What is your timeline on fixing this game's core mechanics?

I hope this is only if no other survivor is near. I see so many survivors that are in chase and run straight to the hook, or just run around the fresh hook. They shoulndt be rewarded for that.

Three of the things listed in the initial post are either completely make believe issues or things that are unsolvable by the very nature of PVP gaming.

Game need a real meta shake up 6.1 was not it, not just breaking perks until nobody use them but making more playstyle viable. Tunneling/gen rush meta is getting stale it leads to stomps on both side

They can sell DLC chapters forever and do nothing gameplay wise if they want to but it's lame, hope they take some risks

Surely, after 7 years you must have a timeline?

If I'm the devs, this line always creates a problem. Many people say they need to radically change their game. However, they've had an extremely successful 7 years which is rare in the video game industry. If I was in their shoes, I'd be very hesitant to enact any type of substantial change, even if I as a player have a few I'd want.

Gen rush

As long as the game is survivor escape, the goal of survivors will be to do it as quickly as possible.

Map imbalance

Very different killers and a desire for variability make map imbalance an inevitability. Everyone agrees about map imbalance, but people disagree about how. This is something they address, but its not going to ever have a perfect solution.

Tunneling

As long as it is an elimination game, tunneling will be the strongest tactic. I think they could make the off the hook speed boost longer, especially for early hooked survivors, but its always going to be part of the game.

Camping

I believe the roadmap for this is fall.

Thing is, if we're talking DbD 2, we need to throw out all our presumptions about what that game would be. Who knows if they'd even keep the hook/generator mechanic or go for a different idea.

Tournaments

Given the variability in region and playstyles (SWF vs soloq), this would be a really hard thing to give preference to.

Gen slowdown

I didn't think the total nerf of the perks was really needed, but with the existence of SM and Knight these have to be out of the game. Also, never really prevented the other game problems.

Hook timer

I'd take it, but would worry it wouldn't put enough pressure on survivors to actually get an unhook.

Different health state

Probably too complicated a mechanic to address tunneling.

Secondary objective

It might be more interesting, but you're also adding more randomness/map knowledge into the game. Finding generators can already be annoying on certain maps, add in the prospect of having to search for a gas can and the game very well might come down to whether the survivors guessed right or not on where to look first.

I'd try it, I think this could work, but I also think it creates a lot more problems than most people anticipate.

Instant Death

Keeping people in the game longer than they want to be is unlikely to be a workable solution. I think they should just make it easier for people who are on a hook to leave, but be replaced with a bot instead of dead.

Last second switching

Agreed on this, silly that its in the game.

Only One Solution : Stop Pushing This Game Into Tournament-Like Games... This is Not A Competitive Game.

Balanced Balanced, talking about balanced in a 1 vs 4 asymmetrical horror game, what a funny mindset

Overpowered premades - devs can't stop good players with good co-ordination from playing together. If they removed SWF I imagine half of the survivor player base would stop playing, which would be a disaster for the devs.

Generator rushing - they just nerfed Brand New Part and Prove Thyself to slow down generator work. And as above, devs can't stop good co-ordination, multiple survivors with perks and toolboxes and add-ons might still work together to get a gen done quickly, devs can't stop this, and they can't slow it down to a point where it takes a solo survivor with none of the above 3 minutes to do a gen, otherwise nobody would ever do them, bceause solo gen work is very boring.

Map imbalance - is pretty vague, they have just made changes to some maps to improve them.

Camping - they are doing something about aren't they with the anti-face-camping feature.

Tunnelling - possibly some kind of survivor bloodlust, where the game can recognise that the other three survivors have not been chased during a certain timeframe or something, and it gives the tunnelled survivor a bit of extra speed.

Killers aren't being punished though. There are no limitations placed on killers. Placing limitations on all SWFs is punishing people for playing with their friends, which most certainly isn't fair.

Fixing of core mechanics can only begin after the devs decide if they want to make DBD competitive with straightforward win conditions or casual party game with more emphasis on fun and commit to that vision.

You really have no idea how bad that idea is. You're painting all swfs as these evil meta-slave 4-man bully squads whose sole purpose is to make the killer miserable.

The reality is most swfs are just people enjoying a game with their friend/s. Even amongst casual players, there'll be a degree of overlap in perks. Not all perks are equal.

Tournaments: regional tournaments shouldn´t be a problem at all. Some streamers have been holding them on a regular base for quite some time. Usually heavily restricted. I´d say make official ones without restrictions. See what both sides actually are capable off. Playstyles might vary depending on the region, but this shouldn´t be a problem as perks usually also get buffed/nerfed based on global stats. Otherwith SC wouldn´t be still in the top 10 most used perks.

Gen slowdown: apples and oranges. You can´t base such a decision only because we have 1 problematic killer. SM needs a rework. But that isn´t a problem of the slowdown perks. Since she is just as annoying without slowdown.

Hook Timer: everything proposed is meant to be used in combination. Fine tuning can happen afterwards. But the pressure is meant to come from the slowdown perks and the secondary objective.

