Matchmaking tilt / killer main/ ~45h experience with the game

Very similar experience. About 45 hours in game, most of that doing exactly as the OP described. Slightly less lofty but still gamer level resume and I unfortunately have run into the brick wall that is the DBD "I'm a basic #########" MMR.

How to abuse MMR ... take 3x red rank, 1x green rank, sprinkle in a newish killer that is going to match your "carry" to load in and farm the ######### out of him.

When your new player experience makes BFA dailies and healing grievous look like fun, there is very likely an issue.

A killers job is to kill.

Because they help capitalist societies (i.e.: all of them) function. Why invest your resources into something if someone else will reap the benefits?

And last I heard, China was implementing copyright laws precisely because they realized the problem.

I've only been playing for a few months myself, and in that time I have had some very unfun matches. The new MMR system was supposed to be implemented this month, but considering that it didn't happen during the rank reset, or the new patch going live, or even with the new event, means most likely it's not happening anytime soon.

I'm a level 13 killer that constanly gets matched against purple and red rank survivors. And since swf teams can communicate with each other about what I'm doing and where I'm at even after dying, is probably one of the strongest abilities that a survivor can have. This is why I'm honestly too scared to play killer which is just f***** up. Survivors should be scared of the killer, not vice versa. But going up against survivors that are clearly more experienced and skilled then I am, makes DBD an absolute chore to play.

While your points about the matchmaking valid, the whole flashlight scenario sounds like something that was completely your fault and could be combatted with more experience, as are most of these things. Your suggestions for the game are also truly terrible, but that's just because you are new. They are implementing a new MMR system (which I do think will not really do anything) but in general queues are just atrocious right now. Even as the game hit its peak playercount EVER the other day - you had to wait for 3-5mins for a survivor match and 5-10 mins for a killer match in EU at red ranks. Somehow the queues are worse than usual, even with a growing playercount (which should theoretically be a lot of new players) - yet we can see hardly any new players play survivor because of the queueing issue // they rank up too quickly as it takes no skill to rank up, just hours played. To be honest, a lot of the time a yellow/green killer is probably on the same level as red rank survivors, but then there are ofc times when this isn't the case and the current system does not separate this atall. You can have a 50h player in rank 1, or a 5000h player

Same as always, holding M1 while their more experienced friends taunt the killer

'Pallets are OP and their spawn should be diminished - balance this by better loops for the survivors or add an element of skill to looping (other than looking back) to even it out.'

No they are not, looping is fairly skillful, mainly at maze tiles, but better loops for the survivors is a terrible suggestion. Take the map 'The Game' - this map just has safe pallets, but that's it, when you're out, gg. None of these pallets take skill to use, there are no mindgames, it's a boring as ######### map. The actual interactive way to balance the game is to have more pallets, but make them unsafe (meaning the killer can play around them and do actual mindgames) - your implication of less, but stronger pallets just makes for dull gameplay. The actual fun in the game is chase interaction, mindgames, etc - these things you suggest take away from that.

'Alternatively make killed lunges register better and/ or give more control to the killer when turning.'

If you get spun you are probably a bad player, there is easily enough control and infact because of latency, the killer can often swing and the survivor takes a hit while dropping a pallet when they probably shouldn't have. There is no need to change killer lunges, the only issue with them is the 'aim dressing' (autoaim) which makes you hit wood sometimes.

'Lessen the healing capabilities of survivors and make investing in it a decision in itself - generally, make the game more strategic and less "run around constantly cuz we can heal anything lul".'

Healing itself IS already an investment, a lot of people choose not to heal and stay injured because it wastes a lot of time (16 seconds per full heal) - in what is essentially a time management game, taking two players from doing gens and committing to a 16s heal which can either be interrupted, or require you to go to a safer area, is already a risk. You should try running sloppy butcher, a perk you can unlock on all killers, if you find people healing to be an issue.

'add another layer to escaping, not just power the gens/ open the gate; maybe give an option to hurt the killer if he gets outplayed and even win the game by killing him or sending him back via a high risk/ high reward mechanics.'

You already outplay the killer by running tiles effectively, maybe when you are utilising the 'OP pallets'. I don't see how this 'killing the killer' mechanic is interesting, fun, balanceable or why it would need to be added. It's a change for the sake of change suggestion, and unless you have any ideas for these mechanics, I don't see how you can take this as a decent idea.

'It's like taking part in a debate and trying to combat your opponent by saying "nO, uR wRoNg LuL!!1"'

I can accept this is a fair statement, but I disagree with this and I think it is fair to automatically dismiss suggestions by people who are stuck in rank 15/have less than atleast a few hundred hours or so. There are already so many dogshit suggestions by new/bad players who have no idea what they're doing about balance that you just can't take it seriously. Experience in the game is extremely necesary to understand it. Any competent player will laugh off your suggestions the way I did, and if you do choose to invest time into this game and get good, I guarantee you will yourself.

45 hours is nothing my guy, it takes a while to get anywhere near gud.

