Future of DB

[Icecoal]

First of all I wanna say I love this game and really hope it will have more succes. Thing is the competition is getting tougher and more similar shooters are coming in the near future. I’m wondering what SD has in mind to stay competitive , on what they should focus mainly to attract more players and keep vets motivated ?

[SteelMailbox]

What I want to see right now is not more maps mercs weapons any new content as I am pleased with what we have already.
No, instead all I want is a balanced game which right now it is far from it.

[TheStrangerous]

It better live for as long as it can.

Cause if DB out, then I’m pretty much out of playing any online game. I’m very picky over online games, by the way. As much as DB’s imperfect, it has past my requirements of “not too hand-holding, not too high skill ceiling, supported by devs, decent playerbase, etc”.

Finding another active online game like that, is gonna be a huge journey.

[Cuck]

overwatch iz for pussies…
i will never touch that game again.
the horrors…oh the horrors…

i cant never get out of DB

[Jostabeere]

You speak about competition. I didn’t see a single game yet who dragged people off of DB because it’s very like DB but better.

[KUST_LunarTM]

I hear my friends complaining about how Kids have complained to him about how DB is a poorman’s Overwatch. I think a lot of people just really don’t take the time to examine this game to its full potential and end up writing it off as a bad game.

Here’s to hoping for great updates to make the game unique and fun, at least more visibly unique and fun to the slow minded, lol.

[Supersneaky]

Needs more maps, maybe even different team based game types.
Hell even CTF would be awesome fun!

[Ohsnapkline]

more marketing is required but I dont think nexon is funding sd enough

[Cuck]

[quote=“KUST__LunarTM;186040”]I hear my friends complaining about how Kids have complained to him about how DB is a poorman’s Overwatch. I think a lot of people just really don’t take the time to examine this game to its full potential and end up writing it off as a bad game.

Here’s to hoping for great updates to make the game unique and fun, at least more visibly unique and fun to the slow minded, lol.[/quote]

psst… overwatch is only “unique, cool, HIP” because ads and famous youtubers playing it.

i didnt see videogame dunkey play dirty bomb, but he does play overwatch
(in his overwatch video you can hear his bored tone while playing)

[terminal2]

[quote=“Cuck;186087”][quote=“KUST__LunarTM;186040”]I hear my friends complaining about how Kids have complained to him about how DB is a poorman’s Overwatch. I think a lot of people just really don’t take the time to examine this game to its full potential and end up writing it off as a bad game.

Here’s to hoping for great updates to make the game unique and fun, at least more visibly unique and fun to the slow minded, lol.[/quote]

psst… overwatch is only “unique, cool, HIP” because ads and famous youtubers playing it.

i didnt see videogame dunkey play dirty bomb, but he does play overwatch
(in his overwatch video you can hear his bored tone while playing)[/quote]
Overwatch is only unique, cool, and hip because it is
I don’t see any other shooter have a fat dude with a hook and a shotgun that has two shooting modes or a Brazilian dubstep man that has a constant buff AoE who can ride on walls.

[bontsa]

Cant people just be over with the debate and watch and perceive these 2 titles as different bloody games not stepping in each other’s toes?

OW: more casual, more “unique characters”-like (as there are practically no 2 same abilities), less aim-heavy and point’n’click (shotguns) + projectile heavy shooter

DB: attempt of being more competitive (still way to go), more “set-classes”- like (i.e ammo packs, revives, same guns…) more aim and tracking heavy, more hitscan automatic weaponary including shooter.

Its like saying some CoD Blackops etc. stole TF2 audience. During OW free open beta week there was no mentionably large decline in player counts, and that tells enough.

For DB, SD just has to simply teach nublets the very essentials of the game through tutorial so they can stop catering to casual audience with their updates, start supporting and listening whats left of comp community and take more fast actions on involving players in forms of community servers and player-created content like maps.

[Kekler]

One of the main problems is that a lot of people think that Dirty Bomb is like Overwatch or Tf2, if they even know about the game.

Being a free to play game it automatically has a bad reputation for people who never tried it, due to the loads of pay to win F2p games.

And the last time Splash Damage did a big promotion was when the open Beta started and they invited lots of youtubers to play the game (which is the way i learned about the game). And with the Overwatch Launch it would be a great time to do this again. They could invite youtubers to take a second lookl at the game. The fact that it´s looks like Ow at the first sight, but at the samt time isn´t, could lure a lot of people to try out the game, who dont want to spent 50€ on Overwatch or just dislike the bigger Moba and casual influence in Overwatch.

