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Add a setting to disable SWF? (Killer)
Hello everyone,
What would you think if this setting was added for killers?
Allow Swf?
Yes, if you select this setting you will be matched with a swf team.
or
No, if you select this setting you will get a match with only solo players.
Add a setting to disable SWF? (Killer) 73 votes
15 votes
38 votes
20 votes
Comments
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
If you run into a SWF group you’re completely entitled to leave but I’m sure for every sweaty super meta perk filled swf group there actually ones who are “fun”(in terms of I’m not gonna get absolutely bullied) to play against. There should be no reason to disable getting them.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Stop wanting to punish people that just want to play with friends ffs
Most of swf arent even that good and you dont even know whos a swf
If youre the kind of player that check profiles for this...just stop, take the match and see how it goes
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No, they have to change it but in a different way.
99% are just people having fun with friends and usually as bad as solos.
Swf is just an excuse for losing because most killers are bad and carried by stomping solos with like 2 or 3 regression perks. Like complaining about a perk until its nerfed them pushing another suddenly problematic perk to take its place. Killer is so easy compared to 2016 that it bores me. Or crying about gen rush when they've never experienced true gen rush or sweat squads in their lives.
Map design is the real problem. Relocate everyone who has touched map design in dbd to the cosmetic team and get actual map designers with any knowledge of balance beyond immersion.
Crying about the exaggerated rare issues i said before my map rant makes me wonder...Kind of like survivors who call every killer who beats them a camper/slugger/tunneler or sweaty lol. Both sides have excuses for bad gameplay on their end or being robbed by the worst map designers in gaming history (bhvr)
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No, they have to change it but in a different way.
This is not the right way to do this. I agree that facing a swf can be the single most unpleasant thing in this game but we need to do something else.
I suggest killers get 100% more bloodpoints for every member of the swf and get to see in post game who was swfing. This doesn't inconvenience the swf players at all and rewards killers for going into a match where the odds were not in their favor.
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No, they have to change it but in a different way.
no killer would want to play against SWF
Killers should get bonus bp or xp and be informed of who was in a swf in post game match
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
The ONLY thing I think is fair is telling the killer who was in what SWF group (if at all) on the UI once the game has ended. Other than that, killers should not be told anything and certainly shouldn't be able to choose if they play against SWF or not.
People really over-exaggerate SWF. 95% of SWF teams are perfectly beatable if you play well and a majority are there to just have fun with friends, not to sweat like hell. Punishing people for wanting to play with their friends in a team game just seems stupid to me.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
SWF is a large part of what makes the Survivor side fun. I'd rather they not kill the game by heavily disinscentivizing SWF.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Imagine queue times for SWFs if this were a thing lol. No way.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
This is a recipe for incredibly long que times for SWFs.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Bullying solo players isn't the solution. SWF is fine, it's solo's that need buffed.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Of course not. Besides the fact this will make anyone who even thinks to queue up with a single friend have super long queues for no good reason. Killers will also complain that their queue times are also long, because I bet most of their lobbies do have at least a duo SWF.
There's nothing wrong with SWF. People are just scapegoating SWF as the reason they lost a game.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
I would put this as a temporary solution to the game, at least until the game starts to get balanced around SWF. You know, that whole buff solo and buff killer stuff.
If this option gets added into the game and killers deliberately decide to wait in queues twice as long, then it just shows even more that SWF is problematic.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Because every swf is a genrushing 4 man ofc.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
If killers don't want to face SWFs there has to be a problem
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
If survivors don't want to face Spirit, Deathslinger and especially Hag.. then there has to be a problem.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
They are contemplated by the game, SWFs are not
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
They added the option to play with friends. You don't use outside software to play in a swf group.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
Is there a voice chat feature in dbd? Didn't know it
Maybe it is provided by Discord
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Does this thread mention voice chat? As far as I can see this thread is specifically about avoiding a group of survivors who choose to play as a team.
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No, they have to change it but in a different way.
If you are appropriately ranked as a solo you should have a balanced game against a killer of the same rank (if also appropriately ranked). So getting 4 same-ranked people with even mediocre communication skills together should destroy that same killer. So just adjust the matchmaking when in an SWF to compensate.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
Ofc no SWFs play with outside softwares for voice chat
This poll is about avoiding SWFs, players who play together exploiting comms which are NOT contemplated by the game and therefore an exploit, and I want fair games
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
Not all swf teams play on comms. Not every swf team is a god tier swf, 90% of them are just bad. People just like to blame their losses on swf because it's the easiest thing to do.
You want fair games? Facing 4 solo players isn't a fair game lol it is widely agreed on by the community that solo q is the weakest part of the game. So what you mean to say is that you want easy games for yourself.
Killer and solo q both need buffs but trying to punish 90% of swf teams/solo q survivors because of the top 10% of swf teams is not the way to do it.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
The game is built around solo queue, but it is outdated and it needs buffs urgently, that's it.
I don't think stealth killers or Trapper are designed to have their movements constantly monitored by survivors
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
There's something we definitely agree on. To me the best way to fix a "swf problem" is massively buff solo q then buff killers.
Trapper is an outdated killer. Stealth killers yes can be hurt by swf call outs but honestly the main problem is that the really good swf teams are quite alert when facing a stealth killer. Stealth killers just have the problem of being too noticable on open maps but too strong on indoor maps.
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No, It's fine the way it is. (don't change anything)
I'd say "No" because the vast majority of the time it's never an issue, and in the 0.001% of games I may come across a death squad, then I use it as a learning tool - and that's if I'm even not sure if it is, or just exceptionally skilled players.
The devs don't have to change it, but I've been in favour of an optional game mode whereby survivors can only play solo to enter, but the rewards would be even greater (e.g.: as well as more BP, add shards or even unique cosmetics). That way, rather than let killers choose their opponents (resulting in most probably a large reduction in survivors), let survivors choose to test themselves at solo level.
As for killers, the problem could be they all choose that option, so when a killer logs in they won't know if they're in that version of the game, or in the standard trials. However, depending on the rank and numbers of an swf within that trial, again the killers could be notified afterwards if it were swf or not (not say who, though) and depending on the level of difficulty be rewarded more BP and after a certain set of results also receive unique cosmetics and iridescent shards.
Heck, even use it to enter prize draw competitions for bigger prizes, like merchandise! The end result is to make it fun for everyone, regardless of how the match goes, and this may encourage people to give solo a go.
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No, they have to change it but in a different way.
If it gave bonus bp, but if it doesn't do anything besides queue you out of swf then no.
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Yeah, they should add this option.
No, im not checking profiles for this.
I don't want to punish people that just play with friends for fun.
I just wanted to know what other people think about swf.
Some swf players just play to bully the killer and make it impossible if you try to get better with a new killer.
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