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This is getting pretty ridiculous
So I am rank 1 killer. When I play killer I generally get red rank survivors. That's fine. I am also rank 1 survivor. I don't remember the last time I got red rank killer. It is majority green rank with the occasional purple rank. This is not fun in any way. When almost every game ends with 1 to 2 hooks at most...some games without a hook at all it really is just boring at that point. It is honestly starting to seem like match making is not broken but there are just not enough killers to go around. How can this be fixed?
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I'm a yellow killer who usually get purple ranks. Mostly 4ks though.
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Buff killers or I wont play killer again
It's that simple
If I can almost always win on survivors but I get bullied and taunted as killer ? Nah pass. I can do gens and leave with my team in 4minutes or less
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It's not "getting" ridiculous. It "is' ridiculous. But when they hide the ranks we wont see the problem anymore and therefore it will go away :P
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Only way to fix it is actually help killers pip. I've seen maybe 2 or 3 red rank killers in the last month, and they were pretty good, but the rest have been green/purple. It's gotten to the point that nobody wants to play killer anymore at high ranks it seems, and I really don't blame them. I keep getting matched to red rank survivors as a Green rank killer, and I'm barely making enough to safety anymore. I'm lucky to get 1 or 2 kills. Most matches I just have to let them escape because a lot of them make sure that nobody is dying in the match with their BT, DS, Adrenaline, etc.
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Of course there is a lack of high rank killers. If you would like to have more high rank killers, you would have to make changes to the game so that more people would like to play killer, and more often.
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I tried playing my nurse again at rank 14. I havent really played her since her rework. i thought i was getting the hang of it until MM paired me with all 1's and 2's. I didnt get a single kill. Barely any hooks. They were pretty good at juking and i screwed up some blinks but my god it wasnt fun. before the rework I thought I was a good nurse. i didnt even use extra blink add ons but now I feel like I need to b a god nurse to catch good survivors with her. By the time I find someone my blinks are out, when they recharge they get to a building and my guessing is awful.
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Nurses are so rare on console that when survivors see her they finally wake from a thousand year slumber to play the game right.
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I bet It's two things, A lack of Killers playing since a lot are finding Killer too stressful now when 2 gens can pop right of the bat thanks to the ruin nerf making early game skewed into the survivors favor.
The other is probably Matchmaking, Either the game can't find red rank killers in a good time and is matching you with the next best thing being lower ranks or the Devs are messing with it again to try speed up que times since that's a major complaint right now.
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I know the feeling. I tried Nurse for the first time recently, and my god, the red ranks knew I couldn't play. They made sure to just sidestep each blink slightly and taunted me for it. I never felt so useless in all my life. They did end up giving me free points, but damn, I never wanna touch Nurse again after that! Hats off to anyone who can master her!
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It's because you as a rank 1 killer are extremely rare. I'm a pretty damned good killer, but I'm only rank 5 because I use all the killers rather than focusing on 1 or 2 and spending my bps in them for add ons, and I dont care to pip up. I only get rank 1 and 2 survivors unless a red brings a swf.
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The MM is doing that to all new killers now. If I was brand new to this game and this happened to me, id ask for my money back. Hiding the ranks isn't going to fix the problem. It's just going to cover it up. It will still be there. Like how ruin didn't fix the issue with gen speed.
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My theory is that a trifecta of things 'might' be affecting red rank survivor lobbies.
1.) Matchmaking. If a red rank with 3 non-red rank friends queue up they get a red rank killer, in theory. The three spots that the non-red rank team members take up are 3 spots that can't be filled by 3 red rank solo players,
2.) Ruin was carrying some people. If it didn't get purged in the first 30 secs of the game, you might have won on gen speed alone. Now they are deranking faster for lack of pipping or not ranking up at all.
3.) The change to rank reset means that more survivors are in red ranks than ever before (it is easier to pip as survivor), but it is not true of killers. There is now less red rank killers to go around. Months prior to this it was red rank killers in long lobbies, but now it is the other way around. ( I also acknowledge less people may be playing killer.)
So those are my theories of why this is happening. If there are no red rank killers available you just get thrown or matched with the closest regional killer, green ranks in most cases, lower purple in others.
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Solution is easy ==> stop siding with survivors in every patch and start balancing game equaly for both sides. Final nail in the coffin was destroying Hex:Ruin before balancing all maps (size, infinites, totem spawns...etc.) and generator speeds. Destroying killer perk that counters insane gen speeds was wrong move. In this state of game its highly stressful to play as killer meanwhile survivors are taking power role. This all leads to higher number of survivors and less killers and this again leads to unbalanced matchmaking where rank 11 killer is assigned with 4 survivors ranks 1-3 because there is no enough high rank killers. Its like spiral. Hex: Ruin was nerfed because it was "frustrating" for new survivors. BHVR needs to give same "love" for new killers as well to attract new players and thus balance numbers of player on killers side.
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