Has the hidden ranks improved your experience of DBD?

True true. Just getting into a chase with a survivor is good enough for me to tell what kind of player they are. People emphasize too heavily on what rank others are but it literally means nothing. I’ve gone against god tier players in green and purple ranks and straight up potatoes at red ranks.

I die in 99% of matches. This game is fun only for killers. why not just make ranks from escapes? If I'm always dead, why do I keep playing against strong opponents?

12 hours (6 as killer and 6 as solo survivor)

Faster ques for both roles

More BP per match

Slightly increased escape rate as survivor

Same kill rate as killer (2.9/4)

No increase in DCs

Matches lasted longer

Matches were more balanced: No shut outs - The only match that was bad was due to a DC and suicide on hook.

I have 18-21 more hours planned and will give a thorough breakdown of stats after that.

My point is that a practically new account with less than 10 hours went up against people who have played extensively. That's just going to discourage new people from playing. Nowhere in the game news does it mention a test going on so new people are going to think an unbalanced match like that is normal.

I don’t know if this is because of the new matchmaking, but everybody seems way more whiny. I’ve seen more Survivor endgame trash talk in the last two days than I have in the last two weeks. Some other survivor bitched at me because I was crouching and watching to see if Myers would leave another hooked survivor alone (nope, kept facecamping, even when I ran close), and accused me of giving him tier 3 on purpose. It was at endgame, so it’s not like I was ignoring gens to do it.

It didn't improve my experience, it was actually quite the opposite. Besides, it kinda looks like the devs are hiding the ranks to cover up the flawed matchmaking system.

The current matchmaking is terrible, but so is hiding ranks. Reverse it ASAP.

Hidden ranks have changed nothing, why should it? I knew before that there are good players who don't play often, some even derank. I mean watch Ayrun for example, he was rank 9 the last time i watched a youtube video of him. If i get sweaty team i get a sweaty team, doesn't matter for me if they're red or green ranks.

Here's a very valuable life lesson:

**Correlation does not imply causation**

Just because people you match with are red grades and happen to be semi-decent doesn't mean that one caused the other. There are literally thousands of DBD players that rotate their Iridecent Grade 1 on a monthly basis with each other simply due to how much they play DBD and how little they invest in any other video games on their free time. A lot of them are somewhat OKAY, they're nothing special and there's a large portion of them that are legitimately dogcrap boosted by a grade system that isn't based on skilled play. I legit feel bad for people that still believe in 2022 that the grades indicate your skill level when the Devs themselves even said on the day it was announced that its meant to reward people based off their monthly play-time, NOT for their skill. Literally the worst players in the world get to Grade 1 now as long as they mostly play DBD for the month or they get a streak of easy matches which is quite common in the SBMM era.

How could you ever take the grade system to heart as an indicator of skill when its virtually impossible for you to 'derank'?? LOL. You can get carried by randoms or friends in a SWF to a certain grade and then go on a 500 game losing streak and you won't get punished for this at all like you would in any other scenario. You will NEVER go from rank 1 back to 2 like you could before..All it takes is a few good players to carry a lobby and the other players will benefit and get free pips as long as they hold 1 button for 1-3 minutes which doesn't require any type of skill-cap.

TLDR: IDK how many times people have to explain this including the Developers themselves, but grades indicate how much you play the game not how good you are