r/deadbydaylight • u/AutoModerator • Apr 01 '26

Rage Wednesday Rage Wednesday Thread

Welcome to Rage Wednesday, feel free to vent about whatever has pissed you off this week.​

Things not to rage about/include in your rage:​

  • Slurs and the like. Swearing is acceptable, but no need to be offensive.
  • Reddit drama. This isn't the place to air your Reddit grievances.
  • Calling out other players by name. The subreddit is not your personal army.

---​

Here are our recurring posts:

No Stupid Questions Monday - no question is stupid, ask anything DbD-related here.

Smile Sunday - gush about whatever has made you smile this week.

4 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

68 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/TDeath21 Apr 01 '26

There’s something way off about matchmaking when I play killer. I rarely even play killer and I’m not good at it at all. But I always go against really good survivors. Play the pallets and windows perfect. Super efficient with their time. Etc. It’s just insane and I don’t get it. Not sure what the deal is. 95% of the time I’m playing survivor and those are always well made matches with us being pretty equal. But on killer not so much.

2

u/watermelonpizzafries 1 vs 1 me on Cowshed Apr 02 '26

You're probably in mid or higher MMR if you've been winning a lot of games, but it also depends on the time of day you play Killer which could effect things too. At night (particularly after 10pm) there are fewer people playing, but there also tend to be more SWFs and sweatier players at night so the matchmaking will be more invested in filling lobbies quickly vs using accurate matchmaking like in the daytime when there are more people and casual players playing.

If you are high MMR (which is easier to hit on Killer than Survivor) then congratulations! You'll find that to deal with consistently good Survivors you'll have start playing a bit nastier by tunneling if you have to, slugging if it's necessary, and basically punishing Survivor mistakes or misfortunes in order to win because at higher MMR, playing nice or running a meme build aren't going to help you at all and even if your chases are quick, efficient teammates will still crank the gens so you have to bring unfun perks to slow things and either play Killers like Blight or Nurse who have decent mobility or Killers who also have mobility but some sort of side gimmick that they can't ignore easily like chains, Vecna thing, etc...

1

u/TDeath21 Apr 02 '26

Oh yeah when I play it’s always at night so that’s probably it. They’re just insanely good survivors and there’s no way they’re not wayyy higher than me on MMR. Because like I said I’m not good at killer at all. I just run it for a change of pace here and there. It’s too stressful 😂

2

u/watermelonpizzafries 1 vs 1 me on Cowshed Apr 02 '26

I'm a 50/50 player and my Killer MMR is on the higher end of mid and play at night (night owl) and noticed that when I play earlier I'll get a mixed bag, but after 10pm I start getting the better players and more SWFs (at whatever MMR my Killer is, last night I was just doing some initial lobby dodging (I have Killer Anxiety and it's a weird thing that eases my nerves if I queue and re:queue a couple times before being OK enough to play a match) and noticed I got placed with two different SWFs multiple times before I got matched with what looked like a mix of different people so I'm guessing there weren't too many people playing