Do you think SBMM will fix the most major flaw of the game?

Players do not feel the same way as you do about this just being a party game. I really like their rank reset ideas they put out (reset to R20 and bloodpoint rewards) but they need to loosen matchmaking on the SBMM because it is truly terrible how long the queues got for the ‘high MMR’ players.

I think there should be two modes. Ranked mode and casual. Casual should include everyone on comms. Competitive should be basically what we have now.

Yeah, it will split the player base. I'd rather wait a bit longer for games I enjoy as opposed to having to sweat hard for 1ks at red ranks.

I think SBMM will help make solo queue a bit more bearable as your teammates will less likely be useless.

But I think it will just expose how strong survivors are when you get 4 good survivors together which is a rarity in current matchmaking outside of SWF.

Although sbmm by nature will be hell for the higher mmr players. Someone like dowsey otz or tru3 will face tourney teams more often as they have pretty much beaten off the other like 90% according to sbmm. I feel itll make matches fairly boring for the very skilled players. Obviously that doesnt impact the other 99% though.

nope SBMM is gonna be a pain in the ass. It will become the games biggest flaw

So you want to go against lower skilled survivors who you can stomp on?

I don't think those lower skilled survivors want to go against higher skilled killers.

I hated the game when SBMM was active. Killer was almost unwinnable with non-S-tiers. Constant swfs and only thousands of hours players. Playing as survivor felt really easy on the other hand, since everyone could genrush and loop. Without a weak link, it was very survivorsided.

Dbd is a weird game, since its not balanced for high or low skilled people. It has to be a mishmash of all sorts to work out.

first, they already know its a problem. Marth 3 years ago made a depip squad where his entire objective was to find out whether killers on average or survivor are stronger. the result was that he depiped 200 out of 197 killers and only 3 of them black pip. I am guessing that every game was 0-1 hook game if its using current emblem system and if it wasn't, than they must been using that old system that either worked off bloodpoints or the one that worked off kills. either way they know its problem.

It being problem does not matter and SBM will not fix the problem or encourage fixing the problem. What SBM does is reorganize matchmaking pool according to skill. Suppose you have 16000 players in a matchmaking pool and lets imagine this is entire playerbase of DBD(It is not). 12,000 must be survivor and 4000 must be killer and anything else or more would be too much killer or too much survivor. If i had to take a guess, I'd say that killer queues are instant and survivor queues are slower so there is definitely more survivors on average than there is killer.

Statistically, your skill on both survivor and killer is denoted by a percentile graph in statistics. 0th percentile = the worst player in DBD and 100th percentile=the best player in DBD. If emblem system worked correctly, there are 4 ranks so in theory, if the emblem system was perfect denotation of skill, each color would denote 25% of percentile of skill for a survivor. Matchmaking would be as simple as find 1 red rank killer and 4 red rank survivors and the game is balanced(skill-wise). If there shortage of one in either side, like suppose in the most extreme case, a red rank killer faces 4 purple rank survivors, if the killer loses, he would lose an insane high amount of MMR/rank because he is expected to win and the survivor would lose nothing if they lose but gain a lot if they win. Unfortunately emblem system is not a perfect description of skill and I believe they use emblem system to do current matchmaking as it is now and it is the reason why the majority of your killer matches/survivor matches(if your good) are very easy. bottom line, your not getting matched by equal opponents. that is why its so easy.

Ok, so does that mean that rank 20 is same as rank 1? that is 100% FALSE. a rank 20 is NOWHERE near the skill of rank 1. if you think this, your crazy. a bran new player who doesn't know where a gen is, doesn't understand looping or chases in general or any killer is definitely not equal to a player that has moderate understanding of the game. When developers said that "Rank does not matter", it was one of those, "We did pretty good job moments". Rank does matter and emblem system does separate skills, but it does so in a way that is not practical. What the current ranks do is they seperate skill-levels by the LOWEST possible common denominator. In essence, rank 20-15 is equal to 0-15th percentile in the graph and there are no players who are 15th or higher percentile in 20-15 and if there are, the rank system will currently rank you up to be past these ranks. rank 15-10 is say 15-30th, 10-5 let say is 30th to 60th and than we get to red ranks where..... it is like 60th to 100th percentile. You have to understand that suppose I am a 90th percentile killer, If i face a team that has 60th percentile across 4 survivors, this is like a challenger player in league of legends fighting platinum players. you have to understand that if I am playing a killer with full meta build vs these survivors, its like... not even a challenge and they're very certain to lose and this is like the majority of red rank matches for killer if your good at said killer. It is not that the killer is overpowered or anything, it is that your facing such a discrepancy in skill that if i was running no add-on or perks, the match would be closer but still slanted in my favor due to skill difference. we're both red ranks but we do not play at the same-level.

what this means is that there are levels within the ranks themselves. you could think of it like bronze-red rank, silver-red rank and gold-red rank and let say that bronze is 60-70, silver is 70 to 90 and gold is 90 to 100. this exists in all ranks. There is just huge range of skill within same rank from emblem system. The reason why there are so many red ranks in red ranks but do not belong in red ranks is because threshold to get to red ranks is low enough that most people can get to it but not everyone has same skills within red ranks. This has everything to do with it being easy to win but not so easy to lose pips assuming your threshold of skill reaches a certain percentile. Basically, as long as you win more than lose, than your better than the percentile your in so you will eventually hit red ranks whether you like it or not through playtime. Its hard to track for how good you are, but the faster you get to rank 1 on average is how good you are compare to your competitors.

What SBM will do is it will take all red ranks and it will pair the best killers with the best survivors(on average) until it runs out. The leftovers for killer or survivor will be face lower skill players which means the matches will be imbalanced but they should theoretically never be landslides and losing/winning in these matches will not give or lose much MMR. I am unsure how they will base MMR and how the skill will be calculated. If you ask me, the better players are the players that make few mistakes, Its like chess, if you never make wrong moves like an engine, than you'll never lose but we're all human so everyone makes mistakes, the one that makes fewest mistakes is the better player. so In my opinion, the survivor team that completes most possible gens(or all of them), takes fewest amount of hits overall and suffers least amount of hook states will be the team that survives the most and will escape more often than a team fails to achieve these objectives. Its same for killer really. The killer that gets the hits the fastest will get more downs on average. it means they will hook faster, kill faster and win faster in a more consistent manner.

Personally, I find this system extremely convoluted and if I was designing a ranking system, this emblem system would definitely not be it. I am not going to go in detail to why you will not face Spirit/Nurse every game as survivor but just note that if your playing a weaker killer, you will likely be a lower SBM on that killer than you will be on strong killer unless your exceptional.

Just because it's not an e sports game it doesn't mean it shouldn't try to be better, thinking otherwise is either bias because you like the balance sway which is way into survivor still..or you simply don't understand the frustrations playing killer at times

Fix most major flaw maybe not, but is a step in the right direrction, at least with the MMR I'll play my low tier least played and equiped killers and try a variety of builds with them without losing most of the trials and in a more relaxed way.

Not a chance.

They have shown time and time again that they just can't make it work.