New matchmaking system broke the game

I'm assuming you've gotta play a bit. As I eyed today I went from rainbow to something a bit more consistent. Still a bit wacky though

They said a fee months ago that when the mmr sytems was working as intended the game wouldn't show ranks anymore.

For me games take just as long but the matches have been absolute dog #########.

I just started playing like 2 days ago and the mar has put me against rank 1s and 2s...I’m rank 18 and my Wraith is only level 12. I get that it’s based on skill and I’ve played plenty of games with MMR, but this is a little ridiculous. I’m not that great of a player and I have super limited access to perks, eventually it’ll put me with the right people but right now it’s not fun or rewarding.

I’m just going to wait until the test is over, I played another 2 games and ran into the same thing.

I had a pretty mixed bag.

One some Killers I got good games. Yes there were rainbow ranks but the skill of everybody was matching just fine. One other Killers I got survivors who are much, much better than me, constantly and they just stomped me and on other Killers I only get new survivors and I stomp them with 5 gens left.

Now this could be because I played some of those Killers more than others. I have the most hours in Ghostface and can play him quiet fine and I only rescently started playing Myers as an example. Rank has nothing to do with skill as far as I can tell. There were Rank 1s who Dead Harded into a wall and Rank 15 who I needed to leave as otherwise I would have risked a 5 minute chase.

I will continue playing while the test lasts. It is a pretty mixed bag and funny to see who is "on my level".

And that is the problem. Those tests never run longer than a few days so the system.cant acclimate enough. But because half the dommunity goes into rage the company gets scared and resets everything back to the system where only 20% of the community aren't happy and it still is broken but the people adapted to it and accepted it.

I never understand this sentiment. Play any other pvp game with matchmaking and you will see the same problem. The biggest difference there is that those games either have a dedicated newby queue (rainbow six siege for example) or working pve bot game queues.

Playing normal games in any of them will result in stress and Frustration for new player but nobody expects that from dbd given they never made another queue beside rankeds (as stupid as that is).

This game should be long dead if it weren't for it's individuality in this genre.

We were 4 red ranks survivor against rank 15 Ghostface. It was obviously 4man escape.

How do you explain then that someone like me who is only playing casual, non meta killer, without perks but bbq for points and brown add-ons plus brown bp offering can sometimes stomp teams of purple or red ranks?

I played an evening 15 games and roughly won half of them and most of them were at least purple to red rank. Only one team of pure red ranks really stomped me with 2 hooks.

To explain the problem from my point I use league of legend or other games ranking system. In lol everyone with a basic understanding of the game can reach high silver or low gold elo just like red rank and partially rank 1 in dbd. It is simply a case of time invested each month after a certain point (people managed it within only a few months after getting the game).

The problem continues that there also are people with much more skill that would reach master or grandmaster in lol terms but dbd just ends at rank 1 and now that becomes a hotpot of everything skillwise from high silver up to grandmaster (6 elos with 3 of them further divided into 4 steps).

This takes any real meaning of the "achievement" of rank 1. Swf only further pushes this problem by boosting some people up there.

I actually like this system. Some of the games are going to be rough for some people as it is calibrating. Give it time Lots of other multiplayer games do this. My matches have been more fun, and I have gotten to experiment vs doing the same boring meta build.

I got outplayed very hard at the end of a game and someone found the hatch. Rather than the toxic tbaggery and flaming that I usually endure..this person said "that was fun gg killer and I was so scared and had fun. Thanks for the game" I told him well played and gl next one. I commended that person immediately. That was one of the nicest things I have heard in a long time playing this game. Made my day better.