Matchmaking is broken!
So I play with two of my friends and we play mostly Pubs. We are gold level players. Never climbed above gold 1. And yet, in pubs, we keep betting annihilated by players with 4k, Master/Predator ...
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You can camp the whole match and 3rd party the last team with semi decent loot, doesn't make you a good player. I'd rather feel like I earned that win by doing enough damage and getting some kills. By actually playing. Being able to compete and participate and not feel outclassed in 9/10 matches. That's the fun win OR lose. Not one sided matches that are being tilted in some people's favor.
There is little reward in this game by winning, I guess people just get addicted to the adrenaline of it all. It's a revolving door tbh.
Seeing pred trails on jump and not expecting to win is fine. I don't either. The problem is that when this happens over and over again. It gets old.
Kills alone doesn't mean you are good, but usually that's the case.
We as players shouldn't have to gather anything in terms of data, we should be playing and enjoying the game. We shouldn't even be having this discussion.
People complain because they love the game and want to keep playing it and still have fun and not just walk away. They miss how things were in the beginning.
I don't really know why you would stand up for this idea of sbmm, but seeing that you haven't been around long enough and haven't invested so many hours, money etc only to be screwed over later on I'm not surprised. There are small time streamers that had to abandon their accounts as they simply became unplayable. Many others had to do the same. This is why smurfing became a thing in this game to begin with. Do you not understand why the system was designed this way? Money. If you are ok with a game manipulating you to play more and spend more then that's fine. If the Matrix is your home so be it. 🙂 to be fair, most online games do this, but with this game it wasn't always this aggressive.
I used to be excited about everything they did - new skins, ltm's, maps, characters, guns etc, but what use is any of that to me now if the experience is no longer fun like 80% of the time.
You can Google the sbmm thing. The keywords are pretty obvious. It's on YouTube, can't miss it. I think jmiles did a vid about it too and it was all over Reddit as well.
SBMM is and always has been a joke. That's what ranked play is for. Pubs should just be a free-for-all of randomly filled lobbies.
This season is particularly terrible for SBMM. Typically I get to Diamond every season then stop ranked play, but have grinded to Master in a previous season (not fun to do). This season, 9/10 of my pub matches are against 3 stack pred/master teams. May as well be playing ranked, why even have the distinction between the two? My win rate, which has averaged 20% since the game launched, is down to 12% this season.
Between that and dying behind closed doors or around wall cover, this season is the most frustrating for pub play.
- @iTz_TwizteD_3k Your success rate is crazy high, maybe you weren't being correctly matched before? Consider yourself lucky that you're only feeling the squeeze now. Some have struggled with this for multiple seasons now without catching a break. Either way, I agree that it shouldn't be in pubs.
- @Sand_spitter 12% win rate is still crazy good. All other things equal, most players should expect a win rate of 5% in Trios (1 out of 20 squads) and 3.33% in Duos (1 in 30 squads). I'm a below average player who plays only pubs and my win rate is about 3.5% and that's where I'd expect it to be.
SBMM is still complete crap though. I should never be matched up with or against high ranked players but I regularly am. It is no fun for me and I can't imagine that having a trash can like me on a pred's team is very fun for them.
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