Purposely depipping is becoming problematic

Let us see how the new ranking system works out before calling it a failure. I am sure they have something in mind and have put thought into the consequences.

All I can say is do your best and try to not take the game too seriously. Earning BP should be the first priority. Winning games consistently will happen eventually if you stick to it.

I play mostly Survivor because I would rather get into a game instantly then have to wait 10 minutes for a game as a Killer. I enjoy the game. I get camped, tunneled, looped and everything else everyone on here complains about.

I don't DC if I get tunneled or face camped. I just move on to the next game.

I'm a completionist so I'm working on finishing up my P3 Claudette (have all perks, just need to finish ranking them to 3). Then I'll move on to maybe Jake or even a Killer. Haven't decided yet.

If you're getting this worked up over a game, don't play it. There's 1000's of games out there that can entertain you. I'll never understand these people that keep doing something they don't enjoy.

If the game dies due to lack of interest, that's on BHVR.

Patient: Doc, it hurts when I do this.

Doctor: Then don't do that.

It seems pretty straight forward to me. Not many survivors want to have long wait times, play the same killer over and over, and play killers who are generally unfun and super sweaty. If you get demolished every match it becomes unfun to play. If you can reward people enough to want to be in the Red Ranks (extra BP per match or something of the like), then people will want to be there. This will cause more people to strive to be a Red Rank, causing more people to be in the Red Ranks and therefore diluting the pool of "sweaty" killers so not every match is miserable to play. By simply rewarding people to be there, it fixes all the problems.

Stop trying to change human nature by punishing them. Reward them for being selfish and in turn cause everyone's game play to be more fun and rewarding. It's called ######### capitalism. It just works!

That's why I think rank should be independent of other peoples' rank. It should just be random matchmaking. This would take care of the inconsistent ranks.

there needs to be an incentive to rank up. our rewards for red ranks are long queue times, horrible ping lobbies and going against the same players almost every game. 2 game modes wouldnt work because this isnt a competitive game and there aren't enough players, meaning even LONGER queue times. also I dont know about those other games but dbd is super easy to rank up, so ranks dont really mean much

Get rid of the problems that cause people to derank then this won't be a problem. I'm not going to wait 5 minutes as a solo survivor to get into a match. SWF is impossible. Hope that the killer doesn't leave in lobby even when I'm playing solo. I literally cannot even play the game in red Rank as survivor. I go into every match already mad because I had to wait so long to play.

Another factor not usually considered whenever people talk ranks is that skill in any given killer is not necessarily consistent with the others. I suck at Nurse, but do well at Hag and not terrible at a few others. When I'm playing with a new killer, or dusting off one I haven't played in a while, I wait until rank reset, and either play then, or wait a week or two for the ranks to get more reflective of reality, because it's really the only way I'll have a chance to play long enough to even learn. Between gen-rushing and survivors skilled way beyond their ranks, there's simply no chance that I'm going to have much success trying to learn in the purples where I normally "wind up" by about the end of the rank period.

Short of evaluating the "value" of individual perks and relative skill-set with that perk set, there will never be a "fair" matchmaking system. Derankers definitely amplify an existing problem of skill-set disparity. Casual gamers (I include myself) are never going to be at the same skill level as a streamer that literally plays the game for 8 hours a day as his or her job. But there are just not enough people playing DBD to provide enough players fill games on demand that are balanced.

Derankers have generally one of two reasons: They're streamers who need to present content other than 20 minute lobbies and the same sweaty killers over and over again; and trolls who, for whatever sociopathic reason, get off on playing toxic games where they can "bully" and get a guaranteed win, and/or cause the greatest level of psychological harm in their opponent. (I'm sure if they didn't have toxic gaming to release this mental pus, they'd be torturing small animals or something instead.)

Highly toxic streamers (who I won't name, but we all know who I mean) want both. Their income depends on them spending a good chunk of their day in games against people they will find easy to humiliate and antagonize. If they can get the opponent to disconnect, it's an even greater win, and often bears additional financial rewards in the form of added tips or subscriptions.

As long as you have these incentives, this will *always* be a driving factor in the game, and because of the pressures of profit and innate human cruelty, these will continue to escalate. There is zero incentive to counter this and reward "good" behavior, just ongoing pressure to make deranking easier (i.e. the real reason for the new and absurd emblem values) and toxic play more effective (new ways to stun the allegedly more powerful killer, and awarding more and more points for doing so.)

From that perspective, this game will never have balance. You either tolerate the play against sadistic jerk-holes in the majority of your games as the price of getting the occasional *fun* game where there's balance, or you quit playing because the issues of balance never get more than band-aid fixes, and the issue of toxic play is utterly ignored (unless it's a killer that camps or tunnels, in which case let's invent whole new perks to advantage survivors, and take away tons of points from killers for doing the *effective* thing rather than the thing that maximizes survivor fun.)