Surviving really that bad?

No, my solo games are the same. I had a slugging Oni just now but that was the first slugging killer I've had in a couple weeks (last one was a Condemned Sadako). I record my game stats and I see a tunnelling killer maybe once every 12 games, and a camping killer even less. Games are usually sucky because of team mates in solo.

Edit: actually it was a Wraith last week who was slugging

No it's generally not as bad as people will lead you to believe.

There's a lot of players who have such broad (incorrect) definitions of camping and tunneling that basically playing the game as killer will make them accuse you of doing it.

Not that it doesn't happen, but it gets blown way out of proportion, especially slugging. At least in my experience.

Eh, it’s definitely a bit of an exaggeration but it’s based in the truth.

It feels like this game has been programmed to have its on nights and it’s off nights.

Some nights me and my duo get the most fun killers and enjoyable games and others we get 5 Blights in a row running alc ring and compound that tunnel the first dude out in 2 minutes.

Those games stick in peoples heads as miserable experiences can overshadow enjoyable ones.

I haven't played the game in a few weeks and played again last night and today. Honestly, out of about 10 matches I'd say 7 of them has camping and tunnelling and slugging.

It's getting bad.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you OP, I very rarely get a match with explicit tunneling/camping/slugging/3-genning and I get a surprisingly large variety of killers to verse (not just Wesker all the time). I don't actually remember the last time I was intentionally bled out, kebabbed on the hook, or relentlessly tunneled. Don't get me wrong though, there's definitely opportunities in my games that if the killer decided to do one of the forbidden four we'd probably lose but I guess that's the same mercy given when a squad doesn't just dunk gens.

Tunneling is common, face camping is uncommon, proxy camping is common, slugging 2-4 survivors is rare.

People have a tendency to remember the bad games more than the good ones and people also rarely talk about the good games they had.

Basically it's easy for the game to seem worse than it actually is, because people tend to remember being camped or tunneled out of a game and then talk about those games over the ones where they didn't.

Tunneling is also a cause to too fast gen speeds and overpowered survivor perks. Not all is black and white. Learn to see the game from both sides. Both sides have issues, but soloQ isnt as bad as people make it to be.

Biggest issue is other survivors and how well they play the game.

Hasn't been that bad for me, and I've been running No Mither over half my games. I got like 5 camping/tunneling killers in a row when I started playing again recently, but it died down after a little bit.

Short answer: It depends/Your mileage may vary.

Some regions are more competitive than others, certain times of day are worst than other times. Like I'm on the east coast of the US so if I play during the day till right around now 10-11pm my games are fine for the most part. If I play at 12am-7am it is gen rush city and I mean with actual full stack 4man teams spec'd out specifically to finish the game as fast as humanly possible or I get 2 and 3 man sabo teams. I call it the witching hours and basically try to never play during those times as it sucks playing killer or survivor under those conditions because I like medium length high bp scoring games and I just don't get them in that time slot.

Events also bring out the best and worst dbd has to offer in players. Some people only play during events and ptbs at this point and range from genuinely uber chill farmers to people with attitudes that make them seem as if they are stuck in the 2017 dbd youtuber mindset where being obnoxious trolls was considered cool content. Thankfully I've not had any of that so far, but that means someone else surely is getting them.

Tunneling and proxy camping every single game today and most of the last few days.

I play on east coast Usa, Ps4 somewhere between 5pm-1am.

No, it has to do with the last 3 killers that have been released, who have been all very very #########.

Game 1:

Facecamped and BMed on hook... what did I do? I ran the Killer for too long and died to T3 Bloodlust at an unsafe pallet. They could have left chase at any point but decided to not do so, they lost the match because of it, and apparently it's my fault.

Once I died on hook, they DCed to make sure that nobody remaining in the match got Bloodpoints for escaping through the Exit Gates. Truly the highest level of pettiness.

Killer harassed me and my friend in the post-game, apparently I deserved it for running a "genrush build" despite the only Generator thing I brought was a toolbox, and I only used that for Blast Mine.

Game 2:

Facecamped and BMed on hook by a Wesker at 5 Generators remaining... what did I do? I Blast Mined them. Yep. That's all I did to deserve being facecamped. Blast Mine.

Game 3:

Now, you might see the hooks and instantly think "this guy is camping for pressure" but nope. This guy had been camping literally every single hook they got and failing horribly at it.

Camping for pressure is definitely a strategy, but unironically they lost this match because they camped too much and did a poor job at it.

Game 4:

Oh, this time that I got camped by a Nurse at the start of the match... they are staring right at a Survivor in this screenshot, but they dont actually go for them. They just come back to the hook and hit me on hook.

What did I do? Well, I think you can connect the dots from the previous stuff, people really hate Blast Mine apparently.

My biggest issue is that most survivors that complain about soloQ put it purely on the killers fault. People need to see some fault in the team and even in themselfs sometimes.

If you all die at 5 gens left something had to happen. Eather the killer was way above your MMR rating or you guys were hiding and doing totems instead of gens.

Tunneling and camping sucks when it happens straight at 5 gens, but not every single game can be like that. If so i feel for you thats some bad luck.

If killer camps from 5 gens good survivors will still get 2-3 man out of that match usually. Tunneling is a different story. if the killer tunnels the weaker link then yeah the group is screwed since they will go down fast instead of looping the killer for long.

I played 4 hours today. I'd say my matches were pretty good. I escaped little over half of my matches and i think thats enough. We had few 4man outs few 3 man outs and some 1-2 man outs and hatch matches. No slugging happened. No camping. Not even hard tunneling today <3

Of course there will always be people that just want to be toxic jerks. Nothing you can do about it, but not everyone is like that so when someone is slugging on the ground for 4 minutes don't blame the whole killer playerbase for always slugging and tunneling and camping. Also same goes for survivor. :)

I am seeing a lot of tunnelers this event. The slug since the beginning is pretty rare, but they often slug the third person for the 4k which is still boring if you ask me.