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he can't, because he's just making up shit. Tired of this shit on the site lol
I have no issue with your post. My issue is with how the cod community demonizes sbmm. There is a reason it exists. And that's because the people worse than you have the same issue you are having. They get thrown into random lobbies with people way better than them. Get crushed and frustrated. And stop playing. If somebody wants a nuanced discussion on the issue. I'm cool with it. But I rarely see that nuance coming from any of the vocal cod community. It's always SBMM is the devil! Just throw the first people in. Always type of arguments. And I must say this. They say it in every single cod title. No matter this year or 5 or 6 years back. It's been constant. Bad players want to play the game casually too. Or as casual as they can.
In theory, a well-made SBMM would make the game better. I very much enjoyed when Black Ops 3 briefly brought it, and I'm a good player that does, in fact, stomp players rather often. MW2019's way of doing it is weak for many reasons already discussed: it only counts the host so in case of a group it completely screws up if you play as a group. It also doesn't work well because I constantly get paired with absolute trash-tier players and MLG godlike dudes too. Something's off about it for sure.
Maybe, after going to McDonald's for ten years straight, one subway sandwich isn't too bad an idea. Maybe even better for your diet not only eating double fried beef and fries but a light sandwich in between.
Then again, who are they to decide what you have for dinner. Not like they've been cooking it for the past couple of years.
No matter how well designed I feel a large part of the community doesn't want to play competitive fun games. They want to stomp. Because let's face it. COD is designed to be fun when you stomp and not fun at all when you are getting stomped or having to overly work for it. But yeah if there is a bug around group based sbmm, it should addressed and fixed. But it definitely should be there. One of my least favorite things in cod was being put against group stacks as a solo player. Groups should face groups. Another form of sbmm.
Never said the game doesn't have issues. Never said I disagreed with whatever you had said about it. Can you send me a link to your review?
There are plenty of issues in the game. Never said there isn't. Lmfao is more childish than throwing up your hands and huffing and puffing as you say your going to uninstall it?
What the hell is this? I never said I was an amazing call of duty player? If you want raw footage of people rushing and crushing, just search youtube.
IW has talked for months up to release about what they were bringing. The changes to a more realistic and tactical CoD were one of many things discussed. You seem to just want more of the same so it's a good thing that Black Ops 3 and 4 exist for you.
All I am saying that a lot of complaints center around things that can be worked out with the tools they provided. I wasn't cornering anything on a "tactical meta" either. Does this CoD require more brains than usual, sure. Can you still run around the map bunny hopping, spraying and praying? Yes. With the right class setup and map knowledge.(which I am not the guy for)
Issues I want change/resolved:
Fix the Spawn flip to help curtail trapping
Remove the 725 and rework it completely. Something more like the Drilling in BF 5 would be better.
Make Claymores and Betties exempt from the shrapnel perk
Increase the speed of lock on Rockets and increase their damage to vehicles and streaks
Add spawn protection from streaks
I would love to have Ground War without Streaks that kill or with somehow way fewer streaks.
I also thing the points need to be spread out more and the capture zones should be made similar to BFs
And lastly, I have been plenty frustrated at this game. I have rage quit and was considering a refund in the beginning because of the X shutdown issue I was having. I am continually swearing at the 725 users, but other things have been gradually evening out for me. I still run into matches where my team is murdered or spawn trapped to oblivion. The map design for some maps is really annoying and Ground War is a clusterfuck most times. Many other small things frustrate me, but the "boots on the ground" combat and the visceral feel of the guns keeps me playing. I am not even good at the game with only a few 20-10 type games to show for my 60 hours of time, but I am still loving it.
Wishlist item:
4 v 4 Gunfight please.
yep, I noticed this too! I was on Xbox with crossplay off and I was in a lobby with a guy using m/kB on Xbox, so it's clearly not just input based now. I hope it's a glitch and not dwindling player numbers meaning combined pools.
I agree with you. The annual backlash against the idea of SBMM is tiring because, in theory, it could make the game better. It briefly made BO3 better in fact. It's this SBMM that sucks, lol.
Yeah dude, insulting others is absolutely way more childish than being so done with a game that you decide to vent one last time and say you'll uninstall it, like what the fuck. Think for a second.
e: in case you decide to be obtuse on purpose, the latter sentence of my post was in response to the whole post. I was dumbfounded cause being so bothered about people saying they're uninstalling the game was just so immensely weird to me, though seeing that you're living in some sort of a imaginary fantasy world what with all the talk about huffing and puffing and other things that never even got close to happening, I guess I can see what's happening.
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In theory, a well-made SBMM would make the game better if it was in a dedicated Ranked Mode. I don't always want to be forced to put on my sweatpants, if I want to play against people of similar skill I should be able to do so in a ranked mode.
Yeah, nothing against this. I think SBMM should be one of the variables that is used to make a good lobby. Connections, playstyle, stats, skills, all should combine to give you a favourable experience. This wouldn't mean you can't get stomped, but you probably wouldn't be pitted against a player like Shroud if this is your first attempt at a first person shooter. But having an SMBB-only system where, however, only the host's level is counted so it's easy as hell to exploit? Bad idea.
CoD should have a league play playlist like Black Ops did that has full ranking and the casual normal MP should just be random based on ping solely and that's it
I partially agree with this. Even if you seperate public matches and ranked matches, you should still have some sort of SBMM in place for public matches; at MINIMUM the lowest 15-20% of the people should be in a seperate bracket.
But at the moment it feels like the current SBMM is a full on ranked mode SBMM minus the visible leagues. It's horrendous atm.
