How do survivors feel about the singularity?

So far I've been enjoying the interactions.. win or lose.. so far fun

I've really been enjoying playing against him in my surv games. 3 games so far, two 2ks and a 3k i think. He feels balanced, power is interesting and counterplay isn't too hard. emps are maybe a bit too strong. I'm looking forward to trying him in my killer games tonight.

Played him a handful of times now and so far the survivors always got out with no issues. Some of them were extremely weak (I don't like to call other players bad but I'm at a loss for words here) and they still made it out and teabagged me. I could have beaten these guys with Trapper (or playing M1 killer and never use my power).

I've asked some of them how they felt playing against me and so far it seems that the game really is as easy you'd imagine playing against Singularity. You have EMPs constantly and the game pretty much tells you when and where to use them as well as where to get them and they counter this killer's entire power with no downside.

Enjoyable.

Was afraid of him being another 3-gen killer, but with the EMPs you can really deny him from using that playstyle.

It's fun trying to gather EMPs to mess with his power or try and help another survivor.

While in chase, his power is really scary without an EMP, but doesn't feel overwhelming, feels like there is enough room for you to make plays against him constantly TP to you.

I will say, most singularitys i faced were really bad, constantly trying to monitor gens with his pods which just made him waste time since we were hacking them with the EMPs.

But there was one good singularity that used his pods for info and chases that managed to kill us all.

So, idk if he is bad, but i think he is way harder to play then Skull merchant and i a lot of singularities waste way too much time in camera mode making his games go by really fast.

He might be weak, or players need to get better at him. I haven't bought him yet, no iri shards for him. So i idk.

EMPs need more nuance. I've played a few matches against him. Always had an EMP in hand and never really felt like I was spending time to get one. It's very easy to run and grab one that is already printed. It feels way too easy to deny his power by EMPs and pre-drops.

Problem: if EMPs aren't in abundance and quick to use, he's a 3 gen overlord. He will become the new 3 gen stall killer of the month if they nerf EMPs.

I think EMPs should be a targeted shot with charges that lets you take out single biopods or slipstreamed survivors but not while running and not an AOE all at once. You shouldn't be able to just run along, delete the killer power in a blast radius, and then grab another EMP on the fly.

Keep EMPs plentiful but make them interactive and not AOE.

my only complain with the killer is the addon that removes his counterplay , idk which one is soo , Im talking about the one that breaks pallets when you teleport to someone in front of you instantly , that addons is busted IMO.

that addon just convert the killer into a "hold W , pre- drop stuff to survive"

What makes him anything like Skull Merchant? Literally just use EMP’s and watch his power melt. Good luck doing anything like that against a Skull Merchant.

Like "just disable skull merchants drones by doing some veeeryyyyyy difficult sequence of keystrokes to make her power melt"? I can feel that you have hard time to know how to play against skull merchant.

But anyways thats how I feel about the new killer and I don't actually like his power. Again boring to play against and boring to play as. Like you said, very easily countered by survivors EMP spam. Or the killer is hard tunneling and slugging peace of something. Way too fun!!

EDIT:

Counter question. How is placing drones around gens any different than placing biopods around gens?

Singularity's ability is oppressive for survivors, and EMPs are oppressive for Singularity.

This could be an interesting dynamic, but I do agree that some EMP nerfs are in order.

That said, I hope BHVR will be carefully monitoring the situation (ha...), because Singularity has some of the same 3-gen issues that the previous two killer releases brought with them. The only downside to using pods around a gen cluster is that it makes EMPs more effective, as they will regularly affect multiple pods and survivors. This balance should be kept in mind.

I also don't think EMPs are as oppressive to Singularity as it is sometimes made out to. Pods can be destroyed and replaced at will at any time, you don't even have to destroy them manually, you can just cycle through them. If a survivor EMPs themselves in chase, you can usually swiftly re-infect them. The only really annoying thing is that you can't reliably use pods for cross-map traversal/control, as disabled pods across the map are obviously not something you can do much about. This is also why 3-genning is such a concern, as it gets rid of this issue for Singularity, who can just stick around and constantly replace any disabled pods around the gen cluster.

Maybe an interesting rework for Singularity could be this, should it turn out that the "oppressive ability vs. means of disabling said ability" dynamic isn't quite doing it: Remove EMPs from the game. Now environmental pods automatically destroy themselves as soon as they have either infected a survivor or allowed Singularity to teleport to a survivor. Pods on survivors are also automatically destroyed after Singularity teleports to them.

Or maybe environmental pods should only destroy themselves if they are used to infect a survivor, not if they are used for teleports.

I've maybe only gone against two Singularity players as Survivor, just because I've been playing him myself a lot more recently. The Biopods can be kinda tricky in a pinch sometimes, but the idea of peeping on Survivors like a weirdo is funny.

I highly recommend the Backpack build if anyone wants to meme around a bit/turn off your brain to not use the pods so much.

Disabled pods have a yellow aura instead of a white one when you look at the with singularity

The yellow aura is just the last pod you were at and it goes away after a few seconds.