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It may seem like a bit of a bold prediction, but I believe Dead by Daylight’s 2v8 game mode may actually impact the game in a way that changes it forever. It sounds hyperbolic, I know, but I stand by this take… Unless y’all are mean to me, then I was just joking!
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Nobody mention all of the missed hatchets. I'm NA's top Huntress (undisputed) and all misses are purely, categorically strategic. Totally.
Oni/Spirit games funna be lit
I'm probably one of the only people in the whole community who was sad 2v8 got extended. The mode was fun, but I've gotten bored of it and want my normal queue times back. I'm tired of waiting in queue for 5-10 minutes just to play killer in the regular mode.
Gonna be honest, I think the 2v8 game mode is really overrated and I much prefer the base game for one simple reason.
No builds.
I like dbd because I think about a fun idea about how I want to play, and then I try and do it. Maybe I want to plot twist decisive strike in a killers face and see if they take the bait. Maybe I want to play super sayan 3 meyers with the infinite tier 3 add on and stat increase perks. Maybe I want to use chemical trap, blast mine, mirrored illusion, and flashbang all on one build for the fun of it. Maybe I want to do the same with boon perks to place down the ultimate boon. Maybe I want to play acid blood Xenomorph with nemesis, play with your food, game afoot, and friends till the end. giving me a free hit and 10% speed boost every time a pallet is dropped on me, and still being able to catch up and confirm the down. Then if they adapt and predrop I’ll still be chacing the obsession and getting more speed with game afoot, encouraging vaulting instead of pallets, where I can use my tail or the vault speed add on.
There are hundreds of ways to play killer and survivor in the base game, but in 2v8 there are 5 killers and 4 survivors. The only thing that is sort of interesting to me is killer team combinations, but for that I would need friends to play with.
Idk, I must play this game for different reasons than everyone else. The idea of running the same build every game is just so boring to me.
From all of the killer roster, I'm most concerned about Plague. Like she is the number 1 for a support role. As Das Food said, Oni would have infinite power as long as she infect people, but also, being 24/7 a one hit down against the majority of the killers is most certainly lead to frustrating gameplay. I think she would need some serious tweaks so then she would be properly added on 2v8.
I’m tired of 1v4 and clearly a lot of people are hence why the extended the time the mode is in the game for now. 1v4 is so stressful and boring. Gen regression is cooked gens are being popped left and right and as 1 killer it just irritating. As survivor you get teammates who don’t do gens and sandbag you. I love 2v8 because it solves both of these issues. Killer is way more fun with another person and is less stressful. I would say survivor is fun but does get stale. This is because it’s the same as 1v4 just more people. they do need to work on it more to make it just as fun as killer. I think they should add another objective and more classes I think these could help
I like comparing 1v4 to search and destroy! I love 2v8 but I also love the competitive nature of 1v4 along with chaos shuffle. Hopefully the devs can balance both of these successfully 😅
Playing killer in 1v4 has been so stressful lately and a lot of the survivors are just cracked swfs, back to 2v8 I go. Another plus is the map design, I’m so glad I don’t have to get Hawkins, Lery’s, Midwich or RPD. The pallet distribution makes sense for the amount of players and usually u can just leave chases if they’re too long. I do wish that they’d add more anti-tunnel just to alleviate the rare chance of both killers tag teaming you off of hook. The tag teaming is pretty annoying sometimes but the map is big enough that your team can pressure the gens. The main problem is the god awful queues and the slugging. Slugging in a mode with insta hooks is so weird bruh.
I really like the game mode, with my only gripes being q times (can’t help it, me and my fellow killers have been denied teamwork far too long) and not liking any of the killers available but that too will be fixed with time. I am scared of balance as me being a dredge main, I am scared for whatever poor souls I go against if I have a ghostface allied with me
Gamemode is fun but only 5 killers enable? Plus I played only one time because waiting in the lobby took me 30 minutes! That's sucks
I’ve enjoyed 2v8, but right now the limited killers and maps means it’s become stale. I also dislike how there’s less skill expression for survivors with no pallet or flashlight saves etc.
So I prefer 1v4. They just need to bring the respawning hook idea into the main game as that almost entirely fixes the camping issue they’ve struggled to make feel better for survivors.
It's a nice change of pace, but overall I'd prefer the normal mode. Usually either the killer or survivors easily outclass the other, and this mode exacerbates is even more. If you're a survivor, and the killers are coordinated while your team won't do gens, there's nothing you can do. If the survivors can execute a plan, then the killers have very little time to try to stop them before multiple gens start blasting off all at once.
Not the biggest fan of 2v8 but that's mostly because it's just quite overwhelming to keep track of that many people/things going on around you for me
2v8 today,tomorrow, forever 🫡
2v8 is a lot of fun sure, but what I love about dbd is the 1v4 gameplay. People are already complaining about the q times and honestly I’m cool with 2v8 being just a rotation for other modifiers
Seems like you only played killer. There not much in it for the survivors role. Intill they make it worth it for survivors 2v8 won't be as popular as 1v4. This whole video seems like a one sided killer experience.
2v8 gets boring after awhile
I love the mode because it feels so social. I like seeing so many people everywhere as a survivor, and killer feels so fun having a buddy
I'm loving 2v8, and especially for the lack of perks on both sides. I like the implementation of classes in survivor, I enjoy how streamlined it all feels. I'm a killer main, though, and while I am really looking forward to more killers being added in, I don't think all of them are fit for this game mode. I don't think there's a reasonable way to put in "Side Quest" killers like Pig, Onryo, Pinhead, or even Wesker. The pace is too quick for that, and their powers could quickly become too oppressive or rendered utterly ineffective. That being said, the majority of the Killers are perfect for this mode, and I'm hoping that it sticks around even on a rotating basis with the other modes they've released.
Boring as fuck gamemode imo, chase either lasts 10 seconds because you get gang raped or 4 minutes because the killer is shit. No inbetween.
BHVR should add survivor bots so queues aren't 15 minutes long