Man Solo Survivor is Rough

I actually have. Here's the results:

1. hit the unhooked survivor ASAP, give them a 16 second time sink to deal with while you chase the other.
2. If they dont run away, or mend because they have DS, slug em, give them a 30+second time sink to deal with(or eat the DS if its early in the game, its not that hard).
3. Fake the pick up. You can do so by standing still and looking down quickly. If there are people they will certainly try to get into position, at which point you try to keep them injured meaning they need to be a further distance away to remain somewhat safe(and silent), giving you a bigger angle for a safe pickup. This makes it so that 1 person cannot succesfully flashlight you without another teammate, which means you're keeping 3 people off gens and injured while the slug timer slowly runs out untill the right oppertunity comes.

You have the vanilla tools at your disposal, use them.

1. Unbreakable is a time sink, slugging is a time sink. You're not really supposed to waste time on a freshly unhooked survivor, if you chased them off hook and spend 50 seconds on them and pick them up, full knowing you were wasting time because of DS that's your fault. Either wait for those survivors to start progressing the game again, slug them very early on and waste minimal time to create a time sink or eat the DS. Not that hard.
2. Just punch them and thank them for wasting their own time. They need to head to safety to mend up safely before they can safely work on a generator. Meaning that 3 second cooldown on the punch gained you at least 16 seconds of that survivor not being able to do anything untill mended.
3. Except, it hasnt. Camping and tunneling and actually getting a survivor out early is effective, but overall, its not gonna gain you anything. Camping and tunneling has been proven time and time again, against good survivors, to consistently win survivors the game. And who said anything about 12 hooks?(also, The Game is mechanically balanced, it's just really, really, really, really ######### boring mechanics to the point of frustration. I kept track and I currently have a winrate of about 60% on The Game, including SWF's, including optimal survivors, including games where pallets gained them a ton of value, I have had fun about 10% of the time. It feels unbalanced, when in reality its really ######### boring)
4. Gens arent fast. You're simply biased that you need to protect generators while killing survivors when that's not the case. You slow down generator progression through trying to kill survivors. Trying to protect generators will more often than not cause you to lose games, while slowing down gens does not. You can have 0 generators remaining 100% of your matches. Gencount doesnt really matter. What matters is how much benefits you gain. Maps arent necessarily too big, it's resource placement(aka, too safe or too dangerous) that's a problem on maps. It's quite hard to place resources in a somewhat fair manner for all killers, since some setups make loops impossible for 1 killer, but easy for 20 of them. Some setups make loops super easy for that same 1 killer, but impossible for 20 of them. You would need to heavily nerf killer abilities, meaning M1 is always the most effective strategy, and then balance all maps towards m1 killers to have fair maps for all. But players have indicated time, and time, and time, and time again for the abilities to be the main aspect of that killer, making it very difficult to balance maps properly.

Yeah, thing is, I believe a lot of the stigma around BT and DS right now are because of their old versions. DS cant really be used offensively without survivors sacrificing progression. You literally cannot do anything useful for 60 seconds as a survivor if you want to use it offensively. Sure, you could provoke a chase, but there are more than 1 survivors to chase in this game. Provoking a chase for 60 seconds against a killer that decides to focus on someone else isnt exactly an offensive use of DS. Hopping in a locker in the basement when there is a survivor hooked there, isnt exactly an offensive use either. You'd just wait for crows to appear and have an entire hookstage for free because you're not camping, you're chasing a survivor who happens to hide in a locker and you refuse to do their bidding. I cant really see DS in any offensive state, except for maybe opening the exit gates.

I do a lot of math actually, you wouldnt really know, but during that 30+ second chase, it often removes a very strong pallet very early in the game, meaning that survivors can never really use that area again. Since that chase happens in a location where gens arent being done, that means that now there is a generator that has no real protective use, nor a relatively safe way out. Saving you time later in the game.

"And then you are going to say "the game is meant to be played at the 3-4 gens!" but also simultaneously say "punish those horrible proxy camper killers!" when literally by your own advice your best strategy is to hook in the middle of a 3 gen."

And this is where you are mistaken. A proxy-camp means you stick around a hook BECAUSE you hooked a survivor there regardless of the generator. You're patrolling that area purely because of a survivor being there and often risking to lose all the generators because of it. Hooking someone in the middle of your patrol area is simply good strategy. You're already patrolling the area and you've added more pressure for survivors to actually enter your area at the cost of a hooktrade at best. You're actively making sure the generators are slowed down while multitasking and quickly picking up a chase after an unhook.

You cant really tunnel a survivor when there is 2 survivors left, you've literally exhausted your other options. DS wont really change the outcome of the game in any way at that point and it's not worth trying to adjust it because of it. In fact, it's often better for survivors to miss DS since they arent gonna gain enough BP to compensate for the time. Survivors lose all their healing progression when they lose a healthstate, so even if they were at 99%, unless they planned and prepared for such a specific situation(in which case, sure, it's used somewhat offensively, but is it really gonna matter at that moment? Before the hatch changes, sure, it could be the difference between a 2k and a 4k, but nowadays? It's at best the difference between a 3k and a 4k, not really that big of a deal).

However, one thing I would definitely want to add here is this: Killers absolutely need Fire-Up to be basekit. Killers are fine slowly kicking pallets early game, but late game 1 second can be the difference between being able to break a pallet and catch up before they open the exit gate. Killers lack a minor build up to late game. It's not even much. 20% is fast enough to make the flow of chases much quicker. It allows killers to quickly break a pallet and prevent a gen from being finished. It allows to pick up survivors faster(and thus make flashlight saves harder to time), it allows to actually use window vaults mid-chase late in game since you're faster going through than going around. It's even good at dropping survivors faster and thus reduce the time needed to prevent an unhook from happening. It's easy to add in the tutorial too. Not that hard.

Yup, I have no problems suiciding on hook anymore. Too many matches where survivors are doing nothing.

Guess you dont know that you're wrong tho. Because I bet that your winrates and killrates are at least 50% and 2k on average. Claiming anything less either means you're playing on an MMR that's too high for you, or you're just not realizing your own mistakes.

Yes, it can be. But I've also had games where I get 3 randos who are amazing and I get carried.

That said, it's still 100 times less stressful than playing killer is these days.