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3/12/2022 1:25:40 AM
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Why doesn't Trials of Osiris have Skill Based Matchmaking(SBMM)?

Trials of Osiris(ToS) is a 3v3 elimination(sometimes control?) gamemode that only shows up during the weekend. It is a light level enabled gamemode, and you must have cross play enabled. It boasts some of the best PvP weapons, and with a flawless run of 7 matches you get access to even better versions of those same weapons. Now, my confusion is with this: Elimination, is a 3x3 game mode, available all the time, and does not require cross play. Additionally this mode will match you with "Similar skilled" opponents. But ToS is missing that last bit. There is no skill based matchmaking. The mode is identical in almost every way to it's 24/7 cousin, but it loses it's SBMM in favor of.... what exactly? I'm trying to understand the logic of this decision. Trials is for the sweatiest of the sweats, the premiere gamemode, and yet it misses the hallmark of all sweaty gamemodes beyond just destiny, SBMM. How was this overlooked? Or better yet, why was it not included?

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  • As someone who played the original form of Comp - SBMM isn't as great as it sounds. Of course, nice in theory, application was horrid. Taking you back a few years - I've sat in orbit upwards of 30 minutes waiting for matchmaking when it was a thing. People also found reasons around it by using people like me with low elo's at the time, making me fireteam lead, and then going in and just smashing on folks that were 0.2 k/d's. Also, if you go back on some reddit posts, about 3 years ago, a survey was conducted on what players wanted...sbmm vs cbmm - about 47% said switch to CBMM. Only 10% said they wanted to keep SBMM. Of course now, it's reversed, but remember, we had SBMM at one time, and games like CoD, and Apex have their player base asking to move to CBMM (I think original Modern Warfare was CBMM at one time) and it made for more stable connections. Trials is not meant for casual players. You or your team either have what it takes, or you don't. There's no middle ground. Sure, there are people out there good enough to carry people (I admit, in some cases, that's me), but no one is entitled to hard earned weapons gear just for existing. Even if they went with SBMM, it's so easy to manipulate, as mentioned before, that it would be even less fair. .

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