Solo Queue Is Perfectly Fine
My history: I usually end up rank 1 in both Survivor and Killer, I play survivor just a tad more. I’ve been playing the past 5 years.
I dont think I have ever seen so many people upset about how “Unfair” solo queue is. I will occasionally have a game with a bad teammate or two but not once have I ever thought, Solo Queue is garbage. When I play SWF its a curb-stomp to new-ish killers, which in my opinion Isn’t that fun or sportsman like so I tend to not SWF. That being said, I firmly believe Solo is the way to play. Even lore-wise with the game. No-one in the game knows each other except maybe Steve and Nancy but yet they try to work together anyways.
If you can’t adjust your play style for a teammate thats not doing anything then you are practically giving up. If noones doing anything, try to be the last one alive. And to be quite frank It doesnt even matter if you die or not. You dont lose your grade, you still get BP and you can just go into another game. Its entirely a mindset thing that I see a lot with incredibly entitled people who think the game is “Killer Sided” when in reality its Map Sided, which is balanced in my opinion.
I have the most fun solo queueing because its a cosmic gumbo of casual play and risky play. Its easily the most tense way to play the game which is something that I desperately strive for and hold on to deeply in DBD. Nothing feels better than a tense match that you just barely escaped or killed everyone.
Furthermore, I just want to say I care a lot about sportsmanship in DBD because i want more people to get into the game and I think a lot of new people will be put off by the toxicity of entitled players who demand the best of the best which is SWF and just want everything to be the way they want it.
Noone asked but literally the only thing i would change is adding a Wave Hi and/or a STOP emote (like you’re about to get hit by a car). Just something to add a tiny bit of communication using body language.
Edit: Be sure to read every comment in this thread, I have added some more reasons and arguments that support my opinion
Re:Edit: Read the title and make sure you can tell it says “fine” in the title, and not AMAZING, PERFECT, ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE, SEX. Its not its fine where it is at the moment but there is definitely, 100% ways to improve it that aren’t just tacky ping systems or whatever.
My old Xbox account to show that I am pretty balanced in terms of what I play more of
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I play 4 to 6 games of solo daily and I think it's fine.
You keep repeating it, but Thanatophobia does not make a gen last 164 seconds, that's a 82% slowdown. Full stack Thana applies a 22% slowdown, which is 109 seconds.
True. I'm sorry it was late.
Thana with other perks push it on 164 secs. Thanatophobia and pentimento for example.
I know i repeat it, because i have seen it nearly every game.
Assuming you have full stack Thanatophobia and one stack of Pentimento, that's a 55% slowdown which should result in 139.5 seconds per gen. What's the third perk that lets you get to 164?
Well. I read it in the forum and then didnt calculated again. I guess its not 164 seconds.
It can be with dead lock and scourge hook pain resconance be extended. (Not to mention gen kicking with instant 2.5% regression)
I feel like Solo Queue is mostly not fine, like 70% of the games. But most of the time it is because of the lack of information that you have. I never understood why Kindred wasn't basekit. It is one of the strongest, if not the best surivor perk when it comes to Solo queue. I would rather prefer Kindred basekit over BT or any other perk. Secondly, it's way easier to tunnel survivors out of the game, since BT is a basekit feature for 5 seconds, so people rarely run BT or DS. All the killer has to do, is wait 5 seconds. I've played a lot of killer over the last few days, and hardly see any Decisive Strikes in my games. All BHVR has to do, is give solo survivors much more information, which SWF cannot benefit from (Since they already have that information). Also, with this new patch it is way easier to win as killer in general, especially if you decide to tunnel someone out of the game, or camp them.
I play solo queue as a healer and leader and it usually results in plenty of points live or die. I also run Kindred and it makes things much easier. The patch is not even a week old so the exaggerated complaints will fall on deaf ears since the devs can see the actual stats.