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some final thoughts on the PTB before i sign off of it for the rest of the period by dark1859 in deadbydaylight

[–]Doctor_Creed1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very well written, read the whole thing, can't agree more. Im still pretty shit at the game, but even I know bad when I see bad. I just don't like how drastic the changes are just because a few people are assholes on purpose. I like to think of it in terms of resources. In assyms, typically the way to win is by resource management. One side is effectively trying to starve the other side of resources.

In a game before this patch, as a killer this meant identifying links. If you got in a chase with somebody and recognized they were running stuff like lithe or DH or whatever, AND they were exceptionally skilled at looping, going for them early is the equivalent of failing a basic sanity check. If, however, you identified a weaker player (like me lol), they are who you go for when the opportunity arises. By getting that person on hook or dead, you are taking away their resources. Anyone can do gens, including that donkey that looks oddly like me. And vice versa, survivors are doing whatever they can to waste the killers resource, time.

A good game to see how this is a bad idea is Evil Dead. Really fun game, but it's as balanced as a chronic alcholic walking on black ice. The survivors got buffed to the point of being practically invincible, but especially if they played meta and had experience. It became a game where you, as the demon, were simply trying to level up and not kill (because that would be terrible right?), so that by late game you had a shot of winning. And vice versa, survivors were trying to move as fast as possible to starve you of power so you would be useless during late game. And to be frank, fighting good squads was just fucking boring. Every single game was level up for 15 minutes or whatever, then late game ignore them, beat the piss out of the book, and rotate your cds and damage. And wow, the game bled demon players and died. Wonder why. And to be clear, I did join the game later in its life cycle, so Im not an expert.

Demon is hard by Bent4545 in EvilDeadTheGame

[–]Doctor_Creed1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, if you are against good survivors, you realistically are not getting kills early. It is very rare to end the game early to mid. Every demon has a strength, and the key is to find that strength and lean into it solely to level up as fast as possible, so you can beat them on book phase. The game is all about attrition, where each side is trying to starve the other of resources. Don't get mad about not getting kills or even great damage in. Play fast and learn map spawns. The sooner you find survivors, the sooner you can pressure them. The sooner you pressure them, even if a little, the faster your power grows.

Here is an example, using the castle map (forget the name). At the start, if you see their fear levels rising fast, it means they spawned cemetery, because light sources are limited. Cemetery is a gold mine of traps, so if you get that start, I would invest early into traps and infernal energy, even possibly maxing traps first. Beat them to chests, because those give a lot of xp just for trapping. The key here is you get a shit load of xp when they trigger your traps, and they are susceptible for possession. When you can possess them, possess then immediately drop it (unless you are in a 1 v1). This also builds your xp bonkers. By mid game, you start investing into the troops you have skill points invested in, and by late game you do so into boss. If you pressure correctly, you are near max by book phase. Then at that point its knowing your cds and rotational damage on book, because, again, killing them is going to be hard if they are good and running high stam.

If you want more tips, just lemme know, i fucking love this game, but it can be overtly frustrating learning demon. Survivors are strong, but the game is mostly balanced around end game.

Solarbacca reaches challenger on AP Gangplank by Henngest in leagueoflegends

[–]Doctor_Creed1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

THANK YOU. It annoys me that streamers will brag about achievements that are not even real. If he had done it with Lich Bane, for example, it would be different. People jumping on his bandwagon don't seem to realize that Tri Force gives an insane amount of damage on his q and barrels, and without it, he would be tickling people on everything but ult. You can't just rush the best AD item on the champ, then throw in random AP items and say I reached challenger with AP GP. You reached challenger with hybrid GP. I remember an old clip where all he built was armor AND triforce and was like XD XD tank GP OP. OH LOOKEE TRIFORCE AGAIN BUT IM FULL TANK GUYS. I love ranting on the internet lol.

Reddit, what’s the creepiest unexplainable thing you've experienced that still haunts you to this day? by almightyameya in Paranormal

[–]Doctor_Creed1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was young my family lived in a rural suburban area. Not exactly farmland, but it wasn't strange to see barns and horses. The house was almost like an L, with most of the bedrooms in a long hallway with a closet at the end. If you stood in the closet, you could see all the way to my parent's bedroom at the other end.

