that's not as bad as it could be actually, I was expecting something like rank 10 or 11 or worse like 14 against a red comms team with keys and maps or something by the title. in purple you should expect to deal with thats ometimes. you could afk wraith and derank until around 9 or 10 to lessent he frequency. iirc it won't let you derank any lower than 16 once you've hit there though and with the shortages it really won't make a big difference these days anyways, at least not once the weekend's over and the majority of the active playerbase knows what happened including the weekend warriors. More 12-14 are gonna start seeing this by next week, and the more of them quit the fewer killers there will be to go around in a brief feedback loop lol.

This isn't even that bad, I got set up against a 4 man swf group who were all rank 3 or below as a rank 13 killer back when I first started. These kinds of games suck, but they usually only happen to me once or twice out of ten matches. You just gotta accept that the matchmaking sucks sometimes, get the game over with, and move on.

I watched a game of his. He's really good, but not the best survivor of all time...

I played against ScottJund when I was brand new to the game. He obviously destroyed me but luckily I killed him because he missed his DS. Sometimes you play against the best. Watch the replay and try to learn what you did wrong- the matchmaking won't get fixed any time soon.

Isn't this about right?

Maybe the rank 1s are bad, but the rest should be within range, which is 6 ranks i believe?

And is the "will search for a wider range after a while" thing still active?

I love when people complain about matchmaking and other people get mad at them like "GET GOOD u just got outplayed" like....yes? I'm trying to get better?? My point is I am not??? And I'd prefer not to be miserable while I get there????

But at least queue times are short.

Rank means very little. I'd check the hours over assuming a red rank or a group of red ranks will be better at the game. Although the hours can be deceiving as well, rank is simply an indication of RECENT playtime. I've gone against green rank killers as a red rank survivor with over a thousand more hours in the game than me. These players could take a break from the game for two months, come back at green ranks and wipe the floor with red rank killers. It just means they have played a lot recently. With the way rank reset is set up right now, its hard to get out of high ranks even if you're out-skilled by most players and it means even less. When I play killer, admittedly not as much right now, I chock up losses to individual skill and check hours to verify that yeah they knew what they are doing from experience. Mind you, you admit to playing on at least one other account so your rank is no indication of your skill level either.

I'm rank 12. Went against a team of rank 16s earlier.

One of them couldn't run.