My survivor matches have been terrible lately
I like to play a balance between Killer and Survivor because I like variety. I started to play Killer more and more due to my frustration with really terrible luck in terms of matchmaking. This past week however was unbelievable. I couldn't tell if the other Survivors were just new or really didn't care. It got to the point where I was taking keys into each match simply because I got tired of being the only one doing any work. You name it and I probably went through it. Between hiding in corners on the map to unhooking (or not even bothering to unhook in some cases) right in front of the Killer with no BT. I would circle the maps at least twice to see if any of the gens had been touched and the Survivors are just casually walking around doing nothing. You'd think that once Devour Hope activated that most Survivors would actually go looking for the totems. In one of the matches, a Hag was face-camping and I knew not to go near her until I found the totem for DH. The Survivor sends me a nasty PSN message about how I let him get to 2nd hook... I mean really... DH is active and she was face-camping. I used to be a major team player in the random matches but I'm feeling like maybe I need to pull back and focus on my own escape. I don't want to be selfish but I don't like having to do extra work when there are four Survivors. Any thoughts?
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the truth is...solo q is basically unplayable. but somehow killers want to be buffed to the point they can destroy swfs...i have taken a step back from the game lately just because i have lost all confidence the devs will actually do anything to make the game better. They are too blind adding new killers to the game than to fix what needs to be fixed.
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Similar thoughts. I noticed that a lot of my matches when I play as a Killer have a completely different set of Survivors. They all seem to work together and sometimes I can't even find one. Kind of like Night and Day in terms of how different they've been for me.
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lol yeah. If killers get buffed to the point where they can destroy SWFs, I'll unfortunately have to quit playing the game because solo queue is too miserable. Realistically one of two things will happen if they implement that. Either everyone stops playing survivor and they play killer instead, or they just stop playing the game. The problem isn't SWF at this point, it's fixing the matchmaking and balancing both sides. Unfortunately to do that efficiently they'll need to focus entirely on fixing those issues and not pumping out dlc every 3 months. They can't do both
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SoloQ is a nightmare and the thing is, it never used to be this bad.
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I can tell you for sure that it never used to be this bad, in fact, it was actually enjoyable. Aside from killers having new strong perks, and survivors getting nerfed in every single update, as well as omega blink nurse on the rise, I'd say the reason is due to killers gravitating to camping and tunnelling in every match nowadays.
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"Solo q is unplayable"
Not for me.
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I feel like a lot of peoples "hate" of solo queue comes from a lack of accountability. I play solo queue for literally hours and hours every single day, way more than most and solo queue is totally fine. We win the vast majority of our matches. Even 1 good player can carry a team. I think this is more people playing badly and blaming "bad teammates" instead. I would even go as far as to say that even in solo queue you still have a massive advantage vs the killer with the games balancing. For people to even go as far as to call solo queue unplayable is just completely ridiculous and I think people should rewatch their game play.
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It's just the opposite for me. Lately I'll do around 3 gens solo and everyone else is doing something like crowding a hook. I'll be the only one without a hook and out of sympathy, I'll run over to help my team. Then I end up dying on 1st hook while gens still aren't being touched. I can see they aren't doing anything from the yellow auras.
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I had 3 back to back instant dcs tonight, several survivors being afks over the pass few days. Then I had a match tonight where I looped a billy around lerys for a few minutes and 0 gens got done and when I did go down the survivors were just crouching around and hoping in and out of lockers.
I won't call it unplayable as I do get good teammates every once in a while, but the pass couple of days has been the most frustrating case of having consistently bad teammates.
Also it's really farfetch to say 1 good player can carry match. You can only carry teammates so far and none of it matters if they actively sabotage it. Like the billy game I mentioned. Doesn't matter if I bring the killer on an infinite chase if my teammates don't touch gens.
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In my case, I can carry survivors the entire game but end up getting tunneled and camped to death. In these situations either everyone dies due to the randoms not doing gens or they escape but I die due to pissing the killer off because I ran them all game. Some of us actually play really well but get matched with teammates that are new. The matchmaking should never rely on one person having to carry everyone else for the whole game.
