The state of solo survivor is reaching a breaking point
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The biggest issue is that there isnt a GOOD anti-tunnel mechanic in the game. The anti-camp is great, better than it should be sometimes, but survivors no longer have the power to punish tunnelling with genrushing because genrushing affected non-tunnellers.
But they buffed chase, which buffed tunnelling. Then they released a ton of killers who are strong chasers, which also means they are strong tunnellers. Buffed and released relatively strong chase related perks while they nerfed most survivor chase related perks, causing tunnelling to be stronger. DS got nerfed, DH got useless (the nerf was needed, but since it only works off hook, I feel like the endurance should work like Mettle of Man, since you can otherwise bypass it by hitting them during the BT window)
And what did we get to reduce tunneling? Basekit BT, which needed to be buffed 5 times before it was in a relatively decent position, and can still be easily bypassed by quite a few killers.
The only solution to tunneling, is to give survivors a 50% haste and a 100% vault speed buff for the next 10 seconds on top of basekit BT, while disabling blood and scratchmarks. Which sounds ridiculous, but if you REALLY need to tunnel someone out, you can go try finding them. If that's too much of a hassle, go find someone else instead.13 -
Me and my OTR, Bond, Distortion, Calm Spirit build, which is, apparently, extremely selfish.
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See I have issues with several things. Being hunted down after a minute or two in the match, teammates leave you hanging for a sacrifice even tho they still die. Or they don’t heal you up when you’re nearby. I mean like seriously it’d help us to last a little bit longer in the match. Plus then there’s the lagging. You vault over the window just to have the rubber effect throw you back to the side you vaulted from. Not to mention the ones that didn’t win the whole team or down one then down you and hangs you instead of the first one they downed. What’s the purpose of the flashlight when it don’t work on all the killers? A few of them but dang what about the others we really don’t have the extra help.
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He said himself he discarded every game where a survivor dies too quickly for his liking, and counted every game where killer DC'd as a 4out. If you manipulate statistics diligently enough, you can even get 100% escape rate if you wanted to.
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How in the hell can the Shape (Micheal Myers) kill you straight out the door. No hooking anyone twice. Just up and kill somebody without being hooked twice or the last survivor alive. Game started about 5 minutes later The Shape stabbing me to death. None of it makes sense. The other 3 players were still alive. And no mori was equipped either. But even so there are stipulations to them. And I know they weren’t meet.
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To add the topic, I just want some consistency from the matchmaking in general. We have a rank system in place with MMR's that are supposed to work.
I have a ton of fun playing solo survivor because I have 0 expectations from it going in so that makes it enjoyable. But I will say that my survival rate far trumps that in group play from what happens in solo. I'm lucky enough to have friends to play with. I couldn't imagine having to slam my face into solo play all the time. Would be quite the grind for the average casual player.1 -
With the Tombstone add-on Myers can kill healthy or injured Survivors. But he has to level up to EW 3 first.
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I was trying to respond to this part of your comment:
"Who would have thought that if you are good at the game, have good game sense, and try to play as a team (which is the main strength of survivors, being 4 vs 1) would make you and your team mates win more games even in SoloQ?"
Even If you play like this, when you get survivors that instantly quit, there isn't much that you can do. And yes that is on the survivor, but you can be a player that never quits but you are still effected by it, so it should be addressed (a common suggestion I've seen is matching survivors who ragequit often with other survivors who ragequit often.)
I don't know how many games Hens excluded but I like to point out that Otzdarva's 39% winrate in solo que inspired him to make this video. Otz is a good players aswell and from what I've seen tries to help his teammates but that wasn't enough to get him over 40%.
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We could argue all day about what skill is, but what do tunneling and camping actually do? Because they certainly don't win games on their own, meaning that they can't be that problematic. The killer hooking, even hitting somebody, as an M1 killer is the hardest thing in the game. Tunneling and camping just makes those things a little more worth it, because there are so few things that killers sink their match time into that are worth it. So they're not easy ways out, and any survivor with game sense will tell you that, because while it may get a little risky for that 1 survivor being camped or tunneled, the rest of the team is chilling while the killer's sweating their butt off, probably for 1 kill. I insist that the skill of the average solo player is the issue, not the killer being too strong. I don't know if you've seen it, but with some of these lobbies it's like 1 person gets hooked, gen efficiency goes down to 0, and suddenly everyone forgets how to play. There should never be a time where there's 2 survivors on the ground or on hook at the same time, and yet every other match during this event it happens, because there's no MMR. So I wouldn't balance for those people, ever, because that's what you're suggesting.
