And yet the survivors escape rate is about 40% which is what the Devs were aiming for. The nature of the game is that it's supposed to be challenging for survivors to escape. It's not supposed to be the looping frenzy that it was becoming, where survivors feel comfortable to literally run circles around a killer with no fear or urgency at all.

I played a few survivor matches earlier and I escaped couple times. Died more than I escaped but that's to be expected.

It definitely gets easier with SWF than solo-queue. It's not impossible to escape with solo-queue, but you definitely need people who can carry their weight. They need to know basic information like when to commit to a gen, when to unhook a survivor, how to loop, and gen placements for gens to get done.

All four are objectively easier to communicate when you play in a SWF.

You get pushed off of a gen, you can tell your teammate what gen you're pushed off on.

You need to navigate a rescue? All you need is one person to say, "I got it, don't worry about it."

For looping, you have people saying, "I dropped shack pallet, I dropped cow tree pallet." and that helps people do loops better.

People in solo-queue can be a mixed bag. I started back to playing solo-queue and I got two randoms dcing on Forgotten Ruins against a Singularity....lol.

Exitgates are on top of each other: No they are not. you were just unlucky because it's random on most maps, or pretty much at oposite sides at maps where they are not random.

Killers move faster: No they don't. yes they changed tricksters speed ages ago, but that was it.

Powers got stronger: yes, because they didn't perform as wished for the devs. There's nothing wrong about buffing killers that are too weak.

• Crows: Yes they are, but good luck hitting both crows to injure. You need good prediction for that so it's deserved.
• Pinheads chains: they didn't get any longer as far as I know.
• Deathslinger: he doesn't even close cover a quater of the map, also he would lose a struggling survivor after around an quater of pulling on maxrange then lol xD
• Hooks: yes they spawns sometimes closer, sometimes there are just 3 hooks on the entire map it feels like, it's depending on the map xD
• Wiggling: You were never supposed to wiggle off on your own, it's just to give other people a chance of saving you, AND make it that the killer can't drag you to the basement from everywhere ^^

If your entire teams dies while trying to unhook you heavely missplayed, just do gens, the killer has to do something at some point. Also people apparently also don't like being slugged, the preassure has to come from somewhere, so choose what you like more xD

Just because you should be able to get out, it doesn't mean you have to. The killer just played good enough to win and that's it.

Survivors don't get bots from the start. Survivors that leave are replaced for a bot, but that's the only way to get a bot in your lobby currently.

At least half of the things said in this post are simply wrong.

How can people even say this stuff? Literally every time I hop on killer, including tonight, super sweaty matches that result in settling for the draw, 1ks, and even 0ks. What was my misplay? What was common between all those matches? Simply facing survivors who knew what they were doing.

Doesn't matter if you're tunneling, slugging, detaching from bad chases, going for the weak link, etc. none of it matters, because the game is advantage over skill, and survivors have all the advantage. It feels like any chase where you have to break a pallet, or one that doesn't result in a down, is a complete waste of time and momentum. And having to get to Bloodlust every single chase, if you do choose to try and ignore the pallets, is equally bad and sometimes isn't even enough. Sometimes Bloodlust 3 isn't even enough, because of how stupid the pallet/loop design is. There's constant stupid loop design in these maps, with buildings that have check spots which allow for a free 20-40 second lead before you even get close to the survivor, meaning you either don't chase there at all (because killer having to RETREAT from tiles is indicative of good design, right?) or you hard commit to the chase even if it's a bad one to take, every time. Some of those same building loops are so badly designed, like on main in Dead Dawg, that you lose Bloodlust going around it, because the survivor is out of sight for too long.

Don't even get me started on the downing potential on these killers, because it's like nothing. No good survivor is ever gonna let you Hillbilly chainsaw or Wesker infect unless it's literally point-blank range, and even then they've got crouch techs and fov techs to rob you. Trapper needs 1-2 pink add-ons just to play, as do several others. The hitboxes, and easily executable dodge counterplay, on all the ranged killers bar Clown (because it's literally a massive gas cloud) are absolutely pathetic weaknesses, especially with Deathslinger. How specific does one's shot need to be? The mobility killers really show you how fast survivors move around loops, and move fast in general. You can go to body block people with Wraith, and they still beat you to the infinite vault spot beforehand. It's almost impossible on Legion to get more than 2 hits with Frenzy without the Never Sleep Pills combo. Blight, I feel was purposefully made worse on console, because his turn rate without both add-ons is non-existent, and he always seems to slam on oversized nonsense obstacles. And Vecna's a clunky add-on dependent mess. Just to name a few.

How y'all lose so often to so many of these weak killers, I'll never understand. Now I see why the complaints make a little more sense. Why complain about Nurse/Blight when you get 4k'd by a no add-ons Wraith, Clown, Pig, or Chucky every single time? It's not on the devs to entertain this. They need to be contending with real balance, not what happens at bottom level. I'm surprised there's as many people on here who have the sense to go to the forums to complain about this stuff. Imagine the tens of thousands who don't, because they don't engage with the community much, period, and who still conclude with their 50-100 hours of playing that "Every killer I face is so OP!" They don't even understand what's hanging in the balance, what's being discussed with this game. Again, even those who are into balance discussions often have the weirdest takes. "I'm casual, and care about fun with friends more than winning, but you'd better nerf those killers so that they're easier to beat!" You know you're not really supposed to be in serious balance talks as a casual, right? No other game's community does that. That's like me, who isn't into football at all, telling people how the game SHOULD work.

But because the devs listen to casuals for balance (an oxymoron of the highest order), what you've said here will be taken as gospel. So you can either wait for them to nerf whatever it is you're mad at, because it will happen, or take my advice: change games. If you lack the patience and commitment to get good at the game, or at least see the game's problems for what they are (bad matchmaking rather than bad balance), then invest into a different game that respects your time a bit better. This one doesn't. But if you're stubborn and still want to proceed with this game, take my other advice: get good with killer. There is no single thing you can do in this game that is more experience enriching, more skill-developing than playing killer and getting good with it. You have to juggle and understand so much, but once you see both roles, both sides of the coin, you understand, "Oh, the killer is limited to doing this much, so I can take advantage of that as survivor." And once you understand the counterplay as survivor, you can re-counter by developing killer counterplay to that. At a certain point, it becomes less and less about the results, and more about understanding how good you did personally.

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