This is What A BOTTOM 0.1% SBMM Lobby Looks Like

[@starboyjedi13]

If the matchmaking system in Warzone would prioritize my connection/ping then I would have no problem with SBMM. The reason why SBMM is so frustrating for me personally is that it completely ruins my gameplay experience because of the horrible ping I get. And don't even get me started on the packet burst/loss

[@Redald]

@@starboyjedi13 frfr sometimes I have 96ms ping other Time I got freaking 170ms ping shit crazy...

[@acev3521]

VPN and proud

[@starboyjedi13]

@@Redald That's literally me bro💀 Throw in a bit of 5% packet loss as well

[@starboyjedi13]

@@acev3521 Do vpns still work on Warzone? Because tbh I just want to make sure that my connection is within my local servers instead connecting me to EU servers

[@gothmilkers]

@@acev3521 fake game play and proud

[@internetttroll1908]

My friends dont want to play with me anymore. They ragequit after 4-5 rounds. So i play alone, so they can have good time in easyer lobbys. Really not the game i wanna support anymore, after all these years. played COD since 2005.

[@253MC]

Totally agree. I have a good KD (3+) and all my mates are average. They dont want to play with me anymore. They get destroyed in every gunfight, then I'm left in a 1v3 against players of my own skill level. Boring.

[@Chickensea10]

@@internetttroll1908 join the finals!

[@niklasgustavsson1243]

@@253MC How can I see my KD in newest warzone?

[@seemsright9822]

when I befriend randoms, the next game with them is usually unplayable , and every lobby is sweaty never realized sbmm was the reason for this.

[@mowgli5679]

@@niklasgustavsson1243if you’re asking this it’s below 1 lol

[@Notimportant1995]

Looks like “TheseKnivesOnly” lobbies.

[@atamayo10]

@@Notimportant1995 I was just scrolling through comments and see this and spit out my drink 😂😂

[@xFINISHxHIMx]

LMAO I actually use a Melee weapon only sometimes just for fun 1.6KD lobbies... and the lobbies are nothing like Ghost of Caldera or TKOs. They are 100% boosting the IQ out of the lobbies.

[@Level3FlexOffender]

Bro dropping knife nukes and I can barely get a merciless with an 8 attachment m4 in a 1.4 kd lobby

[@zachgeorge2175]

@@atamayo10 me too lol

[@Floodsye]

None of us that play the game at a Iridescent+ level would have EVER become even more borderline decent, had as much fun doing so, and gotten that satisfaction of improvement as a player IF we had SBMM back in the day. I used to get destroyed in COD4, so I put in the time to get better and better, over the years developing those "CoD senses" if you will. It felt great and then being in lobbies with lower skill players meant I'd be passing those skills onto them as they realized what I was doing and we ALL IMPROVED together. The newest generations of CoD players...they will never leave the lower tier SBMM lobbies, other than if they get clowned by the system and put onto a higher SBMM team to get mauled due to the way SBMM works in MP and Warzone in non-filled squads (to make the game harder, it'll dump one or two really low SBMM players against the Iri+ other team...to balance the team SBMM scores). I feel awful for those newer players. They'll never get to improve. They'll never get that rush that comes with realizing you are getting better. Which means multiplayer gaming isn't a competitive outlet for them, so what's the point ie. they'll just quit and not play as much since it's not something they'll get invested in like we did back in the day. They'll go and play co-op or singleplayer instead. SBMM IS THE REASON CoD's player number tank after one month EVERY SINGLE GAME.

[@RizzyGyatt]

nobody is gonna read that sh. 1) stop playing CoD. it's dead and over 2) SBMM isn't designed to improve your skill, it's to keep you on the game to buy MTX 3) stop buying MTX 4) dissuade all your friends from buying MTX

[@pariahxsl]

This. I started MW3 at the age of 10/11, it was pure chaos, I was no where near the skill level of the average player, but the thrill of becoming that guy at the top of the leaderboard stomping on everybody drove me to play more and more and made me the player I am today. Pressure makes diamonds, not throwing all the newbies in a friendly farm where nothing is actually challenging and vice versa. I recently tried 2 boxxing out of curiosity, and being able to actually operate the movement effectively, go on killstreaks etc, then get into the next match against another 2boxxer and carry over that confidence into a much harder fight felt EXACTLY like COD used to feel like. I don't understand why lobbies can't be mixed still. Couple good, couple average, couple that are terrible. I was once part of the terrible, then I started landing mid leaderboards and felt caught up with the average, and eventually levelled myself to a player who could land top leaderboards. Completely agree with your point and unfortunately I don't think we'll experience this again due to profit margins and "the dataaaaa"

[@pariahxsl]

@@RizzyGyattagreed, all of it is for profits, none of it is in consideration of genuine gameplay anymore. Out of curiousity tho wdym MTX?

[@CraaaaaabPeople]

Well said!

[@CraaaaaabPeople]

​@RizzyGyatt COD is still as big as ever no matter how much you wish it wasn't.

[@HUKIT.]

I have a 1.46 KD ratio through 4th prestige and I don’t feel like top 20%, Lol.

