I'm genuinely curious how this game keeps its Solo Survivor players..playing. Someone clue me in..

As a solo q Survior

addiction to game 😂 I have so many hours in the game how am I going to go to something else as main game.

I love playing solo-queue, oftentimes more-so than SWF.

I like just relaxing out without comms in my ears, being told to play a certain way, run this perk combination because I want to use this niche perk build set-up. I'm down here on said pallet or area, come get me - then they're mad if you don't do that.

It's a lot more freeing for me to play solo-queue and not have to adhere myself to friends who are playing. I'm generally not a selfish player when I play survivor. I'll take a hit for a deathhook user, I'll 99% both doors if I can muster that ability, I'll go unhook and actually take a hit for the person potentially getting tunneled, etc. I like playing solo-queue ironically enough because most of the time I'm paired with people who are doing separate gens, know how to loop, and do not play as selfish as I suppose other people see in their solo-queue matches.

It's not to imply I don't enjoy playing with friends, but it does get exhausting to listen to specific actions that they believe I should be doing when I prefer to just do what I'm doing and trust in the process - I can fundamentally have that thought process unchallenged in solo-queue.

Edit: this isn't to imply flawless solo-queue games every single time. I've gotten terrible teammates, but I have more success in solo-queue and more enjoyment as I can focus on myself and what I'm doing versus having to deal with people in comms. Now if the group is calm and chill, that's cool - but people with many hours still will backseat you, I don't need backseating in solo-queue, therefore I prefer it.

It may be a hard to belive but some Survivors don´t need to escape to have fun.

I prefer an amazing chase over a whole game sitting on gens and escaping without seeing the Killer at all.

I finnished every challenge / achievement on both sides, so there isnt really anything to play for except bloodpoints. Im working on my 8th p100 but even thats starting to feel like its not worth it lol. I guess ive just gotten used to the "wonderfull solo que experience" that i just keep clicking ready without even thinking about it.

Sounds like you're like a twin of mine, honestly.
The only difference is that I play with licensed characters and keep a ton of blood points and shards for future favorite original survivor. While hoping for more licensed collections.
I really appreciate the variety we have with builds, the game wouldn't be the same without it.

You kind of do...

The AFC meter shows if the killer is near.

On the other hand, you still need a perk to see other survivors so....

Yes, I will agree that killer doesn't get as much variety especially in high MMR - even when I played Onryo, Trapper, Wraith, I will admit that I used strong perks on them.

Wraith was my very first main when I dabbled with killer and I will admit that I used old Sloppy Butcher because it's a very strong perk on Wraith and it was obviously a meta perk back in the day. I will acknowledge that it's harder if you are maximizing win success and I typically stacked gen regression and aura reading when I played a mobility character - however, I will stack full gen regression on a killer like Trapper - I did not play basement Trapper, like a lot of Trapper mains typically do. But I can respect your sentiment, even if I was a killer main I would not adhere to, haha.

Edit: I will mention and argue that it's harder for a killer to play around with perks if you are striving to win and do consistent 3k/4ks. But I would still adapt when I played killer a while ago, I still remember this game against an obvious 4 man SWF with flashlights, Eyrie of Crows (original map), and I tossed on Starstruck. The game tilted me due to obvious reasons, but Starstruck singlehandedly allowed me to get a 4k as the SWF was focused on trying to flashlight save (I was playing Wraith). It's why I enjoy playing Onryo, which many people think is weak but I like two aura reading and two gen regression on her and I enjoy her both as a survivor and killer.

I do find it intriguing that people who flex on both sides admire people who play their main. I play with a SWF who hates Onryo, teleportation spam, and condemning - but I absolutely love versing Onryo simply because I have most of my killer hours in her and I know how to counter her.

If you find it "impossible" I got some bad news for you. Even the 'AVERAGE' solo survivor is well above 40% survival rate. If you don't reach 40% that means you are below the average. Impossible, no… skill issue? probably.

Wait they said they said seeing each others perks is coming 2026? 😍

Last thing I saw about soloq communications improvements was that one reddit ama where they said they don't think the communication is the issue

It doesn't feel like that long ago the hud didn't show what each player was up to unless they happened to be the obsession in chase

Aw, thank you! You too. ❤️❤️ I would not mind playing if you want to play sometime on your end. 😊

^ Yeah I agree with this. Soloque is actually a challenge. SWF feels like I'm cheating with an unfair advantage.

Even in soloque my escape rate sits in the high 40's% and that's with me regularly trading myself to let randoms get out, I play risky for the fun, and I generally run meme builds with essentially almost nothing meta or second chances. So this number could realistically be made quite higher. I don't even think I'm anything exceptional on survivor, just decent.

