The amount of times I see “SBMM should stay” followed by someone saying MW2019 was the first COD is very frustrating
I get it, you don’t want to get stomped by better players, that’s understandable. But when you haven’t even played a COD with low SBMM, how do you know you’re going to get stomped? Back in BO2 there was very little SBMM, and I still had a .9 KD.
The AVERAGE KD in COD. If I was getting stomped every game by “sweaties” | would not have an AVERAGE KD.
The average KD is around .8 or .9. That means you will still be playing average players with one or two good players being mixed in every now and then.
My point is, MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS GAME ARE AVERAGE. You aren’t going to be playing against people with 2+ KD’s every match like you think you are.
Something people aren’t mentioning is playing with friends who are at varying skill levels. My standard party of IRL friends KD’s are 0.35, 0.6, 0.9, 1.6 and 2.5. I don’t think people understand just how bad my teammates get stomped when we all partied up lol.
It got to the point where the lower skilled ones just played solo. I was even having a better experience playing solo in sweaty lobbies because my random teammates were better than my actual friends.
We haven’t gamed together since the early days of MW2019.
Mathematically the average KD will always be slightly under 1, because every kill for one player is a death for another, making it a zero sum game. Add in suicides and accidental deaths (which are deaths without kills) and that brings the average below 1. This would be the case regardless of SBMM (which I am ambivalent about).
Exactly. I miss lobby leaderboards. I knew something funny was up when those disappeared. I was a 2 kd player back then and most lobbies would be below a 1. Maybe 1 or 2 players had a 1 kd or higher. Also occasionally it would be a super high skill lobby that you could see and know it was gonna be sweaty. It was fun.
You have a good game, you get put with better players, the better players smack you and you have a bad game, now you get put with worse players, so you smack them and have a good game, now the game puts you with better players…
It’s a never ending cycle of 50/50ing. There is no such thing as an evenly matched game of 6v6.
Activision has reported losing players pretty much every quarter this year. I’m convinced it’s because sbmm kills all sense of progression outside of unlocking guns and skins.
you have the good player who is given 5 terrible teammates to balance out the game as sbmm struggles to find an opponent with an equal 3kd
and then you have the kids who think they’re good at the game, but when put against players their own level, perform terribly, they want to go back to beating up christmas noobs to feel good about themsevles
Thats not my point. My point is that the “sweaties” everyone talks about are the top 1% of players. The chances of you getting in a game with those players is VERY low.
i personally believe SBMM makes you a better player. I started off in MW3 obviously not yet in SBMM and had a 2kd for about 50 games. Now, with 20k kills and like 400 games played i have a 4.17 KD and i face much better players, yet im still improving my KD. i believe being challenged is what improves your skill
i havent been serious with COD since the og MW3 and my KD was 2.12. i mostly played free-for-all, regular team deathmatch, some domination and a little hardcore ffa and deathmatch. i’m wondering how i would be in the current version of the game.
I’m a bit confused about your comment that the average is .8-.9? What made you come to this conclusion? Is 1.0 not perfect average by definition? If there are x kills and x deaths total. And you have the same amount of both, that would be true average, no?