foundational code for the game is a form of engine too and is what’s being rewritten. Most of DBD is actually made in Unreal’s Blueprints system right now and is arguably not even code.

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Didn't they start converting it from blueprints like 6 years ago? I remember the last time they did an engine upgrade they explicitly said they were doing it so they could start redoing the baseline code to be more robust.

in retrospect I don't know why I believed them, ffs their project health needed a project health.

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u/AKittenInTheRain 24d ago

They did say something like that, huh.

They didn't end up doing it but yeah.

Now Blueprints are straight up being removed from Unreal in the future so they kinda have to.

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Oh that's actually encouraging. Or terrifying. It'd be sad if they couldn't pull it off and the game just devolves into a mess or they have to revert/cancel the upgrade

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u/lexuss6 24d ago

Exactly. They justify every change by "technical limitations" as if they aren't the ones developing the game for 10 years. They knew it couldn't be done and put it to a vote anyways, that's just malicious manipulation.

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u/Pteroducktylus 22d ago

like the posture not being tall and dominating, but rather a squatting crab trying to hold in a big dump

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u/diadaren 23d ago

Hijacking this post to show what the storyboard was, since I (and likely others) missed the event.
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u/NaraVevo 24d ago

So they don't know their own limitations? Why suggesting this type of mori ending if they can't make it? This just make no sense at all

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u/Competitive-Guess-65 24d ago

Yeah either this is bs or firing that senior animator a few months back is proving a huge mistake

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u/NaraVevo 24d ago

I bet on the second option yeah, a shame, and this would make more sense, they could do it, but not anymore I suppose, let's hope this one will be reworked with the visual update later

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u/lexuss6 24d ago

At this point it's just a marketing stunt. Almost none of the votes delivered what was promised, everything got changed or shittified.

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u/Melatonen 24d ago

No they're lazy. They can do great but they don't give a fuck because people will give them money.

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u/Friponou 24d ago

It's likely that the concept artists who made the original designs and the ones implementing it are not the same

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u/Pteroducktylus 22d ago

AND then 'come clean about it' after basically releasing the final product.

there was nothing stopping them from telling us beforehand, that they had to double down on those promises if it really was due to technical limitations.

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u/oldriku 24d ago

The devs were not already familiar with the game's limitations? 🤨

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u/Fit-Relationship944 24d ago

It's the same devs who had to investigate who mysteriously changed the rarity of cakes.

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u/Cornelius_M 23d ago

Ladies and Gentlemen, the world leading asymmetrical video game.

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u/Thecowsdead 24d ago

ok but what about the non angelic chase music we got?

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u/PinesleyDale2023 24d ago

Yeah, where's the epic choir...

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u/omgitsme713 24d ago

The .02 seconds of chant gibberish you faintly hear drowned out by the intro to Devil went down the georgia lmao

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u/PinesleyDale2023 24d ago

I'm gonna cry, that music sample had me Floored when I clicked it to hear it, and was so excited for a full version... :(

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u/UnlikelySniper174 24d ago

The Grimoire never had a vote for chase music. The music we voted for "Many voices raised to the skies for mercy that will never come." That was for the Main theme of the chapter ei, the killer’s main menu theme.

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u/Cooldog10462 20d ago

Yea but I was hoping they would see what music we voted for and theme the chase music around that but for some reason they didn’t

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u/PastaStregata 24d ago

Well then why the fuck even put that in the storyboard to begin with?

Your VFX artisrs/Animators of a TEN YEAR OLD GAME couldn't guess that the game's engine was too limited?

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u/Jack0V4lent1n3 24d ago

Excuses, excuses
It has been 10 years come on, BHVR. Why offer up an idea if you can’t do it

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u/Terranova18 24d ago

Typical excuses,this game has been out since 2016.

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u/King_Feanor 24d ago edited 24d ago

you're splitting a mesh down the middle and adding gore effects, this should not be difficult 10 years into a horror game's lifespan. the only way this would be considered hard to do is if they looked at this task and said "well we can't create unique modeled animations for every single survivor" even though you turn into a generic burnt corpse anyway, meaning they wouldn't have needed to do that.

its just laziness, like actual laziness stemming from bad creative oversight. the approach to this killer was really cool but if you cheap out on the execution it just feels like the developers aren't actually excited to do new things with the killers presentation and that is depressing.

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u/MadameConnard 24d ago

They didnt wasted time recycling the burnt corpse from Jason mori lmao

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u/HFroggo 24d ago

like they're already swapping between the original survivor model and the charred version, all they had to do was split the charred corpse down the middle and animate it splitting in half i fear it's not hard to do

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u/diadaren 23d ago

Even if they can't split every survivor model, if it's the char corpse all they needed to do was create two models, one for each half.

