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Did BHVR turn off matchmaking completely with the last patch?

lucidlux
lucidlux Member Posts: 56
edited January 2023 in General Discussions

I saw Otz as survivor earlier get matched against a killer with 200 hours who I don't think got a single down., Otz has 10k hours+ another survivor had almost 4k and one 2k hours in that same game. I've got 2k hours and as killer have been getting matched up every few games with console survivors with only 1 or two yellow and green perks, one guy had 5 hours played.

There has to be something broken, these games aren't fun for anyone.

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  • Gamall
    Gamall Member Posts: 487

    The answer is in your question

  • Beatricks
    Beatricks Member Posts: 857

    That's literally how SBMM has worked since the day it was implemented. You can absolutely watch old vods of competent players who, for some inexplicable reason, go up against absolute newbies without deliberately smurfing.

    I stopped watching DBD content a long while ago, but gave Hens333 and his squads escape streak a watch, and I think they played against a Plague that didn't even know what a mindgame was, straight after barely escaping against a top %1 Nurse player. The bottom line is this:

    SBMM doesn't work.

    SBMM has never worked.

    SBMM will never work.

  • I_CAME
    I_CAME Member Posts: 1,377
    edited January 2023

    People still believe MMR works? In my experience it doesn't at all. I have 3k hours in this game and I have gotten a 20k hour SWF in one game and then people who have no idea what they're doing in the very next. People who go on about high MMR are just doing so for two reasons.

    1. They're coping with the fact that they suck and going on about how they can't win against the 20k hour SWFs which they claim to face every game. These SWFs do exist but you certainly don't run into them very often at any level.
    2. They just want to flex and feel like they're amazing at the game. Even though the MMR is extremely loose and the highest MMR matches you with players of different levels of skill. Even being in high MMR is not a big deal considering how low the soft cap. This isn't like achieving Challenger in League of Legends.
  • skyllus
    skyllus Member Posts: 10

    its to do with queue times, if people are queueing too long they just expand the matchmaking pool more and more until a match is created.


    Currently, for whatever reason there are far too many people playing survivor in my region so survivor queues take 5+mins and then i go against a complete baby killer, when i have 3k hours