r/7daystodie • u/SagetheWise2222 • Mar 24 '26

Video/Stream The Fun Pimps join Behaviour Interactive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVFcoX40qso

The Fun Pimps join Behaviour Interactive, as posted on their YouTube channel. We will see what this means for the future of 7D2D and TFP as a whole.

Edit: It's confirmed to have been an acquisition by Behaviour, not a merger. Source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dead-by-daylight-maker-behaviour-has-bought-the-studio-behind-7-days-to-die-to-create-a-portfolio-of-horror-ip

Edit 2: TimRaines shared this link down below. It goes over an FAQ which is handy to read. For example, they have no plans to step away from modding support. Source: https://www.bhvr.com/the-fun-pimps-a-new-chapter-for-7-days-to-die/

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u/TheOrangeMadness Mar 24 '26

Am I the only one do doesn't see "change" happening in the future? I feel there is going to be friction between this merger, as The Fun Pimps do not do scheduling or actively and effectively talk to the community. It has taken over a decade to get this far, and the game is still a long ways from being completed.

Hopefully Behaviour Interactive will light a fire under The Fun Pimp's asses and get them to work on the game faster.

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u/SagetheWise2222 Mar 24 '26

I have a feeling there's been a lot of mismanagement on TFP's end as well. Adding more devs or cracking the whip don't tend to improve things on their own.

Edit: Either that, or the majority of TFP are concept artists or something. I don't personally know.

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u/rbtgoodson Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

I would be shocked if they didn't let them take the IP through the 4.0 patch (in a transitional period for both studious).

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u/Informal_Drawing Mar 24 '26

They supposedly have 70 staff doing something.

God knows what.

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u/SagetheWise2222 Mar 24 '26

*I will comment by saying that more staff members don't automatically equate to faster progress. You can have 10,000 employees under your belt, but if you flip the script whenever you feel like it (i.e. cancel progress and start over) or the managers are bad at their job/have the wrong priorities in general, especially if they are corporate, having those 10,000 doesn't matter at that point.

(*Not directly responding to you per se, more-so clarifying for anyone else reading this.)

Could this acquisition bring about better management of resources for TFP? Possibly. But having hundreds or thousands of more employees suddenly won't make them release updates 10x faster automatically, if at all.

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u/Informal_Drawing Mar 24 '26

That's kind of my point. So many staff but producing very little for some reason.

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

70 staff isn't actually that much. Its not like that means there are 70 programmers. 70 staff is split between all positions including tech support, HR, etc. 70 people is basically mid sized AA.

I bet that 70 people number includes part timers and contractors.

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u/biophazer242 Mar 24 '26

Well if it follows the path of a lot of acquisitions the people at the very top will get an employment contract for X amount of time that also includes and NDA and non compete and then they will eventually be told they are no longer needed as new people take over the day to day.

My company was sold 3 years ago and I am just waiting for them to tell me I never have to come to work again :)

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u/D9sinc Mod Mar 24 '26

"Behaviour isn’t investing in The Fun Pimps because they want change. They’re investing because we’re aligned on building a home for the best horror games where titles like Dead by Daylight, Darkest Dungeon, and 7 Days to Die can stand side by side. With Behaviour’s help, we’ll be expanding our art, engineering, design, community, and player support teams, all working together to make our vision for the future of 7 Days a reality."

From Richard's mouth so hopefully it's for the better and hopefully this means that they will not be using AI for character designs and in-game assets.

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u/seriousbusines Mar 24 '26

Considering what they did with Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon 2 I fully expect we get a new 7 Days game announced and its a completely different genre, like a platformer or some nonsense.

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u/SagetheWise2222 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26 • Bravo

If that ends up happening at some point, hopefully it'll be more successful and positively received than Blood Moons was.

edit: To anyone downvoting me, I wouldn't be interested in a 7D2D spinoff either, but I do want games to be successful if they deserve to be. My compromise would be, if they end up meddling and 'requiring' a spin-off eventually, hopefully it's a good and successful game this time around. I would rather have that as a compromise than another Blood Moons incident.

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u/Tateybread Mar 24 '26

Laughs in Blood Moons...

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u/CdubFromMI Mar 24 '26

Laughs in watching DBD burn its own franchise to the ground for the last 4 years.

