Miserable new player experience.

Yeah that really sucks bro. The game is actually fun when you get a chance to learn to and actually play opponents on your level and not sweat lords trying to pub stomp.

If you only play survivor I highly recommend joining the discord and finding a nice survive with friends or swf, there's tons of people that would be willing to help. Solo q aka survivor hell is rough when you know what your doing due to the matchmaking among other things.

I can't help much on the survivor side since I barely play, usually for challenges but I can help with the killer side if you have any questions or anything. This is a game that takes a lot of time to learn most people are considered beginners until about 500 hours give or take.

The only tips I can give you I starting out don't set your personal win condition to wether you escape or not. Try to learn the loops, watch videos on how to run the loops there's a right and a wrong way to run them, also learn the types jungle gyms and which ones are safe and unsafe to loop. go into matches with the sole condition that you improve on something, idc if it's 2 secs longer in chase it all matters in the end. When you take that win condition out and just focus on learning the game it gets better, starting out killers usually will stomp you because it's easier for them at that level as tunneling and camping are almost guaranteed wins.

I'm sorry you started out on a terrible foot, I hate to see another new player leave due to crappy matchmaking, and terrible killers, someone with 9k hours knows exactly when they're playing someone with less than 500, there's no fun or glory in stomping someone whose just loaded the game up. I usually let the low hour players always leave and try to show them what not to do when I come across them. If you ever need to practice against killer hit me up.

Yeah, it's not new player friendly. Which kind of blows my mind since you think they'd want to retain new players, not drive them away. Matchmaking in general in this game is confusing tbh.

In no way was that us vs them. I literally said we came together.

Anyway!

We'd all like to help you out, OP! Me and @radiantHero23 here will protecc! You will escape!

You have my condolences. The matchmaking for new players is pretty bad (like in most other games too). You get paired with some guys that have a lot more experience than you and there is also a problem with smurfs.

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do other than keep playing. The matchmaking will adjust and put you into some more fair matches eventually. In the meantime many of us would be more than happy to give you a little advice on whatever it is your struggling with and there are also some great videos on YouTube to introduce you to the game as a survivor and as a killer.

Something else that can sometimes help is to play the other side to see how people play against you. That way you'll learn first hand what survivors typically tend to do in a match and you'll also find a few things that do and don't work.

Prestige doesn't mean a lot when it comes to how well someone plays though. I have played against some P100s that looked like total beginners and people with low prestige that completely dominated me. Don't let this number intimidate you.

yeah the mmr system is reallly bad for noobs

As a pretty empathetic person I can understand the problems you're experiencing. It's been something that I've talked about with some DBD streamers time and time again- The core problems, from what I've experienced in my time playing, is that the devs have been focusing so hard on balancing the game and, yes, that is typically a good thing for game devs to do until you notice the main flaw with BHVR doing this which is that they're making the game more balanced meaning it's more skill-based, but if the matchmaking system is gonna be as bad as it is now then making the game solely skill-based is just simply gonna make the game not easily accessible to new players who want to play the game like you. This is, ultimately(imo), one of the core things that is very slowly killing the game for a lot of newer players.

At the end of the day BHVR just simply need to do a similar system that other game devs do when it comes to MMR-like systems which is that the MMR system simply can't get applied to newer players until they've played for a long enough time. Game devs do that kind of system to protect newer players so they can get themselves more familiarized with their games before they get thrown into the main MMR system. The only flaw that BHVR could possibly face with this is mainly all the hackers that get new accounts after getting banned because they would likely all be initially appearing in that part of the game which would also drive newer players away.

Being a new player to DBD is a very rough experience, no matter what side you choose to play. I'm also relatively new to the game, so I hope I can share a few helpful tips (I started earlier this year with the Skull Merchant chapter).

As a new Survivor player, I would recommend not playing the way that streamers and youtubers tend to play. They tend to be more bold, confident that their skills will save them from pulling off risky plays. It's usually a better strategy to be stealthy but active when you first start out. Unfortunately, this play style doesn't make for great "content", so (with some exceptions) you won't find many good examples of stealthy play from the biggest streamers. But it should keep you in the game for longer and the longer you can stay alive for, the more chances you'll have to learn. Don't worry about escaping much just yet. Even very experienced Survivors like JRM and Ayrun can go multiple games without a single escape through the gates.

