Dwighththt's Matchmaking

Survivor

Okay, so in this case it worked well:

And then it got a bit funny... Wraith played played well this match

And the next one... was not the best experience for Demo, who just bought this game, as he said in the chat

Killer:

First match of the game and the survivors strat was spread around the map and do gens, do gens do gens. My strat was to camp camp camp and hook. Worked for me. Glorious win! But... yeah, back to game. No sweat. They were like avg old rank 14, I remember myself

Second game -- unlucky, I was matched with at least one cheater, when I got that Kate and wasn't able to hook her (by staying in front of the hook and smashing space). They usually do this by increasing network latency to 4000ms, but I did not check this time

But... huge diff in ranks compared with last game 

Next game wasn't supper sweaty, just a regular one, but with higher ranks

And the gift from the Entity! Thank you, I was about to stop playing!

Well, I would say I like new matchmaking experience as a killer more. Before that, I've been matched with red ranks almost all the time, now it is like 50/50

Killer:

This is probably what I want to see from fair matchmaking:

We have yellow rank, 2 purples and one red. The match was fun for both sides, everyone got their hook!

Survivor:

Someone played Bubba, but that wasn't me! 2 "rank 19"s DCed. I don't know why.

The Pig went wild with mori

Matchmaking thinks any Billy is OP

Those 2 "Rank19"s actually played well

Killer:

I've decided to be nice to the last survivor, just once

Survivor

I can't complain about Killer rank, but those two yellow ranks probably could

So this is how fair matchmaking should look like. Don't think I am hiding fair results.

Another one -- Okayish

OMG It improves!

... Just kidding

2020-08-04

At least they are aware that something is slightly not working well. 

From my matches today, as a Killer and same old Bubba I've got s streak of #OldRedRankDoesNotMatter sweaty survivors and a few normal matches at the end.

Honestly, with old matchmaking I know I am gonna go against red ranks, so I am gonna bring my best perks and addons.  

Now it is unpredictable and I don't want to use Iris-addons for rank 14 survivors. 

Well, I am a little bit confused, but trying to be optimistic. Good thing, I am not being matched to new players that often.

Killer

I would consider this result as OK... well there was a group suicide, but anyways

This is the seconds result I consider Okay:

> Looking at the results (since ranks are obsolete) it seems you have a fair balance between wins, losses and close calls.

Even if ranks are are "obsolete", it does not mean they are meaningless. Survivor needs to do stuff to get pip, not only doing gens, but also win 

chases, rescue other players and so on. When I see red rank, I expect at least more than 600 hours of playing the game. Ranks are still saying how experienced the player is. 

So when I am being matches with red ranks -- there is, usually, no fair balance. I lose. Or I have to tunnel and lose. Overall, yes it is like 50/50 (miked ranks / red ranks), but today I've got a streak of red ranks in matchmaking. Yesterday -- a lot of new players. 

> Are you able to give more detailed info on how it was during those matches? Besides the cheater where you dc'd, did you throw any matches? Did you notice any consistent ways of playing in terms of experience? 

Yesterday I was able to do some fun stuff with perks and strategy, like using Tinkerer with its full power. Do some mind games. 

Today's experience is more like playing vs like experienced players, some of them just troll you, knows perfect vault timing and can chase you over entire map. This is something close I had with "OldMatchmaking". Oh yes, those players are usually "obsolete: Red Ranks. Not super cool. If I switch killer, I'd probably get some more relaxed games, but I am planning to stick with Bubba to see to where it brings me. 

No, I usually do not throw any matches except someone is hacking or when I did not notice "Object" on Midwich. 

> There may be a lot of new guys, but there could also be a lot of experienced players creating new profiles to gain an edge.

> That is perhaps the only thing the ranking system has any use for now.

Yeah, I've a separate account to practice and learn some techniques in "Kill your friends" mode, so I can practice and learn some things without bothering my friends. And of course, I wanted to see how easy it would be to go against rank 20 killers/survs. I ranked up to my "real" rank (8 - 7) quite fast (like in 4 days) on a new account. 

If people want to spend their money and buy the game -- I am okay with that. They cannot transfer BP or cosmetic in to their main account anyways. 

There is no any big reason to do so. 

Okay, no more screenshots for now, they are basically the same.

With Bubba, I've been playing for past 2 days. In the was enjoying matches yesterday, but today the majority matches I've got was sweaty SWF or solo survs.

After series of matches playing constantly Bubba I was de-piping and losing the games. This experiment is over.

I have tried another one: Let's switch killer to Plague.

And... first game was easy. Next 5 games I've been matched with mixed ranks and get my 3k and 4k.

My conclusion is: if you want to enjoy this game -- switch killer more often. That's it.

Spread that MMR across multiple killers.

This is something I've seen in Otz stream today, when he'd been often matched with yellow ranks. This is because he switched killer often.

So this is a good time to learn new killers.