Remove SBMM?

It needs to be improved, not removed.

For as much as I dislike the current version as this is literally just an old version of ranked that had already failed.

I like the idea of MMR just not when its implemented in one of the single worst ways imaginable(No other MMR is solely kills/deaths based for a reason) let alone when said way had already failed in the past meaning they didn't learn from it.

It was obviously a good idea and this implementation is already better than the emblem system was, so I see no reason why it should be removed.

With a round of tweaks for consistency it'll be just fine.

I think it needs some work but it shouldn't be removed. Before the SBMM I was having a horrible time playing DBD, I was a brand new survivor being thrown in matches against rank 1 killers with 1k+ hours. I couldn't learn a thing because I was always killed straight away. It was frustrating. Since the SBMM I now get a mixture of great killers and some that are more on my level. I do get some babies now and then though which is the fault in the system. They definitely need to fix that so that people with less than 10 hours in the game aren't paired with somebody who has 600+ hours.

The only way an Asymmetrical game like this will achieve good ranking and balance is if it follows a SPM model.

By tweaking bloodpoint rewards for actions that are suitable for players, and rewarding less points for scummy behavior - the game can become fast paced and competitive simply by calculating the score a player attains per minute of gameplay. It would also double as a cheater warning, as impossibly high SPM will signal a cheater.

Ultimately, if you give points to players up to a cap and distribute it across time - survivors that do nothing all game will have low SPM even if they survive, while survivors that do well and die early will maintain high SPM because their gameplay time was shorter, but they accomplished more. Because each individual can score a max amount of bloodpoints - it means that the shorter a match is, the more skilled a player becomes. This means that stomping another person will boost your SPM and start to even you out at higher ranks.

At the same time, survivors and killers may have asymmetrical styles, but so long as they are capable of scoring 32kBP per match if they max all categories, then you can use a single number to determine the skill of killers and survivors alike, without the difficulty and convolution from previous systems.

Remove MMR

We need something that is NOT SBMM because I keep playing against survivors out of my skill range.

I'm just getting tired of having one good game, and SBMM thinking I'm an 8k hour killer main.

I'd like a better system but if it's a choice between a deeply flawed system and no system I'll take all the flaws.

It's implemented in a way that I personally feel isn't really useful and especially so in a game where there simply isn't much in the way of true skill expression. The most skillful things aren't necessarily easily quantifiable actions and with the Asymmetric gameplay aspect it isn't the easiest thing to determine what is a win or loss.

SBMM is a setup meant to be used in truly competitive games and dbd isn't that. It lacks definitive win conditions and isn't balanced for competitive play and with good reason DBD competitive play is basically everything the bulk of players already hate about the game.