[@mynamesjeff347]

Bro I'm with you I don't understand who they think I am

[@253MC]

That’s cause you’re not. This game counts assists as eliminations, so your statistics don’t show your real KD, they show your KDA. At a 1.4 elimination/death ratio, you are probably closer to a 1.0 KD.

[@nathanwawer9832]

Is that kills/death or Elims/death

[@ghostlandered]

​@@253MC1.0 is still top 20%

[@JacobBitner]

I must be at the bottom with my 1.22 KD 😂

[@253MC]

i just wish the lobbies were ping based. Imagine a world where every warzone match is a medley of good, bad and average players. A true, organic sandbox experience. Sometimes you’d come across YY sweats and sometimes you’d come across really wholesome, organic interactions between less serious players. Sometimes you’d end up against a few sweaty squads and have to play really hard to win, and sometimes you’d get nicer, softer lobbies where you realise you can relax, have some fun, maybe use an off meta loadout etc. That’s what BRs are meant to be imo. A big open world, pvp sandbox. But instead, those of us with 2+ KD ratios are forced into playing our asses off just to get 1-2 kills per game. Maybe get the occasional 10 kill game if we’re lucky and really zoned in.

[@brotatobrosaurus5411]

In practice the distribution would be different - i.e. at least one sweat in every lobby - simply because sweats play more often. If you’ve got a queue of 1200 players, and 120 of them are sweats, should you make 100 lobbies with 1 sweat in each of them? Or should you make 10 lobbies filled with sweats and then 90 lobbies with more average players? Why should casuals get matched with casuals, but sweats shouldn’t get matched with sweats?

[@253MC]

@@brotatobrosaurus5411 Because "sweats" wouldn't exist to the same extent without SBMM. Look at other sandbox games like Battlefield. Theyve existed for years with no sbmm, and up to 128 players per match at times. Those games are WAY more casual than warzone, because there is no SBMM environment to force people into using "sweaty" tactics to gain an edge.

[@253MC]

@@brotatobrosaurus5411 That's not how distribution works. You would get variance. That's why I used the word "organic". The only way you would get 1 sweat in every lobby would be if it were artificially matchmade. On AVERAGE you would get 1 sweat per lobby, but you would also get many games with 2-3 sweats, and many games with 0.

[@bushmonster1702]

@@brotatobrosaurus5411 that's not how statistics work.

[@435.63]

I’ll be honest these lobbies look fun to just run around and troll but not to try and play seriously.

[@MarcBrighty]

@@435.63 I agree. While it would probably be fun, for someone like me who is trash at BR games, to get in and get a few kills, I'd probably get bored eventually. My issue in BR games is positioning and having anxiety at the fact I could get shot from anywhere so I play with very little confidence compared to playing regular MP. WZ looks like it's fun and I should probably give myself the time and patience to actually learn how to play it properly

[@joejojo5966]

They do have the custom wz games you can host. Get together with others through a forum and create a fun game mode lol put rules online and just kick anyone being silly

[@Xarthys]

I'm more of an MP player, less so Warzone and I agree that SBMM should exist however what frustrates me the most is when i'm put with players who simply aren't on my skill level and am expected to carry them against an actual balanced team, completely ruins the experience for me.

[@SekiberiusWelkesh]

It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so aggressive, it should be a gradual slope instead of a sharp one. It's not fun when it matches you against a bunch of very low skill players just to then match you against pro leagues because you mopped the floor previously. In the last week I've had only one game I considered fun and that was because everyone in the lobby for once was actually the same skill level.

[@Xarthys]

@@SekiberiusWelkesh I would welcome playing balanced teams if my team was the same but when i'm being matched against multiple parties and my team mates have no thumbs it's just not fun.

[@duaneanzalone2498]

I am a 1.2 KD player. SBMM doesn't bother me so much. Getting outplayed is how you learn. What bothers me is how obfuscated the settings can be to find, understand, and apply. But even that isn't a deal breaker. What is... the cheating. Ricochet just isn't getting the job done. How many lobbies have you been in where the level 20 guy is the top guy in the game? You know what I am talking about... when they go 60 and 14 in an MP games or like 28 and 3 in on Rebirth. Maybe there are just thousands of people who have played the game for a week and are just 10x better than the rest of us. Of the 3 other guys I play with... only one has purchased B06. He bought it for the zombies. The rest of us are trying to justify paying hard earned money for something that is plagued with hackers. You can't go back to back games without running into at least one highly suss team. Beat me in a gun fight, cool, I'll get you next time. But that isn't what is happening. There will always be hackers... but there was a time when they were a rarity. Now, they are a game feature. Why pay for that?

[@robbybuffenbarger531]

just get it off of gamepass like how everyone should, you would pay $120 over the course of a year, but be real you wont play for more then 5 months and then also have access to thousands of other and honestly better games to play

[@ThisisForTheTV]

I remember being a 12yo who was terrible at cod4 but I kept playing because I knew that was how you got better at the game. Now I'm good enough that the game doesn't care about me anymore... It only cares about Timmy with his parents card info or the middle-aged that pays for everything instead of grinding.

