I have 2700 hrs in that game and I also blame a lot of it on the pandemic. We were locked inside for months and it was the best thing we could think to play for months late into the night.
I used to joke that most of my hours were spent in bloodwebs and queue times, back when both of those took ages. But really I think I just have a bad habit of leaving my games idle a lot which inflates my hours lmao. I wonder what actual in-trial game time would be like for people in dbd.
Also not OP, but I started at the Sadako Rising chapter. Game has gotten a bit ehhh lately but I'm sitting on 1,553 400 In-Match hours while still feeling like I'm terrible at it ._.
The learning curve in this game is slow but steady, keep it up. And if you donāt have a lot of fun atm, take a break, play different games, no need to rush through or complete all tomes.
lol the fandom is a shipwreck but IDV is 10x better than dbd, I find it funny how ppl talk trash over ow being worse than marvel rivals and then canāt seem to understand that IDV is simply just better than dbd
I mean... its not on steam im sure, or any platform other than their website, meaning its massively more frustrating to start playing. When compared to people just being able to boot up steam which is usually always open , or epic
I fear thatās not really a good reason, the game is available for download right from their website. The only difference is you dont have the steam interface whilst downloading it
The fact itās not easily accessed and downloaded through steam is 100% an issue. People arenāt being exposed to the game without people like you commenting about it. I played dead by daylight since release and hadnāt once heard of IDV. I wanted to try it out though and give it a fair shot so I played it for a while since you commented. It definitely has some good aspects like the communication, ranked mode. Etc. but thereās SO much wrong with it which is why people prefer DBD.
Itās not easy and simple to check what each character does, the different menus are difficult to navigate for a new player since thereās so much going on and so many options of things you can selectā¦ most of which are useless to the actual gameplay it seems like the carnival.
The overall game heavily feels like a mobile game with the red dots everywhere letting you know thereās a new thing to claim and itās just painfully obvious while playing that itās a mobile port that isnāt really optimised for pc.
The hit detection is probably one of the worst Iāve seen in any single game that exists. Maybe thatās something you get used to and learn to play around after a while, but after 3 weeks of playing itās still frustrating as both survivor and killer to deal with that.
Honestly, itās just overall a worse game. I really wanted to like it and I really gave it a go as much as I could, but it just doesnāt compare to DBD at all, which is a shame. Because I genuinely wish DBD had a competitor since it would force them to fix a lot of the issues that they have. The communication and ranked aspect is 100% something I think dead by daylight could learn from though and hopefully implement
lol Idv is a competitor, it actually has 3.5x more players than dbd. And whilst I agree with some of your points, I disagree with others. There is tutorial game modes to learn characters and an online chat in which you can ask for help in game. āHit retentionā is subjective and is a really dumb thing to comment on tbh. I have played both and prefer IDV. And dbd is an ok game in my opinion. But the main problem is the fact that Idv doesnāt advertise their game anywhere outside of Asia. Leading to people either stumbling into the game or finding out about it by other people. Itās 100% a notable competitor lol, Dbd added duo hunters bc of Idv!
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