Pls, for the sake of your game REMOVE SBMM
This is the worst piece of GARBAGE i have ever seen put into this game. You have a RANK system, why the fk do u have this garbage in the game ? Seriously you create a game that IN MY OPINION is one o...
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@DarthValtrex
It’s not about owning noobs. I’ve been playing the game since Day 1. I consider myself in the top 25-30% of all Xbox players and now I mainly solo queue. I was confident in 1v1 and 2v1 situations and could get a win every 7-10 games or so with my “solid” games averaging 10-12 kills. When we used to play tournaments with my discord community, it wasn’t uncommon for one of our teams to smack 25-30 kills combined in a lobby.
Now I’m just getting smashed by teams with 25k-50k combined kills, meanwhile Im playing with guys that don’t even have 1.5k kills that are in the meat grinder before they knew what hit’em. And forget a 20 bomb, it was really difficult before and you had to really sweat, but now it’s damn near impossible.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that the concept of SBMM is bad, but maybe Respawn just ain’t doing the algorithms right?
I was one of those persons that had no idea that SBMM was ever added to the game. After the first week of its integration, I thought maybe people are just getting better or I was beginning to plateau, or both. But it just got worse and worse the more I played. Eventually I just stopped playing for awhile.
I recently came back a week or two ago and it just doesn’t make any sense that I’m constantly getting partied up with two level 100+ that don’t even have over 1.5k kills on their main, and yet the champion squad in the same match will have over 10k kills each.
Long story short, it feels like SBMM well at the lower skill levels, but once that mark is passed, they just jumble everyone together (possibly mixing a lobby with varying skill levels to reach an acceptable ratio of ok players - to phenoms?). And there is a HUGE difference between a player in the top 10% and the top 25%. If they’re going to make a BR with SBMM, then they need to restrict the parameters of the “skill base” differences. Put top 10% with top 10%, and put top 11%-20% with top 11% - 20%, etc.
It’s not about smashing newbs it’s about not getting smashed as if you’re a newb.
It’s not about owning noobs. I’ve been playing the game since Day 1. I consider myself in the top 25-30% of all Xbox players and now I mainly solo queue. I was confident in 1v1 and 2v1 situations and could get a win every 7-10 games or so with my “solid” games averaging 10-12 kills. When we used to play tournaments with my discord community, it wasn’t uncommon for one of our teams to smack 25-30 kills combined in a lobby.
Now I’m just getting smashed by teams with 25k-50k combined kills, meanwhile Im playing with guys that don’t even have 1.5k kills that are in the meat grinder before they knew what hit’em. And forget a 20 bomb, it was really difficult before and you had to really sweat, but now it’s damn near impossible.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that the concept of SBMM is bad, but maybe Respawn just ain’t doing the algorithms right?
I was one of those persons that had no idea that SBMM was ever added to the game. After the first week of its integration, I thought maybe people are just getting better or I was beginning to plateau, or both. But it just got worse and worse the more I played. Eventually I just stopped playing for awhile.
I recently came back a week or two ago and it just doesn’t make any sense that I’m constantly getting partied up with two level 100+ that don’t even have over 1.5k kills on their main, and yet the champion squad in the same match will have over 10k kills each.
Long story short, it feels like SBMM well at the lower skill levels, but once that mark is passed, they just jumble everyone together (possibly mixing a lobby with varying skill levels to reach an acceptable ratio of ok players - to phenoms?). And there is a HUGE difference between a player in the top 10% and the top 25%. If they’re going to make a BR with SBMM, then they need to restrict the parameters of the “skill base” differences. Put top 10% with top 10%, and put top 11%-20% with top 11% - 20%, etc.
It’s not about smashing newbs it’s about not getting smashed as if you’re a newb.
@Zobin911I don’t think it's based on the total number of kills they have. It's based on their performance, average damage and so on.
I know some highly skilled players who have under 500 kills on their “main” account. They just don’t play enough to rack up 1500+ kills. Even if they have 20 kill games you’re talking about 100+ matches to hit 1500.
No matter the rank or lobby bad games are going to happen. The only way that won’t happen is if the skill gap is large. You’ll end up in positions that are unfavorable.
some might be on the edge or the bottom half of the higher skill lobbies. So it seems like they don’t belong there but they sort of do because they are the top of the lower skill level lobby. I’m in that position right now with platinum. Put me in a gold lobby and I’ll slaughter everything. Platinum, not so much.
Ya this SBMM is garbage. I cant stand playing the last couple weeks, especially if I'm playing solo. I'm low plat, but don't play a ton of ranked. And the last couple weeks I've had some good games, but the vast majority of games, I'm getting lasered, finished and teabagged by predators ranks. If SBMM is legit and balanced, theres no freaking way I should be getting multiple stacked teams of predators in my lobby. I agree with the OP, and unfortunately I feel this game will be considered dead in 6 months when you compare it to what it could have become.
Been playin since launch, really felt like you guys would knock it out of the park with this game and learn from others mistakes. But like other games I've played, one or two specific patches with these crazy * integrations/updates just blows it. GGs everyone. Might check things out next season and see if its any better but my gut tells me it wont be. Probably gonna have the same dang map for another 6 months. Oh, but there's 427 Bangalore skins to choose from! lmao
I can understand keeping new players together while they get used to the game but it's really hard to have a casual fun game anymore.
I've played a lot but I'm not miles better at the game than I was in S2. In fact I've gone down from a K/Dr of 1.6 to 1.3 over the 2 seasons.
I guess now because you can see when people are Diamond or Predator you know that the lobbies you're going into are particularly sweaty, I wonder if that is part of the problem?
@Cabowse See i'm apparently at the opposite end of the spectrum to you.
I popped out a k.d of 1.10 by the end of season 2 and during season 3 i'm currently sat at 1.42.
I mean season 2 was my first actual full season as i started during beast of the hunt...so it could be that i've just gotten better i suppose, but for me i feel SBMM has made me a better player.
Admittedly my lobbies are getting much more difficult but i welcome the challenge as i find ranked squads wholeheartedly unreliable due to 70% of them clearly being carried to plat.
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