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My MMR is unbalanced
I have 6k hours stemming from 2018 to now mainly on killer but a good amount on survivor. When I play survivor solo the players are just horrible. It’s making me wanna quit the game again and it’s not even enjoyable. You can’t even have fun because they killers try so hard it’s a stomp every single time it wasn’t like this when it was rankings.
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it wasn’t like this
That is a good point. It wasn't like this.
Sometimes, people seem to forget that the sheer amount of tunneling / slugging killers just wasn't a thing back in the day. Those strategies existed and some players used them, of course, but generally speaking you could expect killers to go for 12 hooks.
And it was fine, it was good and healthy for the game. In current DBD things have gotten out of hand, especially slugging these past few months.
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MMR isn’t real, the matchmaking dice rolls are just screwing you over
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That's the comp scene for ya.
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it isn’t the mmr dice. This has been a thing for years it feels like.
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And it was fine, it was good and healthy for the game
You defend the old system of ranks a lot, and while the MMR system we currently use isn't perfect, it's still better.
When they did MMR system testing and feedback a couple years ago, they did blind testing without telling the players what they changed, asked for feedback on how it felt, and changed it again for a week or two.
When they gave us the results, the old ranking system was one of the tests, and if was wildly unpopular. The only thing people really want from ranks is to see their MMR on screen, which was one of the major problems with ranks.
Ranks had the ongoing problem of the players being able to manipulate their rank at will. Deranking was a huge problem on both sides for players who simply wanted easier games and pub stomping.
The current system obfuscates the numbers, and people can't really do that any more (at least, not without spending days deranking with boring losses, and even then you can't be sure it's working).
That's what I hear when people think fondly of the old system, since one if the make complaints is always "games are too sweaty", which is identical to "I want easier opponents".
My only real criticism of the MMR system currently is that I didn't think they're iterating on it to fix the issues that do exist. But revealing the number isn't one of those issues.
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I agree that they don't seem to be iterating on the current issues with SBMM. At least not transparently. It does feel like they make undocumented changes to matchmaking from time to time, and that really irritates the sys admin in me.
I think they've bungled this from the start by being adamant that players can't have any visibility into the system. It's like they thought players wouldn't have object permanence as it relates to MMR. When you hide the data, the player will make up their number (high MMR) and base everything off that assumption. They're not just going to play as if MMR isn't there. You can hide MMR in other games because other games have competitive ranks. It's like BHVR shoehorned MMR into DbD without any sort of context
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I hate this game anymore
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You defend the old system of ranks a lot
Thats because it was better, of course.
MMR created a huge drop in matchmaking quality and made the game less enjoyable. The ranking system with the actual rank reset was easily the best one we've ever had, and I want it back.
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I’ll take the old grade system more than anything right now. The quality in gameplay has dropped tremendously since the introduction of hidden MMR. It really doesn’t make sense as to why they would remove it in the first place.
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