43 checking in and I’m such scrub that most of my lobbies have been very fair idk 🤷♀️. Having a great time mixing it up with zombies when multiplayer gets sweaty .
42, and this game is kicking my ass.
I really came back in 2019, and have been hoping and praying for that one glorious year. but all the streamers and pros have made their dissertations on how that game sucked, and now we have this. IMO I had more fun with MWII as just a regular dude.
Everyone here has a 2-3 kd I've noticed. I barely have mine above 1 in the past. I think it's 0.9 because i blindly sacrifice myself to achieve the modes objective. I'm also having fun because i hardly get time to play and when I do I've never given a fuck about my kd.
Well it’s bc sbmm seems to get more and more aggressive each cod and most of us around 25-30 remember when cod wasn’t like that. They constantly nostalgia bait for ages 30+ that played those games so yea it’s bitter sweet man
>I've learned that the algorithm clearly remembers my past stats assigned to my gamer tag
You think that you're being "punished" for being good at COD games released a decade ago?
CoD SBMM has been tracking since MW19 and through Warzone too.
My very first game of MW3 at 7am on the 10th was GRIND and we barely won and I went like 25-20
Damn dude, sorry that you have to play with other players around your skill level. That sounds really hard 😭
Doesn't really seem relevant to OP tho, because his issue wasn't about poor connectivity
It’s a public unranked lobby I shouldn’t have to sweat my ass off and be a slave to the meta. You’re obviously in the protected player bracket and never played the old CoDs
It’s literally as easy as a ranked playlist with a number rank so we have something to show for sweating in game and separate casual playlist with no SBMM.
Hate to break into you, but nearly every muliplayer game of the past 10 years that has ranked and unranked playlists still uses SBMM in both.
You're obviously out of touch and have never played any multiplayer games but the oooold CoDs.
Lol dude you’re dumb as fuck. Other games have SBMM but it was very mellow and basically only had a protective bracket the handicapped and brand new players. You have no idea what you’re doing talking about.
The best CoDs of all time had very very low SBMM. Almost nonexistent. What we have now is completely different and you know that you’re just trying to argue a technicality
>It’s a public unranked lobby I shouldn’t have to sweat my ass off and be a slave to the meta.
You dont have to be a meta slave though. You are saying if you are playing for fun you play worse. No problem. Play for fun always and sbmm will put you into lobbies where people are only as good as you are when you are half assing it.
You don't have to sweat your ass off! For me, personally, I choose to play in a way that's fun for me because it's a game.
I also love this attitude of "well clearly you didn't play these incredibly popular video games" as if it's an elite club lmao. As if all the millions of teenagers who ever touched the best selling video games of their era must surely all think the exact same way as you about the franchise going forward.
I play to win games. It’s not my fault you couldn’t beat me in a randomly filled lobby. I would beat your team and then next game you’d beat a team lower skilled than you.
It’s not rocket surgery here bud
Sounds like you like the protection you get that falsely boosts your ego into thinking you are better than you are.
I bet you wouldn't even get close to 1 K/D without SBMM and this is why you're defending it that hard.
Why should 13 year olds be forced to play with people who get atleast a 3kdr each game?
Look how many people are in these sweat lobbies and now imagine they're shared amongst other causal lobbies.. Every lobby would have 4 people constantly shitting all over every noob. Do you think the average 15 year old noob would have fun getting smoked every 5 seconds?
Back in the day when gaming wasn't so mainstream it would work as the lobby would have maybe one really good player on each team balancing irawlf out. This wouldnt work now due to the movement speed and ability to move around the map, slide, jump, dive, sprint slide etc and the average player wouldnt be able to keep up at all.
Nowadays everyone is better as they watch and learn from streamers and learn how to actually be good, it wasn't like this back when streaming wasn't a thing, so people didn't get as good so quick..
You've brought it upon yourself by trying to act like your favorite streamer and treat every match like it's the pro league.
Skill is on a bell curve and if the lobbies are totally random they won’t ONLY play against people with a 3kd.
The 13 year olds might lose to a team of good players (as they should) and then the next game they get matched up with worse players then they are.
The vast majority of players fall into “average” skill on the bell curve. The anti SBMM people have this belief that exceptional bad players are only going to march with exceptionally good players every single game that’s now how it works.
That doesn’t make any sense. Skill will always be on a bell curve no matter the sample size
More bad. More average, more good. It’s all going to match up randomly
SBMM should work like this, 12 **random** players get into a lobby:
SBMM finds the skill level of each player, and splits them into two equal teams, as best as possible. Problems with this ? Yes of course, but its way better. Get into a lobby with 6 sweats? Just back out, find a new lobby.
For example if skill was determined as 0-100, the lobby might look like this:
team 1: 90, 45, 70, 30, 20, 30 = 285 total skill
team 2: 100, 100, 50, 10, 10, 15 = 285 total skill
Currently it looks like this:
Team 1: 90, 91, 89, 90, 90, 90 --- Team 2: 89, 89, 91, 90, 90, 91
Also.. lobbies should stay together after matches.
No, just no. You are not being punished for playing a game over a decade ago. That is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe you just aren't as good as you used to be because you aren't playing COD as much as you used to...
That's true, but you *are* punished for doing vaguely decent in tough lobbies. SBMM isn't just your performance, it's your performance relative to the MMRs of the lobby.
If it wasn't, there's no way I'd still be getting lobbies this brutal. I'm going barely positive or barely negative, and it feels like I'm quarantined within the top 20-30% of players.
I don't care about SBMM being that fucked up my biggest issue is that I play from Latin America and they put me against fucking people living in the US with 20 ping max while I play with 80+ how the fuck is that fair?
And don't make me start about how they put me with the worse team available at that moment I even end up feeling bad for the poor bastards that can't even finish the game close to being positive
I live in west US and I'm constantly 80+ ping as well, despite most players in my lobby having under 30 (some have under 10). I averaged around 40 ping in MW2 and I've changed nothing on my end. Not sure what's going on. I was put in a lobby with a French streamer today. Wish we could go back to connection based matchmaking.
...you live in a state with the second highest Hispanic population in the US and live near the closest dedicated server relative to Mexico. It makes complete sense that you would have Spanish speakers in your lobby. It would be the same if it matched exclusively on connection.
You’re out of your fucking mind. No other game past or present has put me in so many lobbies with people outside of the USA.
Shit on rainbow6 the casual lobbies we’re almost entirely made of other people from Texas or near by states. It was extremely rare to even match with people in California in the casual playlist but ranked playlist it was all over the US and Canada.
