Survivor... Just miserable

My games were taking up to 15 minutes to load. I think I got stuck in a server because everyone left and it was just me lol. It was bad today and I don't think it's going to get better because people just straight up left the game. I did consider evacs in Florida but that would have had an effect since Sunday and it was fine yesterday. I honestly can say this is probably the worst I have seen it since an update.

I also accidentally left distortion on and it was just useless. I couldn't get my token back until the end of the game because the killers won't chase that long or I was downed.

here were my today games

Vs wekser on badham. Escaped, did well in chase had fun

Vs unknown on alien map. Not gonna count this one because there is a bug where you get unhooked and you can’t move unless the killer hits you. I died but whatever that’s on bhvr.

got unknown again on badham. Escaped and did well in chase vs it. Had fun

Vs blight on clown map. Died, did well and chase and had fun. Ok good games so far…..

Merchant on Thompson house. She 3 gened and we eventually broke it but I died in the process. Chases were whatever. Did not have fun

Next was nurse on the swamp. Did not have fun

Then nurse on midwich….gg went next

Then finally bubba on one of the auroheaven maps. Died but did well in chase and had fun.

It does feel miserable when you get a killer you don’t like on a bad map😭

Your statement is contradictory, a role that is given a BP bonus = a role that you want played with a small queue waiting list, yet you have a long wait time.

In my experience, roles with BP bonuses have low wait times and roles with regular bonuses have long wait times because there are enough players.

in my area the incentive for killers only exists at night and that is only for a few hours, I play on an Asian server.

in EU servers, killer queues are quick from like 5PM to 6AM. After 6AM, both killer and survivor queue times get obnoxiously slow lol

I'm interestd in that point and if something could be done about that would be good. The problem is, isn't the only way for this not to happen to run NOED though?

Like if you leave hook, unless you're an instantdown killer or a killer with insane speed, it is literally impossible to catch a survivor before they make it to gate in 90% of cases... so how do I even attempt to leave hook for chases? Not only that, you can't move away and then catch the unhooked survivor either cause of Basekit BT and body blocking.

This means your only shot is to try and double wound the survivor who goes for the first unhook attempt while the 2 other survivors are behind you, and even that usually results in losing the kill.

The only way I could even think of to make it even remotely viable to go for chases as killer is: -

• Rapidly regress the gate progress when a survivor let's go of the handle to force the gate to open. Something like 15% (3 seconds/charges worth) immediately and 5% per second (1 second/charge) after.
• EG takes 150 seconds flat. No slowdown on a hook or down. Survivors either decide to leave, or go for the save, but time is not on their side.

That might at least make committing to a chase somewhat viable, if I can hook far from gates, there is the reasonable chance I can interrupt escape attempts before they actually make it to gate after an unhook.... these changes mean survivors can't take all the time they want to reset and come for unhooks. It wouldn't be possible to 99 gates and all come at once, someone has to stay behind to tend the gate or put the save on a timer, and the killer can actually afgord to try and exert some pressure... Blood Warden becomes a genuine threat by its mete existence and it can actually permit/benefit me to commit to a chase.

Heck with those changes, we could even consider enabling some more survivor perks in the end game... but we can't really criticise camping hooks in end game when literally everything else a killer could do results in a guaranteed even worse loss....

This is the result of the game being focussed on kills. In end game, killers just want to get their kills and wrap it up. Most dont go away and try to get hooks.

If hooks where a more central aspect of the scoring system, then End game camping would certainly become less popular. At least i hope it would.

im glad you are a fellow killer thats against camping

stay strong friend

I had a really fun Dracula the other day who kept going into his Wolf form for pets.

This. If I'm having a bad time in soloQ, it's almost entirely because of my potatohead teammates. They run the killer into generators being worked on. They don't lead the killer away when spotted. They act in the most predictable ways possible. They don't unhook me or teammates even when they're the most ideal player to do so. They go from healthy to downed in 5 seconds. They don't heal. They don't do anything, or if they do something, they're sandbagging everyone else.

But that's what you get when a new Rift opens and everyone floods in to play. People gotta do their survivor challenges.

I am getting sick of someone making a "DbD is dying!" thread every time the BP bonus tips over to survivors, though.

What else should the killer do? Go patrol the completed generators in case the survivors… go back to make sure they are repaired? Really there is nothing for the killer to do except wait for other survivors to attempt a rescue, or the other option is to give up entirely and let all the remaining survivors out which I am sure is what you think the killer should do, but that's just not reasonable to expect of most killers.

To be fair… You managed to do all gens, so where do you want killer to go? All gens are done and killer want to secure the kill. It would be "tactically stupid decision" to go away from the hooked survivor and searching for others - when you don't even know at which exit gate they are. Even if you find them - they will just open and get out, and you just basically gave away a free unhook.

As much as "unfun" or "unengaging" this is - it's the right choice.

We have anti-face camp mechanic turns off after all gens are done for a reason. Your teammates now need to work together if they want to save you.

Unfortunately in soloq not everyone ready to do that.

Maybe the buffed aura reading and nerf to Distortion.

Except as others have said, if the killer runs off to look for other survivors, they are giving an easy unhook and likely the doors will get opened and everyone will get out. So it really is a case of either camp (again, anti-face camp is TURNED OFF BY BHVR) or else risk losing entirely. You can not 'appreciate the assumption' and claim that isn't what you said, but whether you said it in actual words or not, that IS what you are saying in practice.

I'm very confused about the complaints regarding the endgame. Killer is at their weakest at that point and most desperate because their prey is quite literally about to slip from their fingers. So thematically and gameplay wise it makes sense, all bets are off at that point. As survivor you have a choice, either escape now or work together to help your friend on the hook. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. In regards to the endgame itself, there's nothing you can do to improve that aspect of the match that's as good as it gets without tipping it extremely in favour to one side or the other.

Even when they nerfed DH - there wasn't such an inflection in killer players.

And what buffed aura reading? Zanshin and Predator? I don't believe that Zanshin is THAT GOOD now to even consider replacing it with any of my perks that I'm currently using on killers, let alone the Predator.

Distortion was just overly used because it's COMPLETELY removed any value from killer's aura reading perks. It's just unhealthy.

How would you feel if somebody told you - ALL your aura reading perks are useless, coz everyone running Distortion? 1 perk should never counter the FULL value of other side's perks.

It happened once before with Iron Will and Stridor. Because everyone was running Iron Will - Stridor was literally 100% useless perk. How is that healthy for the game? It should not be a thing.

The the point is that there are more great killer aura reading perks now (Zanshin and Predator are much better with their buffs—that cannot be argued) but the one tool survivors had to counter it has been thoroughly weakened. And mind you killers already had a half dozen or more great aura reading perks… like weave (+ Franklin’s). In any case people probably just don’t want to play survivor so they’re playing killer or not playing the game at all.

That would only happen if the killer fails to find anyone, which can happen. But, for example, Dracula there had BBQ, he knew where to look. And unfortunately I do not have them recorded, but I had trials where the killer still hunted and got hooks at the end game without camping.

It isn't matter of expecting the killer to give up, otherwise I would give up myself when playing killer. It is a matter of wanting the endgame to be the same as it used to be.

You can not 'appreciate the assumption

I can. And I do.

It is the same as if I assumed you just expected an easy kill and expected survivors to give up and leave their teammate to die. I didn't and wouldn't do that, because it clearly isn't what you said.

maybe something broke yesterday as my killer queue lasted from 10 to 20 seconds and there was +150% BP for survivors