SWF Matchmaking
SWF rank disparity is consistently inconsistent.
I am a rank 1 that plays with my brown rank friends occasionally. Generally, you'd assume we get paired with a killer somewhere in the middle (maybe 8-15), however, it seems that this matchmaking only results in the two extremes.
Either we get a brown rank killer who's played for a few hours, or we get a red rank killer that has 1000's of hours.
What happened to the middle ranks? How come this pairing only results in the two extremes? Seems like matchmaking was better off with rank averaging lmao.
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It's supposed to drop you off at the deep end but it appears it doesn't always work properly. When I play with my yellow rank friends we either get red ranks or yellow ranks which is weird because when I solo I usually get greens and purples. Honestly swf matchmaking change was probably the worst mistake in the game's history and it was executed poorly to boot.
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SWF rank matchmaking is supposed to use the highest ranking survivor when creating lobbies. It used to use the average and at times the creator of the lobby, but it was changed to prevent high rank survivors from bullying low rank and casual killers. Which was a huge problem of DBD.
The problem though is as of right now there is a significant shortage of high rank killers. So what's happening is the game has to open up SWF lobbies with red/purple rank survivors to any killer so as to shorten already high queue times for high rank survivors. The limit is meant to be +6/-6 ranks but the game will ignore that after a period of lobby waiting has passed. And when low rank survivors are in SWF lobbies with high rank friends that's adding even more survivors to an already crowded high rank survivor queue which makes it even likelier you'll be paired with a low rank killer.
So low rank and casual killers are now getting bullied again, just this time unintentionally, which only leads to more killers leaving or playing survivor more. Thereby making the problem even worse.
This also means low rank survivors are getting ez wins when them and their high rank friends are paired against rank 14 Wraiths, leading to even more survivors ranking up into the red/purple ranks. Which is why red rank survivors seem so awful nowadays.
Hopefully the upcoming map reworks and MM changes leads to an increase in high rank killers and/or decrease in high rank survivors so MM isn't busted anymore.
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Most of what you just said is simply wrong or has no evidence or even no evidence to support it. I could explain to you why in great detail upon request. I just quoted you to point out specifically that you are entirely wrong in their reasoning for swf matchmaking changes. It was changed because it was bugged and skewing towards rank 20 which caused a lot of bullying and scaring away newer players.
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