r/TheHalloweenGame

Bro wtf is up with this game?!? Now stuck in backend authentication. 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

Like Michael comes in and sticks his whole hand up my ass.

But whenever I play MM it feels like I am going up against the fucking Avengers, the TMNT, literally a squad of John Wick, Dutch, Jason Bourne, and Neo.

Kicked me out mid match. Won’t let me re-enter? Are the servers down..?

I haven’t met a single civilian main that hasn’t complained about how absolutely impossible it can be to find escape items for Orange Grove Estates. It seems the recent patch hasn’t addressed this and lately it feels like I’m spawning on that map more than the others

Smaller maps like east haddonfield give the impression that it’s easier to find escape items because of how few places there are to look compared to maps like Orange Grove Estates.

The number of bolt cutters and escape keys that spawn should be proportional to the number of drawers there are on the map, meaning more escape items should be on maps like Orange Grove Estates and Haddonfield Heights and less on maps like East Haddonfield.

I have been saying this since day one and it’s a huge disappointment that the devs have yet to address this issue

EDIT #1:
Since this post is getting a lot of attention, I also want to add some other things people have mentioned that need to be fixed:
- Fuses spawning on maps with no exit gates
- NPCs getting escape keys and fuses and refusing to give them to civilians
- NPCs and civilians leaving with escape keys, bolt cutters and fuses with no way to use them on another exit strategy

I'm working on the challenge to bleed out 150 civilians on the knife progression.

I understand stun lock is much less of a thing, but frankly, I am losing a lot of matches now. BT seems to take longer. Civilians seem to get people out just as fast as before.

Usually I break the powerbox, shade inside and land behind the resident and stalk and grab. Can't do that right now. I stalk and then hit. I use to be able to wound them, but now I can't before they get away. The real frustrating part is that I seem to strike doors, dressers, and walls way more often now. I reality tear right next to them and often stab air. I don't know what the air did to my mother, but I assure you I am making it pay every match.

I am by no means the best player out there, but I have seen other Myers win just fine. Any explanation, tips, advice, whatever would be really nice.

What I'm saying is. It's okay to ignore the NPCs and chase that Laurie player all game so you can live out the movies. It's okay to hunker down in a house and wait for Micheal to start slashing the lights and phones. It's a Halloween game. Have fun and get scared and stop being so competitive over what is obviously a party game for the holidays

Honestly, I’m not really sure what we’re trying to achieve with the game anymore.

I played A LOT of games yesterday, and I genuinely didn’t have fun in any of them.

The devs reduced the amount of objective items, and now the spawns feel incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes you get enough stuff, but way more often you end up in a situation where you just cannot find a single important item anywhere. Meanwhile, you’re just watching the population of Haddonfield slowly disappear.

And what can you actually do about it? Vacuum every corner of every building, then move on to checking every single crate. Or, as a last resort, spam the NPC with “follow me” a million times until they finally give you something useful.

By the time the exits are finally open, there’s usually barely anyone left to save. And it’s not like one exit can even accommodate a meaningful number of people anyway.

Let’s say you manage to save the last two poor souls, escape yourself, and everyone else is still trapped in the game. In what universe is that fun?

And I’d totally understand if this happened occasionally. Bad RNG happens. But this was basically the majority of my matches yesterday.

Then you get a key, only to discover that all the safehouses and gates require bolt cutters.

Or fuses spawn in games where there are no gates(???)

I will say, though, fuses do seem a little easier to find.

And what about weapons?

Melee weapons are basically worth their weight in gold now. You’d think that while you’re still looking for objective items, you’d want to carry a weapon so you can actually protect yourself. But nope, you’re heavily restricted there too.

At that point you just pray to the RNG gods that they’ll throw you a goddamn fireplace poker.

Yes, Michael is less lethal in the early stages now, but once he actually decides it’s time to take you out, he is still a threat — as he should be.

But if there are no unopened or unblocked exits left, that’s basically it. Sure, you can loop and waste his time for quite a while, but if he commits to killing you, he probably isn’t letting you leave. There’s nowhere to go anyway. And eventually he’ll just chip away at you with occasional hits.