[@bonelessthincrust]

This is so wholesome. I would love to play in a lobby like this from time to time, not even to win, just to actually have fun and do goofy shit like you were doing in the gulag.

[@KawaiiPotat0]

swag and joewo would shamelessly upload gameplay in these lobbies

[@Manakuski]

They live at the right place for the amazing lobbies. They don't get them all the time, what you watch on youtube are cherrypicked matches from 8+ hours of gaming.

[@DeadOnInfil]

​@@Manakuskiabsolutely! Spent a lot of time on Nukesquad Twitch lately and like his lobbies are usually hell, but maybe one in ten games looks like a bot lobby .

[@lv9084]

@@DeadOnInfil 1 in 10? Still much better than the 1 in 100 i got when is till played this crap!

[@Unlckywolf]

Ive never reverse boosted before.. over the past 2-3 years ive wanted to more and more. This years cod makes me want to reverse boost and 2box just to have “fun”. Im tired of sweating my ass off when my KD is only 1.35

[@jordangourley3955]

Pro tip: forget about K/D the dopamine hit from W/L is better. Filter out everymode accept hard point and domination. Play the objective like a mad man. W/L goes up and fun happens again. Avoid TDM like the plague. TDM is so terrible, the game will just spawn players immediately behind you.

[@Unlckywolf]

@@jordangourley3955 ive never been much of an objective player, but i will definitely give it a try. Cant be any less fun than im having now….

[@Iam_Priime_]

These look like the lobbies content creators expect to play every game instead of facing people that are as good as them or better

[@bradmoore9756]

bro what

[@naimcool36]

u only see that 1 gameplay video they upload not the other 100 lobbys they play everyday

[@lukeludwig1055]

@brasmoore9756 youre stupid

[@Shaolinstyle21.]

I've seen so many big streamers get in bot lobbies to look good that it's sad.

[@linkedsnake6021]

I am still of the strong opinion that no SBMM leads to greater Equalization in the long run and leads to more player improvement instead of being locked into your own skill group forever.

[@michaelstepp5725]

@linkedsnake6021 i disagree to an extent if you actively practice playing and improving you'll never be stuck you'll just feel stuck but test your skills in ranked, I think climbing the hidden mmr ladder on normals just has no appeal they shouldn't hide it

[@brotatobrosaurus5411]

SBMM is basically DEI

[@trshaffa744]

The people tht cry bout sbmm are mfs tht cry cause they play comp

[@V-O-V]

@@linkedsnake6021 Based on what? Other than general vibes?

[@pooPbutwhole]

@@V-O-Vbased on 6 years of experience playing without sbmm and 4 years with sbmm

[@mynameis.5480]

Honestly every game that didn’t have SBMM actually had better longevity. There’s actually another FPS game called Combat Master that lets choose which style of play and you go according to said groups that also choose that play style. Then there’s a more simplistic play style mode you can choose and it’ll group you with people who also play that way. No settings needed to change. Just learn and adapt to each play style. COD needs to take notes.

[@macwiley9846]

So here is the situation I often find myself in. I play with buddies that are less skilled than me and we have fun for a bit goofing off but then after a while we are teetering on having fun with each other and doing well in game. You gotta have both. They get rolled often and me and another guy are the ones even making the game close. Often times they hop off and make a new lobby and play without me and they say there is a MAJOR difference. So I wind up hoping off. So how is this “engagement optimization” helping me continue playing? I just want to play and have fun with my buddies not force them into CDL wannabe lobbies…

[@greyfox2344]

I'm split. want to absolutely frag out in every lobby because I'm competitive, but I can also understand that dunking on Timmys and Jimmys doesn't make them feel good playing a game. But I got better by getting dunked on for years, so I'd be simply returning the favor.

[@dranben]

I love when you directly call out most of the CoD community for the "bot lobby" comments, and it still goes over everyone's head.

[@jmw9179]

I don't quite understand the logic of "SBMM prevents you from improving", people say you improve by facing people who are better than you, but then people turn around and say SBMM makes them face sweats and forces them to try as hard as possible. If you play the same skill level you can definitely improve and do better than those people which will then cause SBMM to put you in even higher skilled lobbies. Wouldn't that help you improve? I am not gonna say its a good system but people have all sorts of conflicting opinions on it, I think the most valid criticisms with the system is the lack of connection priority, and inconsistency of skill level game to game. I agree connection should be prioritized, and I believe if they are going to match you with similar skilled players then it should be consistent.

