Suggestion on How to Further Reduce Killer Queue Time

[AdasBigWong]

TL;DR: Create killer priority queue as a reward for playing survivor (30 minutes in game suggestion?)

Hi, so hear me out. I am normally a killer main, but I actually really enjoy survivor for the 2v8 event. Obviously more people want to play killer, so the survivor bonus is 400% to help entice people to play survivor more. That is a pretty decent incentive, however, I think more can be done to help killer queues and make it more fun for everyone: priority queue. Similar to how Overwatch gives comp players priority queue when a match gets cancelled due to a player leaving, I think you can help incentivize players to play more survivor by giving priority queue for playing, say 30 minutes of survivor. Not the amount of matches or else you would have a massive throwing problem, but if you play enough survivor for it, it should put you in a priority queue. This can help reduce the amount of players who only play killer for the event to give them another reward for playing survivor: less waiting time to play killer.
Obviously it wouldn't be a requirement to play killer. Maybe they already do this because my killer matches only have taken around 5 minutes to find other players, however, I have queued solo and as more uncommon killers, so that might play into it as well.

What are your guys' thoughts?

[lebron]

What they need to do is simply make playing survivor more entertaining. Imagine you had to look around the map for generator parts or something a little more interactive than pressing space every once and a while

[KrakenGreywolf]

Originally posted by naughty bear:

What they need to do is simply make playing survivor more entertaining. Imagine you had to look around the map for generator parts or something a little more interactive than pressing space every once and a while

No to fetch quests, yes to more classes. The mode is a non-starter for me as solo survivor with no stealth class and basekit killer aura reading. Needs a stealth class, an offensive class, a boon class, and something REALLY unique that every survivor can ONLY do in 2v8. They reworked hooking to make it less tedious for killers in 2v8-maybe do the same with gens for survivors. Adding busy work is the opposite of that.

[Shiro]

The problem with a priority system is you make it so instead of it taking 20 minutes to get a game, it takes 30 minutes of playing survivor, which evidently a lot of people don't like doing, it leads to a similar issue as DB:Breakers where people would join a game and just die immediately to get their raider priority up, which in turn ruins the game for everyone else involved, including the raider player that has already had to go through 7 games of the same happening just to get their raider game.

[AdasBigWong]

Originally posted by Shiro:

The problem with a priority system is you make it so instead of it taking 20 minutes to get a game, it takes 30 minutes of playing survivor, which evidently a lot of people don't like doing, it leads to a similar issue as DB:Breakers where people would join a game and just die immediately to get their raider priority up, which in turn ruins the game for everyone else involved, including the raider player that has already had to go through 7 games of the same happening just to get their raider game.

Yes, you wouldn't be forced to play survivor, only if you want priority queue. If you wanted to play all killer matches, you'd still be able to wait longer for your match, but not forced to queue for survivor.

That's why I recommend something like 30 minutes of survivor gameplay, because immediately losing wouldn't count much towards the priority queue. Also, crows would stop the timer so you can't AFK for it.

The idea is more a reward for people to play both sides because there are a lot of people who only play killer and that's why the queues are like what they're like. But honestly, the killer matches I queue for are only like 5 minutes anyways because I play solo q and non-typical killer (avoid playing legion, Wesker, nemesis). Queuing with a friend increases the wait time a lot because now you just need to find only survivors, whereas solo you can fill a lobby.

[♩♫Shade♫♩]

Originally posted by naughty bear:

What they need to do is simply make playing survivor more entertaining. Imagine you had to look around the map for generator parts or something a little more interactive than pressing space every once and a while

This is infinitely better than anything the devs have tried so far