How the MMR system really works
If a survivor goes on a losing streak the MMR places them with increasingly skilled survivors with the intent that those good survivors are supposed to carry the weak link. This is why players with thousands of hours wonder why they get teamed with players who just installed the game a few hours ago. This is the opposite of how MMR works in most games where it tries to team people of roughly equal skill.
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This doesn’t make sense. If bad survivors are dropping in MMR how are they being ranked with really good survivors? Even if we consider that matches prioritize queue times the difference in skill levels still can’t be that extreme.
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To clear things up, this is absolutely untrue. The game always tries to find you people around your current rating. It does not try to artificially help you win by pairing you with better players.
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The false info that killers are matched against the average of the survivor group is still floating around I see.
I have seen content creators parroting this as well and it just leads to biased and not actually fitting feedback sadly..
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Hi Peanits,
Question: if mmr is based on kill or survival, how is it possible that I can go against the same killer player twice in a row if they got a 4k in the 1st match?
After the 1st match, their mmr should go up for the 4k and mine should drop for dying.
How can we possibly get matched together instantly the next match? Shouldn't we both have gone to different mmr levels 🤔
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In this case, it's most likely that you are still within the normal range for matchmaking. The matchmaker increases your "confidence" score the more matches you play. As its confidence in your rating goes up, your rating is adjusted less. This way it can more quickly find where you're supposed to be at first and then focus on fine tuning it. After you've played a bunch of matches and built up that confidence, your rating won't change much from a single loss. It's possible that although their rating did increase and your rating decreased, you're still within the acceptable starting range for matchmaking.
Or in short, your rating only move a little bit after a single match, not enough to completely change who you face.
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Thank you for the clarification ☺️
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It's interesting that despite the managers encouraging some hard workers to slack off, there's a mechanism in place that prevents their evaluations from dropping. It means that we need to die dozens of times in a row to lower the level of our opponents.
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The MMR system is broken. Unfortunately many agree with this. And it is true.
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