Different health state: people understood quite quickly the 1 second immunity after unhook. Just turn the basekit BT timer into a different health state. Maybe something without collision. So people stop abusing the mechanic to body block like they do now.

Secondary Objective: this opens up a whole new meta of items and perks. They could introduce gas cans as items you bring from the lobby. You could find the parts or gas cans easier with the map (which currently has little usage). Devs could test this on grand scale during a prolonged event.

Instant Death: thats what the dc button is for. You´re not having fun? No problem! Just leave, the rest can continue to play normally. The dc penalty keeps getting larger and larger? Maybe its time for a break. Everyone who isn´t enjoying the game should take a break from dbd from time to time. After a couple of months the game might be enjoyable again. Better than ruining the games for everyone else.

Your suggestion is based off your own subjective experience then, rather than concrete evidence. When you are at high MMR, survivors play hyper efficient. The only way to win at that point is to also play hyper efficient.

Premades do play casually, but you aren't going to find them at high mmr. Your suggestion does nothing to reduce the hyper efficiency of the premades you play against, and only harms premades at low to mid mmr. A duo, for instance, would be limited to only one instance of Off The Record, or Botany Knowledge, or Self Care.

I would have no issues were toolboxes and flashlights limited to one instance per lobby. This wouldn't really bother survivors below high mmr, but would make it that much harder for high mmr premades to genrush.

I've seen a lot of people very confidently state this, is there anything that it's actually based on?

If there's some proof that most players are at the soft cap, I'd love to see it. Otherwise it sounds kinda like people hear the cap seems low and assume that most players must have reached it.

• Killers gain 3% additional Gen time when each Survivor is hooked once, and with all 4 being hooked once, the additional Gen time required for completion is 15%, motivating them to spread hooks evenly and not just tunnel someone out of the game.
• Hook progression will not continue if the Killer is within 20 meters of the hooked Survivor UNLESS another Survivor is also within 20 meters of the hook. Killers leaving a hooked Survivor are granted a brief 5% 10 second Haste to get them into their next chase faster, this deactivates if a Killer returns to the hooked Survivor. Killers now see auras of Survivors who are within 20 meters of the hooked Survivor when the Killer is also within 20 meters of the hook. This is disabled when all Generators are completed.
• Kindred is reworked and seeing allies across the map is now base kit for Survivors when someone is hooked.
• Shadowborn is reworked and Killers now have an FOV slider.
• Survivors who were the last to be hooked wiggle out of the Killer's grasp 30% faster, this effect is doubled to 60% if the Survivor was last unhooked twice in a row.
• Generators now take 10% longer by default, 4 Generator parts now randomly spawn on the map and are visible to Survivors at all times (even when Blinded), each Survivor can only pick up one part once unless another Survivor has been sacrificed, parts can be installed to reduce Generator duration by 20% permanently (one per Generator). If all 4 parts are installed, a special 5th part spawns that reduces a Generator's duration by 30%. Generator parts require a brief installation animation, no perks in the game effect Generator parts or their effects on either side. Generator parts dropped by sacrificed Survivors respawn randomly somewhere on the map.
• Killer MMR is now determined by Survivors hooked rather than Survivors sacrificed.
• Bi-Monthly perk buffs for 3 perks with the lowest usage rates for both Killer and Survivor.
• Map Offerings now prevent a map from being chosen.
• SWF are shown in the end game screen.

I would argue that the game is still won by skill in almost all of the playstyles that you mentioned.

Genrushers only win by default if the killer doesn't have enough situational awareness to harass survivors off of gens. Even running quad slowdown will only get you so far with some groups of survivors, but those survivors have a much harder time if you harass them off of gens, hit and run, and then catch them when they're off guard. They can't do gens if they're healing, on the hook, running to unhook someone, or desperately trying not to be hooked themselves. (I don't think "hit and run" is a good playstyle in general at all, for the record, but it works on genrushes because you always know exactly where to find them, and they're unlikely to waste time healing.)

The real sweats that you almost just can't do anything about (the real "overpowered premades") are few and far between. The ones who are highly coordinated with a full set of meta perks and BNPs. But those survivors really are highly skilled and had to do a lot of practicing to get to a level where they can pull off some of their more complex plays, and you can still secure at least a 2K against them if you're running a broken enough build yourself.

As far as "skill" goes when it comes to tunneling and camping, just doing those things mindlessly without any game awareness or skill in chase will mostly just lose you games. Knowing when to do those things and how to apply them is important.

I mostly play Myers and, as of the recent update, Sadako, and just try going on "skill" and attempting to win games by 12-hooking everyone with those killers and see where it gets you. It can take both skill and a little bit of ruthlessness to win the majority of your matches on certain killers. So I tunnel, camp, spam teleport until someone dies early, run DR+M&A, hit that T-bagging survivor with the Tombstone Piece. I still have to have some amount of skill in chase to get away with that ######### at all.

It's not quite that straightforward. Were it truly the case that the majority of players are at high mmr, the escape rate would be much higher.