The survivor experience is just miserable now

That was to be expected, unfortunately.

I know your pain as a fellow solo survivor player. I play both roles, but given queue times I tend to play survivor now.

The main issue with solo queue is that the game punishes you harder than it did before for mistakes. Now by itself that statement is fine. However, this is the DBD community we're talking about here. Between rage-quits, accidental disconnections, noobs that accidentally suicide on hook, and a plethora of other issues, a LOT of players do not play well. Some players can play well and choose to harass the killer all game instead of pulling their own weight with the objective. This leads to the natural following issue.

You could be doing everything right as a solo queue survivor, but then because your teammates keep screwing up, you all lose. Now this is how the game is supposed to work. It's an asymmetrical game, the team of 4 is required to play well to beat the team of 1. The main issue with this is that Solo Q has almost no base tools to communicate. Solo Q has almost no tools to coordinate saves and objectives so you just have to trust that the random players are doing smart plays.

And if you have so little faith that you teammates are making good decisions and actually helping you, well, there's always killer.

Because, since I started playing exclusively solo survivor matches two days ago to see how "impossible" it was, I've escaped in 50% of my matches now (8 of 16 -- should have been 10, but I made bone-headed plays that cost me in the Endgame in two matches I died in, but my teammates lived). Imbalanced isn't what I'd call it at all (my last solo escape was against a Huntress that got 5 hooks in 6 minutes on Red Forest/Temple -- not exactly a bad number -- and still saw us get all the gens done in those 6 minutes and 4-out her anyway -- one of my teammates had Kindred, so I'm guessing I wasn't even the only solo in the lobby).

Survivor play has been more challenging since the update, but I've adapted (which wasn't as hard, since other than DS, none of the nerfed perks -- IW, DH -- were in my build anyway), but I haven't noticed a dramatic difference in the gameplay from before, and I've easily played double-digit hours as survivor since the patch. Gens are still getting done, survivors are still escaping (not always, but in a balanced enough fashion), and mistakes by either the survivors or the killers are getting punished harder now (which is the way it should be).

Knowing your propensity to always claim that playing survivor is too difficult (even before this update), I'm not surprised by your take -- but if you wanted a genuine answer, there it is. There are plenty of people adjusting and doing okay. You're supposed to be good, from what others have said -- while I consider myself only "decent" as a survivor. If I can do it, surely you could too?

If you have someone keeping the Killer busy all game and doing a good job, they are alleviating pressure for the other Survivors to do gens. As long as they are decent at it and don't go down too much, they are actually a good thing.

Killer queue times are longer cause I am (thankfully!) in the majority who have been playing 1 or 2 games MAX since the update. It's so bizarre... BHVR better WAKE UP or enjoy another Deathgarden on their hands.

hm , how u can do 0 hppks with this killer buffs happened? Survivors cant stack endurance, so u must be doing something wrong, I do 4k most of games, i had some swf teams and i did 2-3 kills without camping or tunneling

I play 50/50. I have a lot of success at both roles (attaining Rank 1 at both before the changes to the rank system). I have a LOT of hours in the game. All of this stated simply for context.

I agree completely that there are things that were unnecessary changes. The DS stun should be reverted, as it's almost useless now (or, I like the idea of it working twice if it stayed at 3 seconds). Gens in my game still go, but maybe 85 seconds would be a good compromise instead. STBFL was strong before, so I'm ambivalent about how much stronger than extra 10% is.

There are other head-scratchers -- the Self-Care change was pointless, Ruin is a joke, and a few others -- but overall, I liked the direction of the patch. Chases and your efficiency in them are more important than ever, mistakes on both ends are more punishing, and gen-kicking actually matters now. It's different, and I think some people have either been slow -- or unwilling -- to adapt.

You said safe pallets, aka pallets that are unable to be mingamed or bloodlusted. Not pallets that you don't know how to run. If you don't want to be misunderstood when using exaggerations make those exaggerations clearer.

What do you expect. Soloq in any game really is a hit or miss but is especially a miss with this game when they're hell bent on adding an mmr system with a soft cap that they LOWERED.

People dont know if they should play long queue Killer, or miserable game Survivor.

I will just draw...