Do you believe that SoloQ are getting improved?

The only thing that's gonna fix solo is better, stricter matchmaking. Yes, even at the cost of longer queues. Solos literally have free info, BT/Haste, and anti-camp, and I've never seen the average player play worse. They didn't improve because they figured the survivor buffs/killer nerfs would have them covered. All that's happened is that killers got mad at the balance changes, and left the role/game or became super elite. It's reverse domino theory: the more who are 'defeated', the greater the threat becomes. And so now on top of survivors being way worse, the average killer is the strongest they've ever been.

I think it's gotten better, but the biggest problems of survivor are other survivors and BHVR can't do anything about that, so things don't change that radically. Still, at least slowdowns are nerfed, and we have gen regression limits now, that's nice.

Everybody coming to the same conclusion. solo q really can't be buff much more .

They are at a gridlock around tunneling. They keep releasing more counterplay to tunneling but never completely nerfing it because of swf. You could fix the matchmaking.....but some players theorize that the system intentionally match you up with players of all different skill levels for the sake of maintaining the kill rates You could give survivors wall hacks (bond/kinderd) but that would be bad in my opinion. You can pretty much problem solve with the hud to figure out is the killer camping most of the time. No one in chase for a while? the killer probably at the hook. You need to be able to observe your surroundings and make a deduction. Adding wall hacks would kill game sense but at the same time u can't depend on people to know what to do when matchmaking consistently giving you at least 1 potato teammate.

And to be honest, stricter matchmaking will make lower MMR hell even more of a hell

Why do people keep insisting that removing the 4% is going to do anything at all?

If someone doesn't want to play the game, they can't be forced into playing. Instead of hook suicide, they will stand afk, point at a hook, follow the killer, throw every pallet on the map, make noise notifications incessantly, or just sit on a gen and miss every skill check.

Removing ways to speed up hook stages is just treating a symptom. It doesn't actually solve anything, because the core reasons people want out are still there.

The only way to fix it is to look at why people want out. Are some of those reasons petty or trivial? Yeah, you can't fix all of them. But let's at least look at why the game is no longer fun, or worth playing for a lot more people than it used to be.

Maybe it's not worth getting 5k BP for a ton of people to the first one found in a lot of games. Increasing BP gains is a completely harmless and non game balancing way that could have an impact, without nerfing anything at all.

I think there are two meaningful improvements that could make to soloq outside of voice chat which I don't think the soloq community wants.

1: Resolve hook suicides like they did DCs.

2: Make some more perks obvious. Like highlight survivors who have an active deliverance in a different color so others not to know to go for a rescue.

I'd like them to show perks entirely, but I think they believe that would do more harm than good.

A voice command wheel is another possibility (example: 'I'm going for the rescue'), but I don't think I've ever seen them discuss that.

Those who don't want to play should be banned/restricted for the game health and hook suicide will make banning them harder

This is exactly why DC penalty exists and it helps the game without doubt, please stop being dishonest and pretend it doesn't work, no amount of wall of texts can deny a pure fact

Nope, we should get rid of reasons why people want their game to end.

• I don't want to face billy, blight and SM all the time, there should be restrictions about facing same killers, even if queue would be longer
• Get stricter matchmaking skill-gap, so people who don't progress on gens don't get into lobbys with good killers - so we could avoid 2nd person to be downed before 1st got unhooked
• Get rid of miserable killers mechanics - getting downed within 10 second of starting the trial against billy or nurse sucks
• make better looping tiles, get rid of deadzones so people actually have resources to loop the killer
• insta downing without specific perks should never be a thing

These are some reasons why people don't want to play matches. We fix some of them and we will have a lot less surviviors to suicide.

Also, people don't want to DC because they wanna keep playing without penalities that make them wait for next game.

Also, why killers feel so entitled? You play plague with thana and 3 other regression perks? Of course people will not want to play against it.

Make the game be better for everyone and get rid of broken stuff and we all will have much better time playing.

They could stop making/introducing maps like haddonfield/borgo…., that are unplayable for survivors. This alone would help a lot. We should have more maps that are on the level of eyrie of crows, aka fair. This at the very least is my biggest problem with the game in general, because then you can‘t even play well when you have nothing. Then basically everyone is bad by design.

I don‘t believe there is way to buff ONLY soloq like most people want it. They would always buff both, which is fine and needed.

I don't think so. My thinking comes just from looking at the decision making over the past 12 months and some of the answers given in the AMAs and interviews. Also looking at recent new survivor perks, where most are pretty much only applicable in niche situations or have too many restrictions to bother with, it seems they're pretty content with where survivor gameplay is at and aren't looking to breathe new life into it.

The recent perk reworks are decent at least, but we don't know if they'll be going ahead yet so I'll reserve judgement on that. I feel those are really only happening though because they feel they won't make too much waves at this point in time in the game (eg Iron Will back to 100% at a time where there are a multitude of aura/screaming/info perks for killers, so they're happy to throw us that bone).

I hope devs will address this. SoloQ needs these improvements very badly.

I think they already significantly have. When I started playing, killers could stand under the hook and hit you down the instant you were unhooked unless your teammates brought BT. As the safe hook rescue condition wasn't a thing, sometimes those teammates would farm you like this for points. There was no camp or tunnel protection, when any counterplay to those things was heavily reliant on comms or otherwise high game coordination which rarely exists in solo, and without Kindred, you had no idea what any of your teammates were doing when they weren't in your sight. You could only tell when the Obsession was being chased, if one was even in your game. You didn't know how far a slug had healed and could only guess via how long they'd been on the ground, so sometimes you'd go to pick someone up and realize with the killer breathing down your neck that that player had given up and not recovered at all.

The icons are revolutionary. Now you know what's happening on the other side of the map, how many gens are being done and whether they're close to popping. Used to be you'd have all three people coming for the save or none of them, all the time. Nowadays? People can still be stupid or fight each other for points, but usually people see three people are on a gen and decide that someone needs to get off and unhook, and if two people get off the gen, one will usually go back on the gen once they infer someone else is going for the save. Or if the person who got off the gen starts being chased, someone else on a gen will get off and go for the save in their stead. None of this used to be communicated without Kindred.

MMR is the only thing they've changed that actively made solo queue worse, since MMR punishes you for failing to escape by giving you weaker teammates, which are more detrimental than having weaker killers.

There's still room for improvement, of course. Like making AFC progress visible to teammates, showing perks, making some perks like Head On or Power Struggle light up the survivor when they're ready to use so that teammates can coordinate with them, a communication wheel. But we really have come a long way.

I don't see how you can at this point.

You can give SoloQ all of the buffs and players will still lose by not paying attention to their teammates, HUD and killer. Let alone trying to figure out what the killer is running half the time.