If everyone is as good as you, you have to play like a sweat in order to compete. That doesn't happen without skill based matchmaking.I think SBMM does the exact opposite of what you allege. In other words, I think you are complaining that it won't let you make games into a sweatfest for 99% of the other people.
Not sure what you point is. What is "being good" for you?
Gonna have to agree to completely disagree on that one.
Having a positive k/d ratio is being good to me, LOL
So you "draw" with everyone in every match that you play with sbmm?
It had? Because I only see until today server browser there.
With the exception of TF2, otherwise we can't be friends.
You’re not advocating for good players to be put with scrubs, just have the skill randomly distributed… did you think about the results of that plan at all? Sbmm doesn’t put you with people better than you, it tries to match skill. When someone is dominating you they are having that fun experience you wish you were having dominating someone less skilled than you. I’m not opposed to random matchmaking at all, though it has plenty of problems, but to act like skill based matchmaking is so terrible because it evens the playing field to where you have a consistent challenge is silly. Seems like the sbmm sucks crowd never considers how the person getting dunked on feels, it’s just their own hurt pride they are concerned with not the health of the game. So you don’t have fun getting owned? You just want to own other people? Get gud then scrubs.
Reported.
Honestly the bolded is the biggest issue with most modern shooters. Some of my favorite times are the server communities I came across in games, while the players might not be the best gamers you come across, you got to know the frequent visitors, clan members, and admins and just had a community of people to play and bullshit with.
This is a contradiction. You're not advocating for good players to be put in servers/matched with scrubs, but that is exactly what happens when you randomly distribute players of all skills and match them up with each other.
Servers browsers are terrible. You're basically asking people to judge their own skill accurately and then spend every play session looking for servers that belong to their skill level, and then hope that other players respect the skill level of the server, which is impossible.
Read my mind dude.
Exactly, they should just be honest and say “I only have fun when I’m owning noobs, the game should empower me to be the alpha shooter god that I believe I am in my head” Those fucking sweaty ass losers all they care about is winning, not like me… oh wait
Let me check... yeah I have 75 hours on TF2 lol.
i think the problem is that everyone tends to see this issue through the lens of the alpha bro shooter types / competitive gaming. which is normal because these kinds of games are competitive in nature. but not everyone who plays them wants to be "the best" or trying to get sponsored or whatever. some people just play for fun without wanting to win, and server browsers allow them to choose who they play with. would that prevent try hards from joining and "ruining" the fun? not really but it does at least give these non competitive players an option otherwise.
You don't need to judge it, there is an objective metric. If you have a great average k/d ratio and you're constantly top or near the top of the scoreboards in every match you join, you're likely good. If you're just starting out/ your k/d ratio isn't a good, you're bad. Other players will respect that skill level because scrubs joining a pro server immediately get bodied, and pros joining a scrub server immediately get banned.
Games from 20 years ago somehow managed. Why is this an issue now?
Interesting take. It’s one of the better online shooters I’ve played in a while.
Not sure I I agree with you here. Shooters (probably most online games really) are full of FOMO bullshit to keep up player engagement.
Get banned by who? Do we now rely on players in servers to correctly moderate the people playing on servers? This whole system depends on players moderating the servers themselves and requires an enormous amount of effort. I first have to play several matches on a server to "See if this is appropriate for my skill level"? Now we have people complaining that they get matched up with players that are too good after they had a few good rounds, wonder how they'll feel when they get banned from servers for that.
And people who aren't playing well because they are just playing for fun will be matched up with other players around the same skill level. What is the issue here?
The gameplay on modern shooters are better than ever. 60fps and higher resolutions one thing, but a game like MW only improved on the original from a gamepaly pov, same with a games like infinite and doom. the issue people have with the games are the GAAS models, not the gameplay itself. MW did it well tho. Infinite, we know that state of that. Gameplay is more smooth than ever.
SBMM was way different back then as anyone who has played CoD every year since MW1 would know. Games like Blops used a less aggressive form of SBMM than Advanced Warfare which was so bad that players would create new account to get a bad KDR and get into lobbies where they would go on 150 killstreaks. 150. How is that better for anyone?
Call of Duty dev finally confirms that games have had SBMM all along - Charlie INTEL
A former Call of Duty developer has confirmed that the series has used skill-based matching since 2007's Modern Warfare.charlieintel.com
