I had forgotten how unplayable survivor is at noob ranks.

So since the MMR test started, I've been having some lovely killer games. Some teams are trending on too weak, but I'm not getting baby teams outside of killers I've never played before and Nurse (who I profoundly suck at.) I'm not getting full red SWFs either, which I used to see constantly despite being green ranked. Mostly it's just really mixed bags, with one strong survivor, two average survivors, and one really weak survivor, and I'm not taking advantage of the really weak survivor, so the games are relaxed and I'm having fun, if not being particularly challenged. It's chill and I like chill.

Switched to survivor, and good lord, this brings back repressed memories.

I don't think I've survived a single game yet. This is mostly because I'm dying on first hook. Sometimes I get lucky and die on my second hook instead. Sure, my survival rate as a solo red rank is pretty terrible, and I'm not the most skilled player around, but even if I was getting defeated by most killers, I'd gotten used to teammates who knew how to play the game. I'm still getting red rank killers, but my teammates are either not red ranks, not remotely playing like red ranks, or not performing because they're getting profoundly screwed over by the teammates who aren't red ranks. I'm not even talking about going down in two seconds in a chase... I mean continuing to work on a gen when everyone else on the team is either being chased or is incapacitated, or urban evading across the map to a hooked player while the killer is clearly chasing someone else (as shown by Kindred), or urban evading past the hooked player and just wandering in circles while they progress to the next stage. Leading the killer back to the hook and unhooking without BT. Being chased off a gen with another survivor, then running to the opposite corner of the map to hide when it's the other survivor being chased. Stepping into a locker while the killer has clear LOS. First hook suicides. I'm not even mad at the self-caring in a corner, because even though I've seen it in every single survivor match today, it's the least egregious thing I'm witnessing and at least the Claudette will probably go do useful things again when she's done, unlike Jake who is just migrating from corner to corner. Probably.

It's the same story every match - do some gens at the beginning, either have a decent chase or be forced to enter a dangerous hook situation because everyone else is either downed from rushing in with their pants on their head or extremely uninterested in the concept of unhooking, and either die on that first hook or die shortly thereafter because I got unhooked right in front of the killer, or because nobody will heal me and I'm a one-tap for the rest of the game.

The rank spread's not really that different from my killer matches, except when I was the killer, I was taking pity on the potatoes, not capitalizing when they farmed their teammates, and leaving the hook constantly to encourage skittish players to make saves. Now... I'm still getting a mix of good survivors and okay survivors, but I'm always getting at least one hyper-incompetent player in the bunch, and the game infallibly collapses when something stupid happens. And I am depipping like crazy.

Is anyone else getting brick teammates every game, or is it just me? Because if it's not just me, I think I know why killer queues are so long right now.