Make every game an opportunity to learn something new. Pay attention to what your teammates and Killer's perks do, the layout of each map, common gen, pallet and totem spawns etc. There's an insane amount of stuff to learn (even very basic stuff) that the tutorial doesn't mention at all. I'd also suggest making progressing a tome challenge or daily ritual your main goal for each trial. That way, you'll feel some sense of progression even if you don't ever escape.

I also recommend looking up some beginner guides and prestiging Meg for her Sprint Burst as a priority. If you do a gen with someone else and you can Sprint Burst away, the Killer will probably chase after your teammate instead. Then you can return to the gen later when it's safe to keep working on it. But let's say they do chase you, with Lightweight and Meg's other perk Quick and Quiet equipped, you can often lose a killer that's on your tail by breaking line of sight and vaulting a window or jumping into a locker. Sprint Burst will also give you some defense against tunnelling Killers that like to return to the hook. Of course there are many other stealthy combinations that you can use, this is just one example. Don't be afraid to experiment.

I'd also recommend playing some Killer games. I personally had more fun playing killer when I first started because I felt like I improved a lot quicker at this side of the game. It will at the very least give you opportunity to explore the maps and tiles at your own leisure, experience the Killer's field of vision, as well as learn how the other Survivors play and think, the places they like to hide, where they run to etc. All information that you can use to improve your Survivor games.

I hope you don't feel too discouraged. DBD is a difficult game even for players with many hours. I have over 800 and I still have a lot left to learn.

that is somewhat normal. survivor has incredible steep skill-floor. In my first 50 hours of play, i remember dying 95% of my games. I do not remember how many game i played but let say i played 100 games in first 10 hours of dbd of survivor. I probably died in 95/100 games. in most games with mmr, you typical starting MMR is usually higher then expected average value of new player so it does take time for MMR to adjust. I don't think there is anything that can be done to soften skill-floor on beginner survivor without imposing rules like, you can only play on garden of joy, badham and autohaven(restricted realms) for 100 games or you can only play vs trapper xyz killers. those type of stuff divide queues and hurt matchmaking but who knows, maybe new player queue might increase player retention.

I don’t blame you for feeling that way

If I bought the game today I would most definitely refund it

Glad I bought it 4 years ago

It’s simple. MMR has ruined DBD. Everyone needs to admit it. Demand that matchmaking is changed back to the old Grade system. Watch how better the matches would be for everyone!

Survivor will always play SWF to win consistently. To protect their MMR. This leaves solo players in an antlion trap. They’ll keep losing. So what’s the point of playing alone?

Tunneling at higher Grades meant that the killers didn’t pip. They lost pips. They lost rank. With MMR killers can tunnel without consequence. In fact, they win more now than ever! As they can potentially catch everyone if they do it effectively!

There are some perks you should run as a new players. Depending on your play style you can build your own ways of playing. I would start off on Meg for adrenaline. Just survive until all gens are done.

This might be one of the worst times to be a new player on either side. Over the years both sides have complained nonstop about anything strong or meta and now what we are left with is the genrush/tunnel meta where everyone seems to be having a bad time, but don't acknowledge that they basically asked for this. Also matchmaking is complete trash

You really just wanna go into the match with the mind set of "OK I probably won't make it out but I'll do what I can. 9/10 you'll pip unless you're ruthlessly tunneled but I'm not finding many tunnel killers anymore. Maybe because I'll loop them for as long as I can but if you show even the slightest knowledge of loop skills a tunneling killer will not chase you for long.

Except some rank 20 would have 1k hours under their belt, my first game ever was against a 2k doctor.

While it does suck that the matchmaking needs some changing, they give us a ridiculous amount of blood points quite often , so while you may see someone with "100" prestige it's very possible that especially within the last couple of months every single blood point they've been given has gone into one character, my friend just started a couple of months ago dumped all her bp into 1 character and already has an 100 where I've been playing for years now and I scatter my bp across all the survivors and all the killers so I don't have anyone over 10 ....we joke about mmr not really being a thing in this game and in some aspects it's not , but I understand the frustration of coming in and getting matched with people who may seem like they play a lot , but the reality is they probably just dump all the bp they're given into 1 character and they doesn't take long to get to 100 . I hope your experiences are better going further .

Hello. I did the same post a few days ago, and answer was "get better in the game". Problem is matchmaking. You should be with people your level (as a killer or survivor). I dont have exactly the same level of problem but im equally matches 1 in 4th. I have played other game with proper mmr rating, and all games were close. So its à choice of developer to not put in place à proper mmr system. With adjustement for swf / killer / perks. And with à more random gap if they want it to be à party game. And with à teal chose for smurf