When is the solo survivor experience getting changes?
Coming from a 1100 hour killer main, you can definitely still crush solo survivors with the weakest meme builds on the weakest killers.
There's a severe lack of organization especially in rescues, people who still insist on sticking together when spreading out is obviously the better option, a much higher possibility of a weak link being present, and oh boy if NOED comes in you better pray you don't have people with 2 brain cells for teammates.
The changes have already been suggested, a totem counter, base-kit kindred (and yes WITH the killer aura reading for situations like facecamping bubbas), a chat wheel with like literally 9 messages max shouldn't be rocket science for a huge team like BHVR (the new HUD that they insisted on keeping should also make this easier).
Please, buff solo queue to something a bit close to SWF level, then enjoy buffing killers all the way since you don't have to worry about lost new players now.
It's a win-win, solo survivors can finally have matches a bit less of a clusterfuck, and once they're buffed, the devs can freely buff the weaker killers all they want knowing they don't have to worry about the solos that would get stomped from the killer buffs.
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It’s unlikely they’ll do much but who knows?
I'm all but certain the Devs would rather survivors have no ability to communicate in order to preserve the horror aspect of the game, regardless of how that effects balance.
I mean, it absolutely wrecks balance in e wry possible way and makes it so that no-one will ever be happy because either the survivors are vastly overpowered or vastly underpowered thanks purely to the disparity in organisation and co-operation, but who cares so long as 20 hour gamers still find the game slightly spookier?
I hope mmr helps with solo. The lack of communication In solo can be made up for with more competent teammates.
I dislike SWF from a balance perspective because the game was clearly designed in such a way that survivors have to work with limited information, alleviated only by a few choice perks. SWF get all these info perks for free and still have their perk slots open for other goodies. Considering SWF is never going away and the devs see, to embrace it, some of these info perks, kindred for example, need to be made default effects.
Solo queue is basically the hard mode of this game if you try to win.
You often fight against your teammates as much as you do the killer.
To start making it better I think bond and/or Kindred should be base kit if you queue solo. Thay alone would help the lack of coordination tremendously.
solo queue is really hard. and when i mean hard i mean THAT A FUKING TRICKSTER can get a 4k. a whisper text chat would be nice so you can tell your teammates not to farm you off the damn hook while the killer is around. it would solve so many solo queue struggles
Playing Killer(I'm mostly a Survivor player), I find no end of amusement in Survivors cussing me out because they unhooked a teammate right under my nose(no Borrowed)and I didn't simply let them go.