A simple request: Allow me the option to opt-out of playing with survivors with friends

Here's my request: As a player, I want the option to play exclusively with other solo match players.

Give me a setting that allows the player the option to match with anyone, or only with solo players. When I create a lobby as a killer, I want to be able to filter out SFW groups of survivors. As a survivor, I want to be able to filter out games that have SFW survivors in them.

As a survivor and as a killer, I enjoy playing your game in general. The thrill of the game and the constant change of environment due to the perk system and individual player skill levels is exciting. However, I do not enjoy playing with groups of players that often choose to play as 'survivors with friends' (SFW). Let me explain why.

As a survivor, I can see why people would want to group together and play seriously as survivors with friends. They can coordinate roles, figure out who is going to do what, and generally communicate better. However, that is not something that a public group can do. Survivors with friends are generally on some voice chat client, and communicating the killer's position and that obviates the need for a some perks that might otherwise be viable. When playing as survivors with friends, I could hear a call-out that the killer is near my teammate without seeing him damaged. An entire chase could occur that I wouldn't know about if I wasn't playing survivors with friends. As a survivor who doesn't often play that way, I see it as a detriment to the perk system, and something that makes it far more difficult for the killer who cannot benefit in the same way.

As a survivor who often doesn't play in a group, I do not get communicate with my teammates and often there is some preference of the survivor with friends group to help themselves before they help me. I've actually even been the target of a nasty group of SFW survivors, one of whom led the killer to me, did the point emote at me, and then ran off as the killer chased me. I fully understand that not all SFW survivors are nasty, crappy people, but I still run into a fair number of them. I've got 120 hours into the game, and that doesn't compare to other players here, but SFW has ruined a fair number of games for me as a survivor ... and as a killer.

As a killer, SFW survivors tend to be the most toxic people that I meet. The game devolves into a flashlight/gen rush match, where one or two of the survivors are dedicated towards making my job difficult, or down right miserable. Fair enough. I'll get looped, gen-rushed, and flashlight to the face with every pallet that I try to break. It's miserable. Sure, it's valid gameplay that I use myself when I play as a survivor. However, the difference is that SFW groups can coordinate that miserable activity, work together to make my life more difficult, and the way that it is accomplished can be one of the most toxic experiences in the entire game.

Here is a prime example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gewbR10ekeo

It's a streamer and friends -- essentially using game mechanics, perks, and skills with a coordination that would not be possible with a random group of people -- to play and win in a way that is so honestly infuriating. I'm not saying that they should be prevented from doing this. Essentially, the developers have made the game in a way to allow people to play how they want, and there are established community rules to prevent the really horrible behavior. If I was that killer though, I'd have quit the game after the first 5-10 minutes because that is not what I play this game for. That game was miserable for the killer. Even a more experienced killer would be frustrated at that game. Some people might like it... good for them. However, I do not.

There are ways to avoid this type of stuff, but it doesn't help anyone. As a player, I can dodge a lobby if I see people who I suspect to be SFW groups. I've come up with my own set of criteria that generally helps me to avoid them -- but it isn't perfect. As a survivor, I just have to deal with it, or leave the game. Both options make me less happy to play the game. As a killer, I can dodge the match, or get infuriated/tilted. Again, both options make me less happy to play the game. The end result of those matches is that generally someone leaves the match incredibly mad ... sometimes it's me -- sometimes it is them.

I firmly believe the game should evolve how it will evolve, and it's your game to change how you want. All I'm asking is as a player, I want the option to play without survivors with friends, regardless of my role. Just consider my request. Maybe it's difficult -- maybe it isn't. I would love the option.