What annoys me:

I just wish to have a function to pick the tome mission in the lobby. Sometimes it would be a good strategy to shift to another mission.

Yeah I love that feature. They should leave it in.

I was disappointed to learn the in-lobby ranks was a bug to be fixed. It's handy to know in solo queue if a co-player is inexperienced or has been away from the game for a while.

It's nice to help and look out for newer players too. For example, we got matched up with a Rank 20 and Rank 18 who turned out to be little kids that had hardly any idea what was going on. We were able to help them because we knew to expect lower level play based on those ranks.

I always want new people to enjoy the game and come back again

I assume you mean other survivors, as killers don't see the ranks. But isn't that a good thing? I mean to be able to choose to play with people closer to your own rank, rather than having frustrations of suffering bad matches because you got lumped with low level players.

So, its people like you that ruin it for everyone?

Why do you love dodging lobbies with lower ranked players? Do you really take DBD that serious?

Taking rank seriously outside of red isn't something you should do since only the sweatiest players keep in the red ranks and enjoy playing there while everyone else doesn't care / derank all the time. It doesn't define skill by any stretch.

From my own experience and from the comments I've seen made about it on the forums, even though there are those who do use the feature to dodge lobbies, there are many more who just use it to prepare themselves for the game and know what to expect from their teammates. In that way, it is particularly useful for solo survivors.

For example, I might look at the ranks and levels of other survivors in my lobby and think things like, "okay, that person is a low level on that character, so they probably won't have a great loadout, and they'll likely be using that character's perks" or "that person is a low rank, we're going to have to look out for them more, better equip some altruistic perks and try to keep the heat off them if I can because they're probably not a good looper".

In my opinion, it actually promotes synergy between the survivors more than anything else, and also makes a positive difference in the "closing the gap between solo and SWF" department.

Yes, there will always be people who will use features like that to dodge lobbies, but they're probably the same people that dodge because their teammates are wearing particular cosmetics. That doesn't mean that we should just shroud the survivors in fog so they can't see each other at all, just because some people use appearance as an excuse to dodge.

I don't believe that what amounts to an excellent QOL improvement for the majority should be denied because of the bad behaviour of a few.

Does that mean you're going to hide survivor items and characters and names because you don't want to promote lobby dodging? I mean killers dodge lobbies a million times more than survivors and if you're going to try to discourage survivors from dodging lobbies because they're likely going to have a very rough game, I see no reason why we should promote killers dodging lobbies either. Unless there's some sort of double standard.

Cool. Then can you guys do more to prevent killers dodging? Maybe show them less info. Not at all uncommon to get dodged multiple times and have to wait 20-30 times before matches on PS4.

@peanits No one wants this 'bug' removed. Please focus on other detrimental ones. On the list of stuff that needs fixing, seeing rank is probably the lowest bug on the list.

Not trying to sound like a jerk and i really do love this game. But as a solo player, that never dodges lobbies unless no one is joining, seeing rank is just a nice feature.

I personally don't mind it, but if people are using it to dodge lobbies then it needs to go. There are already enough reasons people dodge, they might as well remove what they can. I think they should also make all offerings secret so that people don't dodge because of a possible mori or a haddonfield offering.

People wouldn't be dodging if the ranks weren't completely randomly assigned. Been playing solo survivor since the new challenges came out and I can't count the number of lobbies I've joined where I'm a solid ten ranks above the 3 other people who were already there.

Hiding the fact that the game is stacked against you until it's over isn't a solution, it's a cop out.

weird. i love how bhvr will let killers see our rank but we can’t even see the ranks of our own teammates. seems biased and definitely killer sided imo...

I can not think of many features games 20 years ago didn't do better. Quake 1 and Team Fortress Classic had better dedicated servers than DBD today . Set a trap as trapper, walk forward. See it triggered 90 % of the time, just one of the many examples.