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The good old times ...

drsoontm
drsoontm Member Posts: 4,903
edited May 2024 in General Discussions

I was doing some cleanup and I've found this screenshot taken right when the old match-making system has been replaced by the new SBMM.

The way I see it, that's when it started to go downhill.

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Of course many things are better now, but as far as match making is concerned, I think I liked that era better.

(I'm the Claudette/orange masked name)

Do you also have good memories of the old system?

Comments

  • robrob909
    robrob909 Member Posts: 79
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/413201/the-good-old-times

    15 minute queue nah I'm good

  • fussy
    fussy Member Posts: 1,729

    My first match on killer was against bully squad with 1-2k hours each. Nah, thanks. Sbmm is bad, but before wasn't better.

  • radiantHero23
    radiantHero23 Member Posts: 4,517
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/413201/the-good-old-times

    Yun was already there. Not THAT old.

    I enjoyed the game back then yes. Better than right now? Depends...

  • Smoe
    Smoe Member Posts: 2,992
    edited May 2024

    All i have to say about ranked based matchmaking is good ######### riddance.

  • Nazzzak
    Nazzzak Member Posts: 5,875

    I liked the consistency of my games back then. I'd get down to purple rank and purposely stay there because my games were so chill at that rank and I felt like everyone I got matched with was on my level. If I went into gold it was like night and day in comparison, from what I remember. Like everyone just started sweating. I had zero desire to play at red. SBMM honestly just feels like the roll of a dice alot of the time. Sometimes it gets it right and everyone feels in sync, but that's the exception it feels like. The thing is though, I loved SBMM when they first changed over to it. It felt like instead of me having to stay at a certain level, the game did it for me. It's really only over maybe the past year that it's been feeling... off.

  • PreorderBonus
    PreorderBonus Member Posts: 342

    Nah, it was awful. I remember each month, as soon as I hit Iri ranks my queue times would go to over 20 minutes, and I was forced to play in peak hours. Not to mention the state of the game back then. Today's DBD is GOTY compared to what we used to have

  • AnxiousGummy
    AnxiousGummy Member Posts: 123

    I think people forget how long queue times were back then. The current MMR system is not perfect but at least we're not waiting forever for a match.

  • The_Krapper
    The_Krapper Member Posts: 3,259

    If it weren't for the que times being bad I'd take it back even further and go back to the very specific point in rank based matchmaking where it seemed like the players you were paired with and against were genuinely of equal skill, but alot of survivors and killers complained it was too hard to pip up in red ranks but I personally felt like it showed you who the true top players were at that point in the game before they updated it yet again and it went haywire just matching you with anyone.