How do we buff solo survivors?

We can't. Survivors can either spend some time learning the game and improving their play, or not.

I still feel like the easiest fix (aside from giving voice coms) is to just make Kindred default

The lack of communication is a huge problem for solos. Having Kindred removes a lot of questions (who is going for the save, is the killer camping, how many of my team is self healing in the corner instead of doing anything helpful, etc) without giving everyone the super powers of speech.

SWFs receive zero benefit from this (since they'd just tell each other who is doing what) so it would really help elevate solos at least a little closer to SWF Power Levels

• Pressing ESC Key must show solo survivors what other players have for perks and items. Does that teammate have deliverance? Should I let that teammate slugged because he has unbreakable? Questions that solos shouldn't need to think about.
• Remove tinkerer, the perk is only destroying solos more than swf at this point.
• Rework the killers that punish solos the most.
• Completely rework Hag, a completely broken killer who destroys solos and has no counter. Her mains here will tell you that you just need to have someone follow her to disable her traps, and that's just the dumbest argument I have ever seen here, even more than the ''prayer beads are fair'' before the nerf. If your ''counter'' for your killer requires swf teammates to communicate then that killer needs a rework.

Put in a real ranking system so good players wont get paired without noobs.

Hire an in-game therapist to assure them that it is just a game and they do not need to crouch, so they’ll be brave enough to hold M1.

at window vaults give them a visual queue that reads “vault me now” so they learn how to loop the killer in no time.

if they are crouching and not doing gens, make a loud screeching sound that will not stop until they do some type of objective.

There that’s how you buff them.

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Kindred basekit is too strong. That is an enormous amount of information to be given out for free. The fact that SWF on comms has this without a Perk slot is pretty unbalancing to start.

I'd rather see SWF = 3 Perk slots, Solo = 4. Since comms give numerous aura reading Perks as a basekit, then SWF should lose a slot. If that's not okay, then give Solos a 5th slot. The only problem with this is Killer's will suffer pretty badly so they would need something to compensate. Maybe a Hex slot, or an actual 5th slot as well.

Without a decent matchmaking system though, solo queue is the bastard child here and they get shafted everytime a Survivor tweak goes into effect. SWF generally isn't affected very much, even the DS change didn't do much for them since they can just BT and move on along where a solo queue'er doesn't have that knowledge of knowing just what their team is running nor do they have the coordination.

If you could buff solos to compare with SWF, then you would also have to buff Killers for the same reason. RIght now they are in between the two. Much more powerful than a solo, but weaker in comparison to an SWF. You can't do one without the other.

The only other way would be to assign point values to each Perk based on the meta and their usefulness. Then an SWF would have X points to spend as a whole, and a solo or Killer would also have Y points.

As others have said, global communication messages to announce what's happening, then all killers can be balanced around swf levels of coordination, two birds with one stone.

Can't wait to have people spamming useless nonsense like every other game that has pre-written comm systems. What will the "Need a dispenser here!" of DBD be?

Solo survivors having to give up a perk slot for Kindred doesn't really balance solo with SWF. Groups are still free to use all perks slots while solos only get three. This actually widens the gap rather than closing it.

Hell, if they really wanted to balance solo with SWF, it would need to be Bond with infinite range, not Kindred. But that will never happen.

The reason people keep asking for Kindred basekit is because some three years ago, qt π Horvath said they were thinking of adding it. They later said they would do "something else" instead, and then didn't do squat.

tl;dr solo needs basekit changes, not perks.

Better question:

How to buff Solo/Q for survivors without buffing SWF?

Answear:

There's no way.

Anyways if you want to buff Solo/Q there should be added a system of pings similliar to for example the one from R6. But first we would need to eventually nerf SWF so any changes for Solo/Q players won't make groups of friends unstoppable. Like nerfing perks that for example shows the aura of a killer to other survivors. The main problem is taht in Solo/Q you don't have enought tools for communication yet SWF have enought of it to actually don't lose any game if they know how to play.

So, you really can't buff Solo/Q survivors without nerfing SWF

No reason to buff solo players although a communication wheel would be useful.