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Wait Time
I’ve been wondering why the wait times are so long on xbox. The game has a solid fan base I assume. I sit and wait for survivor games for 15 mins or longer just looking. Does this happen to anyone else?
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That is due to the deficit of people wanting to play killer, at least at green/purple/red ranks. Less killers = less matches (because they are half a match). It also doesn't help that the few killers that are there are being taken up by swf squads due to a matchmaking change a while back (implemented to prevent derank bullying).
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People will say it's all about region, time you que ect. Those factor in but it comes down to no one wants to play killer. From my understanding the way MM works. It looks for people your rank and if it can't find any, it looks for ranks farther away from yours. If your waiting long enough it will throw the first person available your way. Rank be damned. So you can have a game. The devs really don't play killer outside of newb ranks. In the early stages the killers seem overpowered but that's because the survivors don't know how to play. Once they learn the game flips on it's head. However the devs keep balancing the game around new players and this makes the experienced survivors even stronger. The devs have made it so frustrating that killers either play survivor or play something else.
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That’s really unfortunate. I wonder if they have any plans to address those issues.
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I wouldn't really count on that to help. They are going to hide the new MMR system, so we can't see if it is actually working. That is never a good sign. They are then going to lets us see the current ranking system ranks, which will be meaningless, but are going to be there for "bragging rights". What's there to brag about if it isn't the true ranking.
Also, their goal is to try and make it as fair as possible while getting you into a match as soon as possible. Ultimately, if the problem with queue times is with a shortage of killers, as most suspect, then killers will face the same situations of being matched with survivors that are much more experienced than they are. The difference will be, because the ratings will be hidden, that you won't be able to post screen shots proving that matchmaking isn't working.
I hate being cynical, but some of the things the devs have said and done recently leaves me skeptical...and hiding the ratings doesn't help my faith in what they will be doing.
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I agree. I don't see how a hidden system will help. Players will have a bad match experience and if they complain, it will be even easier for others to tell them to "just play better". And we won't have any idea whether the new system will work or not.
The current ranking & matchmaking system is part of the problem, but the main problem is the gameplay itself: A lot of people feel that playing killer is no fun (including me, I'm a survivor main for a reason).
I don't think that the upcoming changes will help a lot, but we will see. The changes to gen time are a drop in the ocean. I'm curious how the map changes will turn out, but I don't have that much hope.
Also, I have a feeling that moris, NOED & Billy will receive significant nerfs in the not-so-distant future. If that would happen, it would worsen our current situation.
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How about to give the side, that is needed (mostly waiting as survivor for a killer to join) a Bonus of bloodpoints
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Or you could give them few shards as reward. Or to make it even more rewardable to play the side wo is needed give them few cells as reward.
Or another idea, but i think it wouldnt help much, crossplay.
Is ps4 and xbox already crossplay? That would be a start.
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The waiting times for survivors are bad and in my opinion, I think a lot of people don't play killer. For example, I player killer, but much less than survivor. If my friends are online, we always play survivor together and they don't play killer at all. My friends say playing killer is too stressful and I agree that sometimes it is, especially because nowadays ranks are all over the place. I played a match today with me, rank 10 killer going against 2 rank 1 and 2 rank 2 survivors. I had a miserable time, for most of the match and while I play one match as survivor, then go for another one, I played one match as killer, go so frustrated that I switched back to survivor again.
Survivors need to stop and realise that Killers are essential. Guess what, you can't play a match without a killer. So, when there are balance changes that benefit killers, we can't just complain until those changes get reversed, because the game needs people who want to play killer and we are losing them. Also, be less toxic to killers that didn't do anything toxic to begin with. I get people t-bagging me at the start of a chase, after they throw down 1 pallet. Why? Or flashlight clicking? Playing killer is already stressful, there is no need to make it worse.
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Exactly. It was a major reason I stopped playing Killer nearly as much when I last played. Now, did the bad manners hurt my feelings or make me mad? Not in the slightest. But it just got tiresome to constantly deal with. It's like being in a room full of screaming, irritating children. Finally you have enough and just leave.
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i deranked and stay around 12-13 and dont kill survs anymore, just dbl hook. so i get average/chill/new survs cause im sick of all the toxicity and verbal harassment in higher ranks
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