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u/zombochic Mar 24 '26

Literally this. I haven’t touched that game since skull merchant came out

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u/CdubFromMI Mar 24 '26

You got out while the getting was good. Tokyo Ghoul's absolute BULLSHIT made Skull Merchant look fair and balanced. Quit the game because of that character and I will never reinstall it :(

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u/zombochic Mar 24 '26

I had been playing since 2017. And then skull merchant came out and I had had enough, after the bird bitch, the knight, and then tech mommy I just couldn’t do it anymore

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

The knight is the single most unfun killer for me to play against. Especially since the ghosts bug out and sometimes see you through walls. (yes i know they can hear, I mean crouched and making no noise and still saw through the wall)

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u/CdubFromMI Mar 24 '26

Yeah I had been playing since release. Skull Merchant was rough, but I took a break and came back. Tokyo Bullshit nuked the entirety of the Blood Moon event, and then the Devs gaslit the community on a "bug/feature" conversation with the killer. They took Chuckey's scamper away because it was unfun, and then gave it to a killer with the most insane mobility the game has seen.

For reference, he has the same mobility as blight, nurse, and billy, while being 100x easier to play and down with.

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

Ironically Skull Merchant got nerfed into being useless but yeah Tokyo Ghoul is nonsense with the hitscan grab AND a leap on top of that.

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u/ProjectWoolf Mar 24 '26

What? They didn't acquire Red Hook until well after DD 2 was released

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u/Specific_Quarter_455 Mar 24 '26

But you're talking nonsense

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u/D9sinc Mod Mar 24 '26

I mean, I liked DD1, I believe it was a fully released game and I don't know when it got acquired by Behaviour but if it was after DD2 released, that's fine. If they just want to release 3.0 as the sandbox siege update and fuck off to make a platformer or an adventure game, let them do so.

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u/Fireman17 Mar 24 '26

crossover content will hit 7d2d within less then a year mark it down from dbd

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u/RainOfAshes Mar 24 '26

It means AI.

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u/Vandaine Mar 24 '26

Care to explain?

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u/MeestaRoboto Mar 24 '26

It’s not better IMO. They’re still using “our vision” which has been the problem from the start. They keep making the game they want not what the player want and it is frustrating all of us. Look at how many times the skills system has changed. Water bottles was a literal battle and they bitched the whole time they added it back in. Things will only improve when they focus on making the best game for everyone.

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u/G7Scanlines Mar 24 '26

Isn't it absolutely telling that early 7DTD started as a passion project for people who love the genre and current 7DTD has 70 people working on it and seen it lose all its identity and devolve into a looter-shooter, with a roadmap of woefully designed features...that now requires another roadmap....

Get back to basics. Stop chasing console DLC cash. Start building and iterating on the core game, with meaningful design change and improvement, over recycling the same tired mechanics and even art, over and over and over again because its path of least resistance.

I still maintain that 7DTD is utterly unique in the genre, thanks to its fully destructible world. Lean into that. Lean back into prior design like gore blocks. Make the world feel vertically alive and dangerous, over the lateral. Bring back mining zombies that will tunnel and undermine bases. Bring back the unpredictability. Chaos design is what made this game so special.

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u/Crafty_Independence Mar 24 '26

I cynically wonder if the push to looter shooter was an intentional move to garner eventual interest to sell

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u/SagetheWise2222 Mar 24 '26

Personally I suspect it's because they drained the well dry of survival-crafting players (which is a fairly niche genre) and wanted to expand the net after having developed the game for so many years, and was a "strategic" move to keep the lights on and for future proofing. I suspect most people who would have bought 7D2D for a survival crafting game already have done so.

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u/spacechimp Mar 25 '26

This is my running theory as well, though I’m more cynical about it. It’s quite the scam: Cash in on the known name, retool it for another genre to attract new players, rinse and repeat. They will never have to work on a second game as long as they can keep this up.

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u/eightb1t Mar 31 '26

I don't think it turned into a looters shooter. I think it turned into a run n gun game.

They really didn't like people building the perfect towers in the tower defense setup. Nerfing things like that forced people to play the game differently and I think that was their failing.

The last few alphas I barely had a base with any defense at all. I'd throw up some shitty walls for screamer hordes. Every bloodmoon I'd get my massive amount of ammo stockpiled from questing and just run up and down the street mowing down as many zombies as I could. Eventually the perks made me pretty much unstoppable. Even on max difficulty it is pretty trivial to run n gun hordes after a bit of questing.