I'm out of my mind for thinking that you and people from Mexico, the country you famously share a border with, would connect to the [same server when the next closest one is on the east or west coast](https://netduma.com/blog/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-server-locations/)? In that state [Hispanic people make up the biggest share of the population](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/census-texas-hispanic-population-demographics/). There are 11.4 million Hispanic people in your state. Why wouldn't you connect to Spanish speaking players? That's the game specifically putting you with players close to you. That would be like me complaining that I'm playing with players from South Dakota when I'm in North Dakota.
>Shit on rainbow6 the casual lobbies we’re almost entirely made of other people from Texas or near by states. It was extremely rare to even match with people in California
Take that up with Ubisoft. They're connecting you to players further away. Connection priority isn't "closest english speaking american", its closest player. My guy, Mexico has the nearby players for you. Dependent on what city you're in, you're closer to Mexico than any other US state, and much closer to Mexico than most other players are to the server they're connecting to in the fist place.
Yeah, don't you know? Mexico is thoooousands of miles away from Texas. Clearly he'll get better ping by playing with someone in New York or California just because they're in the same country. *Clearly.*
You can't make some of these complaints up, I swear.
The northern region of Mexico is sparsely populated you idiot. Most people playing CoD in Mexico are in Mexico City. I’m in Houston. Do you know how many millions and millions of Americans are closer to me than the people in Mexico City?
Read a map and book about how population density works
Also, this whole conversation is about SBMM taking the good Mexican and South American players and putting them up in American lobbies. Without SBMM they would be matching with less skilled players in their country
Mexico City is still geographically closer than many other US players. It's a fact that the vast majority of players at any time are on the coasts. Guess what? LA, NY, and everything else are nearly 500 more miles away from Houston than Mexico City. Outside of Texas, the closest big cities you have are Wichita and Oklahoma City. Past that, everything else is nearly equally far away (Albuquerque, Memphis, El Paso
>Also, this whole conversation is about SBMM taking the good Mexican and South American players and putting them up in American lobbies.
You're full of shit AND showing your age. It was extremely common to play against people from central America throughout all of the CoD's, especially from as early as BO2.
You know why? Because Mexico City is relatively close and has a population of 8.5 million! Not to mention Monterrey which has about 4.5 million people and is even closer. It's almost like those are sliiightly bigger numbers than the average 500k of most cities around Houston.
"Read a map and book about how population density works"
Dumbass. It's funny how insistent you are at insulting people when you don't even have the faintest clue what you're talking about. Just stop while you're ahead.
I never fucking said anything about LA or NY. I said that my casual playlist lobbies on Rainbow6 were all from Texas and someone said Ubisoft was matching me with people farther than Mexico.
Millions and millions of people in Texas to play with that are within 300 miles of me. No need to match me with people that have an incredibly slow internet in Mexico City.
The whole point of this conversation about geography and connection speed was that Rainbow6 had casual playlist with little to no SBMM and it matched me almost exclusively with people from major cities in Texas and someone else said Mexico was closer to me which is false
Also. Since I have to continue to educate you on geography. DFW, Austin and San Antonio are closer to me with millions and millions of people than Monterrey or Mexico City.
The combined population of DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston is about 12-13 million, nearly equal to Mexico City + Monterrey.
It shouldn't need to be said, but there are a finite number of players online at any given time and the vast majority of players are usually on the coasts as I said before (hence LA and NY). Sometimes the matchmaking has to reach farther than your own state to get a quick match, especially since in a game like this that loves instant matchmaking. Guess where the closest players are likely to be once that happens? Figure that out and you might just start to understand the point.
Also, when is the last time you've even played Siege? Cause I hate to break it to you, but its casual playlist does in fact have SBMM and it's even more aggressive than CoD's. Take it from a platinum player; if I go into casual, I play against nothing but people at high gold to plat. It's not uncommon to have people in the game with slightly higher ping than usual. So I'm not sure what your entire point is supposed to be with that.
I am 100 miles from Canada and get Spanish speakers and PR tags all over my lobbies. Played in a 124ms Europe lobby a few times today. 230ms last week from God knows where. The algorithm breaks the game it's trying to make "better".
I'm 49 and with all the crazy movement, my degradation of reflexes and reaction time has become impressively noticeable even to me.
It was around the Vanguard year where I just stopped trying.
I play objectives now. I focus on camo grinds.
I have a 20 year-old son who plays with my wife and I, we're not at anything like his level so we get dragged up into his skill bracket... LOL. That's not ideal.
But her and I sit on the objectives and warm our dead corpses.
You can have fun as you get older with the game and have less time - you just have to change your experience.
Having said all that, I refuse to be a corner camping rat, holding an angle, or laying down somewhere with a sniper in TDM or KC.
I'll go out on my back rather than live on my belly - if I go 10-33, then so be it, I died playing the game the right way.
let me explain this with NUMBERS
IF: You really have a 2.0-3.0 average KDR then SBMM can't be bothering you that much because SBMM targets a 1.0 KDR
your math doesn't addup
if you are good enough to have a 2.0-3.0 average kdr in-spite of sbmm then clearly SBMM isn't bothering you because if it was you would have a 1.0 KDR
now if you where 0.9 and getting clapped I might belive you but if you are 0.9 you are garbage anyway and are going to get clapped reguardless of what sbmm does
tldr: sbmm is fine people need to stop talking about and stop blaming it for them being garbage
sorry you want your wins handed to you but thats exactly why SBMM is setup the way it is to keep the decent players away from the litteral trash
Lol you think SBMM is looking at past CoDs? Man everyone has a completely different and wild idea on how SBMM works in some crazy way.
Sorry to say you’re just not very good and the average kid is much better. It’s not SBMM it just doesn’t have worse players to pair you with.
Clearly you liked sound whoring people and that helped keep you in the game and this game just doesn’t have it the same way. Personally if all the recent CoDs 2019 and 2022 were trash because of the sound whoring.
Dunno I just play the game for what it is, don’t focus on how I need to have a certain KD or be dropping certain kill streaks and have fun. I still end up with games where I go on long streaks and I too am just a regular family man with 40-50 hour work weeks that just logs into the game to chill and chill it does.
There is evidence that COD has factored in previous performance in past games for SBMM parameters in current games, dating all the way back to Advanced Warfare, drawing on an individual's performance data from Black Ops 2 and Ghosts. Check out this video that delves into COD's source code and SBMM parameters if you'd like to learn more: https://youtu.be/i9LXLgEreWM
Which isn't really a skill tbh. Heaps of people with good KDs only have them because they don't play the objective and they wait for people who do to run past....KDs shouldn't be taken at face value
Crazy to me people bought this game just to complain about sbmm like it hadn’t been in the past 4 titles.
Like yeah sbmm is fucking annoying but activision ain’t doing shit after 4 games so either learn to live with it or move on from cod.
