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I'm rank 9. NOT 5, MUCH LESS 4/3. NOT 14 OR 16 EITHER
I'm really tired of getting stomped by rank 3/4 and stomping new low rank players. FIX YOURD GODAMN MATCHMAKING!!!
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The matchmaking works in a range of 6.
If you are 9 and they are 3, it's working properly
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I completely agree. I will go against rank 1s when I am rank 7-8 and its super frustrating.
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Well, this comes with an issue of an increase of queue times. Also, if your rank 9 then you should be almost ready to face red rank players anyway. If I'm not mistaken, the max differentiation there should be is 6 ranks higher or lower than your own. If there is more, then it is because swf groups matchmake based on the highest (lowest number) rank.
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Inst supposed to be a range of 2_3 above or below? Quite sure I saw something around these lines.
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The last change has it set to a max of 6 either side, Peanits confirmed it in a post a weeks back.
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6 was the number set for a broader search after a few minutes searching for a game.
I'm getting insta games against people that are 6 higher or lower than I am.
Intended or not. Its terrible.
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Obviously the matchmaking screws up lately again. Had games on both sides with ranges far above 6 ranks in difference. Dont know why they cant fix a simple thing as matchmaking.
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Was watching my friend play survivor earlier. After dying, he spectated a rank 13 survivor (last survivor alive) being a bad sport and BMing the killer before leaving via the hatch. The killer was a rank 20 with only one tier 1 perk.
It spoiled my friend's mood and he turned the game off after that.
The matchmaking is such crap. What's the point of having the ranks divided up by color if the matchmaking pulls from a range of 6 above or below? Rank 16 killers getting a lobby of green rank survivors. Rank 20 killers with one tier 1 perk, no add-ons, and like five minutes of playtime going against survivors with four tier 3 perks + items and add-ons. It's busted.
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It's infuriating. I've already uninstalled this game like 3 times.
One thing is to have challenging matches in which you lose but dont feel terrible.
Other is to get completely steamrolled by higher ranks cause the game is balanced around rank 16 potatoes.
Feelsbad.
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SWFs are matched on the highest rank member. A rank 1 could bring their rank 20 friend to a rank 1 killer match.
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I hope if cross play gets enabled and the player base inflates I really hope bEhavior take a look into do a 50 rank system. make it almost like overwatch leagues.
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Just because it's working as intended doesn't mean it's working as it should be. No one in green ranks should be fighting someone in red ranks, simply as that, and vise versa.
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Still this is excessive. Imagine if I was a first time purple and never played against red rank wannabes.
I thought it was supposed to match highest rank to killer rank.
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Yeah but I still having rank 3 survivor with whatever against a rank 10 killer shouldnt be possible, or 4x rank 6 survivors against a rank 16 killer. Still that whats happening lately again.
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Unfortunately ranks 20-15 ignore the 6 rank rule. Thank the Devs. As for the rank 10 killer, is it possible they were rank 9 before the match?
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Actually... working as intended is sinonimous with working as it should.
You can say you think it would work better if the range was smaller. But it is working in the way they set it to work.
It uses the highest rank of a swf team to match with the killer. But it uses this range of 6 for the match.
It doesn't start at 6, it increases with the time you have been waiting
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Imagine the survivor queue times if they decreased the rank range
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That's odd. Until the recent changes I had to quit playing killer on PS4 because lobbies took 20 mins or longer I was struggling to obtain rank 10 due to the wait time. Nowadays I get lobbies near instantly and I'm always paired up significantly.
I also seem to be getting Nat Type constantly as a Survivor as well since the new lobby update. I enjoy both sides hense the reason I play both, but I really only get to play Killer I also mad respect console players for having to deal with the controller and auto aim.
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The main problem is that making the matchmaking tighter would result in longer queue times or no games at all. Sometimes, there simply aren't enough people of your rank in the queue at that moment, so the game matches you with people further outside your rank because it assumes you'd rather have an unevenly matched game than no game at all.
Thing is, if the devs tighten up the matchmaking, people are going to start complaining about queue times. If they try to improve queue times by loosening the matchmaking requirements, people will complain about the matchmaking being bad. It's a bit of a lose-lose, and they're trying very hard to find that balance and figure out something that works for everyone with all the different regions, platforms and times that they have to take into account.
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The problem is I'm not waiting for a game and then after a couple of minutes the game decides to match me against higher or lower rank players.
I'm getting insta matched with those players, which makes me think that the system is bypassing the first "search" completely.
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they can be, but in the context they didn't
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because of that SWF rule (highest surv rank is looking for matching killer) lobbies with 1 Red rank killer and other (around) green players are getting red rank killer only to make purple rank killer to get full lobby of R1 because all Red ranks killers are occupied by swf with single red rank inside
that seems fair :)
(well thats what killer mains cried to get) so blame them not devs, devs reacted to their massive feedback
and btw since rank reset is getting smaller and smaller when rank reset will be gone or ranks would be gone? because nerfing rank reset even more is just pushing players to stay in red ranks (and thats not good place to stay in)
i like killers part of rankeds (i safety pip almost every game, because i dont run ruin and hook 7 times before killing, and its good i dont want to rank up) but as surv its impossible to de-pip unless killer is tunneling/camping(a lot of killers are doing their best so at least 1 or 2 survs wont pip) because: you did 1 gen? silver, you unhooked and healed? gold, didnt died on 1st hook? silver thats so low requirements, and i get its like that because as surv your emblems depend if killer is doing its job but still its meh
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