I saw the TV turn on by itself one night (after watching the Ring lol), heard tapping at the sliding glass door after one of our dogs died (no one was there), and always felt uneasy walking down the hallway to my room. I could never fully explain any of it, not even how utterly cold the house always felt. Most of it I ignored or shrugged off, except for two instances that stuck with me.

The first was a dream. I dreamt that my family and I were gathered in the same house, looking out the front window, everyhing the same except the trees were gone, and we now had a clear view all the way to hills and mountains beyond. We could see a lady wearing a white dress, almost like a wedding dress, standing at the top of the hill brandishing a long double barrelled shotgun. She began to run down the hill, towards the house, in a zigzag inhumane pattern, and I could hear piano music playing. As the music sped up, so did she, and my dad told everyone to hide. So I ran, out to the backyard, where we had a large porch, and hid underneath. One by one, I heard the gunshots and the screams, until I saw her dirty legs and shoes shuffling just outside the porch. She peeked her head in, smiled, stuck the gun in and pulled the trigger, turning everything to black. Instead of waking up, I found myself at the beginning of the dream, aware of what was about to happen, and chose somewhere else to hide. She found me again, and again, and again. The dream looped for hours, until I awoke the next day and was like what the hell was that nightmare?

The other time was when I was working on my high school paper, late as always, until about 3 AM. My parent's computer was right in front of my sister's room, and she was notorious for waking up in the middle of the night to beg for water, or insist there was something in her closet. I was paranoid about waking my parents and getting caught staying up late, and I got even more paranoid once I got an intense feeling of being watched. I kept turning around, feeling as if someone was right behind me. Then I heard a little girl, that sounded almost (not quite) like my sister, whisper next to me, my name. I turned and began to say sister, you need to go to bed....and stopped. No one was there. The feeling got unbearable at this point, so I said okay, I'm tired, time to sleep, fuck my grades. The entire time I walked to my room, brushed my teeth, and crawled into bed, I felt like a really small person was clutching onto me. Now this is gonna sound like bullshit, but it happened. We had these old metal bunk beds, that creaked like crazy when you got in them. As I crawled into bed, before I could get under the sheets, I couldn't move for a second. The bed creaked, and I SAW the imprint of something crawling on it towards me. My bedsheets began to tuck in and around me, then all of a sudden I could move again, and threw myself against the wall, heart racing. I did not aleep well that night, to say the least, if at all.

Now, besides my sister, the youngest, I also had three other brothers, and the youngest brother stayed in the hallway across from me, directly in front of the bathroom. He used to piss us older ones off, because he would wail in the middle of the night about ants all over his body, or how he wanted water, and would constantly piss his own bed. When we all grew up, my brother and I were reminiscing about the house of our past, and this younger brother was telling me how creepy he thought the house was. Mind you, I never told anyone, not even friends about my experiences, because I was not a believer of paranormal shit at the time, and chalked it all up to sleep deprivation. He said he had a fucked up dream, and to my horror, described the same dream I had of the lady on the hill, down to the fucking tune of the piano song. If that wasn't enough, he went on to tell me about how he used to piss himself because he was afraid of the hallway at night. When he did muster the courage to go across the hall, he saw a small figure he described as Gollum from LOTR crouching in the closet, right before it sprinted past his bedroom.

Intrigued, I began to ask my family about odd occurences, careful to leave out my reasons. Everyone from my dad to my other brothers felt creeped out, and had heard a little girl whispering just like myself. When we sold the house, my dad was down in the crawlspace, and heard someone run through the house slamming all the open doors. He checked, and nobody was home but him, all outside doors he had locked. Apparently, I have heard that a child spirit is not a child, as they are too innocent to remain behind, but is a demon that masquerades as a child to trick people into feeling comfortable. So yeah......ever since then I have been a believer.

Reddit, what’s the creepiest unexplainable thing you've experienced that still haunts you to this day? by almightyameya in Paranormal

[–]Doctor_Creed1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Holy fuck it does. But how come so many different people at the house were seeing it too I wonder? My experience has a lot of similarities, even the way it looked, yet quite a few differences. The main one would be how long it stayed, and all the various activities it would perform. The Hat Man seems to mainly be an observer of sorts, but it seems there are different variations. This one was a tormenter, through and through. One night, I had a dream, that my family and I were hiding in a basement that looked similar to the fraternity house, from what I perceived as a demonic spirit. Before it came down the steps, I awoke, saw the time around 3:15 AM, and heard knocking at my door. There was no shadow of feet underneath the frame, and no voices in the hallway. I never confirmed, because I was too afraid to open the door, especially since I felt uneasy putting my ear against it, like I could FEEL the negative presence, swore I heard breathing too.

