Simple, no population = matchmaking worse overall.
Lobby balancing will always be trash because SBMM is always trash. I'm coming back to IB after months of no PvP and I'm screwed. I'm getting destroyed between the sweat and lag from SBMM, meanwhile I'm out of practice and the game expects me to play like I never left.
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There is no sbmm & population is 350k a day, up from 90k when not banner. Issue in banner is it puts nin obj pve players on the same team leading to blowouts. I need 6 wins for the seal & I've lost 15 out of 16 games, it's horrific.
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I haven't heard about them turning SBMM off, its only outlier protection, which doesn't change anything about SBMM. My first 2 hours almost made me simply stop because it was non stop losses. It's forced the 50/50 by now with mercy rule games in my favour but yeah nah, SBMM is definitely on. I have to sweat my -blam!- off every game. If I'm not near the top of my team, we lose.
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I lost 15 in a row last night, game was determined to make me lose a certain amount, I was put in lobbies with 5 guys all 1.00 or lower & the other team all had 2.00+, every single game I got afk guys, guys who were happy to stand on A flag ads & get mercied, every single game we went behind like 4-40 so I just started leaving after a few mins. Logged on this morning, early here UK, & I can't even get kills, again start every game 4-40 erd my lobbies are full PSN lobbies, black screens, 5 mins to start games, insta dying, can't kill people, I even tested on afk players by hitting them with a fusion at point blank range & I only take half their health. My kda on Friday was 1.93, my kda now is like 1.20, I've nearly deleted my account several times. I just stuck it out whilst barely playing to let the game give me the few wins needed for iron lord (a seal I'll never use btw) & it did, put me in 2 games almost over & we won, in those games I couldnt get kills either, literally shooting feathers & dying to 1 burst of everything.
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Yeah connections are dog water at the best of times but that's Bungie's vision for PvP for ya.