Solo queue survivor is the worst dbd experience.

I enjoy solo queue survivor. I feel like it makes me a better player because of all the ######### I put up with. I think if you can get good at being a solo queue survivor, you'd be a good asset to any SWF team. Also, I am used to adapting from playing bot lane in league and support in OW, so I guess it just bothers me less.

I think recently hit red ranks killer is a much worse experience, as you are bombarded with nonstop SWF and have no idea how to handle them.

Good and bad matches can (and will) happen. We just need to try our best even if the game looks awfully bad. This is a co-op game, i know it can be hard when your teammates aren't helping you but someone needs to go nuts, grab that generator, unhook those pesky survivors and push them out of the gate.

You must be that hero.

The game must not reward your actions in those matches, but you can be sure in those forums we'll remember you as the hero that took off his hat and did what it must be done to survive.

exactly. I started to play only killer if I run solo (which aint happen too much, due to less time to play). Playing survivor just with one friend greatly increases my experience, even tho we get matched with 2 people who dont know how to play. Like 2 days ago we got matched with a duo feng swf, one had 92hrs and the other one had a priv profile against a 3k hrs oni main, with his best addons and map offering. After we got the first 2 gens done one of the was already death hook, the other one got hooked once. Still it was a enjoyable match for us.

It's pretty terrible the majority of the time on PS4. I try to be a team player, but the other randoms or SWF are trolls, selfish, and don't do gens. I've been body blocked for doing a totem, getting a chest, sand bagged because I am prioritizing one of the final gens instead of healing another survivor when they have adrenaline... And then I have to deal with the killer who sometimes play very scummy. I got a match tonight where my team mates were obviously rank 20's (I'm rank 1), and the killer goes super try hard and tunnels me to oblivion because I'm the only one who can loop him.

SWF that bring keys to the trial are also really selfish. Even with Kindred, sometimes I won't even get saved and will reach the struggle phase, yet I do anything that I can so that it doesn't happen to anyone else because it sucks reaching the struggle phase in your first hook. If there's two of us left, the other survivor refuses to do gens and camps the hatch. I have gotten chased for minutes when there's like one generator left and two of us to buy the other survivor time and when I get downed what do i see? Crab walking or camping the hatch. Sigh...

Regardless of my frustrations, I will always play solo queue over SWF. It's more fun than being in voice with a good squad.

I play solo only and do not feel this game is any more difficult to get into than any other game, for example PUBG.

You log in, you kill or get killed, you log off.

I used to relate to this and I understand your frustrations. I do get low rank games some times. I have never been in a swf. Solo rank 1 every reset for years. IMO you need to change your mindset, that's what I did. You are not playing 4 survivors vs the killer in solo. No one is your best friend ready to die for you. You are 4 strangers in a life or death situation. The reality is that it is you vs the killer vs 3 strangers. You have to play around your team or they will get you killed. Analyzing my teams perks and playstyle is as important as analyzing the killers perks and playstyle. Teamwork is essential in this game....up to a point.

Also, understanding how the hatch spawns is important as others will stop working on gens if there's only 2 people left. There are times when you need to stop and realise what actions will get you killed and when you need to save yourself. Don't get me wrong I save everyone I can and push gens, but I have been in too many games where there's 2 gens left, 2 dead, and I realize the killer is up my ass all the time because I am the only one working on gens. Other times I play safe and I find my other teammate working on a gen then we finish it. My point is, yeah it sucks when people play like #########, but if you do your best and play around your random team you should always be top score like me.

As for killer, no I can't relate. But I have put a lot of time into killer. I play at rank 1 and I never think it sucks. Well, I take that back, it sucks when survivors are ######### to you just to be #########. Some people are just ######### for no reason. Most games though I will either crush everyone in the match or the survivors are decent and put up a fight. Which is what I prefer.

