the ONLY thing ruining this game is matchmaking

It’s not tunneling killers. It’s not gen-rushing survivors. It’s not teabagging at the gates. The real problem is survivors who refuse to play as a team or improve.

BHVR could add a third health state tomorrow, give 30 seconds of endurance off hook, shave 20 seconds off every gen, and you’d still lose because teammates rage-quit after getting found in a locker, or because the killer is The Ghoul, or because they didn’t get the map they wanted.

The game has been out for a decade. You could have played for nine years straight and you’d still get teammates who have no idea when to rotate, when to play aggressively vs. passively, when to go for unhooks, or when to stick to gens. I’ve even played with streamers who have triple my hours and still manage to 3-gen themselves by rushing the gen in the furthest corner instead of working the ones closer to center.

And every now and then, I’ll get matched with three other survivors who actually get it, people who take hits for each other, play their roles, and make smart decisions. We can have a hardcore tunneling killer and still win because everyone understands their job. The quality of those Solo Q matches is so much higher that it genuinely feels like BHVR isn’t playing at that level, because if they were, we wouldn’t be stuck in these balance-juggling cycles we’re dealing with right now.