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SoloQ has one glaring problem:
Bad players.
Almost all of your situations wouldnt be anyway near as bad if your teammates were at least decent.
SWFs are an innate proof of this!
TheThe thing is: All you guys are auggesting is, balancing the game around every single survivors ability to escape aka "win" the game, which is a fundamental flaw in a 4v1 Situation.
The Killer is the opposing FORCE in this game and NO single survivor should be able to win the game by himself. This is how the game how the game is balanced and how it should be!
All your suggestions on tunneling and camping are stripping the killer of ways to play effective while ignoring the core issue of survivors playing bad and/or not understanding the game.
TAking away effective playing on killers ends will make the game practically unwinnable in evenly skilled matchups for killers.
You cannot and should never, balance around bad players!
Educate them! Or tighten up your matchmaking!
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The killer DCing is a 4 out, and like I said, being such a bad teammate that you disconnect or suicide on hook is part of the problem of SoloQ: Survivors themselves.
Again, this doesn't invalidate any of the points I made.
I don't know what you understand by "try to play as a team", but if you quit at first chance, then obviously you weren't trying to play as a team. In fact, you weren't trying to play at all. So, I don't know how that contradicts anything of what I said, even less when you seem to agree with this being on the survivor.
But I can rephrase what I said to be more specific: "Who would have thought that if you are good at the game, have good game sense, and try to play as a team without quitting the moment things don't go how you want, would make you and your team mates win more games even in SoloQ?"
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The killer DCing is a 4 out
The killer DCing could be anything, even BHVR don't count such games. Most killers DC when they have a way to take 1-2k if they try, sometimes a hopeless game for killer turns into a 4k in the end. It's hypocritical to count killer's DC but not to count survivors DC, it's a plain statistic manipulation to get the desired result.
disconnect or suicide on hook
Is there really a difference between suiciding on hook within 1 minute of a trial and being tunneled out of the trial within 1 minute? The end result is the same. And most of the times, survivors go next because of objective reasons you personally might not have noticed, like seeing auras of half of their team hiding in bushes.
Again, this doesn't invalidate any of the points I made.
You used an "experiment" of a guy who blatantly manipulated the counted escape rate as an argument, this is what I replied to. If you only count desirable outcomes while discarding undesirable ones, you will get any result you wish. You should not use such "data" as an argument, soloQ will never get close to 60% escape rate outside of heavily rigged accounting.
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Not sure if I worded my original comment so badly but obviously I'm not encouraging ragequits.
My point is, I can play like a team player but if my teammates aren't willing to be teamplayers and ragequit there is nothing I can do.
So while saying "It's the survivor fault" is not necessarily wrong (though I do think that more information like seeing other players perks or the facecamp progress would be a good addition) it does not help those survivors who are already teamplayers.
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SoloQ has one glaring problem:
Toxic players.
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The killer DCing could be anything
No, the killer DCing is a 4 escape and it counts as such. Whether BHVR counts those matches or not for their stats has nothing to do with the in game rewards and winning conditions.
Is there really a difference between suiciding on hook within 1 minute of a trial and being tunneled out of the trial within 1 minute?
Yes, the person who does the action. One is the survivor's fault, the other isn't. One means that the survivor at least tried, and the other means that the survivor didn't even try at all. One makes you a bad teammate, the other doesn't.
And most of the times, survivors go next because of objective reasons you personally might not have noticed, like seeing auras of half of their team hiding in bushes.
Sorry to break it to you, but, um… that is still survivors not being good teammates, mate.
You used an "experiment" of a guy who blatantly manipulated the counted escape rate as an argument
No, I used that "experiment" as proof that if you play well, make the right decisions at the right time, bring perks that help the team instead of the "5 gen looper" build, and of course, you at least try to play and not quit the moment something doesn't go your way, your and your team's escape rate will be higher. The fact that counting all those things while not counting DCs gives a 64.8% escape rate is only further proof that the main problem with SoloQ is survivor's doing and not even trying in the first place.
You are not proving me wrong, you are confirming my points.
Do you realize that those survivors who "aren't willing to be teamplayers and ragequit" are also survivors? I think the problem here is that you are taking this like I'm literally saying "it is your fault" to you when I'm talking about the player base in general. There is no reason to take it personally.
And yeah, like I said, there are a couple of QoL things they should add to help those "teamplayers" be able to coordinate better, starting with a Quickchat function. But that's a different topic all together.
