You reckon people are greatly exaggerating the state of the game rn?

Naaaaw, that never happens

Depends on who's talking, really. Some people are usually pretty fair about their assessment when they point out game problems, others live in a state of constant histrionics. There's always somebody crying that BHVR loves the crying X mains and keeps nerfing Y, and X players are leaving in droves and the game is going to die any day now...

In general? Solo queue definitely feels better since the 10s BT, and things have levelled off somewhat since 6.1, but there's still a lot of issues. Some are same-old-same-old problems (Nurse, 4-slowdown builds, bad matchmaking and dumb teammates, camping/tunneling), some are new (serial ragequitting, Eruption, constant RPD.) OTOH, a lot of people playing (and learning) a non-meta killer has resulted in much more enjoyable survivor games than usual, so I'm not sure how much of my current improved experience reflects helpful game trends and how much of it is just the "yay RE" zeitgeist.

I'm in large agreement with much of this. Lifting weaker killers up would certainly allow for more options. I tried playing sadako last night and it was just painful. 3 tool boxes and 1 top tier flash light. No chase potential so just an m1 killer most of the time.

I'm a pretty mediocre PC surv player. My current build is Bond, Prove Thyself, Lithe and Reassurance. I often bring a brown or yellow toolbox. I only play solo q. This is just to give an idea where my opinion comes from.

Gens have been completely blown out of the water lately. Once I see someone in that first chase, I can almost guarantee a complete gens just by using prove n bond to milk it as much as possible. As long as it isn't a literal instadown a gen or two has been completed within that time. Along with reassurance, it has made it super hard for killers to camp people and instead gives my team and I extra objective time. Ive left some people on hook near me with reassurance to secure last gen without killer patrolling me quite a few times. Within the last 5 games or so (all I can recall in a detailed sense) all gens have been completed. This is just my experience though.

BTW this does not mean everyone gets out alive. Solo Q is a whole different beast and mistakes ppl make are no where near as easy to recover. If this is my solo-q experience I can't imagine what a swf would look like Lol

The loud minority will always be 90% hyperbole.

This is why it's good that BHVR is paying attention to data and not just who screams the loudest on the forums.

It's a buff that would address the most pressing problem of solo queue right now which is a lack of information on what your team is doing. Kindred is absolutely essential at the moment in solo play. When I don't run it I'm liable to hit struggle because no one knows if anyone is going for the save and/or what the rest of the team are doing. It's also particularly annoying when I run halfway across the map to get a save only to see someone else get to it right before me and mean I've wasted time I could be doing a gen. It's already quite difficult to coordinate any kind of play as a solo player. Having a form of base kit Kindred would mean that at the very least plays could be coordinated when they matter the most - when someone is on the hook.

The killer aura can be scrapped 100% and maybe left to the perk version of Kindred, that's never been the reason why I've used the perk. All it would mean is saves can be coordinated and people are less likely to just be left on the hook. And that is only in solo play. SWFs already get this information for free. I don't see it as a big buff, more a necessary QoL change to boost the quality of solo play much like how killers got a strong boost to chases and gen times to improve the quality of their games. Solo players have already gotten a solid basekit BT which I am very happy with but this is my only main grievance left with the mode.

It's the same complaints rehashed over and over again. Check out the old Steam forums back in 2017.

People forget what the game was or are too new to know.

There's not. Pretending like every survivor team is SEAL Team Six is just copium for bad killers. If you are at the MMR softcap then your opponents can range from like 1400 scrubs to 2400 god level SWFs. You get insane variation at high MMR.

I'm a casual player. Contrary to this rather simplistic belief that people who enjoy it therefore have no life, people have different viewpoints and experiences. Mine is that solo q for me is nowhere near as bad for me. It needs improving, and I certainly don't doubt others have had horrid experiences. But it's to do with individuals, not hours.

In some aspects, yes. In others, no.

The DC, suicide on hook issue isn't being exaggerated at all. I've seen plenty of other players with the same problem.

I doubt that would invalidate my opinion, even if I were. And nobody knows their MMR truely anyway, so that's again another overly-simplistic response. People have different opinions, and it may be worthwhile accepting this.

I think the community is adapting (probably more like “accepting” lol) to the way things are, for the most part. Losing several games in a row (especially when getting stomped a lot) can be very frustrating, so players come to here and Twitter to vent. I get it. When the ragequitters get to me, I do the same.

Now when you stop seeing the complaints and the numbers drop in players playing, is when you’ll know the game is in a terrible place. As of right now, I don’t think so. But on the same token, a lot of us are not having as much fun as before. Something the devs should think about, and I think it mostly has to do with matchmaking tbh.

Honestly I don't get it. I just don't see the dc/ suicide on hook. Maybe like 1 in 10 matches do I see either.

I'm not saying everyone is just making it up but I find it odd it's not happening to me.

This is where you made a mistake: that I am having an easy time. I said that it is not as bad as it is made out to be. In other posts, not related to this one, I've mentioned that I've been fortunate enough to have good teams who don't dc. I have some escapes, and have faced tough opponents that I enjoy because I enjoy a challenge. Never once has the idea of it being "easy" been entertained.

The fact is your previous 2 comments before your most recent very much felt like trying to undermine the fact that I wasn't having as bad an experience as yourself. Firstly, the assumption that maybe I played too much, with a comment about people who have a life wouldn't have such an opinion. When I said I play more casually, the comment after was something about it must be great playing at low ranks. So there was always this undermining tone.

I feel this comes back to you. My comments were always about my own experiences; experiences you hadn't had and maybe this made you frustrated - not at me personally, but at the fact that others found solo q more fun than you.

Ultimately, I consider myself decent at the game. I've had good survivors and hard killers. My survival is probably 45% currently, and that's as much thanks to having good survivors as it is my own skill. I enjoy the game and randomize every single build. And my personal experience is that solo q is not as bad as some make it out to be, but having more info in the HUD would make it better.