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Dear Developers, RE: Matchmaking
Can you please inform your community on what is going on with the recent matchmaking? It is definitely not due to the matchmaking system not being able to find 'ideal' matches since I have not had to wait that long to be placed into lobbies. I understand that you already know about it, and that you are probably working on a fix, but can you tell us:
1. What changes you made in matchmaking (or something else) that may have suddenly caused this?
2. Why was this change made?
And most importantly,
3. Will this be fixed before the arrival of the live version of the Stranger Things Chapter?
If you are expecting an influx of new players with this chapter, the last thing you need is this horrible disparity in matchmaking - forcing brand new players to face against unsuspecting veteran players. It is already probably difficult retaining new players due to this game's heavy learning curve and grinding, but having this type of bug will definitely exacerbate the issue. I don't mind if it is still not fixed during the PTB, but please, please have it fixed before the live version comes out.
Thank you.
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Meanwhile, me being a killer at red ranks takes 10+ minutes to find a game. Pretty much the reason I've been playing so much on my second formerly smurf account this month, because it's the only way I can find killer games. But now I'm rank 5 on that account so now I need to make a third account, maybe a fourth, just to play killer.
They really need to do something about the matchmaking right now. Prior to March I never had a problem finding games at red ranks. After the March update the game immediately started taking ages to find games.
I can find survivors games pretty quick though, unless I'm a 4 stack but even then it's faster queue than killer at the same rank.
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Off-topic, but if you happen to play mostly the killer-side, have a PS4, and live in the Eastern US area, it may be good for you to just play DBD on the PS4 instead of making new accounts. The queue for killers in general are usually much quicker than the survivors here. Although the length of waiting for either queue overall seems to vary from person to person (for example, I don't have to wait that long for either side) but we do seem to frequently need more killers over here.
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No PS4, but this only became a problem for me starting in March. Prior to that I'd find a killer game at red ranks in like 2 minutes at most. And the problem has gotten worse since then. And I know for a fact that there are plenty of survivors playing because I have a lot of friends that play this game and if I play solo I see new players all the time. It's not a population issue, it's something with the game.
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It's a bit more difficult to check the issue from a killer player's point of view, given how the survivors could be in a SWF group of wide range of ranks. Not that it's any less of a problem, given that many survivors undoubtedly take advantage of this situation to bully their opponents. But playing as a solo survivor, I know for certain that matchmaking currently is broken from the screenshots I posted above.
Possibly. There are definitely some problems that seemed to have cropped up since killers have been made to wait from creating a lobby until survivors were found. But the issue that I'm currently addressing has just started fairly recently.
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The first two images look fine, only the third image probably shouldn't happen.
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Can you explain how a Rank 9 going against Rank 18 is "fine?" Unless I was playing as a part of a SWF group or I had a long queue, I shouldn't have been matched up with Rank 15-20 at all.
Thanks for the reply, but can something suddenly break like this when absolutely nothing has changed on your end? And will it be fixed before the next chapter goes live?
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My red rank killer queues have been astronomical. I hit rank 1 last night, waited 10 minutes to even get a lobby, then waited another 5 for it to fill with green rank survivors.
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Having worked on programing for a while I can say with a lot of confindence, sometimes things stop working and it makes no goddamn sense.
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Ironically , the people whom said rank shouldnt be a thing are likely kicking themselves lol
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That's from a match I had on Sunday. I never even saw the killer. I did all 5 gens while the randoms ran him around. I felt so bad for this baby Myers afterward.
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Yep, been there, on the killers side actually... LOL
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Glad this is finally getting traction, it has been so hard as a starting out Killer recently. I was grinding on Bubba to unlock BBQ and all I was getting was high rank Chinese and Brazilian players who were much higher rank than me.
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Amen to that. I am pretty sure I am consistently getting at least one person several ranks higher than me when I am just pulling Killers fresh out of the plastic wrapping.
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Oh did you switch to PC too? I saw you were hesitant on buying the DLC in that sale.
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Yeah, I made the switch. I don't regret it, but damn I wish that this wasn't happening at the time I made the switch.
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I know, it's so frustrating. I got Leather to 35 and it was excruciating to go against Rank 5s bragging ''gg ez'' like seeing them say that against a 16 just blew brain cells out of my head reading that. I'm going to play Hag soon so it won't be as hard since she's not as weak as Bubba.
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this happened to me 2 times recently and im on ps4.
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Yeah, this crap is just unplayable for me as Killer. I tried three matches last night, and it was all the same. At least three of the Survivors were way above my Rank. Well, technically two matches, because I finally said "to hell with it" and DC'ed from the third match and closed the game. And I never DC.
I'm not even looking at buying the DLC until they announce that the matchmaker is fixed. Until then, I guess it's back to Overwatch to mess around with the 2-2-2 RoleQ that just got added into QP, and messing around in F13.
This has already been going on for two weeks, and Peanits said they're aware but have no progress to report, yet. Guess I'll check back in October or so.
Unless they get this fixed before the DLC drops, good luck keeping any new players.
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