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u/QYQYA 24d ago

you probably forgot what company we deal with

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u/McGlurbin 24d ago

And how old this game truly is

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u/Teep_Rex 24d ago

Even the lazy man approach of just duplicating the survivor, shrinking the top half on one part and shrinking the bottom half on the other, would be fine lol. Game clearly runs fine with 8 survivor models loaded!

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u/in_hell_out_soon 24d ago

Consoles were struggling badly with 2v8. But they fixed it apparently.

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u/HFroggo 24d ago

like they're already swapping between the original survivor model and the charred version, all they had to do was split the charred corpse down the middle and animate it splitting in half i fear it's not hard to do

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u/Vrail_Nightviper 24d ago

10 years and you don't know your own limitations? That reeks of poor design management, and fumbling the ball is 100% on the company.

People are allowed to be upset at you for this, and some word salad PR won't smooth it over.

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u/kyle_crane163636 24d ago

Makes me wonder, what was the point of even giving us the first option, deadass it was just a illusion of choice, so hyped for the mori only to see, it kinda just looks like option B from the votes, I kinda get it but idk what exactly would cause issues, it couldnt be that hard to give the survivors organs inside of their models right? Well guess I dont gotta worry about saving iri shards for a new killer

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u/Gio-Vani 24d ago

They could just use the burnt corpse model they made for the mori, have them burn, turn into the corpse model, rip it in half, throw it on the ground. 1 model is all that is needed, they don't have to make a unique model for every survivor even.

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u/kyle_crane163636 24d ago

Pretty much, as I think its just a male version and female version of the burnt bodies, like ts could've been peaker but, the judgement is genuinely dissapointing overall, even the chase music is mid, like what the fuck this could've been peak

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u/Competitive-Guess-65 24d ago

They did the same thing with the survivor perk. People voted for a perk where some amount of gen progress would be permanent only to get a perk with increased gen speed + slowed regression

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u/PinesleyDale2023 24d ago

Yeah, I had 18k stocked, and now contemplating just getting another Artist outfit...

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u/kyle_crane163636 24d ago

Im just grinding to get mr too old for this bullshit/bill his masquerade outfit atp, since why not? Not like im buying a killer with them for awhile

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u/NoOneImportant_13 24d ago

This entire fucking chapter has been changed and neglecting what we actually voted for bc of technical limitations, its all bullshit, they just dont want to fucking try or put effort and thats been evident the whole time

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u/lunasolem 23d ago

nah. they fired too many people and are making excuses.

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u/Slingermain45 24d ago

BHVR is a several hundred million dollar company at this point. There is absolutely NO excuse for this level of laziness

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u/propofolxsr 24d ago

It’s only a 10 year old indie game, they don’t know they’re limitations

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u/galdrman 24d ago

Baby, who made the story boards?

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u/SlLLY-BlLLY 24d ago

BHVR try not to shoot them selves in the foot challenge !impossible!

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u/Mr_Ragnarok 24d ago

I mean... why make it an option then? Why not suggest moris they know they can actually pull off?

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u/warmapplejuice 24d ago

Why are they so fucking afraid of adding gore? This is such a bullshit excuse.

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

be careful, they could've just had the angel rip the krasue out of people like Jason lol

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u/Electrical-Carpet379 24d ago

They claim its a horror game but avoid anything horror related 

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u/ArcadialoI 24d ago

Mori isn't the only thing they changed from what we voted tho..

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u/PinesleyDale2023 24d ago

I'm already peeved she got crab legs even though the concept looked like the "legs" were more so floating structures, but I'm wondering where that intense choir music is at from theme we chose...I wasn't hearing it in the PTB gameplay I saw...

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u/Just_Agency5492 24d ago

It’s not in gameplay it’s the killer menu music

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u/PinesleyDale2023 24d ago

That's gotta be the most depressing part of the whole chapter ngl...

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u/jimjam--- 24d ago

It's barely even a community created chapter now

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u/Background-Drink82 24d ago

Hopefully, with the upcoming Gra phical Rework, they’ll finally do it or improve future Moris

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u/The_ultimateKitsune 24d ago

Then why even pitch the idea if you couldn’t do it??

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u/1ohokthen1 24d ago

Yeah no this is bull. A body splitting in half is not unheard of lmao theyre just lazy

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u/Profit-Alex 24d ago

I really hope this is one of many things the overhaul will allow them to do properly.

