Season 24 gameplay is painful

Instead of seeking to make all legends viable and allowing the player to choose based on play style, they opt to tilt the field and force you into a legend you don't know, might not like, and might very well not even be able to get. Though be assured, you will face off against that legend, probably more than once, in the course of the match.

Instead of seeking to achieve continuity with weapon mechanics, they opt to up end the meta in a way that accelerates the effectiveness of people who already had near-perfect aim, while those of us who struggled before continue to struggle. Another gift for the gifted is what it feels like.

And absolutely none of this would matter if matchmaking could assemble a match of similarly skilled players. That continues to be a pipe dream, and now we have skill distribution graphs to demonstrate to us, in each and every match, just how wide the ranges are across the board, even during what used to be considered peak times. The fact that my squad can contain a player with 20,000 kills on one legend and yet the team average can still be near the bottom extreme of the graph... tells me the entire system is suspect. I'm not saying a 20k kill player can't be bad - they can - but I'm saying it doesn't seem very likely to me. He certainly didn't play as if he died ten times for every kill he got. And then there's my own no-fill position on the graph, something that has moved wildly throughout the course of the season. Undermining yet again any confidence I had in this game's ability or willingness to keep the most highly skilled players away from the rest of us. Between the shoddy skill assessment, the rampant secondaries, and the over-all bad matchmaking, it certainly seems like the entire game is geared to allow good players easy access to the less talented and less experienced, because that makes for better streams or some such. I guess. Who knows what they're thinking?

And the salt in the wound is the announcement that it will all begin again next season with another class buff, this time for recon legends. Who is whispering in their ears telling them that this is what we want or what's good for the game??????