Simple just make Quickplay a mode that doesn't track kd. Then the kd farmers will move on and we can have some fun without the pressure of ability in the back of people's minds. Lower level players will always use kd as a marker so it should be like Gambit which apparently won't track kd.

Some people just don't read. Casual will be connection based and Competitive will be skill based. Too easy if people read without bitching.

You can play casually. You just can't play causually....and win.

Couple things. You greatly exaggerate , like so many others here. My warlock is top .3% and .6% and i get fresh matches. You're not fooling anyone with your low bracket. You realize there was announced match making shift with emphasis on cbmm and less sbmm back on 12/8/16, don't you? Plenty of us here saw our numbers sky rocket after because we got more matches vs folks like you, otherwise we'd have never known where we stood. You think it's rough now, i'd love to see you pre- 12/8/16. Don't worry, D2 relief inbound for the hapless such as yourself that drove this shooter into uninspired and uninteresting mediocrity . This D1pvp isn't going to be changed. There's no more help left to give.

Im just tired of being forced into SBMM, i want quickplay to be CBMM.

To those out there who want SBMM in the quick play playlist, you try play the same 3 people for 50 matches in a row. THE SAME PEOPLE. It gets boring fast. How about you play as a top 1% player, lets see how fair it is when you get 1 hour waiting times to find a match only to find out that the people you are playing against are the exact same people that you have been playing against for 6 months straight. Not to mention its so -blam!-ing laggy that there's no point in even playing in the first place. 1-4 second damage delay is the norm for me, that's connection on a good day -.- as someone who lives in Australia. My first few matches in D2 were amazing! there was no lag and i managed to get a 35+ KDA, is it fair that i completely destroyed those people? YES it absolutely is, you shouldn't be sheltered from better players. Getting destroyed every couple of games is how you improve. Its how i improved, if you find that you just cant concentrate in pvp and never get anywhere then play it with the mind set that winning doesnt matter OR just dont play it. Simple as that. Its not fair to shelter all the bad players and force the top 1% to play in a player pool of 100-300 people when there are upwards of 500 000 people online. By the time i got to my 3rd game of control in the D2 beta i had already started matching with the same -blam!-ing people that i played against in d1 for 2 YEARS and to make it worse i didnt just start matching up with them once and that was it, it was every game consecutively. I had like 7 rematches with the same people going between both gametypes. That is terrible straight up. Sure i have no problem with them being tougher players to defeat but my friends barely play crucible so i end up in a situation where i willingly go into crucible games with my friends and they get 0-5 kills.. Thats basically a 1 v 4.. so it ends up with me having a nice comfortable game with good competition but my friends have a really shit experience and then no longer want to play with me. SBMM ONLY belongs in competitive game types. The quickplay playlist needs to have NO SBMM

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You do at the moment as the player base is so small. However until we play D2 we are not sure of the impact of SBMM and with a higher player base it may not be so noticeable.

As a fairly skilled player myself, I disagree somewhat. We cannot havr one or the other, we need both. There needs to be a ranked and social/ casual play list. We need a choice, we shouldn't be forced to play one or the other.

Wait you want to play competitively but not have to try. Makes perfect sense.

At below a 1.0, I don't see how you match sweaty players lol

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At least for me, the problem with SBMM is the almost constant lag it creates, and i'm not even a top tier player. I don't get lobbies with other players in my region because they limit the players you can be matched with by skill, and have to extend the distance of the search area to fill the lobby. I remember playing on a new account that i made, and although the competition was easier, the lag problems were still there. Doesn't really matter what your skill level is, you are not getting the best possible connection if they exclude players who don't fit the skill criteria but you would connect well with. Although creating a close and a competetive game was the intention, in reality lag plays a bigger role than skill in the outcome, that's what's truly wrong with this system.