i hope you're happy

Unemployed people shouldn't be allowed to post on the internet.

OP is 100 percent correct. The devs seem to want to make this into an RPG where playing killer is a power trip simulator, and playing survivor is a masochists wet dream. Unfortunately it doesn't make killers scary, it just trivializes player input and makes matches feel unrewarding. Stealth is almost non-existent at this point so the suspense and atmosphere from 2016-2020 is almost completely gone. Instead its a heavily lopsided "PvP" experience.

Sweaty 4 man SWF teams are able to compensate by basically cheating using filters and third party software like comms and equalizers to level the playing field but even they lose most of their matches. Meanwhile solo Q remains a dysfunctional mess with a broken MMR system and the fact that my escape rate is well above the average considering the caliber of my teammates is a miracle. I don't play in SWF so I'm constantly hard carrying the teammates I am queued with which is an exercise in tedium. It's the equivalent of playing Rocket League where you're playing in Champ rank yet constantly queued with Gold teammates against a Champ level killer who just steam rolls your teammates and you have to clutch to win a 1 v 1 against a killer that is designed to be 4 times as strong as you.

I literally was queued with a survivor with 90 steam hours when I have 3.5K steam hours just yesterday, and as expected I counted down from 10 while doing a gen and he went down well before I could get to 0, only to be tunneled off the hook for two more 10 second chases before he was dead. This sort of thing happens frequently and I am forced to play for hatch or get out the door in a 1 v 1, which I often do but only cause the killers I'm going against have inflated MMRs due to exploiting cheese tactics like camping, tunneling and slugging against the weak links on my team. And of course losing these matches lowers your MMR which means you will continuously be placed with unreliable teammates since the MMR system doesn't care that I did 3 full gens by myself and ran the killer 3 full minutes in the same match while running around saving and healing one teammate after another since they are incapable of running the killer for more than 10 seconds.

Oh yes, the game still stutters heavily on high end hardware and now the audio doesn't work properly. And the "go-next" mechanic just makes it so that your frightened teammates can just finish the remaining gens and leave the trial while they farm you through all 3 hook stages after you looped the killer the majority of the match and finally get hooked.

So why are you here :)

Ok so don't play Asymmetrical games…literally complaining about the genre of game. Go play something else.