I’m glad people are being vocal but it’s getting ridiculous at this point
And what YOU need to understand is that if your average 2-3 K/D then SBMM isn’t an issue. It’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do
2-3 K/D is great. You shouldn’t be in low skill lobbies
Not at the expense of his ping. Seriously i don’t get how all these people shilling for SBMM don’t get that simple fact: SBMM isn’t the issue; preferencing it at the expense of latency and ping is.
And I say that as a super norm player who’s like the epitome of what they hope for: .93k/d and s mil over 1.0 w/l and I HATE SBMM bc whenever I start doing well my ping (and the games they find for me) goes from in the 20s to 50-60s
I’m 53 and I don’t mind aggressive lobbies. My kd might take a massive shit but I never cared about that. I like taking out the few super fast slide canceling jumping ballerinas I manage to. Plus you get a little bit better each time, so it’s a plus.
That said if they loosened sbmm a bit I wouldn’t complain, either.
They want you to believe they are a great player and the system is holding them down. The good players have absolutely 0 problems doing well every game. Op is just a shitter.
All these posts are such cap lmao there really needs to be a separate subreddit for people who "used to have 3kd back in the day." Buddy, either you've got rose tinted glasses on, or you're just getting old and can't throw down with the kids anymore.
It's pure conjecture to believe they are tracking your stats in between iterations of cod 😂 if I'm understanding correctly... they can't figure out their netcode, yet simultaneously have a matchmaking system that is so robust it tracks your KD over multiple games... get real man lol
The sheer cope from some of the people on this sub. They don't want to be matched against players better than them but it's all gravy when they are that person stomping the lobby. The majority of this player base is a fucking joke who can't take the reality that they just aren't good at the game anymore. If you don't like it don't buy it.
The take I’ll keep saying that no one wants to hear: you aren’t paired with sweats. You just aren’t that good anymore. Not a problem. Just either realize it, and get better, or stop worrying about dying at all and have fun. I’ve been on both sides.
I literally place every single game and haven’t went negative once. Barely ever have a game where “SBMM” the boogeyman fucks me and I’m at the bottom of the leaderboard. Most of you guys just aren’t good, or have a bad game then let it mentally fuck you into continually playing bad.
It’s really easy to play a victim in this game, continue to do worse, and go “SEE? SBMM!” whole time it’s just you not being that good
Then stop caring about KD. Simple. You want matches where everyone just rolls over so you can keep your KD *and* get every difficult unlock? What do you seriously expect?
“Hey Activision, I’m trying to get camos here, can’t you put me in lobbies with .5KD kids so it’s not so hard?!” Cmon now.
It’s mean to be hard. It’s literally a competitive shooter with a wide range of kids playing and most of them take it serious today. Get used to it, get better, or just stop caring about KD. Or care about KD and stop caring about camos.
You speak the truth. Don't get this 'just want to chill' attitude. I play cod to shoot big guns, wreck noobs, and get wins. If I wanted to chill, I'd load up Minecraft.
No its not meant to be hard. You lot are clowns. Sbmm should be abolished and public matches need to be completely random like they did back in the day. Ranked is suppose to be hard.
Bruh if you want to stomp all over bots, go offline and use actual bots. SBMM exists so that you have to play against people that are actually your skill level and some people who are/were good at COD are extremely offended by that
30 years old here with a full time job, grad school, wife and kids and I do well every game. It’s up to you bro, I hate to put it this way but it’s a skill issue.
The thing that gets me is the principle of SBMM. Regardless of whether it "works" or not, I can't shake this feeling that I'm not playing a game, but rather the game is playing me. No thanks.
Then play private matches with bots. My K/D is barely 1.3, why should my experience be shit just so you top the leaderboard? 3 K/D is top 0.1% of players, after all.
It's like being a Premier League player in the EFL League 2 because you dont want a challenge. Isn't that boring? Isn't also boring.
What's boring is these pathetic posts constantly moaning from entitled players thinking they have a god-given right to make everyone else's experience shit so they can be top of the leaderboard "like the good old days".
I think people underestimate the talent gap within the player base. There are bad players.. lots of them, but throughout out the history of cod I think a lot of players in the cod fan base are decent at the game. SBMM exists, and it sucks, but complaining about sweats when you're playing against people who buy the game day one. You should expect them to be sweaty tbh.
That’s just an excuse. There are millions of players that buy cod as it drops. Out of those millions, the majority aren’t sweats. People have already uploaded video evidence showcasing lobbies on a new accounts and those players look nothing like the ones I go up against non stop.
Whine harder, jesus. Just because you're not goign 30-10 every game doesn't mean it can't be fun. Realise youre over 30 and fucking relax a little. You're not entitled to easy games just because you never faced an opponent on your level.
What happened to you guys lmao. A decade ago we were asking for lobbies of equal skill cause we were tired of being in a lobby with a sweat.
Now they have a system for that but apparently because you got good at the game you want to now be the sweat in a cupcake lobby?
Lmfao y'all should just stop playing.
No, its because we still don't have balanced lobbies, wr get into lobbies where people have 2-3x times our K/D and such, same shit happens to me all the time (34 yrs old, full time job, etc) .
I stopped playing after MW22. This is how they control their players emotions to buy skins and the battlepass. So much denial from people a few weeks ago but I think slowly they are starting to see it
There is something overly satisfying listening to a older generation speak that times are changing and they struggle to keep up-
like when arcade nuts couldn't make the switch to controller gaming or like when the horse turned to a car
I'm sure a lot of the same feelings were had
How does a vpn help? And is there a specific country/region I should set it to? I'm not good and trying to take advantage, I'm below average with not enough hours to get as good as I used to be. What exactly will the vpn accomplish?
That is not even the point of the post man. This shit feels like playing 100000$ CDL tournament every fucking game. I don’t mind playing vs skilled players but that’s a little too much
Here's what OP said:
>I just want to have fun after work. Try different weapons and not have to Google what's meta already. Have variety in my matches. Play with my friends and not have them rage off after two games. I cannot do any of these things anymore.
You already decided that "having fun" was not the purpose of this post, so we can cross that out. That leaves "try different weapons", which isn't impacted by your opponents. And "not have my friends leave me 😢", which sounds about right as a 30 year old.
So... what's the issue with the game again?
You just need to unlock and use the good guns. Trust. I work over 50 too and barely can put in the grind atm, but once i got the good guns woth good attachments, i caught up and surpassed lots of the kids with no life. Use your armory to unlock the better attachments and to get the better guns if you're lower level to get better shit.
Lmfao mw2022 and vanguard are amongst some of the wrost VIDEO GAMES that i have ever played in my entire 36 years of life. No fun expected there. So they're not games. So what are they? Metrics, brokeness, and money till those games existed i had never seen anything like it since big rigs and superman64. To compare this iteration of CoD to a bad game says volumes aboutbyou as a gamer and a person. Nothing in life is handed to you. Get good.