I just had a HQ game end 0-144 on Shoot House. I also just had a KC game where my team's BEST player got less kills and points than the other team's WORST player. This team balancing is a fucking joke, for real.
Yeah, I've always had this stance, more or less - ranked playlists with strong SBMM for the serious players, casual playlists with very loose SBMM (think one bracket for complete newbies, disabled people, others who just aren't very good with games like your dear grandpa or something, and one bracket for pretty much the rest) for the not-so-serious players.
Yeah, I've always had this stance, more or less - ranked playlists with strong SBMM for the serious players, casual playlists with very loose SBMM (think one bracket for complete newbies, disabled people, others who just aren't very good with games like your dear grandpa or something, and one bracket for pretty much the rest) for the not-so-serious players.
Someone playing and is learning the Hardpoints for fun? its the First CoD where im not motivated in doing it at all. Is it any good?
I'd tweak that a bit, by having eg. bottom 25%, 26%-50%, 51%-75% and 76%-100% skill levels, you get to play with your own group and the groups surrounding it. So the bottom barrel only gets up to the average player, no Shroud and such. Likewise, the top tier players do get down to the average player but aren't allowed to stomp 8-years old Jimmy on his first ever console playing COD for the first time. And the game should be transparent about this by not just showing your K/D but telling you the average level of players you've been getting to build it. The people who get 4.5 KDRs in every game because they lobbyhop as soon as they realize the opponents aren't trash mean nothing to me, their apparent skill indicator is gravely altered by the game's total lack of consideration for balancing lobbies. But a heavy-handed SBMM like now is not ideal either.
Finally unlocked the stupid pointman perk
seriously sucks this was such a high unlock. Its a great perk
seriously sucks this was such a high unlock. Its a great perk
I feel the same about Thermite. Such a great lethal, almost never see it. Only thing that sucks is that it can be finnicky with line of sight, e.g., you can land it on the antenna box of an HQ and it won't hurt someone standing on the other side of the antenna, despite apparently being so hot that it ignites the clothes of anyone around it.
I gave the game another few sessions this weekend. The updates help, but the multiplayer is still very slow and boring. Head to head encounters where people are moving around I'm doing fine, but 80% of the time I feel like my deaths are from some guy blended into some shadowy corner aiming down a main line of sight. Shoot House is the only decent map I've played so far and still people decide to head glitch in their spawns.
Picadilly spawn traps are absurd. My friend and I had the entire team spawning near the garage area for half the match maybe a car length distance between us and their spawn.
Picadilly spawn traps are absurd. My friend and I had the entire team spawning near the garage area for half the match maybe a car length distance between us and their spawn.
Alright. Apologies to any who were offended. I was generalizing and also being a bit hypocritical and after rereading my post, it was a bit of an insult too.
Hell I am thinking back and I may have threatened to uninstall it when it was crashing my Xbox...
Backing out and rethinking.
Playing Ground War and im feeling i should get paid for playtesting it.
Man i had a bad game on Quarry.
Man i had a bad game on Quarry.
I've had a similar experience with one of my friends who isn't very good. We've played COD together for years and he is not having fun at all when we play together. He shouldn't have to play by himself to have a fighting chance. SBMM needs to be removed. Have a matchmaking group for people below level 20 or something and leave it at that.
Yup, unplayable again after the latest patch, crashing was fixed in the previous patch for me but returned in the recent one, welp, no playing for me until next patch.
I think it's probably lag/CoD networking but I seem to find myself shooting people, thinking there was enough bullets to kill them because I hear the hit markers and then I stop shooting. It's really weird.
Also, why does the ammo crate take go damn long to equip, open the lid, check to make sure you have all your bullets in a neat row, throw them slowly to the ground, press X to use and then get shot. The amount of times I throw it down and mid throw someone appears and kills me. Or you manage to throw it down and do the dumbass looking at your feet thing that basically means your dead.
Also, why does the ammo crate take go damn long to equip, open the lid, check to make sure you have all your bullets in a neat row, throw them slowly to the ground, press X to use and then get shot. The amount of times I throw it down and mid throw someone appears and kills me. Or you manage to throw it down and do the dumbass looking at your feet thing that basically means your dead.
There seems to be some kind of bug going on with it, some videos show the gun going right up into the sky when firing the thing full auto. It's definitely not normal.
DID I JUST LOSE MY SAVE?
I started the game this morning and have been playing straight through. I was doing a mission pretty deep into the game (the second flashback) and someone tripped over the power cable and my PS4 turned off. Now when I go to the campaign option in the main menu it just says 'start campaign'. How do I load from my last spot??
I started the game this morning and have been playing straight through. I was doing a mission pretty deep into the game (the second flashback) and someone tripped over the power cable and my PS4 turned off. Now when I go to the campaign option in the main menu it just says 'start campaign'. How do I load from my last spot??
Same thing happened to me, had a powercut 3 hours in and I lost the save. Its shit I started it again right after and ended up putting 9 hours in the game in one day as I wanted to finish it that day.
That's the way it is for me on PC. It's completely uncontrollable.
Set "10 years ago", features a prison, a breathing minigame..
Yea that's pretty close to the end maybe 2 or 3 missions off.
I was on the highway of death when it messed up.
I think it fires as fast as you can click but the recoil is super broken.
After being annoyed at that damn green unlock icon being stuck on for like 50 levels because I used a gun I hadn't unlocked, my shotgun is glitched with a green unlock icon for an attachment that doesn't exist...
same, I'm loving it until the campers stop camping in other maps
