How much more help could solo players possibly need??

Solo queue does need some help, but the problem is adding all of these basekit things won't do it.

The reality is, the gap between solo and SWf will never be closed. If you look at all of the perks in the game, over half of them are simply about giving information about what your teammates are doing in one form or another. Discord with a SWF gives you all of those perks for free basekit. It also gives you a level of coordination that could never be achieved with any kind of perk.

Until the devs break down and admit that they need to separate SWF from solo, it'll never get fixed. The best solution would be to tie this into a "ranked mode". You create a "ranked mode" where MMR is present, your rank is shown to everyone, and its killer vs 4 man SWF ONLY. Then you balance the mode around that through whatever perk restrictions on teams/killers, or item restrictions, or gen times, or map generation or w/e you want.

Then you create a casual mode that is solo (or potentially 1 duo) only, and just remove MMR from it entirely and balance the same around that through basekit mechanics, perk restrictions, gen times, map generation etc.

Gives the casuals what they want. Gives the hardcore players what they want, gives the solos what they want, and gives the swfs what they want.

Never.

It will never be enough until the Survivors can take the Killer’s blood and make the Killer run around with a little dunce cap and a foam bat that gives the Survivors permanent stacking haste and 1,000,000 extra bloodpoints per hit.

Realistically only time will tell depending on kill rates after buffs/nerfs and new releases.

I mean one simply thing could be done.... in game comms. It wouldn't 100% fix that because not every one is willing to listen to their team but it would be a major MAJOR step forward in terms of closing that gap.

That would be simple enough, I mean seeing loadouts of other survivors is something that swfs already have and always have had. It's not basekit and does absolutely nothing to disadvantage killers.

The devs have already said they wouldn't want to do that, it also doesn't solve the problem because then you have the "i always get solos who don't have a mic" problem. Its still going to be divided.

The only thing I can think of to help solo would be basekit kindred.

There’s only so much that can be done.

Basekit uuuuuhhhhhhhh all the perks

And nerf Pig

Can someone give me a valid reason why solo survivors shouldn't have kindred basekit? It doesn't give any sort of advantage that SWFs don't already have because of comms. Arguing against this is just arguing to keep solo at a disadvantage for no real reason. Kindred would prevent a lot of situations where no one goes for a save. It would also help teams approach camping situations better.

I would also really like the anti camp to show on the HUD. I've had a few instances where I could have unhooked myself but my teammates just hovered around the hook instead of moving away. The system is useless if people don't know the progress. Once again this is something that a SWF can already do.

Chat wheel

Some perks need infos, like teammate with Headon activated should have their locker shows yellow aura with Headon icon on top of it. Or showing Deliverance icon on top of the hook...

Its just that.

You bring up highly fascinating points.

I think you’re completely right.

Well the obvious thing is to allow survivors to see each other's perks, items and addons. Like DBD mobile. But in an ideal world they would go a step further and reveal a perk such as For The People when you're injured near a healthy survivor. So that that injured survivor knows the other survivor might be trying to FTP them. Doing this with as many perks (and addons like the insta heal) would be ideal.

Other examples: Showing a survivor has Ace in the Hole when you're opening a chest near them; revealing which survivor has BT/No One Left Behind when someone's on a hook; reveal a survivor has Deliverance active when they're hooked; revealing whether a survivor has DS or OTR (or Endurance effect) active when getting chased by the killer etc.

In fact, if you could (at least toggle an option) to SEE other survivor perks the same way you see yours (albeit a much smaller UI), I'd LOVE that.

It doesn't matter how much assistance you throw at some players, it will not help them regardless.

I always play solo and the decision making of so many survivors is highly questionable and often so bad their misplays lose us the game more than the killer being amazing.

You can tell who is experienced/good by the decisions they make imo and most of the survs I get queued up with make bad decisions and appear clueless (not saying I don't make stupid mistakes myself).

What are you on about, the nerf to stbfl literally made it unusable on some killers like slinger. Even the 2 basekit stacks do not compare to the perk literally not existing for the character.

And yes technically you can equip it on slinger but is like using oblivious perks on freddy, you will be better off using beast of prey.

I'm hesitant to add any perks to base kit but there are lots of other things that can be added that won't be too advantageous for survivors and wouldn't add anything that a SWF wouldn't already know. For example:

• Inner Healing and Plot Twist displaying a healing icon on the HUD when a survivor is using it.
• Perks like Built to Last, Flash Bang, Head On, Lucky Star have icons on the HUD to indicate what the survivor is doing.
• Anti-camp meter being visible to other survivors.
• Hooked survivors with Deliverance active have an icon visible on the HUD.
• Icon or effect on the HUD for survivors under the effect of Reassurance on Camaraderie.
• Fix aura display priority (especially with gens). For example if I have Deja Vu on and a Killer with TOT kicks it, the gen stays displayed as Red not Yellow, Same with Blast Mine, Wire Tap, ect. Loud Noise Notifications should not block Auras, this completely negates the Aura reading aspect of a lot of perks for both survivor and killer.
• Add more Aura colors for perks so there is less guesswork behind figuring out why a gen has an aura.
• More perk icons are displayed to other survivors, for example, if I have Power Struggle and am downed on a pallet, a survivor approaching me will have the perk icon show up on their screen.
• Downed survivors with Unbreakable and Soul Guard available show up on the HUD.
• Endurance and Exposed showing on the HUD along with their timers.
• Seeing Healing, Cleansing and Chest Opening Progress on the HUD.

And I know base kit Kindred is pretty popular, honestly I'd be down for something similar. Like all survivors see each others auras for 5s after another survivor is hooked. This way Kindred still has a place in peoples load outs for the Killer aura and the unlimited survivor auras, but the effect is still super helpful.

They could make it so that you can see your teammate's loadout while loading onto a match, but then people would still complain that the solo queue survivors leave everything they're doing to come unhook you even though your Deliverance is activated, or that they still bring the killer to you even though your gen is highlighted with Better Together and you were almost done. At the end of the day, people who play in groups ARE better at communicating than the average solo queue survivor playing high at 2 am. Nothing can be done about this, no matter how many basekit perks you give.

Of course soloq can never be equal to swf. Swfs biggest strength is reducing randomness by knowing everything about your team and coordinate accordingly.

However, that doesn't mean that the devs should stop trying to make soloq better. Features like knowing your teammates' perks or seeing a teammate's anti face camp bar should still be implemented to help soloq survivors make better informed decisions.