What do you all think about the state of solo q?

I just had a knight tunnel me and we were at 5 gens none were even close to being done so yea still pretty bad lol

For 4v1 it's unplayable. The game and all the design choices are miserable and promote the worst aspects of pvp gaming imaginable. If Survs even get so much as an edge, the Killer usually DC's, meanwhile they almost all are slugging/camping/tunneling to make the match as awful as possible. Not to mention how often someone will throw the match and then what? The game is over and already a waste of time, yet everyone else is trapped in it because BHVR likes to force trash gameplay styles over any sort of community.

2v8 should honestly be permanent and 4v1 should be rehauled to mimic SWF, every single match should have SWF level of cooperation through in-game mechanics, especially voice comms and player loadouts in the lobby. Then half of this none sense wouldn't even be an issue.

To many bad team mates.
When you get good team mates no issues what so ever but so many clueless and selfish players

You could give bazookas to the survivors and the situation wouldn't change one bit. The main problem is that the average survivor is terrible, because the game never teaches you how to improve or anything useful. This must be one of the few games where you can invest thousands of hours without learning anything at all. No change in the game will turn you into that player who loops the killer for several gens.

If survivors were forced to take an active part in the match and there were no escapes where you repair a couple of gens and walk out the gates without even seeing the killer, there would be many survivors who would absolutely never win. The only difference between SoloQ and SWF is that you don't choose who you play with, so it's quite likely that you'll end up with bad players, since they're the vast majority. And as I said, you can give them bazookas, but it won't change anything.

it’s bad like always but it feels like it’s gotten worse since the announcement of the tunneling and slugging reduction systems being delayed. the amount of tunneling , proxy camping and slugging has gone up tremendously in my games at least. It’s forced me to bring DS and unbreakable every game which really sucks. I hope that once the systems eventually come through along with the promised see your teammates perks coming in march, solo q will be a lot more bearable.

I think solo queue basically died in patch 6.1. Before patch 6.1 you could get away with not needing a loaded team of highly skilled survivors and you really only feared nurse, blight and spirit (who were still strong by the way). But that extra 10 seconds added they added to generators really pushed the average solo queue game towards the game being more killer sided. That being said; of course if you have a good team then it doesn't really matter but in solo queue how often can you say you have a good team?

It's the same as it's always been for me since 2017: A pool of players of various skill levels, most of the time feeling like I have bot-filled lobbies.

All that depends who I get if they are salads which think main objective are chests and totems with no strong hexes in the match and cant loop longer than 20 seconds on shack (not counting if the killer is s-tier) or pros which do gens and know how to loop so killer gets some time wasted and more gens can be done thats key thing to success.

Just yesterday I had terrible match.

We were in queue, feng decided to leave the group, and then she got us again and stayed.

Meg said to her that she should leave, but she didnt. We got into the game.

First thing meg does is jumping in and out of locker. Gave up, literally.

Later on she was sandbagging feng, giving killer 3 man slug multiple times (I was the last one alive) etc.

If a gamer is ready to throw the match over such things, then yes - I am not solo queue'ing again.
Went for some killer games after that.

It's like a sneeze that never comes out

I mean I do enjoy the chase aspect though so winning isn't my goal anymore

solo queue is pretty bad but not because i get tunelled , slugged or camped. It is because my teamates refuse to play as a team and instead are playing for themselves. This is a teamwork game not a 1v1 for each survivor. The ammount of people that refuse to hook trade even tough they've never been hooked is crazy. They rather let you die instead of taking any agro. So i don't blame killers but the survivors instead.

It's so rough. I rarely see more than 2 gens finished in my matches in a typical night of solo q.

IMO there's just certain perks and killer strategies that completely uncompetitive against 90% of solo q lobbies. Most of the time the match is over before it even begins because of what killer you're against, what perks they're using, and/or what play style they're using.

Not really, just ask yourself who has fun with the tools currently available for to survivors. SWF will have the time of their lives, that's for sure, but the average survivor will end up on the ground before they can aim their bazookas.

The game certainly lacks interactivity, but it is this lack that gives most players even a chance... which is rather sad. The objectives themselves encourage this behavior, and the lack of any tutorial for what is actually useful in a match only exacerbates the problem.

Like it's always been, mostly a gamble. Because of it being a team-based role you're highly dependant on your teammates being good which they aren't most of the time. It's not entirely their fault but I think it goes to show that the tutorial mode should really get another overhaul, have it more comprehensive and use it as an opportunity to try and drill good habits into the heads of new survivors. It won't completely solve it but it'll go a long way to giving everyone a better time.

It's rough, sometimes unbearable stinky Killers.

But if you enjoy a challenge and use a good information Perk (Kindred), it can be fun.

Just don't expect to escape and it opens up all kinds of build options, lol! (R.I.P. team)

Winning in solo queue is virtually impossible, the sort of thing that happens 1 in 50 matches if you are lucky. Haddonfield has a 1/3 pick rate, over half of the killer playerbase exclusively plays Blight (I don't care what Nightlight says, there are five Blights for every 1 Springtrap, Ghoul and Wesker combined). It has gotten to the point where I just associate Blight's terror radius as the default and am confused when I hear the standard one you'd expect for a killer like Trapper. You go into every match knowing you'll not even come close to winning and you need to dedicate your entire build to anti-tunnel just to play a 1v4.