Any general thoughts about network stability for the PC edition's multiplayer? I often hear of GPU errors and crashes.
In my experience it has been working great. I had the GPU crashes when I was trying to record using nvidia's shadowplay, with highlight capturing also on, while tabbing in and out of the game...while also having desktop recording enabled. I reinstalled the drivers and turned off desktop recording and it works great. 980ti, windows 10, 4770K, 16GB ram.
I'm going to keep responding to post/people like you. I'm not sure you understand what SBMM is.
No/toned downn SBMM does NOT mean being matched up with only people below your skill level. It does NOT mean "pub stomping" every game. It does NOT mean new players won't be protected.
Playing EXCLUSIVELY against people your own skill level in the higher bracket is not fun for those people and certainly not casual. And people in higher skilled brackets play competitive on a different platform i.e. GameBattles with eSport rules in order to get better.
How exactly does not having (or toned down) SBMM protect new players?
I think what people are experiencing is being placed in a higher bracket than they should be as it tries to figure out your skill level. Given enough time it will likely put you in an appropriate position. They're still casual matches but you're just not playing against people who don't know how to aim and shoot at the same time.
I like to think of myself as a pretty decent CoD player, and my K/D is at 0.95 and W/L at 1.72. Now you can put this down to the general design of the game encouraging so much camping and I'm of the old school, so I'm constantly moving to different objectives and thus getting shot quite often from the million vantage points scattered about.
That's the biggest issue with this games map design, it was MADE FOR campers. Sooo many secure spots to just bunker down in until you get a good killstreak reward, so if the SBMM is matching me against decent players who pay enough attention to know what the current meta is, that makes the experience for someone like me utterly insufferable, and trust me there are plenty of "me"; old school CoD players who treated the game closer to an arena shooter rather than a "tactical" sit in this room until I get a match turning killstreak attitude that is infesting this game.
It turns a typical play session into a roller coaster of emotions. One minute you're in a match with like minded individuals and suddenly the game feels like CoD again, then the very next match (after you've been dumped back to the menu mind you. Lord forbid you actually want to stay with the players you've found) the experience is the complete opposite because you've just been dumped into a Picadilly match that is half over on the clock and well and truly over on the scoreboard.
Basically when it comes to SBMM, the negatives far outweigh the positives. It has to go.
I also like to run and gun but I don't think the maps were made for camping, even for the good bunker spots, there's a way to flank. Sometimes your team just doesn't push together or the right way and you get stomped. It happens in team games.
You can get one over on the camper, you just need to figure out the best way to go about it. It's still early, there are so many sight lines that you may not be accustomed to yet. They have the mounting mechanic to peek walls more carefully as you move from place to place. You can sprint into a slide down stairs and around corners shooting your enemy from below. Lots of verticality in the maps too.
It's never going to be perfect but the maps and mechanics are pretty good for rushing too.
Sometimes the respawns don't rotate enough, like on piccadilly, that's fair. I've had those games.
You say one game is all good fun and the next game is a campfest. You have to adapt to the circumstance. It's not a pure arena shooter and different people will have different playstyles. I don't see how SBMM is to blame for that.
Everyone is also assuming a high KD ratio is how it determines skill level but it may be points per minute.
You have millions of players, they need to be in appropriate skill levels so everyone has a reasonable chance of having fun. You first buy the game and go on a killing spree vs noobs, ruining their games, it's going to try to put you in a match with other people that have done the same. Some of those players are much better. Eventually you'll be in a spot that's suitable. It might just take some time to figure out where.
Really it's a good thing and it works both ways as the higher skilled players won't be in your games either. Eventually. It will just take time to sort the people out and it's still pretty early.