[@GamingGD5600]

So here's a kind of lopsided in a way example of why SBMM (imo) doesn't help you improve, last night my first match on since playing with a buddy of mine with a slightly lower KD who effectively put me in a slightly lower skill lobby boosted my KD so my first match on in 10v10 hardcore moshpit put me against a team with a prestige master level 101 (effectively a no lifer imo considering how short of time the games been out) and that entire team was spawn trapping us and sliding on their butts every gunfight you had with them, now the lopsided part of this is it was domination on nuketown so a smart team that can control B and spawn trap is easy to do the problem is in my case I was 1 of the only people trying to actively push to get out of the spawn trap while my team got spawn killed they ended up getting a choppergunner that spawn killed us so hard I literally died off the bat 3 times in a row I was like 20 kills 30 deaths by the end of it, next match im on HC TDM 6v6 in hideout, I drop 40-16 playing against players that seemed under what my actual KD should be because of how brutally roasted I got the match prior, how is anyone supposed to get better if you get put with top 1% players after a handful of positive KD games playing with a buddy only to get shit on instantly when playing solo then getting players that seem lower skill then me the next game, like to jump between two completely lopsided games is not improving thats being manipulated into thinking I am

[@tfreshly3883]

Hour 1 your in a sweatfest. Hour 1000 your in a sweatfest.. you’ll get smacked on hour 1 all the way through 1000 until you realize all that time you played was for nothing because your games never change, the players never change… so outside of camo grinds and the prestige grind there is nothing to do and playing is pointless.

[@253MC]

I feel like your opinion is biased. You feel like SBMM is justified, but that's because COD is your job. You get to play all morning, in softer lobbies and get some relief from the absolute SWEAT FEST that is 5pm+ lobbies (when you have a 3KD). You get respite. Those of us who work all day long, come home from work and want to play for an hour or 2, but just so happen to be skilled players, we are the ones who get the BRUNT of sbmm. Not all of us "high skill" players get to play all day long. Some of us still have jobs and lives and want to enjoy the game, but just because i am decent at the game (3.5KD) means I get punished. I cant play with my mates because they have 1.0KDs and they get RUINED in my lobbies.

[@mobbsti661]

@@253MC Interestingly enough, if you read activations white paper on their match making these systems are designed to increase the retention of a player exactly like you. From their tests and research which you can read if you google “call of duty match making white paper” when turning off any kind of match making algorithm the only player group that DIDNT loose retention is the top 1% All this to say these match making algorithms are the most beneficial statically to your exact player type, which, makes sense as they will generate the most money for the publisher.

[@ChevyRedneckGFX]

This is exactly how I feel and it's been. I've been between a 2.0 kdr and a 3.5kdr since about bo2 onward and I struggle the last 5 years. I still get to 2.0 but I shouldn't have to absolutely abuse every single broken thing about the game to get that

[@Howdypartnerlol]

All I hear is sad violins when I read comments like these 😂

[@cfly87]

Same. My WZ squad has entirely more fun without me. I keep telling them it will get better. But with EOMM or whatever we are going to call it, it's an abusive relationship at very best.

[@coltonperkins4424]

Doesn’t matter what your opinion is other than friends of different skill levels can’t enjoy the game together. Gaming is a social thing. Playing with friends keeps you playing longer and enjoying the game more. They have taken that away from me. The only way to get it back is to have sbmm removed. There should only be a protected bracket for disabled players and they should have to register for it with proving they are registered disabled with the government.

[@YouTubeBLZ]

Sbmm needs to be something we in a 3kd+ lobby can still drop 20 kills imagine what a bottom 1% lobby would look like if we got into them we would drop atleast 40 - 50 im glad sbmm is a thing but it kinda sucks when I play with lower kd friends and they get fried in my lobbies then they just hop off cause it’s not fun getting slammed

[@253MC]

Yep. I have a 3.5 KD and have friends with 1.0 KDs. They get absolute dumpstered almost every single fight when we play together. They cant believe the level of the opponents they are forced to play when they queue with me. It's not fun for any of us.

[@YouTubeBLZ]

@ yea all my lobbies have crim and iri players when my plat diamond homies play they get absolutely rocked

[@niklasgustavsson1243]

How can I see my KD in newest warzone?

[@HaZeyTheViking]

The logical entailment to be against SBMM is that you want to play against someone LESS SKILLED than yourself. Even though most people will make up other justifications and excuses, that is what you are demanding when you want SBMM gone, you want to play against worse players so you can feel better about your performance.

[@TheVinDicarlo]

You wouldn't get in this lobby if sbmm didn't exist because these lobbies wouldn't exist.... it be a vast randomness of players...

[@tobiasniggl]

@@TheVinDicarlo this!

[@darthwav]

@@TheVinDicarlo which is how it should be. SBMM makes me not want to play this game anymore unless i’m playing in a party. it’s getting worse every year

[@TheVinDicarlo]

@@darthwav I agree with you. I miss old school pub lobbies. You never knew who you were up against. The world's best players or shittiest.

[@darthwav]

@@TheVinDicarlo back when you could just check the lobby leaderboards to know what type of game it was about to be or how hard you were gonna have to try. now they’re just coddling bad players . we all started off bad and gradually got better . hopefully this SBMM will just be an era and we go back

[@DavidFrerkerSportsPhotography]

I have a 1.5kd in warzone. I play a ton. Now that I am freelancing I play maybe 10ish hours a day. I edit photos, Watch movies on Amazon, Netflix and play. I am ADHD and have to do multi things to keep my interest. My lobbies are easy in the morning and hard at night. For example in the last month I have had Rallied drop a nuke on me and a friend in Duos, I have gotten slapped by Metaphor like 4-5 times, have run into TheJDevise multi times, have run into Expel... etc Besides that I have been in lobbies with JoeWo, Iceman Issac, Stone Mountain, etc. Have run into JGod in multiplier. in MW2 and MW3 I was getting 20-30 ping per game. Now I am getting 40-100 ping in Solos. The most annoying thing is my bullets not registering. I used to have a core group of people I would play with. They had .50KD in warzone and would only play plunder. But now they just don't play anymore. I see the splatter on the guy but no plates are broken. Great video overall.

