VHS another asymmetric slasher game (free to play) - Surely, this one must be solid after so many failures? Spoilers: the balance sucks and the devs are faggots

I want to like VHS, and I want to encourage a competitor but a lot feels just "off" playing it. The lack of blood or any real tension, the skill curve in learning to use the sheer variety of teen weapon types(and some are USELESS on controller), the ammo counts where you make a missed attack, and then don't have enough charge to make a proper second for the full stigma. The new onboarding for players is steep. A high profile streamer backing it might be their best fix, honestly. It's playable, it's not worse off than DBD, but they're going to have a hard time building a playerbase against the genre juggernaut.
 
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Site is barely clinging to life. Deathwire is out. Consensus is that he's better than the other Monsters but still weak. Teens got a tiny slap on the wrist regarding nerfs. Monsters got a variety of tiny buffs. You can now hit vending machines and stop them from working for 60 seconds. There is now a "busted" status that automatically effects Teens if they take too many hits.

Player numbers hit 1500 on Thursday.

I don't think this is enough to save the sinking ship but data for the next Monster has been leaked.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Ten fucking dollars!?!?!? And you don't even get the matching survivor!>!>!??!@$#

These devs have to be the absolute stupidest assholes on the face of the Earth. How in the fuck do you justify $10 just for the killer? Even Behavior isn't that greedy. $5 for a killer or survivor is fine in DbD. And you pay $7 and you get both and that's pretty fair considering. The cosmetics are overpriced at $10 a piece but that doesn't effect gameplay.

Either the devs are stupid assholes or they're just trying to get as much cash as possible before pulling the plug on this abortion.
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Update: Death Wire is technically free but you have to play something like 100 matches to earn enough to buy the character. It's more lucrative to do Challenges that give you more Flux (I.E. the fake currency to buy shit) which makes it worse than DbD. In DbD, if you want to earn shards to buy characters and cosmetics you just need to play the game. That's it. In VHS, you only get this petty cash if you play Monster (this is a recent change) or you complete Movies AKA Challenges which can be very grindy and made of bullshit.

The player count has reached under a thousand at peak hours and survivor cunts are already crying for Death Wire nerfs.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Update: Death Wire is technically free but you have to play something like 100 matches to earn enough to buy the character. It's more lucrative to do Challenges that give you more Flux (I.E. the fake currency to buy shit) which makes it worse than DbD. In DbD, if you want to earn shards to buy characters and cosmetics you just need to play the game. That's it. In VHS, you only get this petty cash if you play Monster (this is a recent change) or you complete Movies AKA Challenges which can be very grindy and made of bullshit.

The player count has reached under a thousand at peak hours and survivor cunts are already crying for Death Wire nerfs.
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Survivors and whining out the ass because the enemy is something they can't steam roll. Name a more iconic duo.

Horror Asyms and shitting the bed. (:_(


Also that's crazy they did something worse then DbD :story:

New Dev notes.
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09.15 DevNotes: Feedback, Rewinders, Fall Catalog

Welcome to Fall, gamers! Our Escape the Eviscerator update is now LIVE and we are thrilled with the community reception to our largest…
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I'm betting 500 players by the end of the year.
 
New dev blog out https://medium.com/@hellbentgames/1...ter-experience-private-screening-1c58e3f7e7c0

Things to note.

  • Monster Respawn Scream
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Are being added thanks to feedback.

Monster and Teen Booster Packs in the works are also in the works.


Also the first Seasonal event.

BOO! Our first in-game event begins this Thursday! Join us in the Hallways of Horror for a spooktacular collection of Halloween festivities:

  • Haunt the transformed Pine Bluff Hallways with your new Haunted Hall Pass
  • Play through two exclusive new movies, CLOWMS (co-written by our incredible mods Carlos and Lalo) and Death O’Lantern for FREE limited edition costumes
  • Collect Glowing Gourds as a teen to earn exclusive Brain Biscuits pickups! Smash Ghoulish Gourds as a monster but beware when opening lockers…
  • Consume your Brain Biscuits to become a Hollowed teen zombie then resurrect your friends to return them to the land of the living
  • Teens can evade evil with the Smoke Screen pickup. Monsters can bust Teens with the new Plague of Pestilence
  • Costumes, Emotes, and Weapons to die for in an all new rotation
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Death O'latern looks cool cosmetic.

