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DbD literally makes you spend more time in the menus than ingame

Canas
Canas Member Posts: 1,021

I have to wait 10 mins on average as a killer to get a lobby just to get genrushed to hell in half of that. Not only is the balancing worse than ever, the matchmaking is equally catastrophic.

I can't get more than a single kill nowadays and the game doesn't even try to adjust any of my matchups. How on earth is anyone supposed to enjoy playing killer under these circumstances? Where are the much needed survivor nerfs?

Comments

  • NekoTorvic
    NekoTorvic Member Posts: 778

    Balancing is just as atrocious as it has always been. It's just that you find it more often instead of once every 6 or so matches as it used to be without mmr. And you notice it much more because queue times are like 10 minutes long.

  • Labrac
    Labrac Applicant Posts: 1,285

    I think the high queues for killer after SBMM are due to the win condition they explained on the last stream. A killer who gets a 1k gains the same MMR as a survivor who escapes, so it's easier to get to a high MMR as killer than it is as survivor.

  • Canas
    Canas Member Posts: 1,021

    I've played for 3-4 hours today and around 80% of those matches were hilariously onesided in favor of the survivors. I can't take this constant abuse anymore, there need to be changes immediately. The game is too survivor sided in its current state, the current matchmaking merely cemented this.

  • Helpful tip I recommend is to just get all 4 bbq stacks and down survivors but never hook them. This simple stratgey <employed on my highest queue killer, Legion> has led to me queues going from max ten minute wait to a solid 5 or less. <If you want to kill bring rancor or devor and only kill one survivor that is what I do and it is a nice challenge>

  • Labrac
    Labrac Applicant Posts: 1,285

    I wish the data they revealed on the last stream didn't include the old matchmaking system. If the kill rate was 53% at the time, and nearly everyone who plays killer says it has become harder since SBMM, I wonder how survivor sided the stats are right now with MMR.

  • mad_hatter
    mad_hatter Member Posts: 121

    Not to speak on the matchmaking, cause that's always hit and miss for me, but my matchmaking times haven't changed - I'm in the UK, and when I play after around 7pm, I get instant killer queues...

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,724

    That is why you should be able to customize it. I bet lots of players miss the Winter lobby, or the Halloween lobby.

    And fun fact, there used to be a mod for that:

    And if a modder did it, so can BHVR.

  • Canas
    Canas Member Posts: 1,021

    I usually get supershort queues during night time, sadly that also happens to be the favorite time for all those SWF squads. So it's pretty much a lose-lose for me.

  • EntitySpawn
    EntitySpawn Member Posts: 4,233

    It's more during the morning/afternoon for uk, I get fast ones at night but it's rare I can play at that time, sometimes I'm waiting like 10-20mins but that's on off peak times, just sucks lol

  • Chilli_man2400
    Chilli_man2400 Member Posts: 2,934

    It’s weird cause during the day My survivor que times are quick as ######### but as killer it’s so long it took almost 15-20 minutes just to get into a match but at night time Killer que is only 10-15 seconds