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Toonen1988
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5 days ago

SBMM

So, they announced that Battlefield 6 will have SBMM. People will be matched based on ping, server location and skill factor based on gamemode you play.  Atleast that is what they said, and nobody knows exactly how the SBMM system works in Battlefield 6. 

It's well known that games like Delta Force and Call of Duty manipulate the outcome of a match. Today I have the exact same feeling with Battlefield 6. Today I have a way different expierence and want even drop the beta at this moment and question if I should buy BF6 to be honest. 

I'm only being thrown in matches that are far over and always on the losing team. I had like 4 matches now where we barely couldn't leave our base. In almost no match, we had even 1 flag. And if we had one, it was gone in a eye blink. I'm literally only join matches that are in progress and are far over and on the heavily losing team. 

Matchmaking also have increased signifcant, sometimes I'm waiting up to 4 minutes to join a match. Which is also in games like Delta Force after playing a few days. The matchmaking becomes hideous long, and also join in a in progress matches, on the heavy losing team aswell.  This goes on and on and on for like a day. Day after I have like 3 or 4 good matches again and then it  repeats again. A full day of bull**bleep** matches. I'm getting this vibe in Battlefield 6 aswell... How can it be so incosistent compared to yesterday. 

That's not all, also the TTK has increased significant compared to yesterday. I don't know if they have more traffic and the servers are barely holding together, or they haven't increased the ticket rate/hz of the servers which I lose certain frames that causes desyncs. But right now BF6 beta is just unfun to play, due these problems. 

This feels exactly like Call of Duty and Delta Force after a few days of playing. I just don't understand why developers don't release dedicated servers like old times. I mean, if they say to go back in time with Battlefield 6 gameplay, then where are the dedicated servers? I also hate it that they said to bring back "class locked weapons" but now it suppose to be only a separate gamemode, which didn't even include Breakthrough. So, why would I trust them with their SBMM system or believe what they say about it?

You should ask the question yourself, why do developers heavily push for SBMM while the majority of gamers ask for dedicated servers? Why do the developers need to be in control of what matches you want to join? Why can't we have the dedicated servers back? Gaming was back in the day way more consistent as nowadays. 

I do play shooters since begin '90's when I was a child. I never felt such a inconsistent gameplay in recent years. It's so noticeable how the expierence can change each day. I never had this feeling in older games, like the old battlefield, America's Army 1 (later updated to 2) the old Counter Strike. Since all that SBBM crap, games feel way more incosistent. 

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  • Fhraix's avatar
    Fhraix
    Seasoned Novice
    5 days ago

    I agree, i don't like SBMM at all.

    This is starting to feel more like CoD than anything else with this SBMM.
    Time to go back to your roots EA, and add a server browsing capability again.
    It has always been in Battlefield, but since Battlefield 2042 you just ditched it for no reason, and even after so many requests on the BF2042 forums you didn't do anything about it. Very sad and unfortunate.

    Give us the freedom of choice to play whatever map we like, at any given time..

    It takes really long to find a match sometimes, you may get put in a new match with the same map as the previous one, over and over again.. i see more con's than pro's with having an SBMM system in Battlefield. May work for CoD, but not here.
    It's time you stay true to yourself again, and stop copying Call of Duty.

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