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How Do I DeRank without quitting, suicide, or DCing As Survivor?

Title kinda says it all. I don't even know how I got to Rank 1 survivor. I only escape about 10% of the time.
Now everyone I match up with is a scumbag.
Rank 1 Killer is fine. People wanna play scummy, I'll just play scummy back. No big deal. But I can't take the BS in Rank 1 survivor games anymore.

Also, I don't want to wait until rank reset. I'd actually like to play.

Comments

  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675

    You could try hiding without doing anything until everyone has repaired the generators and then leaving (don't open the exit). That might be enough to depip.

  • Zixology
    Zixology Member Posts: 1,062

    @Orion said:
    You could try hiding without doing anything until everyone has repaired the generators and then leaving (don't open the exit). That might be enough to depip.

    I just want a way to do so without having to be a bad teammate at the same time. There should be a way to opt out of ranked play.

  • CoolAKn
    CoolAKn Member Posts: 677

    The emblems determine whether you pip or not, so you just need to avoid doing certain activities.
    https://deadbydaylight.gamepedia.com/Emblems

    Lightbringer - Just avoid doing generators a lot, and don't cleanse any hex totems or open the exit gates yourself.
    Unbroken - Get downed a lot. Just getting downed once makes it impossible for you to get iridescent
    Benevolent - Don't heal or unhook anyone. Avoid the killer when they are carrying someone and avoid the basement if you can. You can unhook farm for -30 points each time, but I personally would not do that either.
    Evader - When inside the TR, seek out the killer, and do poorly in chases.

    More or less, you would have to do several games of minimal activity or just be AFK, but the other survivors might hate you for doing this.

  • Oblitiry
    Oblitiry Member Posts: 487
    Play like ######### without throwing the match for your team.
  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675

    @Zixology said:

    @Orion said:
    You could try hiding without doing anything until everyone has repaired the generators and then leaving (don't open the exit). That might be enough to depip.

    I just want a way to do so without having to be a bad teammate at the same time. There should be a way to opt out of ranked play.

    There is no option to derank, for obvious reasons. Either you DC like an #########, suicide on the hook like an #########, or do nothing like an #########.

  • Freudentrauma
    Freudentrauma Member Posts: 1,082

    @Zixology said:
    I don't even know how I got to Rank 1 survivor. I only escape about 10% of the time.

    The rank system of DbD is more of a grind system. The more you play the more likely you end up in the red ranks. Especially now that the rank resets have been changed, it happens quite faster.
    It's possible to downrank. But really hard to do with the current emblem system, because as a survivor as long if you don't end up on the hook consistly or be camped, you will have most likely get a safety pip and not beeing able to derank.
    For me as a killer it's quite similar. I'm mediocore and have horrible rounds from time to time. But still I always land in the red ranks after a while. Mostly because I rarely depip and run from time to time into Survivors that don't belong into the red ranks as much as I do.

  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172

    They really need to address rank since there are days where I cannot find matches at rank 1 for ages. If we had separate ranks for survivors or a "un-ranked" mode. I get the frustration in wanting to play but not being able to.

    As Orion said there is no way to de-rank without being an #########, so I would simply do your best in your matches. Or get friends who are low rank and exploit SWF. As a Killer I'm not fond of the idea of SWF groups but sometimes they just want to get games too.

  • blue4zion
    blue4zion Member Posts: 2,773
    edited September 2018

    I guess a way to depip without being a bad teammate is to try and keep the killers attention. Let everyone else just work on gens and try your best to be the only one chased. (Guess this won't work if you're bad in chases.) Don't do gens and don't unhook. Just buy everyone else time. Don't win the chases either, if you know you haven't been in the killers sight for a good second, help them find you.
    Dunno if this'll actually help but eh

  • NMCKE
    NMCKE Member Posts: 8,242
    Zixology said:

    Title kinda says it all. I don't even know how I got to Rank 1 survivor. I only escape about 10% of the time.
    Now everyone I match up with is a scumbag.
    Rank 1 Killer is fine. People wanna play scummy, I'll just play scummy back. No big deal. But I can't take the BS in Rank 1 survivor games anymore.

    Also, I don't want to wait until rank reset. I'd actually like to play.

    Rank isn't the problem, the punishment system is the problem if they are ruining your game by being scummy such as sandbagging.
  • HellDescent
    HellDescent Member Posts: 4,883

    Wglf. Just do hook rescues and body block the entire game.

  • Mr_Jay_Stark
    Mr_Jay_Stark Member Posts: 539
    Run No Mither and object of obsession 
  • feffrey
    feffrey Member Posts: 886
    hide in a locker