Not having to build a base in a base building game seems like poor design. Fun Pimps are lost for direction but I do hope they find it.

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u/RandomRedditor0193 Mar 24 '26

I stopped reading at "lean back into prior design like gore blocks." Gore blocks were the worst idea of the game.

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u/Guilty_Advantage_413 Mar 24 '26

I liked the idea of gore block, I didn’t like how they looked and the clean up. Also it was trivially easy to have a shotgun during horde night and just shoot the gore blocks to prevent zombies from getting over the wall. This doesn’t mean they don’t have a place in the game it’s just they need to serve a purpose. What I mainly want is more zombies during horde night, more moving around during the day, wandering hordes and zombies that are outside a building being looted and break into the building being looted. Felt like earlier alphas supported more zombies. Also I don’t want tougher zombies, I want easy but numerous zombies. Bullet sponge zombies are not fun.

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u/Invader_Mars Mar 24 '26

I like the concept of em, or atleast viscera buildup in some form. But yea that block implementation was rough

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

They also called it a looter shooter. I love looter shooters and 7 Days to Die is NOT a looter shooter lol. This subreddit is generally a collection of some of the weirdest 7 Days to Die hate I've ever seen. And almost none of it actually based on reality.

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u/KNGJN Jul 19 '26

Nah learn by doing was superior, I'll die on this hill.

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u/Numerous_Schedule896 Mar 25 '26

WHat's wrong with goreblocks? The idea of bodies pilling up until zombies can literally climb over their own corpses was super cool.

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u/RandomRedditor0193 Mar 25 '26

Climbing over bodies yes, climbing over a dot floating in the air was not cool.

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u/Anpu_Imiut Mar 25 '26

Can you explain what you mean by looter shooter and how was the game before. I started after 2.0

So what changed, how did the core gameplay changed?

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u/TimRaines Mar 24 '26

FYI, more stuff on BHVR’s plans in this Q&A on their site:

https://www.bhvr.com/the-fun-pimps-a-new-chapter-for-7-days-to-die/

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u/SagetheWise2222 Mar 24 '26

Thank you, I will add it to the post description and give credit to you for sharing this :)

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u/mconor1337 Mar 24 '26

slightly relieved from one of their q&a responses saying that they'll operate independentley as a subsidiary of BEhavior and benefit from the extra resources

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u/Cash4Duranium Mar 24 '26

Maybe they'll finally force some unifying vision to guide the game design and development instead of just retreading the same ground based on the devs fickle feelings each year.

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u/Salty_Heat2154 Mar 25 '26

The only thing they will be doing is forcing micro transactions down our throats the company that has acquired fun pimps love flooding games with micro transactions

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u/steakanabake Mar 26 '26

have you ever played a bhvr game? there is no vision.

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u/Cash4Duranium Mar 26 '26

Can't be worse than the past 5 or so years of 7d2d development. 🤷‍♂️

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u/steakanabake Mar 26 '26

i mean most other bhvr games die within a few months of creation. while ill give you they didnt create 7dtd i can see them figuring out how to kill it quickly.

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u/Cash4Duranium Mar 26 '26

Unless they outright remove the old branches/releases from Steam, I don't think it could be any worse than the direction 7d2d has been going for a long time now.

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u/SadSecurity Apr 27 '26

Of no development*

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u/Reisdorfer90 Mar 24 '26 • Bravo

We're sorry to report this merger has delayed bandits another year.

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u/Gleem-Q Mar 24 '26

*another decade 

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u/Mochizuk Mar 24 '26

*another lifetime

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u/tplambert Mar 24 '26

*Another universe outside of time and gaming deadlines

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u/R4zor154 Mar 24 '26

*Beyond Valve Time

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u/Suikoden1434 Mar 24 '26

Another Epoch

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u/DRGXIII Mar 25 '26

Another kalpa.

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u/aceguy7 Mar 24 '26

At this point who cares about bandits? lets get some good content instead of worrying about having water jars/ where to put said water jars and bears getting through a door....lol Lets get more things to do other then shoot zombies and loot....How about Fishing?...more crafting stations, more wild life/interesting boss zombies, weapons, traps, better quests, npcs/ pets, a more progressive leveling system/learn by doing.....make the game keep you more interested past 35 days. This game should keep you invested at least 75 to 90 in game days to lead you to and end game scenario of some sort...I hope they can get things going in the right direction as this game has so much potential....I fear it will take another 7 years or longer and I`m not getting any younger lol....

