Killer nerfs acctualy hurt the survivor experience (not click bait)
Ok so this is not supposed to sound like a complain thread or "ruin nerf bad" thing.
Its rather about this......
This are some stats i made in the last week of every killer match i played. (i play survivor with a friend mostly).
I was rank 1 for most of the matches (got some deranks for survivor dc's). I mostly played doc but i also played 2 matches oni today because i wanted some variety. (im going to track a full 100 matches)
Like u can see most of my matches are 4k's and the match time average is 10:20. Looks kinda not right with all the "gen rush discussions" right?
But now take a look at the "situation" and "potato" (yes i named it like that) stats.
This clearly shows what the problem atm is and how the stats the devs give always show such high kill rates. Potatos EVERYWHERE.
The main reason i made this was because i wanted to look at standart rank 1 matches without me and my friend in it. We are both pretty good survivor (if i can say so) and mostly carry our team mates and sometimes die because of them (of course we also die because of our mistakes or because we troll) but motsly we feel like we only lose because we get team mats that cant play the game.
Some discussions on here also show that many players are unhappy with their team mates.
Ok so now to the title.......
The reason i think that the killer nerfs (escpecialy ruin) acctualy hurts the survivors more than the killers.
The change forces u to either play top tier killers or play like a dick with the m1 killers but what it also does is making it easier ("less frustrting") for new players (thats also what the devs intended) or noobs.
What this leads to: Since its now easier than ever to get a rank up and nearly impossible to be derankd as survivors the red ranks get flodded with players that clearly dont belong there. The "potatos".
Conclusion: Good killer players will just use top tiers and stomp every surivor like i did in this "test" except i didnt even need a top tier. (the reason for this is that i dont play "fair". i build 3 gens, slug, and sometimes proxie camp if i see my victory at risk.)
Ruin was basicaly a noob filter for high ranks since noobs would get stomped which made it harder for them to get in the red ranks (still easy).
And that leads to the stats i recorded. I stomp noobs that cant play because ranking is trash.........but wait..........
even though most of my matches are 4k's even on bad maps like Thompson House.........just look at the "gens done".
Most matches 3 or 4 gens were done (the 0 gen matches screw over the "average count") even though most of my chases end in about 20 seconds. And most of the time they were done in the first few minutes of the matches.....after that they mostly dont manage to get the fith done because the get steam rolled by than.
Shouldnt be like that right?. I totaly dominate most of them and still lose 80% of the objective cause they can hold m1.
I also have mande survivor stats (2man swf) which shows exsactly this but this time with 2 good players and mostly (not always) 2 potatos. And i can say .....well just look at it yourself.......
Mostly 4 escaps........surprised? im not. Q time stat is funny too lol. This is just 2 man swf not 4man. But like u see . 2 man is still strong enough to carry most of the potatos to victory
TL:DR: killer nerfs make it easier for potatos or new players to get into red ranks. This screws over the devs stats. It makes player believe that the game is killer sided (which it isnt). It takes the fun away from both killers and survivors. Slaughtering potatos is boring........but neededing to carry them is also kinda bs.
However there is light........maybe. The devs plan an mmr system which will hopefully remove the noobs out of both my survivor and killer matches. But my killer side tells me......i dont want it since i fear it may realy work. The point were i face 4 good players is the point were the match is unwinable without top tier and second chance perks (noed. the only seconds chance killer perk imo.......while survivors have......DS (basicaly god mode for 60 seconds and totasly abused for it by god players), DH( i dont minde it), AD(ad is ok since it rewards for winning)
if u made it till here congrats. i dont know why i wrote this XD.( Im gonna continue both stats till a 100 matches to see if something changes)
leave ur thoughts down below. i like discussions :)
Ps: i dont think mrr will work in this q time simulator
Comments
I like your optimism but I can't see matchmaking work unless there are lobby's just for solo survivors.
Swf will skew the matchmaking regardless of how well it is set up...but you never know I guess.
They'll never understand, so it's more for entertainment value at this point ;)
Surprise stream today since I'm off early and Mrs Coconut is working til 7. Secret screening of tomorrow's Twitch Hunter during the stream so... today or tomorrow for the next vid depending on if you catch the stream or not ;)
Either way, I'm glad you enjoy them :)
Edit: The details are on my most recent Twitter post as well as the community tab on the YT channel. The stream will be on Mixer around 3pm PST since I'm off at 2 :)