Solo queue is genuinely unplayable

I'm only playing solo queue and I do just fine. Yea, I die a lot but that's mainly because I'm bad and usually the weak link in the group when it comes to chases*. These days, I usually escape about 40% of my matches. It's just the bad matches stand out more than the good ones.

I do wish matchmaking would take time played into consideration when grouping people together. I think itll help with people knowing the basics of the game.

I solo and don't have too much of an issue and I can loop and focus objectives pretty easily against most killers/maps. I have gotten really good at looping and love making killers waste time most of the game.

My main issue with solo queue though is if I don't have kindred, it really hurts the team and suddenly nothing is getting done and several people are simply wasting valuable time running at the hook. Worse is if I have no info, doing a generator and half done, I feel compelled to try to finish my gen just hoping someone else gets the rescue. And if that backfires it costs a hook state for some one and most of the time they just DC.

I like kindred and it is one of the best solo perks, but I get tired of my base kit being a few select perks just to give my team info. Also this is presuming my team is at least decent, but my god some other solo survivors are worse than potatoes and nothing can fix that.

I know there is alot of perks for information in many situations, but if survivors could see auras of their team on while doing a gen i feel like that could help solo queues a bit.

A sfw group obviously counters all of this and has general knowledge of the killer location nearly all game, which is incredibly unfair. So no need for any info perks and the killers info perks could be potentially pointless.

How many solo matches did you do for never escaping any of them through the exit gates?

I wouldn't say it's unplayable. There are nights where my teammates I keep getting are not helpful at all and there are nights where my teammates and I just dominate killers back to back.

turn off cross platform, xbox killers are easier and you can get people to play with in facebook groups there are always those who are looking for partners.

I just got into F1 Racing, and I honestly couldn't recommend anything more than sim racing to someone looking for a rewarding gaming experience. F1 as a sport to watch has been incredibly entertaining to get into, but I've also been impressed with how enjoyable it is to play. There is so much to learn/master, and the more you indulge yourself in the sport the more you'll want to improve.

Like any sport/multiplayer game, racing has moments where you're just a passenger watching the race being stolen from you with no way to stop it. But by and large, sim racing is just you, the car, and the track--and when something goes wrong there is no one to blame but yourself.

It has been extremely satisfying delving into a game where I can feel truly accountable for the outcome, and not be cheated or dragged down by the actions of others.

I'm tired of having my gaming experience ruined by the people I am randomly queued up with, and I believe I may have uninstalled Dead by Daylight for the last time.

Well that is the problem of all team mulitplaysrr games. It is the reason why I can't play league of legends, overwatch, rainbow six siege, rocket league and other games for long periods of time together with randoms.

It might be always a mixed bag and you win some and lose some but it lies in the human nature's and they selective memory that the bad experiences drown out the good at some point.

For DBD i still suggest to make most of the aura reading and info perks that are made obsolete by coms base kit.

I actually don't mind it as much as others seem to.

Just yesterday I ran a red rank Doc around Badham after he had killed 2 people already, Ruin was still up (I ended up cleansing it) and the other player was on death hook. Was at least a 5m chase and I ended up winning every mind game (was running Deception and a full Head On build), which messed with him quite a bit. I had gotten the gen to 60% and after running him around the entire map once, realized the Bill wasn't even working on the gen. Figured he was just waiting for me to die to get hatch. I said oh well, and kept going. Eventually Bill woke up and realized he could work on a gen and got it done. He ended up opening the gates just as I got to him and we both managed to get out. Came out with a 30k score and a 2pip. Was a really satisfying match because the others just couldn't run the killer at all, and kept going down repeatedly but I ended up bringing the match back for the Bill & I.

Although there are a lot of frustrating matches with boosted red ranks who only got there because of altruism farming and SWFs, I also feel like Solo is my favorite experience because its just 4 strangers w/o voice comms that have to coordinate and play well together to make it out (usually).

Also I always say this but solos should be bringing Kindred (and yes, I've had teammates those teammates too that don't take advantage of it). Its a big help for you and its a big help for your team overall.

Just tons of bad players. I was agreeing with most of your post until you got to the 'I cant recall escaping in solos unless through hatch'. If you can't recall escaping in solos through EG, I'd say you're probably part of the problem too.

My experience is usually this. Some days you get a bad streak of terrible team mates, others you get absolute amazing ones. It's pretty much just luck on wether you'll be put with people who actually have common sense or not.

With thay said though, I definitely think the match making makes solo alot worse. Lost count at the amount of rainbow ranked games I've had

That's in a game where MM actually works. The learning curve of this game is so steep that the MM only cares about quicker que times. That's why you get killers at r18 facing all reds or yellow survivors facing a red killer.

No.

git gud :P

Solo seems to be worse in purple rank. The survivors have often only got there because of grinding through the rift and/or taking advantage of cake and double bloodpoint events. The killers tend to know roughly what they are doing in purple.

So, you going to knock on BHVR's door and ask them to remove SWF? I doubt you will get far with that, and it would kill the game because a lot of people want SWF to play with their friends.

The next solution is to bring solos and SWF together by giving solos information that SWF already have, then compensate killers accordingly.

I never said that you did, but when you said, "Headsets were not intended to be required for gameplay" — I told you, "So, you going to knock on BHVR's door and ask them to remove SWF?" to imply the fact that SWF isn't going anywhere and that this issue needs to be addressed other than dismissing it because you think it shouldn't exist. So, what's the plan of action to fixing the imbalance of power between solos and SWF? You want to keep the imbalance of power, making solos miserable to play while SWF can still destroy killers? This is pretty unhealthy for the game because the developers can't balance the game when survivors fluctuate in power. If the developers can balance the power between solos and SWF, then killers can properly be balanced because of that.

By design, Dead by Daylight is an asymmetrical game which requires minor roles to coordinate together against the power role. Doesn't matter how skillful minor roles are because if they can't coordinate together, the power role will take the advantage and often leading to their victory. This is why, "Git gud" isn't a valid counterpoint because no communication in solo queue will make even the best survivors look as if they are inexperienced.

When you have an imbalance of power for solo queue and SWF, where do begin to balance the game? You can balance around the average, but still — solos will still be left behind while SWF can destroy killers like tomorrow because the average is shared between solos and SWF.

I'm not asking for every and all information perks to be basekit for solo queue, just a few things to make life easier:

• Reveal all survivor auras while a survivor is hooked [Compensation: Killers get BBQ aura reading for free] Kindred will reveal the killer's aura and give you a repair speed bonus if there's no survivor within 32 meters from the hook; BBQ will expose the survivor with the most amount of hook states remaining for 35/40/45 seconds upon a hook.
• Totem counter for tracking totems [Compensation: All hex perks get a major buff and double the amount of totems that spawn into the map] Small Game gains / loses a token for each totem within a 32 meter range to you. When a generator is completed, gain a 6%/8%/10% cleanse speed bonus for each token in your possession until the next generator that's completed. Once the exit gates are powered, the auras of all totems are revealed to you.

That's really it, just make some information basekit and give the killer some compensation. Are my ideas for compensation bad? Probably, but the idea is that the killer would get more powerful in exchange for survivors having information basekit.

One night discord was down and my swf and I were playing without headsets /gasp What was funny was the stuff we setup without being able to talk to each other was pretty hilarious. One game it was huntress map against a gf. He snuck up on us at a gen and we all ran into the cabin. By dumb luck the guy he was chasing happened to run past the locker I was hiding in. I had Head On equipped. I smacked GF, my buddy made it to the 2nd story window and GF ended up changing targets. Headsets help but they are not required.