This just isn't fun anymore

PS4 is just bad now, they've broken it until it's almost unplayable. At over 125MBPS I'm lucky to get 3 games in before DBD decides that I'm not allowed to play anymore and I get the (since last patch or two) "Disconnected from host" bug. It shows as if the killer DC'd. I certainly didn't DC, and then I get hit with a ban. Just got hit with another 28 minute ban. Isn't this game fun?

Rank 15 or below will be matched into any rank matches to help new players find matches instead of waiting forever and still not get a single match

My friend started playing as killer and its ridiculous watching all these high ranked survivors just messing with her because they know they can after playing with her a few minutes.

It hasn't been fun for quite some time. I got on this past weekend, and got 4 red rank survivors as a rank 13 killer my first match. I thought to myself " my first match, and I already want to stop playing ".

I think they temporarily increased the ranges due to poor q times. Whenever I solo as survivor I get killers that are out of the range. I do also remember the q times being worse before this (I recently took a break from survivor so I was white ranks).

Yeah, from what I experienced, crossplay should be our best option if we don't have enough killers. I'm tired of constantly waiting for a match for almost 3 hours.

See the broken matchmaking works for me because I'm only a sometimes killer player so by the time I get to killer I've been deranked to the high teens. I by no means think I'm good enough to play against red ranks, but I'm a red rank survivor so I understand the strats that they try to pull which certainly helps. Last night I had 4ks against red rank survivors and lower with the doctor, the wraith and Legion. Maybe find a killer that works better for you. I'm seeing someone post Pig and Shape matches...they're not the best unless you've been making them for years.

I feel ya. Sometimes matchmaking is just a little insane.

Don't really have any words of encouragement other than to hang in there, not every match is that bad, and sometimes rank doesn't even mean that much.

And when you finally manage to 4K that 4-man SWF group of purple-red rank people you'll feel better. :D

I think a lot of people left the game when they changed Hex: Ruin. IMHO it made the game really repetitive. If you don't juggle survivors, and give up on potentially long chases, you just lose, horribly. Which makes sense, right? It's how killers are in their movies... Like, when Michael Myers is going after someone he's stalking, if he see's them go inside a building and the lock the door, he just leaves, because he knows it will just be a waste of his time. Same goes for Freddy, and Leatherface... /s

Anyways, I don't know if fixing matchmaking will help. I'm rank 1 as both roles, and I've tried smurfing (using an low level account) as killer on an alternate playstation account. I didn't struggle too much, but survivors were definitely better than I thought they would be. There were even some survivors I would bet were smurfing, because they played like they were red rank survivors, but they were rank 13-20.

PC Cheaters are not as common as you think.

Crossplay will work regardless.

I quit playing on PS4 two weeks ago because of this. There are fluctuations in wait times for survivors vs. killers depending on the time of day, but generally, it has gotten really rotten for killers, so I stopped playing. I like playing survivor, but not all the time, and I can't get my dailies done in this situation.

Note to Devs: I think that, like any communication problem, players should be allowed to see the numbers of killers vs sets of four survivors, or even a ratio ( like "right now there are -3000 killers to each set of survivors within 3 ranks of you, or something to that effect) Then everyone could see at any time clearly that there aren't enough killers, and players might choose to play killer for a while. I think it is a communication issue. With everything begin the veil, no one can see the numbers and everyone complains that it is the devs' fault. But I think it would improve if people could actually see the effect that their own numbers have on the game. Right now survivors are being allowed to be more and more selfish, and they can't see the actual effect of their SWF teams on the game.

Here is a good simplified example. When I did ballroom dance, there were two men and four women. If I had chosen to not lead, I would have spent time waiting. This is like a very complicated version of that situation, due to ranks and stuff. It isn't simple, so I think that more responsibility has to be given to the players so they can make decisions.

Do these people even read the forum? It's like they're surprised this happens and complain like it's new. That said, I'm agreeing that the matchmaking does suck and I wish they would fix it somehow. However, I also think that with any game there is a learning curve. I remember trying to play LoL and getting destroyed. Learning and getting better is part of gaming imo. Playing harder opponents is typical the fastest approach although maybe also the biggest deterrent.

It’s also hard because all they do now is gen rush

you get mostly SWFs, as well, because playing solo queues sucks. I know when I SWF my team is majority Red Ranks, but we have low ranks friends who join and then we get new killers because of one person in our team. They get bullied without us even trying.

PS4 matchmaking is crap. Killers purposely deranking kinds hurts you too. I come across level 16s with ultra rare and learned perks and strong add-ons pretty regularly and all they want to do is bully the lower ranks.

Bruh, I feel your pain. This was my last game today. I have a good feeling at least a few of them were SWF too, as my discordance showed yellow gens for pretty much the whole game.

I know right? I find survivor much easier to level up than killer. Which is why I really have to work hard as killer, especially when even at low ranks I still encounter red rank survivors, cause no one wants to play killer when they can't even do something as simple as matchmaking correctly.

Welcome to the world of main killers, yet survivors will cry about "Killers are S T R O N G"