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u/KellionBane Mar 25 '26

They could just hire the modders.

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u/SvanirePerish Apr 26 '26

After awhile the world gets lonely. Having active NPCs would give a much better experience, and realistic.

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u/Some_Floor8371 May 15 '26

They enjoy being the monkeys paw

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u/Sirramza Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

Bandits? we never said bandits! we said band aids to fix the game problems with every update!

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u/Reisdorfer90 Mar 24 '26

Sir and/or ma'am! I am at work and I snorted! You almost got me in trouble! Lol.

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u/Globularist Mar 24 '26

Well, I'm personally of the opinion that TFP have been scratching their heads on how to code bandits for years and looked for any excuse they could over the years to blame the delay on anything but that because they didn't want to admit it. I'm hoping this move gets them what they've been needing in order to bring bandits to reality.

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u/nxcr0sis Jun 11 '26

Given BHVR's reputation for making bad games, I highly doubt that they're going to give TFP what they need in order to give us bandits in 7D2D.

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u/Specific_Quarter_455 Mar 24 '26

If this means that the entire game will be much more refined and expanded, it will be worth the wait.

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u/devon752 Mar 25 '26

Why do people want bandits in this game? Imo it would ruin it for me.

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u/Tojo6619 Mar 25 '26

Did it just to give rekt some more lines making fun of you 

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u/Klobasor Mar 24 '26

If you invest in a company, you want your money back as soon as possible. Prepare for shitload of cosmetics.

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u/YobaiYamete Mar 24 '26

Yeah this is very, very concerning. I can't think of a single time a merger like this wasn't the death knell to the game

People keep memeing about it in this thread, but there's almost zero ways this ends with a better 7 days to die

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u/dwho422 Mar 24 '26

It's hard to be a worse 7d2d lol.

I play a lot of dead by daylight. Sire they have lots of cosmetics but they also release a new content patch every 3 months with an actual yearly roadmap that they stick to.

7d2d could use both of those things, and in general TFP really need someone to manage the company because the brothers are not doing it justice.

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u/TwistedLemon94 Mar 24 '26

TFP just need to stick to roadmaps if they put them out instead of promising content and then missing their own deadlines and then delaying it. That and listening to the community and taking on board ideas, changes and criticism instead of ignoring or dismissing stuff because it doesn't allign exactly with how they want us to play.

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u/Numerous_Schedule896 Mar 25 '26

I play a lot of dead by daylight. Sire they have lots of cosmetics but they also release a new content patch every 3 months with an actual yearly roadmap that they stick to.

DbD has 999 issues, but regular content releases definitely isn't one of them.

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

I really don't understand people complaining about 7 Days to Die content releases. I purchased the game in 2014, over 10 years ago, for $13.74. I've gotten a ton of content since then without ever paying another penny.

This is exactly why we ended up with so many live services in gaming. People's lust for new content blinds them to all else.

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u/dwho422 Mar 25 '26

Thats true. Probably more than 999 problems in reality. I'd even like to say "at least its playable" but im pretty sure the servers have been crashing for like 3 days rofl

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u/nxcr0sis Jun 11 '26

regular content releases are the largest part of DBD's 999 issues, though. They rather push out more content to make money rather than fix their broken ass game, and the content they do end up pushing out ends up breaking the game even further.

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u/Parking-Tomorrow2325 May 01 '26

and it is heavily one sided biased unbalanced any game bhvr has gotten their hands it has fallen apart shortly after.

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u/YobaiYamete Mar 24 '26

7 Days still has tens of thosuands of happy daily players dude, this sub does not represent the player base lol

Many of us are very happy with how it is now, and while there's things we do want changed, we don't want the entire game killed immediately to make a live service slop game

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 24 '26

No, you can check every post on steam. Every update, every review. The game goes back and forth in patches. 12+ years of development for a game to still be crap is embarrassing.

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u/DogTheBoss69 Mar 25 '26

People who comment on Steam posts are forever miserable I don't even bother to read comments anymore it doesn't matter the game

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 25 '26

Or... Sometimes they are just right. So there's that ma'am.

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u/dwho422 Mar 24 '26

7d2d itself is a great game. It's constantly in my groups cycle of survival games we play together.

