The new MMR system :DDDD

Folks you need to give this more time than 2 days. Yes, it is possible the system isn't working properly, but we do not have the data yet to show that. It's very possible there's any number of things going on, from negative report bias (Which makes sense, as it isn't fun to be in matches like those), to the fact that there are a lot of people playing, and they are all having MMRs that need to settle yet. My personal theory is that with everyone starting at 0, and going up and down from that, there's going to be a lot of people who are very close in MMR and so they aren't getting accurate results yet, and the whole "10 games" thing lowballed it. Give it a little more time to make sure that this keeps happening over the next week.

Also, a Mod has said that while the system WAS running in the background, the data gathered wasn't perfect, and so the system needs more time to get players MMRs correct. This was always going to be a major overhaul, it was not going to be perfect right away. None of this surprises me. If it doesn't get better after about 2 weeks, that's when I'll start to get worried.

Honestly I think that "10 games" shouldn't have been said at all. That sounds to me like the ideal, when the whole system is working, not when the system is getting up and running. I understand there's a lot of frustration with playing with newer players, I get it. If it continues like this it absolutely needs to be resolved. But based on the evidence I've seen, both myself and in the forums, I'm not certain this will continue. I've seen quite a few people say that for them this stops once they've played enough.

I'm sure it will, but they won't be from me. I'm not defending the matchmaking system, I'm just saying to give it some time to see what it's really like before you rail against it. I don't know myself whether its good or bad, just that what's happening now isn't great. But I expected this to happen, so it doesn't surprise me.

What I've seen is its a mix of both. It was calculating in the background, but the data it gathered was imperfect, so more players than they expected were basically a clean slate.

While I understand your point about building in a transitional system, that would have been an enormous amount of coding and testing for something that would have ended up being pointless in a month, and potentially removing that system could have cause numerous problems. This situation sucks, I totally agree with that, and these next few weeks will be pretty bad, especially for new players. But my point is lets wait and see exactly what the situation is after 2 days.

I definitely understand your point about playtime, I just don't know how that would be implemented honestly. I'm a fairly good killer, so even when I'm playing a new killer I absolutely shouldn't be going up against Rank 20s or whatever the new equivalent is. The idea is after 10 games of me being at neutral, it would put me into whatever category I belong in, approximately, and I work up and down from there. We can debate how good the execution of it was, but having very good players go up against new players was inevitable with the new system. The reason its so prevalent right now is ALL players are being treated as new players, so its happening significantly more often than it normally would. Some sort of "wading pool" for new players could be a potential solution, and after your first 100 or so games you can't go back into it so players can't force themselves back in. That is a separate, but important, problem from the majority of complaints about the new system, and probably belongs in a separate section.

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