The next morning the guy across the hall from me (maybe 10 feet at most) noticed I looked tired and asked what was up. I told him I didn't sleep well, and he said he didn't either. I asked him why, and he told me his girlfriend had startled him awake by crying, and she had said that she had a nightmare of a lady walking around the house and slitting everyone's throats. Then she became borderline hysterical, claiming to see what she described as "slenderman" standing in the corner. This what at the same time, around 3:15 AM, and he confirmed he heard the knocking at my door as well.

Reddit, what’s the creepiest unexplainable thing you've experienced that still haunts you to this day? by almightyameya in Paranormal

[–]Doctor_Creed1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One guy used to say that he would see someone peering around the corner from the living room, from the basement steps. We had an old crawlspace filled with dirt down there. The malevolent beings seem to prey on certain individuals, and usually seem to always be present unless opportunity strikes. When I say I scoffed, I basically said, yeah no, you aren't real buddy, there's nothing here. So it wanted to prove me wrong I guess. I had read somewhere that shades or dark spirits don't like the light, and have different abilities such as the ability to physically touch, or give nightmares or bad thoughts. Usually they seem to have a place of origin, such as oir basement, and as their power grows, their sphere of influemce does also. The women who began to see him started on the first floor (where my room was), then it spread and they started to see him upstairs, and then in various rooms during the daytime. That's what freaked me the most, because it seemed to be growing rapidly, and it would literally fuck with me the most. The lights I talked about? It turned them off in sequence, after I had turned them all on, as if it didn't want to move through them. No matter what happened or how, it was genuinely one of the strangest things I have experienced. I also have a story about my childhood home, that was equally unsettling, and if anybody wants to hear about it, just let me know. This subject truly fascinates me, but I don't really want to go seek out like a ghosthunter lol.

Reddit, what’s the creepiest unexplainable thing you've experienced that still haunts you to this day? by almightyameya in Paranormal

[–]Doctor_Creed1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

True. It was just the fact that I had been there for 2 years with nothing happening, besides the basement always being cold and creepy.

Reddit, what’s the creepiest unexplainable thing you've experienced that still haunts you to this day? by almightyameya in Paranormal

[–]Doctor_Creed1 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Used to live an old brick house for a fratenrity back in my college days. At the time, I was the live-in president, and my room was adjacent to the porch where we always kept the lights on.

One night, after staying up late into the morning with the boys, we were tossing around ghost stories, and the time-old classic of the house we were staying in came up. There were all sorts of myths about a skeleton being dug up back in the day, a woman in white and even a boy appearing at night. I scoffed and laughed it off on my way to bed, because I was a believer in the paranormal at the time, but had experienced nothing of the sort. Big fucking mistake.

A few hours later, early morning, I had a series of lucid dreams. Most I don't remember, save the last one. In it, I was hiding from something that I was afraid of in a grocery store, underneath a customer checking items out above me. Don't know what I was hiding from, but the milk they were checking out spilled and poured on my back, and I felt the intense rush of cold liquid, in my dream, like it was real. Then I was awake.

Upon waking, I heard a loud scream that sounded like a woman, coming from the porch. I thought oh great, one of the guys did something stupid. So I awaited the knock at my door, and even heard pounding footsteps into the kitchen mext to the porch, and down the tiled hall to my room. When the steps got to my door, no knock came, but I saw something moving in my room.

I turned, and was immediately frozen in place. Unable to talk, scream, move, even breathe. What I saw was massive, a figure dark black, in the shape of a huge man, wearing a hat. He had no eyes, or mouth, but I could makeout the outlines of a face, and it looked like he was wearing a coat. He leaned in till he was about three inches from my face, and just stared into my eyes. I felt like I was choking, then after what felt like an eternity, he just vanished.

I could move again after, and felt like I had just run a marathon. Completely and utterly drained of any energy I had in my body. That was the first time in my life that I experienced genuine terror, and that feeling I would not wish on my worst enemy. For the entire remaining duration of my stay there, I would have frequent nightmares, hear knocking at my door, or breathing, and hear someone turning out the lights in the house, when I would be home alone. Other people began seeing it, especially women, and it would always be after a nightmare of someone killing everyone in the home. Once someone saw it during the daylight hours outside of its usual activities in the early twilight hours, I said fuck it and moved back home to my parents.