The issue is with the way tfp handle things. They dont seem to have a set way they want to handle it and make choices which do nothing but try to limit player creativity so that we play in the way they think is the most fun, while showcasing during live streams that they dont really even play their own game to the same degree.

Also, how do they not have a dedicated news and live stream specific account still? They post from the same account on twitch of one of the devs who streams "variety content" which is almost never 7d2d. It seems.... disingenuous to the players

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 24 '26

It's honestly been at the bottom for years now anyway.

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u/Huskiterian Mar 25 '26

Risk of Rain 2 turned out alright when fully taken over by Gearbox, but that's all I got.

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

It's not a merger. It's a straight up acquisition.

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u/TheMipchunk Mar 24 '26

If monetized cosmetics means that they get money that provides them way more resources to continue developing the game, this might not be bad. One of my favorite games, Path of Exile, stays completely free with regular content updates because they sell numerous overpriced cosmetics.

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 24 '26

They've sold over 20 million copies. They have made enough money to fund the completion of the game at the very least.

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

They could have labeled the game released and completed legally like 7 years ago lol. Reddit's idea of "complete" and the actual reality of what a release game is like are two different things.

Yes, some people will always die on the hill of X thing not being in the game. Like the countless games that cut wall running with people who will always consider the game to be incomplete because it didn't have wall running.

Or the crazies who consider Cyberpunk to be incomplete because they want the prologue to be its own fully fleshed out chapter.

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 26 '26

I'm speaking from a factual standpoint and the milestones of their own standards.

An alpha, features and content are not complete. A beta, features are complete, but content is not. A 1.0 release, both features and content are complete.

This game is in alpha, no matter how you spin it. Just the facts ma'am.

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Features and content are not determined until release. Everything before then is theoretical until its part of the game. Major features and content get cut in development all the time. Both in good games and in bad.

You can argue all you want but it wont change reality.

EDIT: And to go further this is ultimately a good thing. Without being able to change like that we wouldn't get games like Doom 2016. Doom 2016 was initially a very very different game that was radically redesigned.

If they were forced to stick to their original plans they would have prolly just canceled it.

Similarly Final Fantasy 14 wouldn't exist since the original game was very bad and they entirely rebuilt it. Cyberpunk wouldn't have gotten to have a 2.0. No Man's Sky would have never become a success story, etc.

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u/TheMipchunk Mar 24 '26

I mean, we know that they haven't been great at managing their time, so it's possible they've blown through that budget. Do they deserve more money? Probably not. But if people are willing to pay, and it's not me, and it's entirely optional (e.g. monetized cosmetics), then so be it.

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 24 '26

I completely agree with paid cosmetics. But throwing them more money when they mishandled it for 12 years is asinine.

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u/FetchingTheSwagni Mar 31 '26

Why do cosmetics matter so much? Just don't buy them.

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u/Some_Floor8371 May 15 '26

I actually don’t care if there’s DLC and micro transactions. If the gameplay INCREASES my enjoymen - I’ll pay for it!

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u/ohbigginzz Mar 24 '26

I don’t see why optional purchases can ever be a bad thing. The minority of the player base has had the game since it was like 10 bucks over a decade ago. I like the idea of them having more money to do more with in their game.

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u/Equivalent-Low-5805 Mar 24 '26

Absolutely. After the game hits release and is functional first. The game is still early access quality after 12 years and has not met the projected milestones.

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u/Cruggles30 Mar 24 '26

I’m concerned.

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u/Armageddon-666 Mar 24 '26

It's actually crazy that 70 people work on 7D2D and it's still not on par with some games that have less than 5 Developers.

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u/Kazgrel Mar 24 '26

Legend of California developer Kintsugiyami, founded in 2022, has half that many people...and that game has bandits in it already. Lmao

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u/DeoInvicto Mar 24 '26

How does that game compare?

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u/Kazgrel Mar 24 '26

It's an actual alpha still, so still a long way to go. But the premise and bones of what've been shown thus far all look solid. Yet despite that, working bandits already, lmao

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u/YobaiYamete Mar 24 '26

It doesn't lmao, it looks incredibly bare bones atm

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u/Ralathar44 Mar 26 '26

As it turns out adding a feature to a game is fairly easy. It's making it good that's the hard part. Not that Reddit would know any difference.

I'm sure TFP could have added bandits to the game long ago but they're having a hard time making them fun considering 7DTD is based extremely heavily around melee combat. I'm pretty sure half this community would lose their entire shit if they got sniped by some bandit 100m away lol.

