Whats your opinion on giving Solo info?

Yes, I think you are right. Solo requires information.

But well, DbD was not designed for voice chat. It's like all 4 people will have an Obsession marker that will indicate that they are currently in a chase. There are some perks that are rendered meaningless by this (perks that can be countered largely by being SWF at this point, of course), so I'm hoping for a rework of those as well.

Sure but buff lower end killers

Because you significantly increase your teammate quality by bypassing the rng of solo queue and that you have more information. Just because swf gives more info and that’s part of what gives that advantage it doesn’t mean solo queue needs it. The game game is currently balanced for solo queue, not swf, so if we were to go give solo queue swf info then killers would need significant buffs simultaneously but no one really talks about that, they just want solo queue buffs. The problem is that even if we were going to hypothetically buff killers simultaneously the amount of changes that would need at bhvrs pace of work is literally yearsss. Ie it doesn’t seem quite feasible.

I had an idea for a perk change that I’d appreciate for solo. ‘Better Together’ - instead of a yellow aura, have the gens aura start white then gradient to deeper yellow or red depending on the progress of the gen.

It’s not a final fix but it’s like how Kindred helps with unhook info, this would give use something for gen progress. Would be at least a step in the right direction in closing the gap between swf comms and solo I reckon.

Honestly, I think the ideal change would be to limit SWFs to duos. Nothing more than that. Allow 4 man for customs for the people who want to play competitively but keep regular matches limited to 2 man swfs.

Buffing solo over swf will discourage swf. Not all of us play with irl friends. We make friends with strangers for swf. If I'm better off or on par as a solo I'm not going to bother seeking out people. That's been one of the cool parts about DBD is the social aspect.

Even worse I wont be recruiting friends. If we stop recruiting friends the game loses growth. It won't be good for the community or the long term health of the game.

Not trying to simp or anything but the approach they're taking where they just tweak for the overall numbers is probably best. I watch my kid get 4ks all the time and he's young enough I probably shouldn't be letting him play a horror game lol. An occasional op swf doesn't ruin the game for me. I still feel like I win plenty of matches.

I feel if they're going to go down this route, all solo needs is:

Busy - no specific info as to whether busy is repairing, saboing, blessing, cleansing, searching chests or rescuing is necessary. The only thing you need to know is if they're doing something.

Idle - this would be if someone is just walking round and not engaging in anything.

In chase - self explanatory.

If someone is hooked, another is 'busy' and a third is 'in chase' but the fourth is 'idle' it would obviously be person 4 who should go for the save.

That said, there are often the players who will leave a gen on the other side of the map where they person has been downed before they've even been picked up to go for the rescue... so how much status icons would be useful is really hard to say. The idle person could be on the other side of the map searching for a Hex whilst the person who is 'busy' seemingly doing something useful could be closest to the hook.

I know a lot of people are against it, but I personally would prefer a HEAVILY modified version of Kindred as basekit. I think knowledge of proximity is the best knowledge out there. Being able to see who is closest to the hook within 'x' radius would be the most useful way of helping solo-q I feel. I would reduce the base kit to the radius the killer is shown within when the base perk is active - but for survivors. This way, the killer isn't revealed you can see who, if anyone, is close enough to the hook to be trying to rescue and not all survivors are revealed, thus keeping Kindred a viable perk if you want more info.

Edit: Also don't know who thought putting white bars over white text was a good idea but I could barely read the options.

That is true. No matter which game you play, premade teams are always stronger, therefore they normally have some kind of restriction.

DbD is just more problematic because the game works around denying information and SWF kinda just ignores that.

With the caveat that more information = more escapes not always being true with bad survivors, since getting confirmation your team is being useless can incentivize DCing or suiciding on hook in games where they would have otherwise played it out if they didn't know what their team was doing.

we need to give out as much information as possible for the solo, and after that buff the m1 of the killers very much

BP bonus is just useless