Can you guys actually say something positive about this game?
Never have I ever seen a community so hell bent on hating s game they probably have hundreds of hours on, like, c'mon man, there'd gotta be something keeping you here, so what is it?
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I could go on for days about things that are broken, wrong, bad, or otherwise in need of attentions, BUT...
This season's matchmaking update has, for the first time ever in any fps I have ever played, actually fixed ALMOST all of the problems with sbmm. Matches, at least on the left end of the skill spectrum, are almost always both tight and fast, something previously unheard of since... forever. In any game. Smurfing is still a huge problem, but I will give credit where credit is due. What Respawn has done for new players, and for old players who just don't want to work that hard, is nothing short of miraculous. Kudos. Now let's just turn that laser-like problem solving ability to.....
I feel like we were playing different games, because my matchmaking was divinely terrible. So bad that I uninstalled a week into the season.
The only thing I can think of is they only fixed it for CONSOLE players, cause my PC experience was the opposite of what you described. They had even ruined Arenas, which used to be my favorite and only mode. So the platform difference is the only thing I can think of. Maybe I need to put it back on the PS4 and try that, but at the same time, I have been enjoying single player games again and can't think of anything that would make me WANT to come back to any PVP game these days.
I hear you. I readily admit that even with the improved matchmaking I can still only stomach a half dozen matches at most before I have to retire to a palate-clearing round of Reach firefight. So while matchmaking is better, none of the rest of the crippling failures of this game seem to have improved.
To this day I still try to fathom what it is that drives people to game on PC. It makes sense if you already have one, a decent one, and just want to leverage the gear and not have to clutter your life with more devices in the form of consoles. I can also understand the desire for the best possible graphical fidelity. But a good console these days is pretty good. Certainly good enough to give me justification for avoiding anything that runs Windows. Been there. Done that. Don't need to do it ever again. And then there's the cheat industry. I'm not saying that console users haven't found ways to cheat, but it pales in comparison to the military-industrial-cheat complex that revolves around PCs. And I would love to know how many of the PC players who rail against AA are actually running one form or another of cheat while STILL advocating for a further hobbling of consoles. The cynic in me says it's probably a lot of them.
But yes, in the end PvE is the future of gaming for anyone with any awareness at all of what goes on in competitive multiplayer games. I'm sure there are good new single player games out there, but I still find myself defaulting to a fifteen year old version of Halo as the gold standard. Maybe I'm just not looking around enough? Every time I think I might have found something that looks good I find out that it's only on steam. Oh.... THAT'S why people play on PC!
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