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3/12/2022 5:30:05 PM
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Why do streamers/content creators match the easiest lobbies in PVP
Prefacing this bc I can already tell what multiple people will try to say. There is no salt whatsoever involved in the writing of this I’m just genuinely curious. I understand good players can make things look easy but I am confident I am a decent pvp player and I see a lot of streamers/CC’s getting away with things purely bc of the slow reactions/blindness of the people they play against. I also understand that streamers/CC’s only show their best content on YT etc but I’ve seen them get beat on stream and it’s often again at a much easier margin than what your average decent player jumping into crucible would experience. Likewise I’m also aware streamers can use other peoples accounts that are potentially going to get matched easier games (but I thought bungie removed skill based in favour of connection based?).
I’m just curious if anyone knows how the matchmaking works now/why the phenomena of streamers and content creators just getting put into these brain dead lobbies that they can curb stomp with ease happens or appears to happen so often. I find matchmaking has changed somehow or feels like it changed since WQ dropped and that I’m getting matched into harder and harder lobbies with worse connections than before which is what made me curious to ask this question.
Thank you :)
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2 RepliesNot all their lobbies are SUPER easy, there's some lobbies where they struggle. It's just that they only upload their good matches. Imagine this, you took 20 photos of yourself and you need to upload one, you'd obviously pick the best looking one.
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Maybe Bungie is giving them easy enemies for being a streamer and streaming their game.
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They don't.
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Same. Its funny how many blind or bad players you see those youtubers or streamers face. They can run out past a wall and shoot 3 people before they get shot at. Meanwhile i get shot at while still behind the wall before i walk around it.
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1 ReplyWhen I see a big PlayStation streamer play…. Literally no one shoots back in most of his videos… it’s like he’s playing ez bots
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3 RepliesConfirmation bias at its finest…
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Edited by Ryan Foxling: 3/13/2022 9:44:52 PMIt's not how it works, it's just looks easy on the screen, as an example my friends said that I have an easy lobbies then I stream on discord to them, but then they are playing against me they don't have a good time. Game sense is the main factor right there, I don't even try to move super fast or have a great aim, but my positioning and game sense is why I maintain 2+kd in trials and 3+kd in quick play
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I always believed they have an in game advantage due to promoting the game. Whether or not they know it or not is a another story, so I think it's in the form of lobby balancing or host. I mean I doubt they would be playing all the time if their always matching high tier players and going negative. That's just bad for business, but hey what do I know. 😎
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They don’t like sbmm because it puts them up against players of there own skills and when faced with this they moan to Bungie with total make believe story’s about how bad the connection is and other crap.
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6 RepliesFor one most of your sweat Lord PVP players always run with other sweat Lord PVP players. They play thousands of matches together and know every trick in the book therefore they make it look easy
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3 RepliesIdk beat wallahbruh a few days ago in control that lobby was sweaty af
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I know what you're saying mate, it would appear that these streamers get a way with challenging lanes and people when they're at risk that any semi competent player would punish them for. That and some of the people running at them like lemmings would net me 50 kd games left and right, but even as a normal/ decent player I never get those easy opponents. How can such high skilled players match people who are all but throwing the game?
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1 ReplyConnection based matchmaking makes good players look like great players and great players look like gods. One of my friends got matched against frostbolt despite only recently coming back to D2 and was losing his mind because he was stuck in a stomping match against one of the most well known PvP players in the game.
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1 ReplyThey’re in the same matches as everyone else. They’re just performing at a higher skill level.
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Simple. Streamer perks
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Edited by A_mo: 3/12/2022 7:45:26 PMIts not only streamers and content creators because that would be too obvious. But the short answer is it helps the believability of what the game is doing. Which interestingly enough isn't necessarily done for "good" players. That's why this has been one of the most entertaining few weeks for PvP in a long time to me. Because its been so long since there was a soft reset that a lot of people in the propaganda wing forgot what happens when they do that. So now suddenly somethings wrong with the game instead of it just being about people complaining and making excuses because they're bad. Our role models will eventually be alright though. It might just take a few weeks.
