jswaro
jswaro
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To be honest, they need to fix the hacking problems first. But I understand your pain.
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They should show them grouped together by the campfire. That way don't bully a random and also know fighting a SWF
I'd be okay with that as a compromise, but I think that would encourage lobby dodging which could be frustrating to SWF and to non-SWF
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Unfortunately, we can't just vote for swf to be removed, because if they did this, a lot of the playerbase would vanish.
I'm not voting for SWF to be removed. I'm asking for the ability to queue with other solo players only.
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So Baby Killers can go the easy way with solos and Pro Killers can choose to accept that challenge with more rewards at the end.
I don't think it is a matter of 'baby' vs 'pro'. At the heart of this issue for me is a choice: "Deal with potentially toxic groups of SWF", or "Choose to avoid those encounters all-together".
I consider myself to be a pretty decent killer, and hardly baby -- and I know you didn't mean it that way. However, I get home from work and I don't want a flashlight frenzy, sabo squad of body blockers that don't respect the killer because they have a "fool-proof plan" and the voice coordination necessary to pull it off. Again, SWF players can leverage aspects of voice communication that the normal public player cannot.
To open that discussion of incentivizing queues, perhaps survivors in solo queue get a bonus to blood points, and killers get a bonus in SWF queues...
But that doesn't fix the 'blood pressure raising' aspect of SWF queues for me. You can't fix an aspect of the game that is utterly broken in terms of immersion. It's like watching Friday the 13th (the game) and watching the survivors literally beat up Jason because having good timing and weapons against a killer will do that.
But i dont think its usable because its Hard enough to find a lobby actually. How long will we wait until the criteria of swf steps fits?
I already actively dodge SWF groups if I can tell its SFW in the lobby. It can be pretty easy to tell. What if adding opt-out improves the chances of keeping a lobby active without a killer dodging? It's pretty easy to tell in some cases when it is a SWF group, and then everyone wasted X amount of time in the queue.
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If there is no difference, the killers would be only choose solos and that ruins the teamplay ability of DBD of course
That is a possibility. If the option to choose to avoid those encounters is provided, and the game migrates away from SWF, then it is an evolution of the game that the community chooses to take. However, forcing players to play with SWF is just going to make it so that newer killers hate the game and stay survivors, or end up as bitter killers with a chip on their shoulder.
If there is no difference, the killers would be only choose solos and that ruins the team-play ability of DBD of course
Perhaps there is some merit in a non-ranked and ranked lobby and SWF can only be done in non-ranked. Even then though, casual killers are stuck with SWF if they don't enjoy ranked.
I feel like giving people the option to opt-out gives the community the chance to move the game toward one format over another. If people enjoy the SWF experience (killers included), they won't bother opting out of the SWF groups.
Potentially SWF queues could end up better with this change because they would be filled with more competitive people. My only concern is that the 'SWF queue' would end up with toxic survivors and equally toxic killers... but that is also a side-effect of letting the game community govern itself.