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JiboTV

7 years ago

Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

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TheJumpingJawa

Seasoned Ace

7 years ago

Another duo session, this time with a different friend.

Session ended early, neither of us enjoyed it.

Sweaty game after sweaty game; in both Casual & the Xmas Event.

If the intent of SBMM is to drive away players who've been active since the beginning, then good job Respawn, you've succeeded.

The way I see it, is that there'll always be a small group of try-hard pro players far above everyone else; unfun to play against.

Without SBMM, the "burden" of these players is spread among the entire game's population.

With SBMM, this burden is now carried solely by the 2% Diamond-tier.

As has been demonstrated by ranked; it simply isn't sustainable and will result in a cascade of abandonment.

It'll begin with the diamond-tier population gradually abandoning the game.

After that, the burden will progressively fall upon the plat-tier players. (though with an even larger skill gap!).

SBMM will hasten the death of the game's population.

FaIIenAngeI777

7 years ago

@TheJumpingJawaI agree ive never done ranked much but did til gold when it first came out because I wanted the badge to match the R-301 I feel like I would probally fall into higher gold lower to mid plat area if I did try it i feel like im getting matched with diamond/predators after SBMM and I can’t enjoy the game anymore I enjoyed SBMM last week but after the xmas update something changed and now everyones way beyond my skill level ive got a hell of alot of wins (as champion) in the new event mode if that has anything to do with it atleast 15-25 ish idk if those wins upped my rank or not but I just know it was fine before the xmas update then i didnt do pubs for days I just grinded the xmas event first night i got to 19/75 the badge is now 63/75 im gonna finish it on wednesday night anyways after 3 days at the event i went back to pubs to see all these players with 50-250+ Season 3 wins -.- like tf and thousands of kills the games unplayable now and thats all I know

those 50-250 wins are on 1 character... I dont even have 50 yet with all my characters combined, im close 44/50 but its the point I can’t compete with these players then they all got 20 kill badges 4k damage badges and i dont even have a 2k badge i only have 2 of those apex predator win as kill leader badges