2v8 is hilariously heavily Survivor sided it aint even close

killers will be affected since you need two and with miserable its gonna be

2v8 allows 2 killers to gang up on a single survivor and put them in no-win situations, then immediately cage them with no chance of a flashlight or stun save from teammates. One of the biggest complaints people make in this game is about no-win situations. It's why Decisive Strike has been changed so many times and doesn't work in the end game anymore. 2v8 mode is basically centered around 2 killers getting to create no-win situations repeatedly in a single match.

The fun for killers here is getting to team up, whether with a friend or a stranger, and get funny tag-team moments that were either meticulously coordinated or accidentally perfect. Survivors, meanwhile, are being asked to have possibly the shortest chases ever, and chases are the fun part for many survivors, plus no chance at saving someone off the killer's shoulder, which is the other thing survivors mainly enjoy, so there better be something for survivors to look forward to if you want them to queue up for a mode that lacks two of their three favorite things. That means survivors get to have a high chance of escaping.

The queue has a high likelihood of breaking because it requires such a high number of survivors for a single match. Killers are going to play because they finally get to play killer with a friend, but survivors? There has to be real incentive for survivors to queue up, otherwise killers are going to be waiting an hour to play a single match. If survivors went into 2v8 with a high likelihood they'll die early and then have to wait for who knows how many of their friends to finish the match, survivors wouldn't queue up for it. If survivors went into 2v8 expecting to end up in no-win situation after no-win situation that ends with their death and damn near no Bloodpoints, they wouldn't queue up for it. So, by design, the majority of survivors in a match are going to escape. That's predetermined. BHVR needs short matches with the majority of survivors escaping for the queue to function.

Anyway, those are the conclusions I reached after reading/listening to/watching yesterday's live stream. Maybe some of the conclusions I reached are wrong: the information we received is limited and I haven't played the mode, plus I can't make any judgements from watching matches featuring 8 people who play the game for a living vs 2 who do not (just because devs work on a game doesn't mean they're good at playing it, those are different skillsets). It's also possible that, because the 2v8 matches which were shown were meant as demonstrations, the devs playing killer were encouraged to focus on showcasing the tag-team aspect rather than on getting kills. I'm not saying that happened, I'm saying we can't say "look at how those matches went" as any sort of argument or proof.

tldr: If you need to get kills to have fun, 2v8 probably wasn't designed for you. If you have a friend or simply want to experience team play as killer, then 2v8 is for you.

I look forward to high-fiving my friend when we down a survivor after coordinating an awesome pincer movement (or more likely accidentally getting a down after tripping over each other).

Meanwhile, if I play survivor and get the snot beaten out of me by 2 killers trapping me each time I attempt to use a pallet or vault and end every match with no BP, then I'll be swearing off 2v8 as survivor before the first evening is up. I can have a miserable time as survivor in normal 1v4 mode and at least there I'll have more opportunities to earn BP and I can play the lute.

There are numerous reasons game modes aren't permanent. Saying my take is bad looks like an attempt to hurt my feelings or get a rise out of me, which sorry, not my thing. However, you have made it perfectly clear you don't wish to have a discussion: whether it's because you just want to rant and vent your feelings or because you only want an echo chamber, either way you should've made that clear in your original post.