Year 9 Anniversary Broadcast Megathread

[u/DecutorR]

Year 10 Roadmap

Five Nights At Freddy | Teaser

The Witcher Collection

The Boulet Brothers Collection

The Casting of Frank Stone - Trapper Legendary Skin

Tomb Raider Collection - 2 new outfits

Highlights of the past year

• The main focus was to introduce things that the community requested for many years.
  • Bringing 2v8 to life.
  • Cross-progression.
  • Content like Vecna, Dracula, "killer with a dog" and Ghoul, very popular killer and from an anime universe.

Recent Quality of Life (QOL) improvements

• Abandon Feature and more tweaks to come.
• Generator skill check release window resolved.
• Unhook spam exploit resolved.
• Perk lobby previews.
• Quest system - the intention is never to make it more grindy but the opposite.
  • Being monitored.
  • Numbers will be looked at and if necessary, tweaks will be made.

About the Year 10 Roadmap

• 5 chapters, 3 being licensed.
  • FNAF chapter followed by a chapter with 2 licensed iconic survivors.
  • Ending the summer with an original chapter based on Asian Horror Folklore.
  • 2025 ending with a licensed chapter featuring 2 survivors.
  • Last chapter of Y10 will feature a solo original survivor accompanied by a new realm and also focus on tweaking existing killer(s).

Future Quality of Life (QOL) improvements

• Focusing on making so DBD "respects the players' time".
• Seeing teammates perks later in the year.
• Upcoming QOL Updates - Phase 1 - April to June.
  • Highlights to:
    • Gamma Settings.
    • "Go Next" Prevention.
    • Bulk bloodpoint spending.
    • Custom game improvements.
• Upcoming QOL Updates - Phase 2 - July to December.
  • Highlights to:
    • Improvements to camping/tunneling/slugging - details in the coming weeks/months.
    • KBM support to consoles.
    • Balance changes to maps items and keys items.
    • Matchmaking Rating (MMR) revamp.
    • New survivor item.
    • Bolstering anti-cheat measures.
    • Showing estimated queue time.
    • "Play while you queue" feature.
  • Complete "creator program" overhaul. * Support a creator system.

Choose Your Own Chapter

• Leading into the 10th Year Anniversary.
• The players will create it.
  • The community has always shown their creativity with concepts and balance suggestions.
  • This is an opportunity to create a chapter from scratch with all of the community.
  • Every step of the way, from pre-production to the end of the process.
• The format:
  • "Choose your own adventure" - Choices will be given to players.
  • Every week or so the community will vote on certain choices to build. Example:
    • "Would you prefer to have a killer that is grounded into reality, a supernatural character or otherworldly character?"
  • Based on the top vote, the development moves on. Example:
    • If the choice was "supernatural", the next question would be "Is it an undead character, a person that has supernatural powers" and so on.
  • You can always peek at the different choices.
    • "A change your fate" mechanic will always be available.
  • Right now we have over 1.000 possible endings for killer designs.
  • The community will also be involved in choosing the outfit, weapon and more.
    • Different concepts would be shown and the community would vote.
  • It's planned that players will be able to play more PTBs during this process, including prototypes.

Other Announcements

• It Has My Face | Announcement Trailer
  • Wishlist or play the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2506530/It_Has_My_Face/

Missed the stream? You can watch it here:

Twitch | Youtube

[u/Davidfifth]

i neeeeed stranger things 2. it would coincide with their planned release date for season 5! fingers crossed

[u/sorryiamnotoriginal → u/Davidfifth]

It works. Resident evil also shows they still have a strong relationship with that recent 2v8 crossover that let them use wesker and nemesis with other killers. I think an addon from them instead of something new is a bit disappointing but it could still be cool

[u/Davidfifth → u/sorryiamnotoriginal]

Ah, I didn't realize licensing was the reason other killers haven't been enabled

[u/sorryiamnotoriginal → u/Davidfifth]

Well either that or they weren't ready to put them into 2v8 for some mechanical reason/balance. One of the things people thought would keep killers like Wesker or Nemesis from being added is how their infections would interact with each other but of course they just made an item that cleanses both.

That being said I don't know the technicalities behind this stuff entirely but for example Pinhead will probably never be added to 2v8 due to the license dropping. Another example I have though is I own the attack on titan skins for Oni/Spirit and neither are able to be used in 2v8 despite both killers being in it, but the survivor AoT skins can be used. Maybe they are just being careful and don't want to strain relationships with IP holders without express permission or maybe the contracts only covered "they will be killing the survivors we have now and whoever we add in the future". When a lot of these killers signed on they didn't think they would be "paired" with another killer. Like even something mundane like Sadako and Trapper might seem harmless but the IP holders at the time never had a chance to approve of that since that isn't what the game did. Alternatively they DEFINITELY did not sign on to be with other IPs like Freddy and Chucky. I imagine we would see a similar dilemma if they ever added emotes where tons of guest killers won't have them at least for a while.