SOLO QUEUE IS UNPLAYABLE/ SWF IS BROKEN

I'm not sure what happened either. I feel like it's been going downhill for the past couple years. I've been mostly playing killer this week despite the incentive being on survivor. Not even the extra bp is enough.

even in high mmr swf team lose half ppl
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/kb/articles/433-developer-update-stats

I am a 50/50 killer/solo q player and I understand your frustration with solo q and SWF. On the killer side, SWF is pretty unfair as survivors effectively get a ton of info perks for free, the entire teams knows exactly where you are at all times, they can very easily coordinate who is doing what, and can easily get in position for pallet/flashlight saves. The game was not designed to be balanced around that, but as long as enough people are still willing to play killer, it's not ever going to be nerfed.

On the solo q side, it has become increasingly clear to me that the real problem is not the lack of information/coordination that SWF teams enjoy, but the horrific state of matchmaking and measuring skill in the game. I have >2,000 hours in the game and consider myself a decent but not great survivor player. My solo q games are fun and I feel I have a decent chance of escaping IF my teammates are also decent players and know what to do in certain situations. The problem is that I am constantly getting matched with brand new players who have no clue what they are doing, refuse to touch gens, run and hide even if they know someone else is being chased, hide in the corner of the map to self care, get downed 10 seconds after chase starts, etc. It's not a problem of killers being too good - it is a problem of teammates being too bad. Unless BHVR changes the way matchmaking and skill level measurement work to actually reduce the chance of you being matched with brand new and/or terrible teammates, solo q is always going to be this super-frustrating experience.

What happened is that the game became hostile to casuals. Too much complexity, too many cheap playstyles allowed, and too many horrible changes that disproportionately affect casual players like the Self-care nerf from patch 6.1.

As the casual players left, the game became sweater, which made it even less casual-friendly etc. It's a vicious cycle, and it affects everyone, because nobody wants to play against sweats. If you pay attention you'll realize your best games on both sides are almost always within the first week of vacation/events, when the player count is high, games feel more relaxed because you're playing against people who don't play it 24/7, but then matches become miserable again as casuals progressively leave.

This is also paradoxical because both sides don't realize how much they hurt themselves by suggesting to nerf casual playstyles for the other side. Let's take Self-Care or Distortion for example. I never use these perks as survivor, they are just bad. But I've seen killers demand nerfs to these perks, and that couldn't be more counterproductive: they probably think "nerf survivors so killer will become easier", but that's absolutely not what happens. What really happens is, the Distortion/SelfCare users aren't good players, they contribute to making your matches chill as killer, and once you delete SelfCare/Distortion, they just stop playing. So, instead of getting matched vs. 3 genrushers and 1 Claudette, you'll now get matched vs. 4 genrushers, and your matches will feel harder, not easier.

Something I cannot understand is why are we even talking about nerfing SWF, these are the real minority of players! Killers that says they are always facing swf are lying, they get good solo q players that get some coordination, but then you see the statistics of these killer mains and they win 8 or 9 out of 10 matches, are you kidding me? How come SWFs are a problem when you win almost all of your matches man?

Solo Q is miserable and whats most frustrating for me is that forum mods are always avoiding these trheads, so that tells you a lot on how important solo q experience is for them, zero to none.

We have "solo q miserable experience" threads every day, i dont know what else do they need to happen so they do something, at least try something else on a PTB, thinking outside the box, instead of buffing teamwork perks in a game where you have zero comunication with other teammates, so the chances you have some value from these perks are really low, why should I use any of these perks instead of DS, or UB, to at least try to have a few more seconds of chases in the tunelling and slugging meta?

I've said before that the game should should show on the post-game screen who was in a swf just so people get a wake up call on the fact that, no, they're not facing seal team 6 every game

I think a lot of what's going on currently with DBD can be described as this: Certain playstyles started to emerge, and these playstyles, whether they're right or wrong, led to a large group of people choosing not to play anymore. Over time, this created a situation where these playstyles became more dominant, as "casual, play for funsies" players went on to other games.

So what we're left with is a playerbase made up mostly of loyalists, who play the game because they enjoy it or used to enjoy it, and people who want to win at all costs and have adapted certain playstyles to achieve that. Now, I'm not passing judgement on how people play or saying this is bad or that is bad. People are going to play however they want. But I do think it's important for the health of the fandom to try and bring in as many new players as possible. After all, we want DBD to thrive and grow. And the current state of things like soloq could potentially cause both new and current players to hit the uninstall button.