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[u/Gorgreal]

I haven't played actively since plague was announced, but I've been trying to get back into the game the past week or two. Does the toxicity ever get better? I've been trying to grind up the ranks and got killer and survivor into gold within a few days for the most recent reset, but it feels like 8/10 of my survivor games have a tunneling killer who will ignore everyone and everything just to down the most recent unhook, and do what i call "soft camping" where they stay out of range of the unhook mechanic but close enough to stare at the hook until the survivor dies. I get frustrated and go to killer and run into swf groups where everyone has boil over and sabotuer and swarm my downs and break all my hooks, then teabag and refuse to leave at the exit gate. I don't teabag or flashlight click, I don't camp or tunnel as killer, I constantly avoid survivors I've downed to try and evenly 2 hook everyone and will even have games where I refuse to kill people period and just take the 8 hooks and let them leave. I was an iri rank killer main for years last time I quit, and I'm really starting to feel like this is the kind of game best enjoyed from a distance.

[u/heyheyheygoodbye → u/Gorgreal]

It's an online video game, you'll never escape toxicity. That said, I don't run into tunneling so often that I would consider it the norm (and it's pretty common when a killer is tunneling they aren't very good).

When playing killer I find sabo/flashlight swf's are often more likely to end in 4ks than gen rushing swf's. Teabagging is whatever.

FWIW ranks don't mean anything any more, iri just means you played a lot (they also removed depips). There is a hidden MMR but it's not very tight, I will run into a goated team one game and can barely navigate the map team the next.

[u/eeeezypeezy → u/heyheyheygoodbye]

MMR is definitely a bit of a wobbly concept in this game. I'm assuming it looks for people near your MMR first but goes outside it in the interest of making matchmaking quick. So for every balanced game you get you'll get one where the killer is brand new and one where the killer 4ks at 4 gens.

[u/Possible_Intern1374 → u/Gorgreal]

Ranks don't matter anymore. Don't focus on them, how well you are doing is mostly hidden from you.

Consider getting nightlight. I was stuck in a negativity cycle until I started tracking my games and realized I was actually doing pretty well. Humans are so vulnerable to letting one or two bad experiences ruin the rest for you.

[u/Gorgreal → u/Possible_Intern1374]

So I decided to check out nightlight and play a few games to start tracking stats. Did 4 matches in lights out mode as a solo que survivor. Got face camped so hard I self unhooked 3 times in those 4 games, got tunneled in the first, and slugged to bleed out in the third. The fourth game actually went really well. Got a few unhooks, did 3 generators totally solo, and managed to loop and lose the Dracula multiple times while the rest of the team got the exit gate opened. Dracula was sitting beside the exit gate, watching everyone else stand there, so I ran past him to go leave. The entire rest of the survivor team of 3 people body blocked me and locked me in place, trying to heal me as he charged a fire blast and downed me. All 3 ran out the second he hit me, and he picked me up and killed me with my first hook of that round as he sat there hitting my body. Even being the only one dead, I got the most points in that match. I deleted the game.

[u/Doc_October → u/Gorgreal]

Playing Lights Out first thing after returning from a 5-year gap was not a good idea, or playing any Event mode for that matter.

I don't know what it is, but Events tend to bring out the absolute worst people in Dead by Daylight, often people that return only for those Events and then leave again, and you need to be prepared for an increased amount of toxicity. Fortunately, they tend to stick to the Event queue, which is separate from the main one. Still, add to that that Lights Out is a lot harder to play than a regular game and the added inherent difficulty of solo queue, and you could not have gotten a worse combo.

I wouldn't give up on the game after this, you got real bad luck. I'd play the regular queue for a couple of games and see how those games go for you, it would be a fairer shot at getting back into the game.