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• I tried playing as some killers I never normally play, to see how the system handled it. It handled it poorly.

  For reference, I quit playing ~6 months ago and only recently started playing again. Since coming back, I played mostly Blight (won a lot until I finally hit red ranks). I also played 2 games with Hag (DCs and suicides on hook in both games, so IDK if MMR would even count those), and a single game with Plague. I have ~340 hours in the game, mostly on Killer.

  So while SBM was turned on, I played some games with Billy (have barely touched him before, ever) and also my first ever match with the Twins. In both cases, queue times were much longer than I'm used to as the game waited to match me with complete beginners. My games consistently had 3-4 players who were brand new. Constantly running back into me instead of making distance, ignoring windows/pallets that they could easily reach, trying to hide in places where they were painfully obvious, etc. All the telltale signs of people with only a couple games under their belts, if even that. With the Twins, I got my Adept by playing as an M1 killer. Literally didn't release Victor until the match was already over. Easiest Adept I've ever gotten, despite being red-ranked at the time.

  How on Earth is this system supposed to work when a new killer releases? You'd have tons of experienced players looking to try out the new killer, all in the same queue hunting for a handful of newbies. You'd wait forever to finally get matched into a game, crush them mercilessly in the hopes it would bump your MMR up so you could actually try out the killer against opponents who at least know the basics, then go wait in another agonizingly long queue.. Meanwhile, how long would it take for experienced survivors to even encounter the new killer?

  
  

  Seems like a complete mess in this regard. If you can perform well with one killer, that does not mean you need to play literal first-timers to figure out how to use a new Killer's power.

  And frankly, if this system works at higher levels of play, I think that'll probably be garbage too. I'd basically never be able to use powerful add-ons for fear of it boosting my MMR too high and forcing me to play with players above my skill level. Same with playing powerful killers. And if I ever wanted to learn a new killer, I'd get to suffer through the newbie queue. This whole SBM thing seems misguided in a game as unbalanced and wonky as DBD. The ranking system never felt terribly off to me anyways. Usually got a nice mix of easy games, close games, and games where I get dumpstered. Between this attempt at SBM and the one back before I quit playing, it just seems like a downgrade.

  in MMR FEEDBACK Comment by Avern March 19, 2021