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SWF is a Cheat System

smart212
smart212 Member Posts: 136
edited January 2021 in General Discussions

so basically im a rank 16 killer and almost get a match with swf that have various rank. like red rank, purple and they have one player with yellow rank that intentionally on purpose, so they can bullied and get killer with yellow rank too. Do BHVR consider bug and this unfair matchmaking. Thank you

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  • celesteismore
    celesteismore Member Posts: 173
    edited January 2021

    That happens to me too or sometimes it's all purple and red ranks. I really feel bad for the gray ranks that get matched when I play with others and our ranks are green purple and yellow.

  • Olokun
    Olokun Member Posts: 266

    no .it happens 1game out of 10 . all you want is EZ game . hope MMR coming soon will even the matchmaking dont forget if ppl cant play with friends = dead game .

  • Mooks
    Mooks Member Posts: 15,120

    It’s definitely not considered a cheat, since even in SWF they can’t really determine which rank their opponent is. I recently introduced 2 friends to the game, played on my Switch (where I am rank 20 and waiting for cross progression) and played with one red rank friend; we often got red rank killer that destroyed us.


    Matchmaking is busted right now. Hopefully MMR will even things out. But it probably will never be perfect as that is literally impossible. Especially with SWF and greatly differing skill levels.

  • CheyeneKL
    CheyeneKL Member Posts: 723

    As others have told you, this is not the fault of the legendary DBD boogeyman, SWF. This can literally happen with an entire lobby of solos, or any other combination of partial pre mades. I often play duo queue with my boyfriend (both of us red rank) and a decent amount of time we get matched with greens and sometimes yellows as teammates and killers.

  • bm33
    bm33 Member Posts: 8,493

    I'm red rank. When I'm solo I get paired with yellow/brown survivors against yellow/brown killers every few matches. When I play swf with my brother he is purple, we get matched with yellow/brown survivors against yellow/brown killers every few matches.

    It's not swf, it's just matchmaking.

  • skylerbound
    skylerbound Member Posts: 754

    I used to think it was swf too and since I stopped playing killer and focused on solo survivor the mm is abysmal. I get matched with rainbow ranks constantly at night.


    during the day it’s far more even.

  • Orionbash
    Orionbash Member Posts: 780

    Sooo...you go up against survivors better than you but its instantly swf?


    ....lmfao

  • GamerGirlFeng
    GamerGirlFeng Member Posts: 277

    Legit sick of people saying swf cheat when one is lower rank than the rest or one is higher than the rest.

    Friends just want to play together. Maybe one is new to the game. Maybe one has been around longer.

    Most of the time these people want to goof off and have fun together, they're not out to ruin games for killer's. If anything, they get sweat on just for being friends no matter their play style, because killers tend to check profiles in the pregame lobby and decide then that because they're friends they don't deserve a good time.

    Sometimes these friends aren't using comms. Sometimes they were coincidentally matched in a lobby. Sometimes it's people who legit just met the last game and enjoyed their teammate enough to invite them to another game.

    I've even been accused of being in a sweaty swf squad AS A SOLO Q on quite a few occasions.

    I honestly believe that even if SWF was gone from the game without a killer knowing, they'd still blame their losses on SWF and treat the solos just as horribly as if they were SWFing.

  • Skullgrind
    Skullgrind Member Posts: 118

    SWF is cheating as it is not playing the game as intended or designed. That's it. You can just admit you like cheating its ok

  • GoodBoyKaru
    GoodBoyKaru Member Posts: 22,939

    not playing the game as intended or designed

    If SWF was not designed then please enlighten me as to why it exists within the game in the form that it does?

  • Skullgrind
    Skullgrind Member Posts: 118

    Doesn't have voice chat. Being in a coordinated group with people that know what they are doing is one thing, Voice coms is another. Don't pretend you don't see the difference.

  • GoodBoyKaru
    GoodBoyKaru Member Posts: 22,939

    I do see the difference. That's not what you said.

    SWF is cheating as it is not playing the game as intended or designed. That's it. You can just admit you like cheating its ok

    SWF is not cheating. It is in the game and designed into the game. The feature has been in the game since almost the beginning.

    Playing on voice-communications is not what you said.

  • ShamelessPigMain
    ShamelessPigMain Member Posts: 1,878

    Believe me, once you start diving into the hellscape that is matchmaking, you're going to be seeing more rainbows than a gay pride parade, SWF or not.

    Even then, ranks don't really mean anything for skill. I'm a rank 1 survivor and I can guarantee you that I, without equivocation or qualification, massively suck. Hopefully, MMR will fix this, but we all know how that dealt with the intricacies of skill and aptitude.

  • JPLongstreet
    JPLongstreet Member Posts: 7,138

    The devs said SWF was intended for launch but was not ready, and was added once it was. As far as comms go, they have a discord just for people to meet up and play the game, thus encouraging SWF.

  • Skullgrind
    Skullgrind Member Posts: 118

    That's a good point. I've never seen them state it but having a discord is pretty official.

  • xenofon13
    xenofon13 Member Posts: 1,241

    When killers losing, it's always SWF.

    Cheaters! Hackers!

  • Mugombo
    Mugombo Member Posts: 509

    Do you honestly think using voice comms is something the devs didn’t intend? This game wasn’t made in the 90’s and the devs knew voice comms would be used and if you think otherwise then you’re a bit of a special case. If it was cheating it would be in the rules.

  • offwhiteknight
    offwhiteknight Member Posts: 172

    I agree. I think the devs did know people would be using voice comms, but they don't balance the game against it. OoO is fine without comms... broke as hell with them. Blindness is decent without comms... 100% useless with them. If perks, add ons, etc. took comms into account, most people wouldn't be complaining about their use.