SBMM Feedback: SBMM has made my killer games absolutely miserable.
For a bit of context, I'm currently sitting around 3.6k hours, my killer rank is usually hovering within the red ranks. I don't have a dedicated "main", I sorta just try to play different killers to keep things fresh. Before the test started I was pretty content with my matches, there's always a bit on inconsistency but I did often get people that felt like my skill level, able to give me a decent chase, but were still catchable.
My games throughout this SBMM test however have been absolutely dreadful, starting on my first game I was against extremely coordinated players who were clearly leagues above me and pretty much wiped the floor with me. This became the norm very quickly as the next game after was pretty much the same experience, this went for pretty much game after game. Being put up against people who either used any and every advantage they could to win, people who part of a coordinated team and people who just frankly were way above my skill level. If I was lucky enough, I would be able to get 1 or 2 kills usually by camping during the EGC. The entire time I was being used a doormat I was wondering when the SBMM would kick in and start putting me against players of a more appropriate skill level.
Eventually I was given a moment of reprieve, although it feels like the rank difference was too extreme as it honestly felt like I was going against people who were now way BELOW my skill level, so I went from games that were unfun because I get bullied the entire time, to a game that's unfun because everything felt too easy. The next game after it was back to being everyone's punching bag, this continued for what I think was about 6-7 games before I finally a game that was actually fun, decent chases. Both sides juking or outplaying the other. I even had the first lighthearted and honestly nice postgame chat in a long time.
Then, it was right back to the awful games. The game doesn't seem to register my humiliating losses and keeps putting me in dreadful matches, but the moment I manage to win or even come close to winning, it decides I'm doing too well and kicks me right back into the hellish sea of sweat. I've hopped around to different killers and it seems like there isn't a single one where my MMR is low enough to not suffer.
But I think the worst part of it all, were the awful games where I managed to win, but I didn't feel good doing it. I did pretty much every sweaty or awful thing you could imagine, I brought the strongest addons I could think of, some players would end up spending long periods slugged on the floor as I try to desperately gain control of the situation, I often found myself bringing mori offerings because of how fed up with it all I was. In short, the worst part about the SBMM system for me is how it forces me to sweat just to win, I feel awful doing it knowing how dreadful it is for the other side, but yet it's preferable over being taunted endlessly and facing loss after loss.
From my conversations with other players across various discord servers and even a few observations I've made on these forums, the results of the SBMM seem mostly consistent, while alot of people claim to be having a great time with the new system, most people who I notice seem to be red rank killers seem to be going through a similar ordeal.
Playing the game for the past few days with SBMM active has probably been one of the worst experiences I've ever had with this game, I feel absolutely helpless every game and I'm genuinely worried for when the day comes when this kind of system is activated permanently. I don't see myself playing this game if this is how what all of my games are going to become. This doesn't feel like something I can overcome by improving my skill and even if it was, it clearly isn't worth trying, knowing it can only get worse from there.
EDIT: Little update on my experience with SBMM, after a few hours of playing. Matchmaking appears to have finally started working as intended, matches slowly got better and I was even able to win a few. It might be too soon to say as the SBMM has previously had a habit of giving a few easy games before throwing me back into the shark tank. But if it's a case where the SBMM has finally started working properly for me...that's pretty concerning for how long it took.
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I didn't quite match up with your experience, but I do agree with SBMM seeming to have no rhyme or reason to it. My best killers are the ones that get the easiest survivors to go against while my worst killers somehow have the most sweat drenched SWF squads as opponents. Either way, it's annoying as hell and doesn't appear to be changing at all despite playing a ton of matches.
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I overall like SBMM, but it is annoying sometimes.
I faced few death squads, which destroyed me as Wraith, because they just knew how to deny my power.
So now, because I am not able to tell how good lobby is, I just bring strongest addons and 3 slow-down perks to deal with them. It is overkill for some lobbies, but it is often needed to have at least some chance.
Problem is that current ratings are based on old system, so ratings on my mains are way higher than it should be. With old system it was very rare to face teams like that, maybe 1 in 20 games, probably not even that. With SBMM it is something like 1 in 3.
Wraith / Deathslinger / Legion just have very little chance in high mmr games unless I go full tryhard from start.
During normal system I start friendly and just adapt based on gens, but right now it is reversed. I have to start tryharding and adapt, if I see it is too much for them.
Right now, I have to play around 3-gen everygame and use strongest perks, which can become boring.
Worst thing is that way more survivors boop the snoot against pig, so I can't kill them...
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