Ok, seriously? Are you really curious why more people aren’t playing killer?

This is normal, and has been for a long time. The same happens to survivors. I have been rank 1 killer and faced rank 15 survivors. Hopefully the new MMR will put players vs players that are similar skilled.

I think Scott's video makes this make a lot of sense. A lot of the really good survivors and killers have simply left the game behind because they're played so long, and now what's mostly left is newer players.

What it leaves you with is a large population on both sides that are inexperienced, and with the way the game currently works, it's much easier to learn to play and win against a mediocre killer than it is 4 mediocre survivors. Do gens, loop "decently" and you can win quite easily. So it results in a lot of killers who powered through the ranks of new, bad survviors to 6-1 ranks, and come in contact with survivors who are just good enough to make them realize they can't handle it.

Of course, that also leads to imbalance, because there's also a large % of the population that are, quite simply, terrible in red ranks that should not be there. It's easy to get discouraged. But I think a lot of the killer population simply hated the new killer, and with no rift, a lot of people probably took a DBD break. I don't see these Clown changes or PTB notes doing anything but making them not wish to return.

He just needs a brown bag base kit. I don’t think he is that bad, just boring to play and very addon reliant.

Tar bottle honing stone traps are pretty outrageous but you barely get any of them if you use that combo.

He can still basically seal people in the basement and kill people off 1 hook. If you are not playing basement trapper then you are playing him wrong IMO, it’s probably his greatest strength.

Unless the survivors end up being total trap magnets he is definitely not winning games with 12 hooks

That's when the devs want to use their hidden mmr instead of ranks for matchmaking. So it might be less of a mixed skill hell than people imagine. But then again, it would depend on a working MMR system.

Damn dude I feel ya. That matchmaking just ain’t right. But please when you do get good have mercy!! D:

11k escape, looks like you had some real gamers on your hands

Survivors can be boosted, killers can't. Red killer mean youre better/experimented than average, red surv can mean that you play more than average.

But not all people at same rank have the same skill lvl (surv or killers). Also, at equal skill lvl, that will almost never happen even in tournament, 4 red rank surv will always win (3-4 man escape) against red rank killers, even more true if they are sfw on vocal, exception being very good nurse or spirit players playing dirty (slug the 4, proximity hook camp, hard tunnel), thats why in tournament they have to make rules like surv cant do gens when they are injured until 2 gens left etc...

@ProfGameAndTalk yeah MM sucks and i can understand that with "only" 70hrs, red and purple rank surv can be impressive and tricky to counter, especially when you start with nurse that have one of the high skill cap, even more, as a new players, you need to learn surv patterns so you need perks that will help you find surv easyly so you can practice more her power and the way you must patrol the map to apply pressure and chain chase. You need perks like Tinkerer, BBQ, Discordance, Bitter murmur, Whisper, Im all ears is also very good when you start nurse... Nurse calling is good tho (its my favourite perk so im litlle bias here^^). NOED can be a fine perk when you start but it will not help you get better cause its a late game perk. Monitor is kinda useless on nurse, you should almost never walk with nurse and since she scream when she blink and grunt when she stop...

Exactly my experience the other night! I started out playing Survivor, played (I think) 4 games where all but 1 were evenly matched (i.e. all survivors close in rank vs a Killer of close equal rank), and the 1 that wasn't was more varied on the Survivor side (bigger gaps in rank) but at least our collective average rank was still equal to the Killer's.

Then I switched to Killer for 3 games and ALL 3 were horribly mis-matched - me, rank 13 vs 3 games of survivors where all of them were rank 6 or better. Ridiculous how that happens...

The problem with that is that once killers find their elo, they'll never get that random potato that leads into a fun and easier game for them and it'll be constant sweat. I expect it to take a couple of months getting to that point even for those that play more often probably, but, sooner or later that's gonna happen and they'll lose a few more to that. But if doesn't run too many off it would probably be offset by those that would wind up enticing back or holding onto out of newer ones anyways I reckon. Personally, I'd only play each of my favorite killers just that far in and then wouldn't enjoy it any more from that point until the elo on them decayed for at least afew months so I could get a week or two out of them againw ithout having to constantly sweat in closer to perfect matchmaking. If I don't get enough dopamine out of something I basically am numb and not enthused about it lol. The potato matches made up for the sweat and were a nice break.

get a friend to 1v1 you, kyfs are way better practice than pubs