Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?
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@JiboTVYou took mine and @DoYaSeeMe’s posts too personally I understand your mad about SBMM but we are just saying what we see other players say or what we see based off of streamers and others views not necessarily your own
Like Im not saying that you are upset your not popping those 20-25+ kill games every other game but some players out there probally are upset about that especially streamers who worry about their reputation but also content for their channel like staycation mentioned in a video how he wants to get good content for us to watch and how sweaty the matches are currently but wether he wins or loses its still great content to watch imo even if its only about 10-15 kills compared to those 27+ or so kill games he usually gets
I also see your point of view where your unable to solo queue or play with your friends anymore and are just not enjoying the game at all anymore I do agree something needs fixed but I also don’t fully agree with players that are able to get 20+ kill games every other match to be in casual without some form of ranked play in casual either I want everyone to have a good gaming experience but not exactly sure what needs to be done to do so
Once again Im not necessarily saying you are one of those doing 20-30 kill games every match, i know nothing about you, but Im sure alot of predators or plat/diamonds are able to do so and that dosnt happen often in the current SBMM for whatever rank division Im in people usually win with around 10 kills max occasionally 10-15 I mean I won a game as kill leader with 7 and 9 kills so its not any wheres close to how it was before SBMM was implemented but those 7-9 killl games were just luck for me I still die alot in the new matchmaking against players around my skill level
I posted this around but lets go again.
The most obvious problem is when i get into higher tier lobbies i get 2 teammates with lower then 50 lvl which becomes useless at this level. So basically the game expects me to 1v3 the whole lobby of equally skilled players which in most cases impossible.
I understand low tier players frustration about constantly getting smacked by 20k kill players but ranked is here for that as well. If you want to be in the same skill bracket you can just go there or you can be matched against anyone it depends on your luck. But still i think the low tier bracket should be 1-30 lvl matchmaking and 30-100 lvl, this said if the game sees a (ex.)15k/d 1-100 player, send them up so they wont have encouragement to smurf. Then you will have the players maybe not the same skill level but same experience level, so if you are bad at this point you should spend 5 min of your daily time to aim train or watch a stream to improve yourself.
Level 100+ should be just random matchmaking or with the new level system which caps at 500 you can seperate a little more once you look at the data and you see you have enough player to seperate brackets.
For me the most important failiure at SBMM is the players that are in between being a top tier player and above average player ( which is me ). Here is my situation at this game; I barely reached Diamond rank mostly solo queing and when i reach diamond i see fully stacked predator teams ripping me apart, which is fine. I understand my skill level and i say okay i dont belong here. So i go back to normal lobbies right? Okay well the same thing happens in my normal lobbies, i am being matched with top tier players again with my lvl20-50 teammates which i can not enjoy, its not because i cant stomp on people, its because i cant kill anyone!
Imagine this; you are playing a single player game which you love to play. You are progressing slowly and getting better and the next day you want to play the game says you can only player the most hardcore mode in the game. You say okay lets go, then you get destroyed and there is no way for you to progress in the game. So will this game be fun for you anymore? You get in, get destroyed and you cant progress an inch.. How long are you going to play this?
At this point you decide to do smurf and that is the only way if you want to play the game. Then you destroy the newcommers and low tier lobbies. Once Sbmm throws you to higher tier players, go ranked. Destroy bronze to plat lobbies. And this is not fair for the playerbase, its not fair for me either (Its the only way i can enjoy the game meanwhile i have no progression in my main account, i cant use my skins but there is no other way). This is also very bad for Respawn because then i wont be buying skins for my smurf account for sure and i will not be buying new skins for my main account because i cant even play.
Then there is the point which i cant play with my real life friends because their skill level varies. I have a friend who is hearing impaired, he cant hear with his right ear and even though he cant play very good, i love to play with him. Now i cant because he gets destroyed in every single game with me. He cant find people on discords as well because of his handicap, now i either have a smurf to play with him and not leave him alone or i just dont play. This is also not fair.
I agree that solution to this is not easy once it comes to playing with your friends. Still, i think it would be fair if we were just thrown in a random lobby with 100lvl+ and no sbmm. But i think you can relate to my problem.
"At this point you decide to do smurf and that is the only way if you want to play the game. Then you destroy the newcommers and low tier lobbies. Once Sbmm throws you to higher tier players, go ranked. Destroy bronze to plat lobbies. And this is not fair for the playerbase, its not fair for me either (Its the only way i can enjoy the game meanwhile i have no progression in my main account, i cant use my skins but there is no other way). This is also very bad for Respawn because then i wont be buying skins for my smurf account for sure and i will not be buying new skins for my main account because i cant even play."
Thank you for your insight! I'll refrain from quoting entirely due to the size of your post. I have responded to many similar posts here, but yours is interesting because it does touch on the game being harder to monetize as a result of people's response to their lobbies feeling bad. Smurfs don't buy skins, and they don't play on their main so they aren't incentivized to purchase skins as much.
This is a very insightful comment about how earning potential can decrease as a result of players getting fed up and realizing they can just make another account for the time being. Thanks!
- @WickXI Thank you man this is exactly where I'm at. Sounds like we are around the same skill level and I've put in a lot of work to be as good as I am now. Ever since SBMM was introduced it's like I cant even fire my gun without my friends and I getting steamrolled over by 5 predator and diamond teams (in public lobbys) mind you all my friends and I are different tier skill. It's not fair for the people who I play with who are not as good and it isnt fair for myself either who is not as good as everyone I'm being matched up against in the lobby's. It's impossible for me to have a decent game without being in the right place, at the right time. Now it's as if every game I win is due purely to luck.
