A possible fix to swf
So after being on the forum I have seen people debate about how overpowered survive with friends is. So i though of something that could possibly fix it.
I'm going to assume here but i would say that one big reason why a lot of people play swf is because solo is extremely unbearable. That lack of communication with other survivors make it so annoying to play against. And sometimes survivor can cost you the game by not doing what you wanted to escape.
So to make solo less annoying and more appealing I suggest that they should implement a somewhat smaller communication system for solo only and different emotes. Here is how this would work
Currently survivors have 2 emots pointing and waving. The problem with only having 2 is that this is often very vague and could completely send the wrong message to other survivors. Pointing at something is already vague in of it self unless your really close to what your pointing at. To replace this they would have a button that brings up a quote whell where the survivor actually speaks while possibly doing an action to communicate better. For example
Wanna have someone do a generator press the button and have the survivor say
"Let's do this generator" or "help me with this generator" or "Stay on the generator"
Wanna be healed or not healed have the survivors say
"Please heal me" or "don't heal me" or "let me heal you"
Wanna go for a hook save have the survivor say
"I will go save them", or "you go save them"
On the hook and wanna be saved scream out "help" on the hook although this could alert the killer that someone could be coming to get you off the hook.
And other actions for objects. This could also end up benefiting killers as well because if a survivor does a audible emote that could provide a nose notification for killer to find survivors easier if they are close. This mechanic is similar to one like in white noise 2 where speaking can help people communicate better but also could help the killer find you easily.
I also don't feel like this can effect the use of survivor aura reading perks since most of those perks work only at close distance with the exception of empathy.
This could also relieve the game of some toxicity from survivors since survivors point and wave at killers in order to taught them.
This is a mechanic that could eliminate all ambiguity and vagueness that comes with playing solo. And this is possible because every survivor has a different voice actor. For original characters there might be some issues with licensing that they could work out but until then have a placeholder voice actor untill that get solve that issue. What do you all think?
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At least what you propose doesn't punish anyone, split the player base, or harm queue times, which I think is the aim for any change the devs even consider.
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Not a fix to SWF but i would like to see this too.
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This idea is very interesting and original. I've seen too many people say "gIvE sWf A sPeEd PeNalTy" without giving it any thought, and my response has always been simply why Survivors should be punished for just wanting to play with friends. The way you balance SWF is to buff solo Survivor and then you balance Killers off of similar strength of all Survivors, unlike the huge disadvantage that solo Survivor gives compared to SWF.
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That's the direction I think we should go in fixing swf. We have to buff solo in order to balance the two since swf is better.
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Imagine the personality this can add to survivors tho. Assuming it isn’t text and will be said vocally by each survivor with their own voice, it would add more each survivor. If it could vary between survivors it would give them or than looks too. Like I would love to hear someone like Detective Tapp or Bill say “Get your hands off me!” when they’re trying to tell somebody to not heal them. I would definitely have to main the survivor with the best voice lines :)
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That would add more depth to the characters and give an excuse to play different characters.
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Yep. I am literally willing to sign a petition for this :)
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It Is though. With the buff to solo Survivor, Killers can be buffed to combat the new buffed solo Survivor and the current SWF issue. If you don't address solos, buffing Killers for SWF would cause a lot of people to stop playing Survivor or stop playing the game altogether.
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