Please reconsider why you hide ranks
Today I had a match against a Pig where we all ran the killer mercilessly, flashlighting, pallet stunning, and juking like mad. Then we get to the after chat and realize she was a baby piggy playing against a team of folks with like 20 years of combined play time. It was probably Baby Piggy's first week on the game. This sort of thing would contribute to a new player walking away from the game.
If I had known she was a newbie I would have played much differently. Hiding ranks really serves no good purpose from a player perspective. Help us be a more friendly community to new players so we can attract and keep new people.
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Information that can be used to help is just as useful to harm.
Things are just as likely to get worse as they would be to get better.
Unfortunately, a lot of people would do the opposite and see a baby killer as an excuse to bring bully builds, baby teammates as an excuse to bail from the lobby, et cetera.
Maybe don't bully killers who are struggling?
@dugman Look - the SBMM is certainly working as you say in this example. /s
When did I say there may or may not be issues with the algorithm?
If you can't tell a new Killer, or a Survivor for that matter, from an experienced one, you're not that impressive nor kind yourself.
I did a few afk killer games on my surv account where I played killer once in 2018 lol. My lobbies were full of flashlight switching obviously experienced people with full purple perks looking for a prey.
That could be it and they lost mmr on purpose or sbmm is a even more of a joke we thought it was.
I honestly feel bad for new players. Derankers were a thing before too tho.
Well it is hard to tell sometimes isn't it? Hard to differentiate between a bad player and someone having an off match or if you are used to playing with horrible lag and you suddenly think, "aww I have a good connection and my game actually does what keys I am hitting." I also added anoher thread in the forum about "training wheels" for new players.
That is sad, but true. I would hope the kindhearted folks would outnumber the jerks, but you never know.
Again a possibility, but I think things were better with the old system of showing ranks. You still had folks who dodged lobbies.