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Solo Queue is a genuinely horrible and miserable experience
I'm not sure if I'm just incredibly unlucky or something but Jesus christ man, I think Solo Queue is in the worst state it's ever been in. I've played 11 games of Survivor today and in literally every single one of them someone, mostly me, has been camped and or tunneled to death. I have tried out every single build I can think of in order to prevent getting tunneled/camped to death but not only is it not fun but it's not feasible either. No matter what, if the Killer really wants to tunnel there's nothing you can do, especially when it comes to map RNG being beyond inconsistent. I've tried using Sprint burst with vigil, Dead hard, off the record, featherweight, off the record, DS, unbreakable, adrenaline, and even lesser used perks like Object of obsession and resurgence but literally nothing works on a Killer who just deadset on tunneling me. And it's not like I'm a bad distraction either, since I've played Survivor for a long time, and especially Killer I know how to distract Killers for a long time. In some of my matches I've been chased for literal minutes and despite that I usually still don't end up escaping in the end due to the Killer either tunneling and camping me or my teammates not capitalizing on the time that I give to them.
Solo Queue feels exactly like how Killer felt before the 6.1.0 update where if you weren't playing a decently strong Killer with multiple slowdown perks you'd lose a bunch of gens quickly, except even worse. At least with Killer, I could always play extremely sweaty with strong add-ons when COH and DH were at their strongest but with Survivor, it doesn't matter how many meta perks I stack or what item I use, I'm only one in a team of four and unless my teammates are all insanely good (and on a good map while hoping it isn't a strong killer stacking multiple slowdowns and strong add-ons) then chances are I'll lose. The game just isn't fun at all when I have to play Survivor at my sweatiest. I like using fun perks and whatnot but getting tunneled out or camped just nullifies any fun I would have with those builds. I think BHVR just needs to buff anti-tunnel more, I don't even care if they have to add 10 extra seconds to gens as compensation, as long as it makes Killers have to waste significantly more time tunneling.
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Luckily this is (and has been) in the backlog for over a year, and will get released in... over a year.
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Is this a developers official information?
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I feel like I'm either lucky, my years of playing this game as solo queue has numbed me from caring, I never used meta perks so my playstyle didn't have to change at all, or maybe it's the shiny new Happy Pills my doctor has me on but I have stayed pretty much the same on my opinions on solo queue.
I've personally really enjoyed the new solo queue experience, though I do seem to be in the minority in that opinion. I get to play a much wider variety of killers now (because killers can play more than just Blight or Nurse now without getting their teeth kicked in) and I find it way funner to play against the variety with the tradeoff being that I get killed a lot more often.
Solo Queue absolutely does need some love (the Icons that BHVR supposedly was putting in at some point some day maybe possibly in the potential future of one of the multiverse timelines that @Nick above posted would be super) but I've really enjoyed the new solo experience a lot more than I would have expected considering how often I get killed in it.
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I want those icons + hearbeat icon. DEVs please wake up.
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"NO. THIS IS A SPOOKY HORROR GAME. SOLO PLAYERS WILL PLAY BLIND AND THEY WILL HAVE FUN."- influential dev screaming in the back, refusing to modernize the game.
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And they're right
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It is a miserable experience these days.
I used to not mind solo queue but lately it has been the worst.
The rate of DC's and killing yourself on hook must be significantly bigger. Feels like every game at 4/5 gens someone is killing themselves after being tunnelled.
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Yes, I can't believe this happened. Along with all the killer buffs pretty much killed the game.
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