DICE Team@EA_AticIf SBMM (Skill-Based Match Making) is a big deal for some people, why not make it a personal choice, as you did with the Enable-Cross-Play setting?
Just introduce a setting "Skill-Based Match Making=On/Off"
SBMM has never (nor should it ever) been a part of Battlefield, how I am supposed to play with my friends (some higher rank, some lower) if SBMM is dictating were we play?
Battlefield has (until the last couple of titles anyway) been mostly a community-based series, SBMM prevents that.
Find some friends to play with, jump on TeamSpeak or Discord with them and stop worrying about what rank/experience other players are and have some fun.
@YLD_fox wrote:
@EA_AticIf SBMM (Skill-Based Match Making) is a big deal for some people, why not make a personal choice, as you did with the Enable-Cross-Play setting?
Just introduce a setting "Skill-Based Match Making=On/Off"
SBMM wouldn't work well with Battlefield unless you're looking at a TDM small server. There's both too many people on one server and too few total concurrent people to allow for it. And frankly having 1/128 people that is higher level isn't that big of a difference. Especially when someone can be a high-rank because they either play a lot or can get a high score by being support/ptfo.
@YLD_fox Everyone has to play with cross-play enabled as various issues and player base preferences mean cross-play disabled lobbies are empty. When you ask for SBMM for a game with 64-128 players, there will be a huge detriment to many players while also fundamentally changing how matchmaking works. You will never have a server browser again due to people being locked out, and BF is not a small scale TDM or kill based mode so there are many more variables at play.
Instead of advocating for such drastic changes that are going to negatively impact most people, team balancing is a solution that is known to work from the implementation in BF4 and 1. This method allows people from the same region and friends to easily play together while the game does its best to ensure an even distribution of player skill. Although not perfect, we already have evidence from the two previous games that used team balancing that it does a good job of keeping games competitive. A high skill player or squad on one team is not a problem with a game as large as CQ or BT, the game doing nothing to give you people to counter those enemies is and that is what good team balancing will accomplish.
@bitcloudrzrEmpty lobbies can be solved with bots. A bit better bots than now, but still it is within reach.
My point is - if your are ok or like playing with such up-high players - it should be up to you - just disable SBMM.
For majority or the beginners and occasional player such skill differences is a deterrence.
In any sports, there are leagues. You never put amateur football player to play against a pro. He will be crushed and will stop playing this sport. 1% of who want to become pro will push through and try to learn. And only 1% of them will become pros, others will quit.
That’s how it works in real life, free-for-all approach in Battlefield is a gimmick for a limited audience.
Team balancing may be a solution, but again without bots it will work only on Friday and Saturday evening when there is a spike in concurrent players count so BF has someone to pick from.
And based on BF5 and 2042, I don’t see the balancing happening any time soon.