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How would you fix this problem? Most players are very casual, you can't buff skill.
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Whether BHVR counts those matches or not for their stats has nothing to do with the in game rewards and winning conditions.
And yet he refuses to count games where a survivor DCs or dies too quickly, even though the game also has respective rewards for every outcome. So this excuse is also inconsistent. Once again: counting favorable outcomes even if you have to apply mental gymnastics to justify it, while not counting unfavorable ones even if you have to come up with excuses why not. Clear data manipulation.
One makes you a bad teammate, the other doesn't.
If a survivor sees 2 of their teammates hiding in bushes and decides to go next, it's not the one going next who is a bad teammate. If you have 2 useless teammates, the game is doomed whether one of you suicides or not. But yes, if your goal is to "prove" that ridiculous number of 65% by any means, you could discard such results in order to boost the result to the intended favor, the excuse you have to use in this case does not even seem that absurd! Convenient.
64.8% escape rate
I can prove it being 100%, I will just have to use a little more absurd excuses for why I had to discard every game that didn't end in 4out, and also why I counted every 1k as a 0k (because obviously the killer just tunneled or camped the poor guy, so it doesn't count!), and maybe even how I counted every survivor DC as an escape, because technically the survivor escaped his faith by leaving the game! As you can see, this method is quite versatile.
You are not proving me wrong, you are confirming my points.
Yup, if you discard every point where I prove you wrong, then indeed, my agreement rate for your takes is 64.8%.
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The fundamental problem with DBD is that it takes 10 times the amount of game time to learn how to be a somewhat decent Survivor when compared to learning how to play the Killer role. Putting 100 hours into Survivor isn't even enough time to have faced every Killer in the game. But if you put 100 hours into learning Trapper, you'll probably have won enough games to have left the lowest MMR ranking behind. Hence why there is a shortage of low MMR Killers for low MMR Survivors to play against. Without a regular influx of new Killer players, the MMR system breaks down because you have Survivors going up against Killers that are much more experienced than they are. I know 100 hours isn't much in-game time compared to most people here, but it still represents a significant time investment for a lot of people and it's going to feel bad if you barely escape at all.
I think the tutorial needs to be much, much better for new players. It may have been adequate for the game as it was in 2016, but it's no longer fit for purpose. Even the tips for facing a new Killer on the loading screen could be much improved. I don't ever want to play another Legion game against a 50 hour player who keeps dying to a deep wound because the tutorial didn't bother to explain a fundamental aspect of basic game play. No matter what our hours or MMR may be, we will get less experienced players in our lobbies from time to time because they have to be matched with somebody.
My idea for improving Solo Q would be to give solo Survivors (and maybe also duos) an extra perk slot reserved exclusively for aura perks that help you to see your teammates. Would help to bridge the gap between Solo Q and SWF players somewhat and make balancing for the game a little bit easier.
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Once again: counting favorable outcomes even if you have to apply mental gymnastics to justify it, while not counting unfavorable ones even if you have to come up with excuses why not. Clear data manipulation.
What I'm saying is if by not counting DCs and give ups (because you keep saying "early kills", but that is not mentioned anywhere in the video) you can have a 64.8% escape rate, and when you count them you have a 39%, then obviously, survivors DCing and giving up is one of the problems of the SoloQ experience and one of the reasons for the low escape rate. Ergo, it is another proof that the main problem with SoloQ are survivors themselves.
The only mental gymnastics here is you evading the point being made and justifying it with "Data manipulation, so not valid" when nobody is trying to prove that by counting DCs, that 64.8% won't be lower.
If a survivor sees 2 of their teammates hiding in bushes and decides to go next, it's not the one going next who is a bad teammate.
Alright then, the other two survivors are also bad teammates. It's still the survivor's fault for not having enough game sense to make the right decisions at the right time and making the one giving up have a bad experience. Again, you are not proving me wrong with anything you are saying, on the contrary.
But yes, if your goal is to "prove" that ridiculous number of 65% by any means […]
Nobody is trying to prove that "ridiculous number" to be the truth of anything more than what that number means: If you don't count those players that don't even try and play well, the escape rate gets higher.
You are the one trying to "disprove" it because you based all your narrative on it not being "real", so it is not survivors playing bad what makes SoloQ unbearable. Can't explain what kind of logic led you to reach that conclusion, but it is what you are doing.
