How is your Solo life going in the event?

Very much as usual, except because of Christmas vacation I can play a bit more in the mornings when games are a little bit better than in the evenings. Overall, it's the marvels of "MMR working properly as it's supposed to" (as the devs appear to think considering there are no changes planned for the next six months):

• one game I'm found first and run the killer around shack, switch over to jungle gym, bit around that gym, back to shack, around and around, then back to gym ... killer had absolutely no clue how to run any of these tiles. After a bit of back and forth between shack and jungle gym he leaves me. Only one gen done in all that time. Me: "that'll be an easy win". Short time later: 4k and not a single additional gen done, wonderful how well MMR matches players with a similar skill level together.
• lots of tunneling out the first survivor with 4-5 gens left, totally necessary if you're playing in lowest 5% MMR (probably where I play)
• there's usually at least one extremely weak link in the group who single-handedly loses the game for the team. Nothing against people being really not good at the game as long as they enjoy it, but why not match them with others who also just merely play for fun and don't worry about MMR as much as I do because I want the misery to end one day?
• new this holiday season: I have to dodge tons of lobbies with P0 Dwights, Clauds or Megs in default clothes, sometimes multiple in a row. I checked the profiles of those who are on my platform and I see they have around 7-15 hours in the game. I have over 2500 hours and want to win games because I want to get back up in MMR. Yes I typically say hours don't mean much and there will certainly be 400 hour players who are much better than I am, but I don't see much of a chance that someone with 7 hours can already perform exactly as someone with 2500 hours expects of his teammates.
• and then between all these matches with killers having just random perks and still totally wrecking the survivors and getting their 4k, there's suddenly the odd team that's incredibly efficient, good at looping, and completely crushes even killers with some serious builds (e.g. UW/Pain Res/DMS). Apparently at the same MMR that 7 hour players play at and that is usually complete misery.
• also new experience: I get many teammates who refuse to run and just walk everywhere. I thought they wanted to save their Sprint Burst but they don't have it. An extremely annoying case was a Jake who refused to do anything injured, so I wanted to heal him. Problem: it was vs Nemesis, there was a Zombie on our track, he was always just walking a short bit away as the Zombie got closer and the killer had Sloppy so the heal progress was always completely reset.

I'll save me the pain of playing on the Christmas days, I care more about having fun and happy holidays than the bloodhunt. (Or maybe I play killer for the event tome killer challenges and make sure my survivors can have a good time at least for one match)

I would never ever played suvivor if not these stupid "surv-only" challenges. Playing survivor is like a very painful humiliation chore, and it's the only time I'm thinking a lot about dropping DbD.

I've started to hate all new events, chapters and game development, because with each step there will be a book, and in this book will be odious suvivor-challenges, and you will have to do them to get rifts/skins/etc. And I'm forcing myself to do at least one challenge in a day, like a bitter pill. "Why do I do that?" - I'm asking myself. Ain't game should be fun? It's pure masochism.

Then I play killer and bad thoughts mitigate a little. And I always let at least one survivor go after I win. Because I know how atrocious is survivor's experience 😖

Had a Feng just do a gen while letting me and the other two teammates die on hook. Yeah I’d say it’s going fantastic and I don’t wanna question my life choices 😃

Pretty fun, had killers bring unusual builds so thats neat. And a many snowballs were thrown, I find it easier to form a snowball fight with everyone as killer than when I play survivor. Mostly the same honestly, makes me wish they keep the skulls and snowman in some form, I really like what they add to matches

Most games are not too bad. Haven’t had any camping and only a couple tunnels. Fair amount of slugging till death though.

Honestly I haven’t actually had a lot of issues with the killers I face outside of the occasional toxic one (and the fact that Skull Merchant is for some reason really common).

My main issue is my teammates just giving up for no reason. Almost every game has someone DC or die on hook simply because the killer looked at them. Please stop throwing games! We could easily have won if you weren’t such a wet blanket!

100% This.

Well, the beginning of the event I had an injured Ada DH right in my face that not only weren’t on first hook yet, they also did not have DH..

Went against a wallhacking Spirit with 330 hours on the game VPNing

Lots of survivor games where I have teammates with 200-1000 hours on the game where they crouch edge map, never help or get 2 tapped against a killer that also has around the same hours as them..

Haven’t had many snowball fights with killers because they’re either playing seriously or take getting hit by snowballs offensively.

Just your typical event. Bad actors come out, solo queue worsens, no one wants to participate..

Got hooked by Myers in the 1st sec of the match along with the rest of the team. Never seen a cheat like that before.

Going pretty well

It has been a mess for me.

Team mates giving up on their second hook, as usual by the time I arrive a few meters next to them, intentionally refusing to coordinate and escape the killer; Instead, they do walk right to the killer's arms and right below the hook, signalizing the killer to hook them for free.

And, as if it wasn't enough.. It has been pretty much Blight 24/7 with the most busted add-ons, sweaty perks like Corrupt Intervention, Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance, Sloppy Butcher, and Ultimate Weapon.. Pretty much every single match. Naturally, tunneling the first survivor they can - Even if I body block them and offer myself, they still go after the recently unhooked team mate instead of hooking me, leaving me and the other survivors bleeding on the ground.

And when I play as a killer with my usual build using non-META perks like Brutal Strength, Rapid Brutality, Save The Best For Last, and Agitation? I get SWF premades with Commodious, Mechanic's or Engineer's Toolboxes with Brand New Parts, Swivel Sockets, Sprint Bursts, Lithes, Adrenalines, and who knows what else.. Along with each match at least one survivor sided map offering, like Azarov's Key or stuff like that.

And once I get a match that has chill players in it?

The players are either so bad that I feel bad for having experiences to know how to easily outplay them despite not sweating it, or that the players literally look like they're throwing the matches from my perspective due to me being a veteran, whereas they're new to the game.

I don't know what I'm supposed to think about it.

The balanced, the truly balanced matches usually play out quite well until one of the survivors decides to throw the match into the killer's favour or outplays me so well that the result of the match becomes more or less guaranteed.. Barely any match gets to be played to its end, which is a real shame. This does only happen against the coordinated SWF premades with Brand New Parts and such, but those aren't giving up because they're giving it their all and sweating it.

The odds of encountering actual mature and casual players who don't give up and merely wanna have fun are literally non-existent.. And as such, I have barely played the game during the Event, except for the first week to finish the Bone Chill Tome completely. I will give it a try today, but I'm already being somewhat hopeless, to be honest..

I actually do have a life and I'm being nice during my matches (no tunnel nor camp).

I wish there was a downvote.

Can Pyramid Head see where survivors go when they are sent to the cage? Does he see the aura of the cage?

So far this evening, I had 3 Killers in a row farm with the Survivors with multiple Terrormisu offerings from the Survivors. Thank you to Trickster, Blight and the other Trickster 🤗

I have resorted to using Self Care/Botony/Desperate Measures/Reactive Healing.

Honestly it's not too bad of a combo. Or I'm coping hard.

I've been using reactive healing as a means to take bodyblocks for others, then if they continue to chase their prior target I heal up nearby and get a bonus if they get hit/downed. Mostly buys time for the others to do gens.