So, they have released the new matchmaking system.

Grades of all colors ≠ skill.

Grades do not tell you the skill of the player. Just merely how much they play the game. My friends and I are just about back to being silver after rank reset. It doesn't mean we're skillful, we just play. No one knows what skill means to BHVR or how they're measuring it.

I have taken some time off playing dead by daylight to have seen some fellow associates that were streaming some gameplay that there were some adjustments being made into the game and upon reading all of this just now i am starting to like how the development team is finally taking these into consideration! Especially, for a low player like myself i am not a professional survivor or killer but with how i have been put in matches with those types of players but with hearing these changes it makes me have a more positive feeling about playing again and i will see for myself very soon how these updates are.

This post is spot on, well said good explanation of an MMR/ELO system.

I’ve experience exactly the same thing as Raptorietz - Id always played survivor since joining DBD in August 2020. Worked up to yo-yo-ing between Rank 4 and 5 before deciding two weeks ago to try Killer. Knowing the game from survivor I found transition at Killer ranks 19 and 20 OK, was getting 3 or 2 kills a game regularly.

Then came this new MMR and my first Killer games yesterday… played four games as Killer: two were OK (two kills in both) but the other two I was completely destroyed by the survivors.

very frustrating but bringing it back to the ELO point raised by burt0r: my killer hours are minimal, so the ELO ranking has nothing to go off, just a small sample of games. But this point about all starting in the middle is right: you’ll get games against everyone at the start before it evens out and we find our ability place (you have to start everyone from the same position in a new system for it to be unbiased). So the more we play, the fairer the games will be as the system has more samples to work off to calculate what our current level is and match us off with others. In a way it’s a bit like the concept of regression to the mean.

so yeah, frustrating for now but stick with it and it should become better.

Well that concept.is flawed from the get go. For example i would spent several thousand hours into one killer and then decide to play one of the rest. I still would've the experience in regard to general gameplay, for example looping, map and perk knowledge, survivor behaviour.....and so on.

So in terms of the old MMR they can't send you against yellow ranks with each new killer you try. And the difference between green, purple and red were already hardly dependent on the individual survivor with the old system and I would guess it isn't much different with the new after less than a week.

As I explained (in my comment above) it takes some time in elo based system to find the right place for everybody.

Well with these devs i would never go for "feeling" XD

For example, while i myself generally respect pallets to brake them for points, i "feel" the frustration when I see those videos of killer getting their hits rerolled and I ask myself if the devs really have not chance to make this better but at the same time I understand on what kind of base code this game runs and that it already is more like a bloated manhandled abomination instead of a polished and improved game (for example when they changed it from peer-to-peer to server based, which with my understanding of game development is a quite brutal change without completely remaking the base)