If people have escape rates significantly lower than that in soloque, especially if they're sweating, running meta, and playing to win, it's generally a skill issue going on and they just need to practice. It's not a balance issue. Most my losses are me playing bad or teammates playing bad, not game design problems.

Yeah, it sucks when people appear to not look like they're doing stuff but typically I find it's not the norm. I'll play solo-queue today and see the progress directly, but I remember screensharing one time in a party chat with an ex friend of mine and even he was surprised when he saw all of my randoms doing separate gens.

Obviously, we cannot see our MMR brackets I just don't get the general grievances that I see and even then, I just know that if the three gen isn't broken - the game will become miserable. You don't even have to bring Deja Vu either, you can literally move across the map and notice clusters of gens.

Survivors all spawn together, unless Shroud of Separation is used (even then, it's still a bit RNG) - but at that point, survivors know we all spawn together, so I'm gonna go to the opposite side and work on a gen on the other side - instead of loading in and staying on the same side that you start at. The same logic applies for when someone opts to do gens on one side, while the whole team is taking aggro as Meg does the safest gen imaginable and ignoring the whole other side where her team is getting downed, hooked, or being in active chase.

I have talked to inexperienced players and some will not even take chase or even understand the hook distribution. I don't want to be in chase, why do I have to get hit? It's just the mindsets I see are quite incompatible with my own sense of solo-queue play.

Edit: don't even get me started on the people who opt to pop a gen, move to the next gen nearby, and do the same thing over and over. It just puzzles me is all, but I have about 4k hours with most of my hours being solo-queue and survivor based - with some killer hours dabbed in. I just feel so disconnected at times when I see specific posts, haha.

Mind you, I am not a comp player or anything.

This right here. I had multiple SWF invites over the years since 2016, even a comp team once, I refused every single one of them, cause I feel SWF is pretty much equal to cheating. The magic of solo Q is the challange of not knowing how your team will play, will they be efficient, skillful or selfish? Then I adapt to what I encounter.

My Survival rate is alrdy above average, So I can't even imagine how high I would be able to get if I were to play with equally experienced players in one team… and on voice coms… it completely breaks the game.

hens' latest video on his Asian server experiment just shows how good survivors can be if they just know/learn how to play instead of spamming DC :D Asian mentality is completely different.

but we know that this number is not accurate. They don't count games with disconnects and according to the Japanese stats that were released they don't count "low scoring games" either. With how prevalent DCing is now it would be crazy to think that those games don't drive the true escape rate down significantly. I actually agree that it's a "skill issue" for a lot of people which furthers my belief that the 40% escape rate is a massive load of BS. The "average" survivor is probably escaping 30-35% of the time at most. My escape rate this year is well over 50% in solo queue and I still don't believe the average player escapes anywhere near 40%. I've seen first hand how bad most people are at this game and I will continue to believe this until Behavior shows stats that aren't cherry picked. None of this really matters though since Behavior will never release these stats.

"Because I stopped reading the doom and gloom posts"

This! I find if I get stuck reading this forum or watching negative YouTube videos I also get in a funk about the game, where as if I don't participate with either much I don't feel as negative about the game.

Since 2021 when I started playing, besides a few times I've always been a solo player. I honestly enjoy it for the most part. That being said I have been on a month long break and not missing it.

TBF, i don't think SoloQ main problem is lack of basekit anti-tunnel or anti-slug - i don't think survivor role as a whole is this.

Solo issues, in my vision, revolves around the lack of info on what your teammates have and are doing: we can't see other people perks, we can't see others items, where they are being chased (although you can get a hunch with game knowledge), who is going for saves, etc etc.

Also bad MMR harms SoloQ a lot. A friend of mine complained how he always goes into survivor teams where someone stealths the whole match, avoid being chased by the killer and then get out as soon as possible when gets are powered, with little to no care for their teammates. This kinda of playstyle and many others that harm SoloQ shouldn't be incentivized. People should engage with the killer and their teammates, no just hide as they were a ghost NPC.

Hardest role in the game solo queue is. I don't know how some people play it regularly.

I sunk so many hours into the multiplayers of both Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition myself.
Great games, with a huge emphasis on teamwork.

Glad to see others who has had a past with those games.
I like your positive energy, and the emphasis on the fun factor.

Fun, and the social aspect is probably the reason why myself and some other forum members formed a group who regularly play together whenever our schedules match up. So far, we have amassed quite the group of players (mostly me, after scaring folks as Myers), and we welcome more to join our server. Being forum members is a plus in my books :)
So, if you are interested in funny banter, custom matches, and not having to play solo all the time, feel free to join us.

