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Killers, how long are your wait times?

Damon22441
Damon22441 Member Posts: 30
in General Discussions

I live in the Eastern US and have played at all hours (late night, early morning, noon, afternoon, etc), and found that regardless of time of day, the wait time to get into a lobby (not to start the game, but just to get into a lobby with x survivors | x>-1 ) is averaging 10 minutes.

This being at ranks 18 through 9, so the wait times seem to be longer than the actual match regardless of rank.

Answers

  • Mister_Holdout
    Mister_Holdout Member Posts: 3,144

    Not long. About 10-20 seconds.

  • GhostofYharnam
    GhostofYharnam Member Posts: 597

    As soon as i hit find match.

  • Teichkuh
    Teichkuh Member Posts: 6

    About 5 - 15/20 Minutes, but I'm at rank 17.

  • Bassador
    Bassador Member Posts: 92

    Like 10-20 seconds. Eastern US here, usually on pretty much the entire day. I’m currently sitting at rank 4 right now

  • dfrenchiee
    dfrenchiee Member Posts: 334

    Less than 30 seconds

  • toxic_clown
    toxic_clown Member Posts: 318

    few seconds at red ranks

  • Jakojo
    Jakojo Member Posts: 214
    edited November 2019

    Currently a rank 4 survivor.

    Been waiting 10 mins so far...anyone else having this long of a wait time?

    EDIT: Just saw this was for killers, but still, if there are quick killer lobbies, there must be too many survivors?

  • SnakeSound222
    SnakeSound222 Member Posts: 4,467
    edited November 2019

    Like 5-30 seconds for US East Coast PS4 at all ranks.

  • Damon22441
    Damon22441 Member Posts: 30

    Hmm, should have specified this question was for PC. Thought I did, whoops.

  • Lamarias
    Lamarias Member Posts: 7
    edited November 2019
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/102581/killers-how-long-are-your-wait-times

    I took months off and decided to play when the archives came out. This has my ranks down below 15. It's taking me 15-20 minutes on average to find a lobby, so i usually end up just quitting the game and playing something else. edit to add location:/time, mid-day CST, midwest USA/NA

    Post edited by Lamarias on
  • S_Panda
    S_Panda Member Posts: 539

    A few seconds in the red ranks. I'd like to assume thanks to survivor challenges requiring multiple matches for a few of them is buffing up survivor side a bit more than normal, but it's been out for over a week now.

  • knell
    knell Member Posts: 595

    Eastern US.

    Killer queue are usually 5-20 seconds (unless there is a release of a new chapter killer or a bloodhunt event, in which case it may sometime take 1-3 minutes.)

    But PS4.

    We seriously need more killer-players on PS4 US East. Come join the platform! Tell your killer friends!

  • premiumRICE
    premiumRICE Member Posts: 798

    5-10 mins

  • Larisa
    Larisa Member Posts: 176

    At evenings around 5 mins or less. During day 20 mins plus

  • PistolTimb
    PistolTimb Member Posts: 1,413

    Basically non-existent. Get matches within seconds of queuing up. Rank 1 Xbox. Solo survivor can take up to 2 or 3 minutes sadly

  • Mister_xD
    Mister_xD Member Posts: 7,669

    i usually click on "find a match" and after only like 10 - 15 seconds it found me a match.

  • Might_Oakk
    Might_Oakk Member Posts: 1,243

    PS4 killers get insta ques between rank 1-10.

    Survivors have probably a 3 - 5 min wait in those ranks.

    If they add console + PC cross play both problems could be solved. I pretty much give up on survivor once I hit red ranks and just play killer the rest of the month.

  • LintyScorpion
    LintyScorpion Member Posts: 165

    Oh god it takes so long, it's basically waiting simulator for me. I'll be watching YouTube to the point of forgetting I'm playing the game, and I alt tab and am still not in a lobby.

  • Mr_X
    Mr_X Member Posts: 15

    It would be helpful if more posts note the rank, times, platform, and general physical location.


    OP I'm also East Coast US and on PC I'm seeing about a 10 minute wait as well. I usually play after 9pm ET with a rank 15 or so killer. I don't really play killer any more because of it, but have to for challenges. I pretty much survivor main only now. Back in the beginning I only played killer because I couldn't find survivor games. Times have changed.

  • Mr_X
    Mr_X Member Posts: 15

    Another note slightly off topic, I've found that if three survivors join, it takes forever to find the 4th. I guess that must mean a shortage of solo players? Often after minutes of waiting some or all of the survivors leave, and then it quickly fills up. Probably with SWF teams. I wonder what the percentage of SWF to solo players are, on PC Steam always shows tons of players.

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    Seems to be varying a lot.

    In off hours like mid day killer que is like 5 minutes. However during peak hours my killer que's are instant and much faster than survivor queues of which are now a couple minutes.

  • Stornt
    Stornt Member Posts: 145

    Rank 2, US

    1 second - 1 minute

  • Laakeri
    Laakeri Member Posts: 835

    Max 5 minutes depending on time of the day, but instant during evening.

    R7 EU

  • gnarjay
    gnarjay Member Posts: 1
    edited November 2019

    20-30 minutes ++

    rank 15ish west coast, this crap is unbearable

  • YungCloutking1
    YungCloutking1 Member Posts: 136

    15-45 minutes, west coast Canada. I am a survivor main but I’d be a killer main if I didn’t have to wait so fricking long.

  • se05239
    se05239 Member Posts: 3,919

    Sweden. 10-15 minutes as Killer. Survivor queue is basically instant.