There are other factors as well, like what server you're on, how populated it is, and what time you play, that will also determine how bad the matchmaking is. For the past.. I wanna say year? the queue times become really long and I get matched with a lot of new survivors or killers after 9 pm Eastern. But within the last month or so I'll have bad matchmaking even before 9 pm. I have 9k hours and I wouldn't say I'm amazing at the game, but I can guarantee you that the game is in the worst state it's ever been in in the entire time I've played. I believe that's also why they took 2 weeks to do MMR tests, because the state the game is in is really bad for a lot of people
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You just described my matches perfectly! Sometimes I'll get a good team and we always add each other because we know that we will cover each other when needed. I just had a match in Midwich against a Legion. Again, I was the only one doing gens. One person spawned next to the Ruin totem and they didn't even touch one gen after that. The Legion surprisingly let me have hatch. I wonder if he saw that I was the only one making an effort. I was able to finish 1 1/2 gens all on my own while other people were just hiding in lockers.
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Have you guys tried playing during different hours throughout the day? If you can I mean.
For me the only bad time to play surv is around 8pm-2am eu.
Otherwise it is better than pre sbmm.
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It always depends, to be honest.
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I always dodge the lobby when I see survivors wearing default cosmetics. I assume they are newbies and will do nothing the entire game.
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I wear default cosmetics on some of the licensed characters. Also no prestige because I don't like wasting bp on it.
But I understand where you are coming from, I am probably not the norm and am an outlier.
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I used to be a major team player in the random matches but I'm feeling like maybe I need to pull back and focus on my own escape. I don't want to be selfish but I don't like having to do extra work when there are four Survivors. Any thoughts?
Play the game the way you want, and do not make other people entitlement dictate you how to have fun.
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I wear default cosmetics because you think I am going to spend money on survivors? Hell to the no. The only reason I finally got my Yun Jin was because they let me get her for like half the shards. Luckily her default outfit is pimp. That is why I chose her over Jane. Jane has a very nice model (at least from behind), but her outfit is blah. So I had to make an important decision. Baby got back, or baby got no one's back? I think I did a pretty good job and chose correctly, but I regret my decision every day.
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I have a lot of skins, mostly from shards, some of them paid.
But not for licensed characters. That is why I play them with their default outfits.
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That's why I stopped playing DBD. 99% of my survivor games were soloQ and about 80% of them were 4k.
I think many soloQ survivors don't even try to win anymore, because it's pointless, they just fool around, which is sad. The balance for soloQ is terrible, it's basically unplayable, unless you just want to fool around.
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Sometimes I do that. Worst case recently was a default cosmetic David. I loaded into the match and realized he had no mither. He went down in the first 10 seconds of the match so I dc'd. He wasn't even going for adept.
Most of the time if people have default cosmetics it means they're either new, don't play survivor much, or they're memeing and want to look like they're new to fake people out. If you play enough survivor, you've probably got a fair amount of shards to spend.. so unless you're using them all to buy characters or on the shrine of secrets, then you're likely new. I usually don't care enough to dodge lobbies just cuz of that, but if I get bad matches back to back, then yeah I'm dodging if you look like you're new
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The most annoying thing that I've encountered lately is going to cover my teammates and then after taking the hook, I see their auras scattered and I end up dying on 1st hook because nobody bothers to come near me. When it's back-to-back matches with the same issues, that's enough to make you quit playing. Yet I find it hilarious that when I play Killer, almost all of the teams find a way to cooperate (not always the case).
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I´m not sure how the devs would fix bad teammates.
Because bad teammates seem to be the main issue here.
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Yeah. My main question was regarding how matches are set up. Why would I keep getting matched with players like this repeatedly?
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Call it elo hell or bad luck. But the mmr favors faster matchmaking over fair matchmaking. Unless that changes... there is little we can do.
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The harder to play survivors less players will be skilled enough for the role.....
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Well thankfully there seems to be an overabundance of survivors. At least compared to killers.
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