Matchmaking needs to change
Per titel. I have a couple of 1000 hours in the game. Matchmaking is getting progressively worse in my experience, both as survivor and killer. I am getting matched with newer survivors with maybe a couple of 100 hours in the game, who keep getting massacred. I feel only one out five matches I actually get matched with equals. The outcome is quite different. I sucks not escaping a match simply because your teammates don't know how to loop yet nor do generators. The same goes for killer. I am mostly up against premades. However, I keep running into more and more unexperienced teams. It isn't fun for either side.
Ranked matchmaking wasn't great either but it was better than this mess I feel.
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Most likely a combination of not enough players at a similar MMR when you're playing, and the blasted lobby dodging.
The system keeps prioritising waiting time over actual skill. Too many people are also lumped together in the same MMR.
That is also true, and it's because this community voted overwhelmingly for faster queues over quality matchmaking in the recent surveys.
And during the blind tests last year.
Players found that games were too sweaty when matchmaking was too good, as well as having long wait times. Looser matches and quicker queues were the best of both worlds.
As much as you dislike the current matchmaking, it IS the best system we've got. The only real issue is backfilling which completely bypasses any matchmaking attempt.
My idea of fun is not loosing more than 50% of my matches as survivor simply because of less experienced co-players nor having to play killer against only cracked premades or beginners who have no idea what they are doing.
So you want to only be paired with less experienced survivors and only go against cracked premades? Because that's what happened for a lot of players when they tuned up the matchmaking in the blind trials last year.
I do agree it's better than the old rank/emblem system yes.
I'm frustrated with this current system often not being given a decent chance to do it's thing. The new player experience is already rough af without gross mismatches making it worse.
I want to be paired with and go up against players of my own skill level.
So that's a yes. You want super sweaty matches. That's what that looks like.
In theory the sweats should go up against the sweats. Dunno how fun that'd be though, and how quickly people would get burnt out doing that repeatedly.
Everyone is a 'sweat' to someone of their own skill level. You're talking about players who have an even chance of beating you, which means in order for you to beat them, you need to try your hardest.
This is why close matchmaking resulted in sweaty matches in practice. No theory needed.