Removal of prestige level in lobbies makes prestige feel meaningless now

As others have already stated, killers always had to wait until post game to "show off" their prestige.

Showing in the pre game lobby was exclusively used to lobby shop.

This was not a mistake. The mistake was implementing Adept Challenges which get everyone killed 99% of the time.

It sounds like you are probably the exact kind of person this change was trying to address then.

Lobby dodging because of prestige, either side, was trashy and ruined MMR. You are not entitled to easier games by dodging. You are also not entitled to decide who the MMR pairs you with based on a little number that shows how many BP have been invested in that character. You are not entitled to dodge someone who simply wants to do their goals and happens to be SoloQ, if you want a more tailored experience there is SWF for that. These players deserve a game, too. If they are in your lobby, they are in your MMR bracket. Period.

What's the matter, Sable was just going for the hatch achievement where you have to open it with a key. There is nothing wrong with going for an achievement this way. In fact her being anonymous probably saved her from abuse at the hands of people who, like you, seem to believe that everyone has to always play optimal all the time or they're a problem. The thing is… those people are intended by the game, though. They're genuinely not a problem… but the entitlement of being mad they play that way sure is a problem, and it ruins the game with elitism.

Maybe this isn't the game for you if you don't ever want random teammates to play any other way besides the way you want them to. Or maybe you should just run a 4 man SWF exclusively. I don't know what to tell you, but the fact is people are allowed to play suboptimally. You will sometimes get them in your lobbies. You alongside everyone else that has this happen to them need to be mature and skilled enough to allow them to do this, then move on to the next game.

Not a soul is actually holding anyone hostage over an adept. You can't hold someone hostage while also going for adept. You can throw for hatch going for an adept, but you can't hold someone hostage in a round. That simply does not happen, it's never happened, and I am inclined to believe you're actually just angry you're losing because someone is trying for an adept with less than optimal perks. The proper play if you see someone doing an adept when you're in a SWF especially is to… protect them and ensure they can get out so they get their adept. Use teamwork instead of prioritizing only your wins, wow! It's that simple. :)

No matter how annoying it is, the fact is that not a single shred of anything you just said is any good reason to say we need prestiges to show in the lobbies again when the benefits of not having prestiges in the lobby greatly outweigh any downsides. "I don't deserve to lose because my teammate wants to play a different way than me" is a really, really entitled take. Because it implies you believe you are entitled to a win. Nobody's entitled to win.

Thats not what happened though. Do I have to stream more proof of this bs of an excuse you are attempting to create for them?

I run the perk kindred. Guess what this player was doing all game everytime someone was hooked? Waiting in basement walking around, or in a locker.

Not progressing generators

Not saving anyone

Not healing anyone.

I wont say specifically how they did not escape, but lets just say someone made sure they didnt get to do what they attempting to do. Everyone in end game chat knew what this person was trying to do.

And if the persons name was there I would have blacked the thing out, stop making excuses for this.

Does it necessarily correlate to someones prestige? No but..

christ.

At least I had something to go off when I see a p0 or p1-3 in my lobby and a key in their hand.

Here I just got lucky enough to spot them last second swap in the lobby.

Again prestige isnt everything I get it, but we need information like the example I gave or SOMETHING so you arent put into a match where you would actually PREFER to have a bot on your team.

You are entitled to 4 people on your team. Not 3 and a person hiding in basement all round.

I feel like you arent understanding the macro of this decision though and thinking only about the lobby dodge. This creates more problems then solves.


What will happen now, and is happening, is more people giving up. A problem that is already large enough to begin with.

Load into a game with someone lasting 4 seconds in chase, where you would recognize that happening because they are 0 prestige?

Too bad you get stuck with someone that has p0 or only their teachables.

Load into a game with an Adept David? I guarantee the first time he gets downed hes giving up on hook, or someone else is, OR BOTH!. (Which happened today, so wonderful)

Or the example i gave with sable above.

I would beable to spot this crap in the lobby and get out of there.

I dont want to play with them though. And I am entitled to actual teammates.

Survivors can give up regardless of how the killer plays.

A lot of these complaints about teammates/wanting or not wanting to sweat can be solved with improved matchmaking, which is unrelated to prestige(outside of lobby dodging, which this helps).

Giving killers extra information in the pre-game lobby isn't something we have to do.

Being worried about sweat is silly since we've seen plenty of posts about both sides doing it a lot, no?

If one is worried about having a game they aren't able to easily win, then that is a matter of practice and learning and this change will help allow that to happen where it might have been avoided before.

But don't we have SWFing to solve this? You don't have to play with these people. Grab three friends. There's many places online to find groups, from Discord to Reddit to streamer communities.

So I actually can't play as killers anymore due to hidden ranks in the lobby. I'm not good at all as the killer. Some mechanics are hard to hit and I always seem to miss out more than I do getting a 1k. The ranks used to let me tell if the match would be to hard if I went against players of higher ranks. I know I am not good enough to play them. I would leave the lobby so that way their match would be funner for them and not have to deal with my crap. Instead now that I can't see and we load into the match I get bullied and trolled and it makes me feel like playing as the killer is pointless. I'll lose every match. You can say get good, but how do you get good against people who know the maps better than me, they probably know more about the perks than me, they know more about the character in which I am trying to learn or play better than me, and most of all I feel like I am always against groups of people who can talk and communicate during the game. I stand no chance. Maybe it's just me. I play survivor as well but I'm still no good at that. I try but I might get lucky if the other players on my team are better than me. Or if the killer takes pity on my crap performance during the match ( my inability to DODGE anything). So what should I do?

Edit: I don't have a mic and sometimes I have to step away in a hurry… so I don't usually have anyone to play with. I've been learning as I go and from the random tiktoks I see but if I ever try to put their ideas or tips to use I get run over hard.