Do You Want MMR in DBD?

By the way @Pulsar, thanks for including an "unsure" option because I genuinely don't know which direction the game should take. For all its flaws, I do love this game and don't want to see it die. All I can do is hope the devs make the right decisions (and complain on the forums in the meantime lol).

Hell to the bloody no

First, I'm a killer main, so this is my perspective from being a good killer, but not that great at survivor(and probably not enough recent matched to operator on.

Second, MMR is working.

For a while I would have said bring MMR on so that there can be an objective stance on balance so that the game can have informed changes. With the realization that BHVR let a large portion if not the majority of their playerbase have a broken game for weeks, what are the odds that they'll make sweeping changes to maps and the base mechanics to the game? I don't think they'll put in the effort. They'll just stick the less skilled players together and call it a job well done.

After unknowingly playing several MMR matches of survivors with killers I have played a decent amount of recently, I've come to the conclusion that higher level DBD just devolves into the most boring schlock imaginable. By that, I don't mean frustrating like how it's commonly misused in the player base. I mean literally boring. It usually becomes a waiting game of seeing who screws up the positioning first. It simultaneously has the stress of an exam mixed with uninteresting moments, and every match will be like this. There is no chill game.

If the devs want to implement MMR, they're going to have to do a lot of work so that it doesn't become a matter of the game being fun at first, but becoming progressively more miserable the better you get. Also, I tried playing a killer I haven't touched for a while (Ghostface). Sure enough, it worked as intended, and I got some goofballs. Not necessarily terrible survivors across the board, but some that didn't immediately go for split gens. I guess the game has deemed I'm a pretty good Huntress and Clown. It'll be interesting to see where it puts me with Nurse and Blight.

edit: Then again, I was spammed with Coldwin maps, so maybe that's feeding into it.

Does this mean I finally get to play with the other potato players out there? I wouldn't mind really

I think a lot of people complaining about current matchmaking are conflating two issues: the emblem system, and how DBD prioritizes matchmaking when queues get too long.

When queue times are good for both sides, I rarely see players outside red /purple ranks on either side in matches. I definitely see some bad teammates/killers in red ranks, but for the most part, I get decent matches. It's only in the evenings when survivor queues break past 5 minutes that I start seeing rainbow ranks and wacky matches.

This isn't the fault of the ranking system. This is BHVR deciding that it's better to throw you into an unbalanced match rather than make you wait longer. I highly doubt this will change in a new MMR. As queue times increase, the server will broaden the range of acceptable MMR ratings in an effort to minimize queue times.

It will kill the fun out the game.

Will it kill the game? Probably not, many people are too addicted to stop playing, me included

Wasn't the mmr test disabled like instantly?

As a survivor, during the previous MMR tests, solo q felt much better to be in. I saw teammates trying without anything egregiously stupid, and we actually turned games around whereas normally they would be lost causes. The killers also felt around our skill level, so the back and forth playing was more fun.

As a killer, the matches feel like they have more action with those back and forth counterplays. I also enjoy playing killer, so a match where I have to use all the tools available to me is fun, even if it's a 0k-1k. Normally, I'm bored of stomps where the survivors stand no chance, and like everyone else, I don't like getting stomped by a 4-stack swf with thousands of hours between them.

Yes! It's the most accurate way to collect data so we can finally balance the game!

I want MMR bc its boring to play against and with weaker player.

As survivor i mostly need to do 3 gens and the killer ignores me bc i dont go down in 15 seconds. I get often killers who dont even try to mindgame and dont learn from their mistakes.

As killer you stomp one team after another and everything other than a 4k would be embarrassing. Then you get a good team but you dont play 100% until its too late.

But i think you need to see your own MMR.

Yes to SBMM. It will make the game easier for most people.

The only people that need to fear the SBMM are: Streamers and Seal team 6 SWF squads. Everyone else will have nice balanced matches.

Don't make this a killer vs survivor thing. A lot of survivors don't like MMR either, because they think they'll always go up against strong killers if MMR is enabled.

I'd like the MMR for the matchmaking to be better balanced.... players testing new killers to them are nearly a rank 15 or something, so they shouldn't be going against players that are equal to their skill level they are with their main. I am also hoping for it to fix the random rank 20 vsing a 4man rank 1's etc...

this system isn't going to destroy the community and how it is... you'll still have the random matches where 4 claudettes surround a burning barrel and then do slow mode follow the leader throughout the map...

Individual killer MMR is the main selling point. There is nothing more off-putting about playing killer, than facing nothing but red rank teabag squads because you ranked up to purple on easy mode via Spirit/Freddy, only to be unable to play any other killer because no other killer can stand a chance against them. Given that the perk grind is monumentally insane, any new killers don't have much of a choice but to play the easy ones, in order to reliably grind out enough BP. This very quickly catapults you up into the "no play" zone and suddenly your entire experience is ruined.

That alone will get more people playing killer, which will make for healthier queues.

The idea that MMR will "kill the game" or that you'll only ever go against Nurse and Spirit is nonsense. MMR won't suddenly produce new players to fill queues for you, it will still only have the available players to work with, so without an endless supply of Nurses and Spirits that's not going to happen. Also, you're probably vastly overestimating your skill and your derived MMR value if you think you are going to be in that top 0.1% of players. Sure, maybe Otz and Tru3 and the like will find themselves against significantly more Nurses or top tier survivor commando squads, but 98% of players won't, not you.

I've played the past two MMR tests and each one has worked brilliantly for me as killer and survivor.

Players need to ween themselves off relying on ranks to determine skill.

Queues are already bad when there's an imbalance between survivors and killers, and turning off crossplay (which would cut the player pool down about as much as having two different play modes would) already noticeably increases queue times.

We already have a casual mode, it's called Custom Game.