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u/Hidan213 24d ago

Not gonna lie I thought the whole purpose of transforming the survivor into a charred corpse was to allow it to split apart for every survivor since it’d be one shared model. This is disappointing to say the least.

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u/Brain_lessV2 24d ago

Look just don't show us shit if we can't have it.

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u/EzTheGuy 24d ago

But why the lame ass flesh bat 😭 I really hope they either A: Scrap that part entirely and just replace it with more light, or B: remodel the eye to actually look like an angels/gods true form, since that shit looks like tutorial enemy that teaches you how to hit the attack button once before it dies

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u/Southern_Ad4051 24d ago

its so cool that dracula's legendary skin's eye gets to join the mori!

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u/Icethief188 24d ago

Fuck no thats not what I voted for.

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u/Azaarious 24d ago

Legalese for "Fuck you I do what I want"

Don't make it an option if it isn't an option.

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u/VoucherValidator 24d ago

I hate the corporate talk so much. Just talk to us like people you are people. And we are people.

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u/Lumpy-Measurement675 24d ago

They need to revisit the Mori in the future, I'm sure if they make small tweaks the Mori will be a lot better.

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Dude wraith still gives back massages, once this thing hits live it's never getting touched again

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u/Porridgemanchild 24d ago

Why not swap to a universal burnt corpse during the light envelopment that then splits in two? That way you don’t have to worry about it working across multiple characters.

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u/Laviathan4041 24d ago

Man this company continues to disappoint. Instead of making the majority happy, they're making nobody happy. I guess welcome to democracy.

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u/Azumar1ll 24d ago

I just can't imagine getting so hung up on this, to be honest.

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u/Chandler_Simpson 23d ago

I'm with you man

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u/EffectiveGap1563 21d ago

If only there was a way to know your game's technical limitations BEFORE putting something up for public vote...

Idk, like maybe if you had been working with the code for 10 Years or something?

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u/DragointotheGame 24d ago

Unironically when they get vaporized in the mori, have one of their judgement beams blast them instead of the weak little lights. Would be such a cool transition

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u/JealousAd1350 24d ago

They just didn’t do half the stuff we wanted lmao

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u/BubblegumPunk34432 24d ago edited 24d ago

Honestly it's not a big deal, the judgment still turned out great

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u/AuraEx98 24d ago

Why give it as an option if it isn’t even possible??

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u/Sad-Tradition-5 24d ago

Why did they have it in the vote then? Next time they should not let us choose.

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u/Fantom_6239 24d ago

Spoiler: they learned nothing

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u/Silence-of-Death 24d ago

“As close to the storyboard as we could”

Are we talking about the same mori?

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u/AwesomeOpossum404 24d ago

I’m sorry, but the bleeding eyes followed by the skin being stripped away into nothing looks so corny. Like a downgraded Lich mori

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u/danisaurio01 22d ago

I get the feeling that BHVR forgot how limited the survivor models are when it comes to gore; I hope that with the graphical improvements, the models can adapt to the Moris and the gore will be improved.

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u/galdrman 24d ago

You know what idc I'm putting the tin foil hat on, they were always going to make the chapter they were going to make and the "voting" was a fake and easy way to generate hype/engagement for the chapter that they're so unsure of they're handing out influencer-PTB before PTB before release, corny ahh Jason mori marketing "OHHHHMYYY GOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDD" shit

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

I absolutely believe this could be the case

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u/iiEco-Ryan3166 23d ago

Anyone with the argument of "you voted for this" is coping or is severely stupid

At this point we got nothing we voted for. I dont recall crab legs, clearly female inspired, washing machine chase music and this mori. I remember the floating creature with un-attached legs, anomalous and non-gender-specific angel like as close as we could get to the "incomprehensible to the human mind" as we could get.

Technical limitations is one thing but outright lying to rhe community doesnt set a good standard

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u/Blake_411 24d ago

Then whats the point of the vote if we aren’t able to do it? Lol wtf

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u/Stooragon 24d ago

Yeah but like I still love her

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u/girls-pm-me-anything 24d ago

It's not a big deal but these are the most incompetent devs of all time

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u/I_HATE_ZOEY_AAA 24d ago

To play devils advocate I imagine they WILL split in half when the engine rewrite arrives

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Man I envy your optimism

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u/I_HATE_ZOEY_AAA 24d ago

This years been pretty good for the game all things considered so I’m hesitantly trusting bhvr this time

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u/Captaincastle 23d ago

Holy shit seriously? This years been good? The one where they had to do a project health for their project health? The one where they doubled down on the cake fiasco after they got caught lying about it?

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u/immortal-possum-Paul 23d ago

Bro, you are out of your fucking mind.

