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Community Poll - Do YOU like the new matchmaking?
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Where is this confirmation? Link us
Also, it's ok now because the DC and derankers will hurt survivor now by your logic. It's better to hurt three people than the one killer.
None of the implementations were good. This isn't an E-sport game, and people need to stop pretending it is. We all had to deal with SWF lobbies when we first started playing killer. It is painful to faced SWF, but when you do chase that rank 1 you could learn a lot about how to play killer more efficiently. You'll learn nothing by catching potatoes on your way to red rank.
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Let's punish people who deliberately one-hook repeatedly with the purpose of de-ranking. You think it will be hard for devs to tell who is consistently letting themselves be first-hooked on purpose?
This doesn't need to be an e-sports game for this change to be good. :P
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This!
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You do realize that they are not exploiting by one hooking themselves right? You can report them all you want, but it's not an exploit to play the game like your not good, or just want to mess around.
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They are, however, ruining the game for their teammates by consistently one-hooking themselves with the express intent of de-ranking, which can easily be a punishable offense.
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It well never be perfect anyway. So o well looks like new season I wont rank up
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No I do not like the new matchmaking, it is not really anything new as there is still no incentive to get to a higher rank, so what does it matter matching people with lower ranks into high rank games? All this has done is made it easier for killers to fight low ranks who want to team up with veteran players. I should also add that the queue times seem much worse then they were before the hotfix as survivor.
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I have no issue with SWF lobbies in terms of being put in with a killer who's rank is closest to the highest ranked player in the lobby. Its the long waiting times that are a pain.
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Not one bit. It takes 45 minutes to load into a game with my friend and when we do get into a game, we get rank 20
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But it's really not punishable unless you make it extremely obvious every-game. Not to mention they hardly ban people for DC right now, what makes you think they will ban people for one hooking or playing like crap?
On average how many killers do you think would care to write a report about a guy who made it easy to get caught? Like cmon, lets nod kid ourselves here.
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Yes, however I would prefer an average rather than highest.
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It ain't the Killer who would be reporting someone for repeatedly first-hooking themselves. :P All it takes is a couple of Survivors reporting their "teammate" for unsportsmanlike conduct or griefing for the devs to take a look, and if they notice a sudden trend of the rank tanking in a short amount of time, they can probably put two and two together.
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Agreed 100% next season I will def be that % that DC. I play to play with friends that's all I care. And now I cant even do that. Without them gets wrecked every game
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Lol, alright buddy I'll let you keep believing what you want. I ran into plenty of ######### red ranks before this recent patch that got one hooked. By your logic, I should report them because he might be a deranker, and not just bad at the game, or is having a bad game.
Let me consistently false report because that's healthy. Ya'll dreamers out here for real.
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Hey, if they're not a de-ranker, one or two reports here and there won't matter. :P
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Fall 2019.
DbD is a competitive game actually.
And yes it is better to hurt the 3. Those 3 could just not play with a rank 1 friend to get a killer at their rank.
With the old system the killers didn't have that choice.
DbD Switch has dedicated servers right now even.
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yes, finally no more matches like 15 rank killer vs 1 + 1 +2 +15 rank survives. SWF is strong already by coms, this fix is great and i love play this game again. No more frustration cause broken matchmaking by players....
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That's a Nintendo switch link, lol.
The killer did have a choice, it's the same choice the survivor has now. Just don't play because the matchmaking is #########. The roles just switched is all, nothing was fixed.
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its funny how people are like "those low rank survs should just not play with their high rank friend". Yeah lets just not play with the friends we bought this game to play with. Its easy to dismiss people who like to play with their friends when you only play solo surv or killer. We aren't all toxic and grouping with low rank friends to bully low rank killers like everyone seems to think. Some of us are just here to play a game with friends who don't get to play as often as we do. They didn't fix anything with this change they just flipped it to the other side.
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I dont notice a difference.
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swf is unplayable now... we are a 4men red rank swf and got two matches in 1,5h in EU...
even as solo rank 1 survivor i have to wait pretty long.
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Yes
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Yes. I'd much rather a survivor who chooses to play with a high rank be faced against high ranks than a killer be forced to play against high ranks through no fault of their own.
Besides, now the matchmaking for killers at high ranks will be better because all the red rank survs will actually be playing at their correct rank. (Yes, I'm aware this also means that low rank games will lose some survs but honestly that's fine by me. I rarely have ridiculous killer lobby times pre purple ranks)
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No, it’s too punishing for people who want to play with their friends. But, BHVR is pretty good at turning away consumers from their product of you ask me.
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Being a survivor main, it's good seeing a more balanced game for everyone (even for killers). I welcome the change
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Sorry but high rank survs will derank to play with their friends. Also high rank survs won't play with swf when they see a survivor in bad ranks. I loby dodge everytime I see a bad survivor, because I know the killer's rank because of the SWF
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Just start punishing those who derank excessively. Easy.
