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So about the games current state and the devs handling of it
So i wanted to take a minute to talk about the situation here about both the patch and the devs response even though this will probably be lost in the sea of threads.
i wanted to start the dicussion with the situation of the current patch, mainly the matchmaking, what in the ######### happened. I understand that its difficult to create a good and fair matchmaking system, especially having to work from home during a pandemic but what in the hell, seemingly none of what the devs said works or is false,
first i wanted to quote some of their text from their offical matchmaking post.
1.We’re specifically monitoring the experience of new players to ensure the system doesn’t immediately throw them games where they are hopelessly outmatched, and we have a few techniques that we’re implementing already to help with this. Lots of technical / mathematic details, but the basic effect will be that new players tend to get matched at a lower skill rating while they’re still new.
2.We’ve already been running the skill rating calculation in the background for several months, in order to collect data and to validate some elements of our approach. Anyone who has been playing regularly in that time will already have a loosely calibrated skill rating to start with, which will be refined with each game they play now that the system is live.
3.Ratings are initially based on your performance over the last few months, while the system has been collecting data in the background.
This is obviously not the case as you can see in second as you enter either reddit,twitter or the offical forums, they are all filled with either new players getting high rank killers or the other way around, for example when otzdarva goes against 3 rank 15s
Sure lets say the survivors numbers are not completely settled, but there is absolutely no excuse for putting a entire lobby of low ranked survivors with a rank 1 killer, a streamer nontheless which plays the game for hours daily. This is obviously not using earlier player performance as the devs stats in all three of their points i have quoted. sure you could tell me that these are just returning players as their perks/items are decent but that still does not make it any fairer for them to go against someone with thousands of hours.
my second thing i just wanted to mention is the errors, now after the update many players are having huge issues with either error 111 or failed to update rank error, (me included as i havent been able to earn a single bloodpoint since the launch of the patch which was almost 2 weeks ago) And the devs generally does not seem to acknowledge the issues at all or greatly downplaying them.
While writing this post i got a response from a dev after criticizing another one that only responds to the player number accusations, and i do agree with some points but some greatly annoy me, he acknowledges the errors and does say that he has acknowledged it earlier but i would assume that its buried in a thread somewhere on the forum but no anouncment or tweet acknowledging their knowledge of a major issue which leaves most of their playerbase in the dark not to mention that the errors have been in the game for year and are still not fixed.
edit- i also forget to mention the bugs as the phantomgrab for killers.
This dev also said this
Nobody lied about matchmaking in the slightest, we've communicated everything that we have had to communicate. We even put a thread answering questions with regards to the new Matchmaking.
I greatly disagree as all of the quotes were taken from their own matchmaking post link- https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/179192/community-questions-skill-rating-matchmaking#latest
This does not seem to be the case as the matchmaking system is a absolute mess and none of the points stated to actually be in the game. this together with them not wanting to show the skill ratings seems incredibly shady to me. This is not the first time either, remember the promises with dedicated servers? yeahhh.
The dev did also point out to me that its during a pandemic, i can understand that something like that would make working on the game and system much more difficult but why in the hell would you release something this major during this time if you dont have the ability to actually make it function, its just stupid.
End of post, this was kinda a rant as i was getting greatly annoyed by the devs seemingly going radio silent but turned into this full fledged point, i would love to see your guys thoughts
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Did some streamer watching. you know. the folks who win a LOT.
Yeah, why are they as survivors getting donkey killers, and then when playing killers, the ranks are always flipped and its a dumpster fire? lol
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