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Where did matchmaking go wrong?

Rivyn
Rivyn Member Posts: 3,022

Seems pretty simple to have a basic matchmaking system work. Match by color, or by number. How did DbD go so wrong? I know of the general theory of a killer exodus after Ruin, and SWF throwing things out of whack, but I don't recall a dev chipping in. Just faulty code?

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  • StarLost
    StarLost Member Posts: 8,077

    A dev told me that they've completely scrapped killer matchmaking a while back and plan to bring it back down the line.

  • xerav
    xerav Member Posts: 392
    edited September 2020

    First: There are way more Rank 1 Survivor then Rank 1 Killers (clearly cuz survivor are more skilled at the game).

    Second: The Game is not balanced for 4 very bad survivor or 4 very good survivor

    Its not like league when its a 5vs5.

    Unless BHVR starts to balance the game by the rank of players (i.e slower/faster repair based on your rank and number on swf in your group) having a strict Matchmaking will only result in very onesided games of 15min rank 20 games and 4min rank 1 games.

    BHVR released a chart showing survival rates and it was like less then 2 survivor on rank 20 and arround 3 survivor at rank 1..

  • BigTimeGamer
    BigTimeGamer Member Posts: 1,752

    changing the game based on someone’s rank is idiotic and would only encourage intentional deranks and smurfs

    imagine if in CSGO you did less damage based on how high rank you were or if you were with friends