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Things are getting rough
Last night for a few hours me and a friend played some survivor matches. I'm a rank 4 and he's a rank 7. But for the duration of the 3 hours of DBD that we played, we didn't come across a single killer below the rank of 12. Most every killer was between the ranks of 15 through 17, and I could not have felt worse for these killers going up against survivors that weren't even in the double digits. In one match we went up against a level 16 Plague who had such a rough go of it, that she opened the exit gates just so that she could get it over with.
I know the developers have stated that they are still working on the new MMR, but given how poor the experience that playing killer is right now, they really need to nip this thing in the bud before DBD turns off all new players for good, and the wait times to play survivors becomes worse than they already are because no one's playing killer.
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They're working on it. They won't tell us when it will be released until it is closer to its release date.
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I know. It's just sad though because it's hard telling when that will be. It was supposed to be released in June, but they recently stated that they're doing more tests, and if those tests proved fruitful then it will be released soon, otherwise it will require more tinkering. And God only knows how long that could take.
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Exactly
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Probably in four years.
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New player goes up against a team of rank 1's, instant refund.
Continued borked match making = less retained new players means longer wait times and less revenue for behaviour to develop new content to retain existing players means even longer wait times.
I'm coining a new phrase.
'Fix matchmaking' - it's the new 'Do bones'
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Honestly at this rate new players are probably thinking that it's pointless jumping into DBD. With the way the matchmaking is right now, it's giving new players the impression that it's too late to hop into this game.
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As I mentioned in another post, however they decide to fix it the mmr should be killer specific, not killer overall. People who want to try new killers shouldn't be greeted to swf red ranks.
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No, they nerfed ruin to help new players so they should have no problem there.
(Sarcasm btw)
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That right there is what prevents many people from testing out killers. Dead by daylight should let us be able to either activate bots in custom matches, or at least allow one person to enter into a custom match so that way we can tinker around with a killer's abilities without being expected to compete.
It's far easier to try out a survivor when there's three other survivors watching your back. Bottom line, there needs to be a way to test out Killers without forcing people into matches.
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Well, that's a valid point. New players probably do stick around, on survivor. Not killer.
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True, with survivor a new player can get to purple ranks in a week.
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I played 3-4 games (1 solo survivor, 3 killer) "Sorry guys I'm a Pig main"
My survivor game was me R13 and a R17, with two R19's... against a R1 killer (legion)
My killer (R3 now... god I hate myself) games were almost the same 1-2 double digit ranked survivors. But the last game was all red ranks (and a message saying that "he owned me the entire game" but he died so... IDK what the point was)
Anyway the point is they blew up MM to come up with whatever is next... Also the MM now is less focused on skill and more focused on connection
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MM needs to be designed based on +2 and -2 scenario for balance and it expands if it cannot find a match at those ranks after a certain period of time.
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I noticed the same thing. I'm a rank 11 killer and I constantly get matched against purple and red rank survivors. Yet my rank 4 survivor gets matched with level 15 through 19 killers. I have to imagine that the reason why this is happening is because there's so few people playing killers that the game will throw any killer your way so that the queue times in your region aren't any longer than they already are.
Part of me wants bhvr to take their time, but another part of me wants them to just release whatever the hell they got and patch it along the way. 😕
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