First piece of advice for you, forget about "mains." I started the game playing survivor with a friend and when he wasn't able to play I dabbled as killer a little bit but I considered myself a "survivor main" until we stopped playing and then I only played killer and considered myself a "killer main." Now I play close to 50/50. The thing is, you learn to be a better killer by playing survivor and how to be a better survivor by playing killer. Also, when you put yourself in that one box you generally lose sight of things that affect the other side and objectivity goes out the window.

My second piece of advice is, try not to take it seriously, just the fact that you put up your "impressive gaming resume" for competitive games tells me you take this all way too seriously instead of just trying to find the joy in playing a game. I've had those terrible matches, anyone who has played killer has, but I try not to let them screw with my fun. If I'm against a sweaty bully squad I go stare into corner of the basement and go afk and grab a drink, use the restroom, grab a snack, because if they can't bully me they'll usually just finish their objective and go so I can move in to the next match that will hopefully be fun instead of terrible.

'I'm not missing pallet hits, quite the contrary, I get most of them in even if I get stunned but like another poster said, combined with all the other ways of escaping and the multiple escape perks that survivors have - it's just too much when there are 4 ppl trying to loop you around, using flashlights, perks AND add-ons to harass you. It feels like the killers don't get that many options in terms of movement and the killers that are considered top tier are the ones that have movement enhancing abilities included in their base kit (nurse, billy, freddy). Maybe this should be looked into, in order to bring the other killers more in-line.'

'When you have 3 health states, bleed state, self-heals, received healing AND perks and addons that help with healing + auto-heal under certain circumstances (like DS, etc) - I think healing is actually an issue. I wasn't talking about it being an issue at top tier level of play because I haven't reached that yet, but it is an issue at MY level of play, which is where most of the people are atm.'

Firstly, DBD does not yet have crossplay but will soon. To address your takes of autoaim, this is active on every platform (including PC) and cannot be turned off. The purpose of it is to try and make hits look visually better by adjusting your camera when the game has decided you were going to get the hit, but what this can do when you're swinging around a corner is adjust your camera so you instead hit terrain. It's really stupid.

Based on these takes, I think your problem should be with the power of survivor second chance perks, which is an actual issue (I am a killer main btw, not a survivor main as you guessed below, I do play both sides but like 2/3 of the time killer) - Your solutions are too punishing to people who don't run meta perks, what you want to encourage is making them mandatory essentially (we don't need to encourage less perk diversity even more). Survivor item addons do nothing other than the medkit ones, which are used like 1 in every 50 games in my experience. I'd also suggest you maybe need to learn when to drop chase (generally when a survivor is an extremely strong structure, or if you cannot get a hit/pallet out of them after 10-15 seconds. Remember, pallets are finite, getting a pallet out a survivor is still good value) Flashlights are EASILY the weakest survivor item and once you learn to play around them, you will have a much easier time. Flashlights are actually genereally detrimental as everyone who has one will prioritise attempting to flashlight save (very easy to avoid these by looking at walls, or bait free hits by faking the pickup) rather than doing generators. DS/BT are played around by not going for the unhooked guy/slugging them if there is no BT, although in instances these perk can be unfair if the player with BT/DS active is super aggressive.

Also people have been saying this game is dying/will die for a while now, but the playercount just keeps going up. I'll stand by this 'elitism' - as from experience, and having the same kind of complaints that you did when I was newer, you need atleast **300-500h** before you have a better understanding of the game. I don't intend to be condescending and looking back definitely did come off harsh, but as aforementioned, inexperienced players making balance suggestions is frequent (as I also did so myself) but their takes are pretty much always poor

That map is probably the best survivor map (It's called Ormond) but yeah I also should've mentioned learning when to slug is another important thing (typically if you can initiate a chase extremely fast afterwards, or if there's multiple people hooked/downed near eachother, as this makes their recovery harder.) From the way you describe it that does sound like a decently coordinated squad though.

It's always good to chase the weak link, you can usually tell in 3-5 seconds whether someone is good or not

To fake picking someone up, you generally just run up to them and then let go of W, this can often bait survivors to move out, or at the very least make them second guess whether you'll commit to the anim. Some killers have powers like Demogorgon placing a portal, Trapper placing a trap, Hag placing a trap whos powers put them into animations. These animation changes can also trick survivors into thinking you will commit to the pickup.

This makes me remember when I started, survivors abused the swf system, 3 red ranks and 1 brown rank against a new baby killer, with insta heals.

I'd say take this to learn faster, sadly this is the reason I don't recommend the game for new people, the constant bullying that happens these days to newer players is unaceptable, 45h vs probably above 1k hours of experience.

If you don't want to pay to get better perks, get thana from the nurse, it's not much but it's better than nothing, save shards for original characters.

Practice with friends or with people from here it is better since they can tell you what you did wrong or right.

That's not good enough though. There not some small indie company. They make millions upon millions each year. Maybe they should just get it into their heads that they just need to wipe the rank system away and start a fresh cuz every time they add something or change something it just makes everything worse. They have no excuse for having one of the poorest excuses of a rank system in any game. There are so many examples of good rank systems out there they've had plenty of time and they have the resources to change it but their to lazy and money hungry putting energy instead into rifts and new legendary skins which are overpriced and not value for money.

Source? Keep in mind that profit is not the same as revenue.

Let me know when you have the actual profit. I'm guessing it's not that big.