Top 5 Things The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game NEEDS to Change 

Johnys third ability should be him pulling out a comb. He stands around and styles his hair for a bit. During this time he's completely immune to Leland.

Unsure if anybody else has mentioned this in these comments, but Johnny DOES have another ability. He can barge down all latched doors on the first try. Still not very strong, but useful.

How to play grandpa

Chain stuns are pretty common. I’ve encountered several times. I was held hostage by a Leland and Sony in the basement for 4 min while they kept taking turns stunning me with infinite bone daggers. The pile was right where I chased one and Leland stunned me and sonny would stab me while Leland grabbed a dagger, once I recovered Leland stunned me/ Infinite loop. I literally had to run away from the basement as a KILLER. It was a shit experience and the fact it’s becoming more common makes me want to stop playing until it’s addressed.

I agree with most of this, but I personally think the #1 priority that should be fixed ASAP is to fix the anti-cheat system. The fact that there are already cheaters in the game is nuts and a serious problem regardless of how many people are doing it.

The colored key idea is actually not bad, I think something has to be done to slow down the killers in that sense if survivors would have to explore more but I like the idea of finding a certain key and having to get to a certain exit to use it

Finally - Someone that agrees with my opinions on DC'ers. I'm 48, so I grew up playing games face to face with the other players. So we grew up with a respect for the other player. All these kids that have only played online games and hide behind online anonymity with the attitude that: if THEY are not having fun they are going to do the online equivalent of flipping the board over or taking their ball home.

"prolong the basement sequence" I don't know if this is currently a bug, but I've had matches where none of the victims escaped from the basement, because we couldn't find lockpicking tools. Every usual location for lockpicking tools had health spawned instead. We'd run around for 5-10 minutes and Bubba would kill us all. And if it was just me not escaping, I'd say it was definitely my fault. But my whole team not making it out?

Chain stunning on doors needs addressed. LF *shouldn’t* cower from a doorway because a lanky teen named LELAND is standing in the door. *Immersion* *utterly* *annihilated* . But indeed that is the correct call if your a lower level LF and there’s a cheeky Leland set out to grief you. Stuff like that will deter new players. Especially when more and more people level Leland, and learn to use doors and bone shards.

Specifically regarding point #3, while I understand the desire to want to have a disconnect penalty implemented in the game, I don’t think they’re ever gonna implement that. Besides the reasons Gun cited in the meta dev stream for why they don’t wanna do it, the fact the game says when you’re about to quit “Are you sure? Your currently gained XP will be saved” or something along those lines, tells me that their minds are made up on that and that they’re NEVER gonna go back on that and implement a DC penalty.

yeah i hate that the level up is only 50% progression for the perks so perks that need 18000 needs 36000! points and say you get 1000 a match, thats 36 games, 24 for matches for the 12000 just to get to level 3 and remember perk progress doesn't transfer to other characters which is fine, but i would like my perks too progress fast on a specific character. also fix perks, some don't even work right now

I agree with everything except Johnny, his “2nd ability” is being mini leather face due to his speed and damage. Johnny can literally insta kill anyone who is out in the open.

I think a mini map would help my dumbass gets lost

Johnny being able to zip across the map with the sprint attacking build is crazy, if you've never gone against a good Johnny doing that you're lucky, it's such a nuisance.

1. Completely agree that XP needs tuning. It is WAY to grindy. The constantly increasing XP requirement per level makes it a nightmare to get skill/perk points. 2. Yep, random perks are horrible. I've sat there re-specing for 30 minutes just to get the perks I need for a certain build. 'Select-a-perk' is a great idea! 3. I disagree with adding a disconnect penalty. I've been disconnected in games due to server issues. Unless the disconnect penalty only applies to purposely leaving a match and then it can't be fairly implemented. 4. Yes, car battery needs to be on at start of match. 5. Never played as Johnny (due to only having enough perk points to level 2 characters) Overall, you're on point. Really enjoying your TCM content. Keep on keeping on.

30 points for a melee attack is far too low, and kills should count for more imo.

1. Asking for a disconnect penalty in the LOBBY is wild. If I queue up with a friend and they get that "session could not be found" error or whatever, thus not allowing them to join me, i'm supposed to get a disconnect connect penalty for leaving? I'm not 100% certain about how I feel about the exp, however to punish someone for leaving because they want to place a specific character, whether its to level up a perk (whos progress is not shared through characters), or level up the victim/killer skill is also insane. All that will do is lead to people joining matches and afking/throwing so they can go to a different lobby and ruining the experience for everyone else. 2. Stating the car battery needs to be on from the start is lazy. Each killer is given a role when the game starts, if you are in the basement (bubba) your job is to harass the victims/take out crawl spaces and stuff. If you are on the outside (meaning the outer area), your job is to lock stuff down. it takes no time for you to hold down the button and turn the generator/car battery on. It's not like you can get into the basement without grandpa being awake anyway. Lastly, if Johnny was so bad or as you put it, a worse cook, why is he used so much compared to cook?

Cheaters are a real problem atm, at least in my experience.

