Low Survivor MMR not working

This. I just did a 2 minute opening chase (killer on me in first 4 seconds of match). Teammates finished 0 gens in that time. They were all just stealthy crouching around map while I was obviously in a chase. Before that I had two matches where i died on first hook in the game, not due to camping but due to no rescue attempt from teammates...with kindred!

Most of my real bad games my score is 5-8k along with most teammates, unless they spend the entire game healing each other then they run their score up without finishing gens. It is depressingly hard to earn any points when you are first tunneled out. My chases aren't good enough usually to rack up many points. You get no rescues, no heals, no gen points when tunneled out first.

Agreed. Beginner killer I think is easier than beginner survivor. Problem is it only takes 1-2 beginners to ruin a survivor team's chances. Looping as survivor is much harder to learn than killer basic chasing. My M1 killer chases are commonly called boring and dull by survivors even though I still win. I just chase, knock down almost 100% of pallets, and do 0 mind games. Still wins.

1. DBD has one of the largest active playerbases of online pc/console games. It should be able to get a fairly decent matchup without much time spent. DBD averages 30k+ players on Steam alone (not counting Epic or consoles or the 100k+ peak player counts). That's minimum 6k matches at a time. Average match time of 15 mins or 900 seconds (I think that is a high estimate). That's 6.7 matches a second starting. In 1 minute 2,000+ players in 402 matches have launched. That is plenty of churn and players to choose from for an even match.
2. Queue time for survivors is near instant (with 100% bp bonus) during NA daylight hours meaning there is a large number of killers available to pick from.
3. MMR works awesome in many other online games, I can list examples if necessary, but we probably all know them. In those games I average 45-55% win rate after finding my mmr equilibrium (anywhere from 10 to 100 matches depending on the game and mmr system). My point is whatever secret mechanism they are using in this mmr system is broken at the lower mmr. The devs might not realize that if they only play at medium or high mmr from years of experience.

I would expect daylight hours in NA and Europe would represent 80%+ of the active player numbers during that time, so still hundreds of matches launching a minute even if you cut my numbers in half. When I have played at weird hours like 2am Mountain time I was getting matched with Europeans waking up and my ping was rough.

Yes, MMR has issues at all ranges. However, I'm fairly certain the mid and high lvl survivor MMR isn't seeing the issue the low level survivors are. If they were getting 85% loss rates the forums would be flooded. It seems like a lot now, but most of those I've read are upset about 35-40% win rates for survivors. Most lower tier players never visit the forums so their voice is under represented. Many people on the forum have been here for 3+ years meaning they are extremely experienced and likely in top 10% of player base.

This is a feedback forum, so I'm providing feedback to an issue that seems ignored. Devs seem to be catering to their pros with perks like Hyper Focus which is unusable by 80% of players and probably 95% of console players, but now they are going to balance around pros burning through gens with it. Hex Ruin had this issue years ago too when it caused gen repair damage and lockout for every skill check that was only good and not great, clearly no testing or thought given to less skilled players. By gamer standards I'm old and don't have the lightning precision of my teens and 20s anymore, but I still want to enjoy the game. If they balance around the top 10% it ruins the game for many casual and low tier players.

I digress from my original issue though. MMR matchmaking needs work. Their are weak killer players that need to be matched against weak players. I would rather spend 2-3 minutes to find a good match, than 30 seconds to find a instant loss match. So I'm asking they tighten down the matchmaking times instead of going with a huge open pool to cater to the pros who don't want 5-10 min queue times.

I actually understand why they don't post it. Lot of games don't like to share it anymore. People get overly stressed if they see the number go down (Loss Aversion) to the point they won't play out of fear of losing it. That's why some games have two pools, ranked and unranked. Both have mmr numbers behind them (Normally), but they only let you see it in the ranked one or see it through a mask (like levels). Since they decoupled the ranks in dbd from the mmr though, there is now no way to know at all your rating compared to someone else.

The fact they don't even have a statistics page makes it harder too. I remember back in the day Starcraft had a win/lose rating which they dropped visibility on because they didn't want people not playing out of fear of ruining their win/loss ratios.

This has always baffled me. I notice it too. At night my survivor teammates become hilariously bad and my killer games are a breeze. I'm not sure what the cause is, there is still tens of thousands of players on which should be sufficient for a fair matchup without long queue time.