Can someone give me tips on applying gen pressure

The issue is actually right there in your post. "I can’t chase even one survivor". If you're chasing one person, what are the other 3 Survivors doing? If they are all healthy, then the answer is slamming gens and that means you are very very swiftly losing the game. You as the Killer need to be causing the Survivors to do anything and everything that isn't generators as much as possible. What exactly that looks like depends on your preferred Killer and playstyle.

Which... that leads into the necessary question, which Killer do you play as and what's your normal perk layout?

Use CI, PGTW, Undying and Ruin. I would suggest to always use CI with PGTW, or Undying Ruin. You can use them all together, but it can be overkill vs random solo players. You also have to know where not to chase, and don't chase one survivor for too long. You can try to hold a 3 gen setup as well.

One thing I havent seen mentioned much is chasing survivors into other survivors. I always try to corral the survivor I'm chasing to where I suspect the other ones are. It's not always possible, but it's a good way to disrupt multiple survivors when it works.

What you describe only happens to me when I forget to set up my 3 gen, you can play everything perfectly but nothing can stop the first 2 gens from flying no matter what your perks, as long as everything you do is ultimately based around your 3 gen the game will rapidly slowdown towards the end. Most of the red ranked games I play survivors really try not to let the 3 gen happen so you get plenty of opportunity to make things happen playing off their determination to prevent it.

If you're expecting sweaty games I highly recommend lethal purser (god perk) starstruck (swf tamer) and ruin with undying ( currupt just doesn't seem to pay out much now it's like survivors just wait it out ).

Edit: oh and another thing, sometimes in life the game will spawn 1 survivor on a gen each and if you go to the wrong gen that games over in minutes, it's rare it happens and it's not the survivors fault the game just ######### you over, try not to get to mad about it and go next.

To an extent, you need perks to deal with this issue. Corrupt is the go to for slowing down the dreaded 3 gen pop. It's mandatory on any killer that's not a fast killer, and even fast killers have a similar issue, but they typically prefer lethal pursuer. Gen regression perks in general help, but it won't stop the issue.

Try to identify a cluster of 4 gens, and make it your top priority to protect those 4 gens in a more favorable side of the map. You can venture off, but don't leave them alone for long. It's better to not guard gens out in the middle of nowhere.

What you'll quickly find is that

A. survivors make the classic mistake of taking the path of least resistance and finish the gens you don't care about, leaving yourself with more easily defended generators.

B. The survivors will aggressively funnel themselves to central generators in an attempt to break the possibilities of a 3 gen.

Optimal plays become predictable, and suboptimal plays win you the game.

Depending on the level of the team (which you won't know until it's too late unfortunately), you'll have to engage in tactics they don't like. This includes hooking a survivor in a 3-4 gen area so that you can simultaneously guard the generators will either getting that survivor to second stage, or snowball map pressure by downing the savior and slugging the previously hooked survivor. These types of tactics can even make Trickster look like a credible threat since it's the only thing he excels in.

If you're a faster killer, it's possible to hook a survivor, chase another one, slug them, then go back to the hook where a rescue would likely take place.

This works because if a survivor is on a hook, and you occupy another one, then one other survivor has to go for the save, leaving a maximum of one survivor on a generator.

Which gens are we talking about?

The first 2 gens are pretty much guaranteed to be completed by your first hook. Regardless of how good you may be, it is really more likely the survivors fault if that doesn't happen than anything else. If they are good or lucky it might even be 3.

The question is what you do pressure wise for the last 2 or 3 gens. There are multiple ways to apply pressure:

- 3 gen strats where you focus on controlling specific ones for the final one, sometimes 4 gens.

- Snowball by gaining multiple downs in a row or hooks.

- Lowering the amount of survivors you face by killing one quickly.

- End game builds, that doesn't care to much about the gens and usually ensures a snowball at the end by a huge power spike.

Map awareness is important, even if you have quick downs if it is on the other side of the map from the gens... the time you take to walk back also slows you down. Do you take chases in dead zones or super strong options with tons of resources and all that jazz.

Also, consider where you choose to hook survivors. If you can defend the hook and multiple gens at once or hook them in a dead zone to punish any save.

You will hear many survivors complain about camping, tunneling, proxy camping, slugging and even gen camping or NOED user, gen regression perks or anything else that you use to build pressure. Yet that is how you do it!

Really comes down to the killer and map you're on. In most cases, you want to know where the gens spawned the moment you pop into a map, and think about which you can force together. If you can get three or four gens that are nearby, that should become your zone of pressure. Try and force the game into that area.