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Finally learned why I hate matchmaking

So it finally dawned on me why I dislike matchmaking so much...because it forces you to have a main killer basically just telling "Hey so you did well these matches has Oni so keep going...what's that? Oh your wanting to play Deathslinger? Mmm nah we're going to act like your still playing Oni so enjoy bad matchmaking." Basically if you're not playing one killer aka refusing to play the others who paid for your matchmaking will permanently be terrible so sorry if you wanted to relearn how to play Nurse we're just not feeling it even though clearly you haven't played her in a while so your skills aren't as high as Springtrap who you played two matches and both you got destroyed.

So yeah turns out matchmaking just wants you to play one killer and no one else...ever

Comments

  • AmpersandUnderscore
    AmpersandUnderscore Member Posts: 2,967

    MMR is per killer. Killers you've never played before start at essentially your average rating and lowered slightly so you can learn them.

  • jamally093
    jamally093 Member Posts: 1,986

    That doesn't seem to be the case for me. I decided to play Vecna because I haven't played him in a good while and then suddenly boom I was basically drop kicked by survivors because sorry you didn't play your main.

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 17,654

    I think you did not understand what AmpersandUnderscore said - it is completely correct that your MMR is roughly at your average MMR for new Killers or Killers you have not played in a while. And obviously you will perform worse with those, simply because you are either new or rusty with them.

    And this makes total sense - if your MMR would be much lower than your average MMR, you will just win a bunch of games without any effort (since you dont forget how to play Killer in general) before you are at a suitable MMR where you probably would get crushed anyway because you increased your MMR so fast.

  • jamally093
    jamally093 Member Posts: 1,986

    I guess but the problem is also where you could get destroyed for a bunch of matches and get just that one match where your at a good level before being destroyed again all because you didn't want to play the same character.

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,303

    You still dont get much worse survivors than you get on your better preforming killers and most sweaty teams I face when I play few first matches with new killer tbh then just on killer with best preformance which is for me probably blight.

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,303

    Happened to me with springtrap in my like in first 3 games was swf team with like almost 20k hours for all survivors togather which was just pure defeat from the start and very funny to get called baby with killer I just played few times and this happened like every time when I play with new killer since mmr was introduced Idk why but it alwas starts with sweats that are very good.

  • shalo
    shalo Member Posts: 1,598
    edited January 1

    The wiki says, "there is a rubberbanding-effect by which a Player's best-performing Killers will influence the score of all of their other Killers." So any rise in your best Killers drags all the others up every time.

  • Chrarcq
    Chrarcq Member Posts: 71

    The vast majority of DBD skills and knowledge are universal so I don't see the issue with such system. The only killer that truly strays away from the base is Nurse.

  • ShanoaLegendaryPlz
    ShanoaLegendaryPlz Member Posts: 1,273
    edited January 1

    I heard somewhere there is a "soft cap" in which you reach a high enough mmr on 1 killer and it boosts all your killers mmr to a new minimum to avoud playing against brand new survivors. From what ive experienced bouncing between every killer on the roster gives me average to hard survivors while my xeno that skyrocketed mmr from playing him too much mostly gets hard teams and ttv swfs.

  • Wezqu
    Wezqu Member Posts: 853
    edited January 1

    I have said this few times in other threads about matchmaking in this game. There is always a chance you will end up in a lobby that is not your MMR level. This usually happens when people leave the lobby after its been filled. Game most likely in those cases prioritizes filling up the slots more than trying to match the MMR. So you might get killer who is way higher or way lower in MMR than you are. This can also cause survivors to have one or even several that are not clearly on the same level either. This is of course just my own observation as I play all matches I get as killer or survivor I don't dodge. Usually if I join a lobby where others are already readied up when I join I will usually experience more of skill level differences than in matches where you join with all the rest.