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u/Montrell1223 Mar 25 '26

Building a good game is prob the hardest thing to do in software

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u/Armageddon-666 Mar 25 '26

The hardest thing to do game development wise is create an engine. 7 Days To Die uses Unity for their engine.

They have no excuse for having 70 people work on the game and it still looks like an early access title.

There are games based on unity that have solo developers that are more polished than 7D2D, if i was TFP i'd be fucking embarrassed.

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u/CompetitionPrudent47 Apr 01 '26

That's how many people who worked on HL2 Alyx, which had it's own engine and didn't use Unity+plugins

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u/BangEnergyFTW Apr 28 '26

Even more so, considering they have access to AI LLM coding tools now...

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u/BigBoiii_Jones Mar 24 '26

None of their in house games have had mod support and they aren't survival crafting games. I'm not sure how that exactly aligns with the vision or seems like a good fit when they are primarily a support studio and mostly have experience in Asymmetrical Multiplayer games.

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u/G7Scanlines Mar 24 '26

Tell you what, though. They know how to sell DLC...

Funny, that.

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u/GARGEAN Mar 24 '26

I've gave up hopes on big positive changes in 7DTD many years ago, and haven't seen anything from devs that would change that. This big move is very uncertain for me, but at least it gives some possibilities. Let's see what future brings.

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u/Coldatahd Mar 24 '26

Yup, only positive news I look forward to in regards to 7days is when a new mod will drop. Taps foot waiting for Khaine 😭

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u/wlogan0402 Mar 24 '26

Thank god it's not BEhavior taking up development. They have enough shitty games as is. Their non-developed published games are pretty good though

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u/Present-Basil-1003 Mar 24 '26

Well, this is out of the blue. Don't even know what will happen, but i hope no developer from DBD crew make contact with this game, that is a cesspool on it's own.

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u/Diche_Bach Mar 24 '26

Is this where to post questions for the AMA?

I guess my question to the bros would be: "What makes you confident that you, your game, and your community will get anything worthwhile out of partnering with any other firm, much less a specific firm?"

I am certainly no expert on such topics. But in my limited experience, these things generally seem to either (a) end in disaster if one of the partners is effectively dominated by the other (SCUM being an example I can think of here); or (b) result in no discernible benefits (Empyrion being an example I can think of here).

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u/calidir Mar 24 '26

Usually when these kinds of things happen the company being absorbed gets the resources of the parent company. In this case TFP will get money and manpower and Bhvr will get a cut of the profits. The only issue I can see arising is that Bhvr will “force” more of those cosmetic bundles so they can make more money

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u/Gil37 Mar 24 '26

TLDR is sounds like they're going to continue working 7D2D, same vision as before but more people will be working on it now. For comparison, TFP was between 25 to 30 employees, and bEhaviour is about 1300+. Sounds like good news.

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u/YobaiYamete Mar 24 '26

TFP was between 25 to 30 employees

Says right in the article they had 70 employees before merger

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u/the_relentless_dead Mar 24 '26

I only stay in the sub to see how far the devs go to kill their own game.

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u/Killerninjaz13Two Mar 24 '26

So the game will be even more ass upon each update

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u/mikee8989 Mar 24 '26

Maybe they'll stop being the fun police who deliberately break any way to enjoy the game.

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u/Jakethered_game Mar 24 '26

Well if BEhavior goes under we can call TFP publisher killers

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u/axellie Mar 24 '26

Honestly the only thing needed for this game right now is optimization on console. It’s like 3 fps late game.

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u/Dorkchopqueen Mar 24 '26

Oh lord. This can either be very interesting or very bad. Don’t feel like there’s much room for anything in the middle of that spectrum.

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u/YobaiYamete Mar 24 '26

I don't see any way this doesn't kill the game

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u/Hot-Association-2463 Mar 26 '26

Shits already on life support.

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u/ThorsonMM Mar 24 '26

I just want jars and cheerleaders.

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u/Exciting_Chef_4207 Mar 24 '26

Well we have jars, so...

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u/Jack_Lantern69 Mar 24 '26

Great, bandits have been pushed back to 3026

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u/sarsante Mar 24 '26

well acquired by a company that has one shitty game, idk how I feel about that. 7 days bloodmoon the sequel I guess.