[@PaulWilks]

Firstly, I genuinely do enjoy your content and have followed you since the Verdansk days. I genuinely cheered when your team made it to WSOW, agree with so so much of what you say and thoroughly enjoy your content. Hope you can then take this as it is intended - you mentioned 2 or 3 times in your video how this 'isn't a flex' but then remind everyone of your skill level, percentile, KD and hours played nearly a dozen times (in 17 minutes). Please know - we get it and we admire you, but it often honestly does sound like a flex.

[@benji9871]

One of the problems is that when slicing off “top” players for highest skilled lobbies, a new bell curve is formed. And so there are populations of players who are the worst best players, and are left to a fairly hopeless grind. Old FPS games were not like that.

[@AceSpaceSpades]

you made a bro and drove all around the map together, only for him to run you over the instant you jumped out While funny, That's probably the most effort anyone has ever put into getting a kill in COD history.

[@mynamesjeff347]

I have a positive KD nothing crazy , always been good at the game , but I have to try so hard nowadays just to be a apart of the game

[@ThisisForTheTV]

7:00 This is a controller with the wire wrapped around the sticks so it moves to bypass the inactivity timer while the actual person is AFK.

[@StevenMiller-cx6co]

@@ThisisForTheTV I think it’s someone reverse boosting

[@justinc6536]

We must protect these individuals

[@patrickwright3485]

Those "players" running in circles are probably the "pros" getting the k/d lowered so they can have the bottom .1% lobbies ready when they start streaming.

[@JayShooty]

These are the lobbies all the cheating streamers get into. Players like nixstah, joewoo, and more scumbags like them.

[@Shaolinstyle21.]

No lies told 💯

[@ericholland32]

I dont give a rats ass about why it exist. It shouldn't it sucks. Im a 1.5kd player, and when im done with the knife and launchers it'll probably even out ~1.7 I hate so much with a passion skill based match making. I mean hoping into a lobby with my friends it's a diffrent world. Id love to have a single game here and there where i stomp people and have fun that way. I miss random lobbies where sometimes the guys were just better and sometimes worse.

[@hustlerfriends3162]

SBMM in Warzone sucks I get in matches with players 3x better than me I can’t kill anyone I played 5 matches 0 kills, 0 Fing kills ! Does it happen to anyone else ?

[@IlLAD3LPH1A215]

Yup I get super sweats like im a 2-3 kd player in war zone . MP is a different story and I am decent there but not war zone at all

[@AllEy3s0nMe]

Yes. It always happens after I do well in a previous game. God forebid I win a match, the rest of the session will be against super sweats. It's so anti-fun...

[@nicholasgangwer4895]

I used to be in your position in wz1. I shot bots in a private lobby for 15 min before I played pretty much daily. I spent a lot of time sharpening my gunskill. Game sense comes with putting yourself in more situations. Most cod players just want to play well but don’t put any work in to improve.

[@guffingtonreal]

I think it's good to play against people around your rank in a more serious ranked system. I play Fortnite Zero Build ranked and it feels like how the game did prior to Chapter 2; that is my preferred way to play the game. The SBMM in Fortnite fills the game with bots if you don't perform well. If I get to elite I'm playing against usually an equal percent of people above, below, and at my skill level. I believe the regular matchmaking is very similar but changes more often and uses bots judging by surveys I've received about matchmaking, but it doesn't feel like they ever change it based on feedback.

[@slightly_higher8915]

This is what warzone bootcamp should look like. Maybe only less than 1kd players should have it unlocked?

[@dakuder]

US East has people working around the clock. There is no time span where SBMM isn't ramped up tenfold around here.

[@shortstuff780]

I literally have like a 0.1 KD on this new resurgence map, I played with six crimsons yesterday (that I could see) why the hell can't I get into these games. Like clearly I'm not a no-lifer anymore, I just want to have fking fun. Haven't had fun in Warzone or cod in almost 2 years now

[@acev3521]

Get a vpn

[@shortstuff780]

@acev3521 why? What would that solve, I'll have has png then if I play around the world trying to find a easier match Im a casual player, I'm not trying to put a lot of effort into finding a match

[@mrjasonfoley77]

the floor spinning video legit gave me motion sickness.

[@cglrtrk]

I just play my Lobbies are everywhere is people jumping sliding no scope snipes weird back jumps flying around! Also as soon as you peak beaming from 100m its so stressful to play 😅

[@SlayerUnchained]

If you run into 2-3 players and they all see you spinning around but can't take you down, it's a bot lobby.

