Why are devs so silent on midchapter desaster?

I think they did many good things in version 6 release but can agree that emotions are running high right now - especially for survivor mains.

One of the best ideas was to make action around generators more participative by both killer and survivors.

In doing that, they made some over-calibration in buffing/nerfing some slowdown perks. However, this can be corrected and I believe that they will.

It is a delicate balance to make a asymmetrical game that is fun for all roles all the time.

Give them some time to re-balance. I don't think making knee-jerk corrections are the best way forward as the collection of perks/add-ons/powers are immense and sometimes you just can't predict how conniving humans are going to exploit them.

The worst "killer buffs" of this patch - is a survivors giving up.

Just don't get caught bro. Stealth is so good in this game. If you are seen at all during the trial, by teammates or the killer, then are you really playing survivor optimally?

Camping and tunnelling have always been the bane of solo queue, and the patch not only did not alleviate the problems with those strats, but it made them worse.

They did nothing to address camping, no basekit Kindred, no hook relocating à la Pyramid Head, no gen repair speed changes based on proximity to hook, not even the most ridiculous stuff like hook grabs and Bubba facecamping being remedied. Instead, the reduced hit recovery time means downing the unhooker is guaranteed, that is now the worst case scenario, and if you add STBFL on top of that there's little reason not to hardcamp even with M1 killers if you're looking for easy success. Increased gen times also benefit camping. As does the new Monstrous Shrine, for killers that can camp at a distance.

Tunnelling has also gotten worse. 5 seconds of Endurance most of the time does not get you anywhere, and even with Borrowed Time or Off The Record, lots of killers have an easy time downing a survivor quickly after hitting them off hook. OTR is simply not good enough a replacement for Decisive Strike, the distance you used to make with DS was much more impactful, not least because it could even allow for the tunnelled survivor to lose the killer altogether.

There's so many simple and obvious things they could do to make camping and tunnelling less effective, but they never do, they have been the most effective strategies since game launch and they continue to wreck especially solo queue, while at the same time being some of the least interactive and engaging gameplay aspects and causing dissatisfaction and frustration for many players every day. I wouldn't want to remove them entirely, I do think they have their place in the game, they can create chaos and excitement and the danger factor of games potentially being able to turn or end within a short span (for a player or a group) just makes the game more thrilling, differentiates the gameplay experiences from trial to trial more... but they don't have to be the objectively strongest killing strategies in the game for this to be the case, nor do they have to be as oppressive as they are. Directly nerf camping and tunnelling, and buff other gameplay aspects of killer gameplay instead, such as chase strength, gen control, map presence, information available...

For camping, a good start would be to remove hook grabs and make it impossible for killers to use their abilities within 10 or so meters of a hooked survivor, just like you already did for some of the new killers. Bubba, Trickster, Hag, Huntress, Billy, Pyramid Head, Myers (stalking) - these killers have much too easy a time defending hooks. Basekit Kindred could be something, or alternatively a hook relocation mechanic similar to Pyramid Head, where the hooked survivor will be respawned at a different hook location if the killer is within a certain range of their hook for a certain period of time. Only that the range has to be drastically increased for that (and for Pyramid himself too - it's ridiculous to have a 5m "camping" range for a killer with a 8-10.5m ranged attack that can instantly hit both the unhooking and unhooked survivor). Basement hooks could be exempt from all of this. Perks that increase unhooking speed should actually apply to the entire interaction, rather than only a portion of it. There could also be more of such perks, or buffs to the ones that exist now.

Ideally there would also be base game changes to make tunnelling more difficult, but at the very least, DS should be able to activate up to two times. Preferably they up the stun timer again. Base unhook Endurance should be 10-20 seconds (removing collision during this time is a good idea), and unhook Haste 60 seconds, as Haste is only good if you're in a continued chase, a few seconds of it are basically worthless. It would also be beneficial to reveal the aura of the most recently unhooked survivor to all other survivors for as long as they are injured, such that they can take hits for them, lead the killer away from them, heal them, position for save plays on them, and so on.

