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People over react about solo Q

toxik_survivor
toxik_survivor Member Posts: 1,184
edited March 2022 in General Discussions

Before cross play came out I had no friends that played ps4 dbd. So I solo qed for about 2.5k hours. Now with cross play I probably play with friendsfor about 500 hours and solo q for 500, so about 3.5 k hours in total. Out of all my solo q hours it isn't really that bad.

Most people understand how to gens and that's all you really need to know to be a good teammate, it's also fun seeing everyone's playstyle.

Obviously you can't have secranyzed perk builds in solo q, but you can always have fun solo builds.

Sure there are some survivors that are absolute dog at rhe game ether missing skillchecks, trolling, or crouching in a bush the whole game with urban not saving you on first hook. It's deffinatly frustrating but the ratio to bad survivors to good survivors is way leaning towards the good survivor side.

Altogether 1 match out of 5 with bad teammates isn't that big of a deal considering you're still practicing and getting better.

If you do have friends a good solution is to play with your friends until you reach gold rank. Then you can play solo q without too many trash teammates. (If mmr decides to actually be decent). But besides that solo q ain't that bad imo. What makes it bad for you guys?

Comments

  • Sharpefern
    Sharpefern Member Posts: 422

    People have selective memory. Like I remember yesterdays solo queue clearly because in 9 games I had "teammates" let me go through an additional 10 hook state, and I can't blame the killers because they weren't camping. But I know many/most times it isn't like that but that memory will be burned in my head for a while.

  • Idontknowtbh
    Idontknowtbh Member Posts: 467
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2841785#Comment_2841785

    It's not selective memory as such.

    Our brains remember better the really bad and the really good.

    We all have our own idea of what a decent solo q much should be like.

    Unconsciously, when the game doesn't go that way, we remember is as bad.

    If we all tried to lower our expectations, we wouldn't remember so many bad things.

  • tippy2k2
    tippy2k2 Member Posts: 5,204

    Solo queue can just be incredibly frustrating. I took this picture last night to whine at my DBD buddy so it's not a great pic as I had no intention of sharing it wide but since the topic is here ...

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    While it's not common to be THIS bad, this seems to happen more often than not. As a solo queue player, you get the games RNG AND the RNG of getting awful/bad teammates. As nice as it might be, there is always going to be some reliance on your team to be competent and too often, you just don't get that.

    I'm not here to complain because I fully understand and I go in to survivor games assuming I will die but it can be very irksome to carry the entire team on your back and still get nothing for it because I died, therefore I had no skill.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,369
    edited March 2022

    I guess I just disagree. The matchmaking is bad enough that it often feels like I'm playing against 2 or 3 killers. I don't think people get frustrated by losses in and of themselves. Personally, I get frustrated when my teammates hand killers 4ks left and right and there's literally nothing I can do about it. SBMM was supposed to fix this, and it hasn't.

    We can call it selective memory, but when two teammates die instantly in every chase and I run the same killer for the remaining 2 gens, it's a complete matchmaking failure.