Pretty convinced that SBMM in 2042 is real
So little context:
I've been playing Rush 128 for 2 days in a row doing 1 thing only - flying around in Casper's drone, grinding 25,000 "Enemy spotted" for the Recon class Tier 1 badge. That means no kills, negative k/d, and no PTFO whatsoever. I've done that for 2 days straight.
This evening after completing everything and joining normal Conquest 128 as usual, I was absolutely shocked by the quality of people I went up against. It's absolutely shocking. And yes I know there is Steam F2P or something going on right now, but it's not it. I've played against hoards of Playstation+ players and the experience was vastly different.
I made screenshots of both teams and sat down for an hour to go through their stats. They were mostly players that weren't in F2P events. They had 50+, some even 500+ hours, yet most of them were literal bots. I'm not even kidding. I came up behind 7 enemies and killed all of them without ANYONE turning around. They were too busy trying to shoot some poor Dozer 200m away through his shield.
They're running in random directions, and have literal potato accuracy. And I mean Noob from "Cheap Shot" or "Noob fight" level accuracy. You simply cannot make this stuff up.
And as soon as I've finished 4 or 5 games absolutely slaughtering human AI as Zain and getting 80-90 kills a match on foot, I began feeling more and more resistance afterward. I slowly went into my old territory with semi-braindead teammates and somewhat capable enemies. By the end of like 8 or 9 games, I was back in my old space.
It was never my intention to "test" this, but it's just something I've observed and wanted to share. It certainly explains why sometimes I join the game one evening and every single match its a total matchmaking mess. As if game is trying to figure out how to balance a bunch of high tier players and we end up getting absolute mess or a balance with one team steamrolling the other.