There is a glitch you can do to family members with Leland, if you do his shove ability to a family member during a scuffle it’ll randomly freeze their character (due to falling animation not working) and basically making Leland a game breaker Ive done it twice as Leland once on a Hitchhiker and once on Leatherface and have had it done to me when i was Leatherface it will freeze your character and your essentially useless rest of the match

I think the random perk should be pick a perk but it is only for a certain category of the 3. (PS I would want them to make us able to have a few more perks in these if they did it at least 4 for each of the 3 categories) I do think the battery should start on, now if the devs are not wanting to do it because they think killers would have to big of a start game advantage just make the game take 3 sec longer to load for them. They already load in after survivors so adding a little more time won't be that noticeable. Johnny can kick down craw spaces, maybe they could make the ones he kick down after to open taking 2x as long. I play both sides and honestly the chain stun isn't 2 bad accept for the doors. The door stun prob just needs to be remove it is just 2 strong. The basement being slower could be nice but as sissy or cook I can get gramps to level 1 before 30 sec and go in basement so if they make it longer I could get some super easy kills if they keep that the same. Since coonie is the main issue maybe they just make connie ability either not work in basement or cannot work the first 1 or 2 of the match. Or maybe just make all char abilities not work until gramps is away almost like his power to detect somehow have the survivors abilities lol.

I want them to remove the cutscene of grandpa awakening. A notification banner would be fine.

I hate the fact that once you die or escape, it counts as dcing if you leave to go to the next game and doesn't give you exp if you don't sit until the end spectating which is stupid. Also the fact that some victims can just wait at the exit tbagging and you have to just watch them if you don't wanna lose your exp

Its worth noting with Sissy that atm supposedly her personal perks are applying their effects to the knife hit instead of just the poison cloud, so for example Rubber Legs will apply on knife hits instead of when she blows poison on someone as I can't imagine they intended for her to be able to slow down a single survivor so easily with just a knife hit

Love your content Sledge

a change they can do for waking up Grandpa as victim through noise is make it so making too much noise as victim will grant grandpa level 1 instead of the 1 time scan and him being still level 0. now opening a basement door will wake grandpa up normally but he will not be granted level 1. makes it so if you wake him up on purpose the family already gets their level 1 family perk and depending on what perks the family uses, you could be giving them free damage increase at the start and making leather face even more deadly in the basement phase. that's my opinion on waking up grandpa too early without doors.

you know what I haven’t really payed attention to Johnny not having a secondary skill like hitchhiker cook and sissy probably because I do fairly good with him so I just over looked it but it would be nice for him to have something maybe throwable knifes

I've had people tell me I'm inflicting bleed on them with every hit but then they don't realize I run Serrated and they think it has something to do with my ability.

Lobby disconnect also comes from connection issues. Playing with friends we routinely had to disconnect in lobby because either the game refused to fill the last victim slot or when we had a full group joining the lobby for one of us just wasnt working well. In game not one connection issue but the lobby was chalk full of them for some reason. And if he got kicked in lobby it wouldnt let him rejoin so now we all have to leave. The lobby connection issues and just playing with a group in general are the biggest things Id like to see fixed. Playing with a group sometimes the play next kept us together but others it split us up for some reason and again we now have to disconnect to regroup. Leaving the match always disbands groups too. I forgot the xp thing for disconnecting after you die in a match also sometimes happens when you watch the match end. I know halfway through playing with friends for the night all of us stopped getting xp and nobody was leaving matches early.

I bet they end up having a double xp weekend soon just like they did with F13th. The perk system could of been alot better but i dont have a problem with having random perks and its up to the player if they want to keep respecing a player until they get the perks they want. It seems to me that Leatherface gets the most XP per match. I definitetly agree on the car battery starting already. Ive played 160 matches and havent had any issues with lobbies or finding matches.

quick fix for lockpicks would to add an extra bar to them, but I prefer they make the basement door require extra steps like valve tank and fuse box exits work. Fuse boxes should be able to switch off to prevent survivors from escaping, but survivors can rig it to explode would also be cool feature. just confused on why the valve exit i can turn off, but the fuse one is a guarantee escape. the gas station door should only be available if one victim is left, or add another step to it, like finding a key. it does seem odd that the door even exists, especially since the other maps don't have it. I think the Biggest issue with the game is hackers and Leatherface is required to start. I don't mind playing him, but i'd prefer 1st pov in the basement would help me navigate better. Most people want to play other killers, so maybe make a categorie of killers than can spawn in the basement. like ones that can't fit in-between the cracks. like Johnny, allow them to destroy the barricades (slower though).

Make it 60FPS, for god sake, how am I suppose to kill at 30FPS?

Agree with most of it xp skill tree randomness is annoying trying to get that to be perk but say you left a match for whatever reason and my power went out Saturday perfectly sunny day some local thing in Pittsburgh or something I’d hate like DBD being banned for hours possibly days….also I was in a struggle with a survivor as Hitchiker someone else came up and shanked me and I couldn’t do anything open doors etc just move around so I left don’t think they should implement a ban system with the bugs out there still way too early for that

My problem is I wanted to max out cook's level 3 seek and use it in games. I'm already level 50. There's nothing but meta users and hackers in the high level lobbies. If i try to level someone else i only get a score of 200-50 with any other family cause the games are way too fast now and i can't level up any abilities.