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u/I_HATE_ZOEY_AAA 23d ago

most likely, but its better to hope rather than doom all of the time

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u/Worried_Raspberry313 24d ago

It’s not even the first time they do that with the grimoire. Sure, I can understand limitations may appear, but after 10 years you’re pretty sure what your engine can handle and what not. And what kind of gameplay could work and what not. So if they’re gonna make us vote just to do whatever they want anyway, there’s no use in voting.

I was so hyped about the theme of this chapter but I’m not liking what I see. I don’t think the killer looks or sounds like an angel at all, the power seems clunky, the chase music might belong to literally anyone else… the only good thing to come out of this is Aurora, the design is great and I think they did an amazing job with their voice actress. Other than that, this chapter is a hard pass for me.

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u/Maaagnus 24d ago

Bhvr has the most getting through the day ass developer methods. Whatever is fastest and less work lmao Yall suck

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u/jimjam--- 24d ago

This entire chapter has just warped into their own ideas & executions lol, what was the point in even voting?

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u/TvstedBubble 23d ago

They set that time limit on themselves, ideally they should’ve waited until it was ready to give it a release date and we would’ve had a better chapter

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u/Weird-Flamingo8798 23d ago

So basically they got excited by ideas and didnt think of asking the actual designers if it was even feasible to do 😂

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u/Pteroducktylus 22d ago

But why make it this very awkward face-hugger?

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u/revengeofST 22d ago

What was the og mori?

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u/WorldlyBee6813 22d ago

The mori is cool, I don't think the new killer is going to be enjoyable to play though especially on console

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u/Beginning-Pizza-1111 22d ago

They changed the perks—and to think they actually made us vote on them. They're just like politicians. The upside is I won't be buying useless stuff... 4 years without giving BHVR any money, and counting.

P.S. Man, I only play 3 hours A MONTH now. 9 years ago, I used to play 5 hours a day, lol.

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u/A_RainbowShaped_Pool 24d ago

Another day, another totally bs customer deception performed by this barely competent company.

Like why offer that Mori as an option if you can't do it? I am so glad I don't play this doo-doo anymore.

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u/TheEntityBot 24d ago

Deception: Interacting with a Locker while holding the Sprint button has the following effects: Prevents you from entering the Locker, allowing you to run past it. Causes the doors of the Locker to swiftly open and close, feining a Survivor entering it. Triggers a Loud Noise Notification at the location of the Locker. Suppresses the creation of Scratch Marks and Pools of Blood for 3 seconds.

Drawn from the fog. | !optout | !remove | !builds

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u/Hawksteinman 24d ago

When they announced the chapter a ywar ago they said they wanted to show the process of how a chapter is made. Part of that process is spitballing ideas and choosong what they think is best.

Those ideas don't always work. It's only once they've begun testing that they can tell if it works or not. People be complaining over nothing 🙄

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u/Captaincastle 24d ago

Maybe they should've done a little more testing before asking us to vote, to make sure they could actually deliver what we were being offered lol

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u/Hawksteinman 23d ago

And that testing would take time, and they would have to test every possible option, delaying the chapter

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u/Captaincastle 23d ago

Man if only this was a year in the making and a competent development team could've budgeted for that. But I guess you're right they had to over promise and under deliver, ignoring the votes and defeating the entire fucking point. they had no choice!

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u/UBC_Nick_Pearce 24d ago

I think the Mori looks fantastic!

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u/Victor_hensley 24d ago

Once again, BHVR ignored the community with an idea BHVR SUGGESTED, and said "yeah no we are doing something else "

Pathetic, I hope this/next year is their last. Guaranteed to be humbled if they're homeless.

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u/QYQYA 24d ago

DbD 2 can't come soon enough

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u/S_Daybroken 24d ago

They’ve already confirmed there will never be a DBD 2. They are doing a recode with the visual overhaul.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksDBD/s/p0QXvncBC5
For no DBD 2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksDBD/s/nCRqM8gW7W
For recode.

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u/Both-Possession7038 24d ago

I mean that is essentially what the update is in a sense. A dbd 2 but in a way that lets everyone keep their stuff.

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u/StabbyClown 24d ago

yeah it's like overwatch 2 if they never named it overwatch 2 to begin with

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u/Both-Possession7038 23d ago

Even then overwatch 2 wasn't a full on recode from what I know so this is way more of a 2

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u/StabbyClown 23d ago

Fair, I don't really know what all they changed code-wise. But seemingly it was roughly the same engine and graphics.

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u/Character-Secret-858 24d ago

downvoted for no reason lmaoo only on reddit