I could talk about SBMM here and why it makes the game unplayable half of the time, but I am here to talk about the other half. As a central European, I am always very pleased when I play against other Europeans. That's not because I am a racist or because I have jingoistic tendencies, but simply because the connection is better, than when I have to play against people from the US, Hong Kong or the UAE. Having played recently, I noticed something very strange, which reminded me of Halo 5 and their initial issues with dedicated servers: Most of the people I could easily identify as European (DE tags or simply obvious german names, FR/IT etc. Of some I checked the profile though) lagged like eff. We are talking about dying 6 seconds after the initial death should have occured (happened with a melee kill. He was wandering around for these whole 6 seconds and then just dropped dead), bullets not registering even though I am a 100% on their body/head, shotguns not killing at point blank etc, micro teleporting (as in 0.5m jittering. Kinda looks Taken) and the such. This went on for a few games (my KD went above 1.5 after adapting to this new meta and those few games. It started at 0.7 though. When you expect the lag, it gets easier. You just have to assume that the guy who stares at a wall is actually behind you and is shooting you) until I started to notice a certain pattern, that reminded me of the early Halo 5 games. Halo 5 had a ridiculous issue with their dedicated servers at first. At least for everyone not living in the US: Even though they have a dedicated Data Center in the UK, a lot of Europeans got matched on the American dedicated servers. This made for a completely unfair environment, in which especially better players got shafted (for lesser skilled players timing isn't that crucial). Playing at 200 MS instead of 30, simply because of the Distance, kills every chance of a fair game. And the games I had in Destiny the last time, feel exactly like that again: As if I would play against/with 8 Europeans, but the host sits in the US/Hong Kong/Australia. Am I imagining things? Is this working as intended? Am I the only one who gets this feeling?