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Wait times on PS4

BreadGoddess
BreadGoddess Member Posts: 5
in Ask the Community

Are the devs looking into the looking into the wait time for the lobbies or is it due to the killer no longer being the host?

Answers

  • Fibijean
    Fibijean Member Posts: 8,342

    The devs are always looking to improve things like wait times - that's one of the things they're trying to address with the new MMR system that's about to be introduced. See this post for more information about that: https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/124795/status-update-matchmaking-changes

    Wait times in lobbies are something that's difficult to directly address, however, because it's actually up to the players, not the developers. By that, I mean that how long you wait in the queue depends entirely on how many other people are playing, and what roles they're queuing for. The more people are online on your platform, in your region and at your rank, and the closer those numbers are to the ideal 80:20 survivor to killer ratio, the shorter your matchmaking times will be. But since the devs can't force people to play their game, and choose not to force people to queue for specific roles, it's not a quick or easy fix.

    As mentioned, though, it is nonetheless something they are looking to improve wherever they can. Hopefully that answers your question 😊

  • FireHazard
    FireHazard Member Posts: 7,314

    @BreadGoddess

    It depends on many things, queue times can be longer or shorter depending on your rank, your region, and your time of day.

    Your Region and Time of Day tie together sometimes, so if you're in a region with work hours that you play in, than the queue times will naturally be longer as a result. If your Rank is low... like say Grey or Yellow Rank, than your queue times will of course be longer as well, since not many players are in that rank/stick around that rank, especially this late into Rank Reset (Which for context is every new month on the 13th.)

    They're looking into a Rank Rework to fix various issues like the queue times, Rainbow Rank issue, and various other problems that the old ranking system has on the match-making as a whole. So yes, they're of course always trying to improve and create solutions to the queue times and especially the match-making.

    For more information on the status update for the match-making will be linked below

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/124795/status-update-matchmaking-changes#latest