If you're gonna whine about SWF, please give a suggestion with it

It actually has been.

ID the killers and ID anyone in an SWF prior to game. (Contrary to what people think there are a lot of killers involved in SWF that cheat with people in game.)

If anyone is in a lobby with an SWF, including the, or with, a killer. It then allows people the opportunity to chose to leave the lobby.

If an known SWF has a good reputation then no one is going to mind being with them. If they have a bad one - they'll find they are on their own.

It's a fair solution really.

PS - I'm a survivor main and it aggravates me as much as it arrogos unsuspecting killers. Sandbagged, grieved, points get stolen that I should be able to earn but can't because of their behavior and the game gets seriously miserable.

Action debuff.

Here's the thing. If you play with your friends you get to use voice comms which means you get a lot of advantage passively. It doesn't matter how serious or for fun they play. A lot of people say they don't use voice comms. But that's not the killer's issue. They are SWF, so they have to ability to use voice comms. If they don't do it then it's analogous to solo survivors playing without any perks. They have the option but they choose not to do it. You can't say that I don't use any perks so the killer shouldn't as well.

• limit amount of items and tools that can be brought into a trial, depending on the SWF size (2 items/ tools for a 4 man, 1 item/ tool for 3 and 2 man SWFs)
• limit the amount and type of exhaustion perks allowed in a SWF (easier to do) or nerf all exhaustion and 2nd chance perks for SWFs (harder to do and probably not feasible)
• allow killers to opt-in for playing against SWFs (I shouldn't be forced to play against organized teams of people, if I don't want to - to hell with how it affects matchmaking; if you care about affecting matchmaking, don't allow SWFs anymore and the issue goes away).
• have matchmaking always put a killer that's of higher or at the very least, equal MMR to the highest MMR survivor in the SWF (no more bullying new killers by getting a buddy on a 20 survivor account, alongside you and your other rank 1s)
• lock-in survivor loadouts and survivor character after a SWF queues up but allow the killer to change his accordingly, once he sees what he's up against.
• mark all SWF configurations (not needed if the opt-in feature is added, which it probably won't because reasons)

..off the top of my head; some suggestions might suck, some might be very good but SOMETHING needs to happen.

Buff solos (where it doesn’t buff swf) like more info -totem count, chase indicators, quick chat, etc.

then buff killers - more info, faster bloodlust, qol and power # buffs, etc.

balanced game for all

U do realise most swf arent even good, so punishing them doesn't help.

In my opinion they should buff solo queue to the same level as swf and then balance killer accordingly

There is no unfair discussian about SWF except for survivors screaming bad players like clouds passing in a storm. It gets mocked and belittled because it's busted, even without comms and rightfully so. It punishes all solos, both survivor and killer. SWF should be punished. A person who plays by themselves shouldn't be punished for doing so. Actively going out of your way to team up and fudge who is on your team-an actual tactical advantage with how the game is structure around player choices creating unknowns and uncertanity- is an advantage.

But yes. Possible changes are:

SWF cannot gen rush. When all gens are fixed the gate cannot be opened until a set time later. Controlling when the gate can be open is am assive power in the hands of survivors and it's balanced out by the fact that their teams at solo are unreliable. This is not the case for SWF, they also play more altruistically so changing the game up to make them focus on survivial and helping each other out than just gen stacking is preferable.

or

SWF alternate what type of persk are being used by the killer for each person in the swf group. Creating a swf tiers within them that are substantially stronger. Giving the killer who has to solo a coordinated team-even if they don't have comms they are way more in sync and can still stack builds, offerings, addons and items for max effect- if they get a buff from being swf. So should he killer. Solo's shouldn't be punished because you want to play with friends.

or

SWF is in its own slot and it's own line up: what...killers won't hardly ever play against them?! It's almost like SWF are intolerable and sweaty and just not fun for anyone who on the recieving end. Even other survivors. Well, good. It will weed out the toxic SWF who go in sweaty and to be annoying. The only ones that might get people coming back for more games are those that ACTUALLY are just playing casually for fun with their friends and are generally good sports.

If there is any big flaw with this one is that a lot of killers with a grudge will probably come in and sweat toxicity to actual friendly or alright SWF'er for all those flashbacks they have to their own poor swf experience-which is nearly all of them-

or

SWF is simply removed from normal games and can only be hold in their own lobbies like KYF is. That way SWF can still play together and killers ain't got to deal with them.

or

SWF always face killers 2 or 3 ranks higher than their strongest player. If you're going to team up at least go against someone who thereotically-if the mmr worked- has more experience, perks and understanding of their killer to take you on without having to sweat to extreme levels.

Better yet. Play for a full day on the public DBD discord in various SWF groups as a survivor.

SWFs are a minority. Toxic, bullying ones are a minority within that minority.

If you want to have an opinion on it, you need to play as SWF for more than a couple matches. Try a day's worth and then come back with opinions (and suggestions as the OP requests).

Personally, as someone who plays a lot of SWF, I think that most of these complaints are from people that are failing as killer and want something to blame. I see a wide mix of 4K to 0K in the SWF matches playing with a lot of different groups. I don't see enough consistent 0Ks to justify changes to SWF, especially when the game is balanced around 2K.

As others have stated, it would be appreciated if there was some kind of indicator that survivors were teamed up together in the same lobby. I would also appreciate a system in place that prevents dead SWF teammates from being able to communicate to teammates that are still alive. For example, being able to inform a teammate of where the hatch is because a dead teammate happened to notice it on the camera feed of another player is a feature that shouldn't exist.

Buff Solo Q

And

Nerf Survivor perks or Buff Killers

Base kit Kindered etc. has been discussed before - though the devs don't seem to want to go down that road. Only thing that seems to have changed is the notification of some perks that killers use.

Buffing Solo Queue was the devs initial plan but they abandon it for some unknown reason!

The only problem with nerfing survivors is that it's make S and A tier killers too strong

If you look for more than a few seconds into threads like these, people DO come up with solutions. Seems like you literally made a thread complaining about something without coming up with a solution yourself. A change that makes the most sense to me is buffing solo survivor to the information levels of SWF, and balancing killers/maps from there.

I like how @op asked us to basically stop whining and give examples of how to improve the SWF situation, so we can discuss them..and then proceeded TO NOT RESPOND TO ANY OF IT and keep quiet.

You should be in politics, mate! You're very efficient and up front about things! I'm sure people would 100% vote a survivor main to political office, you guys seem to get the job done!