I played against a clearly solo team yesterday. Three alive, one gen left. Momentum was mine but they still had a chance to get one or two out if they played it right. A Cheryl just sandbagged under hook and threw the whole game for no reason. I gave the guy who unhooked her the hatch because I know the struggle.

1: Nostromo map v. Kaneki - four people killed, random gave up. (2 gens done).
2: Ormond map v. Dracula - 2 man out, killer had Devour Hope up but didn't matter as I prioritized the gate and the random got hatch.
3: Shelter Woods v. Pig - 3 man out, Zarina with Invocation died. (bear in mind, we had a cluster of five gens on main side, so not an easy game as Pig was defending the three gen heavily.)
4. Grim Pantry v. Kaneki - four people killed, two literally dced at the start of the match, and 3 gens were done.
5. Mother's Dwelling v. Trapper - one man out, multiple times randoms were caught in traps, so lol. - all gens were done, Kate got out at exit gate.
6. Dead Dawg Saloon v. Hillbilly - 1 man out, all gens done, Yui got out via exit gate.
7. Fallen Refuge v. Nemesis - 2 gens done, Sable was being tunneled (got her AFC bar full, decided to kill herself) and everyone died obviously.
8. Toba's Landing v. Springtrap - 4 gens done, Kate did a massive misplay that really cost the game by unhooking the Sable while injured and on death hook resulting in an unnecessary 1v3, 1 out via hatch (myself).
9. Badham v. Springtrap - all gens done, 2 man out, again another survivor for some reason chose to go unhook injured, almost resulting in chaos. - last survivor was hooked in basement, random and I opted to leave her.
10. Grim Pantry v. Hillbilly - 1 gen done, everyone died (6 HOOKS in basement) and Kate dced as the first hooked in basement. I did however, almost pop the second gen.
11. Dead Dawg Saloon v. Springtrap - 3 man out, random died in basement.
12. Family Residence v. Myers - 2 gens done, everyone died, Yoichi dced at the start.
13. Forgotten Ruins v. Bubba - all gens done, 3 man out, Feng Min walking everywhere with Balanced Landing is something I never thought I'd see with my own eyes.
14. Lery's v. Blight - 2 gens done, I did a chase with him, got hooked, got healed, and he dced.
15. Rancid Abattoir v. Skull Merchant - all gens done, everyone escaped.
16. Mount Ormond Resort v. Demogorgon - all gens done, 3 man out, excellent team - I have no complaints.
17. Fallen Refuge v. Oni - 1 gen done, everyone died, three gen specifically at main - no complaints of the survivor team, just was difficult to break the three gen.
18. Groaning Storehouse v. Wesker - all gens done, random survivors dced just randomly for no reason, everyone died.
19. Wretched Shop v. Vecna - all gens done, 3 man out.
20. The Game v. Huntress - all gens completed, literally my dying chase allowed the gen to pop - I was obviously playing with an altruistic SWF and as a result, everyone died. ☠️
21. Family Residence v. Pyramid Head - all gens done, 3 man out, no complaints for the survivor team once again.
22. Lery's v. Huntress - all gens done, Deja Vu (FTW! as literally I had three survivors with the perk, so no wasted time), four man out - superb team.
23. Hawkins v. Wesker - all gens done, Wesker did fixate on Rebecca - the only complaint I have with this team is the greeding of the last gen and not properly resetting. Everyone died this game, but a vital lesson that you can indeed reset and not do what happened, lol. Otherwise, not many complaints, just a bit ridiculous to try to commit to doing gens while injured - another grave mistake was the randoms doing both the upstairs gen and upside down gen, otherwise the gen spread would have been easier to manage.
24. Dead Dawg Saloon v. Kaneki - 2 gens done, game was relatively going well for the most part until Ace just practically threw the game. Lara also threw the game by trying to get a save while injured. Ace literally threw himself at the killer twice, even after having a great chase too - mind-boggling.
25. Toba's Landing v. Huntress - all gens done, everyone looped well, she only got one hook, and she ended up dcing with NOED too because she couldn't catch Ace.

Here is my solo-queue games for the day - I had a 52% survival rate, 52% objective complete (all gens being done), and a 25% suicide rate across the board. So, for my games: one in four games is immediately lost due to things outside of the killer's control.

Despite all of my gripes with certain survivors and their questionable decisions, I still was able to escape more than half the games I played.

Hope this helps. 😊

The behavior is truly baffling. I can't go more than a few matches (that aren't 4mans) without a random unhooking with the killer standing right behind them and I never know what the motivation is. Farming? Stupidity? Indifference? Trolling? I get accidently running the killler towards someone but the intentional stuff I just don't get.