I can prove it being 100% […]
If you do, then you will prove that if you discard every game that didn't end in 4 out, count every 1k as a 0k, and count every survivor DC as an escape, you get a 100% escape rate. Just as the video proves that if you don't count games where someone DCs or gives up, you get a 64.8% escape rate instead of 39%. That's it.
You are not making the great counter-"argument" you think you are making here (or anywhere else in your post).
Yup, if you discard every point where I prove you wrong, then indeed, my agreement rate for your takes is 64.8%.
If you cherry pick one thing from my post (the video), center your argument on a made up reason of why that part is wrong (the 64.8% doesn't count give ups, so data not valid because it doesn't prove what I say it's trying to prove), and completely ignore that your "argument" has nothing to do with the main point I made (survivors are the reason that survivors have bad experiences in SoloQ) then yes, you proved me totally wrong.
But if you don't do that and take into account that every single example you gave for "it's not survivors fault" is in fact survivors being bad teammates, there you have your 100% agreement rate with my points.
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But what can be did about it? I mean this is just people's mindset about how they play a game
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To me your original quote sounded like you are saying that a singular survivor has more options to fix their experience than I think they do (based on Hens' video, where he specifically excluded the matches completly outside of his control) because you are dependant on your teammates, so there is only so much a single survivor can do.
Maybe you meant your comment more in a "If all survivors would play in this way than the situation would be bettter" and I missunderstood. That statement is true but it is really utopian, I don't think ragequiting will get better without intervention from the Devs.
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It is literally what I meant, and yes, it is utopian to the point that I don't think anything the devs would add to the game would 100% solve this problem, but it is how it is: If people played well (and with that I don't mean "loop the killer for 5 gens", but having the minimum game sense) and didn't give up so easily, the SoloQ experience would be much better.
This is not a problem exclusive to DbD, either. In every team-based game the experience will be much worse if you play solo in comparison to playing with a squad of trusted people. The problem with the DbD community is that for some reason they blame anything else but themselves, including the balancing in comparison to SWF, which leads to
demandask for changes in pro of "mAh SoLoQ eXpErIeNcE" disregarding that those changes would generally unbalance the game or that it won't solve the real problem. Because let's be real, the problem can't be solved without changing the mentality of the playerbase as a whole.Of course, I'm not saying there aren't balance issues or things that need to be added to the game that can alleviate this, from better matchmaking (proper MMR brackets) to better in-game documentation (per-killer tutorial of how to play as and against) and QoL features to allow solos to coordinate better (quickchat, more HUD elements, or even voicechat). But at some point, people should start to realize that maybe the problem is not that the game is not adapted to them, but that they not adapt to the game.
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Sorry, I missunderstood you then. Generally I agree with you points.
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I've stopped caring about it. Pretty much don't play nowadays. Matchmaking is terrible, killers only camp or tunnel and games are so opressive and unbalanced that I can't play more than 3 or 4 matches without going to another game.
Maybe someday they'll finally do something about solo q and I will come back to play regularly. Until then, good luck to everyone else that bothers playing solo only.
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Even that is more skillful than what the average survivor displays. Pre-drop pallets? Hold W? I'd kill for teammates who could at least do that. No, what the devs intend to balance around is survivors who have no game awareness, they think gens will magically get done if they ALL go for hook and heal every single time someone gets hooked or injured, and they do the worst plays they can possibly do throughout the whole match. That escape rate is a total joke because of how many survivors just kill themselves for no reason, either at the start of the match or at the end being greedy.
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You only balance for the majority of players for money reasons, at the expense of balance for skilled players, which is what's been happening.
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Solo doesn't need anymore buffs. They have enough free information, which doesn't do much for them but it does a lot for SWF in that they don't have to waste callouts for things such as Remember Me. You're avoiding the main issue, which is matchmaking. 2 good survivors are put with 2 terrible ones, and a decent killer. The killer can just tunnel out the weak ones, easy pickings, and then the good survivors die as well for no reason. You're never gonna be able to buff solo survivor enough to where day 1 noobs, or wannabe day 1 noobs, can beat killers who are playing to win. These survivors don't want the win unless it's handed to them; they never improve because everything that's posed a threat to them has been nerfed. And it's still not enough!
You have to put survivor who give a flip with killers who give a flip, and the kiddies outside of that can just run around and do whatever because they're not playing their roles anywhere near their full potential. Once you have the group who knows what they're doing, you balance off them, not off the majority. Balancing for the majority makes beating SWF impossible, while not doing anything for struggling solos.
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You only balance for the majority if you want the game to live.