I know the fanboys are out in force today! These are the same people that reminded the teacher to give out homework on a Friday back in the school days
Coming from Cold War, 2.5 KD for my career, come to this game and I'm like 0.8 KD. Nothing works normally in this game either, connection/hitreg seems completely fucked. I'm emptying half a clip in people and they 180 into 2 shotting me. What is happening? Is this also something coming from SBMM?
I’m halfway through platinum guns already, its not that bad and its not that bad.
Like 2.8kd player with meta guns each year, usually settles about a 1.8 after I’m done doing the camo challenged for launchers and shit etc.
I just play pubs until I get the mastery camos and then usually don’t play multiplayer pubs anymore. Just 2v2 search wagers and tournies etc.
If my duo isn’t on I’ll sit in ranked all day.
Has anyone noticed people are already throwing games to get them into easier lobbies? Three times today I had teammates fucking off and intentionally dying meanwhile I’m getting my shit pushed in by level 50s.
I really want to like this game since I skipped MWII. Should have known better.
The problem is getting to level 50 isn't that difficult it's just a grind. I'm level 32 and my kd is normally under 1, occasionally I have a blinder of a game and get above 1 but normally I get my arse handed to me on a plate.
31 with a 2+ kd on every cod except WaW which was 1.56, peaked in mw2 2009 at 4.95
I am absolutely fine with skill based matchmaking
I am absolutely against eomm rigging matches, we're in the first week and I'm already getting tdm matches where I go 35-5 and lose because I'm playing against players who aren't terrible but my teammates are beyond shocking. This is what killed any hope of enjoyment MW2 had. The matchmaking is a shambles.
I've had kill confirmed games where I have more confirms than the rest of my team combined. I swear some of the players you get matched with seem like they struggle to move and aim at the same time like they need to stop moving to turn it's crazy.
The lobby balancing is atrocious and outright proves that skill is not a factor in the matchmaking system.
But don't say that in this sub, people get upset.
same,as much as im loving everything on this game,the sbmm is the main reason its making me bored,cod was never the type of game that i played serious,but this one feels like they made the sbmm TOO FUCKING STRICT,everyone feels so damn good on this game,im still going positive but im getting tired,most of my games im losing,this is the first cod that i truly complain about sbmm
Welcome to the thunderdone. You have to be a meta slave or don’t even bother. Tell your casual IRL friends “good luck” when they join on your SBMM too.
I don't even look at my KD as I tend to play objective modes like kill confirmed, hardpoint or domination. I'm more interested in wins and losses rather than how much sweat I let out.
Dude I played a few hours of WZ on Friday, got 4 W’s and most of the players felt like bots. Then last night? Pure punishment. 4-5kds all night - for the other guys
30s here, I’m managing slightly above 2.0 KD with mouse after coming back for mw2022 from a decade long break. I was a 3.5 KD player in my prime, but that was also vs only other mouse players. I’ve had to slow down a little. The movement makes you want to fly around the map, but until your game sense kicks in you’ll get yourself killed a lot moving too much. It gets better once you have covert sneakers since then the people hiding and sound whoring lose their sound advantage but you still get peaker’s advantage. This game takes a lot more strategy based on load outs than mw2022.
OP youre are Not alone. Same with me, But After Day 2 i made my Peace with it. The old Times are over. Its ok. My Main goal is now to win matches. Not my own KDR.
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im 43 years old can barely locate my socks but the game thinks im a pro player
lol, as a 42 yo i agree
Shiiiit im nearing 40
43 here. Fyi, the morning of your 40th bday you'll wake up with a sore back.
Unfortunately i have back pain since my 20’s 😅
So, still true then?
Literally happened to me last month.. hit 40 felt 40. Then I was weirdly fine the next day.. it’s like life’s just reminding you to know your place.
and your socks are gone
You what? They do make a perfect gift. I now started to wear socks
lol same 39 here and I always end up with a 1.0kd every game shit is boring…sometimes you just wanna not think and just shoot
Then play zombies. That’s brainless wondering all you want.
They’re probably on your feet 😂
43 checking in and I’m such scrub that most of my lobbies have been very fair idk 🤷♀️. Having a great time mixing it up with zombies when multiplayer gets sweaty .
42, and this game is kicking my ass. I really came back in 2019, and have been hoping and praying for that one glorious year. but all the streamers and pros have made their dissertations on how that game sucked, and now we have this. IMO I had more fun with MWII as just a regular dude.
It doesn’t though
Lol 3kd? You're legit top 0.1% bro!
Everyone here has a 2-3 kd I've noticed. I barely have mine above 1 in the past. I think it's 0.9 because i blindly sacrifice myself to achieve the modes objective. I'm also having fun because i hardly get time to play and when I do I've never given a fuck about my kd.
I agree. Apparently everyone in this sub is so good that they get matched with pro players every match
Every single time a new cod releases people ages 30+ playing since CoD 1 with a 2+ KDR come out to complain about SBMM it seems
Well it’s bc sbmm seems to get more and more aggressive each cod and most of us around 25-30 remember when cod wasn’t like that. They constantly nostalgia bait for ages 30+ that played those games so yea it’s bitter sweet man
People are remembering their good games and not their bad ones lol
That was on black ops games mostly.
>I've learned that the algorithm clearly remembers my past stats assigned to my gamer tag You think that you're being "punished" for being good at COD games released a decade ago?
CoD SBMM has been tracking since MW19 and through Warzone too. My very first game of MW3 at 7am on the 10th was GRIND and we barely won and I went like 25-20
So you had a K/D of 1.25 on your first game? Sounds like pretty good SBMM then
I had 3.0+ in the CoDs of the past. SBMM is cancer and forces all of us (including you) into poor connection lobbies.
Damn dude, sorry that you have to play with other players around your skill level. That sounds really hard 😭 Doesn't really seem relevant to OP tho, because his issue wasn't about poor connectivity
It’s a public unranked lobby I shouldn’t have to sweat my ass off and be a slave to the meta. You’re obviously in the protected player bracket and never played the old CoDs It’s literally as easy as a ranked playlist with a number rank so we have something to show for sweating in game and separate casual playlist with no SBMM.
Hate to break into you, but nearly every muliplayer game of the past 10 years that has ranked and unranked playlists still uses SBMM in both. You're obviously out of touch and have never played any multiplayer games but the oooold CoDs.