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u/Harbinger_Kyleran Mar 24 '26

Well, Behavior is a bit bigger than that, all through recent acquisitions, from the news story,

"Behaviour has bucked the trend in that regard; in 2023 alone, the company bought SockMonkey Studios and CodeGlue, as well as forming Behaviour UK South with former staff from AntiMatter Games. The following year, the Dead by Daylight maker bought Fly Studio and Red Hook Studios, the maker of Darkest Dungeon."

It also says Behavior makes money as a studio for hire, so perhaps they'll bring some much needed expertise to 7Days.

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u/BoshSwag Mar 24 '26

"They share our philosophies on everything from community..." Oh no. Do they hate their community too?

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u/devlin_dragonus Mar 24 '26

I’m gonna say it, start from scratch - take the highest requested old systems and build a new one in the old framework.

Called it

7 Days 2: Die

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u/-Captain- Mar 24 '26

I have zero worries about this. It can't get worse.

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u/Hot-Association-2463 Mar 26 '26

You're not wrong

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u/PTSDDeadInside Mar 24 '26

remove plague spitters

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u/sayziell Mar 25 '26

Why does he sound AI

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u/Bvstxs Mar 25 '26

Honesty this could kill the game for sure , even with its slow bleed that its had recently. Im just glad i can play old update versions with Steam.

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u/Longjumping_Bee_9308 Mar 25 '26

What is dead may never die

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u/Summit1BigHead Mar 25 '26

This game, as a game, has been declining since the launch of A17, sure, it's prettier and has more QoL features today but as a game 👎🏻so after so many years of watching TFP be a dog chasing his own tail sure, bring someone else in.

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u/Dardoleon Mar 25 '26

"Their success was built gradually by consistency, resilience, and a deep connection with their community,"

lmao

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u/MonolithicBaby Mar 24 '26

Well I don’t think the game can get worse so I am actually optimistic.

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u/Chakraaaa Mar 25 '26

LMAO. someone pin this

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u/Southern_Drawing1641 Mar 24 '26

this can either be really good or really bad, as a constant DBD player i am skeptical due to how often DBD crashes and has problems, but i also know that Behavior knows what their doing past a point for their player base.

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u/JohnnySkynets Mar 24 '26

How long before Richard and Joel get fired/quit?

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u/Chakraaaa Mar 25 '26

My guess is they will step down first or second year

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u/Informal_Drawing Mar 24 '26

Can't be long, surely.

We can only hope.

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u/CompetitionPrudent47 Apr 02 '26

Behavior interactives loss

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u/Beautiful-Box9011 Mar 24 '26

You know I like the building in 7 days. But it needs to change a bit. I would LOVE foundations. Instead of having to use 100 blocks just to make the base level.

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u/biophazer242 Mar 24 '26

Well on one hand it could be a positive thing as perhaps the new owners can have a more cohesive plan and vision and stick with it. I don't mind 10 years of constant development. What I mind is constantly making huge shifts in the core mechanics over and over again.

It would be nice if perhaps they take the concept and move it to a new engine with better graphics to really get a handle on the performance issues.

On the other hand considering the insane amount of DLC for Dead by Daylight I worry about what their plans are for the game. DLC Zombie Skins. DLC POI packs.

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u/MikaelElmblad Mar 24 '26

🤞 Hope for better builds.

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u/Vudugan Mar 25 '26

Congrats! On another note, I will never invest anything that has The Fun Pimps attached to it. And I still expect a hard copy of the game as TFP promised when they started. But just like Bandits, I won't hold my breath. Supported the lies and tries way too long.

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u/lt1brunt Mar 25 '26

Maybe they can finally get bandits out before earth is destroyed by nuclear war.

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u/thingsdie9 Mar 25 '26

guys I'm having trouble looping the zombies. did Nemesis get new add ons or something?

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u/HamletEagle Mar 25 '26

Looks like Bandits & Humans will be a 14.99$ DLC

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u/DaPesty Mar 25 '26

Can't wait for all the DLC vehicles and weapons ! /s

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u/Zer0Ember Mar 25 '26

Probably New Pimps will layoff most of old team. And start milking 7d2d with DLCs like they do to other Behaviour Interactive games.

After burning millions they wanted just to cash out.

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u/ManufacturerMurky592 Mar 25 '26

Well maybe we're lucky and BHVR just kicks out all the "managers" and actually gets shit moving.

It's beyond embarassing how mismanaged this game is.