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Last but not least, we’re working on a new custom game mode to be playable this November!

Based on your requests, we will soon be introducing Private Screenings, a place where you can join a custom party of 5 to play any way you want! Low stress, extra sweaty, lore hunting sessions, solo map studies, the Beyond will soon be open to all! Stay tuned for more updates on our progress.
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I kind of feel like the care taker of this thread at this point. With how I still care for this game. (:_(
 
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ChucklesTheJester said:
New dev blog out https://medium.com/@hellbentgames/1...ter-experience-private-screening-1c58e3f7e7c0

Things to note.

  • Monster Respawn Scream
  • Monster Pings
Are being added thanks to feedback.

Monster and Teen Booster Packs in the works are also in the works.


Also the first Seasonal event.




Death O'latern looks cool cosmetic.

Also



I kind of feel like the care taker of this thread at this point. With how I still care for this game. (:_(
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It's not enough. All they're doing is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
And the YT shills are now abandoning the game as it hits below 300 players at peak hours.



I forgot to mention that the community manager also left the company. It's only a matter of time until they officially announce they're ending support.
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Leave it to Dowsey to gloss over the most important reasons why this game is dead on arrival: Dbd exodus and unfun killer gameplay.

Looking back at the shilling VHS got from mad Dbd killer mains last year was one hell of a punk trick since this game was actually a love letter to 4-man SWF squads seeing as the weapons turned bullying into the main objective. Big oofs all around since Dbd themselves already capitalized on that market anyways.

2022 was the year of a lot of assym games and most of them turned out lukewarm. Evil Dead is too slow to roll out new updates so its success is incredibly pale and Dragon Ball: The Breakers is broken like Year 1 Dbd where its lucky most survivors are too retarded to exploit the broken shit they have to win. That, and the new update giving survivor transformations of the villains begs the question of the appeal of Raider since you can play as 4th form Frieza or Perfect Cell much more as a survivor now lol.
 
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Cisna H. Scumale said:
Leave it to Dowsey to gloss over the most important reasons why this game is dead on arrival: Dbd exodus and unfun killer gameplay.

Looking back at the shilling VHS got from mad Dbd killer mains last year was one hell of a punk trick since this game was actually a love letter to 4-man SWF squads seeing as the weapons turned bullying into the main objective. Big oofs all around since Dbd themselves already capitalized on that market anyways.

2022 was the year of a lot of assym games and most of them turned out lukewarm. Evil Dead is too slow to roll out new updates so its success is incredibly pale and Dragon Ball: The Breakers is broken like Year 1 Dbd where its lucky most survivors are too retarded to exploit the broken shit they have to win. That, and the new update giving survivor transformations of the villains begs the question of the appeal of Raider since you can play as final form Frieza or Perfect Cell much more as a survivor now lol.
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Yeah, I said this before and I'll cop to it, even I said VHS was going to be competition. Who could have possibly predicted that the devs would end up being even more incompetent and obstinate towards their customers than Behavior?

It had the most obvious problems in the world staring at them right in the face and the retards ignored the problems. Something something you get what you fucking deserve.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Yeah, I said this before and I'll cop to it, even I said VHS was going to be competition. Who could have possibly predicted that the devs would end up being even more incompetent and obstinate towards their customers than Behavior?

It had the most obvious problems in the world staring at them right in the face and the retards ignored the problems. Something something you get what you fucking deserve.
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Monkey paw man, it's the fucking moneky's paw. We joked about it, but no, like some autistic curse it seems to have gave the devs a case of retardation.
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That, and the new update giving survivor transformations of the villains begs the question of the appeal of Raider since you can play as 4th form Frieza or Perfect Cell much more as a survivor now lol.
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THEY DID WHAT.

I am sorry what. WHY?

Please tell me they gimped in power compared to the raiders.
 
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Player count is under 200 at peak hours right now.

They made a "big announcement" where... Now there's custom matches. That's it. Nothing else.

After reviewing my posts here, I'm going to stop saying "I give this blank months until they pull the plug" and you have my apologies.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Player count is under 200 at peak hours right now.

They made a "big announcement" where... Now there's custom matches. That's it. Nothing else.

After reviewing my posts here, I'm going to stop saying "I give this blank months until they pull the plug" and you have my apologies.
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At this point all 4 of the monsters are on the bed with a life support machine. (:_(
 
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