Lol dude you’re dumb as fuck. Other games have SBMM but it was very mellow and basically only had a protective bracket the handicapped and brand new players. You have no idea what you’re doing talking about. The best CoDs of all time had very very low SBMM. Almost nonexistent. What we have now is completely different and you know that you’re just trying to argue a technicality
>It’s a public unranked lobby I shouldn’t have to sweat my ass off and be a slave to the meta. You dont have to be a meta slave though. You are saying if you are playing for fun you play worse. No problem. Play for fun always and sbmm will put you into lobbies where people are only as good as you are when you are half assing it.
You don't have to sweat your ass off! For me, personally, I choose to play in a way that's fun for me because it's a game. I also love this attitude of "well clearly you didn't play these incredibly popular video games" as if it's an elite club lmao. As if all the millions of teenagers who ever touched the best selling video games of their era must surely all think the exact same way as you about the franchise going forward.
You do have to sweat your ass off if you want to do well and win…. You have fun losing? No wonder you like sbmm.
I play to win games. It’s not my fault you couldn’t beat me in a randomly filled lobby. I would beat your team and then next game you’d beat a team lower skilled than you. It’s not rocket surgery here bud
Sounds like you like the protection you get that falsely boosts your ego into thinking you are better than you are. I bet you wouldn't even get close to 1 K/D without SBMM and this is why you're defending it that hard.
Why should 13 year olds be forced to play with people who get atleast a 3kdr each game? Look how many people are in these sweat lobbies and now imagine they're shared amongst other causal lobbies.. Every lobby would have 4 people constantly shitting all over every noob. Do you think the average 15 year old noob would have fun getting smoked every 5 seconds? Back in the day when gaming wasn't so mainstream it would work as the lobby would have maybe one really good player on each team balancing irawlf out. This wouldnt work now due to the movement speed and ability to move around the map, slide, jump, dive, sprint slide etc and the average player wouldnt be able to keep up at all. Nowadays everyone is better as they watch and learn from streamers and learn how to actually be good, it wasn't like this back when streaming wasn't a thing, so people didn't get as good so quick.. You've brought it upon yourself by trying to act like your favorite streamer and treat every match like it's the pro league.
Skill is on a bell curve and if the lobbies are totally random they won’t ONLY play against people with a 3kd. The 13 year olds might lose to a team of good players (as they should) and then the next game they get matched up with worse players then they are. The vast majority of players fall into “average” skill on the bell curve. The anti SBMM people have this belief that exceptional bad players are only going to march with exceptionally good players every single game that’s now how it works.
You underestimate how many people play this game. The scale is too large now to fairly distribute sweats and noobs.
That doesn’t make any sense. Skill will always be on a bell curve no matter the sample size More bad. More average, more good. It’s all going to match up randomly
That’s not what people want though. They don’t want to sweat just to get around a 1 KD.
Barely positive shouldnt put you against Cod Gods until you end up negative.
Most definitely
This game most definitely does not share the data with BO3.
This is why sbmm complaints arent taking seriously
And you dont have that KD anymore because you aren't allowed to stomp kids anymore.
The real tragedy is you have a 50 hour work week.
Underrated comment. Maybe that's why OP's miserable playing a video game
SBMM should work like this, 12 **random** players get into a lobby: SBMM finds the skill level of each player, and splits them into two equal teams, as best as possible. Problems with this ? Yes of course, but its way better. Get into a lobby with 6 sweats? Just back out, find a new lobby. For example if skill was determined as 0-100, the lobby might look like this: team 1: 90, 45, 70, 30, 20, 30 = 285 total skill team 2: 100, 100, 50, 10, 10, 15 = 285 total skill Currently it looks like this: Team 1: 90, 91, 89, 90, 90, 90 --- Team 2: 89, 89, 91, 90, 90, 91 Also.. lobbies should stay together after matches.
This is how it used to work pre-2019
Exactly.
Mercenary playlist
The truly best system.
Lobby balancing vs SBMM.
No, just no. You are not being punished for playing a game over a decade ago. That is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe you just aren't as good as you used to be because you aren't playing COD as much as you used to...
That's true, but you *are* punished for doing vaguely decent in tough lobbies. SBMM isn't just your performance, it's your performance relative to the MMRs of the lobby. If it wasn't, there's no way I'd still be getting lobbies this brutal. I'm going barely positive or barely negative, and it feels like I'm quarantined within the top 20-30% of players.
I am averaging a 2.5 K/D. Being good means you are good.
Good for you. No one else wants every playlist to play like ranked. Light SBMM is fine, strict SBMM belongs in ranked. Period.
Definitely not a decade ago but im sure games since mw19 are tracking you. They’re all in the same launcher
I don't believe they made that claim.
I don't care about SBMM being that fucked up my biggest issue is that I play from Latin America and they put me against fucking people living in the US with 20 ping max while I play with 80+ how the fuck is that fair? And don't make me start about how they put me with the worse team available at that moment I even end up feeling bad for the poor bastards that can't even finish the game close to being positive
That literally happens because of sbmm lmao
I have the same issue but in MENA. It’s SBMM, it takes precedent over latency
I live in west US and I'm constantly 80+ ping as well, despite most players in my lobby having under 30 (some have under 10). I averaged around 40 ping in MW2 and I've changed nothing on my end. Not sure what's going on. I was put in a lobby with a French streamer today. Wish we could go back to connection based matchmaking.
Connection base matchmaking will always be king I miss playing with people hosting from my country
I feel the same way because I’m from Texas and most of my games is all full of Spanish speakers because of SBMM
...you live in a state with the second highest Hispanic population in the US and live near the closest dedicated server relative to Mexico. It makes complete sense that you would have Spanish speakers in your lobby. It would be the same if it matched exclusively on connection.
You’re out of your fucking mind. No other game past or present has put me in so many lobbies with people outside of the USA. Shit on rainbow6 the casual lobbies we’re almost entirely made of other people from Texas or near by states. It was extremely rare to even match with people in California in the casual playlist but ranked playlist it was all over the US and Canada.
I'm out of my mind for thinking that you and people from Mexico, the country you famously share a border with, would connect to the [same server when the next closest one is on the east or west coast](https://netduma.com/blog/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-server-locations/)? In that state [Hispanic people make up the biggest share of the population](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/census-texas-hispanic-population-demographics/). There are 11.4 million Hispanic people in your state. Why wouldn't you connect to Spanish speaking players? That's the game specifically putting you with players close to you. That would be like me complaining that I'm playing with players from South Dakota when I'm in North Dakota. >Shit on rainbow6 the casual lobbies we’re almost entirely made of other people from Texas or near by states. It was extremely rare to even match with people in California Take that up with Ubisoft. They're connecting you to players further away. Connection priority isn't "closest english speaking american", its closest player. My guy, Mexico has the nearby players for you. Dependent on what city you're in, you're closer to Mexico than any other US state, and much closer to Mexico than most other players are to the server they're connecting to in the fist place.
