Queue times are a joke
Why does it take ages to find a game as killer?
Why does it take ages to find a game as killer?
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because everyone quit being survivor. Before the update survivor ques we’re bad cause nobody played killer now ITS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE
Also the bloodpoint bonus which would help correct which side had less players is killswitched
pretty much killer sided update and survivor quit and no bloodpoint bonus on are perks and the bloodpoint gain sucks now.
Pretty much just this to be perfectly honest. I wish they just kept the bugged version, it would be more fun for everyone.
2 - 3 minutes for a match is not a bad queue time.
But it was giving free bloodpoints to players, think about the bloodpoint economy!
a lot of survivor players left or went to the killer role
is what it is happens whenever there's a big patch towards one side
Queue is between 1 and 2 minutes. Way faster than what survivor was before the update.
Source on survivors quitting?
survivor queue is instant at any time of the day and killer queue takes forever, can you guess why or you need help ?
I need help with that. Because the active playerbase increased.
Too many people playing Killer or too little people playing Survivor, simple as.
Since several months before the patch Survivors in Europe didnt have queues until 21:30 where they had around 20 seconds and increased with time, at 23:00 queues soared to several minutes.
I dont know your region but in Europe there has been lack of Survivors for almost half a year at morning and evening times, now there is a lack of Survivors even at night which is actually rare since I cant remember a time where Killers had queues at night.
did it only increase for killers because only time I can play killer is at 7:30pm which Qtimes take about 5 to 6 min not bad but not great but any time in the morning till around 7:30pm killer Q take forever where survivor Q are instant no matter the time.
btw like it matter I'm in US SoCal
BHVR promised role incentive rewards, but those were killswitched and they still haven’t restored them yet even though they have apparently been fixed. No urgency by BHVR at all to get those back in the game.
For me it's 5+ minutes for a game that needs 5 players per match total.
Meanwhile other popular games with PVP content like Destiny 2: 30 seconds even though the biggest pvp mode requires 12 players total.
The value of bloodpoints would plummet! The economy would crash! We can't risk that...
It's not fair to compare BHVR to Bungie.
Also playing in europe and thats not how my survivor queues were for the last months. With the exception of the event. Survivor always had a queue of several minutes during prime time. There were even threads about it on this forum.
I'm so sick of the bloodpoint economy terminology it always sounded like an excuse to keep bad grinding
Playerbase increased roughly by 2-4k people on steam. If those were all killers. Then killer queues would be much, much longer. Speaking about 20+ minutes of queue.
On some days i have a survivor queue of up to 30 seconds.
Now parting from your first comment. When survivors had queues of 5+ minutes. Did all killers leave?
not sure about killer quit sure some did I play both sides
but between the hours I gave I have 5 to 6 min wait time other time killer wait time like 15 to 18 min at that part I give up go to solo survivor hell.
Played only killer this afternoon, EU, 4pm to 7pm, my queue times were ~1min, which I could live with !
Only time it felt really long was when someone disconnected during the loading, which made the loading something like 2min30, chained with another minute to find another lobby.
Well then we must play in totally different servers even if we are in the same region because I havent had queues as Survivor in Europe for several months while as Killer during morning and evening had, sometimes they were short, a few seconds only and sometimes they were around 2 minutes or so.
ok that this point I wish they mix the US and Europe servers maybe fix the queue times for both roles.
I always had instant survivor queue matches but killer took too long before the update 3-5 mins but now it takes 10-15 min to even play killer..
Impossible, if you are in America and connect to Europe or Asia servers you are going to have around 250-350 ms minimum, probably even more.
Same boat, I'm in the UK region and my queue times are between 5-10 mins. Tried VPN'ing over to EU for a test and it was still 5 mins. Seriously killing my desire to keep playing DBD. At least survivor is nearly instant even as a 4 stack so it's not completely terrible.
true but queue times suck and it different for any servers
but really no even sure how the servers work because I got Asia in my lobby how that happen if I'm in the US?
Are you playing with cross play on? I´ve never seen killer queues of more than 10 minutes, with the exception of that one event that required survivors to play killer for vials.
this how my are you in the US?
yes cross play is on why?
Or something else influences the queue times. Maybe its the mmr. Devs hinted something about it, when they talked about the incentives being possibly different for a group of friends.
Because some people play with cross play off and suffer from a smaller pool of potential players.
no it on and on ps4 that matter sure it don't but only time I can play killer it at night survivor pretty much anytime.
Why everyone is angry at queues. For me nothing changed after the update.
In Greece that I am living queues are like this
Morning getting survivor queues in less than 10 seconds and night killer queues in less than 10 seconds
And when is morning I get killer after 5 minutes or more and night I get survivor again in more than 5 minutes or more
Now for America or anything else I don't know. But has this changed your queue that much. My god
Personally I am ok but you guys are not ok. Come to Greece if you want to play
Yep I'm in socal too. Takes atleast 5 min for each match to load but only until about 5-6 pm
There coming in the Wesker update
nope , EU
It kinda is when most people were used to 15-30 second queues on killer.
OP, killer queues are long because everyone wants to play killer right now. It should stabilize once the queue incentives come back. Which won't be for another month 😬.
I mean cross play is on and the game has a decent amount of player base but still takes forever to play killer.. I end up playing 2 killer matches max these days because of how long the queue times, what makes it even worst that 80% of my matches are against 4 stack swf's .
Because playing survivor sucks. 🤷♂️
Yeah it's kind of nuts to see survivors getting more blood points than the killer now that BBQ has been gutted.
It's pretty clear survivors either switched to killer or stopped playing. Wait times got longer after the update that buffed killers... use your head.
Imagine queue times after project w release. Im not gonna play survivor.
Wesker main btw
when it hit Qtime going to be an hour for killer I'm sure
Wow why the living crap can't even one of these queue time discussions have comprehensible and comparable information given by all participants?
Region
Platform
Crossplay on/off
Time of day in question
WHY DOES NOT EVEN ONE PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION FOR ONCE? Is that too much to ask?
All the time the usual useless "but for me the queues are like X/y" hurrdurr.
Can we make this a forum rule that in these kind of discussion you have to provide the information mentioned above as a mandatory information before anything else?
I'm pretty happy about that. As a survivor main, shorter queues are always good to see
All of them? With a 4 to 1 ratio of survivors to killers, such a shift would result in killer queues of over 20 minutes. Killer queue seems to be around the same amount of time the survivor queue was before the patch. Roughly 5 minutes.
So again, i need help with that.
Low mmr queue times are faster than mid-high mmr
proof for that?
I am just a small sample size, but i reduced my dbd-playtime around 80% and the last 20 % i play mostly killer instead of solo survivor which i used to play. So i am very active, but i quit playing survivor, for the most part.
While i agree that balance changes were needed, i think they went in too far regarding solo survivor.