The whole game now feels like you’re trapped, and there’s very little you can actually do to influence the outcome because so much of it comes down to RNG.

It honestly feels like the devs are allergic to interactivity and are slowly making the game more and more one-dimensional.

Because what can a civilian actually do right now?

Loot.

Loot until your eyes bleed.

There are no interesting encounters with Myers because you probably don’t have a weapon. Stamina got nerfed, so shoving doesn’t have much impact either. Even when you DO find a melee weapon, you barely get to do anything interesting with it.

And looting itself doesn’t even feel rewarding anymore, because most of the time you’re not finding anything important.

And when you finally DO find an objective item, it doesn’t feel exciting. It feels annoying.

Why the hell did I find this NOW, when the game is already basically lost?

I’m not saying there aren’t games where you get somewhat lucky with the spawns and manage to turn things into a win or at least a near-draw. Those games absolutely happen.

They just feel incredibly rare now.

Yesterday I finally got the last Laurie skin. A month after release. I had been grinding my ass off for it this entire time.

And now that I finally have it, I’m honestly not even sure I want to use it, because the actual gameplay experience has become so frustrating.

I’ve also seen a lot of people saying that the game is more balanced now and that these are good changes.

And hey, maybe it is more balanced now.

But I don’t really care how balanced a game is if I don’t have much interest in actually playing it anymore.

And that genuinely hurts to admit, because I LOVE the Halloween franchise. I absolutely adore Laurie, and I was so excited to finally play as her and unlock her grandma skin.

But realistically, I probably won’t be touching the game again until the next patch.

And if the objective item spawns don’t get addressed, I honestly don’t see much reason to come back at all.

Just my two cents.

Seriously?

Who the TF thought it was a good idea to have less of every valuable tool in the game?

I can find FCKN locked boxes in every FCKN corner of the game ... sometimes FCKN 5 per house ... but I can't find keys, hatchet, sludgehammer, or anything to protect myself for those quick run ins with Mike.

WE DIDN'T WANT A GAME WHERE YOU HAVE TO HAVE TO GO TO 10 FUKN HOUSES TO FIND FKCN BOLT CUTTERS ... THIS UPDATE IS COMPLETE DOG SHAT

THree games now, the exits have all required ONLY bolt cutters and yet a dumbass teammate has broken the bolt cutters or escaped with the only bolt cutters on the map.

How can we be expected to escape with multiple civilians and all but 1 players without a way to open gates

Played a good chunk tonight and my god are people getting dumber? Ive probs seen allmost everything imaginable under the full moon but here are some highlights:

-People that sit the whole game on the phone thinking "they are helping". Meanwhile Michael is on his 4th kill and no exits are open. They probs aswell get killed with the context kill with sayd phone.

-"Bike trolls": dumbasses that drive in circles doing absolutely nothing. Meanwhile Michael just reached bloodthirst 3. Usually gets ignored or insta killed due to blackout. Regardless a deadweight.

-The headless chicken with bolt cutters: runs all over the map except where exits can spawn thus throwing the match. That or he decides to make phone calls.

-The conga line idiots: "special" people that think its a brilliant idea to go for a walk with pied piper and 3 special targets. You might aswell scream "YOUR DINNER IS READY COME AND GET IT!"

-Eric... enough sayd.

-The "competetive pvp player": some idiot who picked bob and managed to down michael and then gets his ass whopped after he got up. Usually respawns as cop aswell which has the exact same outcome.

-Larpers: dumbasses that do random shit while not helping at all. In the name of "fun" they sabotage your game. Since they give 0 fucks about your time investment you should do the same and look for a new lobby.

-Alexis players who think its a good idea to challenge michael just to get 2 tapped and send to the minigame screen.

Since i got used to the SBMM matchmaking from other games its baffling to see just how many bad players are out there. Its no wonder that a mediocore michael player can dominate if the people he is playing against barely can hold a controller in their hands.