Also nerf SWF. It's clear solo buffs are not coming, you've been talking about it for years and years and next to nothing has happened in that regard. Plus any such buffs could never even hope to adequately close the SWF-solo gap anyway, not only because voice communcations and coordination are just such a huge deal, but also because any solo buffs would inadvertently benefit SWF as well. Nerfing SWF is the easy and obvious solution. That would then allow to better adjust the killer power levels for both scenarios. An easy and effective way to nerf SWF is to limit their ability to stack perks and items, allowing only one instance per perk and item/add-on in a pre-made group. That would also shake up the meta a lot. Tournaments already go to show that even lower-tier killers stand a perfectly good chance against even some of the most coordinated and best teams of survivors in the game with perk/item limitations in place.

Nerf Nurse and Blight and some select add-ons. For Blight, getting rid of hug tech, reworking Alchemist Ring and slightly nerfing Compound 33 is enough. A simple way to make Nurse a much more balanced character is to decrease her post-blink lunge range (basekit White Nit Comb) and make her blink hits not count as basic hits. Without the huge lunge that allows her to hit anyone even just roughly within her blink location and to correct for a wide range of errors, she is less forgiving and good Nurses are rewarded for their precision. Without blink attacks counting as basic attacks, Nurse won't be able to make use of perks like Starstruck and NOED as oppressively anymore. Also make it so that her range add-ons increase fatigue and recharge time by the same % they increase range by. Some of the add-ons that could need specific looking-at are Rusty Shackles, Tombstone Piece, Iridescent Head, Redhead's Pinkie Finger, Mother-Daughter Ring, Dried Cherry Blossom.

Compensatory killer buffs could be global movement speed increases, increased pallet break and window vault speeds, the abilitly to cancel pallet break and window vault interactions and thereby to fake them, much faster wall breaking action, reduced hit recovery times, seeing their red light, more information on gens (auras indicating progress), basekit Corrupt Intervention, base generator regression being 1/3rd of a charge a second rather than 1/4th, basekit 20% Weasel (-18 seconds) on the gen farest away from the hook with progress on it (highlighted for the killer), gen repair speed increase whenever the killer is chasing the survivor that was most recently unhooked or is within a certain range of a hooked survivor, gen repair speed decrease whenever the killer is chasing a survivor while another survivor is hooked, and whenever they are chasing a survivor that is not the most-recently-unhooked survivor. Also killer-specific ability and add-on buffs of course.

They learned to weaponize DC/Suicides after the original Legion release and have used it to get what they want ever since

Saying that survivors got absolutely nothing is asinine when killing the Pain Res+Deadmans combo on its own was such a massively positive (And, in my opinion, necessary) change for survivors that its hard to overstate it. Ruin is effectively dead, which frequently caused more slowdown in the early game than even a fully stacked thana does now (and ruin didn't require multiple injures to get value out of it), and while ruin could be discovered early, it could just as easily be in some tucked away corner of the map, be recovered by undying, or be instantly replaced by pentimento.

The small endurance effect on unhook was not meant to be a replacement for actually running unhook perks, it was meant to provide a small window of protection that lets you get to nearby loops with a small speed boost, and most people are combining it with exhaustion perks to pretty good effect. As far as significant protection goes, being able to decide for yourself to have a longer term endurance effect with Off The Record is huge, because I don't need to care about my team having the right perks necessarily during unhooking outside of the endgame.

There were bad changes this patch (DS stun time nerf was outright a poor decision, as one example), and I would like to have more base kit information in solo queue, but calling it a disaster/some kind of irreparable failure that needs to be reverted immediately is completely ridiculous.

Solo games actually feel better for me. My teammates are now more cautious about engaging the killer and chases still function the same. Aside from the dh change, nothing seems to have made things more difficult.

Reading through this topic really reminds me of:

What do you mean probably? He said it!

Played 3 games on badhamen and honestly it didn't feel any different. Survivor sided maps are still way Survivor sided but it seems that killer sided maps are way more killer sided.

P.s. I was killing in those three matches

I agree. I have been playing solo queue survivor more now because the killer queues are so long. As soon as we load in a match, I see a DC because they hear The Legion's chase music, or hear The Nurse's shriek or see The Blight. If they don't DC, the kill themselves on first hook.

The biggest detriment to Solo Queue survivor are the teammates that DC or kill themselves first hook before they have a chance to be saved.

Honestly believe half the basekit killer buffs will be reverted. Why they didn't do both the solo q icons and the killer buffs in the same patch I'll never understand.

I'm not sure how that connects to what I'm saying here. Could you elaborate?