[@Gavlar040378]

I’d appreciate getting in these lobbies right now for a few games. Haven’t played since original WZ and I’m just trying to learn the basics but the lobbies feel pretty sweaty to me and it really does put me off wanting to play more.

[@Rican311]

I don’t mind SBMM at all. The problem I have is blatant cheating. Where the cheats don’t match the player overall skill and game IQ

[@22_Letters]

A 0.01% K/D lobby tickles me to my core.

[@Traidmarck]

1:36 all his skill went into driving

[@jordangourley3955]

Imagine being so worried about that last 1% of profit that you butcher your game to get it.

[@gusmangamer]

got fuckin nauseous watching that bot run around staring at the ground instead of just looking away. maybe i should be in some of these bottom .1% lobbies

[@The_incredible_Adam]

I’m sick of everyone playing like their lives depend on it . I can’t have a pint and play to relax anymore because you have to be on edge and fully awake because you game is gong to be short

[@MrSmartstots]

So at 51 in multiplayer I have a kd of around 1.2. I defiantly feel some lobbies are a lot harder than others. I play casually, not game after game after game, couple of matches on domination of team death match. Then I’m done. Been through all the cods. I know when I’ve lost the gunfight but at times I feel that I have won but still died. Come around a corner with ads and bam dead, not even pull a shot even though I’ve pulled the trigger. Never dropped a nuke.. probably never will but it’s fun at times.

[@saqinadi5575]

So basically, he had to move houses to make this video or get a hotel room. 😂

[@slicerabbit6166]

"I wanted to see if i could drive normally" drives on the wrong side of the road

[@breeze7464]

I'm sorry, does the UK not drive on the left anymore?

[@slicerabbit6166]

urzikstan is a right lane driving kind of place 🤓👆

[@GeorgeWashingtonsAR15-z7z]

2:39 I feel called out lmao

[@JD-rk1rn]

that bot footage gave me major motion sickness lol

[@JABofLEGENDS]

Before Neroscinema's video on his created Father0f4 account that I remember how bad some people are. I genuinely to some degree believed the notion that all gamers got better since CoD4. But that video proved to me that no, not all games are people sliding around corners, using meta weapons. This is the part that makes SBMM/EOMM so bad. I was raised in thinking anything less than a 1.5KD meant you sucked. Now, I'm seeing people on my friends list who had 2+ even 3KD in past CODs barely only above 1.5 if that. I'm struggling at 1.25, & even then, I often see the weird 2 or 3 party groups when I'm playing solo that signifies 2Boxing. People in my lobbies with Dark Matter. I'm not good, I'm barely average, but this EOMM is not even helping the guys in this very video. Not only can they not get better, they are basically fodder, easy targets, for the ones who reverse boost or hack or 2Box into their lobbies. Fish in a barrel, nothing more. SBMM/EOMM needs to stop, now! Someone like you, TacticalBrit, is only getting into lobbies like that BECAUSE of EOMM. Lobbies dont look like that naturally, with all of the bad players grouped up, again, fish in a barrel. Whats worse, pkayers like them have no defense or enough prior experience in player with & against players likeoutl even know your level of skill exists, much far less hoe to play against it as best they can. This argument that SBMM/EOMM benefits them by stopping one you from being in a lobby with 99 low skills, & that this argument only helps high skill is looking at this from a singular prospective, with a heavy bias that is tainted, scientifically by the lobbies the game currently makes. In an ideal system, where SBMM/EOMM wasn't as it is now, you wouldn't be in a lobby of just you, but at least 5 yous, 10 low skills, 85 other players of mixed skill, aka NOT the lobbies you are showing because you can't, they don't exist right now by default.

[@gilbertgloria1188]

this is what I've always been saying if SBMM didn't exist you would end up becoming that sweaty person in the lobby that would steamroll everybody even though to you yourself wouldnt think your try harding it would just be lower skilled players having to contest with someone of a higher skill even though you sit at a .8 and they are a .6

[@nhoffman0677]

I don't think I would care about SBMM, if there was not so much inconsistency in gunfights, and if matches were not rigged before you start. It's one thing to play against equal or better competition, but stacking one team so it's all but decided before the start, and experiencing games where you constantly shoot first die first is draining.

[@stealthgamin4707]

the only thing about SBMM is how strict it is I have no problems with it but it needs to be looser there's no variety in matches when I think there should be.

[@colinrobinson4233]

Top 0.1% at an ass gravy game 😂

[@ghostlandered]

Bro go be an energy vampire somewhere else

[@SekiberiusWelkesh]

I just wish SBMM would stop matching me with literal hackers lmao, I don't mind facing tweakers and rabbits but there's no skill to be gained fighting cheaters.

[@hoagieland3716]

My thoughts have always been that SBMM should exist, but only to protect the lowest skill players like the ones in this video. SBMM in pubs outside of the bottom of the barrel players should only exist to balance teams when a randomly selected pool of players is chosen. The only other time I could see justifying SBMM is to prevent stacks of pub stompers and cheaters from farming the middle tier players, but even then it shouldn’t be trying to basically pit all 2-4 KD players against each other all the time, especially if running into them happens as seldom as stated

[@ThatGuyWierd]

Okay i dont know why i had this idea 1.0-1.1 is average, im flabbergasted that the average is like 0.8 as lacky says here.

