Matchmaking is actually fine.
Hot take as usual for my posts but hear me out and keep an open mind, i only want a game equally balanced for both sides and a fun experience over a sweat-fest.
But yes you read it correctly and no this isn't a troll. The Emblem system is flawed but healthy, there simply are too many survivors for so few killers.
Why is that? The reputation of playing killer has a stigma of sweat and less fun? The fact you can't play killer with friends and progress? The few motivations to do so? The "bad matchmaking" is a result of no motivation to play killer, I'll admit getting tonnes of pallets and bad maps vs sweaty teams quite regularly ruins my fun or makes me play less. But it's not the system. Its the divided playerbase.
Matchmaking in DbD is tricky but our current system is better than mmr. MMR much like the Servers and DC ban are just talking pints and buzzwords people parrot and will regret once we receive it.
This game is too unique and too flawed to just copy systems from competitive games, DbD is a casual party game for horror fans to play with friends and the salty players who want a comp game don't seem to realize sweaty dbd is dbd at its worst.
If killer was made more appealing to play such as more rewards\bp, maybe shards for killer ranks? A separate player level system or dailies for both sides? Or deleting Hawkins, balancing map rng (more less unsafe loops than god loops, but more pallets and windows that can be mind gamed and less loop cities or deadzones)
Another bit may be cross-play. I see many good Survivors, the Xbox SWF teams beat me the most honestly and their isn't much of a difference between surv play on any hardware. But Killer is undoubtedly much harder on consoles, especially without optimization and lower sensitivity. I think less console killers play, especially with crossplay on as it makes killer even less "fun"
I don't truly know how to make killer less stressful and more appealing to average, casual and "sweaty" players simultaneously as we need all 3.
But the current matchmaking system is flawed, unique and perfect for such a flawed and unique game.
MMR treating this like other asymmetric games May finally kill it. Id quit after 5 years, Seeing people turn their backs on streamers and long-term players is gross though, i think its stupid to abandon or punish veteran players to have a terrible experience to cater to the idea of "comp dbd" this game isn't comp ready as long as its rng and op thing remain, sorry for the ranty bit.
Im eager to hear opinions and if you plan on hostility or insults, please keep it to yourself.
I hope to hear opinions from open minded players new and long-term veterans.
Thanks for reading <3
Edit: just added the cross-play bit. :)
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Oddly enough xbox version apparently come with Hag and Doc base game.. so ruin base game
And again. This circles back to the lack of high rank killers
Right because streamers being forced to play sweaty meta killers or builds and waiting 2+ hours for a short game isn't punishing. If you think mmr will save dbd, you're actually killing this game.
Ignore the previously mentioned extreme wait times and the fact more veteran players like myself and most content creators will stop having fun and leave the game.
You're so selfish and it's genuinely frustrating to see people trusting bhvr to add functional mmr. Mmr will kill dbd, it's nothing but a short term solution which will make more problems
It adds that many console killers have switched to surv or quit playing, expanding the bloated survivor pool even more for even fewer killers.
MMR will destroy dbd. Facing nurse and spirit playing as sweaty as possible after a 2 hour wait isn't fun nor balanced.
People exaggerate the issues with the game like gen rush and sweat squads or tunnelers to excuse their own failure.
MMR will just suck the fun out of the game and drive away all the content creators.
You seem shortsighted and selfish with nothing of value to add to dbd.
Please go play something else if you're going to ignore any different opinions and insist that killing dbd will save it.
So you want to intentionally put top players and streamers against much worse players to stroke their egos? Who are you to call anyone shortsighted or selfish? You're just mad because someone disagrees with your opinion. You are literally arguing against matching evenly skilled players with each other.
Im talking about the pre crossplay days. If what you say is just close to true, console DBD would have never grown that much.
Ok, no need to respond to me anymore. After such a response, I'm out
We all know that only games with bad matchmaking have top streamers and fun games. Thats why CS:GO, League, Apex Legends and Dota 2 all have no viewers.
No, you're being selfish. You don't want to have to go against players of your skill level so you can make the game miserable for the majority of average and casual players instead.
MMR test was the best matchmaking I've seen when I played killer and survivor. I'm at about 1500 hours I think if that means anything.
Ok but sweaty teams and killers need to be barred from brown-green ranks survivors and killers.
90% of the killers i get are red rank
And mid rank killers are paired with Red rank survivors. I dunno how this is any fair