What is the game's biggest issue, right now?

Lie.

You got it right except "glorified."

You want to know what’s the problem... The entire game.

You guys have made the only skillbased aspect of doing gens into a M1 holding simulator. You know how bad players could counter ruin skillchecks? gen tapping or looking for it. There is literally no incentive to look for it in early or late game now, and the only way good players can lose with ruin up is if they three gen.

Survivors.

People's first response to me all the time is "There are toxic killers too", but from my experience, and the experiences I hear of and see from all other people that mainly play Killer - they were not toxic to begin with. It's the constant entitled mentality that Survivors get. Even when I first started playing Survivor I started to get that entitled mentality thinking "I only lost because I didn't get my 3 hooks", or "I only lost because the Killer avoided my DS, or BT", even "Dead Hard is bugged I should of dodged that". Even worse when you are blaming the Killer for Survivor mistakes. Calling a killer a tunneler for performing unsafe saves, and calling a Killer a camper for "proxy camping" or simply including the hook in their patrol - then survivors continue to go for unsafe saves. Blaming the Killer for "cheese tactics" just because they don't know how to counter; slugging, camping, NOED, stalking, or chainsaws/dashes. Blaming the Killer for "tunneling" just because the survivor didn't know how to loop, or perform long chases.

Which all of this mentality stems from the fact that Survivors have so much to their kit - so much to their arsenal to ignore punishment when they make mistakes. They expect the additional chances when they make mistakes. They feel entitled to it. They work hard to get these powerful perks, expecting the perk to carry them through the ranks (that don't even matter), and when it doesn't work that way - they get frustrated and take it out on the Killer.

Now there is an even bigger issue. There are more survivors than there are Killers. Yes the dev's say "statistically most players play both", but that doesn't define the difference of who plays Killer/Survivor more than the other - or Challenges, and Daily's. With that being the case, these entitled survivors have the superior vote when it comes to any - and all decisions made in the game. So while Survivors complain to dev's, and people that make decisions to make the game easier for them - the game goes in a direction that makes it harder to play Killer.

We are now reaching the point where the Dev's finally made the changes Ruin, which were needed, because Ruin - like the half a dozen survivor perks - skew statistics for Killers greatly. Getting back on point, they removed it. Which changed the dynamic of the game greatly for many of the weaker Killers. Forcing Killers who stayed around to play differently: To apply more pressure, to eliminate players faster, and to use alternative methods to remove players from aiding in objectives (slugging). These very same tactics that entitled survivors had the biggest problems with to begin with.

So now you have a group of unhappy Killers, many leaving/switching (que times is proof of this). With groups of unhappy survivors. The immediate reaction? To hide the rank, and introduce a new MMR system that you are supposed to blindly follow and obey. Will that make the game less toxic? NO IT WILL NOT. People will get into end game screen, not be able to see anyone ranks, and immediately assume they were mismatched and become more toxic to each other "You don't belong in this rank", "You're boosted", etc will start to get thrown around, and at the same time people lying about their rank and most other people just never believing a person when they say they are in a certain rank.

Now you can just "Turn off Chat", but I have been turning off my chat - and you wanna know what the game becomes when you turn off chat? Boring. It's absolutely boring. There's no reason to play, there is no reward, there is no one who gives you a "good game". Which made me find out that I keep playing this game for the moments where in the end game screen everyone says gg, shoots the #########, and congratulates each other on a job well done.

So how about we just remove a lot of the extra chances survivors have to try and flat-line the entitled mentality? Well then you are looking at an even bigger uproar then you had when you ruined Hex: Ruin. I honestly don't know what BHVR can do at this point to save the game, and maybe that's what they see too - which is why we have more things to put money into like the rift, and faster cosmetics. That's just speculation.

So anyways TL;DR: The game's biggest issue is the toxcity that is the entitled survivor mentality. It tore this game apart, and made the worst kind of mess for BHVR to clean up, and just by removing it would cause an even bigger problem.

No one liked Ruin. Survivors did not like dealing with it. Killers did not like running it. It was a band-aid over a gaping wound. You took off the band-aid without fixing the wound. Now the game is worse than it's been in a long time. I hope the thought process was more complex than you suggest.

That's a point I made. Were you actually camped and tunneled? Because if you were Tunneled you would have won easily - since gens would have been done faster, and you can loop a Killer for an entire match on safe loops alone (and every map in the game you can do this). If you were camped, then gens would have been faster and everyone would have escaped with only 1 death. Which the one person with a death would have been given a black pip (single pip if you contributed to the match) for being camped because the emblem system is built that way.

So my point is clear. If you blame that you lost on camping/tunneling - then it's just an excuse that you are convincing yourself not to get better at survivor. Which I've experienced while I was learning, and then once I removed that mindset I became a much better survivor that I can see how much the survivor is the power role.

Bugs and bad performance.

One person being tunneled - actually tunneled is 3 people on gens and the killer being looped for 5 minutes because the maps are littered in safe loops. Sorry that you, or the people your matched with are not good enough at the game to know the map layout that well, or understand what actual tunneling is, but once you get rid of that mentality I believe you will get as good as the survivors that are proving survivor is the power role.

[xbox player, 2+years as rank 1 survivor/killer]

Ranks. thats what is ruining this game and its why i have stopped playing, way to many people are ranking up and getting to ranks they really dont belong anywhere near. back in the day rank 1 was those people who could always hit ruin, do insane chases, know the tiles, totem spawns etc. but now rank 1 means nothing, you see them so scared they never touch a gen and just hide round the map, they cannot lead on chases at all and just all round make the game worse/frustrating when youre versing a rank 1 killer with people who should be rank 15. rank reset needs to be more drastic and harder to pip as a survivor, once they do this they can balance the game better to those of higher skill which in turn will improve the game for all, no point balancing the game around people who cant play at even purple ranks.

I think the amount of catering towards survivors in a match needs to go down a little bit. Maps, matchmaking, and in game mechanics all have this mentality behind them.

I will use Hexes as an example: most of them have effects that are not worth totems. Three perks actually deserve them: Devour Hope, NOED, and Haunted Grounds.

Then they tell the survivor if a totem is in play, so they'll go to the few totem spots on the map, and cleanse them. Survivors can be smart, they can figure it out on their own. If someone gets instadowned against a killer that can't do that normally? You know it's devour or haunted. If you see a gen spark after you leave it, you know it's ruin. Heck, survivors can predict if the killer has Monitor, BBQ, Rancor, or any number of other perks just through normal gameplay. And killers have to do the same with every survivor perk (or most of them).

They also don't need as many second chance perks like they do. Maps shouldn't take a gens worth of time to traverse, the toxicity they can get away with... it all comes back to that attitude, I think. Don't treat survivors like children who need everything given to them.

Based on previous responses I've seen, you should look in a mirror. : P