Survivors: Do you enjoy the "Hit & Run" playstyle?

There's already a ton of tools to do that though.

Bond, Empathy, Aftercare, Empathetic Connection, Kindred, Blood Pact, Situational Awareness, keys with certain addons, and map with the beacon addon all exist. Why do you feel like you need more?

And what would you be willing to give killers in return? And how would you make it not make SWF even stronger too?

I was giving all the options I could think of. Not claiming all of them were good. Also SA is actually quite good. You as the user just can't really see its effects.

All good points and I would mostly say yeah, it's not 100 percent, but I personally feel there really shouldn't be a given 100% counter to any strat on either side. That would actually make it very boring for me.

The reason I don't find it boring is the element of risk. Trying to time when to let go of the gen so you don't bail when you don't need to but also don't stay on too long and get caught while also trying to time it right after a skill check so you don't get the dreaded check as soon as you let go causing an explosion. Hiding a foot ot two away from the killer or creeping around a barrel or the gen itself when it takes just the smallest mistake and you'll get spotted. Learning how to best work around their FoV. I find that stuff fun as hell.

Distortion helps with the info perks and with as much time as you spend in the killers TR, you almost always have a token to use. Picking the right gens to work on and which side you work on them so you are covered from the most likely avenues of approach. Having a couple of escape routes planned with stages of hiding spots. All of that goes into making it work..and yeah it doesn't always. Sometimes you zig when you should have zagged, sometimes the killer does something totally out of left field. Sometimes your head is angled in just the wrong way that the killer catches a glimpse of it. Uncertainty is what keeps it interesting.

I mean yeah, it works both ways though. A lot of Survivor strats are "boring" or "annoying" as well. Holding W and pre-dropping, stealthing, gens before friends. It comes down to people complaining over anything that makes the game more difficult for them. There is stuff that is actually oppressive that should be dealt with: hard camping/tunneling/3-genning from the start of the game, actual genrushing, but there is a lot that's complained about that is perfectly fine. A lot of folks on both sides need to get over their main character syndrome.

What swfs have aren't even within the realms of the game!

You can't make up for that by frontloading features and basekit buffs on to survivors in a fruitless attempt to even out the advantage that swfs have. It makes no sense that you're even concerned about the strength of swfs as a survivor and how to bring solo q in line with swfs which rely on outside factors that can never be equalized. Y'all not playing against the swfs so from the survivor side nothing they have affects you. Killers have to deal with swfs and are the ones who it would make more sense to bring more in line with the fact that swf play is more and more becoming the normalized way that survivors play.

What can the devs give you basekit or feature that equals the inherent advantage of sitting in a discord call with 3 other people doing callouts? The game already from jump wasn't built stand up to that sort thing like when dbd released the game was sold expected to be played soloq only until enough said they wanted to play with their friends without having to hope y'all load into the same lobby. Solo play will never be anyway near as strong as group play and everything added to push solo play closer to group play will only make swf play that much more advantageous. They ain't gonna start making weird diminishing return features that are super strong solo, but trash in full 4 stack. That's how you kill a game dead as a doornail. It is perfectly reasonable and better for the game long term if folks are made to actually use perks as that is what they are there for, to make up for the inherent imbalance between Killer and survivors.

You have a very generous HUD, tons of perks that help you with every aspect of the game, killer design and balance has been greatly paired back in comparison to how they made killers 4-5 years ago. Most killers are designed with so much thought put into basekit counterplay for survivors that they often ship with powers that are clunky and unfun to use with a slate of addons that only exist to mitigate how bad it feels to play that killer. Super fun, decently good, well rounded designs have become the exception rather than the rule. All of these things in an attempt to get soloq to be on a more equal footing with swf and not such a general pain. Yet, the biggest contributor of pain in soloq is other survivors and there no amount of buffs that will fix teams that don't work together.

100000% this. It's the "Survivors book of rules for killers"