How to make matchmaking and queues better ?

Kagari_Leha

Recently did a thread to rant about how broken the matchmaking is right now, but hey, everyone feels the same : the new rank reset worsened things, will worsen things in the next months, and the matchmaking always has been clunky to disatrous, especially when it involves survivor friends, and both high and low ranks face big issues, in queues, in lobbies, and in game.

So, here's another thread, but this time, dedicated to how you feel the devs should change things to make it work better !

Here's my actual take, i dont have a lot of ideas but maybe you got that genius idea you wanna share with us :

• The new rank reset is BAD : first of all, it takes your monthly goal of be/returning in rank 1 away, as basically everyone in two days can now be back to that rank. Then, with time it will make everyone a red rank, which is terrible for low ranks queues and matchmaking, and also terrible for matchmaking in higher ranks as a red rank could basically be as good as a rank 13 player or as a god. And the queues will actually be the biggest problem as it means new players are going to have to wait even more to play which is pretty bad to make the game live longer right ?
• The new survivor friends matchmaking is ALSO bad : because it's focusing on the highest rank of the squad, it just means you take low ranks, and you make them play with high ranks (happens a lot), so basically that swf matchmaking worsens the low rank matchmaking again, where the old one focusing on average rank of the squad wasnt taking away the low ranks.
• They should work on a new rank matchmaking system, or a new piping system : taking it away would be an awful mistake, as some of us would stop playing, and the matchmaking would be again even worse. But I think reworking it in some way would make everything more fluid and accurate. I think the piping system is also to rework as it can make survivors and killers stay at the same rank for a full month, the piping system also should be reworked with the emblem system to me, as it's highly inaccurate to wether you did good or bad (cf when you play Plague for example, or when immersed survivors still rank up).

I think that's all for now, I will update if i get other ideas, but for now, please tell us yours, or what you think of my ideas, i dont know, maybe a dev will read the thread and find a good idea, and instead of ranting it's quite positive to find ways to improve it.

Waffleyumboy

New swf matchmaking punishes people for playing with their friends. A lot of my friends quit because of this.

Also, because I have to say it, ranking system bad.

Good post hopefully devs will learn soon how bad pipping system is especially with new rank reset.