[@JP-Esq]

By all means have SBMM.... If the game told each player their rank and the general rank of the lobby. Smoke and mirrors just leads to delusion and weariness. You can have two different players that are both 1kd and have a fairly substantial difference in skill

[@Manakuski]

You broke the traffic rules, because you were driving on the wrong side of the road, Urzikstan has left-hand drive vehicles so you should be driving on the right side of the road!

[@AC-hj9tv]

Finally someone from Urzikstan educating us

[@wrayzur]

Love these types of videos. Very informative and you also give solutions to some of the problems in warzone for newer players which is a great thing.

[@jcollins111111]

Dude im 58 yrs old and have about 1 thousand hrs in warzone. I have a lot of things going against me with my lack of experience and age but i started at the lowest of the lows. I was around .32 kd or even lower and worked hard to get to a 1.2 kd. I never did any of this vpn, 2 boxing or hacking. If i stayed in these crap lobbies i would never have gotten any better. I might as well just play in murdashow lobbies and think im actually good.

[@sugasammy]

I would love to see the other side of this, great video

[@jackbourner7965]

I swear SBMM is off on area 99. It’s feels so much easier than rebirth.

[@ExxInferis]

I know, and I get it. I also liked your approach here. But my friends and I have gone to PUBG because even if it does have some form of SBMM, our experience is random. Some times we get wiped, sometimes we dominate. And sometimes we have both those encounters in the same match. It is just less demoralizing. You start a match not knowing how it is going to go. We now start up a WZ match with this sense of dread and foreboding. Not fun.

[@SquishyRSX]

You should cover the horrible chat ban moderation system! It literally bans you for just talking trash and puts you in a loop that you can get banned up to 30 days with no communications at all even to your own team mates.

[@kyletallon]

Change the date on your console. Boom. Back chatting with your squad.

[@FPL-LARD]

dont talk shit then lol, I turn chat off its just full of toxic kids talking through their arse

[@josht1828]

​@@kyletallonthat only works on ps5, xbox cannot unfortunately

[@djtoxicdhg]

That happend to me last 2 weeks I whent from a 3 day ban to a 13 day ban and I didn't even do enything rong the second time

[@AC-hj9tv]

I typed "sup pimps" in chat and it got censored to "sup *****"

[@salohcin1000]

I totally get why SBMM exists, and I've always rolled my eyes at content creators complaining about it - oh, you get paid to game and you wish it were easier? You know who else wishes their jobs were easier? Everyone. That said, it feels like Warzone SBMM has killed playing with friends of different ability levels since at least the beginning of MW2 (2) Warzone. It feels like it just throws you in a lobby scaled to the most talented player. The rest of the team gets WRECKED, and then the most talented player is constantly taking 2 or 3 on 1's and getting outplayed. I've played with the same five or six guys since PUGB, through Warzone 1, until present. In the first couple years of Warzone 1, we would have a good time, win the occasional game, usually lose, but never feel completely outclassed. Playing these days, our team just gets thrashed. The worst players don't want to play just to get destroyed, and the best players don't want to play because they were mostly playing to hang out with their friends, not have a super sweaty experience. And I don't begrudge the sweats, nothing wrong with what they're doing, it just doesn't really make sense to be in the same lobby as them - we have different goals. So we don't play much. We hop in when there's a new update, get annihilated for a few days, and drop off for a few months. I have some theories for why it feels this way, but I suspect the number 1 reason is COVID. You simply will never have a player base as large and diverse as you did when COVID hit and suddenly everyone was isolating. That many players, you could have SBMM games and everyone was within a few percentile points of each other. Now, with fewer players, you're playing with people who are (comparatively) much more and much less skilled than you. You might get some kills early on (more likely the highly skilled players will get those kills, since they are the ones pushing hard for loadouts and UAVs). But in the end, the nature of Battle Royale games means that even if you are clever enough to survive being hunted by very skilled players in the midgame, you usually need to face off against the best players in the lobby in the endgame. So you play frustrating games where you're always running and hiding, only to run out of places to run and hide. COVID times were the glory days for BR games, my friends, and we will not see their like again.

[@salohcin1000]

Oh, and I don't think there is a solution to the problem of SBMM and players of different abilities playing together. If they took the average or something, you would probably have a lot people reverse boosting to huge kill counts by playing with lower-skilled allies. It just stinks that there's no real solution there.

