Killer Q Times Getting Longer
Ive noticed q times going from like 15 seconds to sometimes over a minute the last week or so....
Wonder how far player numbers have dropped and what they would need to be to get their butt in gear and balance some of craziest killers and perks in the game. This 4 or 5 perk balancing (unnoticeable balances at that) is not gonna cute it. If they want to impact things they need to shake the game up. They dont touch the super strong meta perks... (unless its killer)... but tech needed a buff cause new players lol
There are a few weak perks on both sides that wouldnt break the game if they got a buff but i would definitely throw in my builds to make the game fun again.
Ive been playing for a year now and im already getting close to hanging it up because it hasnt changed at all in that year gameplay wise... other then breakable walls... one more f-in thing for the killer to do.
I have zero faith in this dev team, even when they have good ideas they some how mess it up. Hit validation and mmr as a recent example.
This blight serum is just a recent example of their complete lack of understand of their own game and community... why? Cause its useless lol once its active you cant do ANYTHING but use it. How is that helpful for a killer? Lol cool you get a 2 second speed boost but you can’t swing immediately so it hurts you more then it helps in 95% of scenarios
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People are grinding out Bloodpoints during the double bloodpoint events, doing archive challenges and grinding shards (easier and more consistent on killer) while they can get discounted cosmetics.
Thought this may contribute to the current queue times I do agree with most of what you've said...
The worst thing about it that more killers are tunneling and campign since the 2x bp event, makes me wanna uninstall this unbalanced game
Funny. I played a few days ago and my killer que times were 1 min max. I was Green and just got back into purple ranks. The seemed to get even faster the closer I got to red. Then I played today and I had to wait like 4 mins. I alt+tabed out and watched youtube while I waited. The so called "event" is crap and yet I had quicker que times during that than during a double BP. You would think double BP means more players because that's an actual reason to play. Not more cosmetics that have to be paid for. It could be most people during a double BP event play killer because it's easier to get BPs.
Maybe more people are playing killer? To celebrate halloween and for double bp.
For the killer queues to go up, there are two possibilities:
1.) Fewer survivors to fill the lobbies, so e.g. they quit playing the game. They have no reason to, bc the recent patch did not impact them badly. Only as a protest bc. of the lame-ass event, that would be plausible, but still that should be normalized with the bloodhunt, no one wanst to miss that.
2.) More players playing killer. Highly plausible, since killers get more BP per trial on average, esp. with bloodhunt.
The most plausible cause for an increase in killer queue times is regular survivor players switching to killer for getting more BP during the event. A decrease in killer players bc of unrequested killer perk nerfs would certainly NOT increase the times, but DECREASE it since there would be less "competition" for the lobbies.
So please, first think your claims through, before using flawed logic to push your agenda. That just makes you look stupid.
This prolly is the biggest reason. Killers get the blood quicker, and i bet BBQ & C is getting quite the workout right now.
Are you done trying to act better on the internet then you are in real life? K cool.
Less players overall would lead to longer q times.
So sit down, Sip on your juicebox and go to bed kiddo. You’re as irrelevant as anyone else on the internet same as me.
This games player retention is garbo and the player numbers are down since the hype of PH.... and itll continue to go down as everyone goes back to work.
my assumption: Killer = 2-3x as many bloodpoints as survivors per game and with the the weekend, well, this isn't anything new.
"Less players overall would lead to longer q times."
Sure that can happen. But less killers playing the game has ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT on your killer queue time!!! And that was the very thing you were implying. You need significantly fewer survivor players / more killer players than usual to get increase killer queue times, like multiple ppl have told you here already.
So instead of patronizing me with that condescending attitude of yours, you could act like an adult yourself and rethink if maybe your assumptions are wrong.
Previous weekends I find killer queues usually very fast. Less people seem to want to face the more SWF groups on weekends (and I don't blame theM), but today everyone wants the BP as others have said, and I can get games a LOT faster as survivor. My friend is playing same time as me right now, and his wait time is up to 3minutes for killer, and my wait time as survivor is about 10 seconds.
It will go back to normal soon
yeah, i definitely noticed that queue times have gotten a little bit longer, ever since the bloodhunt was activated for the weekend. i think that's the norm, though, as this happened with almost every other bloodhunt. x)