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Survive With Friends Killer Mains and Performance Vote!

So I've been thinking, this community of killers always seems less than unanimous when it comes to competing against survive with friends groups. So, the big question I have is, how many of you killers actually have issues with survive with friends, and how many of you completely ignore it and have no issues at all completely demolishing SWF groups, and which killer do you play mainly to demolish said groups. And if you're the type to dodge survive with friends groups or have issues with them, which killer do you mainly dodge them with?

http://www.strawpoll.me/17019069

A straw poll for posterity.

And if you don't necessarily have a killer that you are a boss on, please leave comments below about which killers you do play and how you perform vs an SWF group.

Comments

  • Zarathos
    Zarathos Member Posts: 1,911
    I would recomend allowing ticking of multiple categories as many players will preference ticking what their good at as opposed to what their weak with. 
  • PigMainBigBrain
    PigMainBigBrain Member Posts: 1,893
    edited December 2018

    @Zarathos said:
    I would recomend allowing ticking of multiple categories as many players will preference ticking what their good at as opposed to what their weak with. 

    I thought about doing that at first but the poll is aimed at finding out who your main is, and if you do well vs SWF vs if you don't. If I had allowed multiples which I was about to do, it would skew the results. Since its aimed at finding out which killers are doing well vs swf vs the ones that do poorly. If you don't play a character most of the time aka main it the natural experience vs SWF groups may differ vs the person who has 10,000 freddy games. But that isn't to say that persons input is invalid, I made this forum post and a reddit post where you can leave your commentary and experiences with killers etc.

    Hopefully I can spread this around a bit and get a bit more individual input.

  • Zarathos
    Zarathos Member Posts: 1,911

    @Zarathos said:
    I would recomend allowing ticking of multiple categories as many players will preference ticking what their good at as opposed to what their weak with. 

    I thought about doing that at first but the poll is aimed at finding out who your main is, and if you do well vs SWF vs if you don't. If I had allowed multiples which I was about to do, it would skew the results. Since its aimed at finding out which killers are doing well vs swf vs the ones that do poorly. If you don't play a character most of the time aka main it the natural experience vs SWF groups may differ vs the person who has 10,000 freddy games. But that isn't to say that persons input is invalid, I made this forum post and a reddit post where you can leave your commentary and experiences with killers etc.

    Hopefully I can spread this around a bit and get a bit more individual input.

    Ok well if thats the case. Id argue spirit preys heavily on swf altruism as players even on coms can't spot when shes going back to a save or chasing the player which makes her ridiclously strong and allows to gain momentum and snowball potential much faster. 
  • TrueKn1ghtmar3
    TrueKn1ghtmar3 Member Posts: 1,143
    I'm a Freddy main, I'd like to say I play very well against swf, which I blame on my ability to track and drop my TR when I want.
  • TheWraith883
    TheWraith883 Member Posts: 66

    before the update, I had no issues with killing SWF but after the update everything is ridiculous and it's no possible to play as a killer. I feel that most of the killers are nerfed or had bugs. I play the spirit and people are talking about how bad she is.

  • Zarathos
    Zarathos Member Posts: 1,911
    edited January 2019

    before the update, I had no issues with killing SWF but after the update everything is ridiculous and it's no possible to play as a killer. I feel that most of the killers are nerfed or had bugs. I play the spirit and people are talking about how bad she is.

    Audio is bugged spirit suffers the most from this. Pavement is fine (i think) but grass is not functioning. Grass movement is rustling randomly which is often throwing off my spirit estimates. Also wounded survivour are significantly harder to tracks as the audio distance for injured survivour i found to be shortened in range.  Before you say anything no its not iron will i checked. 
  • Unnamed_1
    Unnamed_1 Member Posts: 18

    I don't really care who or what I'm facing. I open the lobby hit ready and watch videos until the game starts. That being said: I struggle against good teams that are not swf and I also demolish groups that are clearly in coms. For me it really just depends on individual survivor skill. My favorites are spirit, wraith and trapper and I do kinda ok with myers, nurse, huntress and billy. The only one I almost never play is doc. I just don't really got into his playstyle/power.

  • Grim
    Grim Member Posts: 250
    edited January 2019

    Quite frankly, SWF groups mean nothing to me. I've struggled against groups of 4 randoms and I've demolished 4-man's. I don't see a point in dodging when I'm going to lose anyway if they're optimal with gens. I'm OK with this, though. You can't win them all.

    I enjoy Billy or Myers the most. 8/10 I'll at least 3K as, thankfully, Squadettes all with DS and good looping on farm with mist are few and far in between.

  • TheWraith883
    TheWraith883 Member Posts: 66

    if survivor with friends is really organized you really can't beat them. I feel the killers suffer really hard when they enter a game with survivor friends. I know sometimes you could win but even if you were an excellent player you will really suffer hard and sometimes you just can't beat them. I usually face similar survivor friends that keep entering my games and I think it's because of the host connection and they are super toxic and they will ruin every game for me. All of them have borrowed time, ds, and die hard. They also add flashlights and ultra-rare toolbox with new parts add-ons. You really can't enjoy the game because from the first minute the game starts they will finish 3 gens easily. I really think this should not happen and the game needs a balancing regarding the survivor friends games. I feel like playing a game against survivor friends is totally different than playing a game against random players. I would suggest they find a way to fix this because most of the games that have 4 survivors friends are really hard and almost impossible ( but sometimes you either get lucky or they play without the passion to win) but if you run into a hardcore players that want to win and they have the fully loaded perks and add-ons while they are communicating with each other it's nearly iimpossible to win. I wish the developers could understand this and try to find a solution to make it more balanced.