Im so sick of hopeless games

you can always play for hatch, that's why it exists - so you have motivation to keep going.

i feel like they dont know what game they're playing.

The game is balanced pretty fairly and if OP is unlucky with the matchmaking, it's not really the balance issue.

If they want to constantly pull chases and win consistently, they play the wrong queue, because they should be playing in premade instead of with soloq teammates that have randomized iq and skill and who wont be able to keep up with gens or teamwork to give OP chances to prove themselves. Neither would they be guaranteed to hold their ground against killers while OP is repairing generators. Always a dice roll. Assuming they even have skill for winning by chases, of course.

As for killer, I recommend OP either plays with meta perks or without them depending on how good they are with their killer of choice, because this game matchmaking is, yet again, incapable of providing equal matches every game which often leads to one sided games which OP seems to complain about. If they play their signature / good killer with best builds available, they are going to stomp most of their opponents because they naturally would outperform them in 1v1/1v4 and perks would only press that advantage further.

OP can also just play something else if they're so frustrated with the game. As someone who has been in the fog since first days, the game is actually very balanced and enjoyable for the most part.

One simple word: SWF

thanks to this feature the game is impossible to balance properly... No matter what, a swf will be ALWAYS stronger than solo survivors.

I usually get my 8 hooks by 5 gens with the killers I play the most, then I let everyone live :)

I also said that you can tune down your builds depending on your experience.

I stopped running meta on singularity/xeno a long time ago because winning almost every match became boring as I was good enough with the killers to play them consistently and efficiently, therefore not needing meta to get wins on regular basis. Which lead to me having more rough matches (even if that's achieved by them being way more survivor favoured) and more enjoyable experience because the games became less one sided.

As survivor you can do the same by playing in SWF with people who can guarantee high skill input and then limiting your builds or by just playing with meta as solo and maximizing your impact in the match. F/E by pulling the first chase and actually winning it, giving your team a very good start.

The largest reason for imbalanced matches are auto-fill lobbies. When someone leaves the lobby (because they see 2 med-kits or a P100) then that gap must be filled by the quickest Killer found. That means ANYONE can show up in that slot, be it far more, or far less skilled than the Survivors gathered together for the original Killer.

I think they should implement a soft DC penalty for backing out of lobbies. Every 2-3 lobbies you back out of counts as 1 DC from a match. That way you can still lobby shop once or twice (if you want an Adept and you see 4 event Toolboxes for example), or back out to join your friends (in this game or another) without incurring a penalty.

Hatch is a mediocre mechanic now, OG Hatch was a bad mechanic, Pre-Mikaela Hatch was a good mechanic, and Post-Mikaela Keys with Pre-Mikaela Hatch would be perfect.

Hatch counts as a tie, so whatever side was winning (which is typically Killer) still wins the match, regardless of escape count. It doesn't feel good to have 3 jump out a hatch, but it also doesn't feel good to be tunneled out, so there is counter-balance to incentivize better gameplay for everyone, and to keep any match from becoming hopeless (on the Survivor side).

There should be a similar catch-up mechanic for underperforming Killers, and I've frequently suggested a lesser basekit NOED. That is, if you reach endgame with 0 kills, you get NOED that disables the exposed (but keeps the totem lit and keeps the haste) as long as there is 1 Survivor downed/hooked/dead. Forcing Survivors to play around getting the rescue for the 4E gives both sides a chance of taking what they have, or trying for more, and if the Survs rescue without cleansing NOED, then it reactivates on unhook (until someone gets downed again).

And yet, I suspect if we remove it, Kill Rates are gonna be pushing 80% if not higher.

But, I do agree it's a bad mechanic.