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SWF rework?

I know I'll probably get a bunch of "git gud"s but im almost at the point of putting the game down for good and feel like venting on a topic I know is controversial.


So I've been playing a lot more lately and realized I prefer playing killer. I have recently got to rank 5 from rank 16 in the last 2 weeks with freddy as my main, going through the ranks rather quickly I feel, usually with 4k and like 28,000BP. I would occasionally get a Swf team that destroyed me but it was usually solos from the looks of how they entered the lobby. At rank 6 is when the shitstorm started. I've started to realize how much of an advantage they have verbally communicating outside of the killer's ability to hear them. If they are at a certain skill level, with the way the maps are and the safe pallets everywhere and the RNG alot of times chaining these god level loops together, there is only so much you can do as a killer. You shouldn't have to play nurse to avoid getting looped the entire game. Noe I'm perfectly aware that I shouldn't run a chase the whole game, which is why if i dont do anything in 30 seconds, I drop it and move on. But then i run into the other 3 on one gen 95% of the time. So this proceeds for what seems like the entire match, every match. I chase one of them off and they do the same exact thing( of course my ruin is gone 30 seconds after start. You know, because its spawned in the middle of the map right out in the open. ) Anyway, I drop that chase and move on to find the other 3 people on a gen again. I mindgame as much as possible and this works as often as you can mindgame the average person, but if i dont get rid of some pallets also, they're just hitting pallets the entire game. Before I can get them in a state where they have very few pallets, I'm down to the last gen. If i get a hook, they swarm with their ds, bt, dh and bodyblock. Everytime i hit one, they retreat and are healed in 20 seconds since they can fully communicate where they are and have someone on it quicker than you can react to it. It just seems at this point that you can only be so skillful of a killer against a team that can fully communicate verbally behind your back, taking out the need to use perks that communicate these things thst the game was balanced around needing perks for, and running only perks to take out the few things the killer is built to have the advantage over the survivor in. You can't have a controlled environment and add an extra variable that is advantageous to one side and keep the other side (killer) the same across the board. That alone just makes the playing field unfair. There need a to be an added advantage to the killer side since there is one added with organized swf teams. I can understand wanting to communicate with friends while playing. But for the killer to have no choice in this is pretty bad design. I've seen this same type of post too many times and have seen a lot of people say they're about to give up the game all together just because of this issue. I've thought about the idea of the killer being able to chat with them and hear them to at least take away the advantage at least somewhat, or maybe a ranked and unranked gameplay option, with ranked being solo only, or maybe even an option for anything goes. But at this point, I dont know how i could "git gud" any more than i already am. I've watched hundreds of hours of most elite streamers and have modeled my play after everything they've taught me. And unless I face an organized swf team I play very well I would say. Almost always double pip. I just dont know what to do. I dont want to have to camp and tunnel but i dont know anymore. Any advice that is actual advice and not just generic, troll-like "git gud" responses from slow people who can't muster up a coherent argument would greatly be appreciated. Sorry for the long rant and the paragraph-less typings. I never know when to start a new paragraph, does anybody?!