Rating Guide

How service ratings work, at a level that is useful to players — without the inner workings.

You do not need to understand rating details to start playing. This page is for players who want to know what service ratings mean, when they change, and how they relate to matchmaking.

What a rating is

A rating is the service’s estimate of your skill in a format. It is built up from the results of the matches you play. The service uses it to find you matches against players of a similar level, so games feel fair. You can see your own service rating, but it is not a public scoreboard.

Rating dimensions

A rated format does not necessarily give a player or group just one number. It can track separate dimensions for different competitive contexts, because performance in one context does not automatically represent performance in another.

In the 1v4 quartet format, a killer player’s rating is specific to the killer they declare. A fixed survivor group’s rating is also specific to the killer the group faces. The survivor rating belongs to the four-player group, not to each member individually.

For example, a killer player may be very strong on Nurse but still learning Spirit. A single killer rating would blur those two skills together. The same survivor group may also be well practised against Nurse but inexperienced against Spirit. Per-killer dimensions let the service represent those different records instead of forcing them into one overall number.

How ratings shape matchmaking

When you join the queue for a rated format, the service looks at the rating dimensions that matter for that request. In 1v4 quartet, that means the game mode, side, killer character, and whether the competitor is the killer player or the fixed survivor group.

The service then compares waiting killer players and survivor groups using those relevant ratings. It tries to form a match where the expected skill level on each side is close enough for the game to be competitive. A survivor group is not represented by one member’s rating, and a killer player is not represented by their rating on an unrelated killer character.

For example, suppose a match is being formed around Nurse. The killer side has a Nurse-specific rating that reflects how that player performs when playing Nurse. The fixed survivor group has its own Nurse-specific rating reflecting how that exact group performs against Nurse. The matchmaker uses those two ratings to judge whether the pairing is close enough.

Which formats are rated

Not every format is rated. Whether playing a format affects your rating is part of that game mode, and it is shown in the game modes list and on each game mode page. For example, the 1v4 quartet format is rated. If a format is not rated, you can still play it — it just does not change your rating.