New player here, struggling with matchmaking
I've lurked the forums enough to know that matchmaking sucks, I'm not here to complain about that. I've been playing for about two weeks and I'm just wondering what I can do as a new player without many good perks or killers when the game decides to throw my rank 17 baby killer in with rank 1 survivors, or when it decides to solo queue me with purple and red ranks who still decide to let me die on first hook. Any help from people who have been there?
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Pray.
Seriously, best you can do is hope you get a genuinely good killer, aka one who can recognize survivor's skills and takes it easy. Also: check around for bloodpoint codes to get some perks in
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Night time especially at weekends the SWF groups are more due to free times and no matter what at nights people are playing with their friends so it will make the matchmaking unbalanced because there are many survivors but enough killer players for that. My advice is try to play survivor or killer at morning and at night be ready to face with any absurd kind of ranking system. If possible try to play at morning times which is more balanced than at night.
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Practice. LOTS of practice
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I had a similar situation yesterday. I'm a beginner with about 65 hours of playtime and had to play as a rank 11 killer against three red ranks and two purple ranks. The match lasted less than 10 minutes and I was able to hook exactly one survivor. After that I had two similar matches. Only in my fourth match I had any chance at all.
The only thing you can do is to keep going and try to learn from the good survivors.
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At this point, you gotta find a way to still see the good in such matches sadly.
so don’t get frustrated by this too much, try to focus on learning whatever you try to learn (killer power, survivor mechanic, mind gaming) etc and try not to focus on the whole match. Maybe focus on challenges/daily’s, so you get more BP and have another goal than just winning.
and hopefully, MMR isn’t too far off and actually helps casual/new players to get fair matches.
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There are not enough killers around. THIS is one of the issues that caused the problem.
Honestly, just switch to survivor until the new mmr goes live. Otherwise you´ll get a lot bad matches.
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I know you're not asking but feel free to add me, my name here is the same as it is everywhere. I'm a solo survivor main and if you'd like to play with someone who's also somewhat new (6 weeks for me) maybe we can match up and offset the horrible ranking system a bit.
Otherwise, my personal advice (just what worked for me anyway) is to get aura perks as soon as you can. Dwight's Bond plus Dark Sense and Kindred really help to make you aware of your surroundings in a match. The third perk is up to you. You don't have to follow this advice, but I found these perks to be lifesavers when learning the ropes. Still use them a lot.
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KENPOUKINENBI2021
40,000 free bloodpoints
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I appreciate this, thank you. I’ve recently switched from using Bill to Dwight and it’s incredible how useful Bond is. I’m hoping to get Bill’s teachable because I do miss BT when I play Dwight. And thank you for the code too.
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I feel your pain. I'm a rank 12 killer myself and reached a certain skill level that I can't get above.
The game decides to place me in matches where there is one lower rank and 2 purple and a red. Every time. Needless to say, I depip a lot.
What I saw in my experience, it's better to play after 6 PM. I get survivors that are equal of my skill and I can do something. Matchmaking is a lot faster as killer then as well.
In those games like above and you describe, I just focus on getting as much BP as possible to rank up killers or survivors. I don't count on hooks anymore at this point in the morning/midday. In the evening I can play more better with equal skill survivors as opponents.
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Don't forget Prove Thyself for the 100% BP bonus with coop actions
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You're welcome. I've found that having aura perks (Kindred and Dark Sense come soon on their own in the blood web) helps you to get a feel for how other players move and behave, as well as giving you a bit of an advantage as you try to navigate and learn you way around the various maps. To me that's been the greatest help. I'm sure that by now if I switched to the more powerful perks I'd probably do a little better but being able to get a general sense of where others are as I play really suits my playstyle and helps others as well (some of the perks provide aura reading abilities for others in the match).
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