I give up

I can relate I really can. I'm in an especially bad spot right now, where I am close to hitting Rank 1 as surv, so I am super sweaty right now and every game takes all of my effort (I normally just chill out and play around as surv), or I play killer around your rank and have the same problem you have. It has been especially bad lately - I am facing so many red ranks and swfs - I feel sort of trapped in the corner:

Play survivor and tryhard, something I don't enjoyed doing as survivor, at least not every game

Play killer and get stomped by a SWF or red team most of the time

Neither is particuarily appealing to me. I'm just hanging on right now until the next killer comes out (and MM fixes, come on baby!)

Then it's on the person who doesn't rank up as much to improve. That doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with the system. I'm not even trying to defend the matchmaking, but look at the rank difference there. I'm about the same rank as killer as of right now and I go against teams like that all the time and do fine. My rank doesn't hold me back from still doing well in a game, it's all about what happens in the moment, during the game. That's what determines a win usually. And yes, while I'm not saying "git good" necessarily, I am saying that it's good to go against people who know how to play. Nobody is going to learn anything by playing against potatoes.

I don't mean to discourage somebody and just sound like I'm saying "git good" or whatever, but the reality is, and the devs even have stated this, that ranks aren't indicative of skill, just how much time somebody puts into the game. If people want to ease the pain of going against higher rank players, the best way is to join them and learn how to play against them. It's not meant to be offensive.

I would love a bot mode so survs in ranked don't see me slam into trees when trying to learn billy. I can see how that would be hard to implement though.

No DS, one borrowed time, and 2 survivors had no exhaustion perks. I get the frustration due to the balancing, but it could have been a worse experience for you.

Experiment with more perks. The perks you used weren't very good to me. Ruin can get cleansed in a matter of seconds, NOED doesn't activate until the end game, and Franklin's wasn't worth bringing. All you had was BBQ, which only helps you locate survivors whenever you hook someone.

Also, if you can save the footage of your matches I suggest you save them to watch later and analyze what you could have done better. You can't tell your mistakes in game, but you can definitely notice them when you're spectating your own gameplay.

First of, i would deny that the "conspiracy Theory" has no basis. The basis is the experience the player base have with claims of the devs and the result of changes made, which not always line up.

However, there is something in your post i dont understand, maybe you can explain it to me. The new MMR system will reflect the player skill more accurate. Shouldn´t that result in people of equal skill being matched with each other? If not, how is the MMR more accurate? If it does, why do we need rewards and punishments for different skill levels? To me, it seems like a contradiction.

I can recall very few, if any, times when the developers promised something and then went back on their word. I can recall quite a few times when players projected certain expectations onto the devs and were later disappointed, but that's another matter entirely. The devs gain literally nothing in the long term by telling us that they're developing something that they're not. Even if players can't see the ranks, bad matchmaking will be evident to any player with basic observational skills. It will still be unfun, and if games aren't fun, people stop playing them, so it's in the devs' best interests to fix a problem like that, and they know it. They may make mistakes, but they're not stupid - they wouldn't be this successful if they were. So there may be an emotional basis for believing something like that, but it holds very little water from a purely rational standpoint.

To answer your question, the current ranking system is not a good estimate of player skill. Two players who are both rank 3 could very easily have wildly different skill levels. The MMR system aims to change that, such that players who share the same, or similar, MMR will be of around the same skill level. This is a separate issue to that of matchmaking, it's just about the relationship between rank and skill.

At that point, in an ideal world, people would only be matched with others of the same MMR, and that way all matches would be equally balanced. However, realistically, that won't always be possible because it will depend a lot on player availability - one doesn't want to exclude players from matches altogether just because there is no one with the same MMR queuing at the same time as them. Therefore, there will be times when people are necessarily matched with players of different skill levels. It's not ideal, but it's better than excluding them from matches altogether. Naturally, they'll be trying to minimise such instances, but in cases where that kind of unbalanced matchmaking is necessary to allow people to play the game at all, the system is designed such that the outcome of such matches will impact justly on the players' MMRs, unlike the current system where you can depip just because you happened to get matched with a far more skilled opponent.

True, there is no hard-and-fast evidence either way, because we can't see for ourselves what is going on within the studio. However, while neither is backed by conclusive proof, one is backed by significantly more logic.

And we don't need to know the algorithms behind it to know whether the system is working or not. All we need to know is whether our opponents are of roughly the same skill level as us, which as I said, should be obvious just from simple observation to anyone with a decent amount of game knowledge.

They are focused on the new MMR system, wich is comforting right?

No, im actually worried it'll be worse, since there's still a lack of killers ESPECIALLY on ps4, so the game will have to find someone for them rank 1 toxic SWF. But if they hide the Mmr like they said you won't even know what hit you. Was it just a bad match? What was their MMR? You won't even know.

If the teams you face are too toxic, just slap NOED + bloodwarden. At the current state of the game i don't think anyone can blame you for doing that.

To be clear, I don't think they're scheming liars either (that's just silly), but they have promised plenty of stuff that never came to be. That one is the one that stuck to my memory because I wrote an extremely detailed killer suggestion that hinged on that being implemented.

Also fair enough.

Hide or Die is way more balanced, and as of a few days ago, it was on sale for $15! In the devs' own words, "go play something else for a change." 😁 Know your alternatives, everyone!

Um. So first off...Ghostface is a very strong killer. Your loss had nothing to do with you going against red ranks. I'm 100% assuming its your skill and knowledge of the killer you're using. Here's how you can do better:

1) I'm assuming you're wasting time by stalking people. Don't do this. Ever. Just stealth up, run in, and whack 'em off gens and force them to heal. Survivors are rarely dumb enough to not look around for a stalking Ghostface. Especially once they know Ghostface is in play.

2) Your build sucks. In my opinion the best build for Ghostface is: Ruin/Surveillance/Sloppy Butcher/Nurse's Calling. It's a slight variation to the Tru3ta1ent Ghostface that was popular before the ruin nerf.

3) If there are multiple people where you're heading to hit 1 and chase the others. Commit only on the last person, but not too long. If they're starting to loop you well, just stop and look for a healing survivor. Your goal isn't to commit to chases, its just to keep them in a constant healing state so that by the time your power is back up you can just walk over and down 'em thanks to Nurse's. Surveillance/Ruin will be helpful mid to late game in finding survivors. No BBQ needed.

4) Franklin's is a TERRIBLE perk. If you're that afraid of flashlight saves learn to pick up survivors in the opposite direction or face a wall so flashlight saves are useless. You can also bait flashlight saves by standing over the survivor, crouching on them, and then immediately stand back up and turn around. If you see scratch marks or a survivor...well, you should know what to do.

5) If survivors run up to you to take hits to preventing you from hooking... be excited. Altruism is a survivor's greatest weakness.This is what you want. Just hit all the survivors coming for the rescue. The person will get off, but you'll have 4 injured survivors which makes you a T3 Myers WITH STEALTH AND NURSE'S CALLING until remedied.

6) Invest in better add-ons. The green one that boosts power recovery and the purple that makes it impossible to break you out of stealth are the ones that you want. Everything else is #########.

7) Win.

Going by what you've said, I know you haven't played LMAO. And if by a slim chance you did play, you probably played for an hour and refunded

Use Nurse or Spirit and you win next time 😀