When I leave the game I've still been getting xp i think. Maybe sometimes i haven't gotten anything and didnt realize

A fix I would like them to fix are the bugs such as when Leatherface is revving at the beginning while grandpa wakes up which continues the rev despite not holding the button which causes him to overheat, its frustrating and annoying. Another similar and broken issue is hitchhiker traps placed by ladders causes survivors to bug out when they step in a trap during the end of the climb of the ladder animation. This bug makes it victims cannot go through gaps, crawl spaces or even wells which might be awesome for family but is broken and almost unplayable for victim. On gas station there is a car at the side of the map near the valve exit that survivors can crouch into which is problematic as family members such as cook, leatherface and johnny physcially can't do anything about it. LUCKILY if you play as sissy or hitchhiker if you crouch to get into that car you can actually start swinging and kill them, so the game isn't held hostage for a long period of time.

I think the grandpa cutscene is totally unnecessary and disrupts the flow of the game in a way

Turn off the barrier and chase his azz down haha. I had someone do that we just turned it off and chased him off the property haha

They need to fix the game before there is a disconnect plenty even though I don't think there should be one. I've had tons of crashes lately to include that credentials bug where it kicks me back to the menu.

So tell me if I’m correct or not so you’re telling me they added a disconnect penalty in the game lobby but not in the actual game itself

They can't add a disconnect penalty until they add an anti-cheat that works because if I'm playing a cheater I'm definitely disconnecting

Johnny could close the vents? Does that count

I've only just started playing recently. My first few games 2 of the other 3 victims dc'd

agree

1) I agree with making it if you have been killed you should be able to leave and maintain your XP, but I do personally like the grind side of it. 2) I absolutely agree with making the random perk node a selectable perk node, because when I was trying to get my Leatherface build perks I too had to reset many times over. 3) I think the lobby leaving penalty should stay. I don’t feel like the XP gain has anything to do with it vs people wanting a character someone else has and won’t swap with them, so they leave like little bitches. So yeah, they deserve a penalty. On the opposite side, the in-game disconnect penalty should only apply to people who have not been killed or were in the process of being killed and disconnected. 4) Agree with the car battery should start automatically like the generator does. 5) Agree with Johnny needing a 3rd ability, and being able to slip through cracks would be great for him as well.

Asides from hacks etc which yes in any game that's gotta be honed in on, game-wise the stun chaining is too much.

Balance is impeccable??

Yes Grind needs fixed and also the exits need tweaked.

Agreed except disconnect penalty in-game, I don't feel like that's a big issue at all, someone disconnects after they got killed? That's perfectly fine, or if they DC early, that's fine as well, keep playing the game, it's meant to be casual not serious, there is no SBMM, so i don't see a valid argument for adding such a penalty.

Regardless if aa game is 'fun' or not. A grind, in this a case a level grind, isn't a bad thing. I see what your saying but alot of people like having to work towards unlocks

W sledge

Johnny can close crawl gates iirc

Tex chain devs if you read this, dont remove random perk stuff when you need to reroll 15 times caracter to get good perks, stuff like that in games is what keeps pleyers, we want to frustrate about that and when you finaly get good perks be happy when get that. I hate that in new game everything is easy to get and only chalenging this in games are pvp

"Balance is impeccable" > some victims can tank a dozen hits, then heal in 2 seconds >tons of chase breaker barriers that only certain family member's or additional teammates can counter >the mere existence of chain stuns and the proficiency stat >the fact matches can be over in less than 2 minutes >the fact the victims are the power role >encounters are unwinnable as family members 99% of the time Lmao Also imagine whining about people comparing two asymmetrical multiplayer games to each other. You're delusional if you think they're in the wrong and that there isn't stuff that needs nerfing or buffing. Also Also who are you?? "These dbd streamers" bruh who plays evil dead lmao

Giving Johnny padlocks is a good fix. Or the ability to know when a major objective is being messed with. Gas Station door is problem for 3 reasons. 1. Currently the only defense against a broken lock on that door is to have cook padlock it or body block with leatherface (leland walks right through other family) 2. There are two gates to the exit. Once one is open. Youre bascially forced to lose a family member to camp it. 3. If connie reaches the surface, this map becomes pointless for counterplay. You either find her in one minute while other victims abuse the wells. (Which cant be countered because of reason 1)

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I really don’t understand the hate for dbd streamers. There’s nothing wrong with wanting a game to be in a healthy state. There are clearly issues but people like to get all upset when you talk about them. I get the game is new but that doesn’t excuse a game from criticism.

#6 the big guy in the corner 🤣 jk jk

Number 6: TALK TO EACHOTHER! It's the same problem as in ED. If you are solo-player, you are lost, because everyone does what he wants

I personally don't like how Leatherface is REQUIRED to play a match. I wish we could have three different killers every time.

Imma try stay in the match. To see if I notice a difference in the xp I get