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I’m screwed sbmm didn’t even protect me to begin with☠️☠️

Alot of hacker allegation going to happen. Too many people can’t except there are people at such higher skill levels than they can even imagine.

People need to realise that online gaming is just way more sweaty than it use to be

@@snowy5628 i dont necessarily think it has. The good players may have gotten better but when you get to the average they have more than likely not moved they aren’t trying to get better and the bad players are the ones that have absolutely no idea and never even imagined getting better. A lot of that feeling of sweaty is sbmm. The initial sweat may be there but as people get more laid back it will ease up

lol crazy

Its because they prioritize the sbmm instead of actual gameplay mechanics or good looking characters

@@Redmont_ its so many different reasons, cod's just in the shitter and no other company has made any worthwhile competition. until now, assuming xdefiant doesnt suck nuts

i hope COD loses all its players to go play this instead so they learn their lesson

@@MrQWEEEERTY you hope for a lot of employees lose their job???

at least your honest, you feel, you dont know, its a feeling. not having a go, but so much of this stuff is painted as fact, but its not, not even close. I dont recognise the examples ace gives about controlled lobbies, ive never seen a single lobby where its all evenly matched, ive seen scores and kds that are across range.

they need to just add "no sbmm mode" which fills the lobby with bots that do less dmg so people who want to just get like 5k/d games can have fun

They treat SBMM like it's Voldemort.

@@will_9910because it is, in terms of evilness.

Here's the thing though - of course Activision and the devs are going to be protective about SBMM if it's working for them, insofar as people are playing and spending money in the shop. Why would they come out against it?

⁠@@kjak94 well for one, there’s no real competition for activision, so of course they’re not going to do anything about SBMM. There so many people out there complaining about it but activision is being arrogant about it and they want to “protect” the bad players in a sense. If xdefiant does well (and I hope it does), cod might see a significant player drop and might have to re think they’re own SBMM. Only time will tell though

@@MrKango87 this is not going to be "competition" for call of duty, in the same way there's no real competition for Madden. It's a staple at this point, and any games that come out that siphon people away only ever occupy niches in the market with a very specific player base, or are otherwise short lived.

Where Ubisoft is right now as a company going down the toilet with all there DEI woke agenda I wouldn’t hold my breath

My thoughts exact

This isn’t a sport or form of exercise. Other than your hands and head, it’s not your body. It’s your mind.

It is going to happen. Seriously. Every single Ubisoft hallmark of a horrible game is here, along with the fact that it is a CoD-clone. There has never been a successful CoD-clone, as evident by the sheer amount that tried to do the same after the original MW2 came out. All failed, even Battlefield makes only a tiny fraction of CoD money. It's a mashup of several of their dead IPs, from the dead Watch Dogs series to the dead Splinter Cell series. The animations for the weapons are equivalent to every mobile phone game from the last several years. The factions are perfectly set up for multiple waves of in-shop content. The delays and extra time was not because they were adding content, they were not done the game yet. Year One content is simply Base Content stripped, because it's already done and has absolutely no reason not to be in the game right now. There is no skill-based matchmaking because even after years of R6 Data, they know they can't do mass-SBMM. They aren't skilled enough. They do not have SBMM because they are not competent enough to implement any at a large scale. They are not keeping lobbies right at launch because they are not competent enough to release it at launch. Go ahead and call me a doubter, but I haven't seen a single clean Ubisoft release of any multiplayer game. I have only experienced almost 20 years of Ubisoft chasing trends in order to make money. I have only seen Ubisoft implement NFTs into their games despite their entire audience saying "NO" and then turn around and say "we listen to feedback". They add premium currencies from mobile games into single player games to make more money.

​@@DamienDarksideI still play The Division 2 and think it's the best looter shooter on the market BY A THOUSAND MILES... It's not even close...

Let me guess, back then you were a kid who got drop 8+ hours per day on the game, right?

@@H4ram Nah. I was 17 with a job.

@@enterthekyuubicasual is meant to be just that, casual. Casual players dont give a fuck about “getting better” because they shouldn’t. Its a videogame, why would you try and force a hardcore experience onto an entire genre KNOWN for being a chill, laid back experience?

@@storms888 You don't seem to understand how SBMM works. It is literally hurting casual players by forcefully putting them in matches where everyone is of equal or higher skill level. There's no such thing as a "casual match" when SBMM is involved, because it's entire purpose is to make your experience as sweaty and stressful as possible. You only get "casual" matches when you've been stomped multiple times in a row, but if you do well just once you'll be put back to fighting clones of yourselves with a few sweats thrown in there too for good measure. No SBMM = Random, fun, casual SBMM = Non-stop sweating It really is that simple and I have no idea why SBMM-apologists pretend otherwise. The most successful (as in, most enjoyable, not most trendy and profitable...) all had 0 SBMM. Halo, Team Fortress 2, early 2000s CoDs, Battlefield, CS:Source... none of those games had SBMM, and that's a huge reason why they were so successful and FUN. You truly could just jump into a match and have fun, you didn't feel like you were competing in a tournament for 1 million dollars.

