What rank means and the win condition of dbd
long post...
I believe I have figured out exactly what the ranking system in dead by daylight represents, and subsequently the win condition.
Rank represents how good you are at scoring blood points overall. That is it, nothing more.
Emblems are meant to limit how many points in each category, so you can’t simple farm one category.
If you score in the expected range of points for your rank, you safety pip and make no progress.
If you do better than expected, you pip up and progress towards a higher rank. The reverse is true with lower points.
As you rank up, you have to do better in more categories to continue progressing. On top of this you have to do better in more categories consistently: every game on average. Red rank must average a gold emblem (3 points) in all categories to pip up, where as green rank only requires a 2.5 emblem point average to do the same.
This establishes a win condition of maximising points... you increase rank when maximising points. Increasing rank/piping means you won.
Whether you survive or die (though a factor in points), whether you kill or let escape (though again a factor in points), this is only somewhat relevant. In and of itself these do not mean you won.
This is why you tend to rank down if you kill everyone too fast or escape too fast. You didn’t maximise points, therefore u lost.
In general (I believe) there are more red rank players since losing rank is more difficult than gaining. This is assuming you play the game as normal and do at least “a little of everything.”
Sorry if this was obvious, but I see a lot of “rank doesn’t mean anything” and while it’s true in the sense it doesn’t directly translate to chase skill or game sense etc, it IS in fact your “skill” at getting blood points across all categories. I would say it can and does somewhat correlate with skill as rank comes with time and skill does the same (to a point).
i should add rank is more closely tied to killer skill based on the way their points correlate with basic killer skill (in general) vs survivor rank.
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