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Does prestige even tell you anything about skill?
For some reason I've been put into the same lobby with prestige 6+ survivors in some of my games. I was expecting that they'd carry but they just keep going down or not doing gens.
There was a prestige 10 Mikaela, definitely no boon and while I was getting chased in Badham (that notorious house) by Wesker only one gen popped. And then when I was getting chased again no gens were popping and no one was getting healed. What the hell is going on? She didn't even have a boon.
How scary is Wesker? That map is full of structures.
Just a rant cause I've been having bad games.
I've had games where we're between prestige 1-3 and if someone is getting chased then at least 2 gens are popping. Do people get allergic to gens the longer they play? I am confused.
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No, it doesn't mean anything, I could be a P50 Kate and my friend comes over to play who doesn't play it as much as me could be playing
On the reverse, I could be a P1 Dwight and still be god tier looper but I just decided to level up Dwight for his perks
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Prestige doesn't tell you skill, just gives you an idea of time played. Someone who's P15 might be a god or might be below average, but they for sure have playtime and should understand the basics of the game. Someone who's P100 has sunk an insane amount of time into the game and is more likely than most to be very good (because they're clearly a DBD devotee), though again it's possible for them to be average.
Meanwhile, P0 doesn't mean anything unless it's a default survivor, in which case the person might have just never levelled that character, but they also might be a newbie. And newbies are bad players because they don't have proper game sense yet and do not know what they're supposed to be doing. That said, since survivors are all skins of each other and there's no real reason for anyone to level them past 3 (or 0, if they don't have any good perks), low prestige doesn't mean as much for someone's experience as high prestige does. (With the caveat that experience does not mean skill.)
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I would have to say no, I've met many players at p30, 40, even a TTV Feng who was near rank 70! I outperformed her in our game...and I'm bad at survivor.
Try not to be fooled by numbers. Someone with no prestige could be a loop god, a high prestige could very well be the teams weak link trying to compensate (now that I think about it that's a decent strategy...)
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It's usually very high prestigate levels which tells about skill as they play a lot. But have seen some bad ones but usually above 40 prestigate survivors are good loopers and very effient on gens. Under 30 prestigate level survivors can be potatoes or good you never know.
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No.
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I thought at lvl30 they would have gotten somewhat decent?I mean it's quite sometime played and I imagine they also have other survivors prestiged.
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it doesn't mean that the player doesnt have much skill but if you do see a p100 killer you can expect them to know how to at least play the killer in a effective way.
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I've seen people with Prestige 20+ play like absolute toddlers, but most of the time it is indicative of skill, because your skill is somewhat correlated to your play time. Why would someone be Prestige 50 if they weren't amazing at the game? It just makes sense.
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Nope. Even the absolute worst DBD player can reach P100 given enough time. I assure you there are plenty of players with 1000+ hours that play terribly.
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I guess it's subjective. Say someone's prestige 10, that indicates they've played enough hours in the game to accumulate the millions of BP's required to prestige a character to this level. The hours required to play that many games/accumulate so many BP's would suggest at least a semi-decent understanding of the game and how it works (looping, perks, countering killers, etc.).
However, we all know from experience this isn't always true. For example, I've been matched with a P20 player before now who avoided any contact with the killer, did no hook saves, and brought Sole Survivor & Left Behind to get the hatch/get a one-man escape. Three of us still managed to escape that game, but despite myself and the two others all being on death hook, they refused to take any hook stages. To me, this indicates low-skill because if it was getting to mid-late game and someone was on death hook and I had either one or no hooks, I would sacrifice a hook stage in order to maximize potential for a four-man escape.
In contrast, we've all played with survivors with little-to-no prestige level and wearing a default skin who have taken us by surprise at how good they are. Seeing a default, prestige 1 Dwight loop, flashlight save, and body block is very humbling and just shows that a fancy skin from the DBD store and high prestige level doesn't always mean skill.
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I have had some lvl 30 survivors who went down in less than 10s but usually they are decent. But above 40 seems to be the very good ones. But I have seen good loopers even with no prestigate...
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No it doesn't mean anything
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You can play survivor exclusively and get a P100 killer. So no, it just shows a particular amount of dedication of bloodpoints into a character or characters.
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It's not frequent but sometimes people have secondary accounts as well for legitimate reasons. As an example, Dowsey's Hardcore Survivor Challenge series could not possibly meet the rules requirements if they had to use their main accounts.
Sometimes people also transfer from one platform to another. You also don't know if the avatar with one yellow perk belongs to someone who has P100'd a different character and has now decided to prestige a different one.
Prestige entails game experience but it's not the only factor. Once you see someone play you have a better idea.
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No, just look at tru3talent. Just kidding, but it usually just equates to how much effort they've put into that specific character. I'd say a prestige at atleast 20 shows that character is that players respective main.
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There’s some correlation between Prestige and skill but like a lot of people said it’s not as strong as some people think. I certainly wouldn’t use it for matchmaking for instance.
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In the first weeks of the update it was a good way to see if a player just players much wich in return could or should lead to being better then me playing 5 games a week but now it shows nothing
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People see my prestige 6 characters and probably don't think much about it. Of course they have no way of knowing that my combined prestige number for survivor is 58 and for killer it's 51.
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How long have you been playing? Cause I can't quite calculate into how many hours those numbers translate.
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Roughly 2,000 hours if you subtract AFK time. I played survivor more when I first started playing so I'd probably have higher prestige if I had played killer more.
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As others have stated it is not at all an indication of skill and should just be hidden until postgame to prevent lobby dodging and griefing
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It's a correlation. Usually higher prestige players are good but not all the time. Gotta say the one time i faced a prestige 55 nurse it was a short, unpleasant game.
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Just like the days of old, when there were red ranks, rank doesn't matter it's just a reflection of how much you play.
Prestige level doesn't matter, it's just a reflection of how much you play. Granted, playing more means they have a higher chance of being a good player. But it's not a guarantee.
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How would it? There is no "You must be at least this good to prestige." bar.
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Here we go again. People who previously thought Grade = Skill are now here again with Prestige = Skill.
Devs, when will you hide Prestige?
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Prestige equals skill as much as our iri 1 ranks at reset, not at all
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Technically it's possible to have a prestige 100 survivor without ever having played survivor.
The bloodwebs don't care where the bloodpoints came from
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