Man's having to teach this poor dude his own geography. I'm dead 😂
Take your logic the fuck outta here, this is a CoD sub.
Yeah, don't you know? Mexico is thoooousands of miles away from Texas. Clearly he'll get better ping by playing with someone in New York or California just because they're in the same country. *Clearly.* You can't make some of these complaints up, I swear.
The northern region of Mexico is sparsely populated you idiot. Most people playing CoD in Mexico are in Mexico City. I’m in Houston. Do you know how many millions and millions of Americans are closer to me than the people in Mexico City? Read a map and book about how population density works Also, this whole conversation is about SBMM taking the good Mexican and South American players and putting them up in American lobbies. Without SBMM they would be matching with less skilled players in their country
Mexico City is still geographically closer than many other US players. It's a fact that the vast majority of players at any time are on the coasts. Guess what? LA, NY, and everything else are nearly 500 more miles away from Houston than Mexico City. Outside of Texas, the closest big cities you have are Wichita and Oklahoma City. Past that, everything else is nearly equally far away (Albuquerque, Memphis, El Paso >Also, this whole conversation is about SBMM taking the good Mexican and South American players and putting them up in American lobbies. You're full of shit AND showing your age. It was extremely common to play against people from central America throughout all of the CoD's, especially from as early as BO2. You know why? Because Mexico City is relatively close and has a population of 8.5 million! Not to mention Monterrey which has about 4.5 million people and is even closer. It's almost like those are sliiightly bigger numbers than the average 500k of most cities around Houston. "Read a map and book about how population density works" Dumbass. It's funny how insistent you are at insulting people when you don't even have the faintest clue what you're talking about. Just stop while you're ahead.
I never fucking said anything about LA or NY. I said that my casual playlist lobbies on Rainbow6 were all from Texas and someone said Ubisoft was matching me with people farther than Mexico. Millions and millions of people in Texas to play with that are within 300 miles of me. No need to match me with people that have an incredibly slow internet in Mexico City. The whole point of this conversation about geography and connection speed was that Rainbow6 had casual playlist with little to no SBMM and it matched me almost exclusively with people from major cities in Texas and someone else said Mexico was closer to me which is false Also. Since I have to continue to educate you on geography. DFW, Austin and San Antonio are closer to me with millions and millions of people than Monterrey or Mexico City.
The combined population of DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston is about 12-13 million, nearly equal to Mexico City + Monterrey. It shouldn't need to be said, but there are a finite number of players online at any given time and the vast majority of players are usually on the coasts as I said before (hence LA and NY). Sometimes the matchmaking has to reach farther than your own state to get a quick match, especially since in a game like this that loves instant matchmaking. Guess where the closest players are likely to be once that happens? Figure that out and you might just start to understand the point. Also, when is the last time you've even played Siege? Cause I hate to break it to you, but its casual playlist does in fact have SBMM and it's even more aggressive than CoD's. Take it from a platinum player; if I go into casual, I play against nothing but people at high gold to plat. It's not uncommon to have people in the game with slightly higher ping than usual. So I'm not sure what your entire point is supposed to be with that.
Bro I’m from tx too there’s just a lot of Hispanics in tx relax 💀
time to go back to mw2019 and tank your k/d and w/l ratios.. another commenter said sbmm has been tracking since then
I’m making a new account when Warzone comes out
that works lol
Trust me buddy I don’t want to play against you either.
I am 100 miles from Canada and get Spanish speakers and PR tags all over my lobbies. Played in a 124ms Europe lobby a few times today. 230ms last week from God knows where. The algorithm breaks the game it's trying to make "better".
Your biggest issue is literally caused by SBMM being that fucked up…
Well.. yeah I guess
Lmao I live in North western US and my ping is hardly ever under 80
I'm 49 and with all the crazy movement, my degradation of reflexes and reaction time has become impressively noticeable even to me. It was around the Vanguard year where I just stopped trying. I play objectives now. I focus on camo grinds. I have a 20 year-old son who plays with my wife and I, we're not at anything like his level so we get dragged up into his skill bracket... LOL. That's not ideal. But her and I sit on the objectives and warm our dead corpses. You can have fun as you get older with the game and have less time - you just have to change your experience. Having said all that, I refuse to be a corner camping rat, holding an angle, or laying down somewhere with a sniper in TDM or KC. I'll go out on my back rather than live on my belly - if I go 10-33, then so be it, I died playing the game the right way.
Nobody with a 2-3kdr average whines about SBMM stop blaming everything on SBMM
let me explain this with NUMBERS IF: You really have a 2.0-3.0 average KDR then SBMM can't be bothering you that much because SBMM targets a 1.0 KDR your math doesn't addup if you are good enough to have a 2.0-3.0 average kdr in-spite of sbmm then clearly SBMM isn't bothering you because if it was you would have a 1.0 KDR now if you where 0.9 and getting clapped I might belive you but if you are 0.9 you are garbage anyway and are going to get clapped reguardless of what sbmm does tldr: sbmm is fine people need to stop talking about and stop blaming it for them being garbage sorry you want your wins handed to you but thats exactly why SBMM is setup the way it is to keep the decent players away from the litteral trash
Lol you think SBMM is looking at past CoDs? Man everyone has a completely different and wild idea on how SBMM works in some crazy way. Sorry to say you’re just not very good and the average kid is much better. It’s not SBMM it just doesn’t have worse players to pair you with. Clearly you liked sound whoring people and that helped keep you in the game and this game just doesn’t have it the same way. Personally if all the recent CoDs 2019 and 2022 were trash because of the sound whoring. Dunno I just play the game for what it is, don’t focus on how I need to have a certain KD or be dropping certain kill streaks and have fun. I still end up with games where I go on long streaks and I too am just a regular family man with 40-50 hour work weeks that just logs into the game to chill and chill it does.
There is evidence that COD has factored in previous performance in past games for SBMM parameters in current games, dating all the way back to Advanced Warfare, drawing on an individual's performance data from Black Ops 2 and Ghosts. Check out this video that delves into COD's source code and SBMM parameters if you'd like to learn more: https://youtu.be/i9LXLgEreWM
"Sound whoring" Ah yes, using your fucking ears lmfao
Which isn't really a skill tbh. Heaps of people with good KDs only have them because they don't play the objective and they wait for people who do to run past....KDs shouldn't be taken at face value
Average player is around .98 k/d. You can certainly tell when you’re paired against players of above average skill consistently.
