How does MMR actually work?

RoachesDelight

Is Survivor and Killer MMR put together as one? Does each side have it's own MMR? or does each character have their own MMR?

I ask because I play mostly survivor. I have an escape rate 75%+ and I get matched with pretty decent teams and killers. I haven't played a ton of killer because I'm working on unlocking more perks. With that being said I'm not very good with killer but I'm getting matched against survivors close to the level I get matched with when I play survivor and everyone has full on meta builds which is cool cuz it helps me learn a lot quicker, but is this because I have higher MMR as survivor and therefore it knows that I have an understanding of the game so it makes a compensation for that? Or maybe it just comes down to the time that I play which is mostly in the middle of the night at some point between 2am - 7am due to my working schedule.

I'd really appreciate if someone could help me clear this up.

Brokenbones

Each side has their own MMR and each killer has their own individual MMR

MMR is calculated by escapes and kills, more specifically it's not taken as '1v4' it's '1vs1 1v1 1v1 1v1'

So even getting 1 kill can raise your MMR, depending on the rating of the survivor and so on. Survivors always lose MMR if they die but they lose less depending on who gets sacrificed first

Nothing else is taken into account, it's kills and escapes and length of the match.

In short, it's escape based matchmaking, not SBMM

GoodBoyKaru

It doesn't

StarLost

@GoodBoyKaru said:

It doesn't

I...disagree.

I totally understand that it needs more nuance on the survivor side of things, but my killer games have been so, so much better in general than they were before.

@RoachesDelight said:

Is Survivor and Killer MMR put together as one? Does each side have it's own MMR? or does each character have their own MMR?

I ask because I play mostly survivor. I have an escape rate 75%+ and I get matched with pretty decent teams and killers. I haven't played a ton of killer because I'm working on unlocking more perks. With that being said I'm not very good with killer but I'm getting matched against survivors close to the level I get matched with when I play survivor and everyone has full on meta builds which is cool cuz it helps me learn a lot quicker, but is this because I have higher MMR as survivor and therefore it knows that I have an understanding of the game so it makes a compensation for that? Or maybe it just comes down to the time that I play which is mostly in the middle of the night at some point between 2am - 7am due to my working schedule.

I'd really appreciate if someone could help me clear this up.

From what we know:

• Your survivors all have a shared MMR.
• Each killer has their own MMR: BUT when you start a new killer, it's MMR is pegged to just under your best killer's MMR (don't ask me why). However, they can rise and fall independently from there.
• 3 weeks of inactivity on either survivor or a specific killer will reset that specific MMR (implication, unconfirmed).
• When you start out on killer/survivor, you are initially assigned an 'average' MMR - which means that the system will initially put you up against a very wide variety of enemies. It'll take a good while to 'calibrate'.
• MMR increases when you kill someone as killer, or when you escape as survivor.
• Hatch neither increases nor decreases MMR for anyone.
• MMR has 'floors' and 'ceilings' - brackets, essentially. The system generally won't mix you with players outside of your bracket. However, this does not always seem to function correctly.
• The actual MMR increase/decrease from escaping/killing/etc. is unknown.
• There was an alleged bit of information that came out (in a way we're not allowed to discuss on the forums) but a deal of it has been disproven. Nonetheless, a lot of people still refer to it.
• There do seem to be a lot of quirks to the system, primarily that it'll start picking people from very wide ranges at times. I suspect this involves ultra-long queue times at very low or very high MMR, or lobby dodges.

I hope this helps!

GoodBoyKaru

@StarLost said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2658527#Comment_2658527

I...disagree.

I totally understand that it needs more nuance on the survivor side of things, but my killer games have been so, so much better in general than they were before.

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/296403/how-does-mmr-actually-work

From what we know:

• Your survivors all have a shared MMR.
• Each killer has their own MMR: BUT when you start a new killer, it's MMR is pegged to just under your best killer's MMR (don't ask me why). However, they can rise and fall independently from there.
• 3 weeks of inactivity on either survivor or a specific killer will reset that specific MMR (implication, unconfirmed).
• When you start out on killer/survivor, you are initially assigned an 'average' MMR - which means that the system will initially put you up against a very wide variety of enemies. It'll take a good while to 'calibrate'.
• MMR increases when you kill someone as killer, or when you escape as survivor.
• Hatch neither increases nor decreases MMR for anyone.
• MMR has 'floors' and 'ceilings' - brackets, essentially. The system generally won't mix you with players outside of your bracket. However, this does not always seem to function correctly.
• The actual MMR increase/decrease from escaping/killing/etc. is unknown.
• There was an alleged bit of information that came out (in a way we're not allowed to discuss on the forums) but a deal of it has been disproven. Nonetheless, a lot of people still refer to it.
• There do seem to be a lot of quirks to the system, primarily that it'll start picking people from very wide ranges at times. I suspect this involves ultra-long queue times at very low or very high MMR, or lobby dodges.

I hope this helps!

Sorry, I should've clarified.

It doesn't work as a matchmaking system in the context of dbd. It's so wildly incompetent it makes me look like a good player.

Thusly_Boned

I didn't mind it at first, but it's getting old quick. One minute you're in the shallow end of the pool, and then you take a step into the Mariana Trench (and vice versa).

Kills and escapes (especially escapes) are an awful way of measuring skill at this game.