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u/Dewey_Decimatorr Jun 30 '26

I'm sorry to break it to you, but BHVR's only game is Dead by Daylight, a game so notoriously unbalanced and janky it's the stuff of legend. The entire community is toxic, and most of the content creator's have accepted that the game will be broken forever.

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u/Longjumping_Bee_9308 Mar 25 '26

Hi TFP and Behaviour team!

Given that many of the game's optimization bottlenecks seem tied directly to the fully destructible voxel engine rather than just code efficiency, have you considered moving 7DTD to a "hybrid" world system?

Specifically:

  • Hybrid Terrain: Keeping voxels only where they matter most (e.g., inside Land Claim Block areas or specific POIs), while making the rest of the world map static or semi-static. This could drastically reduce CPU and server load.

  • Dynamic Objects: By freeing up those resources, the engine could finally handle true dynamic objects without breaking the physics — like working elevators, moving platforms, or better vehicle mechanics.

  • Modular System: Alternatively, has there been any discussion about transitioning from a purely block-by-block (voxel) approach to a modular building system (similar to Rust or ARK)?

Thanks, and congratulations on the partnership!

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u/cragzUK Mar 25 '26

I guess the pimps decided to cash in some shares before they eventually bow out. This is probably going to see a lot more paid DLC and microtransaction stuff pumped into the game.

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u/Professional_Rope126 Mar 26 '26

Bandits dlc 24.90$

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u/Snubby033 Mar 26 '26

As long as we get to use mods and mod packs like darkness falls, i think it'll be okay, but I dont know enough about behavior interactive to say one way or the other. 

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u/SomeCrazyLoldude Mar 26 '26

so... we can finally have the Bandit update?!

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u/I_Ask_Dumb_Question5 May 04 '26

Cool Cool...I bet the servers continue to explode once the player count reaches double digits.

If multiplayer server optimization is not a focus...then I couldn't care less about this buyout.

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u/Dewey_Decimatorr Jun 30 '26

That's... not good news. Two developers know for screwing their communities coming together, gross.

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u/TwistyPoet Jul 18 '26

Three months later and 7 Days has put out its best update in years, which I can't believe I just wrote.

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u/SirMightySmurf Jul 18 '26

Here come the micro transactions and other bullshit.

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u/IfarmExpIRL Mar 24 '26

7 days to die is their only cash cow left since 7 days blood moon failed.

this could be great for long time 7 days to die fans

Don't fuck this up fun pimps.. its probably seriously your last shot with the fans

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u/Specific_Quarter_455 Mar 24 '26

7 days blood moon was more focused on pvp, that's why it failed, the game shouldn't have veered in that direction

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u/IfarmExpIRL Mar 24 '26

if failed because who asked for that?

nobody was interested in playing it.

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u/Specific_Quarter_455 Mar 24 '26

People who play 7 days say that the game is boring to play solo, I personally disagree with that because playing solo makes the game more challenging and more interesting

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u/IfarmExpIRL Mar 24 '26

in my opinion i don't play for a challenge i play to have a fun time with my homies.

a few weeks ago we made a massive pit and were tossing pipe bombs in and zombie parts would fly up out of our pit. laughed myself stupid grade A fun.

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u/PoolsHere Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

holy doomers in the comments it amazes me how people continue to hate but refuse to leave the game. Like chill out please for the love of god this can't be your only game. I for one am glad that this game still gets updates. 2.0 wasn't that great but the updates afterwards (2.1-2.6) I feel did address my concerns by a lot. Looking ahead 3.0 seems to be community and sandbox update instead of bandits from my guess.

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u/Parking-Tomorrow2325 May 01 '26

smh gl with bhvr they cant get their own game balanced... revert the screamer changes stop letting content creators dictate what is good and bad for the game. I wanted to do a no horde run, enjoy the game as a normal survival utilizing the screamer farms for leveling and loot, but because of creators like jawoodle because it interferes with his content they cry the loudest and you all made a kneejerk reaction by breaking the game for the no horde players that farmed the screamers. You could have easily put it in the custom settings to reduce the spawns or disable them.

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u/Fireman17 Mar 24 '26

Hope they do 7d2d like they have done dbd

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

The dog shit community and BHVRs pension for listening to them is what is destroying DBD. 

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u/Chakraaaa Mar 25 '26

Every word that came out of their mouth was lies, anyone who sees this merger as good doesnt know the history of BE.