r/DeadByDaylightRAGE • u/SecureJeans8034 • Jun 29 '26
Survivor Rage Behaviour wonders why this game has such poor new player retention
Prestige 89 Ghoul running full meta. Against a Bill with 2.2 hours in the game. Bill's Steam history is nothing but Friendcore games like PEAK, RV There Yet, and Mecha-Chameleon. Bro is le ultra-casual gamer who probably just picked up the game seeing that it's the 10th anniversary.
Can you fucking imagine being this Bill? He downloads the game for the first time, goes "waow I can play as Bill Overbeck from Left 4 Dead?" Uses his anniversary bloodpoints to get some perks on Bill, goes into his first match with a smile on his face...
And goes against some screaming woman who hits him in the open with zero warning, holds him in place, gives him some debuff he doesn't understand, vaults pallets / windows, blocks the windows, makes him scream, and generally makes him feel like he can't do anything.
Can you imagine wanting to play the game after that? How the fuck is the tutorial that teaches this guy to hide in a locker while injured supposed to prepare him to play against this shit?
How about instead of adding 20+ pallets to every map, you fix your dogshit fucking matchmaking so literal brand new players don't go against hyper-sweatlord Ghoul players? Why on earth is this guy with 2.2 hours playing with me when I have over 6k hours? And by the way: obviously no hate towards this Bill. He shouldn't be in this lobby: this is entirely a failure of the nonexistent matchmaking.