Hey Guardian. To be honest, in the great scheme of things, I could say that nothing has really changed.
What I mean is that SBMM brought to my personal experience new pros but also new cons.
Yeah, matches now seem to be more balanced [i](not always tho)[/i], but also more intense and fought. Sometimes I have the feeling I'm playing a match in Ranked in R6 and not a Quickplay in D2. After 2-3 games I'm already tired. This is happening more frequently since I've reached the 1.38 KDA which I suppose should be my average skill level.
I'm not exactly sure how SBMM works in D2, but sometimes I have the impression that the teams are not balanced on theyr Skills, but more on the "general skill level of the team" as a whole. So sometimes I'm matched with people with stats lower then mine and then one single person with stats much higher who actually works as carry. Basically, who eventually would get stomped, is stomped anyway.
I haven't had many problem with lags, but those few times I've experienced it it was terrible. I've saved 2-3 clips that are crazy to watch.
I don't know if this has to do with SBMM in general or the META, but many games end to be groups of people camping crouched with Scouts and Pulses on the other side of the Map or moving in packs. I'm not saying this is wrong, but it's really annoying to deal with. 1v1 are very rare... I mostly fight 2-3 people at once. This is probably also due the fact that I'm not a high skilled player and at my level [i](below average for sure)[/i] I meet players who are afraid to take direct fights.
Leaver penalty or not, leavers are still present both in my and in the enemy team. Idem for AFKers.
So yeah, nothing has really changed over all =/ I'm not getting stomped very often, but now I'm basically playing Ranked almost every game. I'm not destroyed by players who are much better then me, but I keep being killed by groups of people camping outside my radar and who don't capture zones. There are less leavers, but more lags (kinda).
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if youre kd is 1.38 theres no way you are below average. you are technically an average player in this playerbase. and everything you said is quite litteraly my experience. i feel like the only competent player in the tesm every single game sometime i get a cracked dude with me but we still loose because the other tesm is much better overall. yess i think it does have to do with stats balancing. they try to balance teams according to individual stats which is awful becaue destiny has the slest stats system. assists counts as kills, you get 1shot by anything also so stats are really not representative of your skill. my kd is 0.86 but i go flawless every week end and outplay 1.50kd+ players regularly.
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Hey Guardian. No, not KD, but KDA, so counting also Assists. I'm pretty sure I'm below 1.00 KD but I should check on some third party websites. However, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one to feel this in certain matches =/ in the end it seems that Bungie really can't put things together and in a way or another some problems will always come up.