Killer should be harder. Period.

It's not that simple M1 Killers like Trapper can't be brought up to those levels because it's not possible. His Kit and some others are not made to become tuned up like that without some major reworks to the Kit itself.

Every buff to solos, is also a buff to SWF.

While the kill rates might look decent, you have to consider that low rank survivors have a abysmal low escape rate. Partly, because new survivors don´t know what to do. The tutorial is a good start, but we need the bot mode to be able to train as/against every single killer with a choice of addons and ingame hints on what is happening now.

I mean I was playing killer for the first time in a while last night, EU servers, 100% killer bonuses kicked in soon after I started playing and stayed that way for the rest of the night (although my queues were still kinda slow?) and I was doing my usual no slowdown thing, and I took a battering. For the most part, very strong teams with a shitton of hours combined.

This isn't a "swf bad" rant, I also got a couple of extremely solo queue games where someone dc'd at 5 gens or threw in some other pointless way, my preference would be the other side actually putting in some kind of effort. Plus the games were fun, they were nice enough opponents, chatted with them in postgame and visited their streams etc

But I'm mainly responding to the "SWF don't stomp anymore" but of course they do. Taking a bunch of good survivors (better than me, honestly) who can wreck you before 6.1.0., they don't instantly turn into a pile of helpless baby mice crawling over each other until put out of their misery because pallets are kicked 10% faster, gens take 10 seconds longer and the rest.

There are other factors (I'm very rusty, I had been hanging out with a friend and had a few drinks, late night EU on the weekends is wild) but the point still stands, I think.

Every single attempt to bring solos on SWF information levels, has ultemately also buffed SWF.

The Undying notification uppon approaching a dull totem. Shows up for the solo, but the SWF team also gets informed about Undying in play. Ruin notification = everyone in the team gets told there is Ruin.

A basekit Kindred would optimize SWF even further. While only having minor impact on solos (which often like to ignore Kindred).

Whenever I play in SWF it feels somewhat the same. Whenever I'm in soloqueue, I feel terrible. Soloqueue really needs some love. BHVR needs to find ways for solo survivors to actually coördinate more like a team. Also, screw the solo survivors that just kill themselves on hook. As if soloqueue wasn't miserable enough, these survivors just make it even worse.

Those suggestions you made to fix the power vacuums such as making maps smaller etc I actually agree with basically all of them. The cooldown and speed burst reduction should be kept though since holding W is boring gameplay and cutting that as much as possible should always be encouraged but other then that good suggestions.

I agree with some but not all of your ideas OP. Maps do need work but they don't need to be made smaller. We have so many killers that can cross maps almost instantly now and those with a large TR become oppressive if every map is small.

Shelter Woods needs to be killswitched until it can be reworked. It has too many dead zones and is an extremely killer-sided map.

Rotten Fields and the Azarov map with the shack in the center should also be looked at. Personally, I think if a map doesn't have two basement spawn possibilities, it should be changed.

RPD split should be redone simply. Take the original map and focus on the main hall in its center. Completely close off all exits on the left side of that room for one map and do the opposite on the other. Otherwise it is really difficult to learn the map and not hit a dead end -- they both look far too similar and really have no "east" or "west" feel to them. The new outside pieces can stay, just on the appropriate side.

Lastly, in addition to the baseline kindred, survivors need a "move a gen" perk or offering. It is far too easy for a solo queue to accidentally 3-gen OR a killer to force a 3-gen. The way I imagine it working is as follows . . .

SHELL GAME

When two generators have been completed, this perk activates. Use a secondary action on an unfinished generator to move it to the location of a completed generator. Once this action has been used by any survivor who has this perk, this perk deactivates for all survivors.

(Alternatively, it could be an offering, but it would need to be like multiple map offerings where only one makes it through.)

I want to q with you for a week or something and see how surv is walk in a park. No comms. Would that be possible?

I don't think any role is "walk in a park" all the time.

Killer is more stressful to me too but surv is not exactly walk in the park. It just stress me less when I am getting obliterated.

No they say Power Role because this is a Asymmetrical Game. In all Asymmetrical I have played the 1 is always the power role while the many are weaker as individuals but equal the power role together.

Best view of this is the game Evolve, the Monster player is a all powerful monster who has the advantage of starting before the hunters spawn to gain power fast. I'm that game it can get very one sided for the Monster if the Hunters don't work together as a team but if they have good teamwork then it's not so one sided and the Hunters could begin to tip the scales.

I have seen arguments where people say make Survivors as strong as the Killers or make the Killer the same power level as Survivors. In both those scenarios it can't happen because the Killer would be up against 4 players of equal power as them.

What are you talking about that's a pretty fair game as long as your teammates are total idiots...I had a game where my teammate caged the monster but locked all of them out of the cage and I was stuck inside the cage....but I also played many hunter games where we won matches.

I'm surprised people find Killer stressful. My experience has always been the opposite. As survivor a single mistake can end the game for you. Also, things can happen that you have no control over, bad play/luck by a teammate can end your chances. As killer if I miss a chase, no big deal. Get back on the gens, find another survivor, etc. Survivors running through the gens? Focus on the narrowing map. Fail even that, focus on trying to catch one during EGC.

As survivor the fact that I can be eliminated adds a ton of stress. That doesn't exist for killer. Not saying it is necessarily easy, just surprised people find it more stressful.

The game should not be balanced around you and your tiny miniscule portion of the player base that take the game so seriously that you play like it's a literal military operation.

"Killer should be harder than survivor and more stressful."

Why? What is harder? For a 2oo kg monster to kill 4 teenagers or for a teennager to survive and escape from a building with a 200kg killer monster in ita? What is more stressful? To kill or to be killed?

Sorry but i stopped reading at this point.