Complaint about killer wait time

andyollolloll
andyollolloll Member Posts: 940
in General Discussions

I had to wait a good 10 seconds for my killer lobby on PS4.

I realise SWF on comms isn't balanced and because of that I have far less fun as killer but I refuse to wait 9 seconds more than usual, has batch matchmaking been implemented to cause this? If so I'm joining the survivor queues!!

Comments

  • AntiJelly
    AntiJelly Member Posts: 1,155

    There's a specific reason why certain queues are bad. Because they're bad on all platforms.

    They did a change a good few updates ago that made SWF lobbies only search for Killers basedon which Survivor has the highest rank. That made most SWF technically an all purple or red-ranks. Making it less Survivors at low ranks and more Survivors at high ranks.

    This is effectively what it's done:

    • Long wait times for high rank Survivor and low rank Killer
    • Fast wait times for high rank Killer and low rank Survivor
    • Overall worse matches, rank wise.
  • JawsIsTheNextKiller
    JawsIsTheNextKiller Member Posts: 3,456

    I agree that killer wait times are out of control. I pressed triangle to create a lobby, went to the Kitchen to get a beverage, when I came back the game had started, all my gens had been done and the survivors were all teabagging at the exit gates.

    BHVR please fix killer lobby times.

  • Warlock_2020
    Warlock_2020 Member Posts: 1,867

    You guys are lucky. On PC I was waiting 10 minutes per match and upwards of 15 at times. Rub it in why don't ya.

  • KuromiStarwind
    KuromiStarwind Member Posts: 325
    edited February 2020

    You're joking but just a few months ago, for a solid year, killer queues at red ranks took 15+ minutes. I didn't play for half a year because of it, and then I didn't play for another 6 months because of the infinite loadscreen bug when Legion was released. Lol

  • EvilJoshy
    EvilJoshy Member Posts: 5,295
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1086282#Comment_1086282

    I'm waiting about 5 mins each match but still boring. I'm often alt+tab out of the window and watch something on youtube while I wait.

  • andyollolloll
    andyollolloll Member Posts: 940
    edited February 2020

    Thanks BHVR, never let it be said they only focus on survivors and fixing their bugs.

    For the past few nights PS4 killer lobbies are taking 2 seconds instead of 9 seconds. Whilst there is room for improvement I am happy to close the job as this is over 300% faster than before.

    Whilst a green rank killer I am constantly facing red rank SWFCs but hear this will be fixed once we hide all ranks except our own gg