Smurfers galore
Why do we have to be stomped by every cheater and smurfer in this game? Why can't respawn finally do something about it? Are they even working? What are they doing? Every goddamn ranked game we have ...
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@Asmodeus566 It's actually super easy to detect. A level 20 player with 900 kills is obviously smurfing. A sub-level-100 that has 4k & 20 bombs are obviously smurfing. I guarantee these players have 20-30+ K/D's, which would again, be an obvious sign of smurfing.
Someone who switched from Xbox to PC wouldn't drop a 20-bomb in their first 100 games.
"SBMM" never "catches up." The game pits me against Diamond+ players who always, always, always have 4k 20-bombs. I average 300 damage per game and have less than a 0.5 K/D. After 2,000 games, the "SBMM" has decided I'm a Diamond+, 4k 20-bomb player with unbelievably low stats.
Someone who switched from Xbox to PC wouldn't drop a 20-bomb in their first 100 games.
"SBMM" never "catches up." The game pits me against Diamond+ players who always, always, always have 4k 20-bombs. I average 300 damage per game and have less than a 0.5 K/D. After 2,000 games, the "SBMM" has decided I'm a Diamond+, 4k 20-bomb player with unbelievably low stats.
@StelioRokos True, but by the time you've figured out the level 20 player with 900 kills the damage is kind of done already isn't it?
I honestly don't know the stats at their disposal and analytics available. I would be shocked if there was not at least one statistician type on the payroll that goes over the numbers of games, engagement, etc and tries to look for anomalies.
Really good players will naturally be outliers to the rest of the community, but, are there oddities in their play too? It's a hard problem. I still believe the problem is the community and not as much EA as there seems to be a not insignificant amount of people who will game the system any way they can so they can win or get lots of kills. It's a never ending battle and I can't see an easy solution to that. I won't touch ranked because it is so broken; it's not that they don't care, it's because it's populated by toxic players who will sacrifice everything so they get to have easy kills. Those people will always exist and find new ways to become toxic every day. It's a really sorry state of affairs that that is the way it is.
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