What Exactly *Can* Be Done To Help Solo Survivors?

I wouldn't say some qol improvements are not needed but there is definitely immaturity and attitude problem. If all survivors worked as a team and gave their best without giving up, solo would be in a much better place.

First being able to see your teammates's perks in the lobby would be great info and could allow for more coordinated plays for solos survivors mobile already has that feature btw.

And next is some players just need to get better at the game start using common sense stop being so predictable and for the love of Jesus Christ stop going down every 20 seconds some survivors just need to get better at looping no matter how much you buff survs the majority of the playerbase is really bad nothing BHVR cant hold players's hands forever you have to play better.

I run Open Handed + Bond so I can see what my teammates are doing most of the time and there is ALWAYS that one braindead clueless survivor in the team that ends up screwing up the 3 others good survivors.

Stupid plays lots of mistakes giving the killer alot of pressure early in the game at 5/4 gens then end up getting tunneled beceause the surv in question is just terrible at looping and is the weak link,Killers tunnel bad survivors that get downed easily rarely the good ones who can loop them for 3 gens.

MMR is hardly working and we need two separate game mode ranked and casual beceause right now MMR is just a joke that's why I started dodging lobbys with very low prestige survs and it really made my SoloQ experience is way better and enjoyable while playing with decent competent survivors.

There's like 43k players playing DBD on steam rn I am sure that the current playerbase is large enough for two separate game modes plus we dont even know how many players are playing DBD on console/EGS.

So yes this is my idea on how to help SoloQ survs give us the ability to see our teammates's perks and create a new REAL ranked game mode with a working MMR system.

Have you played this game before? Do you have any idea how toxic voice chat would be?

I have but do you see me caring? I wanna hear them ######### on mic than over text. It's funnier that way.

1) A preset icon that solos could activate (ie I'm going for the unhook). Voice chat wouldn't work very well due to partially language barriers but mostly many people don't want to talk or don't have a microphone

2) Status icons showing in chase, doing gens, etc

3) Being able to see the perks that your teammates are running in the pre-match lobby so redundant perks can be switched out and you know if someone has something situational such as Kinship

4) Possibly Situational Awareness basekit so people can see which gens are being worked on? The perk itself would have to be buffed and the problem with this is that it would get survivors congregating on gens when survivors should only be stacking on gens when it's hotly contested and important.

Realistically though, my game losses as survivor are more due to survivor misplays than the Killer anyway but I think the above would be helpful.

I feel survivors seeing one another’s perks in the lobby would just lead to lobby dodging. We already see people doing it based on prestige. In fact, I exclusively solo queue and I see it multiple times a day; people enter a lobby and will leave without warning if the prestige levels are 0-2. I can only imagine how much worse this would become if survivors saw other survivors not running META perks.

I like the idea of preset lines. They would be amazingly useful

Voice chat is mocked but its actually pretty sad that we don't have it in a 1v4 game w/ 'MMR' when almost every other game had it and this games been out for years. Even Evolve Stage 2 had it, lol.

If you aren't a fan of voice chat, then opt out. If you experience a toxic player, can simply mute them. I don't understand this whole 'voice chat will be horrible and toxic!' mentality when there could be a simple option to disable it if you aren't interested in comms.

Hell, even a experiment or test phase on PTB would be a start to gather data. I'd be all for it.

You're missing the second half of the objection- voice chat would be horrible and toxic, and, it wouldn't fix any of the problems that solo queue is currently facing.

If your proposal to fix the lack of information solo queue faces hinges on as many uncontrollable factors as voice chat, your proposal will not fix anything. New problems crop up, no old problems are fixed... from my perspective, that's a net negative.

• Status Icons
• Seeing Teammate's Perk Loadout in Lobby
• Remove Hatch
• Revisit Map Design

imo, hatch seperates solo from SWF more than the potential skill gap that comes from coordinated comms. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point that a 3v1 is nigh impossible to win. Because of hatch, some games play like a 3v1 before any survivor has even died--SWF has the luxury of avoiding that problem.

Edit: OH, and do away with the self-sabotaging rift challenges. They are horrible for the game's health.

My idea is a ping wheel. Playing Back4Blood you can easily access a wheel that allows you to mark a location, say stop, show objective, thumbs up, thumbs down, and a spray paint tag. If DbD implemented something like that they could have ping location visible within x meters, chase, hiding, going to unhook, healing, and repairing. Make it so some pings can be seen map wide and some are only visible when within 20m of the survivor that ping'd. The other option that would provide a lot of info and assist without buffing swf is the action icons.

Basekit Kindred and optional voicechat.

There's this notion that every survivor would suddenly become a god with voice comms, but I can't think of a single game where every player joins voice chat or uses them coherently until they get to higher ELO, and most players aren't there.

And I can say from experience, most players that transition to comp take weeks to months of work before their voice comms are useful or don't throw games against comp/high ELO killers. Simply saying "he's on me" or "I'm on the gen by shack" are not useful or descriptive comms.

So my vote would be to add those things. There are times when survivors need to say "let's heal by gallows, the killer isn't committing away from this 3 gen. Then split main and town." That's how you have to play against a higher ELO killer to win. You can't do that in solo queue as currently constructed. You just have to hope everyone is on the same page. It breaks down.

Others have said, and I agree, that status icons would probably be the best way, I'd recommend some sort of quick-chat as well so that you can alert your team of things and what you're doing.

As for the games turning out better there's no real way for the devs to make that happen since the game is so reliant on the fact that the 4 survivors must work together in some way since its a 4v1. It's like how sometimes you'll be playing and loop the killer for a long time and no generators will be done, but when you're hooked you see that the other survivors are crouching around the map, breaking totems, and hiding in lockers. There's no real way to prevent people from doing that without making SWF crazy overpowered, and that's where the issue really lies. I can guarantee you playing with at least two friends makes the game 500% more fun in most cases because you can communicate with your team properly and don't have people doing stupid stuff like sitting in lockers or all rushing the first downed guy and dying immediately, you can also let them know "Hey, don't heal me, I have Resilience!" instead of a default Dwight main chasing you through the entire map trying to heal you making you stop running 106 different times.

In other words, there's honestly not a lot that can be done regarding solo-q and making people be smart about their plays because even if the status icons and some form of quick-chat was added there's no guarantee that some people wouldn't just ignore it completely which would make any change useless. Addressing it in some way is better than doing nothing though so I hope that the devs can at least try to implement something in the very near future.