[@OddScienceHarry]

Just follow the warzone information on Yt and only playing MP and play a couple of sessions during the day and this is also very noticeable if you compare morning mid and evening and as well you will see some play styles more during the morning compared to the evening. Love your content thx

[@Ardeocampo]

I wish I could get lobbies like these but instead I'm put with people who are already prestige master in less than a month

[@WhiteBuffalo_PL]

funny thing, i am usually at 2.3-2.5 kd on resurgence, my friend is at around 4.0kd and usually when i play with him i get easier lobbies than when i play with my other squad that have around 1.3-1.6kd :D, when i play with my other colleague from work that have around 0.7-0.9kd lobbies are most of the time as when i play with 1.3-1.6kd

[@hotfooted8011]

that servo interaction was grouse

[@Rightsofarrr]

Great vid I don’t even know how to find my kd but I love to play every now and again I’ve played bo6 up to level 32 but I’ve no idea if I’m any good,in the teams I’ve gone from being last to about 4th sometimes I’ve gone 3rd,you explained it well I’ve played warzone off and on for abit and WANT to get better,I’ve never won a BR solos yet but I’m getting closer had a second I’ll chime back in when I get a win I’m 53 btw!🍻

[@fingerboardworkshop6273]

You’re videos have been so good lately.. I’m on board! Thank you

[@jaydale1]

My question would be if you're a MP/Zombies only player hovering around a .85KD and then you decide to try Warzone out - is the lobby you're put in going to be based on that MP KD or is it going to put you in a lower tier lobby because you haven't played it yet?

[@Tixrok]

Protect the elderly and children...let the men stand in the front lines.

[@Scarecrow48790]

Lobbies like that shouldn’t exist

[@joejojo5966]

Call of duty is in compliance with the cheaters at this point and wouldn't be surprised if they're selling the cheats themselves. Feels like call of cheaters nowadays.

[@Jimmy-fi8gg]

These are my lobbies. I'm bad. 0.2 KD. SBMM is the only reason I play.

[@its_butterrs]

Where is the skill-based matchmaking for my chat. Instead of chat-banning me, match me with other shit talkers instead 🤣

[@suinsarbayev2191]

Bruh the Ursikstan is not Britain, stop using the left side of the traffic line

[@mikeysd]

I have a > 3.1 K/D right now. I promise you I'm not that good. But, I'm being put into lobbies that are garbage. So this SBMM is confusing me right now.

[@bobocpe]

I hope you reach 1M subs soon, cause your content is really good. Something new on this hype infested platform we call YT.

[@YORKSHIREMAN86]

2-3kd depending on how elim to death ratio transfers to actual KD (3.6 E/D ratio) and the game just isn’t fun. Nothing feels crisp, nothing feels responsive, nothing feels like it’s within my control, the game feels so far from competitive. I’ve stopped playing and I’m really hoping that Delta Force or the BF BR provides some real competition to WZ, because in its current state it’s embarrassing and isn’t fun unless you’re what you describe, a very sub average player who doesn’t even understand or feel the issues. I’ll put my time into STALKER 2 for now.

[@freakbag420]

If sbmm didn't exist neither would these lobbies that shouldn't exist. Sbmm destroys the overall player retention. Problem is they don't want over all player retention. They want ignorant people like those in These protected lobbys to foolishly buy stuff. Nothing more nothing less. It's not about protecting anyone or keeping players. It's about getting money from dumbos. Plain and simple

[@sageviper2981]

Seems the all knowing algorithm followed me from Twitter cause I just saw your post about this video 😂

[@FantasiaOnVHS]

Never been this early, it feels illegal

[@Boryang.]

@@FantasiaOnVHS fr

[@josht1828]

There's no replies on the other comments so it's all boring😢

[@KevinM00re]

Wait... my lobbies are full of people talking on their mics. Am I a bot?

[@alax97pro]

I don't think sbmm exists in Warzone. As an 1.2 KD Player i get matched against Monsters all Day. And the Streamers with 5+ KD get Bot Lobbies. With real Sbmm there would be never a 20+ Kill Game

[@madmax1171ify]

Thats me babyyyyy never won a match of warzone 🤣🤣

[@DodgeDemon2701]

Maybe sbmm would be better if it prioritized ping and consistency of aim over range maybe it would be better probably not but just a suggestion

[@DeadOnInfil]

You know, I logged into warzone yesterday and I got a message asking if I needed a refresher, and that there were rewards for playing Bootcamp. So, I thought why not! The GUILT I felt for killing obviously new, inexperienced players absolutely ate me alive. What made it worse was that, the guy I kept coming across was called Happy Sammy or something and I HATE myself. I can't be alone in feeling this way, right? 😢 I remember being a noob. I hope I haven't put them off playing forever 😞

[@KevinS819]

if you believe sbmm is a necessary thing they explain why we even have ranked play for? if sbmm is supposed to put me into lobbies with players around my skill level and ranked is supposed to put me into lobbies with players around my rank, isn't that the exact same thing and why have both? i don't entirely disagree with you, i 100% believe that players with a .5 kd or less should be protected and should never run into a 3 kd player. my point is if your going to have sbmm in every single match why not just change the name to ranked and leave it at that.

[@RealJonzuk]

i am bad at warzone i can play the older cods just fine but this one feels weird as hell ever since the new engine its thrown me off like mad

[@JamesMurray-iq5tz]

Playing people who are about as good as you are just makes sense and its why they do it. The only ppl who cry obsessively about it just want to crush everybody every round. You’re playing ppl who are as good as you, get over it