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Okay...*What* Is Going On Tonight?
So this afternoon was a mess of deliberate DCs. Decided to give it a break and come back fresh this evening.
And...
Okay, so a bit of background. Trying to learn Demo. Really, really bad at him. Seldom do I manage to get more than 1 kill. But, gradually things evened out as I arrived at an MMR where survivors are pretty inexperienced too.
Log on tonight and things went pretty crazy pretty fast. First game - Gen #1 pops off in the distance, less than 30 seconds after the match starts. 2 more gens are done before I even see a survivor. I get looped to pieces, get DSed, DH'd and Adrenalined and I end with a 4-out. Sure enough, the lobby is full of meta perks and 2 Brand New Parts.
Okay, no worries. Must just have been a weird one.
Next game, fully packed lobby of people with 'Bully' in their names. Oh boy. I just dodge.
End up in a game where, once again, I get run into the ground and can't really get anything done as I'm running craptacular level 2 perks and everyone else is juiced.
The next 5 games were almost identical, give or take maybe 1 less experienced player among the obvious smurfs.
Weird.
Jumped over onto Hag, and games were totally fine. Intermediate players, usually 2-3 kills without playing especially sweaty.
So...one of 3 things is happening.
- I'm getting bizarrely bad luck.
- Groups of survivors are abusing the removal of the DC penalty to smurf their MMR down rapidly to ridiculously low levels.
- Your MMR on all killers has a 'floor', tied closely to the MMR of your highest killer (meaning that the 'unique MMR per killer' thing isn't really the case.
Anyone else seeing absolutely bonkers matchmaking this evening?
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you're playing at early AM's est
you shouldn't be doing that, i don't know if it has something to do with regional timezones but it's when you're massively more likely to get tryhards
unless you're a solo because there's no room for you in .. european?? swfs
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MMR reduction on DC is not confirmed, and as a survivor, just dying 30 seconds into the trial will not take much longer than regular DC, although it will definitely reduce MMR. So DC is not to blame here.
And I don't know about the "killer MMR floor", but their "unique MMR per killer" is definitely BS, since it was confirmed your MMR on every killer is tied to your highest MMR among killers. To be more precise, default MMR of a brand new account is 1100, while 1900 is a hard cap (yes, there is a hard cap), and the MMR of a killer you play for the first time in your life will be about ~200 units lower than MMR of your main. That is, not much lower. This is only the starting MMR that has been confirmed, there might as well be some other dependencies, including the floor you are talking about. After learning how trashy this EBMM system is, it wouldn't be surprising.
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By confirmed, you mean that thread on Reddit that turned out to be mostly false?
What is weird about tonight was that my games on my almost certainly much lower MMR Demo and Pinhead were versus much stronger survivors than my better killers, which felt like normal. This makes me suspect that it's people dropping their MMR by DCing.
I always play at odd hours.
Again, this wasn't on all my killers. Those with probably 'middling' MMRs (my better killers) were the same as normal.
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i get that but the pool of survivors playing is way, way higher skill level + propensity to rig the game even harder in their favour at these hours
seriously, try another night 8 hours before this post or so
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Sounds like normal struggling when learning how to play new killers. Demo was pretty hard for me to grasp too. The way I see it is kind of like Hag, in a way... you need to set up a portable perimeter around the map.
More or less in the same vein as the generators... keep one portal near the center for quick access to everything. Then spread out your portals depending on which gens you want to protect more than others.
Then it's just a matter of hunting!
But yeah, sounds like your Hag games were probably better because you're used to playing Hag. Or at least played Hag a few times. Once you get the hang of Demo, it will be another walk in the park
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