When are you starting to fix SOLO QUEUE ?

Don’t forget no more hook grabs, nerfed Pigs traps and I think they recently nerfed Billy by giving him a slightly longer cooldown or something.

It was a small, but needed nerf to Billy. He’s still much better than he used to be.

Depends how many stacks of StbfL...

Pinging your perk is an interesting idea but I don't see a way it would work properly.

Mainly because it's too much information all around. I mean, people can then easily ping their perks at any time even if it has nothing to do with the actual situation. If all 4 of them ping something it's gonna be a total chaos, not to mention if they do it constantly. Sounds irritating and absolutely distracting.

Staying on this concept though, I'd go for a much cleaner idea:

1, everything stays the same in the lobby, you don't see anybody else's perk to avoid dodging

2, once you load into the game, you see the players' builds on the HUD as small icons, next to their character:

- currently not active or usable perks are transparent

- active or usable perks are showed normally, if something becomes active it "lights up" (examples: We'll make it, Unbreakable, Deliverance, etc.)

- if a perk cannot be used anymore, it either turns transparent again or changes to black and white to make it obvious (examples: Unbreakable, Appraisal, Plot Twist, Dead Hard, etc.)

Not saying it's perfect, but much less disturbing, yet it'd give meaningful information to solo players, having a chance for better cooperation.

Also, the tunneling issue is too big. It's really awfully bad that makes most of the matches extremely boring, repetitive and predictable.

You can't solve it with a perk or some weak, band-aid changes. You have to drill really deep to understand the root of why it's so popular and find a solution to make players feel like 1, it's not necessary, 2, they're punished if they do it 3, they can still win without it.

Easier said than done, certainly this is the biggest challenge the devs have. It doesn't matter if a game planned to be competitive or not, it has to be fun first. Dying in minutes, not having a chance to play and getting 5k points as a survivor are everything but fun.

And we didn't even touch the matchmaking problems yet.

Possibly. But this is neither an issue with solo queue in specific or the balancing of this game. It's just one player being a jerk and ruining the game for everyone else. So I wouldn't take these games into account anyway.

The solo queue escape rate would also be a little higher, if we didn't count all the games in which one survivor just gives up on first hook. But the game cannot tell the difference, so these games are still used to calculate the escape rate.

It's something that can never be fixed. They could do a bit more to decrease the number of dcs and maybe remove the kobe mechanic since it's mostly used for hook suicides but these players will never disappear.

Good point. I can see how for the individual player this does matter.

The discussion how fair a 60% kill rate is will probably never end. I think it's mostly fine because survivors still have a solid chance to escape despite the killer being the power role. Although, I would be fine with a lower kill rate, if that meant playing killer wouldn't feel quite as stressful at times.

I would go further and say that even the matches I win sometimes feel like a loss. In the sense, that it wasn't enjoyable. Yes, I got the 4k but I still had to suffer through 20 minutes of mind numbingly boring gameplay and bullying.

I personally don't give that much about winning or losing as long as I had fun during the match. Of course I'd still want to win some matches but this is not what makes the game fun for me. It's what happens during the game. The interaction between killer and survivors. Chasing, mind gaming, the strategies and perks used.

As a survivor I know that there are still other players on my side, that will (mostly) try to pull their weight and help the team escape. But playing killer feels a bit more isolating than that, which might be part of the reason that the killer role can become so frustrating. You have no one else but yourself to blame for losing and you have no one else to help you out when the match looks bad.

One can only hope they do something. The matches for me have also been terrible. Either the first survivor caught tries to suicide on hook or the killer is tunnelling. And this is happening over and over and over.........

Yeah, BHVR has done a lot for solo queue recently. The HUD update was huge. For me, solo is as good as it has ever been from a QoL standpoint.

Yup.

Based on their last Reddit AMA, they have nothing in the pipeline. A dev pretty much said they cant really see what else they can do.