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Can we have the SBMM back please?
I'll admit that I'm a casual player at best when it comes to DBD, but ever since the MMR was been turned off my matches have been completely lopsided and sweaty, and quite frankly I'm tired of it. Either it's a red rank killer as survivor, or it's a red rank swf as killer. All this does is make me want to stop playing the game for good.
What you see here was my very first match of the night. First impressions are everything, and needless to say I didn't feel compelled to go on after that. While I can't speak for everyone, the MMR has always provided a more even playing field for me, and without it I really don't care to go on.
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Yeah, I already ran into my first hackers and I am not even high ranked. Like, no offense, but I would rather the red ranks deal with that issue. I am not down for it while trying to do stupid archive challenges. The matchmaking is really, really bad if it thinks I can face off against 100% escape rate swf.
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Honestly I've heard it all. A lot of players will say "shrug it off", or "grow thicker skin", but when you're inundated like this time and again, it makes return trips far less appealing.
I can't imagine that the Resident Evil chapter won over many new Resident Evil players to DBD considering just how broken the game was. And considering that matchmaking has always been in a poor state, I'd rather play against bots forever then engage with this joke of a matchmaking system.
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I understand that everyone has had very different experiences with the game over the last few weeks. All I can say is that during the SBMM test I had the most pleasant time playing this game that I've had in the five months that I've owned it. I go for relatively relaxed, "enjoyably balanced" (as opposed to aggressively competitive) games and during those few days of the test, that's exactly what I got.
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I don't wanna constantly have to play the game like comp...
Nor do i want to play a constant 3 killers every #########' match...
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That was my experience too ^^
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This is mainly because as average casual players we were matched against other average casual players. There was no sweat, no explicitly competitive approach to the game, just playing against a similarly skilled rival. The problem when we remove that system is that we start to get opponents that are either way above or below our league.
When you get matched to someone that's clearly better than you, it's never fun. You don't stand a chance, you know it and the other player knows it too. So you are just there at their mercy to try to see how many BPs you can rescue from this already lost match. In my opinion, the main opposition to this new system comes from people that were all of a sudden matched against other people at their level instead of lower-ranked opponents.
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I see the terms mixed around a lot (and this is the online PVP game that I play) so just to make sure I absolutely 100 percent understand and don't mislead anybody: What this game NORMALLY has is MMR, right? What BHVR tested for only about 5 days a couple of weeks ago was SBMM, and since they deactivated that we are now back in MMR, correct?
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MMR just made all the high-level matches boring and sweaty. People just hold w, there's no looping whatsoever. It's not fun at all
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Yes, MMR is what we get by default right now. SBMM was the skill-based system that didn't take ranks into consideration
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Okay, that's what I thought but I just wanted to be sure. Thanks for the clarification. I can reiterate then that yes, the games I played during the SBMM test were in fact the ones that had the most consistently comfortable, enjoyable flow to me - challenging without being especially stressful, other players that felt competent without being sweaty and fallible without being useless. Almost every game was a fun back and forth where the ending was a complete tossup rather than a one-sided game that simply switched to the other side halfway through. I felt like I was playing a game, not competing for bragging rights. My experience with the SBMM was short, but overwhelmingly positive.
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I'm totally agree, I want the mmr come back and stay
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High level killer with SBMM was a ######### sauna of sweat
I couldn't play my usual killer because I had to switch to Blight to beat all the SWFs
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And all I got as survivor were Blight and Nurse with slowdown builds. I understood the builds as my teammates were very good (or hacking) but games were miserable. Win or lose, rarely did anyone break 20k points. It was mostly decided by if the killer could tunnel someone before Ruin/Undying were cleansed. Matches lasted 4-5 minutes, and no fun was had.
If they insist on implementing a "skill-based" system in this buggy, unbalanced, rng mess of a game, they need to loosen the range of acceptable matches so I don't only go against S tier killers running comp builds.
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I want MMR a lot but I kinda want them to work on it a bit more. maybe it was just me but the last test wasn't that good.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I've had games as killer where I'll be facing off against clearly brand new players with no more than two or three level 1 perks to their name, and I'll just be destroying them left and right. In that particular game I was ranked 12 but every survivor was ranked 17 to 20. I prayed that they were just chill survivors because otherwise if that was their introduction into DBD, then most likely they're never coming back.
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My teammates are just as braindead no matter what. It made no difference to me.
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I had a few games like this last night. Had a team of 3 with 2 flashlight so I threw on Lightborn and they destroyed the game for themselves. Team dead at 5 gens should never happen.....Never. They were all purple so bad matchmaking too go with it,
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Oh 100%
This is doubly felt playing killer now. With SBMM I was having the chillest time as killer. Avrg 2 kills, matches last a decent time, good back and forth.... now... now I am back in killer hell. I am rank 9 and going against the red bully squads again ;_;
Feels bad sometimes but I enjoy killer too much to stop. I got the sweet taste is SBMM and I pray it comes back.
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This is why you dodge every lobby with more than one console player.
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If you're referring to the TC's screenshot... they were on console, everyone else was PC.
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Maybe if they worked on SBMM just a bit more I wouldn't mind having it back. I had a few matches with a killer I play often (Ghostface) normally getting 3 to 4 kills most games, yet I was still placed with people who literally had 7 hours in the game at the max. One of them ended up adding me and asking what rank I was, then I found out the entire lobby was 20-17 in rank and I was rank 2 at the time. It was very awkward....
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Without MMR the Game is just trash, with It we don't know so lets give It a chance and see if It is worst than actual MM
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I never ran into as many salty, bitchy players as I did during SBMM. Just complaining for the sake of complaining. I know it happens, but I would usually run into it about once a week. With SBMM, it was several times a day.
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I was the one on console (PS5), everyone else was on PC.
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I miss it too. Wish they would release it already or at least rank rewards.
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During the SBMM test...
When I played as a killer for the first time, I got easier survivors.
When I played as a low-level killer I'm bad with but experienced with, I got a little bit harder survivors.
When I played as a killer I'm good with that was higher level, I got hard survivors.
SBMM was better.
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SBMM was the dream. As a survivor I had fun, and as a killer - even if I averaged just 2 kills per game - it was all good because I had fun.
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I don't think sbmm will stop you from seeing hackers. They'd just hack their way into where ever they want.
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Same. Many of my games as killer ended with just two kills, but I didn't have to sweat for it. That's one of the things that turns me off of multiplayer games altogether. I don't want to sweat while I play because I'm not a competitive person. I turn to video games because it's my outlet. It's how I like to unwind at the end the day, and playing DBD is anything but soothing. LOL
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Yeah I love sweaty boring games!
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