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  • Here's how I think it will work in a simplified form, which is a bit opposite of what other people have posted.

    The new rating system is comparing the killer vs the survivor performance, it's not just a raw emblem result like the pipping system. Assuming standard rating calculation methods, with just kills/escapes being considered, a player gets a score of 0.0 or 1.0 for the match result, which is then plugged into the MMR calculation to get a player's new rating. With the new factors added, there are fractional scores between 0.0 and 1.0 to have partial wins for the MMR calculation.
    If a killer slugs and bleeds everyone out, that should still give them the hook states for determining the win factor.

    Let's just consider gens and hooks as factors (with even survivor contribution and all players at equal ratings). Getting a 4k (12 hook stages regardless of actual hooks) at 5 gens will be the biggest killer win (score 1.0) and the biggest survivor loss (score 0.0). The biggest survivor win would be 4 escapes, 0 hooks. For a close match that takes 15 minutes, with 12 hooks and 5 gens done, both sides made a lot of progress to advance the game. So maybe the killer gets a score of 0.7 and the survivors score 0.3 (the sum should always be 1). The expected scores, which would be a tie, are 0.6 for killer and 0.4 for survivor since the expected kill rate is 60%. So for MMR change with just kills and escapes, a 2k is not a tie, but a killer loss and a survivor win since the killer got a score of 0.5 when they were expected to get 0.6.

    This MMR update might not make a noticeable difference in player experience since the matchmaking system still has the soft cap, wide matchmaking ranges and priority on queue time.

    With making the system more complicated, it's possible to have a divergence from the 60/40 kill/escape rate for the average player and makes it possible to manipulate your MMR change some. We've all been in matches where the killer isn't doing well and expect them to have NOED. With just kills and escapes, they will reach a rating where they would be stuck at a 60% kill rate. With the new system, it seems possible for them to stay at a low MMR while having a kill rate much higher than 60%. This could happen since they only gain a small amount of MMR when they get kills, since they got ran all game and all the gens got done. When they lose, they lose a lot of MMR since they didn't do much. How bad this is can be depends on how much of the score is not based on. Over time they can tune the weights of how for how much kills/escapes vs other things contribute to the relative survivor vs killer score to reduce any problems that that became a significant.

    They did mention they will be adding something to show your performance in endgame, so that could help with how players feel about the match outcome and I could see them changing the end game screen and sound.
    Hopefully we'll get more details on how actually it works.

    If they ever add a competitive ranked mode, I think it should be survivor team based and not individual.

    in What are your thoughts on their MMR changes? Comment by MooseEye

  • There was a recent vulnerability in MSI Center, so if you have an outdated version, you should update it or uninstall it. This should be done not just to play DBD, but for the overall security of your PC.

    A lot of software have vulnerabilities depending on the version. Here are just some of the likely programs on the list:
    Asus Armoury Crate, Gigabyte App Center, Ryzen Master, MSI Afterburner, HWInfo, CPUz, GPUz, Intel PresentMon, and Corsair iCue. Also, utilities that come on your computer from HP, Lenovo, and Dell, such as Alienware Command Center.
    I doubt anyone would have to update their BIOS, it's just software that has permissions to update the BIOS that is a potential issue.

    If you look something up on https://www.cve.org/ and it's listed, it may need to be updated.

    Their Partner here is probably EAC. A lot of people say they are using the "free version," but it's likely BHVR is still paying for support, there just isn't a license fee anymore.

    Here's an example of the pop up you could get. If you do, just update it or uninstall the software. Some other games have the same checks.

    eacerror.jpg


    MSI Center vulnerability information

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eck8NnoaD4M
    in Software and Driver Update Questions Comment by MooseEye
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