This update finally drove me to uninstall DBD

I know this is a few days late but I saw this just now and feel obligated to respond. I am not complaining about the killer QoL changes. I think all things considered the changes are fully justified and not overkill at all because, as I stated, too many killers were getting easily genrushed. My problem, if you'd read my post properly, is that the killers in my games were taking advantage of these changes to tunnel and camp harder than before, when the purpose behind the changes was to instead discourage tunnelling and camping by providing more time for the killer to chase/patrol instead of getting genrushed. It was an incredibly offputting experience and killed the hope I had that my experience as a survivor would change for the better, because I was experiencing this a lot already.

Yes, solo queue was already bad before the update. Amazingly, it's now even worse than before. The only QoL change that solo queue players get is a 5 second BT that the killer knows you have and can be easily waited out. That doesn't discourage tunnelling. The one 'second chance' perk that did discourage it, DS, got nerfed so hard with a reduction to the stun time that it no longer seems worth running at all. And killers know this, so now they will be encouraged to tunnel even more because they know it is very unlikely that they get punished by it. Aside from this, survivors get nothing in terms of QoL changes, so really they got nothing at all. Would a base kit kindred really be that hard to implement? Or being able to see each other's loadouts before a game? Some attempt to bring the QoL of solo queue up a bit while the killer experience is improved tremendously?

Yes, the perk changes are nice and I am glad that BHVR are attempting to shake up the meta. It was very stale before. But with tunnelling and camping still being at the core of the game I feel like you cannot afford to run these new changed perks as a solo queue player. I have to run BT because the base kit BT is too insufficient to make an impact to counter camping or tunnelling. I have to run Kindred because I need to have some idea of what my teammates are doing, and coordination is essential now due to the increased gen times and shorter chases brought on by the QoL changes for killer (which, I must emphasise, I think are ultimately a good thing for the game!). I am strongly incentivised to run the new Off the Record as it is essentially the DS replacement. And then I'm left with a single perk slot, which'll have to go to an exhaustion perk to try and prolong chases. Essentially although survivors are presented with more options, they are really only able to run a few options if they want to survive in matches. This is something I was hoping would change. There is no way I'm going to run say Deja Vu or Pharmacy over BT and Kindred because they simply are not worth it in this new meta.

And I am a fan of Off-meta perks. My typical build is BT, Kindred, Balanced Landing and Diversion. There is nothing better in this game than tricking a killer with a pebble or if nothing else throwing one at them in the face of death.

With these points, I genuinely find it difficult to find a positive change for survivors in this update. Forget Dead Hard. That is probably one of the only survivor perk changes I am pleased with because they nerfed it from being ridiculously OP while still keeping it a viable choice for an exhaustion perk if you understood how to use the perk well. I have never relied on it or the perks that got nerfed in this update so in theory I should be unaffected. In chase I am not affected whatsoever. It is the killers I am facing and how they play that demoralised me to the point of uninstalling. I was already frustrated with the game and desperate for change. I feel as though this new meta has unfortunately only encouraged more of the same strategies used by killers. I shared my experience, I did not make a post screaming that "I am uninstalling! This game is ****! Killer OP!". I said that I was uninstalling and explained why politely and clearly and prompted people to give insight into how they were finding the game because I thought for a moment I may be going mad. But having looked at the forums I see my consensus is a common one (at least, on the forums). I don't need to be coddled. There was just no need for you to respond in the way you did.

TLDR: This new meta only encourages camping and tunnelling further while making solo queue matches even harder to do well in. I welcome the QoL changes - but it is the way that killers are using them to tunnel and camp even harder, knowing they are much more likely to not be punished for it, that frustrates me and drove me to uninstall after playing for five years (though I will probably be back). This meta in fact discourages survivors from experimenting with new builds as the few anti-tunnelling options available are needed more than ever, even though the QoL changes made should have discouraged this. While the killer experience is improved tremendously (as it should have been), the solo survivor experience is made even worse.