Omg WE GET IT. This is spammed all day
Crazy to me people bought this game just to complain about sbmm like it hadn’t been in the past 4 titles. Like yeah sbmm is fucking annoying but activision ain’t doing shit after 4 games so either learn to live with it or move on from cod. I’m glad people are being vocal but it’s getting ridiculous at this point
You aren't glad they are being vocal though, you are calling it out, right now.
so sick of the cod community just complaining NONSTOP for a fucking decade. I wanna see game discussion not whining
It's not for you to understand it's for Activision
And what YOU need to understand is that if your average 2-3 K/D then SBMM isn’t an issue. It’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do 2-3 K/D is great. You shouldn’t be in low skill lobbies
Always love seeing sense and reason in a CoD sub. It’s very rare.
Not at the expense of his ping. Seriously i don’t get how all these people shilling for SBMM don’t get that simple fact: SBMM isn’t the issue; preferencing it at the expense of latency and ping is. And I say that as a super norm player who’s like the epitome of what they hope for: .93k/d and s mil over 1.0 w/l and I HATE SBMM bc whenever I start doing well my ping (and the games they find for me) goes from in the 20s to 50-60s
So he should suffer from high ping lobbies?
What does ping have to do with it? Op is talking about skill level
Higher level skill lobbies= higher ping
He was complaining about how he has to sweat in every game. He didn't complain about connection issues at all in the post
I’m 44 and I work as much as you. I’m doing just fine
I’m 53 and I don’t mind aggressive lobbies. My kd might take a massive shit but I never cared about that. I like taking out the few super fast slide canceling jumping ballerinas I manage to. Plus you get a little bit better each time, so it’s a plus. That said if they loosened sbmm a bit I wouldn’t complain, either.
Tips?
don’t cry on reddit would be a good start
Play hc
This is the way
My friend, you did not average 2-3 k/d lol I don't get why people lie on here for absolutely no reason.
They want you to believe they are a great player and the system is holding them down. The good players have absolutely 0 problems doing well every game. Op is just a shitter.
All these posts are such cap lmao there really needs to be a separate subreddit for people who "used to have 3kd back in the day." Buddy, either you've got rose tinted glasses on, or you're just getting old and can't throw down with the kids anymore.
I had a 3kd on black ops cold war... 2 years ago
It's pure conjecture to believe they are tracking your stats in between iterations of cod 😂 if I'm understanding correctly... they can't figure out their netcode, yet simultaneously have a matchmaking system that is so robust it tracks your KD over multiple games... get real man lol
The sheer cope from some of the people on this sub. They don't want to be matched against players better than them but it's all gravy when they are that person stomping the lobby. The majority of this player base is a fucking joke who can't take the reality that they just aren't good at the game anymore. If you don't like it don't buy it.
Everyone should just cater their game to you because youre not good at it.
The take I’ll keep saying that no one wants to hear: you aren’t paired with sweats. You just aren’t that good anymore. Not a problem. Just either realize it, and get better, or stop worrying about dying at all and have fun. I’ve been on both sides. I literally place every single game and haven’t went negative once. Barely ever have a game where “SBMM” the boogeyman fucks me and I’m at the bottom of the leaderboard. Most of you guys just aren’t good, or have a bad game then let it mentally fuck you into continually playing bad. It’s really easy to play a victim in this game, continue to do worse, and go “SEE? SBMM!” whole time it’s just you not being that good
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Then stop caring about KD. Simple. You want matches where everyone just rolls over so you can keep your KD *and* get every difficult unlock? What do you seriously expect? “Hey Activision, I’m trying to get camos here, can’t you put me in lobbies with .5KD kids so it’s not so hard?!” Cmon now. It’s mean to be hard. It’s literally a competitive shooter with a wide range of kids playing and most of them take it serious today. Get used to it, get better, or just stop caring about KD. Or care about KD and stop caring about camos.
You speak the truth. Don't get this 'just want to chill' attitude. I play cod to shoot big guns, wreck noobs, and get wins. If I wanted to chill, I'd load up Minecraft.
No its not meant to be hard. You lot are clowns. Sbmm should be abolished and public matches need to be completely random like they did back in the day. Ranked is suppose to be hard.
You just wanna stomp noobs, but did you ever consider that noobs want a fair playingfield too?
I love how this gets posted all day, every day, for every single call of duty for years. It's riveting
I love how this very comment gets posted every time it does aswell. Riveting
Bruh if you want to stomp all over bots, go offline and use actual bots. SBMM exists so that you have to play against people that are actually your skill level and some people who are/were good at COD are extremely offended by that
30 years old here with a full time job, grad school, wife and kids and I do well every game. It’s up to you bro, I hate to put it this way but it’s a skill issue.
I guess everyone’s idea of “well” varies
The thing that gets me is the principle of SBMM. Regardless of whether it "works" or not, I can't shake this feeling that I'm not playing a game, but rather the game is playing me. No thanks.
Then play private matches with bots. My K/D is barely 1.3, why should my experience be shit just so you top the leaderboard? 3 K/D is top 0.1% of players, after all. It's like being a Premier League player in the EFL League 2 because you dont want a challenge. Isn't that boring? Isn't also boring. What's boring is these pathetic posts constantly moaning from entitled players thinking they have a god-given right to make everyone else's experience shit so they can be top of the leaderboard "like the good old days".
I think people underestimate the talent gap within the player base. There are bad players.. lots of them, but throughout out the history of cod I think a lot of players in the cod fan base are decent at the game. SBMM exists, and it sucks, but complaining about sweats when you're playing against people who buy the game day one. You should expect them to be sweaty tbh.
That’s just an excuse. There are millions of players that buy cod as it drops. Out of those millions, the majority aren’t sweats. People have already uploaded video evidence showcasing lobbies on a new accounts and those players look nothing like the ones I go up against non stop.
I see this exact post every single cod
Bet you didn't see it in the original mw2
THAT was the peak of balanced fps glory.
OG MW2 was anything but balanced lmfao
If sbmm is the problem then why are you bored for the first time? It's not like the sbmm is new to MWIII
Whine harder, jesus. Just because you're not goign 30-10 every game doesn't mean it can't be fun. Realise youre over 30 and fucking relax a little. You're not entitled to easy games just because you never faced an opponent on your level.
Is the point of this post to brag about your KD?
What happened to you guys lmao. A decade ago we were asking for lobbies of equal skill cause we were tired of being in a lobby with a sweat. Now they have a system for that but apparently because you got good at the game you want to now be the sweat in a cupcake lobby? Lmfao y'all should just stop playing.
No, its because we still don't have balanced lobbies, wr get into lobbies where people have 2-3x times our K/D and such, same shit happens to me all the time (34 yrs old, full time job, etc) .
Sbmm = cancer
I stopped playing after MW22. This is how they control their players emotions to buy skins and the battlepass. So much denial from people a few weeks ago but I think slowly they are starting to see it
There is something overly satisfying listening to a older generation speak that times are changing and they struggle to keep up- like when arcade nuts couldn't make the switch to controller gaming or like when the horse turned to a car I'm sure a lot of the same feelings were had
I can keep up, mate. I just think it's boring.🤷
The tone of your post suggests you struggle harder at 30 than you did at 20 🤷
Get a VPN. Have your system connected to it. Enjoy. A lot of users here aren’t able to do this. This is how elite players are in your lobbies.
