SoloQ Issues

How do you know they're deranking? Most content creators I watch do not have any increase in their devotion levels, so they're not playing/deranking off-stream.

Yeah I assumed that was the case with the Demo example. But the person I replied to made the claim that other people doing the streaks are deranking

I think you mentioned this in this thread already, but its funny how survivors dont realize what crazy buff logic theyre currently getting.

• Buff a character because bad players are worse at using said character than good players that additionally use third party tool for advantages. Its also a perpetual cycle because good players on comms will still be better than bad players

Thats like saying we need to buff the nurse because i suck at her compared to a theoretical marth or supaalf thats also using hacks.

Its also wreird that the whole "closing the gap"-thing isnt applied to the actually different killer characters, but instead we are nerfing the top killers instead of buffing the bad ones. If both sides were actually using the same balance logic, either all killers would need to be buffed to get as close as possible to nurse or we had to nerf the survivor character to push comm users down to the default solo survivors.

As for the whole 4v1 turning into a 3v1 once a survivor dies argumentation... I think people forget that a survivor dying is a part of the game flow and doesnt mean that its now a 3v1, the dead survivor had plenty of chance to leave lasting effects on the trial, be it generator progress or just killer time getting wasted by their death, or a blast mine or coh-boon staying around. Its only a "futile 3v1" if the trial starts with 3 survivor; If a survivor "dies too early", they messed up, which is a skill issue, like as often thrown at killers who mess up too.

it depends on how you determine a win and how you calculate fun.

so really it's a personal perspective thing.

also not saying 1.5k hours isn't impressive, but a year break is enough time to lose your skills and fall behind. so it could be that as well.

i personally play for pips, challenges, and achievements. i'm mainly a killer player, but i tend to play solo survivor when i get bored.

the current matchmaking system doesn't seem to account for skill (though i could be wrong) and rather seems to just put players together based on demand and connection stability.

my experience with solo survivor tends to be this - people are afk and die, swf's refuse to help the odd person out and will let you sit through 2 hook cycles while they gen rush, new or bad players are like lead weights and landmines when you come across them, and killers are simple enough that as long as you know the map you can pallet smack them for days.

if a team is optimum in their gen rushing a match can be finished in under 3 minutes. but that requires players to avoid instant downs and getting cornered. like i said - new players or bad players make that go from 2.5 all the way up to a possible 470 seconds. or almost 8 minutes. you can tell wheb you're in a crybaby lobby as players will kill themselves or go afk.

but i get bloodpoints all the same and sometimes i escape through hatch or whatever. i recommend bringing an aura perk just to see what others are doing and take note how many players either try to get themselves killed or try to kill other players when you're soloing. you'd be surprised how sadistic survivor swf's are.

Glad to see someone else who can see the big picture,it's so rare.

For some reason,the majority of the playerbase doesn't realize this.

I blame some of the content creators for having a little indirect part in to this (win streaks videos for example),people are so influenced by them and their opinions.

But that is a topic for another discussion maybe.

these issues will remain as long as bhvr leaves the matchmaking so bad which makes the swf much stronger than solo q is not the info you get sure it has an impact but why swf is better you have seen your own matchmaking the Meg who is scared and just hides and Nea who goes down in 10 seconds are not in your team but of course you also take experienced players who have 5k+ hrs in your team and you often get a hundred hrs killers who don't have a chance, of course very rarely come a Nurse, Blight and Spirit but most of them aren't that good anyway so they'll also finish them off, the difference is all the other killers get 0-1 hooks and the trio get a few more hooks and the chance of a kill, sounds sad? NO! bhvr wants this! because actions say more than a thousand words! so the main problem is bhvr, so many things have been going wrong for years and they just ignore everything, either dbd gets a new dev team or the leadership needs to be replaced, they had enough time and did almost everything wrong and are very, very slow in everything...

a dev team that has no idea about their game, just great, instead of listening to people who have say 5.6k 10k+ hrs (experienced players who have been playing dbd daily for years) as an example I recommend Fog Whisperer (not all ) only those selected by the community and also people from the community itself, talk to them, but no! other games "hay community you are very important to us, what is your opinion on that ? hmm you don't like it ? ok then we'll leave it, but you like it ? ok we'll bring it in"

and bhvr: "Well you don't think the matchmaking works, neither does hit validation, we are damn slow in everything, things that are annoying are not killedswitched although we have recognized that it hurts you a lot (latest examples Euraption and Skull Mrs 30min+ games) instead of killswitching them, tackling the problem and when the problem is solved putting them back in we'll leave everything as it is and eventually we'll patch that but all the while things can continue to frustrate you, and that's nothing! if you look even more into the past you will see how bad we are hmm i mean gOoD"