@@johnhighway7399 I was thinking from my perspective, im extremely anti SBMM, I thought the original commenter was making a pro SBMM argument by saying that its good to play against harder lobbies

Ur never gonna get good if u quit when I first played cod that was MW2 I never quit playing I became better but I haven't played cod since MW 2019 but I can't wait to get back into 6v6 multiplayer again

​@@theostrowskibrothers3068my first was MW3, just kept trying to, last I played was the newest mw2

This post is spot on. The only way to get good at the game is to put in the effort. There's always a bigger fish than you, but you can still learn a thing or two from your defeat. Get back up and come back for more.

Spite gaming has been a theme for this year

Can be both

I mean, I'm going to play it because I hate cod and want to have fun.

I mean I am playing it for fun - something that CoD has left behind or forgotten about. I don’t hate CoD, CoD hates players like me, apparently and it is their fault we feel pushed into a different game because they refuse to give us the experience that they should be giving us, especially when all that major success they’re coasting on is directly due to the old ways and the old heads that played back then. This isn’t spite, this is CoD doing this to themselves.

100% agree. With that said I am looking forward to this game scratching that cod itch if that makes sense. Not in every way. But I very much am a (get off of work turn my brain off tdm player) sometimes

I honestly hate following one content creator on two different channels.

@clayleonard7005 same shits annoying then if that channel doesn't do well the youtuber abandons it or sells it even though there's plenty of present and future buyers of the said game or etc

I’d rather not see COD bs when I just want to see his xdefiant stuff.

​@@MrGerbil_ ok boomer🤓

@@MrGerbil_ Then you'll be seeing a dead channel. Ubisoft hasn't released a clean game. Ever. They're more interested putting premium currencies in singleplayer games.

lol a lot of ppl are gonna realize they suck

Summer is here time to grind

@@djcook I might realize this myself lmao

SBMM nowadays made it feel like a tournament, I know I'm not pro level but I'm certainly not bad, but I still have a job and want to play casually after work

So then you play a game that’s in a fantasy world thinking you are good? 😂 nah don’t you wanne get better putting in some work?! You can go play on pc then hack and cheat that’s the same low level thinking

It’s possible it could happen down the line. I’m not exactly a fan of MnK players (yes I’m one of those people who thinks you guys are a little ahead of the curve and why I don’t think cross play should be a thing. Sure we have aim assist but that’s practically all we have going for us, you guys have actual human reflexes. Imo very huge difference.) but that’s beside the point. They did say listening to the community is a top priority for them. If enough people ask they’ll probably talk to Ubi to make something work out. They originally didn’t have the option to map vote, many people asked for it and by the next test they added it. Same could happen with getting it on steam. Enough people just need to ask for it.

ubisoft love shooting themselves in the foot after all

@@seniorordenanza2387 Aim assist is straight up broken in new cods though.

​@@seniorordenanza2387Weird little rant there on a channel for a game dominated by controller like CoD lol

@@CZProductions I’m just saying my piece bro that’s all

Definitely giving it a good month to let them iron everything out. I have other games to play in the meantime. Checking in from update to update. No cash from my wallet Definitely helps😊

Headquarters is also probably a relatively low pop playlist, however with a game as big as CoD you really really shouldn't be seeing the same names across lobbies. The worst is when you back out of a lobby before it starts after recognizing someone only to re q and load into that lobby's match lmao

Same, In MW3 I run into the same players constantly. I'm so ready for this game to not have SBMM and get more variety of other players and skill levels.

I’ve been having this happen all the way back since MW2019. I kept running into a player named Lana Rhoades, lmao.

Appreciate the info. I've been trying to collect all the rewards for this game

Not even gta6??

@@spartan_a1176 yes but only 6, because i never played previous gta games in their prime

@@publicsafetyhazard xdefiant over gta 6 is crazy.... you need to play gta 4 & 5

@@spartan_a1176i know they're good, but i like team shooters more

@@spartan_a1176 not everyone likes single player sandboxes, if your favorite genre is shooters of course you'd be more excited for xdefiant than gta

espresso is very annoying such a nerd

Adding more players cause more issues

If you want every match to be close sweaty and competitive just play ranked, or any other shooter. The whole point of not having SBMM is to add variety to the gameplay, lopsided matches are part of that variety.

Was looking for this comment😂 I will say it did get progressively better near the end for me. Was hitting 25 to 30 kills per match. Where as at the start was only getting 10 or so. Here's hoping 🙏

Yep! I talked to the devs directly about the feedback and they mentioned they’ll be able to make adjustments based on it but they didn’t give me any specifics

@@TheXclusiveAce thanks for the update

💯

iw had fairly heavy sbmm, it started with aw

@@ThedFyne I didn't notice any. Had a 2KD, 4WL and I would still occasionally get matched up against people playing their first match. Kinda felt bad lmao.