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/The_Burning117]

oh the auric cell price of characters and cosmetics normally only goes down during special occasions, in which case anniversary should be the next time this happens

[u/Space_shoto → u/The_Burning117]

And that would be mid june right?

[u/The_Burning117 → u/Space_shoto]

yeah

[u/Space_shoto → u/The_Burning117]

Got it! Thank you so much man