Why is the horrible solo queue experience so largely ignored by the Devs?

Personally I think information perks at basekit would still buff SWFs. It's hard to make callouts in VC on dbd. Unless they are near an obvious feature like main building or killer shack. Aura reading would be a huge boon to SWFs that they really don't need.

You are on the mark though. Solo q is god awful and needs a buff that will not benefit SWFs. My personal suggestion is add in game VC. It would helps SWFs a fair bit and go some of the way to helping them co-ordinate a little better.

The arguments against it are pretty weak. People claim it will have a toxicity problem. (You know, like every game that has VC ever) well that is why there are mute block and avoid functions. And BHVR have said the game is not balanced around VC. Well SWFs get VC anyway, more so, now that discord is directly usable on the xbox and will be soon on the ps4. So it would be best to add it then adapt the balance for voice chat. The game can be a very fun social experience.

But atm it sucks for solo q. Especially at low mmrs. Killer is so much easier to play and new killers will always shred new survivors.

Edit: perhaps information basekits could be applied only to survivors that are not in a group. Should be easy enough to do.

You just dont acknowledge the arguments against it. The biggest problem is that you have to buff killers for the information that can be relayed with vc, but in europe for example, voice chat does nothing, because you have lots of players from different countrys with no common language, and sometimes not even a common alphabet.

VC would do nothing for them, but still they have to deal with buffed killers. Or you dont buff killers, that then have to deal with vc groups in every match instead of just half of it.

I dont know where you are from, but i think most people in the us just try to ignore the language problem, because its not their problem.

Solo queue has issues. It's notably worse than SWF, and it can result in completely hopeless games.

But it's not an absolute thing. The game is still perfectly playable as a solo survivor, just don't expect to escape most games like you would with a SWF.

Full SWF on voice can expect a 50%-60% escape rate, while solos can expect about 40%. That's not that big a gap in the grand scheme of things, and it's still subject to player skill.

Today I've played 7 solo survivor games and escaped 4 of them. 3 of those escaped games were 3/4 escapes, and 1 of the deaths was an endgame I could have survived, but I went back for a save and traded myself to be left behind. So really that was only 2/7 games I 'lost'. I know this isn't the average experience, this is a 'good' session for me, but it's still entirely possible.

By all means complain and criticise about changes that need to happen, but calm the hyperbole and don't catastrophise. It's not that bad, and if it was, y'all wouldn't be playing it.

this post aged like milk lol. they literally just announced a buff to SoloQ

Thank god, I was just about to scream this at them. 😂😂😂

might wanna actually think about how that information helps people who play a team game in match. maybe you dont play with altruism or comradery in mind and thats why you see no benefit. to everyone else it is one.

They read these discussions and it is pretty clear solo queue and issues like the Eruption gen control meta are a problem. Just don't expect to see much progress until Christmas/NY is done and they are back to work (which is fair enough too) I would guess.

The latest update on statuses for survivors is a good sign, information is critical in a game like DBD and solo queue survs are currently severely lacking it

Because you can't really fix other players which is the main issue with solo queue. Doesn't matter how good you are, if your teammates don't do anything.

That is a buff.

between Team A without knowing someone is in chase, teammates are scared to do Gen because theyre injured and last hoom.

and Team B knowing someone is in chase and put that 20sec chase into 40sec Gen. Result lasst Gen done and possibly 2 escape. Because they got a buff.

what buff would you like?

The status icons are an awesome addition. As an aside, solo queue is awful industry-wide. Every developer is struggling with it. I think developers are trained to favor queue times a bit too much in matchmaking and solo queue feels the strain of wide matchmaking ranges the most.

Yeah I dont get why they dont find a way to improve solo when probably most players are solo players. This seems like a no brainer to do something about solo.

They did that on Mobile when I tried it out (probably still do) and it was great. It would also help non-meta builds like Prove Thyself, Deja Vu and Situational Awareness. I do that occasionally and I only get a second person working with me on the three gen maybe once every 5 games. In a SWF ideally the looper would be running the Killer while another survivor or two would be on the gens with me ensuring a wide space out for the last couple of gens instead of my other random teammates getting us three genned.

It would also be such a huge help with Kinship, Deliverance, etc.

I'm from the u.k. so i have had to play on euro servers a lot. Particularly on tera where i was locked to euro servers. And a lot of europeans speak enough basic english for vc to still be a useful function.

Like i said, a lot of ppl who live in EU speak enough english to make themselves understood in game. And sure it'd take time to add report/mute functions, so why would BHVR add vc before they were ready?

They could just wait until they have all the necessary work done before they release it. And even if you personally didn't talk, which is fair enough a lot of people don't, you could still hear other players and act on useful information they give. Even just one player in a team of survs talking could be very valuable in coordinating the team. And if it is just a 12 year old spewing rubbish? Muting someone takes a couple of seconds on an in game UI.

All they would need to do is take the time to sort out a report function and put something in place so they can access audio logs of the game. And not release VC until that was ready. As long as they put that in place VC would have little to no detriment as toxic people get muted and banned very rapidly. But it would be amazingly useful, especially for newer players. To learn from more experienced ones.

Solo queue is bad because some players are trash at the game and lack basic game sense, like running around the hook while the killer camps instead of doing gens or sometimes very dumb decisions

well, i am from germany, and i got lots of french and russian guys that dont talk any english at all, along with some italians(or maby spanish, i am not sure).

While i agree that the solo swf gap needs adressing to a degree, you cant just expect to buff a character because some people just dont wanna learn to play that char.

Because if you do, can we buff nurse too because 70% of her playerbase sucks but wants to perform like pro nurses too? But make sure to add tools the pros can also use. Thats how certain survivors sound yelking at clouds for "solo" buffs.

Then it comes out 6-12 months later because the dev team works disgustingly slow.