It's the “everyone is a winner” mentality.
No matter how much practice/effort you put into the game, the system tries to make sure everyone succeeds at the same rate.
If you are a top 10%, 5% or 0.01% player, you should be allowed the platform to PERFORM like a top 10%, 5% or 0.01% player, but instead, you are placed in harder lobbies with no recognition that you are in there.
If they're adamant on keeping it in the game, i would like a little watermark or an on-screen graphic which SHOWS me what level of lobby i'm currently playing.
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lol the obsession with SBMM, sweats, etc.
just play the fucking game or not sheesh
it’s so clear that everyone just wants to absolutely stomp and not be challenged. Never even got the sbmm shouts, me and my boys have done 4peats before. Surely SBMM should have been chucking us in the wildest lobbies?
Homie ..
They had no SBMM in Xdefiant. All the people like you who are obsessed with SBMM rejoiced! Then that rejoice slowly turned into the same bitching.
There’s too many sweats!
Why are my teammates always trash!?
Blah blah blah
Cringe template
Yeah skill based matchmaking is real they need to fix it. I am a 1.4 KD player. I routinely run into top 250 players in the world. I get all shitted on….. If skill based matchmaking is an iron rule then why are they in my lobby? How the fuck did they get in my lobby?
This is such a dumb take.
If you’re in the top 10%, 5%, or 0.01%, that means relative to the entire player base , not some magical in-game bubble where every lobby gives you the statistical red carpet to stomp casuals.
You fundamentally don’t understand how statistics or matchmaking works. You think every single match with 50 teams should include a perfect cross-section of global player skill distribution? That’s mathematically impossible. You’d need every match to contain:
– 0.015 top 0.01% players
– 7.5 top 5% players
– 15 top 10% players
And the rest distributed in a way to make you feel better.
What are you expecting — Activision to fly in a PhD in stats to balance your lobby by percentile precision?
SBMM doesn’t mean “communism,” it means you’re not stomping noobs for highlight clips. You’re playing against people near your skill level. That’s not unfair — that’s literally what competition is.
If you’re really that good, you’d still outperform, just not by abusing complete noobs.
I have 1.4 KD and when I play with guys below my skill level I have decent number of kills, but when I play with players who have 5kd+, I get shit on and that is what SBMM really is and you can get bad players, you can get good players, not everyone in this player base plays at the same time.
Tanked is where you wouldn’t have sbmm it’s just goes by rank. Pubs is the only place sbmm makes any sense
Anything I don’t like is communism: the musical
Doesn’t mean much when a lot of Redditors like communism.
SBMM is ok. STRICT SBMM in non ranked is not ok
Besides AA being absurdly over-tuned, this is the biggest problem with the game.
SBMM in non-ranked modes is silly, but the gaming industry has chosen to cater to bad players who don’t want to improve, but love to complain. It is what it is
No you’re just really American
Daily “I think I’m better than I am” post
Spoken like someone who isn’t top 10% 😆
When you actually rise above the herd (not just think you have) the system doesn’t hold you down anywhere near what people say it does. Yes it’s “harder” but that doesn’t mean it’s hard.