About high MMR

Yeah just put a disclaimer on every grade up and when they get reset that should do the work

Yes please hide grades completely at the end game screen or at least let players choose to hide/show their grade in settings if possible.

But I am for completely hiding them, the era of ranks is gone and makes no sense for me to keep them shown. Even less so to new players

I really like that you are responding to posts especially since SBMM is a new system and will take time to calibrate properly.

With that said, I would also like to add that what would, in my opinion, help a lot would be a combination of lowering potential MMR ranges for matches so one side doesn't get stomped, buffing weaker killers and improving moderation of toxic actions.

I am currently Iri 1 on killer and Iri 3 on solo queue survivor (I'm just mentioning this as it shows I do spend a lot of time on both sides) and survivor is far less stressful and far less demanding than killer. While some killers do quite well it's not an enjoyable experience to be taunted and BM'ed while playing an unfamiliar and/or weaker killer. I suspect that if survivor toxicity was dialed back a lot of killer complaints would disappear.

That's not to say that many killers don't need either direct or indirect buffs, they do, or that the majority of survivors do this (the majority are just fun players) but the sizeable minority that does do this can sour an otherwise completely enjoyable gaming experience.

I think it's obvious that the devs do really care about their game and it, of course, takes time to implement things but please think about these recommendations. While I'm sure the devs don't share this attitude the answer to the frustrations killers currently face is not playing Civ VI. The matches I've been getting recently have been getting better for enjoyability so some tinkering with SBMM may have already occurred but there is still some ways to go.

As a side note, I think the devs did awesome with the new chapter. Keep up the good work with things like that; you did a great job.

I'd remove them, it's of no interest to anyone how much someone else has played that month and is often misunderstood.

Thanks! Since you’re asking for people’s opinions I definitely would vote for hiding opponent’s grades, there’s really no reason to know the grades of opponents since they’re not tied to matchmaking at all and I agree about there being a lot of confusion.. Either show nothing for the opponents or show a rough percentile bracket indicator of some sort related to the actual MMR.

People always want to compare. If there is nothing at the result screen it will be a bit disappointing.

If you don´t want to show the MMR points then maybe show the actual hours played this month.

Please no. I don't want that because you'll get people that start insulting you for having too much/too little playtime. People hide their profiles for a reason.

I do find that ranks are still a somewhat reliable indicator of placement - iri survivors are sort of like the old red ranks, where they're not necessarily great, but they play a lot and have basic game competence (both of which are needed to pip up.) Finding an ash survivor outside of the middle of the month either means they're new, they don't play much, or they just came back from a hiatus and they're rusty. They do have some accuracy, and when I hear brand new players complaining that they're getting matched with full iridescents, they still have a point - they're being matched with players who have much more experience than they do. So rank plus perks (color and selection - are they all general/from that character, are they all from default characters, are they from a lot of characters, are they meta) generally gives me a good idea of who I'm facing.

Showing the MMR points would be the ideal situation, though.

You can change the names, the icons, stick a pop-up at the start of every single game explaining the system and people will still demand to know why they're going against iri players as a bronze. Removing them might be the way to go.

Basically you'll know what MMR you're at based on how well the survivors are doing. If you're getting bullied then you've basically hit around max MMR

I also think hiding the grades to others would alleviate confusion.

No

mmr is based on kills and escapes. So that does not measure skill. You can creep around the map and wait for your team to do all the work and escape and your mmr increases. You can loop the killer and do a few gens but finally get caught and one hooked so you die and your mmr goes down. Obviously the second person is more skilled. The mmr system is not a good way to measure skill. Same with a killer. One could camp each first hook and get 4K so the game thinks they’re more skilled than the killer who got multiple hooks but say maybe only one kill. Also the “grade” is like the old emblem system except you can’t depip… so basically your guaranteed to get to the high grades or reds if you just play enough. So we used to have the old emblem system that determined our matchmaking but now they turned that into grades which now are just an end season bloodpoint reward system and our mmr is hidden.

all these players thinking they’re red ranks. I would like to see the old system come back and see these same players try to get back to the red ranks 🙄 its grades. It’s a participation award.

the mmr just 💩s on you the next match if you win.. next match easy.

with the old system I felt my teammates were really close to my skill. And I felt the killers were really good. Now I feel like they’re mixing the new with the experienced players… I haven’t seen people blowing up gens and urban evading since I first started and now I see them every session