Why are ranks hidden now ?
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This is a very bad thing. I find it suspicious they're hiding ranks making it impossible to even understand how the SBMM is working. Going to be another cod style SBMM I bet where the devs don't even tell you how it works or what is factored.
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Easiest way to conceal the embarrassment that was and is current "matchmaking".
It is actually a very convenient way to throw totally random people into trials now, who is going to complain about the result? Maybe next nix the perks showing in the final score table, so you have not much of a clue,, who you played with and against. If you don't see that one survivor with 4 yellow perks among a bunch of purple on the rest of players any more, noone will lament a blatant mismatch.
Would be sort of a lazy "solution" to the whole issue, but a very convenient one requiring not much development work.
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Correct. They've been saying since way back in the original announcement in early 2020 that not only would ranks be hidden with the SBMM system, but that they were not going to be showing anyone their MMR nor tell anything about how it's calculated so that people couldn't abuse it.
Never mind, of course, that any MMR system can be abused simply by throwing matches and letting one's rating drop. And even if they try to monitor for that as Blizzard claims to do in Overwatch, it isn't hard to do "just enough" to look legit yet enough to also lose and drop.
But yeah, they've been stating that it would be hidden with no info on how it's calculated coming to us from the very beginning.
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Hiding goals is definitely the worst move.
If there are no rules and objectives to "climb the ladder", then what's the point.
Smells like a scam honestly.
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LMAO! Really easy to just match full red rank swf against a new killer now under the guise of "SBMM". Hiding information is NEVER good, every actual skill based game that has a competitive ladder shows the skill of your team, and your opponents.
Hiding all this information only allows for further manipulation by the devs to push any "agenda" they want. They already hide data and tweak statistics in their favor for whatever narrative they are trying to push, with this it's pretty blatant that they have no intentions of fixing the unfair matchmaking.
It's easier to hide all the issues out of sight and say they are fixed then actually have them in the open and address them properly.
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That's a shame if they do hide it. At the very least, they should put in some type of leaderboard so people can flex if they want, and not have to rely on some outside source that gathers info from public Steam accounts.
Actually let me add that it's more than a shame. It's really ######### lame.
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It's going to be like cod's then I bet. It's an engagement based match making system that encourages you to keep playing by having easy matches followed by harder ones until you do so bad you're put back into easy games. It's all to sell cosmetics which dbd is starting to have a decent bit of hmmm. We can only pray it's much more lenient
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Oh,
god no....
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games are matched by skill instead of ranks now
No, they are not, or I would not get three games in a row where the survivors loop every pallet perfectly and everyone escapes with me having gotten two hooks using one of the few killers I actually know how to play.
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Hiding player levels at the post-game score window was the only way that BHVR considered to avoid bad MMR threads and complains instead of solving the problem, maybe. Just my opinion.
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