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Punish for DC, punish for derank. Why not punish for camper/tunnelers/sluggers/moris?
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Because none of those things are against the rules? You don't see me asking to punish for genrushing or looping or teabagging, do you?
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Regardless of what your feelies may tell you, Camping/Tunneling/Slugging/Mori are all part of the game and, in various scenarios, actually contribute to optimal play.
I know it sucks to be on the receiving end (Personally, I hate getting DS'ed for 'not tunneling'), but it's in the game, literally breaks zero rules, and we have to deal with it regardless of our personal preferences.
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Nope. Bad for solo play, bad for new players being brought into the game by friends, bad for wait times from the survivor side. Ambivalent from the killer side, because it doesn't really change anything there.
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derank is against rules???
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Yes I do i had some amazing games I lost as the killer as in no kills plenty of hooks tho.. but so many people same rank as myself using assortment of perks it was a really refreshing change of pace. I had fun!!
I'm very looking forward to different builds on my piggy not feeling restricted so all is good 🐖💖
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Here's a post from a little over a year ago regarding de-ranking:
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NO
since the matchmaking change, I as a player (survivor) who played in rank 1-5 very difficult to get lobby (waiting time is much longer than before).
I play in the SEA region (Indonesia), please do something.
waited a long time but got the red ping lobby.
I've played for almost 3k hours, so I can really feel a significant change between old matchmaking and the current one.
(GOOGLE TRANSLATE)
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You all are wrong. Or almost. They didn't solve the problem. They inverted it. Survivors with Rank 1 were facing rank 20. That's bs. But now, rank 20 survivors are facing rank 1 killers. That's the same bs but inverted!!! If there is a rank 1 and 20 for example= Rank 10 killer. That's just logic am I wrong?! Come on dbd
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The difference is that the Rank 20 Survivor has the choice to face the Rank 1 Killer. The Rank 20 Killer didn't have a choice in facing Rank 1 Survivors.
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No.
All I've seen is Survivor Queues take longer sometimes. The change is from something that used to be 2-5 seconds to 2-5 minutes.
Meanwhile my killer queues aren't any better.They still take 5-10 minutes.
So in short, I saw no benefit and am instead seeing long waits in my survivor lobbies.
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Some people don't realize, or ignore it now because it benefits them. All these newer players will see now is spirit, huntress, nurse when they play with rank 1s-4 for the most part.
The sweat at red ranks is so hard that they will be turned off by the game. There was no shortage of killers in queue before, this change just flipped to the other side, now both have insane queue times.
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So...maybe start at lower ranks?
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That's just giving the giant middle finger to anyone trying to play with friends? But, somehow de-ranking is bad because you want your friends to enjoy the game? you people would report the guy de-ranking for trying to give their friends a better experience when they log on.. ROFL
The only real fix would be to make two separate systems. One for ranking with incentives and another for casual BP grind. The current one is total ######### and just screws over one side to benefit the other. You guys can defend this all you want, but it's getting backlash for good reason.
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Or maybe it's just a way for the Rank 20 to improve so that they stand a better chance when they pair up with their rank 1 friends.
And yes, de-ranking is bad. I would report the de-ranker for deliberately de-ranking.
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No.
I recently brought in some friends to this game and we have had a blast, but even at brown ranks most of them die, now i cant even play with them and they dont want to play without me.
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Personally, Yes
I don't have a problem as I play mostly red ranks and get more variety in who I play with and against.
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So ur telling me that u would continue to play after getting merked every game. Just cause you want to play with a good friend. Dont lie man.
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You don't get it and you keep showing your bias which is fine. The killer could of used facing the higher rank to become better too for when he got to red ranks. I and plenty others had to deal with it, but you are just looking at one side which is understandable.
We can just agree to disagree at this point.
Look at this guy above me just wants to play with his friends Kartastisk.. Some of our friends will never be good at this game no matter how hard they try, lol.
The same way some killers will never be good at killer, even with these changes. Ya'll do you tho, report those de-rankers.
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After getting what?
"The killer could of used facing the higher rank to become better too for when he got to red ranks."
You don't see the double standard in saying that?
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What don't you understand? I said that only because of your double standard. ROFL
This is why I said the only possible fix would be another ranking system with incentives.
I'm done talking to you dude, lol
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Dude nobody knows when you are de-ranking to play with your friends or you are just de-ranking, and frankly nobody cares. If you DC at any point besides during endgame its annoying as you ruined my game to allow your friends to play with people their rank.
It sucks that you can't play with your friends, but you shouldn't be able to ruin the killer's game and think its okay because you just want to play with your friends. Even if you don't do that plenty of others do, which there can be nothing done that issue ( besides what they are currently doing ) because they just want to "play with their friends."
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What u mean getting what?
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