News - Sbmm Completely Killed Warzone 2
Intro
Well, it's official, guys. Call of Duty has officially been killed by skill-based matchmaking, at least for some of us. Either way, my name's Dev, aka the Walmart blame truth, back at you with another article, and today I'm going to be sharing my absolute disdain for the Call of Duty skill-based matchmaking algorithms and many other patents that Activision loves to shove in their games.
Mwiii isn't a bad game.
But before I get into that, I just want to make it perfectly clear for the people in the back. I do not think Modern Warfare 3 is a bad game; as a matter of fact, I think Modern Warfare 3 is one of the better Call of Duty games we've gotten in the last 3 years. We have welcome changes like red dots back on the mini map Dead Silence has a Burk, so I don't have to run around with bricks attached to my feet.
We have map voting—some actual maps that weren't made by mouth-breathers, some remastered—in Modern Warfare 209, Maps. Trust me, I'm happy to see all of these things in the game, but what people fail to realize.
Free trial sbmm was toned down. bait and switch.
For the free trial weekend, in order to bait people into purchasing the game once they bought it and the free trial was over, that spmm got cranked, right up to 11, and me personally. I want to sit here and say I'm surprised, but I'm really not. I've been preaching over and over and over again: do not buy this game.
This overly glorified DLC, regardless of how many good changes are made at the end of the day, is Activision. And they always find a way to royally [__] it up, and this is proof in the pudding right here: free trial. Let's bait everybody into buying it. This was a great time. I had so much fun purchasing the game.
There's your skill-based matchmaking. Now have a miserable experience because we have your $79.99. This is why I say don't trust Activision, but who wants to listen to me? I'm just the Walmart blame truth that likes to complain about everything.
"skill issue" argument
But anyway, that's besides the point. I feel like right now is the perfect time to just go off the rails and explain my experience with skill-based matchmaking. Now, before I do that, I want to address something because there's this stigma in the Cod community.
I guess you could say that when anybody complains about anything in this game, whether that's skill-based matchmaking, you know, bad. You know, microtransactions and shitloads of MTX are all over the place. There's one word or one phrase I should say that gets thrown around the community. Loosely all of the time, and that's a skill issue.
I'm sure you've heard this one; it makes me cringe, and just hearing it makes my head want to have a [__] brain aneurysm, but I felt like today is probably a good time to [__] on the haters that say it's a skill issue because I'm going to be putting a little article up on screen right now showing you my stats in Modern Warfare 3.
Now I know you're going to have people who think you only have 15 hours and 115 games played. That's not enough time to talk about your KD. I don't have time to play this game. I work 4 days a week for 10 hours and then I do other stuff on the side, so I really don't have time to be playing Call of Duty 24/7, so this is the amount of time that I've been able to put in, you know, over the last few weeks, whatever month, however long this stupid game's been out, and I have a kill-death ratio of 349, so to say it's a skill issue doesn't make any sense, but we're not going to harp on that too much.
Sbmm is killing cod.
I want you guys to look at and pay attention to my win-loss ratio. I lose more games than I win when my favorite game mode is team [ __ ]. Deathmatch, why am I losing when I'm getting three and a half or above KDs for Kades? I'm going to put a screenshot for you guys right here. I got 62 kills in a [__] TDM.
62, And what did the game do? You did too well. I was playing with some subs, and right after this happened, right when I got the 62, and whatever I think I went 62 and 9, I'll put a screenshot up on screen for you guys to see. I was with one of my buddies, and I specifically said to him. I said to Aussie Cowboy, and if you're watching this article.
Aussie, you'll know I said This is My Punishment Game, and you know what happened after my punishment game after I did really well the following match. I was stuck in a [__] spawn trap on Highrise; I couldn't move. There were six people that were absolute, sweat Lords on the other team against me, and five other people that didn't know what they were doing, minus Aussie, so we had me.
Aussie who's competent, me who's competent, and then you have four people that are complete and utter mouth breathers. These were people who didn't know how to play the game; they couldn't shoot straight; they were looking at that. I'm on sensitivity 12. I can't aim. This is literally what I had for teammates, and of course there's going to be people that come to me and say, Well, Dev, you're a highly skilled player.
You should be able to counter this if you're so inclined. Well, you know what? When I'm stuck on highrise and I'm spawning in one building over and over and over again, and I have four teammates that refuse to move and sit in the spawn, because of the shitty squad spawn system we have in this game.
I spawn on my [__] teammates, so I cannot get out of the spawn trap because the minute I walk out of the building on highrise. I have someone sniping me from across the map. I have camping on top, where the helicopter is. I have two people camping on both sides of that window on the outside, so when I run out, they're sitting in a corner, and they destroy me.
I do it too. I understand how to spawn traps on this map. I'm just saying you can't do anything when you're in that situation. You can be the best player in the world. You aren't doing anything; you have to sit stationary and pick off kills very slowly, and this isn't fun. This really isn't fun; it makes the game a slugfest, it makes it boring, it makes it frustrating, and it feels more like a job than it does in the actual [__] article game.
So yeah, that's my experience across 115 games in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3; everything was great. In the free trial mode, you know, I was having fun with my friends. I was playing with subs for the first time, and I was actually able to play with my subscribers without leaving. So that's my experience with SPMM.
It took about 100 matches for the algorithm to kick in and give me a miserable match every second match, so to say that I'm done with this game is an understatement. I'm still going to play it for content creation purposes. I don't see this as a good thing. I really don't see it as a skill issue because a lot of people like to say that.
