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Console switching is miserable
Okay so Ive been trying to switch to my PC account for DBD full time which has been extremely hard for a multitude of reasons. I've had this PC account for years with a little over 600 hours on it yet barely anything because of how miserable this games grind continues to be, but also because MMR is MISERABLE!
I mained Nurse when I first got my PC account and she remained my main even when I dabbled in Hag and Spirit. Well now I got Skully on PC and shes my true main so I've been trying to play her and a few others on PC and its...the worst thing ever.
We seriously need MMR decay or reset because I touch DBD Pc maybe twice a month atm and yet I am facing noticeably higher MMR survivors on my PC account EVERY match across ALL killers. I can't practice anyone like Blight, Huntress, Artist and I can't play people I always do like Skully or Hag so I'm just stuck playing Nurse because on top of the abysmal grind, MMR never decays and is shared amongst killers still (the 'mmr difference between killers' is extremely minimal and borderline non existent) so the game thinks Im on a rampage with perkless Skully because I have good Nurse stats so Im basically going against a full meta sweat squad every single match meanwhile I have Game Afoot.
Can we seriously have an MMR decay or unlink MMRs from killers because this experience is miserable
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I thought killers have a different MMR depending on which killer they pick? Isn’t that the entire reason you can’t change killer after you start searching for a match?
Clown is my main and I know I get way better survivors when I play Clown, Nemesis, or Trapper than if I play Sudoku or another killer I barely use.
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There is a different MMR between killers but it's not entirely seperated, increasing your MMR on any killer will increasee the MMR of all your killers, just not as much.
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Its EXTREMELY minimal to the point its non-existent. This is all demonstration numbers but its like this somewhat
Lets say your base MMR is 10000, the killer you're playing would + or - say 750 mmr points. So my MMR on Nurse could be 10000 and Im amazing but on Huntress who I rarely play and when I do I lose, my MMR would be at 9250.
Sure I may lose every single game I play on Huntress, but the MMR only factors in the killer by a very tiny amount so while I may occasionally run into slightly worse survivors they're still gonna be at the top of the totem pole
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Unfortunately, that is just the nature of this system. It does not work.
My MMR is in some weird limbo that ranges from survivors that are clearly better than I am to a Jill who I grabbed off a dull totem without her being asleep. Rarely do I get a match I can say was truly balanced.
I think what we truly need is for MMR to be scrapped. The feedback is always negative, and it has caused way too much harm.
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Fascinating thats how it works... and quite illogical. Skills on killers certainly do not transfer universally.
Rather than scrap MMR (see the madness of the PTB for how bad that would be), this is a factor of it that should be fixed.
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I kinda get it because I think they figure your basic killer skill set (chase/M1/general game sense) will translate and use that as a base. And this is largely true. Say if you're a Myers main with thousands of hours and you switch to Wraith and you're at rock bottom MMR, you're going absolutely decimate all your opponents for a while.
But as we know, there are a number of killers whose power/ability is so unique and they are so dependent on it that the translatable skills don't matter. You could have thousands of hours in killer, but it you're switching to Nurse/Billy/Etc. for the first time, that experience just doesn't mean all that much. And as such, I think it has been a barrier to entry for veterans of the game who might want to try out one of the more unique killers.
Currently, I think all you can really do is get a feel for these killers in custom bot matches, and then just be willing to eat ######### for a while in pubs.
Even though there's a lot of talk about how ineffective MMR is and that it should be scrapped, like you I don't think we actually want that. For killer, I think all of them should start at bottom MMR, but adjust up quickly (and individually) if they're rinsing everyone.
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In your shoes I'd just cop the losses and hope to eventually drop into a more appropriate bracket. Playing Nurse will just maintain you at that level where you feel you can't play any other killer, which obviously will affect your desire to play at all. We all know SBMM is shoddy at best but it doesn't look like the devs will do anything about it anytime soon, so to save your sanity in the long-term I'd just play who I want and cop the losses short-term if I were you.
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Considering the massive variant of people I get in my queues I assume MMR no longer exists. I think they just give you whoever is next in line to get matches going quickly. I solo Q and get amazing teams who all seem to know where to be and what to be doing and then the next match it feels like a whole troop of people who may have purchased the game yesterday.
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