Balance around players like Hens, hell, balance around someone near my skill level and the game will NOT be fun for ANYONE outside of no-life 5K+ hours players.
I'm self-aware enough to know that'd be horrible for the game, even if it'd be better for me.
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You only balance for the majority if you want the game to live.
Except every instance that I know where a game with a high skill ceilling / time investment requirement has been balanced "for the majority", which usually means making the gameplay easier, removing any challenge and rewarding minimum effort in the process, has lost players. Perfect study case: World of Warcraft, to the point of having to bring back the old version of the game after telling their users "No, we are not going to bring back the vanilla game, and you don't want us to do it, really".
So, tell me what multiplayer / live service game do you know that was balanced to appeal to the "unskilled masses" and maintained their playerbase to affirm that it is the way to go if you want "the game to live".
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This is an interesting video, thank you for highlighting it here, I did see most of this Live. One thing that I think it's good to highlight, is this is not a personal score, but a team one. Hens often died himself to get his team mates out.
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This is exactly my sentiment. It's been obvious BHVR doesn't want a fun, fair, and balanced game for "everyone".
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I watch both of his 6 hours streams from 2 weeks ago when he did the experiment. To my shock he actually legit got a 60% rate without cherry picking much at all. He didn't count one suicide game but that about it unless i miss one. Also had a killer DC but i think the survivors was winning enough to count it. This guy can have nearly 50 normal matches but i can't go 3 without someone dc-ing/killing themselves on hook (NA west)
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This is called apathy, and it's not good when players start to feel like this. I see it in alot of survivor main circles (and I'm feeling it too) these days. The end result is likely that more and more spaces become echo chambers for killer mains, who then have more of an opportunity to dictate survivor changes than survivor mains do themselves.
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Maybe it's a jaded outlook but you can have all the game sense in the world and act as a team but it's not desirable. Look at what happened with 6.1. Escape rates were too high. If survivors are getting too good it just leads to nerfs to satisfy the whole "killers are supposed to be scary" idea.
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The perk he is using are nearly exact perks that I use in soloq. we'll make it, Deja vu, Exhaustion, Aura reading(I prefer bond over kindred). Seems like my build is super effective. I don't really feel pressure of soloq but I dislike how aura reading is kinda needed to play correctly in soloq.
there is like so little to no coercion without those aura perks. dbd needs less perk taxes, both for survivor and killer.
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I'm not saying that match making isn't an issue (and I mentioned ragequits in another comment) but I still think there could be tweaks. For example, I matches where it costed us the game that solos can not see the face camp meter. (SWF can simply call it out and the face camp mechanic does not come into play in most matches, so I don't think that it would make much of a difference).
Also wasting a call out is a weird concept, it's Not like it takes more than 2 seconds to call a perk, so what do they need callouts safed for?
Also, the suggestions I posted came from Otz, who plays a lot of Killer so I don't think he would suggest something terribly op.
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I'm inclined to agree with the sentiment that the only reason solo queue is in such a hellish state is because of the Survivors themselves. You can give them all the tips, buffs, and info in the world, but it won't necessarily stop them from being stupid. Like, what are you supposed to do about this kind of behavior here? I honestly don't know what this Renato did to deserve this kind of treatment, if anything.
Solo queue teammates being solo queue teammates
And Exhibit B, where we have two P100 Davids playing like pros. 😋
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I mean, no amount of buffs or changes will fix Solo, and it's not even "bad players lose" argument, some soloq players are fundamentally different (not even trying to win at all) than those who play seriously
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You mean those who are doing archive challenges instead of trying to win? So once again the problem is something that the devs added into the game without even asking the community, something nobody has asked for, and not the players themselves?
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Yeah, imagine if someone invented a system that would put good survivors in a match with other good survivors, without ruining the game for decent players by adding someone who doesn't know how to play in their team, yeah, that would be a game changer. If only DbD had something like this…
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CoD, Battlefield, Halo, etc etc
Pretty much every casual-oriented game doesn't balance for the 1%.
Now look, if you want to balance for say, idk, 200 players over the other 59,999,800 players, be my guest. It just shows why some of us aren't devs lmao
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Don't frame it as "help". If you're supposed to get across a raging river but there's no bridge, asking for a bridge isn't asking for "help". It's asking for necessary infrastructure.
Let me skip over the examples you gave since they are (safe for the HUD) not exactly SoloQ specific - and this is abut SoloQ, not survs in general and get straight to the "what are we looking for?"
