Tired facing SWF as Killer

What are you going on about? The Match Management screen shows up is a bug and does not allow you to affect anything in regular gameplay.

No offense but there's like a million posts about being tired of dealing with SWF. I'm pretty sure the devs are aware of people saying this.

I'm pretty sure the whole gen progression with multiple people nerf was specifically targeted at this level of play. I don't know what making another cookie cutter post after they're already buffing killer side is going to do.

Just add a debuff for SWF, problem solved.

I don't know why devs are so scared to touch SWF. If people wanna play with their friends their gonna do it. So why not add a "hard" mode debuff to balance it.

lmao, so if I see 4 players from the same country, automatically they are SWF ? ._.

Exactly how would the devs do this? I dunno about other platforms, but on Xbox the party chat is entirely separate from any game, and I believe a few years back Microsoft mandated any game they accept cannot interfere with the party chats at all.

One of these things was designed for the game while the other was clearly not.

Well I guess Legion isn't designed all that well but he was designed for the game. SWF was certainly not at the forefront.

I am a solo survivor and I am equally tired of SWF as the OP. Whenever I end up in a game with 2 - or worse yet, 3 - other players running SWF, I feel equally as dejected as when I see a secret offering at the start. SWF steals 90% of this game's magic, as well as goes against virtually all horror movie tropes that DBD is based on, one way or the other ( Halloween would have turned out to be a very different movie if a group of concerned citizens of Haddonfield banded together and hunted Mike Myers down instead)

I always bring Kindred, with every single character even if I only have it at one. For solo survivors, it tends to be as essential as Sprint Burst or Self-Care. While the benefit of seeing the killer close to the hook is nice, and having the same shown to others when it is you that is hanging, the far more important benefit is seeing what and where all other survivors are when you are not the one on the hook.

Seeing the others behavior during this particular stage of the match tends to usually reveal if some of them happen to be running SWF, (nevertheless, it still needs the post-match confirmation of seeing their equipped perks). Unless other survivors also happen to be using Kindred , there is no way for any random group of solo survivors to ever be this coordinated duriing the hooked phase, as there is no real way for players to signal to each other built into the game, aside from waving your arms while on the hook to signal killer's proximity.

As a solo survivor equipped with Kindred you end up with a particular POV. Some of the action switching between the other survivors in different corners of the map is simply surreal, as it is both outside of Bond distance and occurs before Empathy can possibly kick in given health states. Knowing where the person is hooked only provides a point of reference for the killer's previous location but without additional perks survivors know nothing about the killer's path. The only ones that have any such info are those equipped with Kinded, and the survivor currently on the hook. Eventually, more information can get revealed to those survivors equipped with Bond/Empathy/Dark Sense . but only Kindred provides this unequivocal knowledge with regards to the direction the killer takes off in after hooking a survivor.