I don't think the SBMM has really affected my experience all that much. I have rough games like I do in any CoD, and I have games where my team stomps without issue. I've got a healthy SPM and KDR from playing normally, scouting the map and checking corners, flushing out campers, and controlling lanes from various angles.
They've made their money and then some and want to keep engagement up amongst the new players.
Sorry, shoulda been more specific. Was referring to Shipment/Shoothouse 24/7. Vacant lobbies take forever to fill because no one wants to play this map.
This is a problem with practically every mp game, one team is always way better even though there's sbmm in the games. It makes no damn sense to me.
Eh... Showtime was cool, but once the Field Orders start dropping it's even more chaotic. I prefer Shipment 1944, which was a decent bit larger than the original map but still kept a good pace for combat, while making map control and holding sightlines still a critical part of gameplay.
I still think they have ongoing data on engagement and retention that's telling them this is the way to go, which is why they're ignoring a vocal minority.
Piccadilly exists, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume "enough playtesting went in to determine the map was functional and that player retention wouldn't be affected by it being introduced, not that it was actually good."
But at least in Piccadilly you can somewhat walk around.
Gotta love people and teams who don't know the game mode and don't go for the objective
This is generally true but the amount of points is insane you get for going for the objective. And I thought that's what the average guy want, lots of scores -> lots of XP -> level up and unlockables. After all it's theses tropes that made it so popular the last decade. And of course to win the game is another reward. But there were two occasions where I was sitting at the objective and not even one enemy even TRIED to get into it.
Scorestreak CODs had people racing to cap flags and shoot down UAVs. This is the first COD game in a long time that I've bothered to not use a launcher secondary. No one bothers in this game because it doesn't help you. XP-wise I get way more from fragging than sitting on a flag anyway.
