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Survivors How is 2v8 for you?

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  • GannTM
    GannTM Member Posts: 10,893

    It’s been a ton of fun other than the killer queue times. I played Spirit with my Huntress main friend a few times and we’re a pretty good duo. I also love the new survivor class update. The medic class is what I’ve been using the most. Insta healing is actually so satisfying.

  • LeFennecFox
    LeFennecFox Member Posts: 1,302

    Yea idk what they were talking about the mode is objectively fun if you have a friend to play with

  • Hex_Llama
    Hex_Llama Member Posts: 1,846

    I'm having fun. I was kind of dubious about the new powers, and I still don't understand the Guide power that unlocks after you get hooked, but I like having the ability to kind of do a drive-by assist on my way somewhere else.

    Most of my Survivor matches ended with an escape last time, and most of them are ending with an escape this time, but I feel that the majority of survivors are escaping more often this time. It's quite common to hover around the exit gates until all eight survs are accounted for.

    I've had a handful of matches where the killers played really viciously and ran directly to the cages to tunnel people out, and that was less fun, but it was over quickly and the queue to the next match was instant.

  • Volcz
    Volcz Member Posts: 1,188

    Pretty good honestly! Games are pretty smooth/fair. I do escape more often than not. The long drawn out matches where everyone is being hooked/taking turns are the best. I thought w/ Blight & Nurse it'd be a mess but very happy w/ how they've been handled.

    Just fix killer que times!

  • TWS001
    TWS001 Member Posts: 228

    I'm not waiting fror 15-20 minutes to play killer and I've got bored with playing survivor in 2v8 so I'm back to the main game. Will go back to do the second tome but that's it.

    It's just a watered down version and as happened the first time, it has got pretty boring for me pretty quickly. Killer times on the normal mode were about two minutes last night so not too bad.

  • Devil_hit11
    Devil_hit11 Member Posts: 9,072

    the games are speed-run for survivor. the killer gets like 2-3 hooks and everyone or almost everyone escapes. that is my experience with 2vs8 mode.

    overall, i don't find survivor loop engaging. i like playing vs hyper strong chase killers as challenge but i think casual player just decimated in the chase. the gens are somewhat of an after thought in the mode. when you add more player to the game, the game feels like some kind of action quest adventure game of players doing random actions to complete greater goal. the goal of finish all 8? gens and powering exit gates might be too simple to the point of boredom.

    in 1vs4, the simple objective works because killer engages enough with survivor that there is tension between your survival and completing the objective.

  • SidneysBane1996
    SidneysBane1996 Member Posts: 823

    This is basically how I feel. There's no real tension as Survivor and it feels too stressful to play casually as Killer. Not sure I have ever had a win, at least at the… ONE, that's it one, Killer I like and am interested in playing in this mode.

    There just is not anything here for me. I prefer 1v4.

  • Pelaan
    Pelaan Member Posts: 306

    Watching Survs juicing 2 killers is the ultimate skill cap I've seen the clips

  • AmpersandUnderscore
    AmpersandUnderscore Member Posts: 1,886

    Watching Survs juicing 2 killers is the ultimate skill cap gap

    FTFY

  • sinkra
    sinkra Member Posts: 436

    Why would casual survivors be playing 1v4 when it's much more hardcore and sweaty than 2v8?

  • joeyspeehole
    joeyspeehole Member Posts: 105

    So in the beginning, yes, I did see several killer teams DC. However, I haven’t seen people DC much recently.

  • sinkra
    sinkra Member Posts: 436

    I'll say this, I find 2v8 much more fun than 1v4 and it's not just because the escape rate is higher. Even when I die in 2v8, it's still more fun than escaping in 1v4.

  • Chappers14
    Chappers14 Member Posts: 19

    the problem is it’s to easy for survivors. Especially if you’re going in a game with 3-6 of your buddies. I am a survivor and I am just finding it so boring as there is zero challenge in it. Now that players can redo pallets, 2 less gens it give the game to survivors. Can heal while in chase from buddies. You have to be really s**t if you are not escaping 9 times out of 10. Like I said I am survivor main but the killers are really up against it.