People put too much emphasis on winning in this game. Just try and do the best you can during the match. Save as many people as you can, get as many heals on others, push gens as far as you can go. You are not supposed to escape every game nor is the killer supposed to 4k every game.

It's truly tilting to play solo. Kindred is absolutely necessary, because when I am playing with a good group it's easy to see when I should go for a save or just slam gens.

But I've never wanted to D/C more than when I'm hooked (and they see each other with kindred) and all 3 are running to get me. Or 2 are running and one person is crouching on the other corner of the map. Or using self care in the corner when the killer has sloppy butcher.

@DCash - I usually have that mentality, but when my daily quest is to survive and escape with a new item, and my tome challenge is to survive with using Hope, 100% of my objectives are to escape, not just do my best. So it gets frustrating when things aren't in your control

Solo queue use to not be too bad about 2 years ago. Survivor was fairly OP and lots of good players still actively played a lot. Seems most of the good players moved on to other games or only play in a full SWF so you never see them. I rarely get poorly matched as a red rank survivor. I occasionally get a mixed bag of colors, but typically get all red or maybe a purple or two. Killers, I get all colors. The quality of the average solo queue survivor, regardless of rank is so sad it just makes for un-fun games. After thousands of hours of playtime, I have limited patience for solo queue survivor anymore. If I can't play in a SWF (even if the players suck), I usually try to play Killer. I'm not a great killer, but at least getting stomped as a killer yields more BP than getting stomped as a survivor with Pepega team mates.

Yeah since the DC penalty has been taken away people have been a little trigger happy. If someone wants to leave a game though I don't think they should be forced to stay. Does it suck? Yeah, but thats why I always say just do the best you can. You can still pip and escape. I mean we all want fun matches unfortunately fun is subjective.

I totally agree that solo survivor is a pain in the a.., but in my experience the matches with 3 other solos are the best for me. It's worse, when I play solo and my teammates are a SWF group of 2 or 3, cause most (not all!) of them let you die or sandbag you. I can't even remember the last time, when a solo surv. sandbagged me. They even try to help me when the gates are open and the killer has noed and I could totally understand if they'd just run out.

I think playing solo helps you more, I mostly play solo survivor when I play survivor and has helped me not rely on teammates at all, since I have no friends that play this game I just play to win but solo, it is harder sure but it will make you better on the long run that being said.

I hate when my teammates don't feel like doing anything, a few hours ago, I was playing survivor, did 3 gens, middle gen to prevent 3 gens, looped the killer for a few min, wasted 2 pallets, killer wasn't the best, he was mindgaming way too much, easily I wasted around 6 min of his time, not a single gen popped, killer caught me and I got facecamped.

On the bright side, no one escaped, my teammates didn't deserved to escape at all.

Megs are worse. I almost lobby dodge if I see a Meg in there. Worse if there is more than one.

Solo Q will always be the worst experience. Forgoing the benefits of communication in a team game actively puts you at a disadvantage. Not saying they shouldn't look at solo Q concerns but at the end of day it will always begin from a position of disadvantage.

Hi there! Yes, Solo que can be a crapshoot. It can be beautiful or disastrous lol

Please don't use numbers as a reason and here's why. I ahead a game this morning. It involved a 18 killer. The team was a 1, a 12 and a 9 with me being also a 9 atm (last week I was a 6 the week before and 11 the week before that an 8 lol - you get my point.)

I am not a great player. (and this is not me being modest) I out matched the level 1 - and that's not the first time that's happened. It does so a fair bit. As I am very aware of my lower skill level, I have decided the numbers area lie. :-D

More of the issues I seem to have are if any teammates are in SWF. Even two of them. Disaster usually.

Most of the others ones haven't been so bad. At least 1 out of 10 games is a DC. I carry on with the team. Maybe 1 in 25 I get a teammate who is like me and just plain bad but trying.

I feel your pain though. It's tough when the team isn't being a team. It can be very discouraging. I see hugs to you.