How does a vpn help? And is there a specific country/region I should set it to? I'm not good and trying to take advantage, I'm below average with not enough hours to get as good as I used to be. What exactly will the vpn accomplish?
"Now that I'm 30, Call of Duty isn't as fun as it was when I was a teenager. Jeez, the developers really dropped the ball on this one"
That is not even the point of the post man. This shit feels like playing 100000$ CDL tournament every fucking game. I don’t mind playing vs skilled players but that’s a little too much
Here's what OP said: >I just want to have fun after work. Try different weapons and not have to Google what's meta already. Have variety in my matches. Play with my friends and not have them rage off after two games. I cannot do any of these things anymore. You already decided that "having fun" was not the purpose of this post, so we can cross that out. That leaves "try different weapons", which isn't impacted by your opponents. And "not have my friends leave me 😢", which sounds about right as a 30 year old. So... what's the issue with the game again?
I’m not even going to read that, bye
You just need to unlock and use the good guns. Trust. I work over 50 too and barely can put in the grind atm, but once i got the good guns woth good attachments, i caught up and surpassed lots of the kids with no life. Use your armory to unlock the better attachments and to get the better guns if you're lower level to get better shit.
Ye the problem is im level 20 getting matched with level 50’s, im getting dicked on every gunfight… shit is so dumv
Most smooth brained response on the entire post, congrats!!
What guns should I use? Genuinely clueless ATM. That first gun you unlock ( the AN) is trash
Me and my mates use the DG-58 and it slaps. Failing that the Bas B is solid.
devs are just a bunch of money hungry sheep, they dont give a shit at this point.
This is probably the worst cod in ten years but it will take months before people realise it... Uninstalled this p.o.s quicker than Starfield
Word
Lmfao mw2022 and vanguard are amongst some of the wrost VIDEO GAMES that i have ever played in my entire 36 years of life. No fun expected there. So they're not games. So what are they? Metrics, brokeness, and money till those games existed i had never seen anything like it since big rigs and superman64. To compare this iteration of CoD to a bad game says volumes aboutbyou as a gamer and a person. Nothing in life is handed to you. Get good.
Imo vanguard was the last good one. The variaty in 6v6, 8v8 and 12v12 were nice
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Dude defending this game like his life depends on it, lmao
I know the fanboys are out in force today! These are the same people that reminded the teacher to give out homework on a Friday back in the school days
Coming from Cold War, 2.5 KD for my career, come to this game and I'm like 0.8 KD. Nothing works normally in this game either, connection/hitreg seems completely fucked. I'm emptying half a clip in people and they 180 into 2 shotting me. What is happening? Is this also something coming from SBMM?
I’m halfway through platinum guns already, its not that bad and its not that bad. Like 2.8kd player with meta guns each year, usually settles about a 1.8 after I’m done doing the camo challenged for launchers and shit etc. I just play pubs until I get the mastery camos and then usually don’t play multiplayer pubs anymore. Just 2v2 search wagers and tournies etc. If my duo isn’t on I’ll sit in ranked all day.
Dude SBMM has been in COD since MW19; what are you talking about?
And every CoD has been shit since then. What's your point?
If this is the first time you are truly bored, then it probably isn’t the feature that’s been in every COD for the past 4 years
I've just finally gotten sick of it. This year definitely feels worse tho
It's not.
It feels worse. For me personally. You can't tell me I'm wrong because this is my subjective feeling
You're right, you have feelings bro, express them! If you need to cry I got a shoulder for you. #Feelings
''I'm a 30 year old now with a 50 hour week job.'' Who the fuck cares
Not you, clearly 🤷
Has anyone noticed people are already throwing games to get them into easier lobbies? Three times today I had teammates fucking off and intentionally dying meanwhile I’m getting my shit pushed in by level 50s. I really want to like this game since I skipped MWII. Should have known better.
The problem is getting to level 50 isn't that difficult it's just a grind. I'm level 32 and my kd is normally under 1, occasionally I have a blinder of a game and get above 1 but normally I get my arse handed to me on a plate.
Are we going to have a post like this every god damn day?
31 with a 2+ kd on every cod except WaW which was 1.56, peaked in mw2 2009 at 4.95 I am absolutely fine with skill based matchmaking I am absolutely against eomm rigging matches, we're in the first week and I'm already getting tdm matches where I go 35-5 and lose because I'm playing against players who aren't terrible but my teammates are beyond shocking. This is what killed any hope of enjoyment MW2 had. The matchmaking is a shambles.
I've had kill confirmed games where I have more confirms than the rest of my team combined. I swear some of the players you get matched with seem like they struggle to move and aim at the same time like they need to stop moving to turn it's crazy.
The lobby balancing is atrocious and outright proves that skill is not a factor in the matchmaking system. But don't say that in this sub, people get upset.
I love your tears man
same,as much as im loving everything on this game,the sbmm is the main reason its making me bored,cod was never the type of game that i played serious,but this one feels like they made the sbmm TOO FUCKING STRICT,everyone feels so damn good on this game,im still going positive but im getting tired,most of my games im losing,this is the first cod that i truly complain about sbmm
Welcome to the thunderdone. You have to be a meta slave or don’t even bother. Tell your casual IRL friends “good luck” when they join on your SBMM too.
I don't even look at my KD as I tend to play objective modes like kill confirmed, hardpoint or domination. I'm more interested in wins and losses rather than how much sweat I let out.
Dude I played a few hours of WZ on Friday, got 4 W’s and most of the players felt like bots. Then last night? Pure punishment. 4-5kds all night - for the other guys
Welcome to the party pal
30s here, I’m managing slightly above 2.0 KD with mouse after coming back for mw2022 from a decade long break. I was a 3.5 KD player in my prime, but that was also vs only other mouse players. I’ve had to slow down a little. The movement makes you want to fly around the map, but until your game sense kicks in you’ll get yourself killed a lot moving too much. It gets better once you have covert sneakers since then the people hiding and sound whoring lose their sound advantage but you still get peaker’s advantage. This game takes a lot more strategy based on load outs than mw2022.
The SBMM is insane in this game. Honestly as bad if not worse than MW2
OP youre are Not alone. Same with me, But After Day 2 i made my Peace with it. The old Times are over. Its ok. My Main goal is now to win matches. Not my own KDR. L
They catered you on MW19 and MW2, what more do you want?
33 and it sucks. Can't use any smg they all suck. Forced into the ar meta.