2v8 is terrible

2v8 is the worst game mode dbd has ever had in so many ways. I genuinely hope they never bring it back or do a complete overhaul if they do.

-

The cages. The cages are horrbile. First of all, the cages don't teleport away anymore when both a killer and survivor is nearby. This means that if someone gets chased nearby you are stuck there and people dont want to come for the rescue, since they hear the Killer nearby.

In addition to that, people hate going for the unhook.I had it happen multiple times that I was in a cage for multiple stages. Everyone seems to think "I am not medic, I don't need to go for the unhook." When I played medic I sometimes run accross the entire map to get the unhook and often I am the only one.

-

Playing Killer. I did everything on survivor, and saw that unless they had a Nurse, Killers were consistently being absolutely crushed. In all my games without one, more than half the Survivors escaped. So I did the entire tome level as Survivor.

I tried going for one match as Trapper and it was horrendous. The queue took roughly as long as the match. You start with all traps disarmed and there are way too many gens to try to build a web. You just have to put them where you hope survivors will pass often. Also, Survivors easily get aura reading on killer in this mode. And if even just one Survivor sees you place down a trap, you better believe its getting disarmed. And you can't even stick around because then Survivors will genrush on the other side of the map. Some people said to "just have fun, its a silly mode", but getting your traps consistenly disarmed and basically just being a M1 killer is not fun. If they ever bring it back they need to give trapper Iridescent Stone basekit.

-

Survivors are OP. Unless you have a strong Nurse/Blight/Spirit or Survivors don't know what they are doing, Survivors can easily win. There are so many powerful loops all across the map. If a survivors even remotely knows what they are doing, they will be able to loop you for one gen easily.

Oh you think you land a hit? Well think again, there are 3 god pallets into each other and after the Survivor predropped and you broke all of them another Survivor comes in to take the hit.

Then there are the catch up mechanics that are Survivor sided as well. The ultimate of guide is absolutely overpowered. The gen speed bonus for cages outweights the genspeed debuff for completed gens. Especially considering that there is functionally no difference between all Survivors escaping at 0 hooks or all Survivors escaping with 2 hooks each. At least for the scoring. In 2v8, the second would have meant a much easier game for Survivor. Hell, guides want to get hooked sometimes just to unlock their ultimate.

The medic power can also finish healing Survivors, or if you have two Medics completely heal Survivor, in literally no time without even touching them.

Two medics is literally 1.0.0 styptic, meanwhile guides can team up with Survivors to do gens faster than 1.5.3 Brand New Part.

-

Normal Queue. In addition to the normal Queue being very long, I tried doing some daily challenges and it genuinely feels like the queue is so terrible. As Killer I literally only faced sweaty SWFs. Seing 3 or 4 people run DS + Syringe was the norm. And if its not that its Flashlight + BG Player. I got like 1 game without a 3 or 4 man SWF. Even on Killers I barely touched before, I only faced that sort of thing.

-

So finally, I hope 2v8 never comes back. I will do the next tome level and afterwards put DBD down until the event is over.