Gens should be removed

Generators might be boring to do but they're still the objective that actually lets the killer find survivors more often, and perhaps more importantly gives both sides something that both worry about at the same time. Survivors want to finish them, killers want to prevent them from being finished and therefore they tend to run into eachother around generators quite a lot 😄

Without generators the best tactic available for survivors would be to just full stealth until the timer ran out. And not the potentially exciting, oh-man-he-almost-found-me stealth someone might experience while actually being put in risky positions by trying to complete generators. I mean locker hopping, sit in a corner and spam the point emote to prevent afk crows for 15 minutes stealth.

Not to mention that IF the killer finds someone and hooks them they'd have far less reason to leave the hook. And the survivors would have less of a reason to even bother saving them, as it's not like they need the incapacitated pair of hands on the hook on generators or anything. So there's be less reason to actually interact with eachother.

My Dad has been playing hide and seek with me for the past 28 years. While it was fun at first I really just want the game to end.

There are indeed more ways to force enemy/player interaction but you NEED to force it. In a game where one team is incapable of fighting back and the asymmetrical solo player is a powerhouse however, you essentially require some kind of environment where the team needs to metaphorically stick their hand in the oven and expose themselves to risk. Comparing it to first-person shooters isn't really a good one at all, I would invoke other asymmetrical games. (for some reason Spy Party springs to mind even though that's a very different game)

Surviving a timer I would argue is actually harder to balance in a game where one team is incapable of fighting back and is hiding from another player. You need to come up with a way to force interaction despite the objective being hiding, whilst still being fair and fun, and it would take a LOT of work to make that possible. I would say that's harder to design than an asymmetrical stealth MP game where the "stealth" team need to break cover at some point, as opposed to trying to figure out how to make the cover less absolute whilst giving both sides a fair chance.

I would also argue it wouldn't really solve issues of "my team sucks", as if several of your teammembers die early that's still a huge disadvantage, as someone being found has a higher likelihood of being you. Even if you hate Generators, you have to admit that walking up to them and holding M1 IS something essentially anyone can do and it's a fairly intuitive objective to take care of that means one bad player can still contribute to the team.

I understand if my post came across as harsh (I even thought to myself "eh, maybe I'm being too condescending in this post?") but if someone's going to put zero effort and say "remove generators" without taking a second to think about it and its ramifications I don't think it deserves much of an in-depth response, especially when their thread really can be summed up as "I want more killer-survivor interaction, therefore we should remove the mechanic that makes that happen".

Maybe my original reply was too mean-spirited, but I would've been a lot more receptive to hear this out even if it was just "I don't know how you would balance this, but I don't like generators" instead of the obviously terrible idea of just replacing Generators with a 15 minute timer.

Is it cause you saw samination new video too?

Honestly that would make me drop the game it sounds extremely boring that way.