How is 2v8 survivor going for everyone?

Most of the issues are caused by dumb teammates not knowing how to play.

On survivor side, no one doing gens, people getting downed easily even tho there are 3 Escapists, people 3-genning themselves, ect.

On killer side, people are trying out Oni and Ghostface and failing miserably.

My experiences are not as bad as many people report here in this thread. Actually, the matches I played were pretty fun and I believe that I have escaped in more than half of the 10-15 matches I played so far. Certainly at a higher escape rate than in 1v4 solo queue. It would be very interesting if BHVR published some statistics with killer picks and escape rates for the 2v8 mode after the event is over.

I would say RPD is the only map which is quite difficult for survivors to play on. If the killers stay around the main hall most of the time, it can be difficult to move from one side of the map to the other, and this often leads to all gens on one side being completed but the remaing gens being easy to defend for the killers. In three games on RPD so far I have escaped one time (through an exit gate) and the two other games ended in all survivors killed. For all the outdoor maps I would say that on average half or more than half of the team escapes, and I had several matches with all 8 survivors escape.

Yes, you do get some unexperienced teammates in most of the matches, but so are often the killers when compared to 1v4 mode. So in my experince it's easier to have longer chases, especially due to the wide abundance of pallets in 2v8. It also feels like that killers in 2v8 tend to break chases earlier than in 1v4. Sometimes I've seen killers break chase even after a single pallet stun.

Tunneling, camping or slugging, which makes up a lot of the frustration for survivors in regular matches, are practically non-existent in 2v8. And without the self-unhook mechanics nobody can give up anymore during the first hook stage.

I usually play as the Guide role, and as someone has mentioned in a previous comment, it seems to be a good strategy at the start of the match to run across the map and start to repair a generator at the side where the killers have spawned. Then, usually the first cage will appear somewhere nearby and you can do a quick first unhook. In case you get found by a killer at the start, keep running into the empty parts of the map and try to lead the chase far away from your own spawn side, so that the killer won't pressure multiple survivors at the same time. With this, I've often seen two or three gens pop before the first down, because many teammates tend to double or triple the initial gens.

Frankly, 2v8 is much more chaotic and action-focused than the regular 1v4 mode. But in my opinion it is a fun variety and very welcome as a temporary game event. The only thing I am a bit disappointed about is the removal of the herbs, which I think were a good game mechanic in the last 2v8 iteration. And I'll have to see if the Oni & Legion combination, which are probably the most popular killer picks at the moment, might get a bit boring to face after a while.

Lastly, I want to mention that I appreciate that the devs added the new hook animations which look pretty neat :-)

I've actually had some pretty good teammates - last game alone had an MVP Lara and a Steve who bodyguarded me, and I only opened the gate because he ran out and looped the approaching killer before they noticed me. I mean, of course there's at least a few useless people in every game too, but I've yet to have one of those Oops All Potatoes games yet. Yet.

Oni + Legion is awful though. I actually haven't minded facing Oni with another killer, but the Legion combo just does not make me want to play this mode whatsoever.

The smoke bombs don't really seem to have any impact whatsoever.

Just sat through the absolute worst experience I've ever had in this game where an Oni and Blight kept slugging in 2v8. So they still got the Generator slow down with no hooks required.. Great mode… A lot of the design decisions that go into stuff like this really boggle my mind. How the hell is that supposed to be fun?

I feel like most people have settled on whether or not they like 2 V 8 by now and I'm kinda on the not so much side of the camp. Not that there's anything fundamentally different or worse about it this time around, it's pretty much the same as it ever was. That's sort of the problem for me. The Survivor side of the mode has barely changed in serveral iterations now. I like using the void crystal whenever I can find them, but that's all there is that's new (the fact that they also took away the herbs from the last version adds to the stale vibe imho).

That said, I think it's still enormously popular with most of the player base. It took an age to queue up for the one Killer game I played in the regular mode (usually I would get into a Killer game instantly at this time of night).

I glad it's here for the people that like it, but I think I'll just play enough to complete the quests and then do something else for the next 2 weeks. There's only so much Ghost Face I can take. The dude is my Legion / Skull Merchant.

Honestly my standard matches were pretty good, I got a Huntress twice (both abusing Were-Elk) and a Trapper and escaped all of them. However matchmaking was quite slow and it was the same 3 other survivors every time lol. They were all solid players though so that always helps of course!

I am back on 2v8 simply because nobody is playing regular matches.

They definitely can kill switch cosmetics, they did it with that survivor Christmas one (I forget the one it was now).

Thanks for being ethical and I will say not every Huntress is taking advantage of this but a lot are. Survivors do the same with perks/cosmetics/addons etc that get bugged and give advantage, so I don't mean this is a killer vs survivor mentality thing.

Just some people will shamelessly exploit anything they can, which is pretty sad.

Same as normal queue. If I play Solo Surv, abysmal teammates that go down without even a chase tbh, every second someone is going down and we can't really get past 5 gens. No one is doing gens, no one is even rescuing hooks or even healing; they're all running around like roaches afraid of the light (heartbeat). Oh and when they actually do touch a gen, they fail the skill checks, like it's worse than bots.

Then I play Killer and no matter what, it's full stacks of SWF's that are taking hits, utilizing and repairing every single pallet after it's broken, and slamming gens.

Also, there's a ton of cheating going on rn as well. As Killer I watch Survs jetpack away without any indication of the team skill. Hell I had one match as Legion where even in frenzy the Survs were somehow outrunning me for 15 seconds and I played a few rounds of Oni, forget about it, I was getting literally outrun by Survs lol Then I notice some Killers cheat as well, perfect mode to play with aura hacks as the mode almost constantly gives aura reading.

My duo and I have been having a blast! We played 8 games last night only lost 1.

It’s been a breeze. Gens are so fast and easy to do. Legion sucks though. Tired of seeing him. Hate that killer.

Altruism is the whole problem with the survivor side with 2v8! You have 4 survivors running 600 miles across the map to unhook and heal the same survivor! You know the average number of people on a gen after the first minute of the game? It's 1, maybe 2 at the most! Don't immediately jump off a gen the second another survivor is hooked on the complete opposite side of the map!

this is what makes it boring. Oni with another killer isn’t bad. Yesterday I had an Oni take all three of us in one hit. It was pretty cool but a bit to much unbalanced.

Been playing some matches on both sides with @HeroLives
We have not had too many bad experiences. Of course, the occasional sandbagger, but we have been having a pretty good escape rate, not gonna lie.

We have encountered several Oni + Legions, but most of them has not been that bad to play against.
Scout class pretty much hard-counters Oni in loops, thanks to the aura read.

In the first day it was extremely killer sided, but nowadays it's 100% survivor sided as majority of games are so much escapes

I suppose having proper survivors in matches was all it needed to tilt the game toward them