How do survivors feel about the singularity?

Haven't played against him yet sadly. Had a Hag, Pig, and Freddy so far.

Boring.

You don't see it in early game just like trapper.

Then in the mid game you can destroy everything it set up in early game by 1-2 EMP.

Then it will get mad and try to tunnel one of the players with basic m1.

Easy but even more boring than a normal m1 killer.

Played against him for, like, 8 times and we had 3-4 man escapes in almost every game.

Yeah, it's a new killer and ppl still need to find an optimal way of playing but still, EMPs mess him up a lot. Survivors constantly had EMPs and used them to get rid of multiple slipstreams/biopods thus wasting all the effort killer put into setting/spectating and infecting survivors.

Some cluttered maps are a nightmare for him and sometimes it feels like he can't infect a survivor sitting on the gen even though most part of their body must've been visible through the biopod.

Very easy to play against. Pre drop pallets and always have a sailor moon wand with you. Without its pods the killer is just M1 killer without a power.

People are just still learning the most efficient way to play. I had one game where he was placing his pods right next to gens - I'm talking like if there was a rock next to the gen, he'd place it there and in a place he couldn't even see the gen. I don't think he knew he could place them higher and with a view of the gen. No one on the team even bothered getting EMPs. Had another who in the first half of the game was placing multiple pods around hooked people. Nothing near the gens. Think he was trying to use them to sorta camp from a distance? I dunno. Bringing EMPs to an unhook was necessary and he gave up on it quickly.

The Singularity has not appeared in trials so far from my side. I have had the new map, which I do like a lot and the clutter has been toned down. However, unfortunately no Johnny-5.

I enjoy trying to play him but I absolutely suck at it. The only reason I get any kills is because I give up on his power and just play him as a M1 killer. I can't even beat bots lmao it's sad. I don't think I even fully understand how the biopods work yet, I just hope I keep trying to learn him instead of giving up and going back to my trusty Demo because he does look like lots of fun.

I don't really have anything to say about going against him because the ones I've gone against are also clearly still learning to play him properly so he doesn't feel like a threat at all (either the killer is just trying to learn is power and clearly doesn't expect to win or they just M1 the entire time).

Skull merch 2.0 in my opinion. Boring to play against and sometimes I just DC instantly....

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.