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How can i actually learn to play the game without being destroyed by mmr?
At the time of writing this I have about 390 hours and i am a returning player after years, so i need to learn the game since it changed a lot sicne when i first played.
I was on a surprisingly long losing streak and at first I figured it was just because I was learning new killers and farming BP to unlock the perks I wanted.
However, after yet another match ended with the usual “ez game”, “noob killer”, etc., i started checking the survivors’ profiles I was being matched against and decided to actually track who the matchmaking was putting me against.
The results kind of speak for themselves:
most players I face have private profiles, hidden hours, or are brand-new accounts (level <5) with everything set to private/hidden (aka smurfs).
Several of them have VAC bans and out of 11 matches, only 5 players had an hour count similar to mine everyone else had thousands of hours more than me
So my question is: what’s the solution if I want to play this game against people who aren’t highly suspicious of cheating or don’t have 5–10x my playtime?
Also those matches were made during peak hours with 52k players online, how the **** is it possible to have such nonsense matches? I am genuinely curious about what should i do to be able to enjoy the game a little bit and learn to play my new killers without getting 3 gens done in my first chase
Matches hours data (the ones with less than 4 players were on other platforms and i couldn't check):
Match 1:
private profile
2.4k
860h
Match 2:
2.5k vac banned
private
Match 3:
vac banned
vac banned
private profile
private profile
Match 4:
hidden hours count
hidden hours count new steam account
hidden hours count new steam account
Match 5:
hidden hours new account
450
private account p100
Match 6:
hidden hours count
1.5k
hidden hours count
2.7k
Match 7:
2k
2.5k
1.3k
hidden hours count
Match 8:
380
327 vac banned
867
78
Match 9:
2.6k
new account hidden hours count
309
Match 10:
1180
hidden hours count
70
Match 11:
private profile
1.5k
hidden
1.5k
Bonus question: why there are SO MANY hidden/private profiles and vac banned people on dbd specifically
Answers
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Buy a brand new account or play against bots just to learn the power. I think new accounts are protected from the rest of the players for some time... Since you are a returning player, the game assumes you’re good to be matched with literally any non-new player.
Idk about the bonus question.
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Keep playing the same killer and your MMR will adjust after several games put you in the right spot. If you keep swapping killers though, your MMR will only go slightly down on each one so you will just feel like you are getting wrecked every game.
If you are a returning player your MMR may be where you left it but at a lower "confidence level" so a few defeats on a particular killer will tell the MMR that it needs to drop quicker than normal.
Also if you have one killer that you are really good at, your base MMR on other killers will be placed higher. If you are great at one killer you understand the game's mechanics at a decent level (or playing Blight) so maybe play that killer perkless for a bit to take a few losses.
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Well i've been doing nothing but losing for 3 days straight, best i've got in the last 15/20 games is a single kill, i kept asking in endgame chat ppl hours and i never once met unexperienced players like me or people with less hours besides a 25h bill wich definitely wasn't a beginner, almost all the other people had above multiple thousands hours of playtime.
Can i just que for games and then afk to sink my mmr? Is my mmr bugged and not going down? Also why the f does the matchmaking take like 30 seconds instead of actaully trying to match me with people at my mmr? It's clear as day that it's just not even trying to give me a fair match
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In regards to bonus question
I personally hide my name in game because people will lobby dodge if I have it open and accessible and don't like you for whatever reason (made a post year or two ago regarding it, waiting over 10 mins in lobby sometimes as killers joined and left)0 -
Are you sticking with the same killer though? That is key because every killer has their own MMR. If you play 10 killers and lose each game, the MMR goes down by a tiny amount. If you play the same killer, the MMR will realise it is mismatched and drop.
I played Trapper with Ruin when Ruin was OP and his MMR skyrocketed, when they nerfed it I couldn't win any games and it took about 8 defeats in a row to give me somewhat winnable matches. My other killers were unaffected.
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I often switch between 3 or 4 killer, so that may be that, however i wouldn't say i had a long win streak with any of them so i don't really know wich one has an high mmr, do i have to accumulate loss with the one with the highest mmr or just losing with the same one will be fine?
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We only know that initial MMR is calculated based on your highest killer, so the only guarantee is that new or unplayed killers will benefit from a newly calculated killer MMR. So I recommend:
- Pick a single killer
- Play them for 10 games with a balanced build (i.e. not meta or meme, and avoid hexes as results will be based on luck)
- Note down each game whether it felt comfortable or unfair and also note down how many kills you got.
After those games, assuming you actually DID lose most of them, you should find future games with that killer are at least more comfortable. And of course, look out for any lobbys that looks like a preexisting lobby (i.e. dodged by another killer) as MMR is not used if you are filling a vacated killer spot.
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