[Tayski]

What similar shooters are coming out?
I can’t think of any with the same concept.

Please let’s stop comparing DB with OW. OW is not a real shooter, and as some other have mentioned it’s just very hyped because it has a ton of funds as marketing and back-up + good graphics.

IMO what we need in DB:
-more bug fixing, that’s the priority.
-new maps. We can’t play on the same 5/6 maps forever.
-fixed Ranked system.
-getting rid of execution, or at least stop promoting it. We don’t need to introduce new players to it and please no more execution missions. This is only splitting our community in halves, which we certainly don’t need right now.
-auto shuffle at the beginning of each game (apart from private matches and ranked of course)
-not allowing a player to select a merc if someone in his team is already using it. Games with 4 fraggers, naders or vassilis in the same team kinda ruins the game.

[MarsRover]

Any of those have walljumping? Because I don’t think I can play any other online FPS without walljumping anymore.

(I know there’s going to be Titanfall 2 but I don’t know anything about it)

[TheStrangerous]

[quote=“MarsRover;186134”]Any of those have walljumping? Because I don’t think I can play any other online FPS without walljumping anymore.

(I know there’s going to be Titanfall 2 but I don’t know anything about it)[/quote]

When you play as Hunter in L4D1 and L4D2, in Unreal Tournament since 2004 and in Warsow, a very obscure free arena shooter that’s dead.

[EverythingElse]

-not allowing a player to select a merc if someone in his team is already using it. Games with 4 fraggers, naders or vassilis in the same team kinda ruins the game.

But what if you have a shit Aura or any other medic and you cant go that class

[Silo]

So, uh, what do we have to do to get Splash Damage to finally make the game run smoothly?

Alt+Tabbing is now impossible, because of permanent fps drops.
The game has amazing graphics, but almost everyone plays on the lowest settings for better fps.
I still get kicked for “Cheating” (rarely though), get game crashes, 1-2 second freezes.
Friend of mine has a serious gaming PC, but still can´t run the game on high settings at stable 60 fps.

Don´t care at all about balanced teams, but what I do care about is getting headaches from playing 30fps Dome missions.

[Eox]

[quote=“Silo;186206”]
Alt+Tabbing is now impossible, because of permanent fps drops.[/quote]

Wierd. I don’t have any issue with alt+tabbing.

I also wonder why so many people have so much issues with frames per second in DB. I run the game with max graphisms and it’s very smooth to me. Hardware issues ?

[watsyurdeal]

To be honest, there’s a few things that I think are critical, and a higher priority than anything else. And they are as follows

• Fixing the maps, too many of them are heavily one sided for the defending team. Underground and Trainyard come to mind, these maps have far too many sightlines and too many positions for the defenders to basically hold and dominate. The attacking side needs routes they can go so they can gain momentum, especially if Splash insists on having the spawn waves be a constant 20-30 second counter. Rather than having a spawn wave counter start the moment a team mate is gibbed.
• Community servers, instead of having all of these pointless fixes for pub matchmaking, cause it’s not like we have RANKED or anything, we need community ran servers where players can play with people of a certain skill level and make friends. That’s the real advantage of public play, being apart of a community and meeting new people to play with.
• Spread, I feel like there’s a lot of room for improvement in regards to bullet spread and hipfire. Some good examples are the Dreiss and Grandeur. There’s no reason each gun shouldn’t have a real feel of a learning curve, with as little randomness as possible. This may make the TTK a little faster but that’s nothing a few damage and rate of fire tweaks won’t fix.

[SereneFlight1]

Maps. Please. It’s been… 8 (?) months since any map of any sort was added… I realize that making OBJ/SW map takes time but… 8 soddin’ months!?
Also… SDK… but I suppose the community can’t be trusted to make good maps
[spoiler]cough cough
Venice
Caen
Supply Depot
Frostbite
BAAAASSSSEEEE RRAAACCCEEEE
etc. etc.[/spoiler]

More weapons. So many characters using SMGs and ARs but relatively few SMGs and ARs.

Reworking Phantom. Possibly remove the armor itself (keep the cloaking tho), give him a spotting ability, make the cloak less visible and noisy… you know, what we have been wanting for a long time.

Just sell Event Cases, not Event Elite Cases. With the prices and RNG involved, you barely see anybody using event cards after an event because barely anybody got a good card for a merc they play unless they spent hundreds of dollars/ euros OR got really really lucky which should have been used to win in a lottery.