At this point? I would actually be intrested in trying two seperate Qs; The regular one where anything goes and one where everyone Qs up individually - but that also doubles as a no items no add-ons game mode where survs have baskit Bond & Kindred. Play around with some game modes to see which gives SoloQ a framework where they can actually go up against standard killers (hence no add-ons) without screwing killers over (hence no items)
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That's the one but not all, those who stalking the killer to do "save" which doesn't happen 99% of time, those who randomly booning around, opening chests, getting all the invitations, doing weird combo, using invocation, mindlessly selfcaring 24/7, all that people
There is far too much things people can do and some decide to go for it rather than play for win
Sometime killers do those kind of play too, but at least they don't have any teams
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Problem with soloQ is selfish teammates and hiders. I use kindred, aftercare, we'll make it and windows in soloQ to help out teammates, but it also shows me the ugly side quite often. Teammates that hide and won't do gens.
Many times i die to save my teammates but quite often im left to my first hook to die or people won't even bother trying in end game.
Matchmaking seems little broken too im not gonna lie. I have 3700 hours in this game but im matched with survivors less than 400 hours. Killer on the other hand is someone with 9000 hours and those 400 hour survivors wont last more than 20 seconds. This should not happen.
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CoD, Battlefield, Halo, etc etc
Are you real? Did you just mention 3 of the most competitive games out there, including the one game that started all the "strict MMR sucks the fun out of a game" debate, as examples of "balancing for the majority"?
Pretty much every casual-oriented game doesn't balance for the 1%.
"[…] where a game with a high skill ceilling / time investment requirement". Casual games don't require high skill or time investment because they are designed to be easy to learn and play. But even in those games, there is a certain level of skill requirement and challenge, because if everybody were granted a Crown in every match of Fall Guys, then what is the reason to play?
Now look, if you want to balance for say, idk, 200 players over the other 59,999,800 players, be my guest. It just shows why some of us aren't devs lmao
No, I don't want to balance for "200 players" and never said that, on the contrary, I already said to you that a game should not be balanced around the top (pro players) or the bottom (the ones that, after hundreds of hours, still don't do well) of the player base, no matter how many players are on either side.
But a competitive game should not be balanced "for the majority" either. It should be balanced around those that invest the necessary time to learn and get good at the game, and doing so should feel rewarding. Because the moment it doesn't and any challenge is removed for the sake of "making the game so everybody can do good", people lose interest pretty quickly as there is no reason to invest a large amount of time in it.
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I literally originally said balance for the majority of players.
And everyone hated the CoD changes because it ######### with the casual playerbase. A game with competition =! Competitively balanced.
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The quality of players is a problem but I will die on the hill that it's largely a matchmaking issue. I literally just got matched with a member of Team Cynic. Now most people probably wouldn't know who that is but i've seen them play in all of the major competitive tournaments. The match was not fair at all and we got absolutely destroyed. I think when a 10k hour killer who plays the game competitively is being matched with casual solo survivors then there IS in fact a matchmaking problem despite what some other posts have insisted. My game before this was a P100 Hag and the game after was a P100 Oni. I should not be in games with any of these people considering what my escape rate is in solo queue. Matchmaking isn't perfect in any game but it is especially terrible in DBD and utterly fails to separate different types of players.
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I really wouldn't want you as my teammate...
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Current match making is simply focused more on speed than precise match making, which I personally prefer.
I really don't want to wait 5 minutes in queue just to have everyone with 3k+ hours...
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I see everyone is stuck on this idea that matchmaking is “broken” because experienced Survivors are partnered with inexperienced Survivors.
What if it’s not broken but working as intended? The better you get at Survivor the harder your games get, including weights on your own team that you have to carry. Adding inexperienced players to a match with an experienced player is a good way of keeping a 40% escape rate.
The escape rate would be much higher if all Survivors were the same skill level. If each Survivor can run the Killer around a minute with each hook state then the Killer has no chance. So to keep things fair experienced players are handicapped and inexperienced players receive a small boost.
Now I understand that this is exactly the frustration in solo que but again, I wouldn’t say mmr is broken. I just think that it is accomplishing its goal in ways that people don’t like, but not that it is broken.
You get teammates that aren’t as good as you.. You get a Killer who you believe is less skilled than you.. And despite believing that you are the best player on the server you are the one who always loses while everyone else benefits from the situation in some way. I understand the frustration. Games are very difficult for people who are good, just not difficult in a way that they believe is fair.
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