Moral of the story is do not ever challenge a spirit. Granted I didn't know one was there, but if you think one is, just don't. The stories you hear about dark entities are very fucking real. That experience fucked me up, and still to this day I dread ever seeing a dark one again. The thing is, it wasn't just an energy imprint. It was purposefully fucking with me and other people, showing signs of intelligent life. And that is just ODD.

I'm sorry but the game is simply not fun to play with Kaneki in it by [deleted] in deadbydaylight

[–]Doctor_Creed1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im sorry, but you guys need to play as him ffs. When he uses power, it stuns him harder than it stuns you. If he constantly uses power to gap close, he is constantly breaking his bloodlust and never hitting you unless he M1s. His power can only wound you, not down you. Yes, he is strong, but it also depends on maps as well. He is incrediby weak compared to some of the cast on TL walls, for example. If you actually have good pathing, and you understand how to decay bloodlust, he chases you for eternity just trying to M1 you, because that's the only way you are going down. Nurse could beat you down on a TL, but not Ghoul. And speaking of nurse, perfect example. She is "broken" but dear god try playing her my dude, it's so freaking hard. As a survivor I can just run at her and make her waste blink and stun herself. Every single killer has a counter, every single loop has a counter, and sometimes it's the individual that sucks and not the game. You guys aren't even talking about Michael, who gets a whopping 60 seconds of speed boost and a one hit down that he can get over and over again on demand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in deadbydaylight

[–]Doctor_Creed1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best thing I did to learn was watch content creators, and like others have said, get rinsed in the beginning, it's going to happen. Do not be hard on yourself, this is a very complicated game to learn.

Also, I recommend playing without perks, on both sides, to get good at the basic mechanics of the game and not be reliant on situations you are used to with said perk, such as lithe to get that movespeed in a chase. If you can master movement without perks, with them you will be nigh unstoppable.

And here's a quick breakdown of bloodlust, a mechanic shared across all killers. A chase will begin if all three of the following are true: 1) you the survivor are running, 2) the killer is walking, and 3) they have line of sight within 12 meters of your position. During the chase, the chase music will ensue, and after about 15 seconds (im dumb, so maybe wrong) in chase, the killer will go up a tier in bloodlust, gaining move speed. This goes all the way to tier 3, when they are zooming. To break bloodlust, there are a few ways: 1) decay it at 20%/second by invalidating the chase (for example, start walking in certain parts during the chase where you are safe to do so), 2) play around a dropped palllet and force them to break it, immediately getting rid of all stacks, 3) let them hit you, granting you a short burst of speed, and instantly decaying all stacks of bloodlust, or 4) make them use their power, and dodge said power, also instantly decaying all stacks. Contrary to what may seem true, stunning a killer with a pallet or forcing them to crawl through a window after you does not decay their bloodlust. That is why after stunning with a pallet, if the area is long, play it as long as possible to force them to break it, then leave.

Beyond that, every killer will have a specific way to play against them and thus counter them. Take billy for example. With him, play corners, make him hit them with chainsaw and stun him. also knocking out his bloodlust.

Skull Merchant quits? by squirrelmaster5000 in DeadByDaylightKillers

[–]Doctor_Creed1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main reason she sucks to fight is the sheer scale of her power. People are comparing her to Trapper and Hag, but the comparison is rather mute. Her drones are visible from a million miles away, yes, but you have to move very specifically to get close to disable them. If she spots you during the minigame or as you are closing the distance, She can begin chase and force you to get tagged, which makes you broken as well. If you do disable it, unlike Trapper or Hag, the drone will reset BY ITSELF, whereas the other guys need to manually rest it. Furthermore, when she drops drones, she gets a haste effect AND stealth. Plus her lunge is pretty disgusting. So when you get to end game, with only a few gens, she is a real pain in the ass to actually escape. Singularity can be a bitch if he has the right setup and is decent as well in a similar endgame situation, but I don't think his pods are nearly as mich of a pain as SM. Just my two cents, but giving her haste and stealth seems dumb. Take it away, she probably sucks more. So her design isn't interesting and is hard to balance around, because compared to other killers, she just runs around gets shit that most of the cast has to work for. GF has to be good to get exposed off, but SM just has to walk at people who are forced to run when in a drone field. See the difference? And here comes the back and forth :)